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People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.
She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.
Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.
#cw jk rowling#i try not to talk about her bc i already hear enough but i did really want to say this#ik no one might see it but it’s important to me
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op turned off reblogs but I want this forever
Edit: reblogs have been turned back on!
#ari talks#tumblr#btw i asked op when this post had the same amt of notes as the original and they were totally cool with it staying up with rbs on#50k#100k
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so hard not to become the most annoying person on earth if you're a little excitable and just learned a little about a topic literally no one around you has any interest in
#unforch ive been laserfocused on the composition of toilet cleanibg products and (unrelated) international fishing politics this week so far#i want to talk about anti limescale chemicals 😫 and chinese ships off the coast of west africa 😐#TO EVERYONE IN THE NOTES: don't worry i am not particularly wounded by the awareness that my coworkers would not appreciate a rant#it is a good idea to make sure your conversations remain dialogue and not uninvited monologue for an uninterested captive audience#there is a time and place for excited half-informed monologues.
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pokèmonize yourself!!!!
spin this wheel to see your pokemon type
spin this one to see how you'll look like
#polls#gio talks#pokemon#btw i got dragon type and i look like a pig on my first roll.#im LITERALLY g.anondorf lmao#pokemon poll#hall of fame
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Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened
"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"
"we don't read that shit"
"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"
That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT
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he's free now
#game changer#dropout tv#sam reich#FUCK I REALLY HOPE HE DOESNT SEE THIS. I GET THE HEEBIE FREAKIN JEEBIES EVERY TIME I POST FANART FOR HIM#ms paint#digital art#artists on tumblr#mine#my art#head in my hands head in my hands#i don wanna talk about it .#i do. actually. intensely
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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.
I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.
She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!
This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.
No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.
#zee zee rants#if im talking out of my ass here ill delete the post idc i wont die on any hill#anyway if people you're propping up are more of a symbol to you than a group of people you are susceptible to developing prejudiced ideas#based on fearmongering instead of reality#also its funny that the more bigoted she got the more mid her works became#jesus christ i dont think even she has the funds to get people to continue the fantastic beast movies#i think only her most diehard fans are going to watch the harry potter reboot#anyway#harry potter tw#jk rowling tw
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lil doodle from the other day born out of an overwhelming annoyance that for some reason body hair is associated with masculinity despite Everyone Having It. so why not draw a cute hairy girl about it
[image description: a drawing of a tan-skinned woman with brown and blond dyed hair pulled into a ponytail and copious body hair and stubble. she is smiling and doing a peace sign gesture with her hand. next to her is text saying "body hair has no gender!" end id]
#been apprehensive about posting this since i dont want people to be. Annoying.#but then i realized i dont care#doc talks#my art
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this what im going thru rn. if anyone gaf
#im just going to communicate using hieroglyphics now#words are not enough for the fucking brain rot I can’t talk thru it anymore#my brain is just a vessel for mold#im piloted by mold#im molded by mold#my useless stupid princess babygirl…………………….#this is getting out of hand and I haven’t even seen the romance yet fuck!! what will happen to me !!#fuck!!
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I am so so so glad we all universally agree Herbert West is trans, not a single thing he does would make sense if he was cis.
#i. talk#<< is a herbert west kinnie#but fr. he embodies the trans experience to me.#obsession with one upping god. interest in medical sciences. weird fuckass romance with his clueless roomie.#also loves neon green. herb is the patron saint of transmascness#re animator#herbert west
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a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t
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okay it’s come to my attention that absolutely NONE OF YOU know ANYTHING about how cutie marks work. let me say this simply. a cutie mark isn’t a job being assigned, it’s a special TALENT OR SKILL that the pony enjoys. Most of the time it has a directly transferable job for that skill, like if you enjoy baking and are super good at it WOW! baker. If you are really good at writing and telling stories, author. However, there are some cutie marks that could go multiple ways.
twilight sparkle has exceptional magic ability, so she became a scholar, but she could really do anything that required a good magic skill. same with rainbow dash, her weather controlling job isn’t directly linked to her cutie mark, but it does fit the bill for the job.
i was posed the question of what would a murderer pony’s cutie mark be and wouldn’t everyone know. NO. if somehow murder were to be a special skill, the cutie mark might be something like a knife or a shovel. other ponies might just assume you’re good at cooking or gardening. now with cutie marks like apple jacks, their family has a ‘green thumb’ kind of deal so obviously the cutie mark would be hereditary.
so, the reason i made this post. walter white pony’s cutie mark would NOT be blue crystals. it would be a CHEMISTRY FLASK.
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saw this very [ben affleck depressed smoking image] comment and thought why does blue job / pink job sound like an established concept so I looked it up.....





what's next?? having a bank account is a blue job 💙🏦☺️ not being legally recognised as a person in your own right is a pink job 🩷🥰💅
#1356 likes on the original comment 😐😐😐#i fear i am perpetuating the stereotype by being the half of my relationship that can't drive#but that is not because i am a woman doing my pink job it is because i have anxiety 😀#talking#halloffame
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The majority of the Earth’s rodents: How do you survive environments with practically zero oxygen, feel no pain, and live for decades when none of the rest of us can???
Naked mole-rats:
#naked mole rat#animals#esoteric biology jokes#memes#I’m bald#I love this meme sm every time someone uses ‘I’m bald’ like this it gets a snort outta me#also real talk go read up on naked mole rats they’re doing wild stuff with their physiology#I’m impatiently awaiting a good NMR popsci book to come out#but alas I still haven’t found a really good one
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I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great
#i really do agree we need a kneeling knight emoji i'd use the FUCK out of that#can i tag this 'chivalry' or perhaps 'arthuriana'#shann talks shit#chivalry#arthuriana#maybe even#paladin#edit: thanks to the people reblogging this i now know of knightposting#knightposting#second edit: listen I didn’t hv an oc in mind when I compiled this but I just remembered that I do hv a knight oc#morghen coded#compilation post
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