more vampires who don’t remember more vampires saying ‘i don’t fucking know man, google it’ more vampires not remembering important historical figures more vampires not recalling centuries worth of history more vampires saying ‘ that was at least 300 years ago, how the FUCK could i remember that detail?’ more vampires whose brains work like human brains
More vampires who 300 years later can’t remember what was the truth and what was the lie they told to get out of trouble.
More vampires who are like, “I don’t know, man, I spent most of that decade in an opium den.”
More vampires who weren’t paying attention because they didn’t think it would be important.
More vampires who don’t know because there was lot of conflicting gossip and they don’t want to point any fingers.
More vampires who are just bad at dates. “Back in 1620, or was it 1645, wait, what year is it now?”
More vampires who were on a totally different continent when it happened, so get off their back and stop asking them questions already.
YES to all of this but also consider: vampires who only remember the most trivial stuff.
“Oh yeah, the only thing I remember about the American Revolution was this nice candlemaker I met sometime, and she was wearing this really cute red shawl…”
“Uhhh I don’t remember much about the fall of Rome but there was this one fucking cobblestone right outside the coliseum…”
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the first
Italian woman in space, took a moment to celebrate Captain Janeway at
around 250 miles above Earth. (CNET) (twitter)
i bet someone else has already posted this by now but i thought it was really cool bc now we officially have had a cosplay selfie in space lmao
also apparently this marks the first time a star trek uniform’s actually been worn in space i heard??? which is also awesome
She did it again today! Also, in the picture she’s drinking coffee brewed with an espresso machine specifically engineered to work on the International Space Station – the ISSpresso (made in Italy!).
The most amusing thing about this is that, at current launch prices, it costs in the neighbourhood of $4000 per pound to send stuff to the International Space Station. Eyeballing that uniform’s weight at about two pounds, this means that before Ms. Cristoforetti could take cosplay selfies on the ISS, she first had to propose to her nation’s space agency, with a straight face, that they should approve an extra eight grand to send that uniform up there with her in the first place – and that they agreed that this was, in fact, an appropriate use of their funding.
I have always imagined the American magical community in Harry Potter to be significantly less… structured than that of Britain. America is just so big, and the states can be so different, and history is so fucked up and complicated that a whole secret society with a completely separate government and people who’re totally clueless about the muggle world just makes no sense to me.
American wix participate in general elections and watch tv and their kids go to muggle school during the day and learn magic at home or in after-school programs and play quidditch and football and only your great grandma has owls while everyone else just has a phone and generally don’t obliviate muggles who see magic shit bc lol who’s gonna believe them anyway.
And European wix haaaate dealing with them bc they won’t do things the Proper Magical Way they just do whatever the fuck they want bc AMERICA FUCK YEAH.
Agreed. Also It’s cannon that Americans play a different version of qudditch.
And only the really rich, really old families actually go to a private magic school because it’s more expensive than, like, Princeton. Everybody else, yeah, learns at home or congregates on the weekends for idk the magical version of Sunday school?
I didn’t like this at first but it makes a lot of sense?
I actually think the kids learning in a sort of Sunday School type setting would be most realistic–given the USA’s past w/ Christianity and religious affiliations it would be easiest to fly under the radar if your kids went to a “church” on “Sunday” and learned there. And then it’s not just that your kids are learning but parents get to spend time w/ other magical people because very few work with only magic people in their jobs. With big potions potlucks, where people come together with batches of potions and share them around.
And the idea of parents also being super active in teaching their kids magic makes a lot of sense because parents would WANT to pass it on to their kids.
And I would imagine a COMPLETELY different communication system would develop, like with owls become far less popular for long distance communication because you couldn’t really send a letter across the state, let alone the country, by owl so you wind up with other forms of communication–like what if there was a system similar to Floo powder but instead of yourself you could light a candle and throw some floo powder on it with a letter and send it that way?
Also I imagine that magic itself would just be really, really different because the US is such a melting pot. You’d have so many different cultures doing their magic & there would be different types of magic mixed together.
And so rather than an Official Start To Your Education, you start learning from a very small age because you just teach them as you go, like ABCs and numbers.
OH and when you are of age you DO get to go to magic summer camps. Whether you go to sleep away camp or it’s a camp at your “church.” Mostly so you can learn about things your parents can’t teach you, like about different magical animals and large varieties of plants that are hard to grow in a garden.
Then you graduate muggle high school and you get the chance to go to muggle college or maybe a wizard college (like the Salem Witches’ Institute) if your family is influential enough or you are particularly gifted and get a scholarship.
But there are magic clubs at many of the colleges and your “church” sends a list of student names to the clubs so they can be brought into the circles and given community but also learn more magic, with professors heading these clubs and running these like additional classes. So you are taking both muggle and magic classes.
And any magical muggles would be detected likely because teachers in schools would keep their eyes out for them and talk to their parents and get them into magical circles.
SO it’d be a little sloppy but eventually most magical muggles would make it into the magic world before college graduation.
I just imagine a life where muggles don’t know about them, but magical folk sure know about muggles and are completely woven into muggle society.
okay, so I enjoyed the hell out of the captive prince series. I will probably skip book one when re-reading, because holy shit why to so many things, but it was very well written with cool battle scenes and politics and intrigue, and yes, dicks touching
also I finished the whole series in a 20-hour period and now I’m stuck in loopy book headspace
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