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I'm watching Pingu right now and wow how did I forget that Pingu once tried to recreate the Tower of Babel.

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Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard 

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer 

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We stan

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for the last time y’all cannot “miku made this” harry potter. you cannot separate harry potter from jkr and her bigotry because the text itself is FULL of it. a short list of the bullshit that’s in hp that y’all cannot pretend doesn’t exist within the actual text:

-the goblins who run the banks, which are obvious antisemitic caricatures

-rita skeeter, a transmisogynistic caricature (the books often reference her “masculine features” and she’s portrayed as being predatory and spying on children)

-boys being unable to enter the girls dormitories (innocuous on its own but becomes very sinister when you know her beliefs)

-the fact that there’s maybe 5 canonically black characters in the books (hell i can only think of 3 off the top of my head)

-the house elves just LOVE being slaves and when hermione tries to free them shes viewed as being “weird” and over the top about it

-the horrific treatment of cho chang, who is (to my knowledge) the only canonically east asian character

-the fact that there’s a “pureblood supremacist” house in hogwarts and everyone is just fine with that

-likening lycanthropy to AIDS is troubling on its own but especially considering fenrir greyback’s big goal was to “spread it” is... oof

-the whole WOG gay dumbledore fiasco gets even worse when we remember that he was apparently in love with a fascist. also the fact that she said he “turned asexual” afterwards which is not how asexuality works

-the fact that hermione was 14 and viktor krum was 18 when he took her to whatever that fuckin dance was called and this is just seen as totally fine and not weird at all

and there’s SO much more, this is just all i can remember off the top of my head. like... y’all can’t pretend these flaws in the books don’t exist. the movies are just as bad and in some respects even worse, especially considering the lack of characters of color. you CANNOT ignore this shit when you’re reading or watching harry potter. and this isn’t even getting into the fantastic beasts series and the mess of stuff that comes with that.

jk rowling has BEEN a racist antisemitic transphobic bigot. we KNEW this.

y’all are allowed to like harry potter. nobody’s gonna stop you. i understand that for some people it’s very meaningful to them and i get that. but you have GOT to be critical of it. you can’t just pretend jkr’s voice isn’t there. it is, and it’s a big part of the story. you can like problematic media (theres some problematic media that i enjoy critically) but it’s irresponsible to consume it uncritically and without examining it through that lens.

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“I’ve been getting nothing but lesbians”

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Reading wiki entries for historical trans men…

Dr. James Barry, Albert Cashier, Charley Parkhurst, Billy Tipton, and Dr. Alan Hart could have each written “I am a man and want to be recognized across history as such” and transphobes would still be like… “wow what misunderstood butch heroes… lesbian icons!!!!”

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🎶 yoko-san and antoni’s date 🎶

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cats opening doors with their faces is astounding. you got four paws little fool.

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this is the best thing I’ve ever seen

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A storm blew away 25% of my roof last night.

Oof

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I love the reveal in Over the Garden Wall that the story isn't actually set in the past but that Wirt has been going through this whole adventure in a shitty last minute Halloween costume he threw together and only half intended for other people to see him wearing. Imagine travelling through a creepy magical forest that seems to be stuck in the 1800s for several days while being hunted by an evil shadowy tree man who wants your soul but you're wearing an old power ranger mask from 2008 and a cape that's just a beach towel. That's pretty much what Wirt's outfit is equivalent to and that's such a big mood

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so i didn’t realize kuzco is literally only 17 in the emperor’s new groove and the pacha-kuzco dynamic becomes like 8x funnier bc pacha has accidentally adopted a teenager

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I was talking to a kid in my daughter’s class today, and she said that she thought it would be fun to write a story about the Titanic, but with supernatural creatures.

So I said, “Yeah, that would great! What would the creatures do? Would they save the Titanic from sinking?”

And she gave me the most disgusted look. I have never seen a 9 year old face look so appalled.

“No,” she said, speaking very clearly so as to never be so grossly misunderstood again, “they’re going to eat the passengers.”

God I hope she lets me read it.