EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]

I no longer consume kebab

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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • Long rant about child abuse in Harry Potter, cw for child abuse and death

    Maybe I’m wrong because I only watched the first movie while half asleep but the character of Credence disturbs me. He is an obscurus, which is a wizard who got abused for being a wizard so their magic became a destructive parasitic entity. Handling of child abuse in Harry Potter already sucks but I got curious and checked the wiki and apparently Credence is too far gone and he is in his 20s(to be fair he joins sides with the wizard fascist, I can’t remember the order of events so someone please tell me which way this went). Most obscurus just drop dead before ten btw.

    Someone(probably Rowling) unironically went and wrote a character who gets abused their entire lives, isn’t helped by anyone so he develops magic mental illness and becomes both a terrible person and a pure destructive force.

    It wouldn’t be bad if there was any actual representation of someone recovering from child abuse but there is four abused characters I can think of: -Credence who becomes mentally ill in a magic way and joins wizard fascism

    -Ariana who dies as tragic back story for Dumbledore

    -Harry who just doesn’t have mental scars from the abuse. He doesn’t need to recover because he doesn’t seem to be affected.

    -Voldemort who is born of rape, is inherently incapable of love and becomes magic Hitler.

    Thanks for validating all the bad thoughts I had about getting abused wow such tolerance.

    Edit: Sorry for dumping this here I just want to bring it up when I see something about Fantastic Beasts.




  • Yahşi Batı, G.O.R.A.

    I don’t watch movies all that often but having seen G.O.R.A. I think Cem Yılmaz is highly overrated. He has shallow humor that depends too much on pop-culture references.

    Maybe nostalgia filter is at work here but Kemal Sunal is probably the most beloved Turkish comedy actor. Often got typecast as the naive but well-meaning working class hero. Kibar Feyzo even got banned for a while because it was too leftist(unions are portrayed sympethically and the plot is about Feyzo trying to unite the people of his town to overthrow their landlord, though he gets arrested at the end). It is not theory by any means but enjoyable.