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The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.
It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.
Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.
Almost a decade later, and despite my writing becoming increasingly fucked up, I think the cruellest thing I've ever done to a character is still from a novel I published online in 2017, when a boy got the mysterious sex-change virus, fell in love with being a girl and rediscovered a zest for life, and then was "cured" at the end and went back to being a boy
The epilogue of this story took place a decade after the conclusion of the main plot and had her having transitioned, but still always chasing the sheer, unfiltered joy that she had for two weeks only to have it ripped away from her
I was 'cis' when I wrote this
Hey so that was a great date, yeah, but I don't think it's going to work out. Nono you didn't do anything wrong, and I have indeed had a crush on you since we started high school, it's just... well, I didn't want to bring it up at the time but we kinda got sucked into a portal fantasy midway through. We saved the kingdom over and over, relying on our knowledge of and trust in each other every time, throwing ourselves into the firing line to protect each other and using each others' conviction as a rock. We got married and lived a happy life together until the portal sucked us back mid-battle and you gave up all your memories of our journey in order to save my life right when we ended up back in the coffee shop. Yeah that was when I got a bit weird and went to the bathroom.
Anyway I thought we could push on and make the date work but I have all of these memories of secrets that this you never chose to share, decisions that this you never made, and intimacies that this you never experienced. And it's kind of screwing with the vibe yeah. Also on the date it was really, blatantly clear that you're sixteen whereas I have memories of ruling a fantasy kingdom for thirty years so like... that's a problem all on its own. Anyway this you just feels more like a daughter to me. A daughter with the woman I gave my heart and soul to over and over and received like in return, only to lose her forever on the journey home. On the plus side I can definitely help you with your math homework now.
#what the fuck#this one was actually really very short why is it still like that what
The shorter it is, the more concentrated the what the fuck can be.
I can help you with your math homework because the fantasy world's magic system was based on calculus and I was a gifted mage, stop nitpicking.
#this world's magic system is also based in calculus
When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship
This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing Iâve ever read
This is actually so interesting to read- itâs from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardianâs later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyoneâs problem because they have the power to do so
He says, âIâm still the same person.â
I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel Iâm being interviewed for a job I donât even want. I say, âBut youâre not. Youâre different. I will never look at you in the same way again. Itâs a visceral feeling. Maybe because Iâm your mother. All those years of looking after your body â taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If youâd lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this â this is desecration. And I hate it.â
Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with âvest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glassesâ; like, just say you hate poor people
important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are
Deeply unserious to claim that opposition to genocide in Gaza is equivalent to advocating for antisemitic terrorism.
I'm on the side of "killing civilians is bad" and simply understand that a particular state entity is responsible for the largest attack on a civilian population happening right now, holding all the power to choose to stop doing so at any moment.
Hunger. Displacement. Loss. Anemia. Malnutrition. My motherâs treatment. Everything is against us. We will not forgive anyone.
Am I invisible? Does no one notice me? Sadly, very few people respond to my pleas or donate. I need kind hearts who truly care and are willing to stand with my family.
Please donât abandon me. Donate if you can, share our story, and help us survive. Every voice and every donation brings us one step closer to hope.
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another heavy handed symbolism moment: my mom has a potted sunflower in the kitchen. because it is a sunflower, it keeps turning towards the light from the window. my mother keeps rotating it so it faces inward because she wants "to see its beautiful petals and have it really brighten up the space!" . the sunflower is visibly wilting .
are you going to tell her or
her masters degree is in biology
We've had a family/murder of crows visiting our garden for years now, and this season the chicks are soooo helpless! They just stand around expectantly with their mouths open as the mom crow eats. Which is what inspired this comic! :)
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Big problem with pop social justice is a lay framework that sees systemic problems as personal problems that happen affect a lot of people.
Stephen Kingâs Fujo
yeah @sunderwight these tags are gold
Trans women are the same gender as cis women.
The amount of "allies" that get upset at that statement of fact is criminal.
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additionally, trans women are the same sex as cis women
Sex as an âobjectiveâ and âscientificâ means of categorizing people is misguided at best and an active tool of transphobia at worst. Saying that a trans woman is in a separate category from cis women just because she was CAMAB is twerf ideology in the dressings of science to make it sound objective and undeniable
you donât realize how important lunch is until youâre wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then itâs 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.
lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.
You'll probably meet Dorothy at some point.
*Spoilers for Ranked Competitive Breast Growth*
I think about a lot moments in Ranked Competitive Breast Growth pretty frequently these days but there's not a single scene in this story that sticks out at me and has had quite as much impact on me, as the scene between Nichole and Dorothy at the cafe.
In the 20th entry to the serial, an elder trans woman, Dorothy, lends an ear and many awful opinions, to Nichole. Now I hate Nichole with a passion, if you have read my previous post about RCBG you know this. This, however, is one of her few redeeming scenes, one that comes at a serious low point for her. When she is brought inside from the rain, after an absolute train wreck of an evening, she is given hot cocoa and a soft place to recover by this gentle older woman. She listens to Nichole's problems and gives some input of her own.
