#very on brand for Harry

[and-one-for-myyyy-hat]

Okay but Matt being the dressing room boss and having to wrangle Harry and tell him when to put on his trousers is the funniest fucking thing I love them so much

[pinazee]

Whats funny tho is Harry Kim was a central part of the plot and yet garashir has completely taken over the lower decks tags.

[blorger]

“Harry? What are you doing here, mate?” Harry whimpered and threw himself at his best friend. He didn't care that Ron was still in his dressing gown and pants, or that he was probably making a right tit out of himself; he was just so glad to see him. “Er, okay, sure,” Ron said, patting Harry on the back awkwardly. “Not that I'm not pleased to see you, mate, but is there a reason we're hugging on my front doorstep?” “You're here,” Harry mumbled, then frowned and straightened. “Wait, why are you here, you're meant to be on holiday.” “I am? That's news to me, to be honest.” Harry shook his head. “Never mind, you're here now, that's all that matters.” He grabbed a fistful of Ron's dressing gown and shook him slightly. “Something really weird is going on, Ron. I fell, and then I woke up, and Malfoy was there, and he kissed me, and everyone was naked. Well,” he amended, “Ginny wasn't naked, but Malfoy was, and so was I, and there was touching, and kissing, and did I mention the nakedness?” Ron's eyes had widened under Harry's babbling, his eyebrows slowly raising up towards his hairline. “Hermione!” He yelled, and Harry breathed a sigh of relief, because Hermione would fix everything. “Harry's here, I think it's finally happened!” As Ron dragged him through the door and into the kitchen, Harry wondered if his two best friends had actually taken bets on when he would finally lose his marbles. He opened his mouth to accuse Ron, but stopped short at the sight of a highchair sitting next to the scrubbed wooden table. “What is that?” Harry asked, pointing at the highchair. Ron raised an eyebrow. “That is my son.” He glared Harry into a chair and then sighed. “I realise you're probably a bit confused right now, but there's no need to be rude.”

from Brevem Conspectum by lauren3210

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

me, bleeding all over my kitchen floor from a wound in my hand: oh my god this is just like that scene from Modern Love

[vampire-artemis]

i love you ambiguous sapphics you will be the death of me

[notsogracefullyput]

The only interesting part of my day yesterday was when a white lady came into my retail job and got a tan suit for her daughter, in reference to Kamala Harris’ tan suit (and Obama’s before that).

[thisbluespirit]

Colin finds a French Milicienne waiting for him in his safe house in Wish Me Luck 2.2 (LWT 1989).

[breitzbachbea]

Au George strikes again

[froggierboy]

i know that it's not specifically nefarious - that it's the greater evil of corporate capitalism - but something about mattel going in for the american girl x harry potter collab now feels really fucking gross to me. they've owned american girl for some time now and exercised rights to harry potter all over the place but now is the time they choose to mesh a brand built on diversity and history and education with a brand that is quickly gaining heat for being created by a woman spearheading a cultural genocide?

[loudmound]

in playing sh1 and reading harry's flavor text as he looks at objects you can observe, i've noticed a throughline in the sense that he's pretty curt and straightforward and he's moreso looking for objects that would help him rather than to "window-shop", so to speak. i like it quite a bit and it really adds to the urgency of the situation.

[jlf23tumble]

I don't think Harry and Brad are a thing. It's possible, sure? But I'm leaning towards no based on how we've seen him interact towards Louis, Nick, Alessandro etc. When he's really fond of someone he seems to struggle to hide it. But some of the excuses for him not being with Brad just does my head in because it's so hypocritical. Comments like "They don't look or act like a couple". No shit. Harry's in the closet. I can't believe it when gold stars conveniently 'forget' that he's in the closet.

Yeah, I don't either, Brad literally works for Harry, and Harry is clearly VERY interested in reaching a specific body aesthetic, hence he needs that constant help to get there. Are they friends? Undoubtedly! But I am HERE FOR YOU and alllll of this, just nodding along, like, YEP.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Thought I’d add this quote from Pleasing’s launch statement: “We believe by exploring the contradiction around and within us we dispel the myth of a binary existence.”

It's fascinating to me that the same person could endorse both that statement and also the Exhale ad - which was very much rejecting contradiction and entrenching the myth of binary existence. It's not exactly surprising - people are complex and contradictory.

I think Harry probably would say that he wants to dispel the myth of the gender binary. But the question what does that mean for him? The Exhale ad set up men and women as opposites, had a very narrow version of what masculinity is, and suggested that men had to be masculine to be valid. That none of those set off alarm bells suggests that those ideas are not at the centre of what he means when he refers to the gender binary (or whatever is the language he would use for that). I think that's true even if it's signed off by his team, rather than him, because they would have an idea about what the centre of his concerns were.'

