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While I find Rowling’s views abhorrent, I’m not going to shame people for still feeling an attachment to Harry Potter. We have to remember how important those books were to a generation of kids as their gateway to Satanism.

When I got my furby tattoo (which I will never regret because furbies are perfect), both of the tattoo artists in the room said that a) my furby tattoo was awesome & b) that Harry Potter tattoos were the most common thing they had been asked to do cover ups for & that it was an industry wide issue.

Look, I moderated a Harry Potter Livejournal community. I wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfic (including a story about a major character being trans). I met a lot of my best friends because of Harry Potter. If I can give that shit up because the author is ACTIVELY WORKING TO KILL PEOPLE, so can you.

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

I have to ask because I truly truly don’t understand…so WHY are they doing a Harry Potter series??? The films weren’t enough? They weren’t that long ago! Money and a lack of creative new ideas? It’s HBO…😒. This just seems like epic level “Beating A Dead Horse”. I don’t care how well it’s done.

It should go without saying atp but please don't watch the new Harry Potter series in any capacity, even out of irony or via piracy; any attention it gets will still be noted by execs. Life is already hell for trans people and we don't need to personally contribute towards making it worse for them.

So hold on ... HBO is essentially making 8 hour versions of every Harry Potter book? Jesus fucking Christ. At the end they were already creeping past two hours. Fuck's sake the last book was split into two movies, *over* four hours. This shit ain't Lord of the Rings.

With the new Harry Potter trailer dropping today, now is a better time than ever to remind everyone that J. K. Rowling's name appears in the Epstein files where she calls Epstein "a very dear friend".

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

If "you don't understand, it was important to me in my childhood" was a good reason to keep tired IP around we would have a lot more Samurai Pizza Cats content.

Fascists understand that everything they're saying is at best provocative. They're *trying* to provoke their opponents and critics. They have no interest in backing down from their positions based on reason. They only want to exhaust you. There is no good faith. Stop playing along.

Personally, I'm pretty amused by WB desperately trying to wring a movie out of any stray comma in LOTR, while just out of reach lie the rich treasures of The Silmarillion, which they can never touch as cosmic punishment for pulling the Hollywood accounting trick on the Tolkien estate 25 years ago.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist." Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

You don't need to watch this. The trailer, the show, none of it. You are not a child anymore. There are other stories. Potter may have once been a well of inspiration or joy, but that well is poisoned by the venom of its creator who sees every engagement as endorsement of her war on trans people.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is more memorable and watchable than Harry Potter. And that's about a Witch using magic to fight against the Nazis.

There is a woman on this subway platform who to the best of my judgment appears to be FaceTiming with a chicken, I quite like New York

There have been so many poorly (maliciously?) designed polls lately. Where's "Canada should transition away from oil & gas as quickly as possible by ramping up green & renewable energy, reducing dependence on foreign energy markets altogether"?

I will absolutely think less of you as a person if you post excitement over the new Harry Potter series.

Celine Dion always reminds me of Egypt, because when I was 18 and on the last vacation my family ever took together, the small river cruise ship we booked on the Nile played Celine Dion all. The. Time. Constantly. Anyway, I mention it because it's all coming back to me now.

With first-past-the-post, 40% of the vote can mean total control, enough to create distractions while forcing through laws to exempt yourself from any transparency. Proportional representation means accountability decisions require real consensus and broad support.

A central tenet of the modern conservative mind is inflicting violence on kids (all kinds of violence: sexual, physical, psychological). See Markwayne Mullin on stage boasting of beating his kids for only today’s example of this mentality. It’s because it’s very easy to do I guess?

I believe that life also sucked then and we loved this boat because it was the only thing that didnt suck.

Anyway. I have long argued that Eminem is Mario and Kid Rock is Wario (septic and libertarian), but by the same token Macklemore is Eminem's Luigi - the diminished, more dreamy, more cowardly, but more human version. The Waluigi is Machine Gun Kelly

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

The existence of Jason Voorhees implies the existence of Jason Voorshees.

No fireworks when it happens. Our dogs need to be able to celebrate with us.

Two years ago, I got a hardcore Israel defender in my life to care about Palestine. He ended up telling off someone at his work who refused to see it as a genocide. Everything is fucking godawful but unlike back in the day, we have counter-info at our fingertips to change hearts and minds? I guess?

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I get logged out and I log in again

Never underestimate the power of a positive supportive post/comment you make to an artist. Sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps them going.

Adult content? No, sorry, this adult is never content.

White people, including white marginalized people, have no factual or experiential basis to claim that police are safe for Black and Brown people. Ever. "We have police as security at our school/house of worship/other random location and it's fine" is not something white people should be saying.

All the Saxon Musk posting reminds me of one of the all-timers

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

The gap between what most Canadians think Carney is doing (strengthening the country so we can stand up to the US) and what he's actually doing (hollowing out our best chance at standing up to the United States) is something to behold.

The 2026 World Happiness Report is out, and the pattern is clear. Countries with proportional representation rank at the top. That's not a coincidence. These systems push governments to serve everyone, not just swing ridings. It's time to make every vote count here too.

negative steam reviews of a 'who wants to be a millionaire?' game that are cracking me up

i like how asking the US government about the plan for the war they started will net responses that range from "we're in this for the long haul" through "we'll win very soon" all the way to "we already won, actually." might as well ask a magic 8 ball

If you don't despise even the basic concept of money then you have too much of it.

Walked down Queen Street in Toronto last night and honest to God, heard a teenager yell, exasperated, at his friend, “I was making a Nirvanna The Band: The Show reference! You didn’t get it! This would have been a perfect visual reference!”

i do not think people understand how much it scares the forces of evil that you have allegiance to humanity, not any given nation