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Not my post but I'm importing it over because I think some of ya'll have lost the plot

My current favourite blorbo

Sometimes I think about Omar Najam playing Prince Andhera and getting a million messages like "OMG thank you king for this Autistic rep" and Omar being like "wow fam I love you your headcanons are all valid but I just played Andhera as a regular guy, like me" and then getting diagnosed a few months later.

"I know JK Rowing is a terrible person but her books are so good-"

You sure about that?

I mean, just for a start, have you taken a good look at her fantasy creatures lately? A whole bunch of them are straight-up based on malicious and dehumanizing stereotypes about actual people.

Remember the werewolves? And being a werewolf was made into a kind of metaphor for having AIDS?

And you know how AIDS was first associated with gay men? And how conservatives back in the day were claiming gay men were preying on children in order to convert them to gayness?

Remember how Fenrir Greyback preyed on children in particular? Yeah, she put that subtext in there. She was an adult in the 90's. She knew damn well what she was doing.

Remember the house elves? Remember how most of them loved to serve and needed to have a home and a master or else they just wouldn't know what to do with themselves?

Did you know that's literally what slavers in the American South said about the Black people they kept enslaved? Go look up the happy slave myth.

Do I even need to get into the goblins and the antisemitic tropes they're based on? No, folkloric goblins were not gold-hoarding bankers waiting for their chance to stab humanity in the back.

"But the characters are so good!"

Are you kidding me?

Most of her characters are pretty one-dimensional, including Harry. Her idea of making a morally complicated character is giving a tragic past to a bully. Numerous characters are little more than stereotypes. (Looking at Fleur right now.) Literally anybody, including you, can easily make dozens of characters just as good, if not better. (It doesn't exactly take a lot of character designing skill to go, "hey, actually, having a sad backstory doesn't make it okay to bully children" or "hey, maybe I should not base a character on the first stereotype that pops into my head.")

"But the rest of the worldbuilding!"

Sorry, but her worldbuilding is just as basic as her characters. Magical castles and secret passages are stock tropes. Magical people who keep their true nature secret from humanity is the premise of pretty much every White Wolf TTRPG. Most of her fantasy creatures are just common European fairy tale and folklore creatures with shitty stereotypes projected onto them.

I'm not saying "basic worldbuilding bad." I'm saying, you could do just as good, if not better, with minimal effort.

Also there's her magical bioessentialism, where only Harry's abusive blood relatives could provide him with supernatural protection from Voldemort. Rowling thus effectively declared that non-biological family isn't quite real family, and that abusive biofamily can give you some essential thing that a loving, supportive family that isn't related to you just can't.

The Hogwarts houses are one of the most insidious elements of her worldbuilding. The idea of being sorted gives you a little dopamine hit because wow now you have a li'l niche where you belong!

But the actual function of the houses and sorting system and the House Cup is teaching children to see each other as rivals, and ensure that the most toxic views of the upper class get passed on to every new batch of kids sorted into Slytherin.

Hogwarts effectively prepares children for a dystopia where magic serves to distract its citizens from how nightmarishly awful it is. Economic inequality is so bad that people like Arthur and Molly Weasley can barely afford to put their kids through school, casual sadism is just an accepted norm in everyday society, and non-humans are second class citizens. Rowling sorta acts like she thinks this is a bad thing with certain lines she gave to Dumbledore, but in the end, her special boy protagonist becomes an auror; IE, a defender of the status quo. So.

If you've never seen it, Lily Simpson's video goes into even more detail on how the worldbuilding of Harry Potter is actually incredibly fucked up, and how it betrays small-minded attitudes on Rowling's part. There's no separating the art from this artist, because Rowling's rotten values pour out of nearly every page.

Yes, there are many things in Harry Potter that evoke feelings and inspire people, but there's absolutely nothing in it that this series has a monopoly on. You can find those same experiences in much, much better media.

I got Dick,… as an eldest sibling, yeah

Making a "Which Batfam member are you"? but im basically calling people out- its so much fun >:)

Now just gotta finish the result summaries <33

bruhh i hate this one type of rlly nonchalant people. “tch its okay i guess” “its not that big a deal” “get over it” GET EXCITED FOR SOMETHING and FEEL SOMETHING OUTWARDLY for ONCE or at least DONT make ME feel bad about MY outward displays of emotion!!!! not everyone is a perfect example of freaking stoicism!!!

Do you actually care about transmascs or do you just like slapping top scars on fictional twinks and talking about boy pussy

I love the edits people make of the romances between two NPC characters from Dimension 20 because its literally like:

*Clip of Brennen Lee Mulligan slightly facing left*

*Cut to -*

*Clip of Brennan Lee Mulligan facing slightly right (and sometimes wearing a different shirt)*

and over the top of that is one of the most heartwrenching songs ever made.

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.

love House MD because House is the MAIN CHARACTER at that hospital and there's no attempt to hide this. as the viewer you are fully aware that those nurses in the elevator are just extras. the boss's entire schedule consists of yelling at him. the head of oncology would rather prescribe him controlled meds and flirt than practice oncology. his team's only desires are to fuck him and strangle him, often at the same time. every other doctor at the hospital might as well be a cardboard cutout.

the walls are glass, the better to see him through. he limps around, commits malpractice, and serves cunt.

long live mid-2000s TV.

where the sacred twilight meets the revealing dawn

☀️🌜 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🌛☀️

I just don’t stop do i (i will one day who knows) LETS GO BAD KIDS ☀️✨

Everybody do the wenis!

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im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

wizard & second place monk!!! honestly id multiclass into that combo it sounds really interesting- a physical combat reliant and a magical combat reliant class mixed together

I was expecting anything but not Bard

IDRlabs

D&D Class Test

D&D Class Test – What D&D class are you?

is this anything?

I am so sorry this took so long!!! I finished chapter 16, though! Hope y'all will like it :)

happy franziska von karma trauma day everyone

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aa4 ms paint doodles part 11 bitchesss weve made it to sucession with some leftoover successioon we are also now caught up to where my doodles are so these shouuuld be weekly ish. lest i forget. yay

no but seriously the "my friend wanted some help with legal work" line in aa4 changed me as a person. i think about edgeworth trying to reach out to freshly disbarred phoenix in a million different ways and it not working, so this bastard pulls a damsel in distress move on the guy who's only weakness is people who need help and goes "wright:((( there's this very very tough case:((( innocent people will go to jail if you don't accept these first class plane tickets for you and your daughter and spend a week with me in this five star european hotel :((( oh i am so lost and confused ughh this legal work is killing me" AND IT WORKS MULTIPLE TIMESSSS

You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you

I'm crying. I love this website