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I dont really care if you use the term bisexual or pansexual, but what i DO care about is that you understand that bisexuality at NO stage in history was EVER trans-exclusionary. Bisexuality has always included trans folks, and non-binary folks, and the entire spectrum of gender between male and female, as well as Definitively Gender and agender. It has ALWAYS meant "attraction to more than one gender." It has NEVER meant "attraction to cis men and women only."

So, pan, bi, use whichever label you will. But do NOT buy into the recent-years innacurate concept that bisexuality is attraction to cis men and women only, because thats literally never been the case.

bundibird

@brassmama exactly.

^^ Like. Its literally right there in the middle of the flag.

And by contrast, this is what the pan flag colours mean:

So literally its just......

bi colours = "same gender, opposite gender, and other genders"

pan colours = "men, women, and nb people."

Those two things are...... not all that different to each other.

The purple has always, literally since the flag was created, meant "more genders."

And bisexuality included "more genders" in the definition before the bi flag was created, too. Thats why they included the purple bar in the first place, because it was reflective of bisexual people's attraction to and relationship with gender.

If you feel that pansexual suits you better, or you like the pan flag more, then thats fine -- but don't spread the misconception that bisexuality is remotely exclusionary. Because its literally never been.

tryclops

brawltogethernow

It’s fine to want nothing to do with Harry Potter now that JKR is being regularly and publicly terrible (I’m listing that way myself even though I don’t want to because the association is just overpoweringly distasteful), but seeing the shift in how people discuss HP on this website to be like, “It seems obvious to me that this franchise was always poorly constructed, derivative drek littered with red flags anybody would notice with a cursory glance - there’s absolutely nothing genuinely appealing about it.” …That’s just very funny, sorry. Like yes that is unfortunately not how the relationship between a person’s moral character and their skills works, but mostly I was alive and had a developed consciousness between 2000 and 2008, so I cannot take this seriously. It wasn’t the biggest literature phenomenon of recent times because it had a uniquely strong marketing strategy, guys.

harocat

The books are well written with engaging characters, great worldbuilding, and a story that captured people like no other. There is literally no overestimating the phenom the books were. And no the movies did not make it. They were MASSIVE even before the films. Before the films even came out, the NYT made a separate children’s bestseller list because a ton of people complained that ‘kid’s books’ were taking up too many sports on the NYT bestsellers lists. It’s honestly ridiculous to argue that HP’s popularity was made by the movies. Come on.

And the thing about red flags, is that most things that are legitimately problematic in the books are fantasy staples. JKR didn’t invent the anti-semitic portrayal of goblins. It’s an old as hell trope that’s in countless fantasy stories. The house elves were based on Brownie folklore, even down to the tradition of their freedom coming from a piece of clothing being given to them. People were not talking a lot about the casual transphobia in doing things like describing Rita Skeeter’s hands as ‘mannish’ because casual transphobia was so ubiquitous that it was the norm, and that transphobia was often actively violent. I just don’t think it crossed many people’s minds that ‘wow JKR described Rita Skeeter’s hands as mannish once in the year 2000, so I think she’s probably a T*RF.’ And this doesn’t make it okay, and it doesn’t mean these aspects of the books aren’t problematic! But it does mean that like, no it wasn’t ‘so obvious’ even to MANY progressive minded people. And I also don’t think it makes her a terrible person. What makes her a terrible person is what she’s doing NOW.

The idea that they’ve ‘always been awful’ and we ‘should have known’ is really and actually just… kind of cowardly? Instead of acknowledging that unfortunately yes, bad people can make good things, people are taking the easy way out and going ‘well obviously a bad person makes bad art. it’s ALWAYS been bad, and my brain is so huge I know this’, because god forbid we have a more nuanced view and don’t see the world in the most simplistic terms possible. It sucks when bad people make good art, but you’re not special for not ever liking Harry Potter.

largishcat

also like…. as a trans person who adored harry potter—because god what little baby queer DOESN’T daydream about escaping their terrible mundane home life for a world where they can have friends and adventures—these takes are really frustrating. like why are you calling ME stupid because SHE betrayed a whole swathe of her fanbase. like you’re really using the heartbreak and hurt of thousands of trans hp fans as an opportunity for internet clout? you must really care about trans people

linddzz

JKR’s big problem as both a creator and a person since HP wasn’t that her fantasy series from the late 90s had problematic elements, it’s that she apparently had refused to take criticism and grow. What’s been wild about JKR is we have had first row seats to her going further and further into this mindset where she is a brilliant progressive writer against bigotry who wrote an insanely popular series so any criticism on her is an attack.

Yeah her later works are jumbled messes that continue the worst bits of HP (creative world building that wants to seem grounded but ends up unravelling if you look at it too much which got worse when she got more “adult” with it, going further into a Good/Bad dichotomy and appearing to go back and make her morally grey characters LESS nuanced, plots that got overly convoluted and a refusal to expand her world without falling into the “all the important characters know each other” chasm ect ect) but she is, really, the ultimate example to me of what happens when you refuse to listen to criticism to grow and adjust your ideas as you learn. It’s obvious in her weird spiral with the HP universe that she refused to let go of and with her own stances on “social justice.”

JKR could easily be a lot of people on Tumblr and twitter! She had some progressive ideas for her time but got too caught up in the IMAGE of someone who hates bigotry and is so thoughtful and I really think she fully believes that she is a social justice progressive advocate because she talks politely and softly and says nice things. She’s a cautionary tale if anything about buying too much into your own hype whether that is as a creator or as a social justice advocate.

This need for y'all to go “this person is bad now or did a bad thing and so was always and will always be bad” is UHHHH tied to “therefore as a Good Person who is on the Good Side I would not do something bad” which is exactly what leads to people going down the hole JKR did.

the-wolf-and-moon

Stonehenge, by James Loveridge

animusrox

The Suicide Squad (2021) dir. James Gunn

entirelytookeen

Do you write for Supercorp?

Yup. And someday I want to add more to the AU collection, just as soon as I can find something to write that I don’t somehow manage to turn into another soulmate-ish au, because seriously yall deserve some variety.

ruinedchildhood

sevdolo

millerflintstone

Companies that value homes for sale or refinancing are bound by law not to discriminate. Black homeowners say it happens anyway.

boykeats

i’ve been thinking about this maggie stiefvater tweet all day

[”To me, horror and fantasy are such wonderful siblings. They share parents: Broken Rules and Possibility. If you break the rules of the world, all kinds of things become possible, and if they are good, we call it magic, and if they’re bad, we call it horror.”]

ruinedchildhood

this episode changed me forever

lynnearlington

your take on how lena and kara would’ve reacted if they had encountered one another when lena was still with jack in myiy?

Absolute chaos with a little dash of pain and confusion. They would have both walked away from the encounter with their lives turned upside down. I mean the fundamental premise of myiy is they basically see each other for the first time since breaking up and like immediately everything changes like oh yeah we quite literally can’t exist in the same space and not just be completely overwhelmingly in love. Oops.

If you push the timeline earlier like Kara ends up in Metropolis just chillin and sees Lena it just jumpstarts the entire thing probably. Jack sitting there like wtf who dis? And Lena like yeah sorry I’m sort of already married to this alien it’s a long story that I don’t even know all the details of really.