It did okay for me (accepting that the manga is never going to go to the level of characterization I really want) in the sense that I can see Chibs beingĀ āWELL AT LEAST SOMEONE WANTS MEā. I can also see it as aĀ ātheyāll miss me when Iām gone, thatāll show themā gesture, which again, works, particularly given Chibsā age. You know, sheās eight, and it seems her parents barely took time out of their week to hug her, Iām not surprised she didnāt learn about Stranger Danger.
ALSO WHO THE FUCK WAS GUARDING THE GATE BEFORE PLUTOāS SEVENTH BIRTHDAY IF ITāS SO FUCKING CRITICAL AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM THAT THE ONLY ANSWER WAS A FUCKING FIRST GRADER
Future Minako wouldāve runĀ āDeath Phantomā through and had Future Rei burn the fucking corpse and Future Ami to freeze the ashes in a thousand separate blocks and drop them into the ocean and Future Mako to bake a cake to celebrate.
I always did say Venus should have been the real heir and princess of Silver Millenium.
Telling a child she has to go, alone, to this horrible place, and never ever ever leave is making me rage. Itās one thing ā not a great thing, BUT ONE THING ā if Pluto is a kind of ageless being with no beginning and no end who is tethered to this one duty.
But making Pluto a child implies a life BEYOND the Gate of Time. That there was something she knew that wasnāt this, and a million things she could have but now never will. All because Queen Serenity said so.
AND THAT IT SEEMS TO ALL BE PATENTLY UNNECESSARY IS THE FUCKING ICING
I AM SO GLAD I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SHARES THESE SENTIMENTS.
One of the many reasons Serenity is an awful queen and ruler. Justice for Pluto!
I feel the need to warn those of you that use Kissanime that they are now apparently mass perma-banning anyone who uses adblock on their site. Any adblock too, it doesnāt matter which one. I just got permanently banned for going onto their homepage ONCE to see their popularity list for all of five seconds, and I donāt have an account so theyāre full on banning IPās.
If you use Kissanime, at this point, Iād highly recommend you move to another site. The fact that they are now forcing their malware ridden ads on people and banning anyone who attempts to protect their pc is outright absurd. Especially since itās an illegal streaming site to begin with. Iād suggest you move to 9anime or another site altogether at this point. But If you simply want to take the risk, be sure to turn off adblock or face being perma-banned.
In my opinion, their site isnāt worth the hassle or the popups and shit rapidvideo player at this point.
Can confirm, I use ublock and I got banned for it.
So a lot of people donāt know that The Blitz was not the only time during WWII that London was bombed/under assault. So with this knowledge in mind, think of how that affected Tom Riddle while growing up.
Jumping in to mention that Kingās Cross was bombed May 1941 in the middle of the night, right on top of where 9 Ā¾ presumably is and only a couple weeks before Hogwarts left for Summer (5th year). Tom would have walked out of the wizarding world and straight onto a demolished platform, and considering the Blitz started literally a week after class started, Tom would have also walked right into an entirely different London.
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Question, have you ever super dug into the history of the Blitz and Londonās preparation for it?
In regards to Tom Riddleās placement in all of it, Operation Pied Piper took me for a spin because they shipped all the school aged children out of London September 1, 1939, and I canāt find any records to show the orphanages were shipped out as well considering they were technically under the guardianship of the churches, not the government. A lot of children were brought back to London by their parents shortly before the Blitz officially began as well, but again, no documents that I can find about where the orphans were in all of this.
The best I can figure is that thereās a large chance Tom lived out in the country during the summer or he slummed it in Diagon Alley/Muggle London, assuming Woolās was evacuated and locked up during Pied Piper. But records-wise itās just a bunch of conjecture, as usual history tends to forget about the orphans š¤·š¼āāļø
I once looked into a specific year in the 40s. Canāt remember which, but I needed to know the timeline of what happened in Britain during this year for a fic. And London was a very famous place for bombing even after the Blitz.
