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its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

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i still subscribe to my credence-is-a-goldstein theory

it like doesn't quite work cause in my headcanon the goldsteins are poor jewish immigrants and would have been in steerage, not the cabins (and uhhh i'm pretty sure everyone in steerage on the leta/credence boat would have died) but whatever

anyway i also realized this means leta and tina could have been little boat friends and i think that's very cute and makes my goldstrange shipper heart happy

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It should be a bigger scandal that J.K. Rowling is threatening to sue small accounts for accurately calling her a Holocaust denier. So glad the Streisand effect exists. Now we can all rebuke her reprehensible views more than ever.

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yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me

#tina

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MuggleNet has received exclusive behind-the-scenes images of Ariana Dumbledore from the set of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

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So yesterday I finally watched Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, mainly because I just recently learned Callum Turner's in it, and no surprise it's really not a very good movie. Beautiful to look at, and a stunningly attractive cast, some nice moments here and there, but really, it's not very good. Main takeaway is that it's clear Callum Turner was going to be destined for better things - it's hard to take your eyes off him when he's on-screen even in a basically thankless role. I remember liking Eddie Redmayne in the first installment but here he's just annoying. Johnny Depp is pretty much phoning it in, and Ezra Miller is, hmm, not good. Dan Fogler is great, and Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, and Jude Law do their best with what they get. Zoe Kravitz is charismatic but basically wasted.

#yeah #very talented cast wasted on some shitty scripts #and the 3rd movie's even worse

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High — no, STRATOSPHERIC fashion

Harry Lambert has unleashed a flurry of Eddie Redmayne runway looks from the Replica Man magazine session he styled. The elegant grooming is by Petra Nina Sellge. Repost IG @harry_lambert

@replicamanmagazine @jobarker10photography @oliviarthur styling @harry_lambert Casting Director - @ck.lau Grooming - @petransellge @thewallgroup Production - @williamsimeone @magnumphotos Photographer Assistants - #philipebeling #benbradishellames #benbutcher Stylist Assistants - @naom_c @ellabacon_ Shot at #dilstongallery

#eddie redmayne

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#tina

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its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

#valid callout tbh

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genuinely, honestly, I wish fandom could move past "depiction isn't endorsement".

because it's really meant to be sort of the baby beginner step to media literacy but in fandom spaces it usually acts like a trump card to shut down critical discussions. it's one of the thought terminating cliches of fandom that discourages learning how to interrogate the text beyond "fiction isn't reality, dummy".

yes, the popular whump fic in your fandom isn't endorsing torture, but also, can you tell when the canon for your fandom is endorsing a message? how do you then choose to interact with that canon, and do you get defensive when people are critical of the source material?

depiction isn't endorsement, but can you tell when fandom trends are misogynistic or racist? can you see how killing off a black female character to "punish" her in fanfiction with the framing that she deserves it, and the popular narrative in a certain fandom that a heroic black man is a possessive liar and a white villain is a good man deserving redemption, is endorsing a message in fanfic? do you argue that it's "just fiction" when people get very understandably upset at misogyny and racism in fandom spaces?

yeah, depiction isn't endorsement, but do you think this is where it starts and stops as the only thing you really need to know? do you think people who are critical of things aren't engaging with it properly, or being mean, because they've forgotten the golden fandom rule of "fiction isn't reality"?

nbc hannibal isn't endorsing cannibalism as a dietary choice, but top gun maverick and call of duty: modern warfare were quite literally sponsored by the us military as propaganda for recruitment.

I'm not saying don't enjoy the ip that's making you happy or calling for moral purity in your media habits or whatever. just saying that there's a lot to media literacy beyond the feel good affirmations that periodically circulate fandom, and those affirmation posts both lack necessary nuance and discourage people from engaging with said nuance.

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some soft home wolfstar aesthetic to hopefully help in this chaos. 

I’ve had to come back to NZ after moving over to London and the whole country is now on a level 4 lockdown so I have so much time for art. I’m in quarantine by myself for 2 weeks so please send me any requests you might have! I’m so bored, oh god I’m so bored. 

Hope you’re all safe and well, take care of yourself and each other 💕

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Also, excuse me but the fact that when Newt is about to go off, and he's on the rooftop with Tina and says "If I don't come back, look after my creatures." Like. . . sir, you trust her enough to leave your suitcase full of a magically expanded world littered with all these magical creatures you've basically risked your life to protect?

I mean that's pretty strong trust. Or he's just an easily trusting person.

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Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them (2001)

Text and Art: J K Rowling

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Carolyn

#ilvermorny

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"Old friend" is a gayass thing to call someone

#grindeldore #kinda?