here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."
So in summation; Rowling demanded access to a woman’s time and when she couldn’t get it she retaliated by posting an upskirt image of her and called her fat, and some of her fans even went “I think I can see her genitals”.
She literally went “debate me! Debate me!” Over and over like the grifter she is and when she couldn’t get what she wanted and when “no” wasn’t enough she resorted to retaliatory sex-pestery, posting an image of somebody’s body with intention to shame and embarrass and spawn more waspish tittering from her internet followers.
Rowling is trash and this is disgraceful behavior, in case anyone has forgotten.
She had also claimed Freda "deserved" this sexual harassment because of what she was wearing... You know... The same excuse used over and over to try and justify rape.
J K Rowling committed a sex crime against a trans woman (specifically, violating the Sexual Offences Act 2003)
(1) A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a) A intentionally shares a photograph or film which shows, or appears to show, another person (B) in an intimate state,
(b) B does not consent to the sharing of the photograph or film, and
(c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.
(2) A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a) A intentionally shares a photograph or film which shows, or appears to show, another person (B) in an intimate state,
(b) A does so with the intention of causing B alarm, distress or humiliation, and
(c) B does not consent to the sharing of the photograph or film.
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury
another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that
finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)
Can I just emphasize that not everyone reading this has yet encountered the information that injuries require food, hydration, and sleep? I think the way many people associate rest and injury is that you rest the injury itself to avoid making it worse, but overlook that the healing process itself requires rest regardless of if not-rest directly injures it further.
Also exercise is a form of controlled injury so that as your body heals it heals stronger. You also need food-hydration-rest for strength and cardiovascular improvements after exercise.
Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.
Picked some magnolia petals and discovered as they started to wilt at creases they turned a beautiful warm brown color. Then got the idea to use a silverpoint stylus to scratch a magnolia drawing into the petal~ smells divine
god i wish more sources talked about "sex" hormones like this
ironically its in a book about female sex anatomy that ive come across it (Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross). everyone only wants to focus on the secondary sex characteristics and not the bazillion other functions of estrogen, testosterone, and co.
every body uses both of them!! for a million reasons!!!!! aaaaaa!!!!!!!
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:
1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!
2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.
3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)
heard someone say "who even owns a rolling pin anymore" and my brain froze trying to process it. what does that mean. are u implying rolling pins are outdated technology? did we come up with a shiny new 21st century method of flattening dough of which i remain uninformed? is there now an app on the app store people are using instead??? im losing my mind "who even owns a rolling pin" people who BAKE
The thing about the r slur is that people who are using it again are indeed using it as a slur. This isn't a word that is being reclaimed. This is a word that is once again being used 100% as a slur. You're being a bigot if you're using it against others. Straight up. There isn't another argument to be made. Knock it tf off.
unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it
hello. i definitely think dex was academically gifted, and unlike many of the questions and headcanons about him, this one actually has canon supporting it. season 3 gives us a report card from the lyndhurst home for boys showing that he graduated with a 4.0 gpa and earned straight a’s throughout his high school education there. obviously i don’t think we’re supposed to take every individual class listed as gospel because there are repeated courses and some inconsistencies that make it pretty clear it was designed as a background prop rather than something they expected fans to study frame by frame lol. but the overall message is still incredibly intentional. regardless of the repeated classes, the one thing they consistently wanted the audience to understand was that benjamin poindexter excelled in school. he wasn’t an average student. he wasn’t someone barely scraping by. he was someone who consistently performed at the highest academic level possible.
i don’t think that revelation is surprising at all when you look at who dex is as an adult.
one of dex’s defining characteristics throughout the entire series is just how analytical he is. he notices details that almost nobody else notices. he processes information incredibly quickly, recognizes patterns almost immediately, and has an obsessive level of precision in everything he does. that isn’t something that suddenly appeared when he joined the fbi. those cognitive strengths had to exist long before adulthood. they would’ve been present during childhood too, and school would’ve been one of the first environments where those abilities actually had somewhere to go. while other children may have struggled sitting through lessons or organizing assignments, i can imagine dex thriving in that kind of structured environment because structure is predictable. there are rules. there are expectations. there are right answers. for someone whose emotional world was constantly unstable, academics probably offered one of the few places where things actually made sense.
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i’ve always imagined that dex genuinely enjoyed learning. not because he necessarily loved being in school, but because he loved understanding things. those are two very different ideas. i don’t think he would’ve cared much about the social aspect of school at all. if anything, i imagine that would’ve been the hardest part for him. classrooms are loud, unpredictable, and full of social expectations that don’t always come naturally. i don’t think he’d enjoy navigating friendships, group projects, or trying to figure out the constantly changing dynamics between other students. but the actual learning i think he would’ve loved that. i can picture him becoming completely absorbed in a lesson simply because he wanted to understand how something worked. once something interested him, i think he’d throw himself into it completely.
looking at the report card itself, i also think the subjects make a lot of sense for him. math immediately stands out because mathematical thinking is incredibly logical and sequential. every answer follows a process, and dex has always approached problems methodically.
