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the Foxes 

tag yourself im exy

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angel from rent is such a good character but i feel like everyone including me likes to ignore that she has a song and dance about how she straight-up killed a dog

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Blue: damn gansey

Gansey: don't

Blue: back at it again with those ugly ass boat shoes

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Hamilton: FUCK the government

Washington: *deep sigh* we ARE the government, Alexander.

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why jk rowling ain’t shit

a while back i wrote a piece about how important black hermione was to me growing up and since then i’ve kind of stayed away from writing more about representation in the hp universe but im reaching a point with jk where i can’t be silent about her level of bullshit because jesus christ on a cross this woman is a disaster

listen, i know that a few years ago it was revolutionary for her to support fans and fan communities and fanworks the way that she did (and does) but fandom has been normalized to the point where i don’t really give her much credit for that anymore

so here’s the biggest issue: she adds representation after the fact to try and cover up the clusterfuck that is the representation of race, gender, and lgbt+ issues in the original series

let’s break down a few of the important ones, shall we:

cho chang: cho chang is an incredibly stereotypical character down to her name (which isn’t? an actual? name? it’s two korean last names? she’s meant to be chinese?) who is defined in terms of her involvement with boys. we see her crying over them or kissing them or arguing with them but her character has no depth

casting lavender brown as black in the first 3 movies then changing her to white after she starts dating ron: what the fuck. what the fuck you could have just left her as black what the fuck

stating that dumbledore is gay: people cite this as representation but like…where the FUCK was the proof in the canon. i’ve reread the books an embarrassing number of times and i refuse to fucking believe that she wrote dumbledore as gay. she just got called out for not having any lgbt characters and was like “well shit i guess dumbledore is gay now”

said she would have put dean + seamus in a relationship but it would have been “distracting” to the main plot: yeah because we never see anything about side characters in the whole book??? bullshit. 

thinks snape is an ok dude: snape is an abusive asshole. she wrote him as an abusive asshole. i don’t understand this.

used native american stories as a concept in one of her short stories: she’s been widely panned for this shit (thank the good lord) but the stories (and native spirituality) are not hers to write about, especially when she so clearly doesn’t understand or respect them

eurocentrism: placed wizarding schools in scotland, france, and eastern europe. placed literally one in japan for all of asia, one in africa, one in america, i dont even know if she placed any in south america like…europe is a tiny-ass continent why does it have so many schools?? just because she was too lazy to remember that the rest of the world is much bigger than europe????? 

generally only uses people of colour as token representation, and yet wrote the entire wizards/muggles dichotomy as a transparent metaphor for racism because clearly she ~gets it~

because having a war that’s a giant allegory for racism (+nazism) isnt capitalizing off struggles of actual people of colour because hey! dean thomas was black!

also death eaters are similar to nazis BUT there’s no jewish/rromani representation whatsoever other than a name during the sorting ceremony that she later claimed counted

in conclusion i still love the books but there are numerous issues in terms of representation and we need to stop giving jkr a pass for how shitty she’s been just because we like her work

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HP Aesthetic: Hufflepuff “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

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And the Schuyler sisters are the envy of all.

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selfie sessions

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oregon coastal forests are something else tbh

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my favourite thing about Lito Rodriguez: he literally has no fucking idea what’s going on. and he doesnt even care that much. he just fucking rolls with it. *lies through his teeth on behalf of a german criminal named wolfgang. how can they understand each other? he has no fucking clue. “we had sex” he says to a man in iceland he has a telepathic connection with. who fucking cares. lets rescue this other chick we’re connected to, fuck yeah.

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jefferson, disguised as lafayette: a buddy of mine saw thomas jefferson take his shirt off in france and he said that thomas jefferson had an eight-pack, that thomas jefferson was shredded.

hamilton: thomas jefferson's a puNK BITCH.

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Repost this anywhere

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okay but one of those “whatever tag shows up for this word” memes for: -son -trash -dead -child -smol -hate

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