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Do you ever think of how weird it would be if Mickey Mouse’s name was actually Michael? And how weird it would be if one day Minnie called him “Michael Mouse” because she was upset with him? Because I think about it sometimes.

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I have just been informed that Mickey’s full name is “Michael Theodore Mouse”, and that Minnie’s is “Minerva Mouse”. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS INFORMATION, BUT I FEEL LIKE I KNOW SOMETHING FORBIDDEN NOW???

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I feel like this is a good time to share the fact that Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

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7 Ways To Support The Diverse Books Movement, According To Experts And Activists

The movement for more diverse books is nothing new, and if you’re a reader who supports more diverse books and authors, you may be left wondering: What can I do? We often see the same books on bookstore and library shelves that we see reviews of in m
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Whether you’re excited about the idea of more diverse books and authors, more #OwnVoices stories, or more diversity in genre fiction, you know you want to see more diverse books published and more diverse authors getting the recognition they deserve. Maybe you’re a Jacqueline Woodson fan who wants more authors like her, or you’re excited about diverse characters in comic books. Publishers can feel like a monolith instead of book-loving individuals coming together, and you might not know how — or where —they’re listening. Sure, you liked a post about Pride Month reading lists, but does your favorite author know you actually read their book? And last month, you bought a book with an autistic protagonist, but then realized the representation wasn’t all that great and now you’re looking for something by an autistic author. What can you do?

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good and even more specific subtropes:

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- narrator breaks free of role as “narrator” to actively manipulate or interfere with the story, converse with characters, etc.

- narrator has a crush on (or major personal grudge against) someone in the story they’re narrating and is verrrry obvious about it

- narrator is the only one able to break the fourth wall; everyone else notices them doing it, but just thinks they’re being weird

- narrator admits in an aside that even though their narration SOUNDS omniscient/authoritative, they are actually just a person and there’s a lot that they’re assuming or flat out making up, throwing the entire story so far into question

- narrator occasionally breaks from telling the story they’re telling in a removed, impartial-ish way to relate tangential personal anecdotes and opinions at great length and with a lot of feeling 

- we finally learn the narrator’s actual, given name in the middle or near the end of the story and it’s strangely, like, touching or cathartic or impactful in some way?

 (i mean, as with most of the list here, this applies to a lot of straightforward first-person narrators, too)

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Things I’m happy they changed for the Harry Potter movies/added

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I always see posts about what we wish was in the movies/they didn’t change, and there are SO MANY THINGS THAT FIT THAT LIST. But honestly the movies did a great job and stayed pretty true to the books. SO, here’s a post to point out the great things the movies did! Please add on and let’s celebrate the movies that brought these amazing books to life!

  • Adding the word Potter to… “Scared Potter?” “You wish.”
  • Showing us what Neville forgot was to wear his robes
  • Bellatrix torturing Hermione by carving the word mudblood into her arm
  • Barty Crouch Jr. licking his lips (good job David)
  • Amos Diggory’s reaction to his son dying
  • “Look at it this way: every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now – students. If they can do it, why not us?” 
  • In the OotP when they’re in the Hog’s Head a goat walks by… Aberforth owns the Hog’s Head/is the barman
  • Slughorn’s story about Lily and the fish
  • Voldemort hugging Draco
  • Showing Lupin and Tonks reaching for each other and just not touching. It killed me, but I loved it.
  • Continually having Seamus blow up things through out the movies
  • “I’ve always wanted to use that spell!”
  • Showing them just being kids and having fun! PoA scene where the boys eat the candy and make the animal noises
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“The spiders… They want me to tap dance! I don’t wanna tap dance!”

“You tell those spiders, Ron!”

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  • The shrunken heads in PoA
  • Burning The Burrow in HBP (I know people had issues with it but I actually liked it. It was a good way of visually representing how Voldemort and the Death Eaters effected people’s lives on a very personal scale)
  • Neville giving Harry the gillyweed on GoF - it makes more sense for Dobby to have been able to get it like in the books, but in the film it made Neville more involved and also added another clue to ‘Moody’s’ real identity
  • All of Filch’s screen time. He’s hilarious
  • The little glimpses we got of what Draco was up to in HBP. It gave us a slightly wider perspective than just Harry’s POV which made it more interesting, without revealing what he was actually doing
  • That muggle girl flirting with Harry at the beginning of HBP, showing he still has a life outside of fighting Voldemort and he’s still just a teenage boy
  • ‘Who’d wanna be taught by me? I’m a nutter, remember?’ ‘You can’t be worse than old toad face.’ ‘Thanks, Ron.’ ‘I’m here for you, mate.’
  • ‘Hermione’s got nice skin.’ ‘I think I’ll be going to sleep now.’
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coming out to your parents

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If you try for one second to tell me the X-Men isn’t an allegory for the gay rights movement, I will smack you. They weren’t even remotely subtle about this.

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The mutants have always been an allegory for anyone that didn’t fit in to society. The folks who drew the comics made a point of that early on.

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It’s not just the gay rights movement, its not just kids trying to “come out” to their parents.  Its people being mistreated by the government, put away, forced to pretend to be “normal”, systematically oppressed, even killed for who they are because the powers that be cant control it.  It’s an allegory for blacks, gays, the disabled (mentally and physically), women, and anyone really who isnt a white man at the top of the food chain.

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Fun fact: Ian McKellen worked with the screenwriters to make this scene directly parallel with kids coming out as queer to their parents. This scene was 100% meant to be an allegory for coming out.

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