Used to actually properly be on Tumblr. Came back after a 5 year hiatus for memes and reactions to movies and shows that disappointed me. Rey and Kylo deserved better.
I might need you to do something for me... If I die I need you to check in on my parents. They'll want to hear all about our time here on Mars. I know that sucks, and it'll be hard talking to a couple about their dead son. It's a lot to ask which is why I'm asking you. I'm not giving up, we just need to prepare for every outcome.
Please tell them... tell them I love what I do, and I'm really good at it. And, dying for something big, and beautiful, and greater than me, tell them I said I can live with that.
UGH “HATSUNE MIKU WROTE HARRY POTTER” I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CANNOT
DIVORCE HARRY POTTER FROM THE RACIST TRANSMISOGYNISTIC ANTISEMITIC
AUTHOR ITS IN THE TEXT STOP DOING THIS SHIT
before yall go “where is it” here’s a few examples off the top of my head!
racism: the entire spew story arc wherein jkr writes about her slave race that loves slavery and hermione is considered weird and to be causing harm by trying to end said slavery
transmisogyny: girls are allowed in the boys dorm rooms, but boys are not allowed in the girls dorm rooms. this becomes incredibly insidious when you know what her beliefs are
antisemitism: every description of snape, the entire existence of the goblins, “goldstein”
you can look up any of these things for more details i am not going into it the point is stop trying to “divorce” works from their creators when it turns out they are bigoted, because their views are definitely there within their works and especially when these messages are being taught to children it’s harmful to pretend these things aren’t there and that the media should be consumed uncritically “because miku made it”
worth mentioning that rita skeeter is extremely trans-coded in goblet of fire, a book that is primarily about characters deceiving others with their appearances
Bonus that often gets overlooked: when asked if there were any autistic characters in her books on twitter, she responded that there are no non-magical disabilities in Harry Potter because wizards cure everything with magic (yay, eugenics!). The characters who acquire magical disabilties in the books, namely Lockhart and the Longbottom parents, are institutionalized for life.
Let’s not forget she blocked multiple indigenous people when they told her that it was extremely disrespectful to use there spiritual practices in a child’s fantasy book series for multiple reasons. Such as implying there beliefs are nothing more than myths from dead cultures. Something indigenous people have been fighting against for years. She’s also using terms and figures that are from closed cultures meaning they are not for outsiders to be using.
There are a lot of absolute idiots in the comments saying things like “a good dog will never hurt a baby” and “the child is never to blame if the dog attacks” and “special snowflakes call everything abuse”
Listen here you fucktards: dogs. Are not. Fucking. People. They don’t operate by human logic. They don’t follow human moral codes. It has nothing to do with it being a “good dog“ or not. If you were getting hit and pulled on and punched and scratched constantly, you just might react. A dog can’t speak up and say “hey please stop that you’re hurting me“. What he can do is move, lunge, bite, etc. These actions might intentionally or unintentionally harm your child. Use your fucking head and don’t let your kid beat up on your dog no matter how many times he’s “taken it” before; you never know when he might snap. Don’t teach your kids it’s OK to treat animals like punching bags and they’ll never react. That’s immensely unfair to both the animal and the child. You could have a hurt or dead child and a euthanized dog because you were fucking dumbass who thought the dogs were just there to be treated like toys.
Same goes for cats and any other pet. Teach your child how to properly treat animals or don’t have any fucking animals.
And it absolutely can be done, even at very young ages. When we rescued a young stray calico cat that showed up at our house, a friend of ours with a toddler took her in, and they taught their toddler immediately how to approach the slightly skittish cat They demonstrated appropriate behavior and touch, showed her how to move, even taught her some of the warning signs that kitty wanted her to stop touching her. Now, when this tiny, 3-year-old child approaches the cat, she coaches herself out loud, repeating “Calm, calm” (which is unbearably adorable, btw) and taking slow, deliberate steps so as not to startle the cat.