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science also feels fitting because it rewards observation, analysis, and precision rather than emotional interpretation. history is another subject i could easily see him enjoying because it’s built around facts, chronology, and understanding cause and effect. even art makes perfect sense to me. people sometimes separate artistic ability from analytical thinking, but dex’s extraordinary hand-eye coordination, visual precision, and attention to incredibly small details would probably translate into painting remarkably well. art requires patience, observation, and technical control just as much as creativity, and those are all qualities dex already possesses. as we also saw him drawing in dr mercer’s office in 3x05.
i also think he would’ve been one of those students who almost always had his work finished before everyone else. not because he wanted to compete with anybody (though he would’ve liked showing off), but because once he understood what needed to be done, he would’ve focused on it until it was complete. i don’t really imagine teachers having to remind him about homework or missing assignments. i think he’d take his responsibilities seriously, partly because that’s just how his brain works, but also because success probably became one of the only reliable ways he knew how to receive positive attention. when you’ve spent your childhood constantly being corrected or punished, getting an A isn’t simply getting an A anymore. it’s proof that you did something right. it’s tangible evidence that you succeeded. i think that would’ve mattered a great deal to him.
at the same time, i don’t think being an excellent student automatically means he was a perfectly behaved student. i actually think that’s where people sometimes oversimplify dex. intelligence and emotional regulation are two completely different things. you can be exceptionally gifted academically while still struggling enormously with managing your emotions, and i think dex is probably one of the clearest examples of that. we know from canon that emotional regulation was something he struggled with from an incredibly young age. lyndhurst wasn’t exactly an environment that taught healthy coping skills either. so while i think he’d always complete his work, answer questions correctly, and respect the educational side of school, i don’t think that means he never got into trouble.
i just don’t think his trouble would’ve looked like what people usually imagine. i don’t think dex would’ve been disrupting class because he wouldn’t stop talking. i don’t think he would’ve been making jokes across the room. i don’t think he would’ve been skipping homework or refusing to participate.
those behaviors don’t really fit who he is.
if dex got into trouble, i think it would’ve happened when his emotions overwhelmed him. if another boy repeatedly mocked him, deliberately provoked him, invaded his space, or humiliated him, i could absolutely see him reacting physically before he even had time to think through what he was doing. we’ve seen throughout the show that dex doesn’t always experience a slow build toward anger. he often reaches an emotional breaking point very suddenly. when he becomes overwhelmed, his reactions can be immediate and intense. i don’t think that started in adulthood. i think it was probably present as a child too, except he would’ve had even fewer tools to manage it back then.
what’s important, though, is that i don’t think he’d enjoy getting into trouble. i actually think he’d hate it. after an outburst, i imagine the guilt would hit almost immediately. dex tends to carry an enormous amount of shame after losing control. throughout the series we repeatedly see someone who desperately wants to maintain control over himself, even when he ultimately can’t. i think younger dex would’ve been very similar. he’d probably replay the situation in his head over and over, wishing he’d handled it differently, feeling embarrassed that he’d reacted so strongly, and trying even harder to keep himself under control next time. that’s a pattern that honestly follows him throughout his entire life.
i’ve also always imagined that teachers probably liked him, even if they didn’t always fully understand him (and probably feared him because of what happened with coach bradley.) he probably wasn’t the student constantly raising his hand to answer question or trying to make friends with everyone. i think he was quiet, observant, and polite for the most part. but when a teacher asked him a question, he’d answer it. when they explained something interesting, he’d listen. and when they praised him for getting something right, i think that praise would’ve stayed with him far longer than they ever realized. positive reinforcement seems incredibly significant for dex throughout the show. approval matters to him because he spent so much of his life feeling like he was fundamentally wrong. hearing “good job” or “that’s correct” probably meant more to him than it would to most students.
i even think he would’ve preferred one-on-one instruction whenever possible. not fully because he wanted to be treated as more important than everyone else, but because one-on-one interaction removes so much of the social chaos that comes with a classroom. there’s less noise, fewer distractions, fewer people to interpret. just clear communication between him and the teacher. that kind of environment probably would’ve allowed him to learn even more effectively than he already did.
the report card also makes perfect sense when you consider where his life eventually leads. even though the show’s timeline around if he got a college education is inconsistent, becoming an fbi agent requires an enormous amount of discipline, intelligence, and academic competence. dex’s extraordinary marksmanship often overshadows how intellectually capable he actually is, but throughout the series we constantly see someone who processes information at an incredibly high level. he would’ve had to analyze crime scenes, he predicts movements, notices microscopic details, and adapts to situations almost instantly. none of those skills exist independently from intelligence. they’re all connected. his academic success at lyndhurst feels less like a random detail and more like the foundation for the adult we eventually meet.
that’s why i think this report card is one of the many sad little pieces of canon we have about dex. it shows that the problem was never his intelligence. it was never his ability to learn. it was never his work ethic or his potential. he had all of those things from the beginning, and dr mercer pointed that fact out with her therapy notes.
what he didn’t have was the emotional support, stability, and healthy guidance to grow alongside those gifts. the report card reminds us that benjamin poindexter was a child with extraordinary potential who consistently did everything that was asked of him academically, yet still grew up feeling fundamentally broken because nobody taught him how to understand himself. to me, that’s what makes those straight A’s so sad. they aren’t simply evidence that he was smart, they’re evidence of how much potential existed in a child who was failed by the adults responsible for helping him grow.
