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Sum1TheTeddy

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Hello! Namaste! Bonjour! Konochiwa! I'm Sumi. She/them. HMU if you just want to talk or something ☺️

This thought won't leave me and it's a ramble but I have to say this.

The internet has made me an infinitely more nice and compassionate than I ever was before. And it makes me feel in a way that leaves me dumbfounded.

Every small quiz I take, every little post I interact with, every picture I like, every note I read, every small tag, every reblog, it reminds me that there's a human just like me behind a screen, reaching out. Not maybe for me specifically but they reach out and they maybe don't realise it but it has embedded into me. Has affected me. That they reached out and I held on.

And isn't that being human is all about. All of us are just trying to reach out and say our funny little words, share our ideas and feelings may it be bad or good. And internet makes it so easy to do so.

You reach out and I hold onto your hands. And when I extend my hand you take it and hold me, loving and kind.

I have grown up with you guys in a way I can't ever comprehend.

I love the internet and I love humans.

We are such precious creatures. So small but so loving. So kind.

I hope we get to share this love among each other and I hope humans realise that that's all we are made for.

To love.

love maomao being like maybe the reason that i never understood social interactions is because i wasn't comforted enough as a child. when, little does she know, she's part of the trio of most autistic-coded protagonists the winter anime seasons have ever seen

One of my The Apothecary Diaries headcanons is that since Lady Gyokuyou and ladies in waiting are all really close, whenever they have free time Gyokuyou and her ladies in waiting gossip about all the rumours in the rear palace

some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

"But I don't have her jade eyes or bright hair"

"Lihua you have the tits of a goddess, put them to use👍👍"

i don't want to be mean and this isn't the biggest issue in the world but "we need to make this child more feminine in order to humanize her" feels like a pretty big example of how much we're regressing as society.

Heard an interview on NPR of a 'small mother-daughter hair accessories company, working from the dining room table at home...' thats business will be affected by the tariffs because 'we manufacture in China!'!!! And if one good thing comes of these horrible stupid tariffs I hope it stops all these American 'small business owners 🥺' from obfuscating their participation in imperial exploration. And I hope everyone finally processes that all the fanart acrylic keychains and plushies of niche microcelebrities ocs that are just 'supporting small artists!!' are manufactured in the same way everything else is thats consumed by this ugly country is.

I think people often fail to understand that all production within the core--of any kind and for any purpose--is only able to exist as it does because such endeavors are the beneficiaries of systems of exploitation and unequal exchange.

For example: I am an independent craftsman in the US. I have no employees and I make everything I sell by hand, 'by myself.' But without Mexican workers raising cattle and tanning their hides, I would have no leather to work with. Without Chinese workers manufacturing the hardware and without the miners who mined the iron, nickel, copper, zinc, etc, I would have no rivets or dee rings or square snaps. I do not steal the surplus value of those under my employ because I have no one under my employ, and yet without the exploitation of hundreds or thousands of people, I can produce nothing at all. And this is true whether I am producing for the purposes of making money or for the joy of creating or for any other reason.

Nothing can be produced here without plunder.

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. x x

Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x

We can presume she's given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.

Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. x x x

It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.

And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.

This is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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