[friendlyneighborhoodwizard]

I said it in the tags of a post but honestly, I feel like I need to make my own post because while we're doing the whole "stop supporting jkr!" thing I need everyone to remember that not only is she blatantly transphobic (and specifically transmisogynistic), but that she and her books are incredibly racist and antisemitic.

Appropriating Indigenous American cultures for her American wizard school. Making all of the bankers in her books hook-nosed goblins. Naming the ONLY East Asian character in the books "Cho Chang" and putting her in the "smart people house". The way that she treats the Patil Twins, the only two other Asians, and the only South Asians in the series. The way that she treats ALL her characters of color. JKR's racism has always been there. People just seem to gloss over it for some reason and to be honest, I'm getting really frustrated and tired of constantly adding that racism is a problem in the notes of these posts. And this is literally just based on Harry Potter! The rest of her stuff surely has even more problems!

I don't want to downplay her transphobia. That's a huge issue that, I, especially as a trans person, cannot emphasize enough! But as a person of color, I feel like I need to remind y'all that it's just the tip of the iceberg.

I think OP of this post I rbed about JKR's racism specifically against Indigenous Americans put it perfectly. This has made it painfully obvious that people are white before they are queer.

It's not that hard just to acknowledge her racism alongside her transphobia. If you're making a post about her remember that she's shitty in so many other ways, and she's always been shitty.

I know this is long but I'm rambling, so...

tl;dr JKR is racist as well as transphobic. Just acknowledge that in your pleas for people to stop supporting her. Please. It's literally so easy. anyways jkr's a piece of shit and I hope she burns in hell!!

- sincerely, a trans poc who's tired of this shit

[beemovieerotica]

I did a deep dive into her non-white wizarding schools for a presentation I did and oh boy

-the japanese school is in iwo jima (wow), they have color-coded robes like karate belts, the name of the school is grammatically incorrect with her "canon" pronunciation butchering the words

-the african school is in Uganda but it's named after the capital of Burkina Faso and on her maps it's located in the Congo and when you're invited to the school, you get a rock sent to you

-african wizards dont have wands they just point at things and all of them can naturally turn into animals (YIKES)

-the brazilian school is hidden in the amazon rainforest and disguised as "a ruined stone temple" despite the fact that no masonry historically occurred in the rainforest, making a stone temple an absolutely obtrusive and terrible disguise

jk rowling is literally so fucking dumb and racist she can't be bothered with anything that doesn't have to do with white people

[rneliflua]

The last play I watched before the pandemic was a Beauty And The Beast adaptation and when Gaston proposed to Belle there was this little boy in the audience who yelled NOOO DON’T SAY YES, so when Belle naturally turned him down Gaston turned to the boy with his hands on his hips and said “well, now look what you’ve done”  

[alkthash]

#no one breaks the fourth wall like gaston

[chuckdrawsthings]

there's a sale on at her favourite farmer's market stall

[hugsandambitions]

@-ohlovey- when they find a farmer's market they like

[classicfern]

Wait tho pls tell me non british people have also seen this advert bc it’s amazing and very important to me

[benenhaley]

Oh my loooord

[warriorblood1]

The Reviews™ are in

[ninasnon-sense]

I would love to know what the fuck has been going on in Money Supermarket’s advertising department over the last few years.

[luninosity]

OH MY GOD

WATCH THIS. PLEASE.

[guide-to-the-galaxy-deactivated]

oh….my….god

[mainelymoose]

It’s 4 am, I have a fever, and I’m pretty sure I just hallucinated He Man and Skeletor doing the Dirty Dancing

[charlieism]

this is so fucking funny help

[thatfanficstuff]

This may be the best thing I have ever seen

[tardisspeedsterfanfiction]

Omg that was awesome

[kittenofdoomage]

I will always reblog Dirty Dancing He-Man and Skeletor.

[jamrsgang]

Holy hell! My life is now complete.