I wouldn't be surprised if we got more indications that for Harry the problem of gender is mostly about people being told that they can't do things because of their gender, rather than that they must do things because of their gender. But we only get hints at what's meaningful to him, how he feels, and how he understands the world.

[veradune]

MY TOP POST THIS YEAR.

YESSSS (much thnx to both these folks for humoring me)

[blorger]

“So I’m glad Seamus set this up,” Justin continued from whatever he’d been saying, eyes over-bright and expression disturbingly intense, as though he were about to torture Harry for information rather than possibly kiss him. Harry wasn’t sure which option he’d be least enthusiastic about. “I didn’t realise how much we still had in common.” “I didn’t realise we ever did,” Harry said, looking down at Justin’s hand disbelievingly. He’d placed it on Harry’s thigh, and was inching it upward very slowly. Harry shifted away. “Just—” “The D.A.,” Justin started. “Was eight years ago,” Harry said with a blink. “We’re both hard-working—” “I’m unemployed,” Harry lied flatly. “Muggle-born,” Justin said, invading his space. “My dad was a pureblood,” Harry said with a snort.

from Touch by bixgirl1

[stele3]

Thoughts on the exit polls…screenshots taken from NBC’s exit poll.

Men really, really do not want to vote for a woman. I’ve seen this viewpoint branded as TERF rhetoric so lemme just say in advance that I’m non-binary. It is not TERF rhetoric to blame sexism for this loss, and I think we need to confront the ways in which, yes, sexism runs deep with U.S. men and we need MORE feminism, not less.

Trump did make some inroads among Black voters: 92% went for Biden in 2020. Way more Latino voters shifted, though: 66% voted for Biden in 2020. Asian voters also dropped from 63% in 2020. What on earth could account for the —

Support among white men dropped from 48% for Biden to 39% for Harris. Support among Black men ticked down very slightly but not much. The biggest change: Latino men went from supporting Biden by 59% in 2020 to 44% in 2024.

The bottom line: yes, it was the men. Men across multiple races and ages supported Harris less than Biden, and we need to be clear-eyed about that. Unfortunately in the short term I think that means, Absolutely do not run a female Democratic candidate in 2028. Because we can’t even talk about this issue without someone taking exception and wailing “NOT ALL MEN!!”

[qqueenofhades]

I think its genuinely fascinating how Biden has somehow become the bad vibes sin eater for the party. I'm seeing people who were doing the whole "voting doesn't matter both old men are the same" pivot hard into voting as harm reduction. The anti voting rhetoric has COMPLETELY lost The Youths on tiktok. People suddenly remember the good things the Biden administration has done but don't associate Harris with any of the things they didn't like. In my swing state volunteers are signing up in droves. People feel ENERGIZED, the vibe shift pre and post Biden dropping from the race has just been insane

Y'know, that is a... good way of putting it. It's also why I'm quite sure that Biden has probably been planning it for a while. I don't think he was intending to step down, and didn't want to be forced out at the drop of a hat, but after he realized that the circus was never going to stop until he did, he did the honorable fall-on-his-own-sword thing and definitely, DEFINITELY spent some time choreographing this behind the scenes. Because while the roll-out has been very smooth, it could just as easily (as many of us were expecting) have been a total disaster, and that doesn't happen without SOME planning. It's also entirely possible that the campaign staff flipped from Biden to Harris are superhuman, to come up with a massive online roll-out, new branding, new signs (they had plenty of 'em in Wisconsin yesterday), new everything, but I'm guessing it's a combination of both. Biden has spent his entire political career being underestimated, and after we literally made a meme out of Dark Brandon juking the Republicans out of their shoes, we should definitely give credit where credit is due in how masterfully he pulled it off.

Because we have had eight years defined by the central question of Whether The President Is a God King Who Should Serve For Life (the MAGAts obviously think yes), the sheer idea of a president willingly giving up his power BEFORE he had to is also novel and admirable. It's sad that this is the case, but so be it. The Republicans also got a heaping helping of Be Careful What You Wish For that was undoubtedly brilliant; they've been yelling for years that Biden is old and frail and can't serve and should step down. Biden went "lol okay" and gave it to them, and now they're fucked.

