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Okay, so a lot of things have happened while I was away from the internet, which always seems to happen, so I'm like three days behind. I just found out that JKR is releasing/has released (I'm no longer on Pottermore so I don't really know) a history on witches/wizards in America. This, of course, included a pretty historically inaccurate summary of Native American witches and wizards and you can tell from the snippet that I read that either she hadn't really done that much research or she did and chose to do what she wanted to do. My main issue isn't that she cherry picked, although that definitely can come with it's own problems if you aren't careful, but I think it's more insidious because JKR is acting like what she wrote is actual history but with HP wizards and witches in it. It obviously isn't.

I don't know, I think JKR's attempts at inclusion have been clumsy. I also think her attempts have gotten progressively worse.

1) Dumbledore being gay- There were some hints of this within Book 7 that were a bit too subtle then they should have been. Enough that a lot of people didn't think it was Dumbledore who was gay. Now the argument is not whether Dumbledore is gay or not but whether he can count for positive representation of the LGBT community when the text barely mentions his sexuality. Personally, in this case I think JKR wanted to portray a gay character without him being defined by his sexuality. Unfortunately in the process I think in Dumbledore's sexuality was erased either by her or her publishers.

2) Black Hermione- I don't have a problem with black Hermione in general. I can see why people see her that way. However, JKR never intended for Hermione to be anything other than white and I think JKR hasn't explained her thought process with Hermione well (duh this is all on twitter). JKR never mentions Hermione's skin color once in text, but she allowed for the interpretation of Hermione to be exclusively white until the play. She could have said something to the artist if Hermione was always meant to be white or to her publishers. If she wanted Hermione to be black she would have made a stink about it long ago. I can't fathom why she wouldn't, she's very particular about her canon. So in my mind no one can say black Hermione is canon, you can only say its your interpretation of the character which is only marginally better than making white Hermione canon (which is now no longer canon for the books which is fine). I don't think she gave the black community anything but a bone here and I think she did it because she didn't want to be seen as racist.

3) Native Americans in the history- Skipping the part where JKR clearly did no research on American (specifically the US history). JKR's portrayal of Native Americans is downright insensitive and plainly wrong. You can tell by reading it that she has little grasp of American history and clearly only knows one Native American tribe and used that to describe all of them. No wonder Native American fans are pissed. She has little grasp of the history of these people and therefore her own twists and interpretations fall extremely flat and can been seen as offensive.

My main issue with JKR right now is that she keeps talking about her canon on twitter and Pottermore. I think Harry Potter is slowly losing it's magic. At first I was excited about more Harry Potter, but now I'm extremely worried. Fantastic Beasts is going to incorporate JKR's interpretation of US/American history which is full of errors. Cursed Child the book is coming out but I'm not sure if I even want to read it. I mean it's a sequel. I'm really only interested in her writing books on the Founding Fathers of Hogwarts (be in Helga's POV please), McGonagall, Merlin or some other witch or wizard in the past not connected with Harry at all, or Lily Evans (Potter) POV. I just wish she'd write books instead of making vague twitter posts and snippets on Pottermore. This is why I think creators need to step away from social media (coughtwittercough) and focus on telling their stories. But at the end of the day it's her work and she can run it into the ground George Lucas style if she wants.

Feeling better, I think my sickness is now just a normal cold. Weird thing happened this evening. I was watching TV and eating dinner and when I looked up from my plate my vision went wonky. It was like if you look at the sun too long and you get those spots, that's what I had. I rubbed my eyes and the spots moved from the center of my left eye to the edge. My right eye was similar but less extreme. Five minutes later it was gone, but I had this curtain effect for a good 15 minutes. It was like everything was covered by a thin curtain making everything dim. I have a small headache from it now. My husband thinks it was a migraine but I've never had a migraine before and I'm 28. Can migraines start happening at anytime?

I was going to write tonight, but since that weird vision problem I'm really tired. I don't know if I have the energy to do that. I shouldn't be tired. I took two naps today. Ugh, being sick sucks even when it's just a cold.

