#Harry's kids are insane

[frm9pm]

My wife and I were walking around the city and when we saw a dumbledore poster we immediately turned to each other and made this hand gesture LOL

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

”If I could draw I’d draw fanarts!”

“If I could draw I’d draw my OCs”

“If I could paint I’d paint all the ideas in my head and become rich!”

If I could draw and paint I would completely erase this portrait of J.K Rowling in a book from my childhood, and draw a picture of Imane Khelif there instead.

This is my copy and it’s in Swedish, btw.

The original title of this book is Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2. It’s the second book out of two. This is the first one.

These two books were my childhood. Do you have any idea how empowering it is for a young girl like me, feeling alone in a world that seems to become crueller by the day, a girl who feels unheard by adults, to read these kind of books? I have plenty other books like these, too! These were my two favourites.

Two books filled with strong, powerful and cool women who have changed the world in one way or another! Reading these books inspired me so, so much as a little girl. I couldn’t get enough of these two-page stories about women who were brave and stood up for what was right. Women from so many different countries and backgrounds. It was beautiful. These books were how I found out about most of my biggest idols today: Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Anne Frank, Emma Watson etc.

As I said, these books are my childhood. Another series of books that played a huge part of my childhood are the Harry Potter books.

As a little kid, I had no idea about who Joanne truly was. All I knew was that she was an author, and I dreamed about becoming an author one day. And Joanne had written one of my favourite series of all time. Of course I looked up to her! I especially remember looking at the drawing of her in Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2, admiring it very much.

I have grown up. I still love Harry Potter, the series played a massive role in my childhood and it’s been there to comfort me in my hardest times. But I do not support the author, now that I’ve heard about and read the tweets she has made about trans women. It’s disgusting, what she’s said about trans women in the past, what she still says, and what she’s tweeted about Imane Khelif recently… I’ve knows for years now what she’s all about.

It hurts, you know. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, it hurts to know that the series I love so dearly, the series that always makes me feel better, is written by a person who has no respect whatsoever towards half of my friend group and other trans people. None. She is a horrible human being, and it hurts to know that.

Knowing that her face, her name and her story is written in yet another book in my bookshelf, that her presence is constant in my room, makes me sick to my stomach and has done so for a long time now. Ever since I remembered a while back that she’s in this book, this wonderful book about women who have made the world a better place and continue fighting daily, women I look up to so much… I’ve had this sick feeling in my stomach, because she does not belong in this book. She isn’t a feminist. She excludes trans women from womanhood and accuses cis women of being trans or intersex based on their strength and talent in sports. Based on a supposed high level of testosterone? Joanne is cruel, and she’s rude, and she is not a person kids should be taught to look up to. Not after all she’s done.

Earlier today, I was thinking about this again. And as so many times before, I wished that I myself was a talented artist. This is something I’ve thought about before, but for different reasons. I’ve always wished I could draw portraits and pretty paintings. Fanarts for my favourite ships that I can only picture in my head but not transfer to paper. I’ve always loved drawing, but I’ve never been too good at it. Now I desperately wish that I was.

Because if I was a talented artist, I would grab my pens and paint and brushes, and I would cover up the portrait of J. K Rowling in my book. I would make a whole new portrait in its place, a portrait of another woman I look up to, a strong and beautiful and brave woman. A women called Imane Khelif.

And I’d get rid of the page full of facts and stories about Rowling, I’d tear it apart and throw it away and replace it with the story of Imane Khelif, the one woman Rowling cannot tolerate because of her talent for boxing. I can write. I can’t draw, but I can write. I so wish I could do both right now, because if I truly could trust myself with fully remaking two book pages, I would do it without hesitation.

Imane Khelif’s story deserves to be told. J.K Rowling’s story deserves to be told with seriousness, and grief because of what she has become. This woman could have been a successful author and a beloved feminist, and she could have left it at that. Sadly, she chose a path of hatred and cyber bullying. She chose this journey for herself, and I am sorry for everyone who got their childhood ruined because of it. Heck, I’m sorry for her even, but I still know in my heart that she has no excuses for what she has done. I despise her.

Kids need to be warned about TERFs, not trans women.

Collage made by @thingsmk1120sayz (I will delete it immediately if you ask me to, love <3)

I stand by Imane Khelif. I stand by the girls who grew up to be strong and wonderful women, the women who made their childhood dreams reality and won medals in the Olympics, the women who became successful artists, the women who reached their goals and ended up writing bestseller books loved by generations.

I stand by them, and I love them. But I feel nothing but hatred and pity towards J. K Rowling. Fuck her twisted beliefs. Much love to Imane Khelif!

Edit: I would like to clarify, Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2 was released 2017. I have no idea when Joanne started spreading her transphobic views on social media. Feel free to educate me on reblogs and comments! Anyways, I don’t think that the authors of this book, Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, meant to cause any harm by putting Rowling in their book. Either this was before Rowling started tweeting transphobic things, or the authors didn’t know about her being a TERF (I doubt the latter). So please don’t send any hate to these wonderful authors! If you want to send them questions regarding their books, I’m pretty sure you’re free to do so! xx

[canigohomenoow]

Sorry I can’t relate to the other college students not being able to read a full length novel, I regularly read 500k works of fanfiction

[sanjiaftersex]

there's gotta be a zoro sasuke martinez somewhere out there i can feel it

[sciderman]

https://youtu.be/c0w24DLClOg?si=-UT7zFT85gRnsGaX

Hoping you’ve seen this video, wonder how the kids doing

real footage of me when all the anons were telling me to kill spider-man during civil war

[pretentiouswreckingball]

okay but jeggy dads accompanying little kindergarten Harry to his first day of spring parade, Harry dressed as a little guacamaya 🦜 and looking at his dads on the sideways encouraging him to dance a little and throw candy at the bystanders

[0rph1x]

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[egglygreg]

Just finished listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks last night (I have read them previously) and can't help but feel like the movies left out the best and most impactful bits of the books?

