#she thinks it's funny

[gynandromorph]

god i'm going to fucking murder my cohost with my bare hands tumblr has been CONSISTENTLY recommending me wildly up front horny strap-on posts and i don't mean jokes about straps i mean vivid descriptions of phantom dick sucking and strap-on selfie pics in my face

[zeezeepearl]

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.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[finalbiohazard]

The gag t-shirts got too personal

[rooniearts]

Consider: Silver with hearing loss

[digitalmyyth]

Shenanigans ensue

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[maskdoll]

me: i’m such a hero of justice. i’m heromoding. i’m going to slay every single villain with my blade and save everyone

friend’s eggy tgirl older brother: hey why does my dialogue tag say that

[yellenabelova]

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

elita pep talk

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Afton siblings talk about their dreams

[andstuffsketches]

um, can you play a song with a beat?

[lounycoon]

Life is this lovely little thing to have around

However I would really apreciate it if she stoped trowing toasters in my bathtub

[dapper-lil-arts]

Can we talk about the kind of woman Applejack attracts.

[penn-dragon]

Zoro giving Sanji a confession he knows he won't understand: Haha that'll show him.. loser

I was thinking about the "the moon is beautiful" thing being a Wano thing Zoro learned growing up in Shimotsuki

[rooniearts]

love love love the headcanon that theyre siblings fr. no i dont care about the lore implications i think its cute and thats all that matters to me <3