#delivery set up

[moradach5]

The delivery guy set up💯

Don't mind my dusty baby💀

[wildlyfreemoon]

yeah glen powell is hot as a southern guy (topgun and twisters) but... SET IT UP?? WHERE HES A SILLY SILLY CITY BOY (im biased bc set it up is in my top 4 on letterboxd)

[chubearr]

I was talking about the picnic, but... We are pretty cute, aren't we?

[pearlcaddy]

lockwood & co appreciation week 💀 favorite minor character

Montagu Barnes

[decarbry]

Yabureme 1-1

[kingpains]

dr1 designs pt. 2

[shopwitchvamp]

So I'm gonna be stuck taking & editing pictures very last minute tomorrow after all :\

[ebonyheartnet]

Me: I know this feeling in my chest. This thorny vine that tears at the soul. This thing that drives the mind to evil thoughts is haunting me.

Me: *runs over to the giant bay windows to fling them open and hurls themself into the storm*

Me: The damned cry with me, their sorrows are equal to my own! This terrible ache and horror!

Me, fist raised to the heavens: No loving god would call me child, so I am now a fatherless bastard. I carry the sins of angels too cowardly to clean their own filth. Take responsibility for this pain before I line my sick bed with your feathers!

Me, climbing onto the ledge: Do you hear me, winged rats? I! Am! Wretched! I! Am! Suffering!

Me: *collapses wheeping as their mother pulls them inside*

Mother: Child, what plagues you so?! Merely name what twisted thing drove you screaming in the night and I will know my enemy! Merely ask and I will have them slain!

Me: Woman, if you have ever loved me as dearly as you profess, I will ask, but you answer me truthfully. I am not paid for dignity, and pride has fled these fires of hell long ago.

Mother: I swear on my second child! I swear on your name, I swear it!

Me, clinging to her robe, hardly drawing breath: Mother, dear sweet mother—

Mother: My child, speak with haste!

Me: I speak barely, do not make me waste the air!

Mother: Peace then, but murder suspense before it claims me.

Me: …

Mother: Dearest?

Me: Swear also you will not mock nor join the enemy?

Mother: -_-

Mother: I swear, but sense that you designed the hand misery hath dealt.

Me: …

Mother: Out with it.

Me: Mother, why do my lungs itch?

Mother: =_=

Me: :’^(

Mother: *throws her hands up as she glares at my medicine chest*

Narrator: It was at this moment that an 8th push notification chimed. CVS begged one final time for Ebony to refill their singulair.

Mother: ò_ó

Me: ^^���

Narrator: Ebony has been taking this medication every night for over 15 years.

Narrator: Without fail, they face the same strange affliction within four missed doses.

[badoccultadvice]

So like, I have been having this weird experience analyzing the Harry Potter books lately, and please indulge me while I talk about J.K. Rowling's weird writing.

My goal was simple: read the Harry Potter books to find which parts were influenced/inspired by actual magic that people do in real life. My theory was that there was a lot more magic in the earlier drafts of the books, and that she took a lot out due to fear of backlash from America's ongoing reenactment of the Satanic Panic. For instance it's quite obvious some of their magic lessons got dumbed down so that very little of what's in the books could actually be tried in real life, and I think she took out a lot of astrology.

I also wanted to do a couple errands along the way, one of which was to check and see if it's explicitly written in the books that Harry is a cis man. I'm a trans man, SO I'D KNOW. (I'm a slow reader so all I can say for now is: the FIRST book does not explicitly state Harry is cis, but if he's trans, there's some implied worldbuilding with items like the Sorting Hat that comes into play. Also I'm fairly sure the Dursleys would have gone along with him being trans because that meant Petunia could reuse Dudley's old clothes instead of having to get girl stuff. I'mma save any other explanations on the topic for a video on it.) The reason I'm doing this read-through is because I think J.K. doesn't know anything about trans people and didn't think to make sure her wizard world was trans exclusionary. AND IT TURNS OUT THAT WE TRANS MAGIC USERS HAVE A WAY OF WIGGLING INTO MOST PLACES UNDETECTED BY NORMAL MEANS.

