Ok Im Going To #seriouspost For A Second Here. I Don't Think Harry Potter Is A Manifesto. I Think It

ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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“and the universe said…”

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* There's a skeleton in the fog.

* ...

* He seems to be lost

Day 2 of drawing ut/dr until chapter 3&4 is released. To be honest, I probably should draw Deltarune, but uhh.. Papyrus is too cool to pass on.

Maybe I'll try to draw new characters with every drawing idk

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3 months ago

So fucking wild to me that no one put the orange fuck in his place when he's literally talking about making Ukraine surrender (or at least is majorly hinting at that)

None of us here want to be part of ruzzia. Literally none of us. And choosing shit for us is extemely fucking disrespectful (not that I expected anything different from the orange fuck) and people all over the world, and especially in the US, imo, need to speak up.

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3 months ago

No one owes artists anything.

But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.

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3 months ago

"He can't do that!"

"That's illegal!"

"He is violating the constitution!"

Then fucking stop him! Arrest him, throw Musk out, bar them from entering when they try to access shit.

Because guess fucking what, laws only have meaning when they are enforced. They only matter when someone fucking does something about it.

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3 months ago

A Compilation Of Stuff I Know About Drawing Asian Faces And Asian Culture! I Feel Like Many “How-To-Draw”

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2 months ago

I think a lot of them are bots and psyops, regarding the hate you're getting. Like there has been a HUGE influx in the laziest, ugliest, and nastiests MAGA propaganda ever on this site starting around last year's election. I think it's to make them seem more numerous than they really are, as a way to overwhelm people, make them feel powerless, and decrease morale. That, and the anti-Harris anti-voting bot/psyops, though they seemed to be the more effective manipulation on Tumblr. But space nazi's stocks are almost below $114, and people are protesting all around the country, the military is on our side, and I heard the Supreme Court can potentially order to have trump and everyone who works under him removed due to them continuously ignoring court orders. And at least some US news groups aren't holding back the truth, like MSNBC. So that's good news, and proof that everyone's collective efforts with protests and boycotts are having an impact! And proof that these nazis and their supporters are smaller in number and weaker than they made themselves look.

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Also, I just want to stress an important thing this mystery person said: "protests and boycotts are having an impact."

It's true. Proof? One of the most conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court just called Trump out for his dangerous overreach regarding the Judicial Branch. And Elon is fucking terrified, which is why he keeps tweeting about how unfair the Telsa Takedown movement is. We're hitting him where it hurts... no, not his shriveled balls, but his wealth.

So, keep fucking with this tin-pot dictator and his boot-licking sycophants.

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