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My train was late. AGAIN.

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

you know what they say

weh

Yeah, I guess I do. But like, what even is a star beam, you know? Now, a lead pipe to the shins? That's just reliable, baby.

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10/22

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i hate people who know highways. “i’m heading south on I-65” okay man. i’m moving my rook to c2

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if nintendo wants me to pay eighty of god's own dollars for a video game it better blow the cock clean off my torso. if nintendo expects me to drop eighty big ones to play the new mario kart bowser better step out of the screen and fuck me so hard as to turn every bone south of my eighth vertebrae into a fine powder. i need to be made into the worlds wettest sandbag from the waist down to justify that eighty dollar price tag

there’s a new potent drug called “the bed” out on the streets. just one hit of the damn thing and you’re passed out cold, tucked in, multiple blankies, honking and shooing for hours. scary stuff.

Tumblr used to be so easy, so simple.

"Touch my butt and buy me chicken nuggets"; 40k notes

What happened when did we stray so far from the light of god

"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.

its the simple things

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

Why is "I only wear black clothes" a unique character trait people brag about. Like that's one of the most common clothes color, it's not that special. Come back when your "thing" is wearing only teal or flourescent orange or something.

Me starting a magical girl team composed of the green lady of brooklyn, the pink lady (idk where shes from), dandelion yellow crayola girl, and one of the 70 flourescent orange people mentioned in the notes

The thing that gets me about the impending Harry Potter show is like. I'm able to, for entirely hypothetical purposes, put aside my disdain and disgust for the author's full-tilt bigotry and put myself in the shoes of someone who's still a Fan, like I would be if the author hadn't doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on being a full-tilt bigot, and even then, imagining the alternate universe where JKR remained a staunch ally and well-meaning if clueless liberal philanthropic darling, I still can't quite wrap my head around why I'd want this show to be made

Everyone keeps saying it's going to be a Faithful Adaptation Of The Series and I'm just like... okay? This isn't A Series Of Unfortunate Events that got a bad adaptation and they had to go back and try again to get it right. The majority of fans liked and continue to like the movies, a lot, and despite some minor quibbles here and there, they're considered incredibly faithful adaptations. The Fandom isn't exactly divided on this, either.

Like, I imagine a nearby alternate timeline where JKR was never hit by the Idiot Stick That Makes You Hate Women and remained normal, and I remained a fan of a flawed but influential children's fantasy series, and I can't really think of a reason why I would be excited about them trying to make lightning strike a second time. Are people really that mad about Michael Gambon saying "Harry did you put your name in the goblet of fire" animatedly instead of calmly? Or is WB just worried that the incoming demographic of theme park attendees have nowhere near the nostalgic link to the series that millennials would, and that if they don't inject the series back into the zeitgeist, the golden goose might stop laying eggs?

The thing I need to clarify here, because everyone seems focused on it, is that JK Rowling's motivations for wanting them to make this series are not at all relevant to the point I'm making. It's very obvious to everyone why any author whose books got a blockbuster adaptation with a beloved ensemble cast who all publicly despise her would want to have those movies remade with a new cast whose contracts state they can't publicly disparage her or her toilet-bowl political views.

But she isn't financing this thing herself, she isn't commissioning Warner Bros to make this series. So that really only covers the reason why she would pitch the series to the studio.

My question, all through this post (and this is kinda why I spent the whole beginning of the post asking you to imagine a world where JK Rowling's urinal cake brain, and the things she believes that normal people point and laugh at when the rest of the TERFs aren't looking, are not factors at all) is why would the STUDIO want this series made?

Studio executives are heartless amoral robots who do not give a shit about culture war nonsense, they love anything when it makes profits go up and they hate everything when profits go down. They're not interested in pushing or refuting JKR's rotbrain woman-hating ideology, they just want to make a profit.

So my thing is, a fantasy television show is an expensive thing to make, and the target audience is perfectly satisfied with the movie series that costs no further money to make because it already exists, so why exactly is Warner Bros so convinced that there is enough of a market for this to justify this expense? It's not like the Fantastic Beasts movies or Hogwarts Legacy were the moneymakers they needed to be. It's not like Warner Bros is known for taking big gambles on IPs that aren't making the money they need to make, in fact, WB is known these days for swallowing expenses rather than let established, popular IP installments release and risk making modest profits instead of record-breaking profits

The best answer I can come up with is that Gen Alpha didn't grow up in a world where Harry Potter was a cultural juggernaut, and they realize that if they don't recapture the hype the series had among young people in 2004 and let that hype incubate into nostalgia in the youth of 2026, that come 2044 they're gonna be stuck with a deeply Branded theme park that nobody under the age of 45 has any interest in.