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FUNNIEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THIS SHOW

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sir what does this mean

there are so many things i can miss about being away from home but the most important one is not being able to eat ice

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vocals were so goofy that he had to convince himself to stop

Album so bad that he had to break up his one person band because of it

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I like the part in uzumaki where it's chill for a moment and she's sitting on the beach w her fucked up boyfriend and they literally look like this

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Krishna painting that i liked :D

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no but fr, it's the racism. when i was little i always wanted a hooked ethnic nose because i grew up in a south asian neighborhood and so many of the people i looked up to had it. and then as i grew older, i realized that the people who had it, *didn't want it,* and it's very sad

why does everybody want a button nose??? y’all are boring af

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PRETTY PEOPLE READ BOOKS AND TALK ABOUT THEM! ENDLESSLY!

PRETTY PEOPLE READ BOOKS.

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I really like this picture

i really like this picture because you have on the right, a sophisticated, petite and chic woman. then you have a BIG WILD MAN who EXPLORED THE ARCTIC WASTE and wears ANIMAL FUR.

and they were in love :) how cute is that

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What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

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obligatory "change your username." that was a solid joke, dude.

my grandmother started to run 5 miles a day at the age of 60

She’s 83 now and we don’t know where the fuck she is

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man was born for love and revolution!

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from "i'll kill you" to "i'll kiss you 😳"

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this image is so goddamn powerful

Trans activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

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what's worse than incomprehensible horrors are the comprehensible ones. there is no more blissful ignorance. you are now cursed with the knowledge of the horrors' inner workings and plagued with the fact that it is inescapable. you know everything about it, and yet are unable to defeat it.

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IT WENT AWAY SO QUICKLY. one day i just woke up and realized it wasn't fall anymore.

ITS SO COLD PLS WHETES THE SUN

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historically accurate jesus, my beloved <3

Fun fact: Jesus (the historical figure) would have referred to himself as Yeshua of Nazareth. Yeshua was translated into Joshua, which was mistranslated to Jesus.

And he was just a scrawny Jewish brown boy! His story has been manipulated over the years to fit political agendas of regimes and kingdoms and royalty and the ruling class, but he was just a scrawny brown guy with an insane mother. just like me.

anyways,, i really like jesus. but not in a weird way. not in a religious way. i just think he's cool. yk.