People donāt consider the various factors into what makes someone effed up. Just because some people came out of traumatic situations seemingly perfectly fine, doesnāt mean that they are fine, or that itās the same for everyone. But we still get morons trying to act as if there is only one way to respond to trauma and that if you donāt come out unrealistic like Harry Potter, then your experience was fake.
Tom has very real reasons for not liking muggles. More than probably any other muggle-hating characters in HP. Their war happened right in his back yard and he no doubt got a first hand account of the damages. He didnāt need prejudices from his shitty Housemates to determine how worthless muggles were for him, he already hated them and considering his situation personally, you canāt blame him for why.
What he does with that hatred is fucked up, but the hatred is at least understandable. WWII and a Great Depression at once arenāt exactly prime living conditions.
I genuinely do not understand this unrelenting insistence that we compare every horrendous thing the United States does to the Holocaust, when there are much better comparisons to be made toā¦well, the United fucking States.Ā
The United States has a long, sordid history of separating families: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the families impacted by slavery for generations after being stolen from their homes and sold to the highest bidder, for one. The Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools, where Native children were ripped from their families in order to have their language, culture, and beliefs stamped out of them through forced assimilation and conversion to Christianity, for another.Ā
The United States has an awful history of putting people in detention centres: Japanese and Native Alaskan internment camps during WWII, Fort Cass, Fort Snell, and other Native American internment camps that Indigenous Peoples were forced into throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, not even to mention Guantanamo Bay, and the camps so-called dissidents in the places like the Philippines, Vietnam, and other nations Americans had occupied were put into.
The United States has always been horrible to its immigrants, specifically non-white and/or non-Christian refugees. My own grandfather, an immigrant form India, couldnāt become a citizen of the United States despite being a college lecturer and the spouse of a US citizen due to Asian Exclusion, and had to continuously enrol in university courses he never actually took despite the fact that he was teaching them, just to stay in the country on a student visa. The one truly valid comparison to the Holocaust era you could make would be to the United States turning away Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe aboard the St Louis and sending them back to their deaths because that same law used to keep my grandfather from becoming a citizen had been put in place specifically to keep more Jews and Asians from coming into the country.
Like, the United States is notĀ ābecoming Nazi Germanyā all of a sudden. This is not some aberrantĀ āUnAmericanā behaviour. This is the United States being the United States, doing whatĀ the U.S. has always done from the moment of its inception.Ā
Also, as one of my FB friends said on this topic recently:Ā āNazi Germany was not famous for cruelty toward asylum seekers, it was famous for making millions of asylum seekers and then murdering millions including many from my family.ā
There is no good reason to constantly trot out bad Holocaust comparisons when we know damn well this is the same inhumane bullshit America was fucking built on. Hitler, Nazis, and The Holocaust are not just shorthand forĀ āthe government being really bad.ā It was a specific atrocity that devastated the Jewish and Romani communities of this world, and you donāt need to constantly devalue it and re-traumatise Jews and Roma over and over again when you can just as easily condemn the heinous way asylum seekers at the US border are being treated by saying the United States is still in the business of systematic oppression and has not learnt anything from its own appalling history.Ā
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again: non-Romani goyim donāt get to drag out the proverbial corpses of our people and use them in a macabre puppet show in order to give their issues weight.
^plus non-gays and able-bodied people pls
No.
We have explained this a million times over: Only Jews and Roma were target for total annihilation by the Nazis, and are therefore the only groups who have intergenerational trauma related to the holocaust. Some LGBTQ and Disabled people certainly were targeted (though not in the same way), but there plenty of individuals fitting that description who werenāt at all. In fact, there were gay and disabled people in Hitlerās inner circle, so to suggest members of those groups outside of Jewish or Romani contexts are entitled to reference the Holocaust like we do is really in poor taste.
Basically, with disabled and LGBTQ individuals who were not Jewish or Romani, there were plenty of instances where people just just chose to overlook it. However, if an LGBTQ and/or disabled person was Jewish or Romani, there was no looking the other way; they were killed.Ā
Please stop inserting yourselves into our trauma, kthanksbai.
š„ There is beauty in destructionš„ 