Shut Up About Harry Potter

Tired old multifandom blogger and aspiring cryptid. Various movies, television shows, podcasts, musicals, and anime/manga and cartoons. Occasionally a YA booklr. Current Obsessions: My Hero Academia and Your Lie in April. twitter available upon request

[supremelordofthebathrooom]

[loathsome-jr]

Someone in the comments of one of my moomin clips just called little my a bitch

[moranginhos]

thinking john mulaney is cute makes me feel like a nuclear housewife having a crush on the weatherman

[pumpkinspicedcoochie-deactivate]

does anybody else feel like they age in phases of niche interests rather than years

[pumpkinspicedcoochie-deactivate]

like if someone came up to me and asked “hey how old were you when you had your first slumber party” I’d probably say “oh yeah that was my littlest pet shop phase” do I mean when I was 9? was it last week? who knows? certainly not me

[glumshoe]

“If you’re not interested in the gritty realism of a story in which your favorite characters could die horribly at any time, it’s because you’re a naive comfort-reader who can’t handle hard-hitting fiction.”

No, friend. I just prefer to read stories featuring characters I find interesting, and if they drop out of the narrative, I no longer find the story compelling.

[glumshoe]

“The real world features graphic sex and senseless violence! If you can’t handle merciless realism in a piece of writing, you’re kind of a delicate snowflake.”

The real world also contains yeast infections, bowel movements, jury duty, and standstill traffic. A narrative dense with attention to these things is going to lose my interest very quickly. “Realism” is seldom a selling point in fiction.

[heystephen]

when Taylor said “JE SUIS CALME” i couldn’t relate

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

It’s probably been a year since I logged onto this account???

I’m mostly on my other personal/booklr and anitwit so here’s an update on where I’m at:

VLD season 8 is bogus (but damn me I still love the characters)

still refuse to watch Pyrrha Nikos die on RWBY bc I'm not ready yet

I’m Deep In BnHA Hell on twitter

I haven’t been back to a DnD session since I ghosted a dude

might try to get back into Moomins soon

other stuff has gone on but that’s the basics and that's what you missed on Glee folx.

[kommunisti]

honestly I don’t even care why ao3 was created, if you defend their policy of not deleting horrible works, or are otherwise completely uncritical/forgiving of their mistakes because “but they’re by fans for fans”, you’re a piece of shit

horrible tropes and abuse have always been a part of fandom and fanworks, but it’s super gross that a bunch of fandom elders (who are most likely at least in their thirties) continue the tradition of citing “don’t like don’t read” as a good enough excuse to write child porn, abuse, rape, sexual slavery, etc. AND they collect thousands of dollars each year to fund this through donations

like. they are literally putting money into abusive content being published on their site. where people of any age, even pre-teens, can access it. for example, I could never report people posting alec/women stuff despite it being homophobic, because it doesn’t violate their terms. I can’t report pretty much anything, because as long as you’re not plagiarizing, it’s all good

yeah, ao3 is great as a concept, but allowing abusive, homophobic, racist, etc. material to be published on your site because “fuck the pc police/moral crusaders” is appalling and fuck ao3 tbh. not to mention they’ve had really disgusting people as members on their board, so it’s pretty obvious what kind of people are in charge of this site

[emolumentsclause-deactivated201]

actually you know what i didn’t get to say what i was going to say before because i had to rush off but now i’m just gonna say this – this post is garbage. if little sally doesn’t understand how road signs work, the appropriate question to ask isn’t “how can we make the highway safer for 8-year-olds,” it’s “hOLY FUCK WHY IS LITTLE SALLY DRIVING A CAR?!” when work is tagged appropriately, marked nsfw/inappropriate for those under 18, and warned for everything that requires a warning, the creator’s side of the contract has been fulfilled. period. this is why parental controls and safe search exist. it’s not my job as a hobbyist purveyor of casual filth to prevent someone else’s child from accidentally reading what i’ve written. it’s not my job to parent anyone else’s children. it’s not ao3′s job to convert a twelve-lane highway into a go-kart track for those plastic fisher-price cars you pedal with your feet because hypothetical children might read something they shouldn’t have access to in the first place.

