It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

via @discipleofkleio

I hate Rowling so much.

There's people in the notes saying they're going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.

But. If you can't bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.

FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.

I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today.

If you're thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It's time to grow up. It's time to move on.

Don't even hate watch it. Make it fail.

It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.

"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

#I get so happy when I’m annoyed by teenagers in public#because it’s like#these kids are forming communities outside of their parents!#they aren’t shackled by school or soccer or clubs their parents put them in#they have the initiative and confidence to make their own social connections#it’s so so cool that I’m out of touch with what they’re saying and doing#because it means they have lives of their own (tags via @elongated-twink)

You! You are the only person who has correctly understood this post. The point is not that they should go be annoying somewhere else, it's that being annoyed by teenagers in normal public places, while annoying, is a good thing. It is a sign of societal health. We adults just need to be ok with the fact that we're going to be annoyed sometimes.

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

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Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can

Oh gods. (hides eyes)

…I’ve been coughing my lungs up for the last three days now and am sick and tired of it, and seriously weary, but THIS makes me want to sit up and start ragetyping.

(reaches down into drafts folder, rummages around to grab hold of the screed I wrote in, dear sweet Thoth on his ebike, January) and then decided not to post in the heat of the moment)

(oh, and prev tags, which were good)

#this screenshot punched me in the face#war flashbacks#my immortal#writing#don't be afraid to use 'said'#the brain just skips over filler words like that#it can't skip over whatever nonsense 'he whimpered ... I roared' is#also words convey specific things such as emotions and how loud someone is speaking and you can't just use them at random#don't just use a random word from a list of 'alternatives for said' you found online#use words intentionally

Right. (pauses to cough) Now then—

Something trundled by on my dash some days back. And I got all ready to write a post about it, and then Peter had his accident in the kitchen and it got jarred out of my head for days. Until now, in fact..

Anyway. The "something" was a beautifully made chart of "dialogue tags". Someone had gone to a lot of trouble over it, clearly with the intention of helping other people. And after I spent a while admiring the design (and the ingenuity of it), I nonetheless started having, yet again, the same set of annoyed and frustrated misgivings I get every time one of these substitutes-for-“said” or suggested-dialogue-tags lists crosses my path.

These lists aren’t a new phenomenon by any means. In the last century you could buy whole books of them. They were called "saidbooks", which is kind of ironic, since "said" was about the only word they didn't include. (Look, hello-delicious-tea over here knows about them too.) But their purpose was to provide people who were nervous about repeating themselves—and thought they'd be mistaken for bad writers when they did—with lots of other words to use.

(sigh) Plainly this misapprehension is still with us.

Am I about to get prescriptive? Depends on your definition of the term. (Though it's also true that in New York state, where I was licensed, properly trained nurses can prescribe. And in this paradigm, after nearly fifty years of doing this work, and various bestseller lists, blah blah blah, maybe I can be considered properly trained.) Anyway:

(adding a cut here, as I got distracted from doing so earlier by yet another spell of coughing)

Thank you, @dduane .

I have been in fights with a supervisor about "said". He seems to hate that word, "asked", and "replied" with a passion, mockingly highlighting my every usage in the document files and poking fun at me during meetings. He'd rather I have zero dialogue tags at all instead of using them, which causes us both so much unending disagreement. Extra hilarious, he writes for Star Trek Magazine, so I may actually drop your reblog on the subject on him next time we meet.

I've never seen a bigger example of rich and miserable. She has nothing better to do than be a straight white woman that feels entitled to every space.

"I stand for women's rights... except those asexual ones because according to me who doesn't even identify with the community, they aren't real even though asexual women speak on the challenges they face and hardships they go through, but because I'm a straight white women I feel entitled to every space!"

Like fuck off. Anyone who agrees with her fuck off. If you think you're a feminist for supporting this behavior your not. You don't stand with a miserable rich woman who feels like attacking random communities at different hours of the day. That is not what a feminist does.

She and her supporters can kiss my natural black asexual ass 💋

my creative writing prof also HATES fantasy. as in if she asks for an example of symbolism in a book, and you give something from a fantasy novel, she’ll ask for an example from a “non-commercial book” instead.

I dunno man, people can have preferences, but the second you discount the artistic merit of sci fi and fantasy I stop taking your opinion seriously. and there’s such a big culture in Canada of only valuing literary fiction, to the point where one of our biggest authors, Margaret Atwood, refused for a while to classify her books as sci fi or fantasy. she said they were “speculative fiction”, which is entirely separate and very highbrow (sarcasm).

and I could go on about how Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin wrote books every bit as intellectual (and honestly, even more so) than their literary counterparts, but I am also an enjoyer of schlock!! I think there’s artistic merit in animorphs, and in isekais where a japanese schoolgirl reincarnates into a magical spider who has to level up like it’s a video game! it’s like with everything, you can’t draw a clean line that separates ‘art’ from ‘non-art’ or even ‘lesser art’, and pretending you can do so just makes you look ignorant and goofy. in my opinion.