Pre-ordered my Fire Emblem new 3DS just now. If anyone here is interested here are the links to the two sites that have it. I'm surprised because in the article I read they said it was sold out on Gamestop but I was able to preorder no problem. I think it gets glitchy when a lot of people are on it at once. I pre-ordered on Gamestop because that's usually where I go. I got my confirmation order so I should get it no problem. :)

http://www.gamestop.com/nintendo-3ds/consoles/nintendo-new-3ds-xl-fire-emblem-fates-edition/128251

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-new-3ds-xl-fire-emblem-fates-edition/4773200.p?id=1219817779057&skuId=4773200

I can't help it. I've got to master all the jobs in this game for every character. It's a bit addicting for me because grinding is my stress release and I've had a lot of stress recently. I'm doing pretty well at this game now because of my need to do this though. I breezed through chapter 5, no problems, thanks to my freelancer/vampire combo plus spiritmaster/white mage. Mimic is a beautiful thing to have this early in the game.

Also this game is seriously beautiful and the soundtrack is amazing. The story is typical JRPG nonsense but still enjoyable. I think it's probably for the best that I know pretty much what's going to happen in this game otherwise I'll be frustrated.

Before moving on from chapter 5 I need to make sure I get all the vampire genomes. Vampire is basically a blue mage which makes it the best mage class in my opinion. Just like Valkyrie is the best melee class because dragoon. You may think dragoon's are lame but you are wrong, jumping is the coolest thing (and I love Kain Highwind...).

I should put the game down and go to bed soon. It's 2:30am!

I'm going to do my second longest fandom second. That seems like a good idea to me. Sailor Moon was my first anime that I got into the fandom for. I remember when fanfiction.net had like 12 max anime on their list. Sailor Moon was one of them and I was obsessed with it from the very start. So without further ado my shipping preferences in Sailor Moon.

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After nearly two years of absence I find myself wishing to be back on LJ. I have a lot of work to do trying to find the active parts of the LJ community and finding new friends since all of my friends are gone. It's really sad to be honest. I wish that I knew where exactly to begin.

Well, I'll be posting more stuff here in the coming weeks. I'm hoping to be more active here but who knows how long that will last this time. After years of being gone the site seems like a ghost town (a ghost site).

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When I was little, Thin Mints were my favorite. I can thank Thin Mints for my love of chocolate and mint. However, I think the recipe changed (or my taste buds) because I don't like them as much. Today my favorite Girl Scout cookies are Caramel de Lites which I'm eating right now.

if God hates me or not. Seriously it seems that all I do right now is bitch about life.

So two Saturdays ago my cousin died, and I had to go to California for his funeral. He died of alcohol poisoning most likely. According to his sister it was his first time drinking, which I guess I can believe because he was always kind of nervous about those types of things. I'm actually kind of surprised he drank before he was 21.

Anyway I got back from California and found out that my stats class was going to have a test today. I asked for an extension, because I missed a whole chapter because I was in California helping with the funeral arrangments. He asked if I understood the material, and I said I understood the formulas, just not when to use them (which has always been my problem). He then was like, "I think you should take the test" so I did. I don't think I did good on this test at all. I'm now going to pray I get a C, because I didn't do good on the first one. I suppose I can retake the class if I need to. I'm just kind of pissed off about the whole thing, especially since I have a D before. I suck at school so bad.

I don't normally post on the same day. This is really weird. So I realize I have some really weird mental issues when it comes to online things. Seriously. If I make a comment on anything, I'll sit there and stare at it for 10-15 min. wondering if I should hit the post button. Then I'll start tapping the mouse button until I "accidentally" post it. I don't know, I have no problems in real life at all. I can speak in front of whole classrooms fine, but I can't post a simple comment.

I really need to do my homework. I have at least three hours to do, and it's already 10. I wish school were over, though I'll be done with undergrad in 1 1/2 yrs. It sucks that I'll have to stay an extra semester for one class that the history department pushed back a year. I guess a lot of people are in the same boat.

My keyboard on my laptop is starting to bother me. Mostly because half the time my a's don't work. I don't know why, it's really weird, because sometimes I have no trouble and than I do. Like writing this post, half of it I had to re-write because my a's didn't appear, but the other half it did.
Okay I really am going to do homework now I swear.

Last Tuesday my grandma went in for a stroke. It turns out it was a tumor. Today it was discovered that it has spread all throughout her body, and that she may have a week if that. They think it started out as lung cancer, and it spread. I don't know how she is right now, she's had several hallucinations in the past few hours according to my uncle. I don't really want to go back to school, but I know it's best if I do. I'm skipping Monday probably....