They’re best friends now, but April still knows that when Cali wants down, she lets her, and she knows to be gentle and calm. In return, Cali tolerates being handled. But it was a relationship they worked to build, because her parents taught her how to treat the cat, and the potential consequences of not being gentle and calm around her.
If you don’t think your child is old enough to understand how to treat a pet well, it’s safer and healthier for all involved not to leave them together unsupervised.
one thing i do want to say though is i think as h*mosexual women but also just as women in general is that we need to recognize that “i’m not performing for men” is only one half of the picture. maybe you don’t want men’s approval but how much do you need women’s acceptance? how much are you smoking and drinking and doing coke and running and dieting and posting about forgetting to eat and performing other kinds of violence for the approval of other women? how much pressure do women put on you to negate the features of your body or your race or your sexuality or anything else…can you get away with stimming around other women? can you get away with not shaving? can you be around your female friends and feel fat without saying “i feel fat” so no one would mistake you for not punishing yourself for what is (erroneously) assumed to be a “transgression” of the body? can you look ugly and know that the female store clerk or the barista or the girl at the sink next to you or the girl on the bus with you or the girl with you on the elevator on the girl you have to squeeze past in the lecture hall to get out of the aisle will be kind and respectful to you and not act disgusted. can you be around your female family members without them commenting on your body? so much masochism and violence remain normalized among women because we say “well I’m not doing it for men, so it’s my choice” but how much are you doing out of a fear of women?
and thats how things like makeup and shaving get baked into “feminist” rhetoric because we forget the degree to which feminity is enforced by other women, not men. so even for people who have no stake at all in being appealing to men…there’s still the threat of being punished by women. and every post that’s critical of makeup or whatever that ends up with reblogs that say things like “learn to do eyeliner ugly” or whatever stupid shit just proves that. we’re out here doing the same things we’ve always done we’ve just replaced “attracting men” with “placating other women”
what’s the betting that potterwatch was just a radio project lee jordan was doing in his spare time and never actually stopped after the war
“Harry Potter was spotted at the local farmers market today, good choices in produce Harry! Gotta love the organics”
he’s the only reporter harry will talk to other than giving official statements when he has to as an auror
“I’m speaking to Harry Potter today after the long-awaited conclusion of the trial of quadruple murderer Waldorfus Grenoble. Harry, may I ask you a question regarding the trial?”
“Sure, Lee, I have to be back at work in ten but give it a go.”
“What is in the curry you had for lunch yesterday during the recess? It smelled fantastic and I have to know.”
“Thanks for asking, Lee. I’ve recently come across a book of my great-grandmother Priyanka’s notes on her Punjabi cooking and I’ve been trying to recreate her food. I liked that one but Ginny said it was too sweet so I’m making adjustments.”
“Fantastic. Great stuff. Next up we have an update on You-Know-Who’s whereabouts. Not Voldemort obviously– he’s six feet under, it’s been around 2500 days now and he’s still going strong, no sign of him being not dead any time soon.”
“You’re correct, Lee, he’s dead as a doornail and he’s going to stay that way. You do realize you don’t need to refer to your infant daughter as ‘You-Know-Who,’ right?”
“Sophie starts screaming if either of her dads talks about her and we don’t know why. Any suggestions, and any idea where she is now?”
“Oliver was walking her up and down the hallway outside the World Cup Regulatory Office last I saw her. As for the screaming, with James we gave him the miniature dragon from the Triwizard in ‘94 and that entertained him pretty well.”
“You heard it here first folks, Harry Potter thinks dragons are an appropriate substitute for pacifiers! Thanks for your time, Harry.”
“Any time, Lee.”
“Next week’s password is anything that will make our six-month-old go to sleep for longer than four hours. Signing off, this has been Potterwatch with River and the man himself, Harry Potter.”
I finally found this glorious post
I really love how the Potter fandom writes material that is frequently miles better than Rowling’s actual text
