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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.

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(Sound on.) We’re all doomed.

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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Happy plagueiversary

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The thing about Timmy Chalamet is that he’s truly a great actor and he even has good taste in projects and he’s not even overexposed when you calibrate for how overexposed all that group of 25-30 year old big stars are……however something is still off. any time he gets cast in something it feels like that movie instantly turns into a parody of a movie. I cannot explain this

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So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.

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As much as they wished for it, my high school Latin teachers were never a part of the Empire

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

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reblog if you remember what it felt like to walk into blockbuster

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Time for a new poll! I'm curious to see the spread of answers on this one (and hear any other series not on the list.) Tried to go for a range of older and newer series on here, more on the older end of the spectrum, but I can't cover everything with the limited poll options here, so I hope you'll share your answers! :)

Please reblog for a larger sample size, thank you!

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YES.

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michael james way bread compilation

[ID: a compilation of tags, comments, and posts. they include "#you take one bite and you're full for the next week and a half #they make jawbreakers out of his bread #it reminds me of a sponge thats lived on the bathtub edge for a decade #i'm amazed, they beat jesus with this, it's 6 inches and raw! no, not the penis. this bread ijust baked, This is how parents feel like trying to decipher their child's drawing. That's a beautiful bread Mikey. Looks really bready to eat, #they wrote the epic of gilgamesh on that, They used these to build houses in Mesopotamia, I'm so happy that we as a community can come together like this to make fun of Mikey's bread, #oh. this is certainly flour and water, #thats the first rock they threw at stonewall, #thats not bread thats a brick in foundation of the egyptian pyramids #that shit is limestone!!, literally how did he make that, I thought this was soap, mikey girl you made sandstone, how do you fuck it up that bad, world war two rations ass bread, this is why you died at normandy mikey, girl what is this???? why didn't your pinterest wife intervene?, #what would possess someone to post this, #this is a weapon, #mcr #that's a bread?, that looks like its almost hardtack, and #10 bucks to take a bite of mikey way hardtack." end ID.]

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@manitobation

Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?

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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

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exactly correct. 

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having ships when you’re ace is so funny cos every time i see my blorbo i’m just like i don’t wanna bang you myself but i do wanna see you get banged six ways to sunday by my other blorbo, and then dreaming up the dirtiest scenarios in which exactly that happens

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“why are you tired? you haven’t done anything all day” the simple fact that i exist drains me. hope this helps

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"Like stuff. Don't be someone that doesn't like stuff, and if you don't, don't be a dick about it."

- David Jenkins