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Justin sitting on the couch with Clay and Jessica and saying "i love you guys" in that ridiculous tone is everything

Y'all have never watched Thai bl/gl series and it shows

LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand

Bisexual Bingo!

Does anybody else here have a kink for dumbasses?

I really think that Will is either asexual or gay

You’re destroying everything, and for what? So you can swap spit with some stupid girl?

YES! You can never, n e v e r, fully separate the art from the artist, because art ALWAYS reflects the author's worldview. An author always recreates the world the way they see it,even if it is a fantasy world. Tropes and stereotypes don't just come out of nowhere. I'm sure J. K. didn't INTENTIONALLY put in an antisemitic stereotype, and of course she didn't see it, but that just shows HOW SHE SEES THE WORLD. Those things usually sit in your subconscious, and that's how they come out. That's why they call it subtext, right? So yeah, you can't just pretend art is separate from the person who made it.

hey do you think you could expand a bit on separating the art from the artist? clearly you’ve done it with jk rowling but what are your thoughts on it as a general idea?

Okay, but you’re not going to like the answer.

Here’s the truth: you can’t separate the art from the artist. Not entirely. HP Lovecraft was an incredibly talented, but much more incredibly racist man. It would nice to say you don’t agree with his views but you can enjoy his works without that leaking in but.... well, I’m afraid that would be misunderstanding his books entirely.

Consider, for a second, that Lovecraft’s works were horror stories about extradimensional creatures having mutant children with humans; they were about invasions from distant aliens; they were about the purity of quaint, white, American towns being tainted. Now consider how this may have all been influenced by the fact that he just simply despised anybody who wasn’t white. Consider how his opinions on “mixing the races” might feed into this; consider why being unable to maintain the “purity” of white Americans was the scariest thing of all to him.

This extends to Rowling too.

I would love to say we can just acknowledge that she is an awful, racist, antisemitic, transphobic person and then say “but at least her books are good,” because, well, they are, aren’t they? I would say so, for sure. But to suggest that one can separate her from them is.... ridiculous, and it’s an insult to fans, can know and do better.

Consider why an antisemitic woman wrote about a species of goblins who live among us, but who for the most part keep to themselves and are maybe a little discriminated against on an individual level, but also hold all the cards, all the money, run the banks.

Consider why a racist woman would write about a species of slaves who loved being enslaved, who enjoyed working for no pay, and cleaning up after humans, with the only small caveat of that they didn’t want to be beaten. Imagine that only the most radical of their species wanted to be free, and he still spent the rest of his life working for no pay and helping out a little white boy and his friends wherever he could. Consider why the only person in the story who thought they should be free, that they should have rights, was treated as an overzealous joke, who was acting against the wishes of those slaves who really LOVE being enslaved. Consider that Rowling went on to say that she kind of considers that girl to be black, now.

Consider why JK Rowling, an open and proud transphobe, wrote Rita Skeeter as having a large square jaw, thick “manly” hands, and dressing incredibly gaudily with the most obvious fake nails and fake teeth and fake hair and fake everything. Consider why a woman who tweets about how trans women are “foxes pretending to be hens to get in the hen house” might write this Rita Skeeter character to then illegally transform her body in order to spy on children.

Harry Potter is full of Rowling’s bigotry, start to finish. Not even tangentially, like, “oh the goblins are bad, Rita Skeeter is bad, the house elves are bad, but most of it’s good!” because the deeper you dig and the longer you think the more you realise the entire story is based on her prejudices.

Harry Potter pretends to be an aracial story about found family, but if that were true, why are Harry’s distant ancestors important to who he is today even in the seventh book? Why does Harry have to live with his cousin and aunt and uncle? Because magic inherently prefers blood ties. Whilst Rowling was writing a story that seemed to say, “your heritage is not that important and doesn’t make you better than others” she was still writing a story about a boy who got all of his money through his bloodline, who was protected by living with his bloodline, no matter how evil, who was uniquely able to stop Voldemort because his bloodline passed down the invisibility cloak for generations and generations. Any step Harry takes he is compared to his perfect parents who were exactly like him — he looks just like his father, but he has his mother’s eyes, you know! — consider WHY a woman who is racist might’ve written a story like this. A story that on its surface, condemns a blood caste, but still in every step it takes, validates the idea that blood is thicker than water, and your geneological origin is what makes you special.

You can enjoy Harry Pottwr, of course you can. There are fantastic parts. I love a small group of teenagers deciding to become anarchist rebels and train to fight against fascism in secret. I love the murder mystery plots, I love how the series tells kids that it’s a good thing to be brave, and a good thing to fight injustice, and a good thing to challenge the government. But I cannot separate it from its author because it is such a product of its author. All of the structures of the world, the way things work in the universe, are drenched in Rowling’s beliefs, her bigotries. Of course they are: she made them.

