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There once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

What a fucking idiot. 🙄

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It's like they found a John Malkovich wormhole into my anxiety as a 20-year-old struggling to escape from my fundamentalist upbringing and said "this is what everybody's life should be like actually"

if my journey into booktube is teaching me anything it's that much in the way that the mass-produce commercial object of the book is often fetishized as having innate cultural and intellectual value by virtue of Being A Book, many "bookish content creators" seem to fancy themselves as having something innately intelligent and interesting to say solely because they are Talking About Books

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Elaborate in the tags, maybe even link your fic if you're able to! I like seeing what people's driving force to write fic is, because it always seems to be different depending on who you ask.

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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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[tries to resist pedantry]

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Good news! The Indo-European languages are well-documented for swapping voiced and devoiced phoneme pairs like [g], [h], and [k]:

Meanwhile, [p] and [f] are another cognate pair in IE languages:

"Nipple" is a relatively youthful word --

-- and as such is more amenable to shenanigans. Therefore I propose the phonemic evolution for [pl] and [pn] words in English be applied here. Ladies and jellyspoons, I give you:

Flipple

Every word that starts with an N should have a silent G in front. Gnorway. Gnuclear. Gnervous system. Gnipples.

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A friend of mine who was in PEI for business a few years ago said that apparently, according to locals he talked to, their largest AoGG tourism demographic is Japanese folks. Japan loves Anne for real. I'm not surprised there's an anime.

The Anne Shirley Opening dropped and Naoko Yamada has delivered yet another masterpiece.

Love everything about it, be it the song or the animation itself. It captures her personality so well, as well as the nature of the show. Just the way they captured her body language is perfect.

Some really strong openings this anime spring season, but this is a top contender.

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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

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NOT FUCKIN BAUDRILLARD ON MY TUMBLR DASH

Reality: the feeling is mutual bitch

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I really appreciate this last point. It shows the intersection of class as not just about a certain standard of living but a matter of how a society stabilizes and orders itself. I wouldn't say a society where queerness doesn't destabilize class is "unimaginably" different, it's just that imagining it is a lot of hard work.

I can testify to this because I wound up addressing literally every one of prev's questions in the bullets in order to build the conditions for the story I wanted to tell. I am a hopeful sort of person and I like to think that in our world it wouldn't necessarily require a global crisis of fertility brought on by the depopulation and teratogenic damage of nuclear war to have a (backwater, isolated) society re-form itself in matrilineal communities in order to survive and rise to a social stability that is not threatened by the plain existence of queer relationships or non-parous women. But that is what I wound up imagining so that I could have my characters deal with a conflict that was not inflected by their queerness. Take that for what you will.

I know previously people took issue with me describing a lot of queernorm fiction as feeling assimilative and reimagining queerness as an aesthetic variety of straightness but man a lot of that stuff really does frame it as an inarguable positive that the characters are "no longer gay" that they live and behave as "normal people", and that "gender or sexuality is entirely incidental and not a plot point" in a way i find really alienating. You know, like, this is the common language when talking about it:

again i don't think it's wrong for people to read or write stuff like this, but I do find it a bit irking that it's often treated as the inherently more empathetic and desirable way to write queerness...

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KISS KISS BANG BANG

RIP Val Kilmer

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people on twitter arguing over whether cardinal tedesco is brat or whatever when it's really very simple. he's a reactionary fascist who i would beat to death with hammers if i met him on the street AND sergio castelillto's performance managed to out-cunt stanley tucci who was already operating at terminal levels of mother. what's not to understand?

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Ukrainian Easter vintage postcard, designed by the anonymous author, printed by Y. Tyschenko’s publishing house, Prague, 1920s.

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How do fanfic writers feel knowing that people might have been masturbating to their work?

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I waited for years to see this gifset cross my dash and it had to be now 😭

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

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Please tell me Jeffrey Goldberg has seen this

Jeff is the head editor at Atlantica Magazine, but he hasn’t been writing much. The Tromp administration is hard to get a beat on, throwing out so much absurdity that it feels like nothing even matters anymore. He wants a story that will make a difference, and it’s not as if those just fall into your lap. But when Jeff’s phone suddenly buzzes with a new text message, that’s exactly what happens. Now Jeff is privy to a chat thread of top-secret information from Tromp’s under-qualified, highly-ignorant inner circle, and it’s looking like a real story. It’s also looking like a total hunk. Soon enough, Jeff and the physical manifestation of this egregiously handled group text containing highly sensitive government information are locked in the heat of gay, erotic passion, and he’s about to pound out a story that he never could’ve imagined. This erotic tale is 4,100 words of sizzling human on gay physically manifested leaked text action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, and living group chat love.

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please enjoy new tingler JOURNALIST POUNDED BY THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF AN EGREGIOUSLY MISHANDLED GROUP TEXT FROM MEMBERS OF THE TROMP ADMINISTRATION CONTAINING HIGHLY SENSITIVE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION out now here or on patreon

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I say, somebody is a-layin in wait among mah clean socks