anyways hermione is a cutthroat bitch and her demonizing divination is due to the fact that she literally #cannot with emotional forms of magic. quidditch? which requires an emotional partnership of trust with the broom? nope. divination? which requires an emotional openness and willingness to forego logical conclusion at the whims of fate? are u fuckin kidding me. patronuses? which require not just technical skill but also a deep connection with your own emotional core? uhhhhh we’ll just let harry handle that one.
movie!hermione, w/ her advanced emotional intelligence and absolute willingness to meet each and every emotional need the boys have, should have of course been good at emotional magics like divination. shes fucking superwoman. but book!hermione? who destroyed a girls face without mercy because she ratted out the DA? who erased her parents memories so she could fight in a war? who solved dumbledores’ mysteries using ancient runes, an art that is practically the math of magic? book!hermione will destroy you and she will do it armed with the cold hard facts and the cold hard facts alone. book!hermione doesn’t give a shit. instead of getting a regular pet, book!hermione was drawn to a magical cat who is self-serving and intellectual and helped her gather clues rather than serving as an emotional companion. i mean fck.
full offense but hermione is so hardcore and logic-driven and she literally could give a SHIT about ur feelings
In book 1 when their major plot puzzle is character establishing to set us up for the series, Hermione straight-up explains to Harry that she kicks butt because she has logic (which is apparently rare for wizards) and Harry kicks butt because he has emotional understanding and heart. (Ron is unconscious for this conversation and doesn’t get a speech, but presumably he kicks butt for being the only one of them with an ounce of common fucking sense.)
also remember when lavander was SOBBING bc her pet just died and hermione yelled at her for believing in divination? yeah, she sucks at feelings
uh .. idk why i’m only realizing now that hermione and harry are complete opposite, from the way they do magic to how they are with their pets (hedwig is a post owl, a functional and useful pet but harry treats her more like someone would a cat) but it makes so much sense
considering this, it’s surprising that they didn’t clash more often but i’m pretty sure that thinking back about those few fights they do have in the book the problems always came from hermione failing to take emotions into account and harry relying more on his emotions than his logic
Their biggest fight iirc was in prisoner of azkaban, over the surprise!broomstick. And Hermione absolutely went behind Harry’s back (in what he sees as a hurtful betrayal) because she thought it was the right thing to do, which shows why she’s in gryffindor but also demonstrates the truth of this thread nicely.
I wish Taika Waititi never did his black magic on me. I love Thor. I love him. Ever since I stepped foot into that ragnarok showing. I’ve been helpless. I thought it was romantic when Steve literally held the helicopter and prevented a brainwashed Bucky from flying off in it. But then I saw Thor take the full force of a STAR. Bc he loves everyone. So much. That’s romance baby! Interplanetary! This must be how people feel about Jesus Christ.
age of ultron is The Worst Movie Ever Made in many respects but steve’s nightmare scene is really well done and like…i hate how people misinterpret it as steve not wanting to live in a world without war cus if you like…watch it it’s about him being afraid that he doesn’t know how to exist outside of fighting/being cap because since coming out of the ice it’s all that’s been expected of him which really fits in well with how lost he is in winter soldier (”what makes you happy?” “i don’t know”). also the PTSD stuff is really well done and Chris acts it so well like he’s literally jumping and dodging out of the way at camera flashes and it’s just…idk it’s one of the movie’s few saving graces
I know it’s like no you dumb idiots, he doesn’t love fighting, he’s afraid he has no place in the world except for the fighting. Ultron is the bad guy, just because he says something, doesn’t make it true. The fact that they can’t tell the PTSD stuff is beyond me, I mean he’s jumping at flashbulbs, he’s seeing spilled wine and it’s reminding him of blood and gunshot wounds. It’s classic PTSD, it’s like the woman in Sam’s support group in The Winter Soldier, who talked about mistaking a plastic bag blowing into the street while she was driving for an IED.
EXACTLY.
We see him in CA:TWS trying to figure things out, does Steve Rogers still exist when everyone (until Sam Wilson) just sees Captain America?, how exactly does Steve Rogers fit into the 21st century?, then BAM! Project Insight, taking down Hydra, finding Bucky, no time to be Steve Rogers. And AOU finds him feeling like he missed his chance (“the world’s expert in waiting too long”) and resigning himself to being Captain America forever even though that was never his plan.
And then we have Civil War:
He’s done. Not with the fight, but with the fact that Captain America has become something that Steve Rogers is not. Somehow, Captain America became the image of the perfect soldier, and even Steve’s teammates can’t see him for himself instead of an image the world constructed of what is Captain America.
Steve Rogers is not a perfect soldier, but a good man. When he drops the shield, he is taking a stand. Steve Rogers can no longer be Captain America in the 21st century if Captain America no longer stands for what Steve Rogers does.
And this is why Steve Rogers is not a flat character like so many people think, but I digress.
there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”
and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”
the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious
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