Broken Social Scone

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1) Figured this out.

1. Oh no The Horror

2. He’s doing it again 🙄

3. When in Transylvania do as the vampires do

You paid for that. Full stop. No excuses. She funded and aided and abetted that.

"I like the universe." - real people are suffering now because you can't let your childhood blorbos go.

JK R*wling has actively aided and abetted anti-trans legislation. She is actively working against trans people being recognized as fucking people.

Don't think for one second that they recast the golden trio just because they got too old. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have both been outspoken against her online tirades and have been active allies for LGBTQIA+ movements.

She's continuing to take swipes at them even now, making comments and jabs as though they've not moved on in their careers and made movies and shows without her.

She has this power because we keep feeding money into all the channels she's opened through WB/HBO - theme parks, streaming, movies, the new show, the play, the video games, all the merchandise. She's collecting enough that it made her a billionaire, and she's using it to actively hurt people, like all billionaires.

She doesn't need the platform. No transphobe does.

She's crowing about it now. She'll continue to do this to us, over and over and over. It's time to put your money where your mouth is. If you're an ally? No more. Not a single chocolate frog more. Take your Hogwarts house out of your bio. Stop talking about the show, the movies, the universe. Word of mouth is still advertising. Close ranks, defend your trans siblings. Hit her in the pocketbook.

I want you to understand something. I'm speaking so, so kindly to you. I am sitting you down with a cup of tea, and I am looking you in the eye and speaking gently.

Your dollars paid for this. If you purchased Harry Potter merchandise, play tickets, amusement park tickets, books, movies, streaming--anything--then you have become complicit.

This is not to shame anyone. At all, anywhere. If you're uncomfortable about it? That's fine. Sit with that discomfort. Let it motivate you. (There is a similar discomfort in unlearning racist thinking. It's not a bad thing. Discomfort means that you're growing. It's a you problem, not a me problem. I've been there. It sucks. It will pass.)

Because when I link to the monetary donations to the court case that JK R*wling bought? It's not to shame you, it's to set a fact in front of you. You are complicit in the active harm of transgender and nonbinary folks.

And it's not just us - the ace community is under fire from her, too, now. She's expanding her hatred outward. She's got nothing better to do.

Figurines of mice greet the visitors on the steps of the temple of Apollo in Turkey.

The temple was built during the 2nd century B.C., in the Troas region. It is dedicated to Apollo Smintheus (Lord of mice). The friezes of the temple depicted the war, which Homer recounted in his epic Iliad. In the epic itself, Apollo invoked as Smintheus is a terrific plague bringer.

None of this cheerleader stuff for soccer, oh no sireee, I mean, no disrespect to cheerleaders who put a LOT of work and effort into their performances, but somehow "Rah-Rah! We're the best" from peppily gymnastic young things can't quite match the sheer power of entire stadiums of grown up fans yelling at the top of their lungs things like....

It's unclear if this one originated with the English of Scottish games (spelling of "old" as "auld" notwithstanding), but either way, well done.

And it's striking home too! :D