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He farts rainbows and is ded from snake. - Snape is the New Chuck Norris acto:rattlesnakeroot
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| | Subject: | Snape is the New Chuck Norris acto:rattlesnakeroot | | Time: | 01:15 pm | | Current Mood: | disappointed |
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| Rattlesnakeroot urges people to vote for Snape in the Mugglenet March Madness Event. Okay, fair enough, I mosey'ed on over to mugglenet, thought 'hey, this looks fun', and voted quite happily for the characters I like too, even when some matchups are painfully unfair - does anyone really think that Pomona Sprout could possibly win more votes than Harry Potter? Or that Cho Chang will get more votes than Remus Lupin? Or that more people will vote for Lavender Brown than Albus Dumbledore? I might have voted for Cho, at least, but alas, she's up against my favourite adult character in the series, so no.
The odd part is when RSR seems to encourage people to vote for Kreacher over Tonks, Filch over Fred Weasley, and Dudley over Colin Creevey. Now, I'm all for voting for minor characters and showing your support, especially when you know that the popular one will win the vote anyway - hence the fact that I genuinely voted for Flitwick over Snape. Snape will win that match anyway, so why not show my liking for Flitwick? But somehow it's odd that she's directing us to them in particular, as though she really thinks that three ultimately unlikeable characters, (two of which got some redemption and depth, admittedly) deserve more votes than three characters, two of them well-loved by the fandom, who gave their lives in the Battle of Hogwarts?
The sidesplittingly LOLarious part is where she states in large font "And Remember: Snape is the New Chuck Norris", and puts up images to try and reinforce this. No, really.
ETA: You can vote as many times as you like, so Cho did end up getting a vote from me too.
ETA 2: The first round is over. The winners have progressed to the next round. Voting is open for the second round. Ginny vs Tonks and George vs Hagrid seem to be the closest fights so far.
ETA 3: Some jerk-off appears to have hacked the Mugglenet servers and is running a script in several of the matches to ruin the votes. Examples? Scrimegour is winning against Harry, Buckbeak is winning against Ron, and Petunia is winning against Albus Dumbledore. We'll have to wait and see what Mugglenet does about this.
ETA 4: Voting fixed, third round active. Apparently they're still allowing multiple votes, which at this point is silly. | comments: Leave a comment     |
| I totally voted for Flitwick too. :P
Snape, however, is no Chuck Norris. :P | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| I know, right? The whole BAMF gif made me laugh, because what's Snape doing in it? WALKING. Okay, striding dramatically, but still... this qualifies as Chuck Norris-esque BAMFery in their eyes?
And for you, an A:TLA icon. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | Remember, this is the person with a totally sincere icon of Rickman!Snape with "Witch Weekly Teacher of the Year" written on it. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| So far it looks like the closest battle is Seamus vs Lucius, which makes me laugh.
On the other hand: Dudley over Colin?! I don't think so! (I'm one of the very, very few Colin fangirls.) | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| I like Dudley more than Colin. Dudley goes from a total jerk to a decent human being, overcoming his parents' overwhelming prejudice and ignorance.
Colin, on the other hand, is like nails on a chalkboard to me. | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| | True - I've voted more than once, and my votes on that matchup have been evenly split between them. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | These match-ups really are hilarious. McGonagall vs Crookshanks? Seriously? | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| True. I feel really sorry for genuinely appealing characters who are up against heavyweight fan favourites. Olympe Maxime, no matter how kickass and clever she is, is not going to win against Ron, now is she?
Still, if they matched up popular character vs popular character (Sirius vs Hermione, say, or Ron vs Remus), then half the popular characters would have to be knocked out in the first round (because someone would have to lose), and fans of the knocked-out character would definitely complain. If that happens to a prominent character you adore in a later round, it's just bad luck that they didn't get the votes, but IMO doing it that way from the start would have been bad management. Also, if I did have to choose between Ron and Remus in the very first round, my head would asplode. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | I think she's trying to be subversive by encouraging people to vote for characters who obviously aren't going to win. With a side order of "since the main characters don't like them they're obviously better people". | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| *nod* Agreed. By now, they've all pretty much decided that whatever Harry thinks of another character, the opposite must be true.
Now both Tonks and Ginny have progressed to the next round, they are up against each other. My choice between these two wonderful women, it is impossible! *weeps* Apparently others are finding the choice equally hard, as they're practically neck in neck. George vs Hagrid is the same. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| But somehow it's odd that she's directing us to them in particular, as though she really thinks that three ultimately unlikeable characters, (two of which got some redemption and depth, admittedly) deserve more votes than three characters, two of them well-loved by the fandom, who gave their lives in the Battle of Hogwarts?
