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troy and gabriella who

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this is the kind of wholesome content this website desperately needs

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here is an extremely high resolution picture of a mole

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Tapestry of sculptures, II.

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yeah i have a double major in gay and stupid

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Gotta love that Bethesda programming.

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I cannot stress enough how much I love The Good Place.

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Also? "Her boyfriend's family told him to leave her." Her boyfriend. Who I have to assume is the one who "got her pregnant." The father of the supposed baby. His family really said leave her, as if he weren't equally responsible. As if she got herself pregnant, like an irresponsible little girl, through no fault or help or teamwork of his. Sickening.

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I grew up with Harry Potter and deeply love the characters-

But JK Rowling? She’s an absolute cunt.

Here are some of my headcanons that would deeply enrage her :

- James family was Indian, therefore Harry is not white.

- Harry is bisexual

- so is Ginny

- Ginny is a raging tomboy and cut her hair short. Harry loves it.

- Hermione is black

- Luna is asexual and genderqueer

- Charlie is ace aro, he sends Molly Christmas cards with baby dragons on them, titled “the kids” (saw that prompt on tumblr somewhere one day)

- Draco Malfoy was raised into a system he couldn’t get out of. He was just a scared kid, not an ultimate evil bad guy. Also a raging homosexual.

- I wish I could headcanon Cho Chang to have a less racist name

- The stairs to the boys/girls dormitory open themselves to trans students.

- Newt Scamander is asexual

- Ron is a stay at home husband

- Do I even have to talk about Remus and Sirius? Estranged and tragic lovers. The angst.

- Parvati comes out as gay after the ball disaster in the fourth book

- Tonks...Extremly free spirited, no labels kinda person

- Teddy Lupin is a gay punk Hufflepuff

- Pansy is a lesbian and also not the ultimate bad guy

- Overall more diversity in Hogwarts. You’re telling me that school was 99% white? I’m calling bs.

- Neville is straight and cis BUT he bonds with the gay kids at school after he starts helping kids with shitty homelives. He makes it possible for kids to stay over the summer break. He basically adopts all of them.

Tell me your headcanons that would enrage Rowling.

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Capitalism creates scarcity, suffering, and poverty.

Socialism targets those systemic problems.

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Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*

Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!

Me: ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

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Listen, if performing femininity is an “empowering choice,” then it needs to be an actual choice. Meaning that woman can opt out of it without negative consequence. Meaning a woman can go to an academic event without heels or in a simple suit and still be “professional.” Meaning that a woman can go to a job interview without a full face of makeup and not be “tired” or “disheveled.” Meaning that a woman can walk around in shorts with unshaven legs and not be a dirty, unclean gremlin. Meaning that a little girl can play and break barriers and like STEM while wearing jeans and a t-shirt and not be considered less empowered or “just trying to be a boy.”

Meaning that a woman’s femininity and womanhood is not contingent upon the extent to which she buys and performs a time-consuming, expensive, uncomfortable mold of a very specific type of packaged femininity. 

This isn’t even going into the effect these double standards have on women who in some way, by their very existence, do not fit the standard white western beauty mold and are expected to perform hyperfemininity to be “women” at all. I.e. women of colour esp. darker-skinned women of colour, hijabi women and tznius-keeping women, fat women, disabled women, trans women, etc. 

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#same energy

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You know what? No. No, Hatsune Miku did not write Harry Potter.

J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter. And we need to accept that.

Harry Potter isn’t some pure unproblematic beacon of perfection that we can just choose to erase the scummy author from and enjoy without guilt. Harry Potter is very much rooted in Rowling’s view of the world. The blatant antisemitism in the portrayal of the goblins, the entire race of slave creatures that actually really like being slaves and Hermione’s attempts to free them are largely played off as a joke, the almost complete dearth of canon characters of color (and then when she does put canonical characters of color in, they’re… Nagini…), the complete lack of respect for other cultures (the Japanese wizarding school literally translates to “Magic Place” in Japanese, Cho Chang is not even remotely a proper Chinese name, don’t get me started on her usage of Native American folklore), the almost complete lack of LGBTQ+ characters, the “Dumbledore is gay!” baiting, the lycanthropy-as-HIV metaphor that involves one of the werewolves intentionally infecting as many people as he can, with a preference for targeting children, no less…

These are all very much present in Harry Potter. They’re not things you can just ignore. And they’re there because Rowling wrote them in.

I know you read Harry Potter as a kid and loved it. I know when you read Harry Potter as a kid you probably didn’t even notice how shitty all this stuff was. I certainly didn’t. But you can’t go back to that time. You can’t go back to when you were 10, when you were consuming this media and loving it uncritically without notice or regard for its more problematic elements. You can’t go back to being a kid again.

And that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’re required to wholeheartedly condemn this important part of your childhood. You can still enjoy these books while acknowledging that they’ve got some really shitty things in them. You can enjoy Harry Potter as a mature adult. You don’t have to be a kid again to like it. And you’re perfectly allowed to hate on Rowling for her shittiness, past and present, while still loving Harry Potter.

So don’t say Harry Potter was written by Hatsune Miku. It wasn’t. It was written by J. K. Rowling, warts and all.

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children should not be scared of their parents end of story no excuses