Like, obviously the whole thing of giving Hermione Ron's lines and smart moments (and some of Harry's too I think) and basically making her Harry's best friend instead of Ron, along with removing the annoying and negative aspects of her character (which are what make her interesting and a fully rounded character.)

But, they got rid of Winky the house elf completely, and she's an integral part of the Goblet of fire storyline? Hermione with S.P.E.W? Even worse, Kreature's story and turnaround, which is a favourite part of mine, and really shows the difference kindness and compassion can make, which is the core of the whole Harry vs Voldemort thing- love and kindness vs power and ruthless selfishness. And I love Kreature leading the house elves against Voldemort in the finale!

Worst of all, is leaving out all the stuff about Dumbledore and Grindlewald and the full reality of what happened to Dumbledore's sister. His grief surrounding it, the mistakes he made. They really didn't address it properly, the emotional impact of it isn't there.

Oh, and the last fight and Voldemort's death? The whole point was despite everything he died like a normal man, and it was his own spell that killed him, not Harry! Harry only fired the disarming spell at him, the whole thing with Harry is that he doesn't kill. Harry literally warned him what would happen, and gave him a chance to repent!

I just feel like the movies really didn't capture the central themes as well, y'know?

[nobodyknowstrouble]

Harry Potter subreddit is crazy why are people discussing whether or not it's okay to force someone to out their medical history before being allowed to work somewhere

[minki-is-tired]

Jenmish panel, Harry and Louis at the same place, skz at Hyde park, Ateez on tour in usa. Oh what a time to be alive, feels like a fever dream.

[enchantedlavendersgarden]

Each of the marauders characters as a choir member:

James: He’s definitely a bass, and also definitely messes around on the risers. everyone loves him but he contributes to the director’s passive aggressive shushing

Sirius: tenor, and purposefully moves to stand next to the bass section to muck around with James and harass Remus. Always gets solos

Remus: Bass, could have solos but refuses to try out. Joined because Lily asked him to, but ended up loving it

Peter: tenor, gets angry when people stand in front of him and block his view, cannot solfège anything to save his life

Lily: soprano, her and Remus make faces at each other across the stage, annoyed by James and Sirius but also thinks they’re funny, is the reason everyone else joined

Marlene: alto, tries to get Lily and Mary’s attention from across the room, whines about the songs when they don’t have movement

Mary: soprano, adores choreography, a favorite but very humble about this, knows she’s good, sings all the high notes but has RANGE, soloist with Sirius

Dorcas: alto, hates choreo on the risers, once had to dance with Marlene and decided it wasn’t so bad, has an amazing lower register

[ceruleanharley]

the first time europe and rest of the world was laughing at you but now we're horrified. because we WE know how it ends we've literally seen this film before

[ziracona]

Harry Osborn really is just “I want people to be nice to me and love me. That’s it.” Like it really is. Of course he became Peter’s best friend; the guy was nice to him. Does not take much. He convinces his dad to rent him an apartment close to college and asks Pete to just come live with him for free in a nice two-bedroom in NY because he wants him there. He drives around because he gets anxious and down and driving relaxes him and Peter doesn’t have a car so he’s always like “Oh oh! : ) Hi Peter do you need a ride?” and Pete is like ‘thank god no taxi fare let’s DO this’. He thinks Gwen and MJ are so cool and neat and he loved Gwen so much even though she broke up with him and died two decades ago, he still thinks about how much she means to him. He just wants to hug Normie and tell him he’s a great son and he loves him. He wants Liz to not hate him and think he’s weak and he’s terrified of people finding out all the things wrong with him but none of them care, and he’s great. He’s the most tragic character of all time. He loves his terrible dad so genuinely and so much, and he loves his friends so much, he loves his family so much. Literally all he ever wanted was people to be nice to him and love him and his life and sanity fall apart and he gets tragedy after tragedy and breakdown after breakdown and but he never really breaks he’s always just a little left. He tries so hard to go off the deep end but he can never really make himself hurt Peter, because of course he can’t. He’s Harry Osborn. Who loves friends from twenty years ago like it was last night. Even at his lowest he gets to die telling his best friend he would have finally been proud of him because he was able for a second to be like he is, and pass while smiling and holding his best friend’s hands. Of course he does. How else could Harry Osborn have ever died. He’s Harry.

[magicalmyths]

lmao i remember when I was 9 or so and was reading Harry Potter this teenager went up to me and was like "OMG YOU LIKE HARRY POTTER! you must be transphobic then!!" And started to yell at me about how this was bad (we were at a park and I was there with friends) and I was so confused about it and mad at myself that I never finished the harry potter series (I was like 100 pages away from being done)

[hl-obsessed]

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[mbat]

internet discourse truly has fried my brain but in the opposite way than i think people wanted it to. because the internet was so black and white about things being "good" or "bad", im literally scared to acknowledge that things i like have issues and arent perfect because the internet had to act like things being imperfect made them fucking garbage. i literally have to tell myself 'im allowed to like things even if they kinda suck' and 'just because this thing isnt perfect doesnt mean its garbage'

seriously fuck all of yall that couldnt ever just be normal about media you literally fucked up everything for everyone and most of the time yall were talking about KIDS SHOWS.