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astro | adult | they/he | lesbian [icon desc: digital art of cas, an elf with dark gray skin and long white hair in a ponytail. he is wearing round dark tinted glasses and silvery blue armor. he is holding a sword with a glowing blueish white blade, surrounded by wisps of pinkish red magic. he looks forward, angry and determined. end id]

[ursamajori]

woah intro post

hi! i’m astro. in my mid 20s, they/he, aro agender lesbian! neurodivergent, also im white + tme.

blog is almost fully accessible, please add any ids i add in reblogs to your original posts (credit me or don’t idrc).

no dni because i can’t stop you from following me, but like. genocide supporters/deniers, racists, transphobes (esp transmisogynists), all that; i’m blocking you. my stances on political and humanitarian things are pretty clear from my blog.

i reblog stuff about writing, ocs, ttrpgs, and fandoms like revolutionary girl utena and deltarune/undertale (to name a few). also bear posts. i love bears. and i do art occasionally. blog isn’t explicit or anything but i do reblog suggestive/nsfw jokes sometimes!

[vergak]

[ursamajori]

[video description: a little puppy being fed milk in a bottle. it turns away from the bottle, then the milk spills literally all over it. baby soaked. /end vd]

[redstonedust]

i wanna see more stories with a time skip epilogue where at least one character has clearly transed their gender and it isnt really remarked upon. bonus if none of them were remotely hinted to be trans until that moment because i think it'd be funny to watch a fandom react to that. your blorbo's happily ever after involves being a woman. dont worry about it.

[kerizaret]

Overheard in a manga store yesterday: "we need more yuri in here. I've had at least 5 girls coming up to me last time asking for yuri. Everyone wants yuri now". The world is healing

[hitmanagent47]

My disguise fucking sucks and i am going to get killed

[c3po]

shlap shlap shlap shlap (sound of my titties hitting the bars in my minecraft jail )  let me out! let me outtttt!

[billiuspendragon]

Okay, fine, I'll say it. I'll speak my mind. Meow meow meow meow meow.

[piendish]

riddle me this, riddle me me that, whoose afraid of the big small cat.

[blackcharacterpolls]

Something I think people learning to draw black characters or just generally any nonblack artist should really think about is like, do you engage with Black artists? Like outside of looking at their tutorials and tips, do you follow black artists? Do you look at, and study their style and the way they draw black characters? I think thats a really important aspect for nonblack artists, you can say x y z, but are you like actually engaging with black art especially outside of the public eye? This of course goes for any artform but i here was specifically talking about art in the sense of painting, drawing, animation, etc.

[rainbowlimenade]

too many people on here act like that racism in indie spaces is not a very big problem and it's pissing me offff no one is above criticism and most of these people have never apologized for being racist edgelords!!!

[anglaised]

“majority of white people see anyone brown as subhuman” “ugh! that sucks….. its just like how some ppl r a little rude to me, a white person, for having green hair!” no. thats different, i promise u its different

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[lazer-exe]

a lot of people are reblogging this saying that most "lazy" people are actually just disabled or that the concept of laziness itself is a product of our society's obsession with productivity. this is all true, but it is not my point.

even if someone WAS just lazy and simply didn't want to do anything but lie on the couch and watch tv, they should still have these things. it's irrelevant whether some people aren't actually lazy because everyone, including hypothetical lazy people, should have their basic needs met.

if we have the resources to do it, there is no defense of letting people die because they don't want to work, and much less because they can't.

I don't want lazy people to have basic necessities because they "actually" deserve them because they ARE working or CAN'T work. I want lazy people to have basic necessities because they are people, and we shouldn't leave them to die when we have the resources not to.

[soup-mother]

Sober as fuck at the back of the club going onto Wikipedia and typing "List of birds"

[rnismatch]

*sees your post, takes cigar out of mouth and rubs forehead* dont make me unfollow you, kid

[liittlecreatures1985]

out and about and my phone is at 15% battery: better not use it so it doesn’t die on me

5 minutes later: googling average gas mileage in 1950

[gayleafpool]

sometimes i think love triangles should be resolved by polyamory but badly like everyone’s still mad

[do-you-have-a-flag]

I point to a sign that reads "STOP GIVING THE WORKS OF JK ROWLING TIME AND MONEY"

especially ahead of the new series trailer, tapping the sign that reads "DO NOT HATEWATCH"

[thewickedbohemian]

but maybe a better strategy would be to suggest another fandom with a better reputation but similar vibes to what Harry Potter fans like about Harry Potter (ranging from that kind of coming-of-age narrative to a sorting system people can "make their whole personality"/world that one can easily insert themselves into) and that people read/watch/play that instead as the people you're trying to convince are just gonna be turned off by your negativity

[do-you-have-a-flag]

hi, i was a harry potter fan from the ages of 6-28, if anyone understands how hard it is to emotionally move on from this specific beloved childhood franchise and cultural phenomenon it would be me.

it's been 6 years since j.k rowling started doubling down on her transphobia. (if we mark her mask off moment as her 2020 posting)

people have had six years to come to terms with it and find alternatives, there have been multiple video essays podcasts and written journalism about all of this, there are so many lists of alternatives including contemporary to the series and current fiction. even as early as 2022 people were renaming real world social groups/sport formed around their hp fandom to distance themselves from her work.

i wasn't even particularly negative, i said "stop spending money here" that's neither critical to the source material nor the fans. and not spending money isn't even an active action it's passive inaction, very easy to do.

also as someone who grew up with the book phenomenon and the films, you cannot reproduce the phenomenon that it used to be. you can find other things that give you joy but that was a very specific pop cultural time and event. the new show not only funds the cultural relevance of and bigoted political actions of rowling, it's also just inherently flawed in conception as a work of nostalgia that will always fall short in both quality, phenomena, and fandom culture.

I'm not coddling adults or teens who are tempted to engage with hp because i respect that they have the capacity to change their minds and expand their own tastes. it's not my responsibility to spoon-feed people alternatives.

I'm saying stop giving her money

i'm saying stop giving the franchise cultural currency via streaming attention

i'm saying the real people who are being made unsafe due to the transphobia and racism of j.k rowling are and always will be more important than nostalgia and fandom

I sound harsh because i was being blunt, if that comes off as negativity that puts some people off then that's okay.

there are much more hand holding options out there, (i myself watched a few video essays years ago deconstructing the bigotry of the novels and the messy relationship between fandom on identity and fiction versus personal ethics. because i needed discussions to process my own personal emotional response to letting the franchise go)

but with my own post I would hope that at least some people go "actually yeah this isn't worth my time and money" about the new show.

because it's okay to feel some negative emotions if it reminds you not to do something you actually feel is wrong.

ultimately @thewickedbohemian it's okay that you don't like my two sentence post as an approach to addressing the entire harry potter fandom. I would encourage you to visit/revisit any works that make you feel the same kind of magic that people are looking for and compile a list yourself to share, it's a good exercise and does help give people a place to start. it's not something i did with this post, it can be something you do with your own post, feel free to tag me in it and i'll reblog.

but again, i'll say it:

"STOP GIVING THE WORKS OF JK ROWLING TIME AND MONEY" "DO NOT HATEWATCH"

here's some places for people to donate

https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/?form=donate

https://transactual.org.uk/change-actions/ https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/support-transactual

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/scottishtransalliance

[do-you-have-a-flag]

Self reblog because she continues to put her money and power towards stuff like this

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26277881.jk-rowling-urges-gender-critical-groups-sue-amnesty-international/

Stop giving her time and money