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Honestly part of the problem with this obsession with only consuming unproblematic fiction is that people are less likely to acknowledge when something is harmful. If you so much as say hey this one joke in this one episode was offensive fans will write you an essay on why it wasn’t. Because they’ve created a world view where this is basically accusing them of being a bad person who has committed an unforgivable sin.

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This is exactly the reason why despite of being a trans person I'm still a part of the HP fandom. There are unconcious biases in the books, but you will need to make a very big stretch to say that JKR was intentionally acting on those biases rather than just subconciously writing something that she thought of as normal. As someone who's parents are relatively her age, and still have many of such biases despite of being quite intelligent and open-minded people - it WAS normal back then and not all people are capable to fully get over it. And back then JKR was genuinely trying her best with being kind and supportive even if she had flawed views. You can even see that she actually judges some of the negative things that she added to her books, even though it's executed really poorly. And funny enough, there was genuinely more good things in HP than bad ones. It was the book that actually stimulated me to be honest to myself and to accept that the world might not be black and white. Honestly, I might have not even accept myself as trans by the current day without being confronted by some ideas that I had specifically because of reading HP. Bad things were so subtle that for my mind they were completely under radar and couldn't influence me - because there was always another explanation to it, and often times it was actually making me only more sympathetic with the marginalised groups. House elves loosing control over themselves when given freedom? It's not because slavery is somehow good, it's because they were thrown into the world traumatised and not knowing how to live without their master's guidance. Goblins treated poorly? It's because some goblins were genuinely acting like dickheads and gave their whole species a bad reputation. Such things, even if they were just justifications, were making sense to me back then, and to some degree I think that it might have been JKR's thought process too. Maybe it all might have not even happened if she had a more friendly enviroment - I know that there were people who tried to educate her peacefully, but judging from what I've heard it was mixed with actual death threats and traumatic experience. It's hard to hear a voice of reason when you're in a constant state of self-defense and noone even considered to get you through therapy. I completely agree that the situation has gone out of hands, but claiming that it has always been that way and that we were brainwashed is as much of a delusion as claiming that there's nothing wrong happening right now. And I don't believe that the fandom should die because of what JKR does - in fact, I believe that reclaiming it as something separate from her believes can be even more powerful because you're not shoving the problem under the rug.

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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Me definitely being the first one while being a Mydei kinnie definitely tracks.

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Happy Pride Month!

Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they're under the cut. They're free to use as long as it's for personal use only.

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things you DO NOT need to be a man

a dick

he/him pronouns

XY chromosomes

things you DO need to be a man

the swiftness of a coursing river

the force of a great typhoon

the strength of a raging fire

the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon

^this post was brought to you by LGBT^

Let's

Get down to

Business

To defeat the huns

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Fuck minimalism. Just. Fuck this boring beige shit. I can understand why old-school maximalism might be chaotic and overwhelming, I feel that way too. But making everything neutral is just a cowardly "easy way". Learn to use the fucking colour wheel. Or at least pick a photo you like and colour-pick your palette.

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Down in the dungeon, where hunger resides 🩸

I wanted to make a dungeon meshi fanart for a while, and man, I love Falin, so here we go

I hope you like it :)

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Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

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sketches from these past few days

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mermay doodles 🐠🐟🦈

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i like when phainon insists on marriage while theyre boinking

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Phaidei doodle...☀️🍷

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Recently watched a random video on youtube, where someone was venting on how much they hate AI and find it "scary". And I noticed that I just... Don't feel any emotional connection to their opinion? Honestly, I know that I go against what is considered "morally correct" on this topic. As someone who literally grew up on Star Wars, I have always been pro-AI as a concept, and even wanted to get into this sphere. (later realising that it's not for me because I start to die inside if I get locked in a room and don't have any tactile interaction with the object of my job haha)

Maybe a part of the reason is that I have diffent attitide to AI than most people. I don't feel connection with people who get the "uncanny valley" feeling from humanoid robots, because I never feel it myself. I don't feel like existence of AI is a threat to me in terms of getting a job. What I do feel though? Curiosity. Desire to explore the possibilities that AI can create. I see AI as an intresting tool to pick up and try out. And this disconnect made me think - is it really AI that's a problem? Or it's something else? Something that hides behind AI but isn't really a part of it? Are we truly afraid of AI? Or we are afraid of people who have access to AI?

Because in the end, AI is neither good or bad at it's core. It's just a tool. A tool that can't do anything on it's own without an input from a human. And in many cases, AI is actually used for good - it's used in science to analyse and sort out big chunks of data that will take years to analyse by hand, it's used to help find anomalies in medical data of a particular person that can be missed even by most skilled doctors, and it even can be applied to forensics and law enforcement to solve difficult criminal cases. But the ways how people use AI is questionable. People make decisions to train AI on creations of people who didn't give their concent and to not pay them royalties after using AI creations in their businesses. People make decisions to ask ChatGPT to write a research paper for them and not even read it through. People make decisions to rely on advices of an AI psychology bot instead of a real therapist. People make decisions to replace human workers with AI because it's easier. If someone throws a hammer into someone's head, the one to blame for the lethal outcome is not the hammer. The responsible one is the human that decided to throw it, instead of using the same hammer to build something. However, maybe instead of banning hammers, it would be more effective to make sure noone throws hammers at other people. And the same principle is appliable to AI. I totally agree with not using AI models that are clearly unethical, and learn to be aware of AI limitations, but IMO most of the protest should be aimed at regulating usage of AI in an ethical way, not at trying to destroy AI as a technology.

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"this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population" dude that's 80 million people can you shut up