Aside from that, on the most basic level, it's far, far easier to see the actual difference in the parties with Harris as the nominee, just because it shows that one party is willing to make progress and reflect the new demographic reality and social mores of America, and the other one is not. Now to be clear, Biden deserves an incredible amount of credit for coming out of retirement (he was ALREADY 77 years old when he became president and had had decades of a long and respected career in public service behind him) to fight, beat Trump, and deliver an incredibly successful presidency. He held the line against authoritarianism at home and abroad, he rescued the trashed American economy and managed a world-leading recovery from Covid, he stood up for democracy, he spent four years filling the benches with liberal judges to reverse even some of the Trump/McConnell hack job, he finally passed comprehensive infrastructure investment and the Green New Deal under the name of the Inflation Reduction Act -- and so on. Many of these priorities had been languishing for decades or were completely trashed under Trump, and he could not have done so much in just 4 years without all that age, skill, and experience. Hence why all the Ageism!!! was (aside from being a Republican/media smear job) dumb. He's able to do the job because he has had decades to study. Turns out that makes you actually pretty damn good at it.

Yes, Biden could not do as much as he wanted or originally planned, had to deal with MAGA Republicans and Joe Manchin/Kyrsten Sinema sabotaging him the whole time (lololol Manchin, possible possessor of the World's Biggest Ego and with Trump around that's saying something, popping out of obscurity to self-righteously announce he would not be willing to be Kamala's VP. YEAH ASSHOLE. LITERALLY NOBODY ASKED YOU. NOBODY WHATSOEVER. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS AT LEAST WE WILL SOON NO LONGER HAVE MANCHIN IN THE SENATE). And yes, Biden made some serious mistakes of his own, because he IS from an older generation and a different style of doing politics/different beliefs that no longer resonate with the younger segments of the electorate. But this old white Catholic guy at the age of almost 80 still managed to be the most progressive president ever, coming in at a moment of incredible domestic and international crisis and getting us safely to the other side, and all cynicism, criticizing, and caveating aside, he deserves an incredible amount of credit for that. I mean that absolutely, and I am very grateful.

As I said, willingly relinquishing that power takes guts, and when Biden saw the writing on the wall that he had to sacrifice himself, he took his time, he didn't jump too early, and he didn't jump too late. On the most basic level, it becomes a hell of a lot easier to make the "both parties are not the same" argument when one is running a (comparatively) young brown woman and the other is still running their loathed felonious old demented orange traitor. Most Americans are not plugged into policy minutiae and details. They look at Biden-Trump, they see two old white guys. When you take one of those old white guys away (who goes in a self-sacrificially heroic manner and in sharp contrast with the coup-happy fascist) and put Kamala Harris in there instead, it generates an obvious jolt. People can see for themselves that there is a real difference that doesn't rely on closely reading news and tracking complex policy, because as noted, most Americans simply don't. The brown first-generation American daughter of brown immigrants is a quantifiably different story from "old white guy career politician," which for better or worse is how Biden was seen, especially the old part. We needed that establishment expertise to beat Trump in 2020; I still think Biden is the only one who could have done it, and as noted, we owe him a great debt for doing so.

However.... 2024 is not 2020, and it is not 2016. There has been this HUGE and unbelievable swing to Kamala because she represents the antithesis of what the last eight years of Trump-induced anger, fear, panic, chaos, and hatred has stirred up. That's why people are so ready to rally around her, just as they were (I daresay) around Obama in 2008, after the exhaustion, chaos, war, and mounting economic misery of Bush. Trump has been out of office for the last four years, but his shadow over the American political landscape has been omnipresent. Now people know that we finally have a real chance at getting rid of him forever, and just as Biden was uniquely positioned to capitalize on that in 2020, so Harris is now. Which is why, however tough it will be, she has a real shot at winning. I can guarantee the Republicans know that, and are shit scared. Because the Black Lady Army of Democracy has indeed arrived in force to Get This Shit Done and I don't know about you, but I found that incalculably comforting:

Yikes! All lined up for Kamala pic.twitter.com/Dt4OCDp7WX

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 24, 2024

This, at the most basic level, is what scares fascists the most, it's exactly what we need now, and what Harris is uniquely positioned to mobilize, along with her gangbusters appeal to young voters:

This is the energy we need. This is what Biden saw and planned for and which he launched us into, and where all that experience and age paid off. This is why people, even people otherwise disengaged, disillusioned, or checked out of the tedious and mind-numbering drudgery and depression of American politics, are responding to it. Because it's easy to understand, it offers hope, and it tells a very simple story that is nonetheless long overdue:

Thanks so much, Joe. Go absolutely waste that orange fucker, Kamala. We got your back.