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OC Pride Challenge 2025 → Day 16 - LGBTQ+ Writers

My OCs + Oscar Wilde quotes

↳ Feat. Artemis Black // Lydia Bulstrode // Callie Scamander // Ella Ritchie

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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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♡ Valentine's Ships → Artemis Black x Emmeline Vance ♡

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OC Halloween Challenge - Day Sixteen: Fairytale AU

↳ Bronwyn x Lally - Beauty and the Beast AU

When Auror Bronwyn is bitten by a werewolf, she must resign from her high position in the Ministry. Unable to find another job in Britain, she travels to America hoping for a new start. When applying for the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching post at Ilvermorny, she meets the fascinating (and very attractive) Charms professor, Lally. She's an accomplished and intelligent witch who is also very knowledgeable about lycanthropy. Perhaps Lally is the person Bronwyn is looking for, the person who can help dispel her curse?

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OC Halloween Challenge - Day Sixteen: Fairytale AU

↳ Alice x Theseus - Cinderella AU

When Theseus meets a beautiful (albeit challenging) woman at a masquerade ball, he is immediately intrigued by her. But before he can ask for her name, she leaves the party early. Theseus searches for the mysterious woman but comes to a dead end. Until he discovers a write-up of the magical evening in a Muggle newspaper.

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OC Halloween Challenge - Day Twelve: Supernatural AU

↳ Artemis x Emmeline - Angel and Demon AU

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OC Halloween Challenge - Day Two: Mystical Communication

↳ Tarot Cards

Lydia Bulstrode as The Magician // Penelope Parkinson as The High Priestess

Alice Roberts as The Chariot // Hector Jones as Strength

Bronwyn Ellis as The Hermit // Phillip Montgomery as Justice

Aimee Diggory as Death // Artemis Black as The Tower

Anastasia Greengrass as The Moon // Callie Scamander as The Sun

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Twenty-Five: Queer Artists

↳ Hector Jones + Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Twenty-Five: Queer Artists

↳ Bronwyn Ellis + girls girls girls by FLETCHER

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Twenty-Four: Queer Artists

↳ Artemis Black + girls by girl in red

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Twenty-Four: Queer Artists

↳ Aimee Diggory + Honeysuckle by Addison Grace

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Five: Aro/Ace

↳ Lydia Bulstrode

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Four: Trans

↳ Ella Ritchie

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Three: Bi

↳ Callie Scamander x Fred Weasley

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Three: Bi

↳ Bronwyn Ellis x Lally Hicks

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Three: Bi

↳ Aimee Diggory x Neville Longbottom

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OC Pride Month Challenge - Day Two: Gay

↳ Hector Jones x Newt Scamander