Not so odd. Dudley and Kreacher fall into the "people bullied by favourite characters" category she likes and Fred Weasley = James Potter (or Sirius Black, doesn't matter which, they're all evil tricksters, etc.) so I can see why she's promoting them. I remember her being very anti-Fred (and George) years ago, and I imagine that hasn't changed. | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| | I have to admi I can't make head nor tails of the voting. The ones with the lowest votes seem to be winning? | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| | Some troll has hacked the voting with a script, or a bot or something. I'm wondering why no one at Mugglenet has done anything about it. At this point I think they should just start over with a different vote system. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | Agreed. I enjoyed being able to vote multiple times, but I think that they should re-start it and this time each person can only vote once for each match. It's the only way to make it fair. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | Someone apparently hacked the poll to do things like give Scrimgeour 100,000+ votes. So it's probably related to that. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | I suspect that someone was a Snoopfan, as the characters that are all "losing" now are all commonly bashed by them. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| ETA 3: Some jerk-off appears to have hacked the Mugglenet servers and is running a script in several of the matches to ruin the votes. Examples? Scrimegour is winning against Harry, Buckbeak is winning against Ron, and Petunia is winning against Albus Dumbledore. We'll have to wait and see what Mugglenet does about this.
Omg, howling IRL...it's not that funny in itself, I'm just laughing at the idea of anyone taking a Buckbeak vs. Ron poll where Buckbeak wins seriously...=D (Unless...*glances suspiciously at batshit Harmonians* Nah, they couldn't still be that hung up on HBP after all this time, right? Right?) | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| *glances suspiciously at batshit Harmonians* Nah, they couldn't still be that hung up on HBP after all this time, right? Right?
Exhibit A: madderbrad.
Really though, you just need to read between the lines and ignore anything that looks like an anvil and understand the significance of circles and toast. Then you will clearly see that Buckbeak is the vehicle through which Hermione joined in Symbolic Flight with the only man rich and famous enough to ~deserve~ her! Of course Buckbeak (not Witherwings, NEVER Witherwings!) would defeat the iniquitous and unworthy ginger! | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
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Exhibit A: madderbrad.
*Snerk*
Really though, you just need to read between the lines and ignore anything that looks like an anvil and understand the significance of circles and toast.
Circles?? *is scared* I'm one of those with the 'Everything I Know About Harmony I Learned From Fandom Wank' bumper sticker ( =p ) but I've never heard the circle theory, ohgod is it on the same level of crazy as the toast and Buckbeak? Incidentally, anyone needing this many obscure theories to give evidence for their ship probably loses all whining privilege when the ship is sunk in canon... | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | Best way to summarise it is at the end of this Harmonian tumblr post, scroll down to the bit that goes "A FEW FUN FACTS AND SYMBOLISMS". Pigwidgeon flies in circles around their heads like a lovebird, and Hermione's magicked teacup goes in circles around Harry's. These two incidents are proof that JKR is referring to the circular motion that is so important to the Harmony Of The Spheres and that obviously means they will have green-eyed bushy-haired babies together. Those silly Herons, thinking that Hermione outright telling Ron to ask her out first before someone else does next time might be more of an indication of her feelings than a deranged owl and a teacup! | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | That is scary, very scary. Do you think it slipped her notice that Hermione and Ron were freinds as well as lovers. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| Oh lovely, tiny dark text on a black background, plus a quickly-flashing gif on the side.
Yes, Hermione and Harry loved each other, and they were very important to each other's lives. But why must so many people insist that any love they showed each other must have been romantic?!
You can't just assume romance between a boy and a girl simply because they're close friends -- it requires, you know, romance. Snapefen do this all the time too. It's a ridiculously low standard, both for fiction and for life. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | It's like the only 'love' that counts is the one that consists of the engagement of genitalia in plumbing activities. Friendship, family, comradeship etc., doesn't count as love because the parts of the body below the waist don't come into contact. It's kind of insulting to tell the truth. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | Yup. I don't mind H/Hr, but I hate Harmony, which places romance as the pinnacle of importance on the pyramid of love, a pedastal built of the assumption that courtly love is some sort of plausible ideal in a modern romantic relationship between equals. And it really isn't. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| Waitwaitwait. an OWL and a TEACUP are proof positive of ~twu everlasting wub~?
Jesus fuck, these people are not inhabiting the same universe. | | (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| | BWAHAHAHAH Did you see? ~Severus~ finally lost out, and the final is down to Harry vs Hermione, it looks like. XD | | (Reply to this) (Thread) |
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He farts rainbows and is ded from snake. - Snape is the New Chuck Norris acto:rattlesnakeroot
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