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"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book

There are so so many better fantasy books about teenagers learning to do magic and exploring a magical world and frequently defeating some kind of Great Evil in the process. It's an old, old genre. These books were being written before Rowling was born and are still being written today. Harry Potter is an incredibly mediocre installment in the genre -- perfectly passable, not the best, not the worst. If you like Harry Potter, you will like others in the genre. Go read The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. Go read Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce. Go read In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. Look up children's and YA urban fantasy, discount the vampire romances, and pick a book at random and there's a 75% chance it'll have the stuff you liked in Harry Potter and 50/50 on whether it'll be a significantly better experience. You have nothing to lose by Reading Other Books.

I'd like to add the Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones, The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching stories, the Earthsea books by Ursula K. LeGuin, Eva Ibbotson's books, Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Sequence...

it's crazy when gay men are misogynistic because at every high school debate there's a teenage girl fighting for gay rights like she's their personal lawyer

every single time israel fires on people picking up food or humanitarian aid it truly cuts me to the core. obviously it's equally horrible to fire on civilians escaping the invasion or to bomb hospitals or refugee camps or people just living in their own homes. but there's something so brutal about hitting people right when they have gathered for life-saving aid. by firing on them there the IOF have set up an impossible dilemma where starving people have to choose between death by bullet or death by hunger. they have left no room for palestinians to choose life. i do not know how my government or any other government can just sit by and watch while innocent people continue to be gunned down for the crime of existing in israel's eyeline.

here is a list of fundraisers for families trying to leave gaza. this post also has links for places to help. this is the irish palestinian solidarity campaign website. finally this is a post with the esim donation guide. i know most of you have probably seen all of these links and more but i just need to do something.

I liked it better when Katara released Aang from his 100 year slumber through the pure unfiltered rage of a feminist rant at her brother

I often think about that one interview where someone asks a young taylor swift if she doesn't find it wrong to dropname her exes in songs and she's like "well if they didn't want songs about them they shouldn't have done bad things" and I honestly think she's so right like I see absolutely no flaw in her logic. Anyways stream my new single called "Taylor Swift's Carbon Emissions" available on all streaming platforms until I get a cease and desist under the threat of a defamation lawsuit :)

Please note that this has to be done for each sideblog!

Yearly reminder to stop watching and supporting the pinkwashing-aparthied loving garbage heap that is Eurovision

i will no longer be nice about people watching eurovision. if you speak positively about it in my vicinity or even try to defend it, im assuming you're a zionist who condones the war crimes of Israel and blocking you accordingly

And the audiobook! (Youtube, 9.5hrs long)