While I was doing the re-read I encountered two sort of broad revelations:

There's a lot of old stuff in there like Latin and Greek and tradcraft stuff, but also modern magic of the more recent era... but the incorporation of modern magic cuts off somewhere before the 80s. These books read like they were written by a early 70s magician. Like they honestly read like J.K. is a magical practicioner who just didn't read any magic books written after 1972 and never discovered what Chaos Magic is, (and also, never heard of most of what happened in the Cold War). I have never found a writer, in fiction or non-fiction, more dedicated to referencing magical stuff that most magicians alive today just don't care about anymore.

J.K. Rowling's knowledge of child abuse laws and general social mores regarding treatment of children also ceased to update itself by about the 80s. I keep getting distracted by this and having to make more side-notes about corporal punishment and researching stuff like when caning was banned in England. (HInt: it was banned before Harry went to school, so in Book 1 it's fuckin weird that he assumes that Wood is the name of a cane he's about to be whipped with.) Like, this woman raised children in the modern era, she should know when canes stopped being used.

So like, when I mention that I'm doing some research in this area, this is the sort of stuff I'm reading for and the sort of stuff I'm encountering. I haven't been talking much about this journey because it seems like any time anyone brings up anything Harry Potter up whatsoever, we've got to talk about how J.K. is a terf in every other sentence. But like, y'all: I hope you slow down and re-read the books, because J.K. Rowling is a terf who is also a child abuse apologist and normalizer. She is a terf who is also a horrible fat-shamer. She is a terf who is also an ableist with a huge problem writing about mental illness. And she's a terf who's also a sexist who undermines feminism with her actual writing of female characters.

And I honestly think she double and triples down on the terf stuff so that people will only talk about that. I think it's worth talking about the fact that not only is she an awful person in the terf way, but like, every other way imaginable too. I think it's worth talking about the fact that with all the obvious biases she has, the group she CHOOSES to publicly marginaiize is trans women, and I think she makes that choice because she thinks that she'll get more allies that way. That if she wore all of her issues on her sleeve like she wears the terfness, that she'd lose a lot of allies, that a lot of prestigious charities would stop having anything to do with her. That she uses the identity of "terf" as a shield because she knows that certain people will protect a terf, and she does this specifically so people won't notice how much of a sexist, abuse apologist, ableist, fatphobe etc she ALSO is. Opinions that could lose her a lot of money and clout if people remember them enough.

She's trying to pick on who she thinks is the most unpopular kid in the class out of the hopes that the bullies in class will be her friends instead of pile up on her, but if the bullies knew what she really thought of them, THEY wouldn't even be her friends.

Also like... I just want someone else to read the actual words in these books and see what fucked-up choices she made as a writer. I think a LOT of people remembering these books are actually remembering the movies, which are way more different from the books than you might expect.

[braceletofteeth]

*raising hand* you know what else is about to feel hot?

[quietwingsinthesky]

weird that she’s not more. idk. concerned about how easily that thing got on her tardis? i guess we should just assume she planned for it to do so and gave it access but still. weird.

[sillimancer]

food stamp card arrived, god bless

[pyreflydust]

Borrowing my brother's wagon so I can do things like pull 60lbs of kitty litter 0.4 of a mile, mostly downhill.

[daybreakrising]

when you finish a thing at almost midnight so you have to schedule it to drop tomorrow instead at a more sensible hour-

anyway, now that that's done, i'm going to call it a night since i wanna be up early to wait for my delivery. all i know is that it should be here by midday so it could honestly turn up at any time ldkjbgkdfjh

hopefully some more writing tomorrow \o/

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent ones of these even though they all look the same lol.. forcing myself to document progress..

[orcelito]

Went thru my stuff. An hour of talking is a lot of talking lol. I for some reason thought I had to leave by 9 tho when I'm supposed to leave by 10. So I was rushinggggg but now I'm like. Wow I have some free time. Might rest my eyes for a little bit. Just a little.