i was drawing something serious for this beautiful movie and then i immediately was struck with inspiration for something stupid.
Men love cuddling while one of them is injured it's like enrichment for them
Someday I’m gonna need to actually write about this conservative tactic of demanding we basically turn off the part of our brain that interprets words and finds meaning when we talk to them. If they don’t specifically say some exact words, well you can’t respond to those words. You can’t assume JK Rowling is saying she’s a victim of a witch hunt by trans people because she never said those exact words in that exact order.
It’s a fascinating form of intellectual cowardice, where they want to essentially say something without ever being held responsible for saying that thing.
Don’t forget that in Rowling’s world there are only three kinds of women:
Mothers (or nurturers), bitches, and jokes.
That’s it.
Petunia is a bitch until she admits to worry for Harry and Dudley.
Narcissa Malfoy is a bitch until she admits to worry for Draco.
Mrs. Black is a mother who refuses to nurture and is a bitch.
Fleur Delacourt is a bitch until she chooses to devote herself to nurturing Bill.
Rita Skeeter is a bitch.
Bellatrix Lestrange is a bitch.
Dolores Umbridge is a bitch.
Aunt Marge is a bitch.
Pansy Parkinson is a bitch.
Molly Weasley is a mother.
Lily Potter is a mother.
Mrs. Longbottom is a mother.
Tonks is a mother.
Ginny is a joke until she becomes Harry’s emotional support, and postcanon is a mother.
Hermione’s entire role is to support Harry and Ron and—yup—in the epilogue is a mother.
Narcissa is redeemed by being a mother.
Luna Lovegood is a mother and teacher.
Minerva McGonagall is a head of house—what we in the US call a housemother—and headmistress.
Professor Hooch is a teacher.
Professor Sprout is a teacher.
Merope Riddle is a mother and entirely devoted to a man.
Cho Chang’s entire character is “I’m devoted to a man.” She straddles the line between mother and joke.
Professor Trelawney? Joke.
Moaning Myrtle? Joke.
Also, note that when Rowling wants you to dislike a female character, she always goes straight for their looks. Narcissa always looks like she’s smelled something unpleasant. Umbridge looks like a toad. Rita Skeeter is “mannish.” Petunia is “scrawny” while Aunt Marge is described as fat in super-fatphobic ways and Umbridge is described as looking like a toad. When we first meet Hermione she’s described as “frizzy-haired and bucktoothed” and her teeth are magically fixed after she becomes a love interest. Cho’s friend, I forget her name because she literally only shows up once, turns in Dumbledore’s Army and her punishment—which is treated as a joke—is disfiguring acne and scarring across her face.
And let’s not forget the implication that Umbridge was raped, which is also treated as a joke!
Yeah, that sure is some feminist writing right there!
Don’t forget that Merope is also a r*pist because she used a love potion, entirely negating consent in her relationship with Tom Riddle Sr.
Not only is she a rapist (hon you gotta type that out for the Tumblr blacklist to catch it, this ain't TikTok), here's a list of OTHER people in the books who've committed sexual crimes:
--Romilda Vane (attempts to give Harry a date rape drug, accidentally drugs Ron instead)
--Molly Weasley (admits to using date rape drugs, which is treated as a silly thing girls do sometimes)
--Moaning Myrtle (admits to hanging out in the prefects' bathroom to see them undress and bathe)
--Rita Skeeter (hides in the boys' dormitory; it's unclear whether she watched them undress)
--James Potter (restrains a boy against his will and exposes his genitals to a crowd of onlookers; demands a date from a girl in exchange for stopping the assault)
--Sirius Black (aids and abets James Potter in the above)
--Aberforth Dumbledore (fucked a goat, apparently)
--Fred and George Weasley (produce and sell date rape drugs, which they market toward underage girls)
And a bonus via horrible metaphor: Fenrir Greyback (lycanthropy is supposedly the wizarding analogue of HIV/AIDS; Greyback deliberately attacks and infects Lupin)
Notice something funny about this list? Because I do. All the victims--except the goat, which is a goat--are male, and every single one is underage. The only victim in the entire series who's over the age of 18 is Tom Riddle Sr. and the lesson we're supposed to take away from that is "if you're a rape baby, you're gonna be a murderous racist psychopath."
So let's see...we have nine separate confirmed instances of sexual assault, ten if we assume the heavily-implied Umbridge assault scene was definitely assault. Seven of them are played for laughs. One is played as a tragedy. Two are played as horrible violations.
....wait.....hang on.....
The "feral gay man who deliberately infects others with AIDS" stereotype metaphor and the "coded as a trans woman or possibly a lesbian" stereotype metaphor are the ones seen as horrible violations.
WHOOPS.
Should we add that the only canonly gay character is actively a child groomer, and the text straight up calls him out for it? ("You're raising him like a lamb to the slaughter.")
So much for "she's not homophobic"! And I'd also suggest she's an active danger to young boys, given her apparent zest for writing them as victims of sexual assault.
a lot of the offensive stuff in Harry Potter is more offensive knowing what she’s up to these days, harder to write it off as a generic fantasy trope or whatever
Nah we were complaining about the fatphobia, rampant girl-on-boy and centaur-on-villain sexual assault written off as a joke, and various unfortunate implications of some of the foreign characters and fantasy races long before the terf stuff came out. The terf stuff gives it context but readers already weren't happy.
The whole changeling trope should be reversed once in a while. Humans stealing fae children in their cribs and leaving sickly human babies. The far don’t realize it until they see their offspring playing with some cold iron.
So is that how your parents got custody of you?
how dare you
so funny to me that the lost media community is so SOOOO shocked by the crew of spongebob drawing wild shit on their breaks like. have any of you ever even like... met a person who works in storyboarding. drawing obscene stuff of cartoon characters is like the most common storyboarder trait out there. when i heard what those cartoonists were doing with spunchbot and squidward i was just like oh yeah thats storyboarders alright. of course theyre gonna go insane could you imagine having to draw a cartoon character off a model sheet day in and day out
thanks for autogenerating this facebook
I’m honestly reblogging this again because the more I stare at it, the more I feel like this is staggeringly relevant art.
Like, so much of modern capitalist marketing is the construction of these superficially personal narratives. Giving the sense, not only that the brand fits in with your identity, but that it is almost a sentient individual itself that has a personal relationship with you. Corporations have personalities. They want to be your friend, and the reason that the entire internet economy runs on the currency of data right now is that the only way to prop up the illusion that they care about you is by already having the information about you that real people would gain by paying attention
But the only way they can collect and sort all that data is with computers, without any actual humans involved past setting up the parameters and pressing “go.” And computers are fucking idiots.
Which leaves us here: this false, saccharine message of togetherness and community–community between you and your friends but more importantly between all of you and Facebook–stripped fucking bare by the fact that the cookie-cutter algorithm can’t tell the difference between friends supporting and caring about each other and Thanos with a dumptruck ass.
I’M CRYING WHY IS THIS SENDING ME
