Beautiful and Terrible as the Cheesecake Factory

op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands

reminder that the books themselves also suck ass actually. there's an entire plotline endorsing slavery. the one character who advocates to end slavery is bullied and made fun of. the one slave who doesnt like being enslaved is bullied and treated as an outcast. the bankers are the picture of racist stereotypes of jewish people. the one asian character is named fckn Cho Chang. the worldbuilding SUCKS. fuck harry potter and fuck rowling. stop giving her your money.

There's a world of fiction out there. Harry Potter has the nostalgia, sure, but it hasn't really aged that well even without its creator funneling every dollar she's ever made into Anti-trans Hate. Like, she has explicitly said that she sees her continued cultural relevance as a sign that people agree with her. Like yeah, that's delusional, but it's a delusion that's actively paying for direct harm to trans people.

notably, this is about removing a second superfluous permit specific to ice cream and related foods—vendors are still beholden to the usual requirements and permits for food service, so there's not a food safety risk being introduced here

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

WHY AREYALL DOING THIS

fuck you LOL

And it’s not impossible for one person to be at once a highly talented seamstress and tinsmith and carpenter and clockwork engineer and every other talent in the world that would allow you to build everything from china dolls to rocking horses, but to be all that and then single-handedly supply the whole stock of an entire toy store? In a rural whimsical little fairy tale village?? By themselves???

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

IT’S LITERALLY HAPPENING LMAOOOOO