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regulus black is that you???

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Priscilla & Regina, 1979 by Joan Biren.

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now that we’re here and it’s 4am here’s some paintings that make me go absolutely bonkers

In The Kitchen by Helena Janecic, Untitled by Daniel Gerhartz, Compassion by Daniel Gergartz, L’abandon (Les deux amies) by Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec

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am i attracted to feminine men or am i just a lesbian who is jealous of how feminine men are able to present within some corners of society

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klimt’s the kiss but make it wolfstar ✨

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It has come to my attention that some of you have not actually seen the music video for Ghengis Khan by Miike Snow so I've taken it on myself to end your ignorance of this piece of cinema

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Hm, I'm thinking—according to the HP books, the reason Sirius didn't go insane in Azkaban (and everyone except Sirius did go insane after a few weeks, right?) is because he knew he was innocent, and that thought kept him sane. It wasn't a happy thought, so the Dementors couldn't take it away.

So I'm just thinking about the implications of that. JKR created this prison that was clearly supposed to be read as horrifying and inhumane, so much so that prisoners literally lose their minds permanently after a few weeks, but she also said: everyone in here is guilty except for this one man, and that one man is the only one who is immune to the worst of the prison's effects. If you're innocent, you'll be fine; nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

I'd chalk at least part of it up to just laziness—JKR needed a reason for Sirius to stay sane in Azkaban, so she just bullshitted and said "he knew he was innocent". But it also does reveal some of her terrible views on prisons and criminal justice, and how negligible the reforms she proposes are, even within the realm of prison reform and ignoring abolition.

It also draws a super strict distinction between the guilty and the innocent, between the deserving prisoners and the undeserving prisoners. What happened to Sirius was clearly portrayed as an injustice, but to the other prisoners? It's not justified, per se, but it's not really condemned either. Harry sometimes even taunts people about it, e.g. telling Narcissa that she might join her husband in Azkaban. Incarceration is treated as a moral category, and the "innocent" people in prison are talked about entirely separately to the "guilty" people in prison. (Quotation marks are used because those aren't distinct categories; everyone has committed a crime at some point in their lives, and certain groups of people are persecuted for crimes whilst others walk free.) But prison abolition concerns everyone in prison, both the good people and the bad (because, yes, some people in prison are bad people—this does not mean that the prison system as a whole mustn't go). It's not fruitful at all to try and separate the two, say that we should abolish prison because this particular person is innocent and doesn't deserve prison, because then the argument becomes about who does or doesn't deserve to be incarcerated, and it continues to uphold the ideology of incarceration as a moral category rather than just the place where the state puts its undesirables.

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my favorite thing is fics that go hard w/ the fact that death eaters are disgusting, and sirius would have a lot of internal bias to work through and hold himself accountable for. just because he -said- he didn’t agree with his family’s ideals, he still grew up in that environment. it doesn’t go away just because he had trauma associated w/ it

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lesbian wolfstar truthers (me) this is for you

just a doodle but I loved it too much not to share

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no thoughts just track six on every japanese breakfast album 

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“i want a love that falls as fast as a body from a balcony and i want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground” mitski what the fuck is this. what were you even thinking of when you wrote this. mitski come back here. MITSKI????

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gustave moreau’s pietà // keanu reeves and river phoenix photographed by bruce weber // jean broc’s the death of hyacinthos.

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aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz // moon song, phoebe bridgers.

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"you didn't know me when i was 13." "i really wish i did."

speedy ortiz / yohji yamamato / walk the moon / justine kurland / eloise klein healy / isao yukisada / phoebe bridgers / wren @peoplehood

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“I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things: 1) People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood. 2) Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism. 3) White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.”