HIATUS

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.

What an exceptional woman she is!

The answer is the feathers.

for starters, everyone who writes blaise zabini as having no respect for women has, as far as i’m concerned, never met an italian mother in their life. and coming from an italian mother, and an italian grandmother, and a whole host of italian cousins and aunts and uncles, let me tell you that no matter how misogynistic any italian man i’ve met is, they all love their mamas. why? because mama gave them life, mama gave them god, and if anyone, anyone, disrespects mama – themselves included – that’s tantamount to starting a war. that’s not to say that there’s no such thing as an abusive or negligent italian mother – merely to say that i’m very tired of seeing one of the few canonically black characters in the series painted into two antiblack stereotypes – the first of the “bad mother,” who cares more about men and money than her children and who uses her children as leverage to get more, who doesn’t have any integrity, and the second of the “misogynist who especially targets white women,” because there is a HUGE culture of painting black men as predatory and misogynistic, especially towards white women, in order to set black men as “monsters” and white women as “damsels in distress.” both of these stereotypes are rooted very heavily in racism, and in antiblack misogyny. there is literally nothing to suggest that mama zabini is abusive, or negligent – just that she’s a black widow. and i think this website has established that so long as the black widow is white, we love her and think her a hero – so maybe try extending that elsewhere?