Lacey Barbed Wire @laceybarbedwire - Tumblr Blog

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Supergirl was EPICCCCCCC, I love unapologetically rude women filled with rage and kindness. 10/10, would recommend

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-Batman (2011) #18-

THESE TWO LMAO

atmyhighestpeak

If I was JK Rowling and I wrote a plotline in my book series about a race of enslaved people whose horrible mistreatment at the hands of the bad guys is part of what establishes them as bad guys, and there were multiple crucial plot points that involve someone either being punished for dehumanizing them and/or rewarded for freeing them, and the only main character who is okay with their enslavement could not get his happy ending until he realized that he was wrong and aligned himself with freeing them, and the whole thing was a pretty explicit metaphor for the patriarchy and how some ‘tradwife’ women are complacent in their oppression but that DOESN’T make it ok for men to treat them like commodities… and then countless people online criticized me for ‘writing a plotline that excuses slavery’ ???? I would have the biggest crashout of my life. A lot of you like to say ‘Harry Potter was poorly written’ but what you actually mean is ‘I don’t have enough media literacy to understand a series written for children’

laceybarbedwire

"and the only main character who is okay with their enslavement could not get his happy ending until he realized that he was wrong and aligned himself with freeing them"

...whomst are you referring to???

Harry? Harry doesn't like SPEW, finds it annoying. His issues are with how Dobby specifically was treated by the Malfoys, not with the House Elf system in general. The final line before the epilogue is musing on if he can get Kreacher (who literally has to obey him and who he literally inherited from Sirius) to bring him food.

Ron? Ron...says they should tell the House Elves to evacuate Hogwarts before the final battle. He takes no other action besides this, he isn't mentioned in the epilogue or Rowling's Pottermore stuff as having taken a stance alongside Hermione, he just acknowledges that House Elves exist in Hogwarts and doesn't want them to die. That's not saying they should be freed.

ALSO, the House Elves with agency are boys. Kreacher and Dobby are the House Elves who act, who make choices. Winky is a prop who disappears from the series the minute she is no longer needed.

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Somethin somethin bicep meme. Idk man it’s like 3am rn

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012) dir. Marc Webb

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peter/gwen + forehead touches

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I wanted Alistair to be able to interact with Morrigan and Kieran so badly :(

Bonus:

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Periscope up

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Green heron (Butorides virescens)

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san junipero (2016) dir. owen harris

patreon // buy prints here

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someone wants her cookie so bad

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tori being a golden retriever :3

atmyhighestpeak

If I was JK Rowling and I wrote a plotline in my book series about a race of enslaved people whose horrible mistreatment at the hands of the bad guys is part of what establishes them as bad guys, and there were multiple crucial plot points that involve someone either being punished for dehumanizing them and/or rewarded for freeing them, and the only main character who is okay with their enslavement could not get his happy ending until he realized that he was wrong and aligned himself with freeing them, and the whole thing was a pretty explicit metaphor for the patriarchy and how some ‘tradwife’ women are complacent in their oppression but that DOESN’T make it ok for men to treat them like commodities… and then countless people online criticized me for ‘writing a plotline that excuses slavery’ ???? I would have the biggest crashout of my life. A lot of you like to say ‘Harry Potter was poorly written’ but what you actually mean is ‘I don’t have enough media literacy to understand a series written for children’

leftistextradorinaire

well house elves are an allegory for slavery not tradwives. So like, maybe get some reading comprehension?

dumblefudge

That is a common misconception that people (usually Americans due to their cultural history) love to insist is true but actually have no evidence for.

House elves are nothing to do with chattel slavery. They are a reference to small, golbin-like creatures from Scottish folklore called brownies who used to come out at night and do housework while humans were asleep. Legends varied, but some of the ways in which they could be driven away was by giving them names or clothing. Sound familiar?

And as for SPEW - Considering what we know about Rowling and her long-term feminist views, isn't is far more likely that her SPEW was inspired by the actual real-life SPEW - a 19th century organisation called The Society for Promoting Employment of Women, which aimed to get women the right/ability to become financially independent from men.

And this right here is the crux of the issue. There are some very clear logical explanations behind many aspects of the Harry Potter books that get criticised these days, but they get ignored and drowned out bad-faith interpretations from people who are determined to hate the author and prefer to just make stuff up to prove she's bad.

laceybarbedwire

Point. Of. Order.

Brownies are not owned by people. They cannot be commanded to do specific tasks for people, they are driven away by clothes and acknowledgement but in a "Your behavior offended us and so we're leaving" sort of way rather than a "You are shamefully removed" sort of way, they are not legally inheritable from person to person.

Brownies are not some obscure bit of folklore that are only known to the British, they're a staple of urban fantasy and children's fantasy books, Rowling added a lot of slavery coding here.

Also, you're not doing any favors here with SPEW, because SPEW...is a bad thing. From the standpoint of the books, it is an embarrassing and silly thing Hermione is doing that accomplishes nothing but offending the people Hermione seeks to help. It is a silly thing mocking teenage activists.

And, on top of that, from an outside perspective it is Hermione being a white savior, ignoring the wishes of the people she seeks to help in favor of imposing upon them what she thinks they should want, and she never budges from it or grows.