[lastactiontricia]

This will never not be funny

[silurisanguine]

Wait till you see the Action man advert they did

and there is a …sequel…prequel to the above Heman advert

[hugsandambitions]

What.... the.... fuck....

[sosuperawesome]

emines_paint on Instagram

[vickyvicarious]

same, guys.

[homunculus-argument]

One absolutely hilarious part of human existence is the repeated incidents of spicy bananas. People who have lived their entire lives up to this point just assuming that a specific fruit or vegetable is supposed to taste bitter, tangy, or spicy, having no fucking idea that all this time, they've been allergic to this plant. Because how would they have known? You learn what things taste like by tasting them, nobody's going to tell you that bananas are supposed to be one of the mildest flavours out there. And people already eat so many things that taste hot, bitter, tangy and tart! Because they like how that kind of thing tastes like!

You can just happily much on a plant, thinking "ah, this angry plant tastes sharp because it hates me. Much like all the other sharp angry plants that people eat because they like the sharp", and it wouldn't cross their mind to think that the plant just hates you, specifically.

[homunculus-argument]

Wait shit I'm probably allergic to kiwi.

[hugsandambitions]

The irony of the fact that I'm reblogging this from Kimi, with whom I had this exact conversation about basil a month ago, is not lost on me.

[afieldinengland]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[iloveurcat]

(Audio notes: There is a cat meowing off screen who sounds very distressed)

[dankmemeuniversity]

[outofcontextdnd]

“I’m whatever the opposite of “openly hostile” is; I’m openly hospitable.”

—

The Druid

[hugsandambitions]

Oh look, it's @aweebit-mulder

[candyredterezii]

tbh.. life really IS like the sims..

[candyredterezii]

wake up.. make sandwich… pee.. wazdee zanoopdul.

[hugsandambitions]

Asked a job interviewer what their starting pay was.

They told me 15 cents above minimum wage.

I responded "great! I promise to give 15 cents above minimum effort!"

For some reason they didn't like it when compensation became a two-way street.

[omghotmemes]

This is what he would have wanted

[aztechnology]

op link the video it’s fucking hilarious

[mythicaliz]

10/10

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

[tiktokstowatch]

[hawkeyedflame]

i love listening to my fiancée drawing

“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”

she’s so cute djksfh

[hst3000]

A gift for your fiancee

[hawkeyedflame]

oh my god dkfjdhgksdjk

[wilwheaton]

“That brings us to the core of the dilemma Democrats face: All the undemocratic features of the American system make it even harder to protect or enhance democracy. So right now, we have a Supreme Court with a 6-to-3 conservative majority that will uphold nearly any voter suppression law and strike down nearly any effort to strengthen voting rights. Five of those six justices were appointed by Republican presidents who initially took office only because of the electoral college after losing the popular vote. We have a Senate that gives outsize power to conservative states, where Republicans can kill voting legislation with the use of the filibuster. We have states such as Texas and Georgia where Republicans have successfully gerrymandered themselves into state-legislative majorities that they can maintain even as they lose more and more support from the voters. So what is Biden going to do about it? There isn’t much indication that the president takes the problem seriously enough. Vice President Harris recently announced a $25 million Democratic Party campaign to boost registration and turnout, but that’s almost laughably small. If they truly appreciated the threat now being posed to their future political success and to the very existence of democracy, they’d spend a hundred times as much. Voting rights advocates want Biden to make the issue a higher priority. As Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, put it: “We must have the president use his voice.” But what will his voice, loud though it might be, accomplish? We shouldn’t prejudge his Philadelphia speech; perhaps it will be so moving that it will define a generation and produce demonstrable change. But I doubt Republicans are too worried. They know this isn’t about persuasion. It’s about power.”

— On voting rights, Biden talks and Republicans act

[hugsandambitions]

I say without exaggeration that Republicans are the single biggest threat to democracy in this country.