Terry Pratchett did a really good interview about this.

In all seriousness? What anime in particular is doing is unhinged in terms of artistic merit.

Re:Zero is literally an isekai parabel about the value of life in the face of suicideality

Demon Hunter is about finding empathy for your enemies and realizing that monsters who do monstrous things have to be human in order to do those monstrous things.

Chainsaw Man says that it doesnt matter why you do good things so long as you do them.

Undead Unluck says that the love of is there, it may not change anything in the end but it matters that it matters so so much that it's there.

Like... IDK yall, please watch some fucking anime?

Zenshu is literally an isekai about the artistic merit in commercial art and the cost of chasing it to artists and the people around those artists. THAT IS LITERALLY THE PLOT.

EVERY TIME SOMEONE SAYS TO ME "Hey what about...?" THERE IS AN ANIME FOR THAT!

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

In Canada, a group of tech CEOs has come up with a political public relations effort called Build Canada, with the stated goal of strengthening the economy in the face of Trump’s threat to impose punishing tariffs. Trump has repeatedly linked the tariffs to annexing Canada and making our country the “51st state.”

So far, Build Canada’s website offers a series of short policy statements calling for 110,000 jobs to be cut from the federal public service over four years, AI to be used in government services, interprovincial trade barriers to come down and the federal government to step in to compel provinces and municipalities to allow autonomous vehicles and delivery robots. There are also calls for immigration for humanitarian reasons to be sharply curtailed in favour of higher-income and highly skilled immigrants, and to fund content creators to tell inspiring stories about Canada.

But Build Canada is connected to another website called Canada Spends that looks a lot like the DOGE.gov website.

Absolute human garbage.

The Australian conservative party, the Liberal Party, also has similar plans which will be tested at a Federal Election later this year.

There is an election on in Canada. It is absolutely critical, under all circumstances, that Trump's little mini-me, Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party, not win.

Here's the voter registration website. Election day is on April 28th. Don't let the fascists win.

#its fascinating to see an idiot's ideas crash and burn in realtime taking the economy and international potlitics with it#and right wingers all around the world going I want some of that too

Right-wingers would saw the nose off their own face with a steak knife if they thought that the poor or "the Woke" would be hurt worse.

Reminder that the label NSFW (or versions like nsft) is not a moral judgment. "Not safe for work" literally means "if your boss glanced over and saw this on your phone or computer screen, you could get penalized or fired." That's why nudity is labeled as NSFW because even if nude bodies aren't inherently sexual, your boss probably still wouldn't be thrilled to see naked people on your screen.

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

Thought i'd make a more comprehensive list with more games for you to go Omg i played that! Remember you don't actually have to have played them or completed them, it also counts if you watched someone play it or watched a playthrough of it.

I did notice some confusion on the first list so this should be much better and if it isn't well i dunno i'm sure you'll live.

do people know that a french ex-president (nicolas sarkozy, from 2007 to 2012) is currently wearing an electronic bracelet after he was sentenced for corruption and influence peddling? do people know? i want everyone to know 😌

and that bernard squarcini, the head of internal security (DGSI) during sarkozy's presidency, just got convicted for influence peddling and has to wear an ankle bracelet for at least two years? 😌🙏

and that marine le pen, leader of the far-right party et one of the (ex)favorites for the 2027 presidential elections, has to wear an ankle bracelet for at least two years and is ineligible for five years?? 😌🙌✨️

My American ass watching other presidents face some form of consequence for wrongdoing…

they finally fucking impeached yoon suk yeol and mom was like WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? me: *sobbing*

god i see what you do for others…….

fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun

i meant road. road to success

Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun

Holy shit, oh my god! 50 of them??

Me when I'm a sexy gay wizard that suddenly realizes they are being followed by 50 rats

OMG LMAO I WOULD NEVER RUN FROM YOU, 50 RATS, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE BEHIND ME

You know what you are so right... We have a bond, these 50 rats and I....

OH SHIT OH NO

WAIT

I CAN'T FEED THIS MANY RATS

Oh wait I'm a fuckin wizard lol

Yay :) Enough treats for everyone :)

Happy rat day to my most popular post ever

looking at that one booktok post and didn’t realize how funny this is. uou do not know what a safe word is

some highlights from the notes

Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

Timely reminder that protests have many purposes, and one of them is to steel the nerves of the youth.

And one of them is to say “this is our town.”

In our town the right wing have sometimes had protests or hosted speakers. We have one guy - one guy - who rallies the counter protests, which are always larger than any right-wing audience, and we turn up and make it awkward.

The right wing are less visible in Bristol or Brighton because they’d be afraid: if you tried to book an anti-gay speaker in Brighton you’d be laughed to death and then eaten. Why shouldn’t our town have the same protective shell of reputation? How else will they know who we are? How else are they supposed to know that our town doesn’t want them?

What makes a city liberal? What keeps a city liberal?

What is protest if not an act of making?