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the-evil-clergyman · 4 months

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The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse (1886)

#john william waterhouse #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #romanticism #pre-raphaelite #painting #british art #british artist #witch #witches #witchcraft #sorceress #magic circle #classic art

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inkskinned · 2 years

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i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

#witches and wizards #kids need to be able to play games without knowing the extended universe #playing was easy #i knew i wasn't gonna be able to explain chronicles of christomancy #but we could pick up a stick and run around #nd say we were magic that would be enough backstory #and i think the last time i felt that sense of community #was the summer of pokemon go #it's about cross-generational connectivity bro #yes there are insular communtities but EVERYONE had fucking read harry potter #which is me saying - i think maybe people don't miss HER or the ACTUAL BOOK tbh #they miss... feeling connected #think about how so many people felt so weirdly ashamed and lost after Game of Thrones ended -#they did SUCH a bad job that the entire community just... vanished.#where beforehand people would have GoT weddings #we are just animals who love stories and love feeling like we speak the same language #btw i am not on twitter so i hadn't seen some of the shit she was doing #and then when i was 19 she published the ''american school'' hogwarts stuff #and was reading it casually bc again a huge nerd #and in it shes like ''the british taught the natives their more civilized magics''#and that was like..................... oh okay. okay. so.....

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random-brushstrokes · 2 months

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John William Waterhouse - The Sorceress (1913)

#john william waterhouse #british art #witches #1910s

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 2 months

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#talkin #tik tok #uk slander #british slander #ding dong the witch is dead

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rosalyn51 · 6 months

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Matthew GoodE photographed by Kevin Davies in London.

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moonandserpent · 2 years

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Triple hare necklace hand carved by Moon and Serpent Website or Etsy

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palefoxwerewolf · 2 years

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The way how some people are just not aware of what the British Monarchy did in the name of 'trade' and 'civilization'..... Genuinely asking, what the hell is going on in your history classes?

When I was 10 years old, I learnt about the Mughals invasion, how the British set foot into India to trade spices and then established British India in the name of 'civilization'.

When I was 11 years old, I heard about the divide and conquer strategy, the livelihood of workers in plantations, how various handloom and weavers went out of work and starved to death.

When I was 12, I learnt about the Nizams cruel rule over my birthplace, Bhagath Singh getting hanged, Jallianwalabaagh massacre, cops torturing common people, Bengal partition, 1857 revolt, the salt satyagraha, Quit India movement, Civil rights, Independence, division of states and the Partition.

When I was 13, I learnt about the great depression, 2 world wars where the British just sent most of Indians to fight, the diary of Anne Frank, dictatorships and nuclear weapons.

When I was 14, I learnt about the cold war where two superpowers had the strength to topple governments and establish new ones, the CIA, the Arab spring and the horrible exploitation of natural resources of Africa by MNCs and Dutch shell company.

When I was 15, I learnt about the history of various other nations like China, France, Nigeria, America, Congo, Russia, Britain, Ireland, etc. and also various policies and acts introduced by the British government in India like the 1935 act and arms act.

I remember looking at an illustration of 200 persons from Africa cramped into a tiny ship on their way to America. I remember the illustration of a moving train, where people took cover under dead bodies to avoid bloodshed during the partition of India and Pakistan. I remember listening to Martin Luther King's speech.

Was this not written in your history books? Did you not see the museum displays where the stolen goods are proudly shown around? How the fuck are you still ignorant in the age of internet is beyond my comprehension.

#i am frankly sick of some people saying they just recently got to know why colonialism is bad #uk #british #anti colonialism #anti imperialism #queen elizabeth #ding dong the witch is dead #india #desi

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the-bonfires-ember · 2 years

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my blog has now become an anti-monarchist blog since the bitch croaked and i will not apologise for it.

people in my country are starving and food banks are closing.

people in my country are dying and their surgeries have been delayed.

people in my country will freeze over the winter because the cost of heating is too high and we are spending millions on a funeral for a woman that sucked money out of the same people who suffered before and are still suffering now.

Fuck the king. Fuck the monarchy. Fuck everyone that allows this to happen.

#uk politics #ding dong the queen is dead #ding dong the witch is dead #abolish the monarchy #british monarchy #crab rave #king charles iii #fuck the royals #fuck the queen #fuck the tories

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thefugitivesaint · 6 months

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