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Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Another problem I have with the Guild's rp is how casual rps attract most of the snobby players on this site. Seriously all my worst encounters with the arrogant asses of the Guild were from Casual roleplays

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Tatsua Aiisen said
Don't spread misinformation. It's just that, the series being focused on Gryffindor, Slytherin wasn't really paid attention to outside of the villainous characters. Which happened to be from Slytherin.

I'm not spreading misinformation, I am just talking about how Jk Rowling wrote the characters, which I personally didn't like and thought was poor writing in my opinion.

Circus of Freaks

Sorry it's taking me so long to post but I'll have to post tomorrow, maybe in the morning.

American, not African American?

Dervish said
By that argument, calling somebody Asian is dumb because of the slight feature variance and skin tone between nationalities. Likewise, a Mediterranean white person typically has a more olive complexion and darker hair and eyes while a Nordic white person tends to have lighter eyes and hair with a paler complexion. Or heck, a Native American can range anywhere from a South American Incan to an Arctic Inuit, but you still consider them Native American. If I saw you and were asked to describe you, I'd just say black. I'm not going to know where your family is from any more than you know where mine is from. Plus, I'm pretty sure most government forms that ask for your ethnicity aren't going to accept Louisiana Creole as a response. If everyone nitpicked and enforced what people called their ethnicity, we'd have to memorized literally thousands of different ethnic permutations when a simple generalization works a lot more efficiently without being racially insensitive in the slightest. Simple, "ethnic minority" works fine as a catch-all phrase, because it works for any society. If I lived in China, I'd be the ethnic minority there. Of course, it helps to look into a particular situation closely before jumping to the conclusion that everyone who happens to be a different race than the majority is suffering the same slights and inequities as another just because they're not a majority group. As with anything, knowledge is key and while it's good to champion the rights of the under represented, it's good to keep in mind that not all struggles are created equal. For example, an Asian isn't going to be effected by native land disputes or demanding compensation for residential schools, a black person isn't going to be suffering from the same discrimination as an Arab in a post 9/11 world, and so on. It's part of why I'm not a fan of using a "catch all" term for non-whites because I kind of feel like if you start to lump everything into one, the lines start to blur a bit and that leads some people to adopt an "us verses them" mentality, which is awful.

If someone asks for my ethnicity then I tell them that I am an American and if that's not enough then I'll say I'm black if calling myself a Louisiana Creole is not enough.

I completely agree with you on the matter of the term people of color lumping everyone together. The problem is that Americans have a very simplistic view of race where everything is either black, white, Asian and Hispanic. One of the biggest flaws with the term people of color is how can a pale skinned Asian be considered a person of color if their skin tone is the same as caucasians? People of color to me is just another ignorant term to turn the race and ethnic problems of society into an us verses them argument which doesn't solve problems.

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Tatsua Aiisen said
All of the houses have the potential to produce Dark Wizards, and all of their traits have the potential to be bad in certain ways. It's just because Slytherins are ambitious, so the dark wizards produced by their house are more likely to be well-known.

I understand that but jk Rowling wrote the slytherins as very bad, I don't think there was any slytherin student in the books that was portrayed in a good light, hell they were not even allowed to help in the battle of Hogwarts

American, not African American?

I am black, but I refer to myself as a Louisiana Creole since that's where my family is from. I'm more French than African since my family is heavily mixed. In my opinion black is almost as flawed of a term as people of color, the skin color variation from dark to light makes that term just dumb.

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Diminuendo said
Yeaaaaah, but it also explains that Ron was a 'family pet'. And besides, I doubt Scabbers is really there for anything except for J.K. Rowling needing to give Peter a good hiding place.

Okay I'll change it, so how serious are you about sticking very close to the books? Because slytherins are portrayed as being mostly bad

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Diminuendo said
@Jester and Eyeris: Your characters are accepted~@Yog: So... I read all the comments about your ferret, and I will have to say no. I just don't like students having pets that aren't the main three (toad, owl, cat), and about Albus having a ferret... I just read the books, and it didn't mention anything about that. Other than that, your character is accepted.@EVERYOOOONE~: I'll be posting the OOC later tonight.

what about Ron's rat? Rats aren't part of the main three pets

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I'm ready to make my badass wolverine

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I don't see too big of a problem with a ferret since they are domesticated and are pretty smart. Also ferrets are about the size of cats, and Ron brought a rat to Hogwarts even though Rats aren't listed as one of the main familiar