#so many more I know I’m forgetting

[crisisoninfinitenerds]

BRB, adding “small audience, big budget” to my bio…

[ohitslen]

Nightow really made two men point a gun at each other, two times, in separate occasions (different works) and no one is talking about it the enough.

This man says he doesn’t know how to write romance and then did whatever that is with those four that exudes way more intimacy than it should for what it is in all honesty

[marimbles]

at the risk of sounding like really entitled….

does anyone else have a fic that is their most popular, but you don’t want it to be, because you don’t think it deserves it, and you have better stuff, and while ofc you are grateful that people like something you wrote, it’s almost annoying that for some reason That one is the most popular. lmao

[kai6453]

I just KNOW that my favs would support women first and would never have even thought for a SECOND about putting that orange felon, bigot, fascist, little fuck, back into office.

[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.

[harrylights]

lets spread some love. who are your favourite creators in this fandom?

oof there are so many!! i’ll do my best to get all of u lovely ppl on here

@28goldens @enchantedlandcoffee @faithinthefuturedeluxe @alwayshazandlou @louisgayvodka @wecantalktomorrow @fearlesslarrie28 @moon-sun-thyme @imogenleewriter @londonfoginacup @1ouis @ladychlo @freelouisankles @thetriangletattoo @harrysmaison @harrehleh @369sec @505louis @stelloulas @harryshandbag @ialwaysknewyouwerepunk @bluewinnerangel @wemadethishome @persephoneflouwers @itsnotreal @greeneyesfriedrice @thedevilinmybrain @thechavier @louisbluejeans @loustyles @tommos @rainbowbeanstyles @tempolarriefix @louieshalo @delicatepointofview @babyhoneyheslt

[crandberrysaucewithpulp]

we should all be done with trying to smear our distinctive qualities into the dent of societal normalcy. i am going to seek every weirdo freak and nerd and assemble them into a union to rival insecure conformists, and then convert them into their own authenticity

[yuukimiyas]

hello hello friends!! ໒꒰ྀི◜ ཅ ◝ ꒱ྀི১◞♡ i hope everybunny has been doing well!! i’m slowly but surely easing my way back into the city life so you’ll see me around more!! <33 tmrw here in the states, on 1/25, i turn 26 yrs old!! ૮꒰ྀི ∩៸៸៸∩ ‎꒱ྀིა & it is v nerve wracking & exciting!! & in all honesty…i am SCARED!! i feel so ill prepared & not ready!!! ໒꒰ྀིஇ﹏இ`꒱ྀི১ but tmrw is chloe day!! & i can’t wait to celebrate it w all of you!!! <33

[starbuck]

i don’t hold grudges, but i only let people break my trust once and not trusting someone is a relatively similar phenomenon.

[akkivee]

so like samatoki’s bday is in 3 days!!!!

the bad news is that i haven’t started on my art for him yet 🙃🙃🙃

the good news is that while thinking about that, i have already decided what i want to do for kuukou’s bday next year lmao

[mars-ipan]

Tomorrow Is Election Day And I Am So Fucking Stressed

[seeminglyseph]

Something kinda funny personally to me like… watching people react to Wind Breaker because like. Sometimes I just like to see what people have to say when they do that. Is like. I have noticed a casual habit of that audience to use the given name of the characters, even if it isn’t the name that the character is usually referred to by other characters for the most part. Sugishita and Kaji getting referred to as Kyotaro and Ren real casual like throws me the hell off, I dunno who the fuck folks are talking about for a hot second.

“Who the fuck is Kyotaro? Why are you calling him that? No one calls him that, he didn’t introduce himself as that. Do you got permission for that bro?”

I don’t know why it’s like. The weirdest thing I can ever fixate on. But at the same time it’s like… a thing that in real life would matter but it’s not real life so it doesn’t but like.

Kaji was introduced formally once and like, everyone’s calling him Kaji, the rolling Rs on the Ren was a good gag but like why are we not continuing the pattern and calling him Kaji? It’s not like we picked up Ren from everyone else. Only permitted if you roll the R every time for the gag. That’s a joke. Obviously.

[notjanine]

what hidden truths are revealed when people who are so so different from each other choose to love you in the same way

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

god, grief hits you at the weirdest fucking times

[harrylights]

ok i just need to write down these whack 1d dreams i’ve had the last couple days

[euphor1a]

Best 4 hours of my life, with the loml ♡