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I Probably Won't Watch MisMag, But I Think I'm Glad It Exists?

I don't know if this is a valid feeling or some kind of misplaced trauma reaction, but when I hear American leftists/liberals joking about jkr or performing reparative or critical versions of Harry Potter, I sometimes feel a deep... I dunno, unease? I could be wrong, but I'm not sure a lot of international people really understand the kind of grip she has on the UK.

This is a country where transgender people were banned from the panels and review boards for the 2024 Cass Report that would define how trans children were treated in schools, the healthcare they have access to, and the support they have, then gave recommendations that will pave the way for making it more challenging for trans people as a whole to move through society with general dignity, respect, and essential medical care. Meanwhile, the new (leftwing) prime minister, who has refused to make any declarative claim about his beliefs on transgender people, made special time for a meeting with jkr in a bid for votes just a few weeks before the election to assure her he would do basically whatever she said to 'support women and girls' (whatever that means to a woman who has designated herself the arbiter of who is 'too masculine' for girlhood). Now, I'll be honest, that was before her descent into minor Holocaust denial and the Olympics bollocks, but long after she started paling around with people in far-right white supremacist circles. Her voice was considered more important than any medical professional who happens to be trans.

Personally, (and this is just my anecdotal experience) I've had family members, colleagues and even an ex-partner parrot lines almost word-for-word from her essay as an excuse to get away with some pretty nasty behaviour, despite never having read it and not knowing where that was where it came from - that's how much she has permeated British society. I have a difficult, strained, or nonexistent relationship with people who meant a whole lot to me and I don't know if that would still be true if J K Rowling hadn't decided to go off one day. People hurt me who might not have. She's able to use the fact that she's the writer of the Harry Potter books as a kind of cover to gain this legitimacy that lets people hand-wave away or not look closer at some of the most unambiguously bad stuff you can do and say. Again, I do have to say, I'm from a not-very-liberal area and the work I do is mostly manufacturing or call centre (so full of not-very-liberal people). Idk if other parts of the UK are different, but I sure as shit can't afford to live in them.

This might be a personal despair that I need to work through, but I'm just not sure any reparative stories set in echoes of Hogwarts can possibly do any good. She's still here, she's still hurting us, she still has more of a voice in British politics and discourse than the rest of us working together can possibly muster and her past seems like more of a shield to the bad things she's currently doing than something that can be reimagined correctively.

To be fully clear, I'm not criticising the mismag crew here, and I'm not criticising international folks (trans or cis) for not knowing the detailed minutia of what's going on in my very unimportant neck of the woods. I'm just trying to work through my feelings about a person who's done a lot of demonstrable harm to me and mine, and the kind of casualness that I feel like her impact gets treated with sometimes.

I get the sense that a lot of (particularly cis or non-british) leftwing circles treat her like such an obviously-bad punchline gremlin that they forget she's still a bogeyman to some of us, I'm still scared of what she'll do next. And it's weird to see people having fun in the funhouse-mirror version of her passion project. Maybe it's jealousy. I loved Harry Potter and Hogwarts for a long time. Maybe I just miss feeling safe there.

I hope there will be a day I feel safe enough to laugh about her. Maybe it's not such a bad thing that other people are there already?

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You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says before pulling out a sword.

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things you need to start a d&d game

access to the internet

that's it

you don't need any fancy dice, there's apps and websites for that. you don't need expensive textbooks, basic info is available for free and everything else is homebrew-able. you don't need spell cards or a fancy dice box or a rolling tray or a dm screen. print your spell cards out for free online, store your dice in a plastic bag, roll your dice on the table, and stand up folders or boxes like we did when taking tests in primary school.

all those things are cool but the only thing you need is a brain, so don't let all the stuff you can buy deter you from doing some badass d&d stuff.

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Nathaniel • femalepentimento

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We see the burning, broken wreckage that was once Avalir. Where moments ago there were screams, now only a devastating silence. Sparkling spires of gold and gemstones of a thousand different varieties catch the light every now and then, but are largely covered by debris, indistinguishable from the shattered rock that once bore the city aloft. In a single day, thousands of living and breathing souls have been extinguished, leaving their bodies, scattered and broken, to litter the crash sight. The sky is tinged red from the licks of flame climbing higher and higher, the only noise the crackle and occasional bang as the fire finds a stash of flammable spell component.

And in all of this, we see one figure crawl from the ruins. A silver cocktail dress and soot-stained hair. She stands shakily on bare feet, heels long abandoned, and walks without looking back.

Bolo from Aeor leaves the smoking crator that was once Avalir behind her. She will have to become a reporter somewhere else.

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"Just a reminder, it's a free action to cry"

My DM to our PC’s after any attack fails

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this is so funny.

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Eadwulf’s life is a series of hilarious mistakes.

Confused? Here’s the first comic.

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tumblr SHIELD. for 3 bucks a month, whenever a blaze post would appear on your dash, a pre-loaded post of yours instead appears on the dashboard of the person who tried to blaze you

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transmasc opinions on jkr are extremely valuable actually, specifically transmascs from the UK. her "save the poor lost autistic girls!!!" bullshit is targeting transmascs specifically. transmascs are literally the intended targets of the laws she is working to get put in place, laws that will and already have killed transmascs. boost UK transmascs voices and stop telling them they aren't the ones being impacted by this shit.

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No more Batman who Laughs comics has outgrown the need for the Batman who Laughs

actually I’ve changed my mind I love him and will defend him solely because he gave us Joker Clown Heart Gas which lets me torpedo any kind of intelligent discussion about Batman with the fact that Joker’s clown-ness is a verified medical condition that’s transferable and it’s the only in canon reason Batman won’t kill Joker

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Source

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Ahh, it’s back

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this is my pet detective