Now Dorothy came up during a much less tolerant time. A time where the adversity towards trans people was much worse than now. And while the circumstances we are under now still allow for such an absurd premise as the RCBG server to believably exist, despite being total satire. Her material circumstances led her to many conclusions others believe to be unnatural. At this time, Nichole still believes that Kathy is a man pretending to be a woman, for an online competition. So when Dorothy asks âWhatâs the boyâs problem?â Nichole is only taken aback by the surprise of such a telepathic assumption, not the assumption of heteronormativity, a term neither of them probably even know.
The conversation continues with an admission by Nichole that she is âdrop dead gorgeousâ since transitioning and that such progress didnât solve her problems. Hardly a humbling concession, yes yes, poor you for winning the boob lottery. Following is a description of what, not whom, she has lost. A best friend, specifically someone who will take her side in anything, a yes-man. She claims that Kathy is hurting her and canât keep up with the person she has changed into. A change that from the readerâs perspective is a transformation from a poorly-constructed masculine facade, to an incredibly vapid blank slate devoid of a self to even introspect upon who is taking advantage of her friend and failing to communicate in any meaningful way. I mean I could have maybe worded that less angrily but like I said, not a fan of Nichole. Anyway. Now the part where Dorothy opens her big stupid mouth.
So Dorothy opens her big stupid mouth and begins by absolving Nichole of responsibility, in possibly the most backward and derisive way imaginable.
âYouâve grown up with all this being sold as something easy, some fun new trend for kids to hop onto with multicolored highlights and atrocious fashion senseâ
Really incredible! Right off the bat showing her fully ignorant, generationalist understanding of basically nothing at all. Dorothy is already full of disgusting opinions in her first breath of response. She goes on to repeat all the nasty trans-medicalist myths that have been holding back progress for years. âThis is a curse, itâs a fucking diseaseâ At this point she has done nothing at all to console Nichole emotionally, nor even relate to her âboy troubleâ aside from a comment about how she does not have a âhunky baker closing up,â All she has done is take up valuable oxygen while using Nicholeâs problems as a platform to spout her vitriol against her own sisters and she continues doing so for a lengthy rant, before Nichole spouts âItâs so obvious now,â in response not to Dorothyâs rhetoric, but the awareness that Dorothy is âjust as bad as the rest of them.â Dorothyâs life experience is not growth of conscience, sheâs not better at understanding herself than Nicholeâs friends, or compassionate in any meaningful way to the struggles of trans youth going as far as to invalidate their experience with every flap of her lips. Her reasoning for the coming revelation is not made obvious in the text, but her conclusion at the sight of Dorothyâs messed up views, is that Kathy is actually trans! Which she exclaims as a profound discovery to her host. Yes girl! Finally caught up with the rest of the cast!
At this new information, and the realization that sheâs been insulted by a lesbian, or some kind of phantasmic man-in-womanâs-spaces thing that these weird essentiallists are so worked up about, Dorothy kicks her out back into the rain. Itâs not explained which of those things is going through Dorothyâs mind, only that she shows a disgusted look on her face. Itâs up to you to make that assumption in your reading of it. Honestly it doesnât matter which is true to Dorothy because sheâs no longer relevant to the story after this scene. As youâre reading this passage you think, finally Nichole is going to get some much needed guidance from an elder trans woman. Sheâs going to drop some wisdom and some tough love or compassionate advice, and send her towards being a better woman. Instead you are very quickly shaken up by the reality of this personâs warped thinking and realize, damn this lady sucks. Well Iâm here to tell you that lady exists, youâre going to meet many trans women who believe that the way that things have progressed is less than ideal, even more so that the old ways are better. Thatâs okay. The ideas that she developed served her as she made her way through an unforgiving and violently transphobic world. She carved a path through a system designed to see her destroyed and came out the other end, a twisted awful woman, but a woman nonetheless. She survived worse times, and developed some pretty awful ideas because of it. Dorothy and those like her are a sign that the times really have changed for the better, a dark result of the past circumstances, and maybe some day Iâll be seen that way too. I can only hope so.
I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.
Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."
I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job
maybe y'all didn't notice but fat people who don't hate ourselves sure did notice that people were obsessed with shitting on fat people in the late 90s and early 2000s (conservative political time) and now are again (fascist political time), coincidentally while the market for weight loss has become a 90 billion dollar industry due to glp1s.
you are not immune to propaganda. it makes some people a whole hell of a lot of money for you to hate fat people and fear becoming (or staying, I think like 70% or something of the US is fat) one of us.
a lot of the fearmongering over fatness comes from studies directly funded by the weight loss industry...i think people don't really realize or think about the fact that research can absolutely be influenced and skewed by its funding. there is also research that shows that an amount of the negative health outcomes for fat people come from anti-fat bias. if you go to the doctor with concerns and the doctor simply tells you to lose weight, your problem is neglected and you may not even bother going to the doctor with the next problem.
every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.
the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.
some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.
you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.
some resources to learn more here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/feeling-fat-may-be-worse-for-you-than-being-fat-idUSTON079061/
A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index
there's so much crazy shit once you go down the rabbit hole. for example, BMI was not invented by anyone with a medical background. it was never meant to measure individual health.
The U.S. weight loss industry reached an unprecedented high in 2023, estimated at $90 billion, largely driven by surging sales of the widely
Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it also regulates bl
just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight
since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.
