dumbledore is the most interesting character in harry potter by a huge margin. raising a child soldier like veal but loves him but lies to him constantly. smartest and coolest person in every room playing 7D chess just running circles around everybody. met an 11 year old orphan and was like "I can tell you're evil and disgusting and i need you to know i wont tolerate it" and set his dresser on fire to intimidate him. Gay. Was in love with a terrorist. Thinks everything is funny. Just fucking with people constantly

I know people didn't respect jkr as a writer even before she got radicalized but it's wrong that people blame her for the epidemic of simpleton adult readers because 1) she wrote those books for kids 2) the simpletons cannot even grasp nuance as simple as "dumbledore loved harry but still put him in fucked up situations because he was a general in a war." they're like "wow she didn't even get how evil dumbledore was" or "she obviously wrote dumbledore as an evil abuser." No it's complicated. You are too young/uneducated to understand what WW1 and WW2 did to the british mind and how they think about their children. She's doing it and also satirizing it. Understand this

envision yourself doing the very simple task

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.

1 thing incest does is make clear that the social construction of family enforces a permanence you don’t really get with most other relationships. friendships and romances can be broken, students outgrow teachers, bosses lose workers, teammates leave, etc. but your brother is always your brother, even when he’s also other things to you (friend, enemy, teacher, boss, accomplice, lover, etc) and if/when he stops being any of those things he’s still your brother. it can be very romantic, which is why a lot of romance tropes play on the language and dynamics of family, and it’s also claustrophobic, because there’s rarely a way out of family

also why institutions looking to impress their continuity and perpetuity use the same language of family. you can move on from your boss or teacher but if he’s ‘like a father’ and the institution is ‘like a family’ then they can continue to feel some ownership over you and can encourage your sense of obligation to them

free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...

white people need to be banned from southeast asia unless a local can vouch that they're normal like im sick of the holistic wellness island retreat authenticity new age mystic third eye opening faux kundalini tantric interpretive dance island gentrification sex tourism self discovery shit they're always doing posting videos in elephant print sarongs writhing to shitty edm in the jungle somewhere in thailand ive had enough

do you know what we don't talk about often enough? there is no physically comfortable posture in which to read a book