[ SECRET POST #3227 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3227 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica, Major Crimes]


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[Deadly Premonition]


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[The Walking Dead, Glenn Rhee]


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[Bill Skarsgård]


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08. http://i.imgur.com/LAq54d4.jpg
[link for random penis]









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Comments

Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[chardmonster]

It takes place in NYC in fucking 1926. You know what that means?

WIZARD. FLAPPERS.

And yeah in my WIZARD FLAPPER movie, "no-maj" sounds close enough to 1920s slang that it doesn't look like Rowling doesn't have imagination. It looks like she actually kind of gets the 1920s.

People complaininga bout how boring the names are: you are probably American. Have you noticed how we name things? Now look at institution names in Great Britain. See? WE'RE ACTUALLY DIFFERENT.

Of course it's going to be the Salem Witches' Institute and not fucking Salemwoggles or someshit.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

If it actually delivers on 1920s-style adventure wizards, I will love this movie for the rest of my life.

Also, it's worth pointing out here that maybe more than any other single thing, what JKR has proven herself adept at is understanding old genres & reinterpreting them for the modern age. She literally built a fortune on adding magic to Edwardian school stories. So I'm mildly optimistic about stuff like this, against my best judgment.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[chardmonster]

Same. It looks like they're actually putting forth an effort. There's always a chance the plot is silly (and a bigger chance that idiot fans will complain about a silly plot entirely forgetting that this is a children's series and not their grimdark fanfic) but I expect the worldbuilding to be solid.

Putting the American ministry in the Woolworth Building? Brilliant.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[ketita]

Well, I'm not American XD and I'm not super enthused?
1920s slang included stuff like: Abe's Cabe, big cheese, zozzled, boys being called sheiks, lollygagger, noodle juice, grummy...
I really don't think that "no-maj" fits in with the fun you see in a lot of 20s slang, in part because the etymology is so direct and obvious.

I am also thinking, and don't really have much to back this up atm, but it seems to me that fairly often when in-groups have a name for an out-group, it often constitutes what they *are* rather than what they *are not*. As in, most out-group names I know will not be called "not us", but "them". I would have probably been more okay with a term that didn't mean "not magic" so literally.
(I would give some examples but I doubt I can come up with anything that would not get me laughed at)

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[chardmonster]

It's hard to articulate or prove, really but: as someone who's had to read a lot of 1910s-1920s stuff for my dissertation, "no-maj" rings true. It sounds like a bastardized version of a sensitive term.

"We aren't going to call them Muggles! That's racist. We'll call them NonMagical Persons." And then their kids come up with "no-maj."

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[ketita]

It could be. I'm not saying that it's awful or anything, but it just seems to me that they could have gone a bit more, idk, fun in that department. Thrown in some rhyming or something (like heebie jeebies).

Then again, I haven't read so much from that era lately, so this is just my impression and I'm willing to be corrected.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have to try to be an asshole to people, or does it come naturally? JW

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

What on earth is your damage, anon? that was a perfectly reasonable post.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? Unprovoked "everyone's being morons"?

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a bit rude but at the same time the post itself was very content-ful

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Which is why I'm curious, if she just wanted to make everyone feel stupid and then throw out information in a patronizing sort of way, or if she just doesn't realize what she's doing.

"You're all idiots, let me educate you..." basically.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're genuinely curious, your first post certainly didn't come off that way. It came off as a rhetorically complex way of calling Chard an asshole.

I don't think you're genuinely curious.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

It's almost as if HER post didn't come off as geniunely helpful or something. And that maybe I was responding in kind with my question. Crazy.

Also, I really don't care what you think. Unless you're Chard anon. Are you Chard anon?

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not Chard, so you can go about your business if you like. I just think Chard is generally very decent, and I think that responding in kind is actually not a great strategy, in general.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it isn't, but that's how I roll. I find that if someone starts out a conversation by being a jerk, it's not worth going out of your way to be polite.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't agree, frankly. I think, if someone is being incidentally rude (which I think is the case here) politeness is the proper response. And as a general rule, across situations, politeness and courtesy and compassion - or at worst a lack of response - are the best options. It's only when someone is posting with a consistent lack of courtesy & empathy that outright rudeness in response becomes necessary. And to me - that's clearly not the case with Chard, who is an incredibly lovely person.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree. I spent much of my life being nice to assholes for the sake of keeping the peace, and it's gotten me nothing but high blood pressure.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no opinion on Chard either way, but she is very frequently (i.e. most posts) abrasive and insulting. No, calling people morons and being rude is not "incredibly lovely". Anon was perfectly within line to call that out.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon didn't call that out. Anon snarkily called Chard an asshole. Those are different things.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

incredibly lovely?

chard fucking straight up told a suicidal person to kill themselves. on f!s. in front of EVERYONE.

please remove your head from your (and chard's) rectal passageway.

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[chardmonster]

[Citation needed]

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[(Anonymous)]

What is up with people accusing users they don't like of telling other users to kill themselves?

Okay! I'll be nicer.

[chardmonster]

It's not everyone but rather you in particular who is being a moron, or as 1920s-era American wizards would say, a "no-senz."

Re: Okay! I'll be nicer.

[(Anonymous)]

WHERE IS THE LIKE BUTTON

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[grausam]

>Salemwoggles

lol

And I generally agree.