"Ho Ho" said Pei Ming

Hua Cheng is theoretically such a stupid character, because ah yes. The supreme demon lord of butterflies and flowers, feared throughout the realms. He’ll defeat you using the power of love and his sentient scimitar that’s honestly just a sweet little baby who wants cuddles from its owner’s husband. You mention butterflies, and all of Heaven starts quaking in their boots. He held an umbrella for a flower one time, and that’s like- his title now. He also learned like- every language ever because he was bored, and yet his handwriting in his own native language is so bad, you literally can’t tell what he’s writing ever.

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

Imagine if, in 1999, right before the release of Phantom Menace, George Lucas announced that he was going to funnel all of the profits from the film into restoring racial segregation and then was somewhat successful in that goal. That's the closest analogy I can think of rn.

everything is getting worse and thats why it's SO so important that we have fun and hang out and play and im being serious im being unimaginable amounts of serious

faeries are not real but i wish thwy were so i could spray one with raid

harry houdini to his wife after a long exhausting dinner with arthur conan doyle

i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.