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creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*

8 year old me: but what if there was a good and nice one :0

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Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

#safety #woman #signal boost

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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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New REBLOG Game

Just fucking lie about the previous poster

#reblog with tags: #she's a die hard spuffy shipper #<- 😭😭😭 #anyway #adrianas favourite character in BDB is Lash #pass it on #<- the offence #well played suz #🤣🤣

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New REBLOG Game

Just fucking lie about the previous poster

#she's a die hard spuffy shipper

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*says a fact in a conversation and a wikipedia citation appears next to my head*

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(I meant to answer days ago, like your ask, but ugh life. Sorry!!)

Yeah, Tohr and Wellsie was a little easier to digest because we didn't have so much of them. Although I loved them both from the start, so it did hit me hard and still gets me emotional.

Selena nearly killed me, though! It was so horrible, also because she knew that was her fate and then Trez had to know, too.

I am happy that Trez found love again, but I also didn't like that return for Selena. I think J.R. somehow got to a point where she's afraid of actually killing main characters. The returns kinda remain a thing.

As a writer it would have been the brave thing to do, to keep Selena dead. I'm not sure, why she didn't. It definitely would have put Trez and Selena's relationship in a beautiful bubble. It would have stayed whole. This way it's all tangled with the ups and downs due to the rebirth and new personality and everything.

But it's the Phury thing with Trez, too. Since their second novel they're basically never mentioned. Which is something that I find very sad. I'd love to get more looks at the other couples that we met. And if it's the random mention of chatter at that dining table. Just some look at how they're doing.

We'll see what the future brings. Are you up to date on what's happening with the series? This years release is basically a new beginning. I just don't wanna spoil anything 😅

You're reading the BDB series? I just saw that you're reading Lover Mine and my brain immediately had to pause because it's my favourite series and I haven't found so many people here who read them. So now I had to come and ramble to you about the excitement that somebody here reads them 😅

Yes! I think this is my third read through? I got to The Beast a few years ago and it started to irritate me so I stopped but now I’ve started over again. I like John Matthew and Xhex so much so I’ve been excited to get back to this book.

Which is your favourite couple 👀

#suz #bdb #i have trouble picking faves! #z and bella are very high up #but i actually love rhage and mary #they just kinda function and if they don't they talk it out #i just don't like how rhage is just a comic relief at this point #i feel like he has more potential #murhder and his sellan are faves for me too!

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Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰

But you're the awesome one! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

#suz #asks #i love you suz #it took me forever to reply *feeling shame* #life was suddenly extremely busy #but thank you so much babe!!!!!!!! #love love love #❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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the whole “i used to be a teen who hated authority only to grow up to become the authority that hates teens” is a bad bad thing that practically every other generation has fallen into and we all need to make an extremely conscious effort not to repeat the fucking pattern

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Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

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#yes

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#angel #btvs

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you ever heard a lightning fucking scream?

youre about to

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people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

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OSCAR ISAAC Behind the Scenes of ESQUIRE (2022)

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