Im the sleepiest sheep in the whole flock...

Being trans and neurodivergent doesn't mean that you're excused from me blocking you or that people should go easy on you, it means you should know better. I'm sure there are plenty of people in that fandom who aren't openly bigoted, but to me the fact that they are willing to ignore the real harm that the series and its creator has done to keep enjoying a derivative YA fantasy story no matter what anyone says speaks volumes about their values. And the fact that you ignore it as well, despite being in a community effected by this creator, this series, and the fandom that enables them speaks to your callousness and your cowardice.

Another one blocked

there is other media out there not made by someone who actively uses you and your support as a platform to forward a mass hate movement

A few options off the top of my head that I'm personally a fan of:

The Owl House

Mary and the Witch's Flower

Little Witch Academia (Admittedly haven't watched this one all the way through, but it's really fun)

As long as enough people care about Harry Potter enough to torrent the movies, write fanfiction, post about it on social media, cosplay as the characters, and sell handmade merch on their etsy store, WB will consider this an IP worth having.

Not to mention that by keeping HP relevant, you are keeping JKR relevant. People listen to her because she is the author of Harry Potter and not a transphobic former ya novelist who wrote a series that is antisemitic, ableist, transphobic, and supports slavery. If people stop supporting her work, more people will start to see her for what she is; a sad and washed up bigot that is friends with far right hate groups.

How fucking dare any of y'all potterheads claim that your unwillingness to let go isn't doing any harm when this franchise's relevance, that you prop up, is propping up a prominent bigot who is helping push a dangerous campaign against my human rights. I am scared every day about what might happen to me and my community because of policies made by people who support this woman and you have the audacity to come up in my notes and try to tell me it's actually totally fine and cool for you to still boost her literary vomit?

since then i have observed that the majority of trans people still hanging on to this shitty fantasy franchise for babies are tme. this is because the terf ideology that jkr promotes and that is accepted by her fandom is transmisogynistic first and generally transphobic second. terfs often deploy the tactic of welcoming in afab trans people because they usually see them as lost women that they can "save" by convincing them to detrans. they also know that, if they can build friendship and trust with any kind of tme trans person, they can begin to slowly feed them transmisogynistic ideas that will cause division within the trans community and further isolate them from that community, pushing them into their's. and the tmes keep falling for it because they care more about that magic little white boy than trans women and materially benefit from transmisogyny, not considering how they will be crushed under heel by the transphobia that transmisogyny is a gateway to.

also worth pointing out: jkr and the hp series itself is, besides being transmisogynistic, transphobic, antisemitic, ableist, and pro-slavery, also generally racist, fatphobic, homophobic, colonialist, and imperialist. and just like how the majority of trans people who are in the fandom are tme, the majority of the fandom in general is white and don't care enough about anti-racism to quit the series because they materially benefit from white supremacy.

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Steam summer dragon

just thinking about kris, i think there's a lot of ways their struggles can be interpreted as relating to disability. one example that seems particularly intentional is kris not being able to play the piano while under the soul's control and toby commenting about not being able to play the piano (among other things) due to pain.

As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:

WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!

Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.

In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.

Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.

Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.

Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.

Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.

If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.

Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.

Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.

Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.

Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.

If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.

Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.