Something Inspiring

She felt undeserving when she was appointed as UN Women goodwill ambassador and sought out Gloria Steinem to learn about feminist activism.

She thinks the criticism she received for being a white feminist was useful because it made her educate herself.

She says there’s a desperate need to reform the education system in the UK to change the way they are taught the history of how Britain has been involved in foreign affairs and how they profited from slavery.

She felt anxious about approaching 30 because there’s a lot of pressure to have a husband and a baby by then and she’s still figuring her life out.

She was so young when she was casted in Harry Potter that she doesn’t remember much of her life before it and she went to therapy to deal with her issues with fame. She used to feel very guilty for being unhappy because she thought she should enjoy fame more.

The interviewer is a transgender woman and they discuss transgender issues for a while. Emma is in regular contact with a trans child which makes the topic of trans rights emotional for her because she’s very anxious for this kid’s safety.

She talks about her role as Meg March in the new Little Women movie and defends that unlike what many people say choosing to be a wife and a mother doesn’t make Meg a less feminist character and quotes a line from the movie, “Just because my dreams are different than yours it doesn’t mean they are unimportant.”  

She wishes more people would realize she’s not Hermione Granger but also understands why they want to see that in her because Hermione is a symbol for her too.

She used to think she could never be happy without a partner and now that she has learnt to navigate that better and is genuinely happy single she’s started to think of herself as self - partnered in contrast to the time when she thought of herself as single = lonely.

pewdiepie got his entire Youtube start on rape jokes (google pewdiepie and “rape jokes” you’ll find plenty of sources), ableism, homophobia and racism. [x] He even produced a song titled “It’s Raping Time”. [x] He also made jokes about raping an 8-year-old character from TWD game.

Pewdiepie has hired multiple people to carry out antisemitic hate crimes; including hiring two men to hold a sign that says “Death to All Jews” and another to say “Hitler did nothing wrong”. These are both easily found on google; but this Vox article sums it up well. 

The Wall Street Journal studied his content since 2016 and found 9 videos (at the time of the study) tied with antisemitic language or nazi imagery. [x] He has compared himself to Hitler [x] and gave the Nazi salute himself [x]. In this video he is supposedly being ironic; but as we all know with irony, that’s not how it works. In another video, he plays audio clips of the Nazi party anthem while bowing over a swastika. This is not intended as ironic. [x] (also detailed in the above Vox article)

He has dropped the equivalent to the n-word in Swedish in a since-removed video [x] 

The white supremacist movement also does not hesitate in embracing his appearance and video trends as a sign he’s been “redpilled”. [x] (note: this link is an archived webpage of “The Daily Stormer”, a known nazi/white supremacist site). He also uses language and “humor” generally affiliated with alt-right circles, as noted in his antiblack racist bits regarding Leslie Jones  [x] and his heavily nazi influenced video on “cucks” like Buzzfeed [x]

His affiliates include:

notoriously racist and antisemitic Youtube channel E;R

Ben Shapiro - known racist, transphobe and “alt-right” face 

The Christchurch Shooter [x], who used his “subscribe to PewDiePie” shtick as a dogwhistle [x]

The Poway Synagogue Shooter [x], who mentioned “subscribe to Pewdiepie” as well

-she talked with war veterans and people with disabilities to accurately depict characters with those backgrounds

-she also researched military corruption extensively

-she fought to bring in more female characters with her editors who opposed it

-she has told her readers that there is no shame in leaving an emotionally toxic situation and you should never feel guilty for it

-she based the situation with the ishvalan people off of a real displaced indigenous group called the ainu people in hokkaido to raise awareness of their situation

-she criticizes the notion of self sacrifice being a noble thing especially since it’s such a prevalent theme in most shonen manga

-she worked on a farm with a lot of hardworking women and wanted her work to reflect just how complex real women can be rather than overdone anime stereotypes

-she has stated that she thinks there is value in not repressing anger in the face of injustice, and she thinks it’s good to use that anger in constructive ways

-she has emphasized in her story that you don’t always have to forgive the people who hurt you

-she worked on and alongside several other manga one shots, illustrations, character designs, anime adaptions, movie adaptions, and light novels all while having three kids over the course of her career

I got a tumblr, it really was quite great

I blog about a lot of things, but mostly what I ate.

I thought it was a sweet gig, it really was quite cushy.

I signed up on tumblr, I didn’t know what to expect.

I thought I could just post and not worry about being fact checked

But once my posts went viral, no one saw my genius

I’m a YA book author, I have a tumblr too

I post a lot of info, for my tumblypoos

But then one day my time was up, I read it on the clock

i made a tumblr, and it didnt go great

whenever i make a post, all i get is hate

arguing with strangers, it really is a slog

spirit halloween:

shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc it’s safer

shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc they don’t feel like they can pull off anything else

shoutout to nonbinary people who default to presenting as their assigned gender bc presenting as their real gender is impossible

shoutout to nonbinary people who present as their assigned gender bc they want to

shoutout to nonbinary people whose presentation is mistaken for their assigned gender but is in fact how they express their real gender

your childhood is gay, and there’s nothing you can do about it!