Again. This doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy it. But I think we are past the day where we can pretend that disavowing a bigoted author is enough, and that that somehow separates the text from its bigotry. I think we are past the day where we can pretend that Harry Potter isn’t a deeply, inherently bigoted piece of media. Even the bits we love. I think we are beyond the day where we can truthfully pretend to separate it from her, because she is present through all of it. We MUST recognise its flaws. We MUST admit that she is in every part of it.

Korean Vocabulary from The Uncanny Counter

Counter

카운터 - counter

악귀 - evil spirit, demon

영혼 - soul, spirit

하늘 - heaven, paradise

염력 - psychokinesis

코마 - coma

땅 - territory

힘 - power, energy

인력 - gravitation, (force of) gravity

캐치하다 - to catch

올라오다 - to ascend

지우다 - to erase (something from one’s mind)

Health

앰뷸런스 - ambulance

구급차 - ambulance

치료 - treatment, cure

고치다 - to cure, heal, treat

뼈 - bone

Politics / Business

정치 - politics

시민 - citizen

지지자 - supporter

상석자 - a superior official, a senior

의원 - member of a legislative body [assembly]

시장 - mayor

대통령 - president

위원회 - committee, commission

국회 - national assembly

법인 - a corporate body

이사회 - board of directors, directorate

계약 - contract

출마하다 - to run for office, to stand [come forward] as a candidate

대선 - presidential election

Police / Law Enforcement

살해 - killing, murder

살인 - murder, killing; homicide

사망하다 - to die, to pass away

숨진다 - to die, pass away

자살 - suicide

살인미수 - attempted murder

살인자 - murderer

연쇄 살인범 - a serial killer

사체 - corpse, (dead) body

부검 - autopsy, postmortem (examination)

혈흔 - bloodstain

총 - gun

참고인 - testifier

용의자 - suspect

피해자 - victim

검사관 - an examining officer

형사 - (police) detective

경위 - (police) lieutenant

서장 - head, chief

경찰 서장 - chief of a police station

증거 - evidence, proof

수배 - to be wanted (for)

지명수배하다 - to put somebody on the wanted list

사건 - case

영장 - warrant

감찰 - inspection

체포하다 - to arrest

감방 - prison, jail, lockup

People

여사 - Mrs, Ms, Madame

양아치  - bully, gangster

신인 - rookie

양반 - one’s husband

놈 - (informal) guy

새끼 - (informal) kid

걔 - a form of 얘 , short for 그 아이

쟤 - a form of 얘 , short for 저 아이

Verbs

건드리다 - to touch

박탈하다 - to deprive, to forfeit

훼손되다 - to be damaged, to be disfigured

발견되다 - to be discovered, to be found

인정하다 - to recognize, to concede

참다 - to suppress, to stifle

보내다 - to send

교사하다 - to be haughty and extravagant

고용하다 - to employ, to hire

풀다 - to relax, loosen up, unwind

소환하다 - to summon, to cite

Others

단계 - stage, phase, step

유산 - legacy

정체 - identity

부지 - site, (a plot of) land

계획 - plan (for), program

저수지 - reservoir

복수 - revenge

경고 - warning (of/against), caution

이의 - objection (to)

자격 - qualification, right (to do)

충동 - impulse

심하게다 - severe, violent, harsh

구세주 - lifesaver, saviour

연기 - smoke

직접 - personally, in person, firsthand

경이롭다  - wonderful, marvelous, miraculous

Boston and Ray are parallels of each other as the rich and broken children of men who don't see them for who they are and who crave something they cannot get and so will fight desperately for what they think they can have whether that be sex or love or merely attention.

Nick and Sand are parallels of each other in what happens when they fall in love with the wrong person at the right time, who fell for the person with the most power to hurt them because the one they love is broken in a way that merely being loved cannot fix.

Top and Mew are... not parallels to anyone because they are opposites of each other and running alongside each other but in different directions, rushing to different ends but tied together against their goals.

I have this kind of personality when I don't actually watch the show but am ready to die for the ships

Have you ever gotten over a crush in one day? It has happened to me recently. I liked this girl sooo much, dreamt about dating her. When we were out in the city and she would touch my knee or put her head on my shoulder, I felt this physical need to touch her and kiss her... But she's straight, and although I want her not to be, she doesn't have feelings for me. She likes me as a friend quite a lot, and a lot of the stuff she's said and done can fool a desperate queer girl like me, but..

And when I finally accepted that I just felt... That I don't have a crush on her anymore. Like, I completely lost that feeling and I can just enjoy her company and be myself around her without losing my head.

P. S. NOW I WORRY THAT MAYBE I JUST MADE EVERYTHING UP AND I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A CRUSH ON HER i hate myself.