let's dance to joy division

hello, zephyne here ! she/her. 30s. reading byler + drarry. drinking tea. not much else tbh || icon and sidebar by the one and only @swymsuyt. header by the talented @frogcult19. nb: i do not support jkr or her reprehensible views. any engagement with her work is transformative in nature.

[inthislight-remarkable]

REFUSE to CONFORM to SOCIETAL NORMS, GENDER ROLES, or the HARRY POTTER EPILOGUE

[phoebebyers]

last fall when every night i was smoking the weed that makes you care way too much about early 2000s emo band rpf

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

I think instrumence should be free for those who are pure of heart

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

u should be able to put ur hand down and let the instrument sniff u and if it smells a beautiful quality in ur heart and spirit that's ur instrument now. stray tumpet follow you home.. bwaa

[tonguethief]

Sniff my hand, sweet bwa bwaa.... You will be safe with me

[biocrafthero]

The Tolling of the Bell compilation

[mikilavellan]

Neil Gaiman is not a bad writer. He IS a human trafficker and rapist.

JK Rowling is not a bad writer. She IS a dangerous bigot who devotes her substantial resources towards making life unlivable for trans people.

Hans Zimmer is not a bad composer. He IS a man who decided JKR’s actions were not a dealbreaker if it meant money in his pocket.

People on this site have already expounded on the danger of conflating talent and morality.

It is always more important to explain that A) this Artist represents a clear and present danger, abused their platform and money, and must be boycotted to keep others safe than B) this Artist is bad at art

If you’re caught up in spending time trying to convince others of B, you’re wasting time and energy as well as diverting others’ attention from point A.

Or worse! If someone did not find B to be true, they might question the validity of A!

Similarly, “But it’s so good though!” Won’t ever erase the fact of A. Please for the love of God don’t give these fuckers any more money

[spitblaze]

[guy who doesnt watch shows voice] yeah ive been meaning to watch that show

[omegaversereloaded]

youll be able to find books and movies and music that change your life until the day you die. that's pretty good

[kk1smet]

these drarry sketches (that i haven’t really done in a long time) were inspired by none other than *drum roll*

Anywhere Out of the World

By Soliblomst

more in the cut:

in case you haven’t heard of it by now, @soliblomst (yes, the one who owe you a tissue from The Boy from the Piano Shop, the one i collabed (is that a word) with and made beauxbatons!harry a thing aka Je te reverrai, and ofc i have to mention her gift to me, Stellaglas Mountain (please do not sleep on this one) is writing her could be, might be final drarry fic, and it is everything, and. i think you should put it on your list, fall along with us. check out this beautiful work on ao3 ♡

[soliblomst]

Ommggggg, what did I do to deserve such a beautiful, talented, generous, amazing friend?? Thank you so much, K Bear, I'm immensely grateful!

As always, your drawings are stunning (is that even a strong enough word to describe your talent?) you’ve always managed to capture Harry and Draco exactly as I imagined them 🤌🏻 you know I freaking love everything about your art! (and about you)

And the scene choice? “Let’s fuck”??? Hell yeah!! I couldn't have hoped for a better scene, hehe

Love u so much🫶

Ps: I think you meant collaborated? Lmao

[fishpondfish]

last night was an anthony bourdain gif

[mevil]

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

[ymutate]

Zoltán Palugyay

Landscape with flowers, 1930

[dappledwithshadow]

Claude Monet Lilacs in the Sun 1872

[fairycosmos]

girl help i'm turning 30 in a few days and i've done fuck all with my life

fuck all is a classic 30 year old thing to do. youre right on track

[bizarrelittlemew]

but above all, one must not concern oneself with the opinions of people who censor the word fuck

[willel-domination]

I remember finding it so weird that they dragged out the "reveal" that Mr. Whatsit was Henry because it was just so obvious??? Why would the characters not think it was Henry? Anyway, it made me think of something I would've eaten up instead, where they could have actually made the Mr Whatsit thing feel like a twist:

The characters immediately assume that Mr. Whatsit is Henry, but the twist is that Henry is doing it physically THROUGH Will. As in, Will is being intermittently possessed and seeking out these kids, and doesn't realize it. He experiences time loss and repeatedly ends up in places not knowing how he got there but chalks it up to sleep deprivation due to nightmares and is too afraid of seeming like a burden to mention it to anyone.

Holly is then the first victim because she lives under the same roof as Will, making her the closest target. Will and Holly get close over the 18 months of living together and regularly spend time playing games alone, where Henry takes the opportunity to take over. Holly thinks that these moments where Will introduces himself as Mr. Whatsit (he doesn't give the name Henry because why tf would he do that) is some sort of roleplay game, so she plays along and invites her friends to join in on the "game," expanding Henry's pool of victims (ig in this world Derek is either a friend or learns about her "game" and makes fun of it). Holly (and the other kids) think it's a fun secret between her and Will, so she doesn't tell anyone that Mr. Whatsit is Will. It's not until they capture Derek to protect him and he refers to Will as Mr. Whatsit that the pieces start to fall into place, and Will slowly regains memories of what Henry made him do.

The kids, once captured by Henry, under hive mind influence, don't notice that Mr. Whatsit doesn't look like Will until Holly runs into Max and Max helps her see that Mr. Whatsit isn't a friend at all.

And at some point Will falls fully into possession and tries to hurt Mike, and Mike has to pull him out of it.

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[xekstrin]

Boyfriend: wait but I thought you could change from alpha to omega? Like you get hit with a pheromone and bam become that and you fuck, but the rest of the time you’re androgynous

Me: … I think you have confused omegaverse with the seminal piece of science fiction literature The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

[xekstrin]

Nationalism is a societal evil

[l-art-stuff-l]

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