I said it in the tags of a post but honestly, I feel like I need to make my own post because while we're doing the whole "stop supporting jkr!" thing I need everyone to remember that not only is she blatantly transphobic (and specifically transmisogynistic), but that she and her books are incredibly racist and antisemitic.

I did a deep dive into her non-white wizarding schools for a presentation I did and oh boy

OH MY GOD

Wait till you see the Action man advert they did

One absolutely hilarious part of human existence is the repeated incidents of spicy bananas. People who have lived their entire lives up to this point just assuming that a specific fruit or vegetable is supposed to taste bitter, tangy, or spicy, having no fucking idea that all this time, they've been allergic to this plant. Because how would they have known? You learn what things taste like by tasting them, nobody's going to tell you that bananas are supposed to be one of the mildest flavours out there. And people already eat so many things that taste hot, bitter, tangy and tart! Because they like how that kind of thing tastes like!

“I’m whatever the opposite of “openly hostile” is; I’m openly hospitable.”

10/10

i love listening to my fiancée drawing

A gift for your fiancee

“That brings us to the core of the dilemma Democrats face: All the undemocratic features of the American system make it even harder to protect or enhance democracy. So right now, we have a Supreme Court with a 6-to-3 conservative majority that will uphold nearly any voter suppression law and strike down nearly any effort to strengthen voting rights. Five of those six justices were appointed by Republican presidents who initially took office only because of the electoral college after losing the popular vote. We have a Senate that gives outsize power to conservative states, where Republicans can kill voting legislation with the use of the filibuster. We have states such as Texas and Georgia where Republicans have successfully gerrymandered themselves into state-legislative majorities that they can maintain even as they lose more and more support from the voters. So what is Biden going to do about it? There isn’t much indication that the president takes the problem seriously enough. Vice President Harris recently announced a $25 million Democratic Party campaign to boost registration and turnout, but that’s almost laughably small. If they truly appreciated the threat now being posed to their future political success and to the very existence of democracy, they’d spend a hundred times as much. Voting rights advocates want Biden to make the issue a higher priority. As Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, put it: “We must have the president use his voice.” But what will his voice, loud though it might be, accomplish? We shouldn’t prejudge his Philadelphia speech; perhaps it will be so moving that it will define a generation and produce demonstrable change. But I doubt Republicans are too worried. They know this isn’t about persuasion. It’s about power.”