even more than ever, i'm endorsing that every person who is still an active harry potter fan and is reading the books, watching the movies, playing the games, and/or buying the merch is a monster who will ultimately be condemned by history. i hope you carry a deep personal shame with you until you grow the fuck up and stop supporting media made by the most prominent figure in a global hate movement.
stop putting your comfort and desire to consume above the safety and well-being of trans people, jewish people, and people of color.
i grew up with this series. it's meant a lot to me over my life. my dad used to read the books to me and my sister as kids, and we continued that tradition until the last book. we went and saw the movies together as a family. we went to a book release party dressed as characters from the books. even after i came out as trans, i had a hard time letting go. i kept harry potter merchandise around with me and had a little hufflepuff keychain. but i gave that up almost a decade ago because of the harm it started to cause to me and my community. i can't engage in these stories anymore; they make me feel sick. and the realization that antisemitism, racism, misogyny, and transphobia have been a part of these stories since the beginning means that it would be wrong to try and engage with them even without financial support and even under death of the author.
harry potter is, at this point, a symbol of hate. one that makes me feel unsafe. i don't care if you, yourself, are a member of the communities affected by jkr's hate or the hate expressed in the series. you should know better if anything.
fuck you. you can't do the bare fucking minimum to support us, jewish people, or people of color and that's sad. i legitimately hope you die so that there will be one less person in the world giving support or indifference to fascists. the world would be better without you in it, as long as you refuse to let go of a series of antisemitic, racist books written by one of the most prominent and active transphobes alive today.
sincerely,
a trans woman that you are statistically likely to ignore or harass
we need to go back to hating tumblr. no more hellsite (affectionate). don't even think of giving these clowns your money. if i see you with a checkmark next to your name i'm opening fire
*sound of gun cocking* they can be disabled
tumblr's current business model isn't profitable and never will be and no amount of scolding from staff blogs or tumblr ad-free pay piggies is gonna fix that. don't let yourself be guilted into buying merch, badges or ad-free. you're throwing your money into a bottomless pit while the techbro ghouls running this website laugh about you at their next board meeting while applauding the shmucks coming up with new ideas on how to twitter- or tiktokify the website
''but tumblr needs to make money!!!''
if tumblr really wants its regular user onboard with keeping the website afloat then we should at least demand that they do the bare minimum in keeping the site functional. and right now, they're not even doing that. every change they've made lately has made the website/app worse. i should give my money to tumblr so what—they can make a more intrusive version of tumblr live? remove the chronical dashboard? come up with an even more transphobic way of doing content moderation? yeah, no thanks
if i was a little kitty and you were a little kitty would you touch noses with me to say hi
rb to touch prevs kitty nose to say hi
i’m making out with ron perlman so hard rn
Matching raritwi icons for anon 👑
fanfic isn’t a bad thing you’re not bad for reading it or writing it or liking it whatever but this religious fanaticism surrounding it , especially the fanfic culture of ao3 is just so bizarre isn’t it . you have people posting their anecdotes about having panic attacks over not being able to read their favorite fic or upload their new chapter or what have you and the comments are flooded with people agreeing and worried about the safety of an internet fanfic website that’ll no doubt be back up within the week . we’re now at the stage where internet isolation has gotten so bad that someone claiming to be a ‘sudanese terrorist organization’ targeting ao3 because of their ‘lgbtq content’ which like . lol . is believed completely , at face value , no questions asked because maaaaaybe the website run solely on donation money and volunteer work doesn’t have the most secure server . whatever i suppose , it is very easy to sniff out whose view of the world and ‘terrorist organizations’ starts and ends at what they were taught in their 10th grade social studies class
i’m going to keep it real with you tumblr userbase… if we don’t want tumblr as we know it completely ruined you’re probably going to have to flood tumblr on the app store with 1-star reviews. we need to make their ANALYTICS hurt. we need to make management scared. we need to explain in those reviews exactly why we are mad. say what we don’t want changed (or do want changed back). i am so serious.
the tumblr app still currently sits at four stars, despite MASSIVE userbase and sitewide backlash to the current features and updates.
we need to change that.
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is there an artist that you like the entirety of their discography
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i love ppl tagging this with nirvana even tho i wont judge you that they only have like 4 releases 🙄 tagging w bands that have like 2 albums doesnt count!!!! weak
anyway DDOS ransom attacks suck but since people decided to uncritically spread racist and Islamophobic propaganda in the wake of a common internet attack, instead of donating more money to AO3 (which always gets all the money asked for and more) please consider donating to these organizations
The Rainbow Railroad helps LGBTQ+ people around the globe who face immediate physical danger due to the laws or policies of the countries they live in, up to and including helping people emigrate for safety. They also help with on-the-ground programs for people who they cannot help emigrate. I personally know and love someone who was helped by this organization. You can read their history here.
EATHAN is the East African Trans and Health Advocacy Network who are doing critical, on the ground work to aid, protect, and legislate for LGBTQ+ East Africans. They are active in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. You can donate and read about what they're up against here.
and remember, please to always think critically and kindly; it is very distressing to me how many people immediately bought into infowars level conspiracy just because a fanfiction website went down for a bit.
y'all cannot be fucking serious about believing that ao3 is being hacked by a "sudanese extremist group" be fucking for realllll i think you guys are just racist
let's break this down lets think about it for more than 5 seconds
- terrorist group would not be saying "LGBTQ+", "smuts" or "NSFW". let's be fucking for real. they'd be saying, like. "pornography" or "obscenities"
- they would not be spreading this through a telegram group. like i don't doubt that a group like this would congregate in a telegram group, but they wouldn't be making their announcements to the world in it.
- they would not be attacking Ao3. period. ao3 is a fucking nothing website in the grand scheme of things. there is no activism going on there. it's a fucking fringe porn site
like come the fuck on. this literally sounds like some shit an ao3 dicksucker would come up with to make themselves look more oppressed and like theyre at the forefront of the LGBT rights movement. this is literally the sinophobia website they fucking love blaming anything that happens to them on random countries they think are far right extreme. use your brain dont believe things you read on the internet whatever else
Talking meaning chatting online, interacting irl, or even exchanging one or two messages. I just want to see how much tumblr users actually talk to each other!
Talking meaning chatting online, interacting irl, or even exchanging one or two messages. I just want to see how much tumblr users actually talk to each other!
Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.
It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.