On Sexy Snape In Love: Five Secondary Characters Who Dominate 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction
@cherrispryte Indeed, it's been a roundabout sort of spin with him, both as to what Rowling's said about his sexuality and to what metaphor of discrimination he's representing at the moment.
But she came out with that explicitly later, after facing years of questions about Lupin's intended characterization and after fans had already seen his subtext, not the other way around.
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On Sexy Snape In Love: Five Secondary Characters Who Dominate 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction
@mishaps The solution of Snape/Draco likely does much to fix what might otherwise be a serious problem for the Rickman coalition.
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On Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
But where are you, and can we get there on a dedicated nicotine weekend roadtrip extravaganza?
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On Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
Noticeably, cigarette-vending places -- bodegas, some small supermarkets, Duane Reade -- have provided ever more options to fill the void: rollies, attendant products, cigars, "smokeless tobacco" like Camel and Marlboro snus. The message seems to be that we may partake, if we change our habits to do so.
But agreed about the lack of good widespread rolling tobacco. This provides the option of slowing smokers down to a more affordable level and also benefiting from their addiction. Surprised we're not on top of it.
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On Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
It's not a lot until you're hit up innumerable times per day, multiplying that initial figure by several. I don't begrudge the people -- it's the price.
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On Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
Exactly so -- the need to develop established karma rules, a line I never thought I'd cross. The day I carried around a dummy pack of empties was when I knew the situation had reached a breaking point.
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On Keep Your Hands Off My 67-Cent Cigarettes
Not sure smokers have been putting out the "incessant whining" vibe. More the "oh, fuck, man" vibe, for sure. The "shit, fuck, screwed" vibe. But this documents what it's like to be an open smoker on the streets of New York in 2010. If we whine, it's for a reason, at least.
Glad you're thinking about the related issues of smoking re: your personal cool.
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On The End of the 00s: A Party In Iran, by Kaila Hale-Stern
World events need to get caught in the echo-chamber of the news cycle now in order for attention and action to come about. The news cycle as constructed has a perilously short attention span, and it is sensationalistic and profit-driven.
If the mainstream -- that is, the giant headlines and squawking heads and, yes, the biggest blogs -- were to follow, say, the war in Afghanistan for a week with the tenacity and hysteria of a Tiger Woods mistress-announcement, do you think we would still be there?
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On The End of the 00s: A Party In Iran, by Kaila Hale-Stern
A few days ago, government forces killed Mousavi's nephew Ali and his body was disappeared for a while to prevent an attention-drawing funeral.
I want the press to cover what's been happening in Iran since the death of Ayatollah Montazeri last week with the fervor it showed this summer. We may not have sexy Twitter trend pieces at the ready, but dissent is still being brutally and actively crushed.
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On Sexy Snape In Love: Five Secondary Characters Who Dominate 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction
@MollyculeTheory Especially considering this cinematic go-round, I think that's going to be a consensus shared by most with a pulse. Zombies and vampires too.