#I’ve read the book so many times

[goldkirk]

I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.

The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.

Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.

If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?

Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.

[valewritessss]

The amount of criticism and hate the wottg book is getting makes me scared to like it bc it feels like if I do then I’m doing something wrong😅

[geryone]

My hopeful tbr full of books I’m pushing myself to get to before the end of this year ❤️

[bpdohwhatajoy]

When you’ve dealt with toxic and abusive people your entire life, you see the patterns and simplify them into archetypes. These people always get mad when you point out that they’re acting like a certain person but the data doesn’t lie.

[skinreflectsthesun]

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[nickyroethemarinebiologist]

Temeraire dragons but they’re based off of birds!!! Lily is based off a pheasant, Maximus is a bullfinch, and Tem is a black-necked crane :)

[stuckinapril]

which book were you reading? <333

this one bestie!! i was supposed to pick it up after I was done w some books still sitting in my bookcase but. I literally could not help myself I just went ahead and bought it and it’s been so interesting ugh I wish I had more time to just lose myself in it

[clarity2electricboogaloo]

Dallas Winston is one of the best characters I’ve read

I started out hating him

He harasses cherry and is just an overall asshole

But he slowly gets better, and throughout the story you can see what made him the way he is

You read about him leaving the drivein because Johnny asked, and he has that soft spot for Johnny

You read about him taking the fall for twobit when he was about to be arrested

You read about him helping Johnny and Ponyboy, giving them clothes, a place to hide, and a plan

You read about him trying to help the two out of the church when it’s burning down

You read about him instantly softening around Johnny in the hospital after the rumble

You read about him breaking when Johnny is gone because he actually cared about Johnny, and now the only thing he thought he cared about is gone

You watch him realizing that he has something else to live for, realizing he cared about Ponyboy too, but it’s already too late, and he’s dead before he hits the ground

You watch from pony’s point of view and he grows on you the same way he grew on ponyboy, and he’s gone just as soon as you realize how good he actually is

[cabeswaterdrowned]

Insane how forgettable the Laumonier triplets always are. Like why are they here?

I didn’t even remember one of them was Piper’s dad and I reread this book last winter

[alagaisia]

Hey if you’re still enjoying and engaging with Harry Potter in any capacity you can unfollow me 😊 please and thank you

Like. I get it. I was super into it as a kid too. I did not have the social context to pick up on the antisemitism or transphobia or sexism or fatphobia or bioessentialism or racism or anything else. I also picked up on surface-level language of Fighting Back Against Evil and ascribed my own values onto what that meant and thought we were all on the same page. I remember when the original kids who grew up with the books started becoming adult fans and picking up on the (blatant!) antisemitism and everybody was still mostly willing to give JKR the benefit of the doubt on it. (“She was writing kids books!” They said. “She didn’t know she was penning a global phenomenon! She picked a common literary trend in European fairy tales (antisemitic caricature) and didn’t examine it closely. It’s a mistake anyone could make,” we said. “She would probably do things differently now. After all, she word-of-god confirmed the vaguest hints she dropped that Dumbledore might be gay,” we said.) There was actually a span of several years where biases inherent in the actual real content of the Harry Potter series were coming to light and even the people pointing them out still seemed mostly to think it was an unfortunate accident.

That time has passed. Years ago! We are long past the first months of “maybe she doesn’t realize this seemingly-feminist tweet she liked was made by a noted TERF” and then “how could she not realize that these many veiled TERF-y things she’s retweeted have implications for the many queer fans of her work” and finally “oh wow okay JKR just dropped an entire transphobic manifesto on twitter. I guess the transphobia was the point.”

Yeah, there were a few months after that where people were still processing and still working through how they felt about Harry Potter and all of its flaws with the context of the now open transphobia of the creator. I was there for that. Remember how I was one of the kids who built it up into something noble and worthwhile based on my own beliefs about what messages it was probably trying to convey? Turns out it wasn’t trying to say any of those things, and when you take the time to examine all of the terrible shit that made its way into the text whether JKR intended it to be there or not, the whole series falls apart. It’s weird to discover that there’s a room in your house that’s rotten to the core, but eventually you figure out you can’t live like that, still going in there and holding your nose and pretending it’s still the same room you thought it was when the termites were only inside of the walls and hadn’t yet started chewing their way through the furniture. Because what’s going to happen is that they are going to infest the rest of your house. If you decide you can ignore transphobia and antisemitism and everything else just because you liked the color of the wallpaper, the rest of your principles are going to crumble too. You get rid of that fucking room. You put those books on a high shelf in the back of your closet behind other outgrown clothes and interests and you move the fuck on.

JKR uses the money made from her transphobic antisemitic children’s books to actively funding hate groups and to lobby for legislation that will and has actually affected the actual lives of trans people in an entire country. We are past the point of grieving something you were wrong about in childhood. Kids are wrong about a lot of stuff. You grow up and you learn new information and you change your behaviors based on it. You have to choose. It is transphobic to pretend there is not transphobia where there is. It is transphobic to support the work of someone who is using those funds to take rights from trans people with every fucking dollar. It is hateful to continue to engage positively with a story that at its very core is rooted in hate and bigotry and prejudice. You can choose to do all of those things but you cannot claim ignorance of them and you cannot choose those things and still pretend that choosing them upholds the values we convinced ourselves that Harry Potter stood for over a decade ago as uninformed children. You cannot choose to do those things and pretend to still support your trans and queer and Jewish neighbors. I do not want you in my neighborhood. Leave.

[frances-baby-houseman]

It was almost too much to bear. We had been with them through the entire pregnancy, and the loss with his little brother, Patrick, who died just a few months before that. And now this. And he had been such a good little trouper. - Secret Service agent Clint Hill

[titsthedamnseason]

why does “God” talk to zane. im scared

[theladyfae]

the way i was so taken by konstantin’s twisted obsession with vasya for the first two books and how it culminated at the beginning of the third but then the second i got to Those book 3 scenes i was like. oh. like, i get why people are insane abt him and medved now. me too, even.

[sugarsnappeases]

thank you for the tag @fxreflyes this is so cute, except the format is trying to hinder my propensity to ramble, so i’ve rectified this in the tags lmao

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

no pressure tags for @static-radio-ao3 @inevitablestars @itsjaywalkers @carniferous @orbitfalls @transsexualpriest @futurequibblerjournalist <333

[stuckinapril]

I want to be an artistic generalist but it’s so unrealistic for me rn!!

[renarines]

idk if this is an unpopular opinion but i’m actually sick to teeth of getting into a media because someone online has explicitly asked a fan if the main couple everyone posts about is actually canonically objectively gay, and the fan will say yes, they are absolutely canonically objectively unequivocally gay in the text— and then i read the series or watch the show and the couple are actually NOT canonically and unequivocally gay, some people just invest so much in creating their own fanon that they forget that the media itself is made by homophobic execs who will never commit to having two people love each other “wrongly”. like, just say they never get together but that you interpreted their interactions as love. i’ll still watch the media. but it’ll hurt less !!!

like PLEASE if someone reaches out and asks you if the couple is canonically gay, if the author or writers or whoever have spoken out against it just say no!!! please!!!! thats not what canonically means!!!