the fact taylor swift wrote a whole song about how great and exciting it is to be 22 and then years later revealing the lyric “it’s supposed to fun turning 21” and you’re just like… oh
the fact taylor swift wrote a whole song about how great and exciting it is to be 22 and then years later revealing the lyric “it’s supposed to fun turning 21” and you’re just like… oh
The au pair was tired. She had been tired for so long. Yet without even realizing she was doing it, she found herself taking her own advice that she’d given to Miles. She’d chosen someone to keep close to her, that she could feel tired around. Chosen someone who might help her burn away the shadows.
Actually butch lesbians can be gentle and kind and comforting to be around and presenting as more masculine/androgynous doesn’t make us inherently rough or angry and depicting all butches as such is lesbophobia. This goes especially for trans butches and butches of color btw
the way forever winter builds up the desperation and worry as the narrator slowly realizes just how serious the situation is, that their friend is in a bad place and is actually contemplating leaving everything behind. the subtle change after verse 1 where they're mildly aware of the friend's predicament to the higher, stressful verse 2 when they know for a fact that it's bad. 3am pacing -> 5am wasted the night literally got worse but what the friend can't see is it's gonna be morning soon. too young to know it gets better. the transition from begging to screaming, the absolute terror experienced by the narrator when they're convinced there is no way to help their friend and yet they want to try, they're willing to do everything possible to keep them safe and okay and alive. forever winter is so. no words.
I’m in the mood to lay in bed with a partner and be held very very tightly. I want to hold their arms as we spoon and fall asleep feeling safe and protected. Just the two of us.
The fact that people are boycotting JK Rowling for her blatant transphobia and not mentioning her blatant racism exemplifies why people are white before they are trans or gay.
The Wizarding school North America (Ivermory) is riddled with blatant appropriation of Native American cultures, but no one gave a shit.
An in-depth look at cultural appropriation in the American houses from an overly involved Harry Potter fan.
Although the final book in the Harry Potter saga, The Deathly Hallows, was published almost a decade ago, J. K. Rowling has been quietly bui
But no one gave a shit until she started starting transphobic rhetoric.
She literally takes Native American beliefs and... I don't know what the words are for this bullshit. Misrepresents them to capitalize on them? Appropriates them? Completely ignores the original beliefs in order to make up her own?
History of Magic in North America, being serialised on Rowling’s Pottermore website, attacked for using an ancient culture ‘as a convenient
Although the new insights into the universe of Harry Potter were welcomed by many, the author was strongly criticised online by a number of voices from Native American communities, particularly over her writing about skinwalkers, which in Navajo legend are said to be evil witches or wizards who can take on the form of animals.
Rowling writes that the myth “has its basis in fact … A legend grew up around the Native American Animagi, that they had sacrificed close family members to gain their powers of transformation. In fact, the majority of Animagi assumed animal forms to escape persecution or to hunt for the tribe. Such derogatory rumours often originated with No-Maj medicine men, who were sometimes faking magical powers themselves, and fearful of exposure.”
Responding to a question on Twitter, Rowling said that “in my wizarding world, there were no skinwalkers”, with the legend created by those without magic “to demonise wizards”.
But yeah. The transphobia is why we're boycotting her.
(This isn't to say the transphobia is okay or to minimize trans issues. This is to point out that white people only care about issues that effect other white people.)
Look. All I'm saying is if you're going to make a post about why we don't like JK Rowling. Say "we aren't going to support JK Rowling because of her racism and transphobia."
Not to mention. How shitty of a writer must you be if you can't create b your own myths and legends? The fact that she's gotta steal from others completely exemplifies how shitty of an author she is.
I just want to point out the core of what the diffuser did in this conversation
They recognized that the mother was also expressing a vulnerable truth about herself - that she felt like a bad mother because her child was expressing gender feelings she wasn’t equipped to help with - and met her where she was, a concerned parent with limited information - to point her where she should be heading, research and resources.
Im going to make more of an effort to stop reflexively pushing people away when they express biases and make more of an effort to hear the underlying fears when i can
Ok sorry to post about her but I didn't realize JKR's pen name Robert Galbraith comes from the conversion therapist Robert Galbraith Heath ?!? This is so insane like What the fuck
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