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im not funny

inspired by this post

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mutual party at my house!!!!!! BYOB and also BYOPOYFFC (bring your own piñata of your favourite fictional character)

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Marauders Repo! The genetic opera au with fleamont as nathan wallace

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ik i just run a tumblr smut page BUT!!!

FUCK ICE, free palestine, free congo, FUCK trump, FUCK musk, no one is illegal on stolen land, and if u disagree, FUCK YOU TOO!!!

i’ve said this before but if u support that fuckass orange in office, idc if ur a silent follower or ur like is ur only form of interacting with me, just know, i don’t want it!!! and u are a terrible person!!! 😛

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and i think something that gets missed from the conversation a lot about jk rowling - or really, any person in a position of power - is the importance of what happens after.

because you can say you just pretend that she didn't write the books, you can say that one day she'll be gone and you can say that she's only one person,,, but she isn't.

she's every single politician she has shaken hands with and sat around a conference table with, and in turn, she is every single person that clings to the words of these politicians. every single person who is struggling with the state of world right now and desperately clings to scapegoats as some kind of saving grace.

she's every single member of the organisations that she has worked with, laying the foundations of their motives and paving the way for their bigotry. she's every single person in these ever-growing organisations and they're feeding off of her thoughts, her popularity, and her wealth.

she's every single person that retweets her posts on X. she's every single person applauding her in the replies and she's, in turn, every single person that they interact with. their coworkers, their friends, their potential kids that fall in love with these stories like we once did and are told what to think of jkr by these parents. who grow up surrounded by that mindset.

and you see it all the time. "she's just one person". is she?? is anyone ever really just One Person?? i don't think so. i think we're a mosaic of everyone we ever meet, i think we're a spider's web of connections and interactions, long-term relationships and sparse meetings alike. have you ever clicked on that web option on tumblr? where it shows you your original post, and every reblog from it? have you ever seen how the silly post you made about a character expanded into this massive, tangled mess of connections and accounts and people through a bunch of individual reblogs? that's what i'm getting at here.

which is why these conversations are so important because it's so easy to brush it off as not that deep. as just one person. as just jk rowling do jk rowling things.

but it's also every person in comment sections right now defending tom felton. every single person in posts about the reboot, the studios, the merchandise who have shown that transphobia, racism, anti-semitism etc etc are not dealbreakers.

it's Every Single Person.

and they'll be in the comments defending their engagement by saying "one person doesn't make a difference !!" but,,, we're never just "one person".

i write a post online or i talk on tiktok and every single view is A Person. every single Comment is a person. every single person that then goes on to other comment sections then opens up another connection. every single person that posts about jk rowling reaches their people, every single person there then has the opportunity to take it further, to their accounts, to their families, to their friends, to their People. they then take it to their people, their lives, their corner of the world.

and if we keep framing both the bigotry and the fight against it as just one person, then we get nowhere. not only does the fight become bleak and less powerful every time someone says "i'm just one person", but the After gets scarier too.

because if we spend all this time acting as though the bigotry is contained, we're going to have to no idea how to cope with the spores that remain after the infection has "passed".

so yes, i think it's important to talk about tom felton. yes, i think it's important to talk about ralph fiennes. about ben barnes. about jason isaacs. about bonnie wright (who, although expressed support of the trans community, has done work with JKR and the HP franchise since). about helena bonham carter. about every single actor from the original films who remains either on the fence, or strictly on her side.

and yes, i think it's important that we stress how much your own individual impacts Do Have An Impact. that you get to choose whether that impact is positive or negative.

because it all exists in tandem with one another. because we're all connected in so many ways, because it's never just One Person. because it's never as isolated of an effort as it sometimes feels (and yeah, it really does feel like it sometimes. but it's not).

because there IS going to be an after. and when JKR is paving the way for anti-trans laws right now? when JKR is so powerful in her bigotry, when organisations gain more power through her and her own organisation pop up? when those that support her face no accountability?

the After isn't going to be the end of this. we're not going to see an end to bigotry if we keep viewing it as some isolated condition rather than a socially contracted infection. you know? you get me? this is going to Continue well after she's gone. it's never just one person.

the reason any singular person can be seen to have power is because of those that listen to them and grant their voice value. yours has that value too, you're not just one person, and you absolutely can make a difference. put tom felton and the reboot down, go interact with your ecosystem.

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the look of love

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fag summer

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the world is getting so ugly and bleak and it’s hard not to feel so hopeless. but we have to remember that they want us to feel that way.

it reminds me of this quote by dan savage - “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”

joy is resistance. it’s really scary times but we are all in this together.

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and i'll laugh with my friends in the moments between news articles because they can take away my rights, but they can't take away the love that i'm surrounded by. they can't take that away, i won't let them. if anything, they're making it stronger. so i'll laugh in between, and i'll call that resistance. for now. one day it'll just be a laugh. but, for now, i'm okay with it being resistance.

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+357 2527 6788 (direct base number)

Email your local MP, call your local councils and representatives, leave voicemails at every number you can, demand safe passage and release 🇵🇸

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EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL WINS

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I think both finalists should have pins