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Doodles for "Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel," by Michael Gerber. This is my single favorite comedy book of all time. As you may have guessed, it's a sleezy and utterly deranged parody of "Harry Potter." The last time I reread "it "Barry Trotter" was shortly after the death of Gilbert Gottfried; on that read, I imagined Gottfried in the role of Nicholas Henratty (my favorite character).

Neville Longbottom's toad Trevor, and their Rememberall. Since I don't have my own Rememberall, I can't remember how large it or Trevor are supposed to be.

"Moonlight Run"

Too late I realize that these are not wolves, they're domestic dogs. At least the ears need changing. Sigh.

When did Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks fall in love?

Here is my proposal: 

As they grew closer, Remus lamented missing his moonlight runs with the Marauders, the best times of his largely depressing live. Empathetic and adventurous, Tonks was already experimenting with her Metamorphmagus abilities for her undercover work with the order, using potions and spells to enhance her natural shape-shifting abilities. One full moon, she surprised Remus with a new trick, morphing into a wolf. Once she'd reassured him that she had not actually infected herself with the Lycan curse, they took off into the woods. Tonks amused Remus and herself by changing her fur color from red, to black, to purple, to pink, and so on throughout the night. That was the night Remus and Dora confessed their feelings for each other.

Tonks would later join Remus on some undercover missions infiltrating the werewolves, taking a tawny brown tint similar to her natural hair color. After a close shave, Remus refused to let her join him on such missions anymore, and this kickstarted her anxiety for his safety and depression. Once they officially hooked up and she regained her powers, they took to the Forbidden Forest for another run after Dumbledore's funeral.

I wanted to have a picture of Teddy Lupin and Victoire Weasley to accompany this one, since both had a history with werewolves on their fathers' sides, and shape-shifting on their mothers'. (Recall that Veela can transform into monsters.) Unfortunately I came down with a bad cold, and was lucky to get this picture done in time for Valentine's Day. 

TW: Human trafficking, SA, torture, discussion of scam farms

I see a whole bunch of people arguing that they would rather risk giving to a scammer than ignore someone's gofundme. I also see people saying things like "I can't believe some sick people are profiteering off genocide" and like, me neither, but I feel like you guys really don't understand who actually runs these kinds of scams and what they are.

Scams of noticeable scale-- like scam asks being sent from hundreds of accounts to every user on Tumblr!-- are typically related to organised crime in poor countries, not Susan from Milwaukee who wants a new coat and has no scruples. People get trafficked by gangs to scam farms in Asia and Africa where they're worked to the bone and tortured trying to get idiots in wealthy countries to part with their money. Genocide profiteering is pretty much the least evil thing these people do.

Here's a UN article on it. Obvious warnings for content related to human trafficking and SA.

When you donate to a scammer, you fund these organisations and give them a reason to exist. It's possible some of the fundraisers are legit. I honestly find it unlikely given I'm not seeing any from any other countries where urgent fundraisers would seem to have great reason to exist but which haven't captured the same level of attention on Tumblr-- the number of Sudanese, Congolese, Ukrainian, Burmese or Uyghur fundraisers in my DMs is a fat 0. In any case, there are safer ways to help.

If you want to help (which is great!) you don't have to take the risk of paying for human trafficking. Donate to legitimate charities which have the resources to safely and effectively ensure the money and help is getting to the right people. Funding human trafficking rings in Myanmar is not a good risk to be taking while trying to help.

Following the devastating news of the murder of 6 hostages, us Israelis are striking and protesting for a deal.

Saying we don’t want a ceasefire deal is just wrong. There are protests nationwide, school and most businesses are closed in protest.

-Him insisting on including the Philadelphi Corridor & not ending the war already

-Thus delaying a deal in may that included the recently murdered hostages and many other hostages (women, children,elderly, injured…)

Everyone has been saying this- Hostages’ families, Israeli & us officials, other Members of the knesset…

*I’m honestly surprised you asked considering it’s all over the news .

there are a lot of reasons why bibi keeps being selected as prime minister. his party is the most popular, having received 1.1 million votes in the most recent election and holding 32 seats in the knesset. he's steadily gone further and further right when it comes to the parties he'll work with and imo the standards for who the far right will consider working with are much more relaxed than the standards that left-wing parties will hold. on top of that...other israelis like @homochadensistm would be able to explain better than me how he's sort of "bought out" the haredi voting bloc lol

israel also doesn't have ranked choice voting, so if a party you vote for doesn't meet the electoral threshold then your votes are essentially thrown out. in the most recent election, i think around 325,000 votes between two left wing parties, meretz and labor, were thrown out because they failed to reach the electoral threshold. for some perspective, Shas (right-wing haredi political party), the third largest party in the knesset with 11 seats, received ~393,000 votes. i think it was the leaders of meretz who refused to sign an electoral agreement with labor which would have allowed them to share votes, and they faced a lot of criticism for this decision after the election.