and for that matter, if the argument is “kids will lie about their age to look at that stuff anyway” – yeah, sure, of course they will. funnily enough, i got into harry potter fandom young – started reading fanfic when i was around 10 and 11. you know what i did when i saw things that were tagged in a manner that disturbed me? I DIDN’T READ THEM. I WAS CAPABLE, AS A CHILD, OF CONTROLLING MY OWN MEDIA CONSUMPTION EXPERIENCE. and then i got a little older and turned 13 and read wuthering heights and david sedaris and augusten burroughs and a confederacy of dunces, and then i turned 15 and read lolita and anais nin, and you know what? i. could. handle. it. by. then. yeah, i was a precocious kid (my favorite book at 13 was a fucking confederacy of dunces, for god’s sake), but i was not permanently damaged by anything i read. funnily enough, i was permanently damaged by my ABUSERS, not the literature i read, and sure as hell not by the fanfic.

despite all of my issues with moral wank and purity culture, historically, fandom is a remarkably safe space for younger people to read things that toe the boundaries of what they can find in the YA section at their library, and to try creating things that toe those boundaries as well. it’s not a perfect space by any means, but it served that purpose for me. i can’t say enough good things about what it did for me as a teen who was not allowed to date and whose school stressed abstinence-only sex ed which taught us that masturbation was immoral and condoms would give you cancer. if your argument is “ao3 and content creators have a responsibility to the community” – yes. and we fulfill it by TAGGING THINGS CORRECTLY. if the argument is “but kids will read tagged things anyway” – sure. some will. but as someone who did, i can tell you, kids aren’t fucking stupid. they can differentiate between fiction and reality, and for that matter, they can differentiate between things they want to read and things they don’t.

i am not anyone else’s parent. neither is OP. 

s t o p.

[evaninparadise]

I just realized that, during the next season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, we’ll be graced with Carmelita Spats calling people “cakesniffers”. My body is ready.

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

I USED TO HAVE YOUR URL

uh, sorry I think?

[indecisivehannahk]

This absolute NERD

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

I mean, Rick still grates on me, but at least he beat the shit out of a racist redneck trying to intimidate the others into making him the leader, then left him handcuffed to a pipe.

Props. Maybe you’re not such a total washout, dude.

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

Add in the fucking heartwarming reunion scene with his son. Like Grimes is an idiot and it’s still hella sappy. But it’s sweet tho.

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

I mean, Rick still grates on me, but at least he beat the shit out of a racist redneck trying to intimidate the others into making him the leader, then left him handcuffed to a pipe.

Props. Maybe you’re not such a total washout, dude.

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

MOOD

Glenn making fun of Rick’s cowboy bullshit, coming in on a horse and being an idiot with his guns and almost getting himself killed.

I love him so fucking much??? why couldn’t he have been the main protagonist instead of this idiot sheriff??? 

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

ugh I just??? this baby-faced Korean smartass saving this fuckin wannabe’s life while lecturing him the entire time is gonna be the death of me.

I don’t want him to die.

[romelle-moved]

are you the ‘furry for thace’ gay or the ‘furry for the lady galra warriors’ gay?

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

MOOD

Glenn making fun of Rick’s cowboy bullshit, coming in on a horse and being an idiot with his guns and almost getting himself killed.

I love him so fucking much??? why couldn’t he have been the main protagonist instead of this idiot sheriff??? 

[ravenous-ravenclaw]

lmao do Rick’s wife and (friend???) former partner think they’re being slick?

Also, how long was it before she moved on like damn girl??? I know Rick ain’t shit and their marriage was on the rocks before the whole “zombie apocalypse” thing, I don’t blame her at all.

But this stinks of an affair.