With the drop of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, let's take a moment to remember that JKR:
1. is unequivocally a TERF + openly supports and allies herself with other TERFs
2. uses her massive wealth and platform to fight against trans rights, such that an anti-trans republican senator has cited her controversial essay to block voting on the Equality Act , and
3. has retained so much control over the HP franchise that giving her money (through movie tickets, book sales, official merch, etc) actively enables and contributes to the platform she uses to target vulnerable people
A non-exhaustive list of things that the Mighty Nein will now need to explain to Molly:
‘Nott’ the goblin having always been Veth the halfling
Veth being married with a child
Fjord’s accent change
Fjord’s patron change
Who Caduceus is
Who Essek is
What the dodecahedron they carried around for a month was
‘You know how when the war broke out, you immediately wanted us to not get involved in any way whatsoever? About that…’
Why Yasha’s wings and hair are different
The Gentleman is Jester’s dad
Fjord and Jester are dating now
Caleb and Essek are ‘It’s complicated’-ing now
Beau is a secret agent
Jester’s god is actually an archfey (and a weasel, sometimes)
How different his friends are now. They’re not the self-interested assholes they once were, and it’s so much to do with him. He made one remark about leaving things better, and they took that and turned it into a rallying cry, made it a mission. It inspired them, it steeled them. They became people who stopped a war and prevented the awakening of an evil god. They touched so many lives and finally saved the world. They’re not what he remembers. They’re brighter and braver and kinder and so, so much stronger
‘We definitely told our two new members about the time you put egg on your dick, and we gave them absolutely zero context.’
Tumblr drama vs other social media drama is so funny
Facebook drama: I will not be going to Uncle Todd's dinner tonight because he keeps saying racist stuff ♥️
Twitter drama: I cannot BELIEVE she said a slur 7 years ago. #canceled
TikTok drama: Is Chad Chaddington III ch3ating on Ash-Lindseigh????
Tumblr drama: *unintelligible paragraphs between coochiemonsterfromsesassmestreet and destielsfavoritepony37 (who apparently owns an illegal baby racing company)*
POV - ur fave mediocre whitewashed show didn’t win an Emmy and by god u will make it everyone’s problem
Shitty Kurt Wagner aesthetic: to be honest this is less a shitty nightcrawler aesthetic and more a “look at all these catholic memes i found” post but in my defence his wiki page is long and i am stupid
A royal family
these tags are so funnyyyy
i saw a post a while ago expressing negative emotions about my own private idaho not having a happy ending (noting that iirc i think op acknowledged understanding that there was a reason for that and i am not attacking op either way, and this isn't really about Them in particular but a broader statement about how the movie is received and talked about) and i have been chewing on my thoughts for a while and i feel like in a sense river phoenix was very correct to express annoyance with people classifying it as a "gay film" (he said something along the lines of "you wouldnt say (x movie i forget) is a movie about heterosexual oil rig workers") and though the characters' sexualities are a more than incidental part of the film i feel the way people often zero in on the queerness of the narrative and relationship between the protagonists at the expense of the movie's portrayal of say, sex work, homelessness, and disability as well as how heavily the movie thematically revolves around class constitutes a kind of erasure. (of course a lot of this is a byproduct of the time period the movie was made and even the circumstances of today, the media coverage wasn't ever going to see past the fact one of the protagonists was explicitly Not Straight.)
the fact that though the movie portrays scott as genuinely suffering under the cards he was dealt, he has options that mike and the rest of the homeless characters do not, and the fact he returns to his upper class life at the end of the movie is very much central to the narrative and the politics of the film. i think to define the movie around the ambiguous relationship between scott and mike does the movie a huge disservice tbf, not that it isn't important
I KNOW HOW MY FILTHY MUTANT ABILITIES UPSET YOU, SCHMIDT. DON’T WORRY–
–YOU WILL DIE PURE. NO MAGNETISM
JUST FISTS.