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it’s hard to improve the dialogue from this scene but I think I succeeded.

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kankiri:

Biologists would have you call this thing an Armadillo-Girdled Lizard, Cordylus cataphractus, but I won’t be fooled. This is clearly a baby dragon. They also have this adorable habit of biting their own tails for no discernible reason. Which is adorable until you remember what the ouroboros is, and inevitably conclude that these things are also dark magic.

Magical dragons. It all makes sense.

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Capcom’s made a slight adjustment to the trailer that plays at the end of the GS5 demo.  Watch through to the very end, and you might just catch a glimpse of a certain prosecutor…

Edgeworth you ninja.

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derpderpmotherfuckers:

LET’S TALK ABOUT PARODY VS. AFFECTIONATE PARODY
or That Time Hussie Parodied His Fans the Right Way

I want to just take a moment to talk about parody, guys - specifically, affectionate parodies of your fanbase.  And how Hussie did it right, whereas another series that had snapped its fourth wall- Supernatural - did it wrong.

The person in the picture on the right is Becky.  Becky was a character introduced in Supernatural at the beginning of season 5.  She is a huge fan of the in-series books about the Winchesters - she writes fanfiction and runs fan pages and does all sorts of the things we associate with fandom.  She’s called upon to help the Winchesters out.

Soon she comes back in an episode where the Winchesters have to attend a convention for the book series that’s about their lives; at this point she meets Chuck, the in-series author of the books, and starts dating him.  By the end of the season she’s gone and we find out ‘it didn’t work out’.

Becky is the only female fan we see despite there being an episode presented as occurring at a convention (bearing in mind that the majority of Supernatural fans are female, this is pretty denigrating), so she is called on to represent all of female fandom - and she is presented as air-headed and idiotic.  She is barely reliable and barely to be tolerated.  She is presented as being only in everything for the sex and is a rabid Wincest fan (which not unexpectedly grosses out the characters involved, but still, did you have to do that, Kripke?  Really?).  When she disappears because things ‘didn’t work out’ between her and the in-series author, we can only draw the conclusion she’s meant to be illustrative of the creator’s feelings about his fandom.

Becky gave me massive second-hand embarrassment.  Becky upset me despite my best efforts to like her.  She wasn’t completely awful but her most prominent traits were her most obnoxious ones.

(On a side note, the entire convention episode was equally embarrassing.  The male fans were almost as bad as Becky, but at least a couple of them got to save the day.)

Then we have Calliope.

Calliope is also a creation by the author to parody his fanbase.  She cosplays, she spends all her free time drawing and writing and analyzing her favorite ‘characters’, she reads too much into everything.  She sees herself as ugly and unlovable, but is drawn with a lovable smile and cute eyes.

She is also extremely integral to the story in ways we don’t know yet, but she isimportant.  She’s not presented as incompetent, but helpful.  She may turn out to be horribly wrong about everything but she was trying.

I love Calliope.  She is absolutely adorable to me.  She makes me feel warm and acknowledged - she is a parody and yes, Hussie is making fun of our tendency to read into every little thing and go nuts creating art and do all sorts of fun stuff like that - but I don’t feel insulted.  I feel like I’ve received a nod and an amused, knowing smile.

This is the difference between parody and affectionate parody.

one makes you feel kind of terrible about who you are.

the other makes you feel pretty damn good.

vikki knows how to talk about things that i can’t but wow yes this forever

fuck my blog-type. This can’t not be reblogged. Because holy f-ck. YES.

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?

I mean, can we just talk about how this parallels the actual education system?  Where they’re so concerned about teaching us things like logarithms and graphing that we don’t know shit about what’s actually out there in the adult world, like doing taxes or writing checks or anything?  I mean, “It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.”  School children are often under the impression that getting A’s in all their classes ensures a successful future, but really, it’s so ignorant because the real world isn’t just one big question-and-answer paper.  There is so much more to the world than being able to give back information like some kind of super-computer, and brainwashing children into thinking that theory is key is just going to lead to a bunch of children falling flat on their faces when they’re pushed into the adult world and feel as if everything new they try to do is wrong because it wasn’t taught to them step-by-step.  I just really love Harry’s line, “And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what’s out there?” because I feel as if sometimes we just learn things for the sake of knowing them, despite whether it is actually useful. Yes, school is important, and getting bad grades isn’t a good way to start your future, but it’s so much more than that, you see.

this sounds a lot like something Hermione would say

I think that’s the reason why everyone has such strong negative feelings toward Umbridge (as a person, not a character). I can’t tell you how many times I heard people say that they wanted Umbridge to die more than Voldemort. And I must say that I feel the same.

Voldemort is a racist dictator. While these have existed, and still do, the majority of us don’t live under such a tyrant. We’ve heard about them in history books and on the news- but they’re already dead or on the other side of the world. While we can be horrified at the terror such a person can spread and how, well, evil they can be, a character of this archetype doesn’t strike a personal chord with most of us.

But Umbridge does. As stated before, she represents everything that we hate about the public school system. Most of us know or have a teacher, professor, principal, or school administrator who, to probably a lesser degree, personifies what Umbridge is saying. They teach only to the test, or tell teachers to do so, they insist on including useless things in their curriculums, they PASS LAWS SO THAT SUCH A SCHOOL SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE. This is something that affects nearly every public school in the US, (and I’m guessing the UK as well). Nearly every student has to go through school learning things that they will never use in real life and that in no way prepare them for the real world, just so the various boards of education can use the higher test scores as ‘proof’ that we’re ‘smarter’ than other states, countries, etc., and therefore deserve more funding.

We hate Umbridge so much (again, as a person, not a character) because she represents a villain we all have in our own lives. Possibly every single person who has read this book can connect with the frustration Harry and the other students feel.

We hate Umbridge so much because everything she is, everything she represents, is very real and very personal to every single one of us.

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