“oh you wouldn’t identify as transgender if you hadn’t been exposed to other trans people and learned what being transgender was” you’re right! i’d identify as suicidal
social contagion is good actually
“better for people to be miserable in the right way than happy in the wrong way” is the inescapable conclusion of a lot of social conservatism
BEHOLD! Every Balance arc (plus one Lunar Interlude)!! I’m so proud of these i wanna print them out and have them tattooed on my ass
[Here There Be Gerblins: x] [Murder on the Rockport Limited:x] [Petals to the Metal:x] [The Crystal Kingdom:x] [The Eleventh Hour:x] [The Suffering Game:x] [Lunar Interlude V: x] [The Stolen Century: x] [Story and Song: x]
jokes aside i think it’s amazing and heartwarming to see like 4chan incel bros perform the miracle of crawling out of that hole and becoming real human beings and chronicling their journey to realizing that they can be well adjusted happy normal dudes
Where’s the post about the guy who turned his life around bc of his shrimp? Bc that’s very relevant here
This guy. This makes me so happy
this is what i was thinking about when i wrote this post
I would’ve liked the Fantastic Beasts series better if it didn’t try to be Harry Potter. I don’t want another overarching story about defeating an evil wizard and stopping a massive wizard war. I’ve already seen this story.
I’d much rather have episodic adventures about Newt Scamander, his baker sidekick, and their respective girlfriends travelling around the world looking for and dealing with dangerous and fantastic beasts.
No Grindlewad, no Dumbledore cameos, no Hogwarts fanservice.
Just a globe-trotting adventure with magic animals.
You know? Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
All the blood status in the hp universe is a metaphor for racism but you know what’s boring? Metaphors for racism that only involve white people. Harry is often described as “dark” and like if James Potter’s family was desi and Lily Evans’s was white, that would enhance Harry’s feelings of otherness while growing up with the Dursleys because lbr Vernon was probs a flaming racist.
“Potter” could easily be an anglicized version of a south Asian last name like Potdar or Potluri, and you could make an argument for a pure blood family like the Potters engaging in and profiting from cultural exchange through the British colonization of India so there was an opportunity to establish generational wealth there.
Also on the night he died, James was making pretty-colored lights for Harry. That was October 31st. In 1981, Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, started on October 27th. It lasts five days.
Hari means Lion in Sanskrit
…of all the excellent reasons to think of Harry in this way, I love that the first one given here is essentially “And why the fuck not?”