I Am:

I love that our generation's humour is so fucking absurd and makes only us laugh

Oh god, this really strikes a chord. I struggle a lot with my identity as a queer girl because I never feel "queer enough". I identify as bi, and I have since I was 13. However, my attraction to women differs greatly from  my attraction to men, and the attraction I feel towards women is more romantic than physical. And every time I am attracted to a man I start overthinking and my anxiety comes into play. I almost start shaming myself for liking men. This always makes me feel like I'm feigning my queerness and I don't deserve a place in queer spaces. The bisexual label puts some kind of pressure on me, and from time to time I don’t even want to identify as anything because I’m too confused.  I’m sorry, I can’t really help, but I felt like sharing because I found someone like me and it made me feel a little bit better. At the end of the day, I know that all my crushes on girls were genuine, and I remember how and what I felt. Keeping that in mind helps me feel more secure

sometimes i feel so pressured to be “queer enough”. i know it’s the internalized biphobia, but i just feel so guilty when i talk about my attraction to women and fem-aligned people. in my attempt to become ok with my attraction to men and my own identity as a man that i lost my ability to be ok with my attraction to women. especially because my attraction to women isn’t exactly the type that men are expected to feel. i don’t want to be the dominant one in the relationship, i relate to posts that are like “i want a strong sword wife” instead of the other way around. i want to say “i love women so much” and not worry about feeling like that makes my attraction to men any less queer.

i care a lot about my place in the LGBT+ community, and i know that my place as the B in the lgBt community relates to my attraction to the same and other genders so i know it’s ok to still have m/f attraction and still secure in my indentity, hell my identity is partially BUILT on that attraction, but i feel so uncomfortable about it.

if anyone who’s bisexual or pansexual or any other multi sexual identity has any advice on feeling more secure in your m/f attraction while still feeling “queer enough” i would love some advice

Me entering the classroom having listened to War and Peace for 7 hours straight running on 4 hours of sleep, coffee and anxiety

I can't believe how dumb I am

I have literally just got the name of the ship WolfStar. I was always wondering why the fuck it isn't Sirimus or some shit. But then

I got it

Remus is a wereWOLF

Sirius is a constellation (STAR)

I'm dumb

If it was possible to make love to a paragraph, this would be the one

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language? scratch that. why did I choose to seek refuge in a language of another instead of training my tongue to bear the heaviness of my own?

I wonder if they cried in this interview too

The two cannot fucking go one interview without sobbing about each other

Love them to death

Many people in the fandom are convinced that SandRay won't get a happy ending because it's 'not a bl' and it's 'realistic'. First of all, even I, the resident hopeless romantic, understand that realism is not the same as pessimism. Second of all, it's P'Jojo we're talking about. He loves giving people happy endings after a couple of tragic twists and time jumps. Just think about Bad Buddy or Never Let Me Go and their endings. I am a SandRay-is-endgame truther, because of the reasons listed above and because I will bawl my eyes out in the case they don't end up together.

Oftentimes it is the only thing that helps me get out of bed in the morning

im always looking forward to breakfast and coffee, even after I have my breakfast and coffee I’m excited for the next day’s breakfast and coffee

I'm torn between binging The Umbrella Academy in one sitting and savoring it one episode at a time

This is only a fraction of the issues the world is facing. This is not to say that Muslim’s are only facing hardship, I am simply trying to raise awareness about these specific countries. This post doesn’t cover all of it. Our brothers and sisters in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Albania, Kurdistan and so many more are still suffering. ⁣These are beautiful countries that are masked by war and famine.

All I hope from each of you is that you learn something new each day. If you’re reading this right now it is likely you come from a place of privilege. Use that privilege to educate yourself and stay informed on the issues this world is facing today. ⁣

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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.