and love too, will ruin us

Full blood pact scene in Secrets of Dumbledore 🩸❣️🪞

It was the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation that refused the surgery to the inmates.  When the inmates fought the policy in court, as Attorney General of California, it was Harris’s job to represent the Department.  Yes, she did it, but it wasn’t something she decided on her own to do.  (Also, not for nothing, the inmates won the case.)

Her characterization of the episode:   “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said.

A policy now exists for inmates to receive transition-related care in California prisons (although apparently the DoC isn’t doing a great job of holding up its end of the bargain*--quelle surprise).  

(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.) 

The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it--and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either.  We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.  

She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views.  (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people--that’s a lot of different views.)  If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on.  (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG--I’m not sure how it works, exactly.)  Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry.  (Another thing our current president does constantly--notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)

So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:

The Department of Corrections had a policy denying gender-affirmation surgery to inmates.  

Two inmates fought that policy in court.

Harris defended that policy in court (or, more accurately, was the supervisor of the person who did so--but the legal documents went out under her signature, and she takes responsibility for their content).

Harris also worked to change the policy.  

If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with.  Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change.  If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it--again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.  

I get it, I really do - but Trump has literally stripped away rights from trans kids and fucked the careers of trans people in the military. Pence believes in conversion therapy.

We can remember and discuss these issues, but at the end of the day, Trump/Pence is the greater evil and we need to vote in a unified way to get them out of office because the second term would be so much worse. Don’t vote independent, just suck it up and recognize that we’re not gonna get a perfect candidate ever.

Hello. Here I am as promised! I don’t even want to tell you how many hours I spent subbing this film, but it’s a lot of hours haha.

How to describe this movie. It’s a healing experience. I went to see it twice and both times everyone was crying. I even cried several times while watching the same scenes over and over again in my subbing program, haha. But they were good tears! It’s a very kind, very quiet, very important movie that I wish plenty of people could see. So I subbed the thing for you!

The plot is as follows: Igawa Shun (played by Miyazawa Hio), a closeted gay man, escapes his life in Tokyo to live as a recluse in rural Gifu when one day his ex-boyfriend and first love Hibino Nagisa (played by Fujiwara Kisetsu) shows up on his doorstep with a six-year-old girl.

some notes: Japanese law does not recognize joint custody of unmarried or divorced individuals even if those individuals are the child’s biological parents.

Most of the film takes places in the prefecture of Gifu in central Japan. To get there, you have to take the bullet train from Tokyo to Nagoya (around 2 hours) and then a local train from there. The town of Shirakawa is about an hour from Nagoya in the mountains.

I decided to keep the Japanese honorifics because making the character of Misato call Shun anything but Igawa-san weirded me out. Shun & Nagisa don’t use any honorifics with each other because they’re the same age and they go way back.

There are a couple of lines where information may be presented in an order that feels unnatural in English, but Japanese works very differently and I chose to stay true to what’s happening on screen over the English syntax.

This film is a sequel to a lowkey miniseries that aired locally in Nagoya, but you don’t need to have seen the show. I only learned of its existence afterwards. In the show Nagisa & Shun meet as teenagers at a seaside resort. Mutual pining ensues, Nagisa lends Shun a book with gay subtext to test the waters, Shun turns down a girl by saing thank you but I’m sorry.

The film was directed by Imaizumi Rikiya who has established himself as an auteur of lowkey millenial romance in the past few years. The ending song is Mariaroad by Sano Ibuki.

dowload links: You are free to share my subs with your grandma or use them in your fannish works. Just don’t claim my translation as yours. You may not upload my subs to streaming sites. If I see this happening, I will not translate anything for you ever again. I created the subtitle file from scratch, timed it and translated the whole 2-hour movie by ear, so please respect this one simple wish.

The raw file was kindly provided to me by @ohmygannicus​. I have uploaded two mirros for you:

Google Drive

Mega

Subs on Google Drive

Subs on Mega

To watch, you must save both files in the same folder and rename them so the file names match. The subtitle is an .ass file that was created on Aegisub, you can use that program to tweak it to your liking if you’d like. VLC and Media Player Classic can play .ass files, other players you’ll have to find out yourself. I will not offer any technical support past this. Please do not contact me to ask me why this or that isn’t working. If the files are down, it means there’s been too much traffic, so just wait and try again later. Or if you’re a mutual or someone else I know, hmu and I’ll send you a secret link.

To support the movie, you can buy it on Yesasia! Everyone working on the film has shown so much love and care for this story and the lgbtq community, it’s really been a beacon of light during these strange times. When a tabloid had a terrible take on a scene in the film, the team even apologised to the lgbtq community for the hurt that was in no way caused by them! Here are the links:

DVD: North America link, Global link Bluray: North America link, Global link