Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
As alluded to above, it's adult material not created by Robert Galbraith eg Harriet Potter and the...
- Chamber of Perverts
- Prisoner of Ass-kaban
- Gobble-It of Fire
- Order of the Penis
- Half-Blood Pimp
- Breastly Mallows
As alluded to above, it's adult material not created by Robert Galbraith eg Harriet Potter and the...
for the record, I agree with all this 100%It's all fair and well to talk about compromise and ideals in a theoretical vacuum but us LGBT+ people still have to go out into the actual world and deal with this stuff. It's tiring, having our existence be an "issue of debate", can we not just... exist? Why should I have to do the emotional labour of not just navigating the world and its ambient discrimination in the shadow of a spectrum that runs from minor disrespect to prejudice-borne physical violence, but then having to justify and celebrate my own being?
for example, I strongly feel that people who haven't lived it simply don't understand that weariness, of having to debate your existence
I can attest to that personally. I didn't really understand it until I reconciled my own sexuality.
that literally existential weariness, estrangement from "normality", whence the history of queer melancholia
which is a stereotype but you know, as always, a kernel of true
and I simply feel straight people don't get it unless they've made some empathetic leap
as someone - can't remember who - got upset when I pulled him up on it in some other thread recently
you could say the same in re white people and POC, men and women, what have you
tbc, it's never incumbent on the disadvantaged group to do the work, always the other way
Plus there's the whole anti-"mud-blood" prejudice among the "pure" wizarding families as an extremely subtle metaphor for racism.and that's why I think it's so galling to see Rowling use her platform this way - the character of Harry Potter is built on that private fear of not having a place to fit in, and the series as a phenomenon is that feeling blown up into a global scale of relatability, so to see her turn her back on that on that message of acceptance is so alienating to the people who these books have ever meant anything to
and that's why I think it's so galling to see Rowling use her platform this way - the character of Harry Potter is built on that private fear of not having a place to fit in, and the series as a phenomenon is that feeling blown up into a global scale of relatability, so to see her turn her back on that on that message of acceptance is so alienating to the people who these books have ever meant anything to
idk about that - people "have opinions" from a place of relative ignorance all the timeI think if you know enough about the debate to "have an opinion" (ugh) on eg trans rights then you really do enough to make the decision to not be a bigot
where did I say they wereExistential weariness, alienation, feeling weird is not exclusive to "excluded" groups
extremelyPlus there's the whole anti-"mud-blood" prejudice among the "pure" wizarding families as an extremely subtle metaphor for racism
I mean it went right over my head until I read an article by Saveloj Zeazick where be points it out, but he's very clever and is able to spot stuff like that.extremely
It's all fair and well to talk about compromise and ideals in a theoretical vacuum but us LGBT+ people still have to go out into the actual world and deal with this stuff.