#tw rowling

[mxterhyde]

I love putting "rowling" as one of my filtered out words in general on tumblr because I don't want to see anything about that woman or that book series, ever, seriously, please stop showing it to me

And then getting very confused by a "filtered content" on something I KNOW isn't about her and realizing tumblr has hidden so many posts from me because the word "growling" technically names the horrid hag of the British Isle

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Fascinating situation at work today. Not sure if this is a straight normative thing to do or a neurotypical thing or a combination of the two but anyway I didn't really anticipate or understand it at all.

We had to do, for fun, a personality test at work to categorise ourselves. (Naturally they Harry Potter themed it bc why not use a cultural touchstone 15 years out of date & now divisive)

So naturally I answered the questions honestly and got the result I expected. (🐍)

Only to then find out that everyone else in my team had done one or more of:

1) tried to cheat the quiz to rig it for a particular result

2) aimed for the answer they assumed the boss wanted to hear

3) answered all the questions in a way so as to appear non threatening, submissive etc. - let me reiterate this was a bit of fun and the results weren't saved anywhere

(Or maybe for some of them this was the natural state)

I've never before seen such a blatant example of adults (aged 30s-60s) literally manifesting peer pressure on themselves and each other over something so ridiculously trivial.

Suddenly it makes sense why we never seem to get anything done or make strides to progress through things if everyone is always second-guessing and trying to give the 'right' answer rather than following logical process.

[mindnumbing-brain-candy]

Somewhat forgive me for any "annoying writing" here. But it was to my bestie and my partner, you're more the after thought. But it's funny enough to share imo.

Today in things that aged like milk, a bumper sticker saying "not today mugglefucker".

And if you can't think of why this aged like milk, besides rowling's transphobia/sexism/racism/etall consider how there was a time the right was adopting death eater slang, calling the antivaxxers purebloods and people who got it mudblood). You really wanna try to make a curse/insult like you-vxcausedautism-fucker?

But play Sherlock for a moment with me. Do you notice the color differences?

Pretty sure the driver has removed the bottom one. You can ascertain that because its the same color as the car but it has a shiny appearance due to recent rain. Residue.

But not the top one. That one is white, still a contrasting color.

[bulbiedorf]

Rowling: trans people are forcing children into using hormone blockers at 16 because they are grooming children

Also Rowling: (allowed 16 year old Tom Felton to be coerced into filming a nude scene that was to be filmed after he turned 17 for her own movie and signed off on having him be nude in front of fellow child actors and wanted to show a naked minor in every theater around the world)

[skeksismars]

Severus Snape wasn't "misunderstood" he showed a part of his personality that was ugly and abusive, when he was trying to protect Harry he did so under the istructions of Dumbledore and only out of respect for his long time creepy crush on Lily. He was a nazi long into his adulthood and a creep. He was an abusive professor who terrorized the school and traumatized Neville in particular. He doesn't have any redeeming qualities. He wasn't faking his personality because if he showed his real, caring one his cover would have been blown, he was always showing his true colors and he was taking out his built up frustration of a job he didn't want on his students.

We got manipulated by R*wling into taking his side when we see all the abuse he suffered in his childhood and at school by James Potter. James did horrible, horrible things to him but the difference is that he changed, he became an active player in fighting Voldemort and evil, while Snape refused to grow from his victim complex and became a Death Eater (nazi). And we can see that he STILL hasn't changed in the books because he still hates James and Harry and isn't able to grow out of the past.

[gerrysherry]

The dark side of headcanon

A lot of white trans people are racist. Look no further than the HP fandom excusing JKR's blatant racism but drawing the line at transphobia.

But I hate when it sneaks into my fandom. I especially hate the one bit of misogynoir by a young white enby in the ihnmains fandom. They headcanonned all the cast as trans except Nimdok obviously. (Why always get moralistic about Nimdok but not AM and Benny? NO I not let this die!) They deliberated and picked out a niche mogai gender for each of the other three men but said "Ellen: trans girl. Easy."

That ease is our transmisogynistic view of black women as inherently masculine. Why take such care with the men but be so flippant about the one woman? They are plenty of femme adjacent genders you could have picked and you didn't let backstory or realism constrain you when you chose the other three*. I don't give a damn if they didn't think of it is, it's still pretty racist. Do not know funky femme genders that aren't loaded with stereotypes?

*really do you think that Ted the character who is characterized as not seeing women as people being anything remotely femme adjacent, I could see Gorrister as cis or agender and nothing else (vibes wise). Benny maybe but I always see him as a cis gay.

[loremoth]

[pigeonriot]

the amount of harry potter shit i see on tiktok is honestly so upsetting, and i dont CARE that it is 95% marauders and you think they're seperate from jk terf and her antisemetic world building, theyre not and youre so fucking insufferable