Immortal Misfit

kyoshi: sometimes some murder is OK

kuruk: just punch people that disagree with you

Tiktok 1: What’s a mistake you learned the hard way that you can now help people to avoid?

Tiktok 2: (slowly increasing in desperation) If your coworkers watch podcasts, don’t try to have conversations with them during lunch rush, right? Today we had a crazy lunch rush. I’m over here making fuckin chicken, I’m smacking bean bags, I’m trying to get rice going, I-I’m in the zone, right?

I see one of my coworkers, they’re just staring off into the distance. Right, I come up, I’m like “Hey? Are you good cause it’s game time, we gotta make the burritos,” right? And he was like, “You know humans have two lives?”

I was like, “What?” fuckin- I stopped what I was doing I’m like “What are you talking about.” He’s like, “We don’t start our second life until we realize we only have one life to live.” And I’m like, “It’s fuckin. Saturday. I want to go home. I bought uncrustables. Can we- can we go?”

He was like, “Yeah. Also, how did we start a first language if we didn’t have a language to start with in the first place?” And I’m like, “Who are you,” right? And he’s like “Do you like podcasts?”

-the goblins who run the banks, which are obvious antisemitic caricatures

-rita skeeter, a transmisogynistic caricature (the books often reference her “masculine features” and she’s portrayed as being predatory and spying on children)

-boys being unable to enter the girls dormitories (innocuous on its own but becomes very sinister when you know her beliefs)

-the fact that there’s maybe 5 canonically black characters in the books (hell i can only think of 3 off the top of my head)

-the house elves just LOVE being slaves and when hermione tries to free them shes viewed as being “weird” and over the top about it

-the horrific treatment of cho chang, who is (to my knowledge) the only canonically east asian character

-the fact that there’s a “pureblood supremacist” house in hogwarts and everyone is just fine with that

-likening lycanthropy to AIDS is troubling on its own but especially considering fenrir greyback’s big goal was to “spread it” is… oof

-the whole WOG gay dumbledore fiasco gets even worse when we remember that he was apparently in love with a fascist. also the fact that she said he “turned asexual” afterwards which is not how asexuality works

-the fact that hermione was 14 and viktor krum was 18 when he took her to whatever that fuckin dance was called and this is just seen as totally fine and not weird at all

and there’s SO much more, this is just all i can remember off the top of my head. like… y’all can’t pretend these flaws in the books don’t exist. the movies are just as bad and in some respects even worse, especially considering the lack of characters of color. you CANNOT ignore this shit when you’re reading or watching harry potter. and this isn’t even getting into the fantastic beasts series and the mess of stuff that comes with that.

jk rowling has BEEN a racist antisemitic transphobic bigot. we KNEW this.