#Mills Relatives

[artbyzigzag]

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[murderballadeer]

i'm trying to get my sleep schedule to something more normal (aiming for 12:30-8:30) so i got up at 9am but since my mom is at work, my sister is out of town and my dad sleeps until like 11 almost every day the apartment is basically empty for two hours which is kinda spooky

#it's a relatively small place for four people so i'm used to it being busier #& i mean it's like this sometimes during the school year bc i don't always get up at the same time as my mom & sister #but that's different bc i only have an hour to get myself ready & out the door #these days i'm just milling around indefinitely & i can't make too much noise bc i'll wake up my dad #soapbox

[fieryncbles]

Henry calls David "Gramps" and Rumple "Grandpa" exclusively and it's a very important distinction for him and for me.

#m: henry mills #henry ( headcanon ) #rel: henry & david #rel: henry & rumple #I've just finished watching the ep where Henry goes undercover to work as Rumple's assistant/apprentice with my mum #So I'm having all the feels about Henry and Rumple #and all the (lost as far as tptb are concerned) opportunities to explore their grandson-grandpa relationship #🥺

[anti-workshop]

MOVIE NIGHT

I had the apartment to myself last night so I watched a bunch of movies my wife would have no interest in. Here are some recommendations!

Underwater (2020): Ok, so I love this premise and K Stewart is awesome in this. The effects are so well done (if you can suspend your disbelief that anything filled with air wouldn't implode immediately at those depths) I am a sucker for a good sci-fi/monster flick and this ticked all my boxes. One of my faves going forward for sure. Awesome fucking cameo at the end which clinched it as a classic for me which I will enjoy rewatching to catch everything I missed the first time around. Great score too.

The Mill (2023): I love this sort of super low budget, very few cast members, small scale psychological horror. Lil Rel Howery does a fantastic job and carries the movie basically alone. I might actually do a screening of this for my IWW branch because it's a lovely piece of anticapitalist media. A quick watch, highly recommend.

The Box (2009): This is that one with the premise where if you had a button that gave you a million dollars but it killed someone, would you press it? Frank Langella is missing half his face etc. The makeup effects are really great. I loved the Twilight Zone episode Button Button which this borrows from (based on a short story I haven't read of the same name.) The Twilight Zone episode does a great job of honoring this very simple story. This movie, although I enjoyed it, is a bloated, overproduced mess. It is cramming so many different ideas into itself, and none of them really pay off. All the acting is stellar, despite the material. The score by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and my fave gay violinist Owen Pallett is outstanding.

#movie night #underwater #the mill #the box #kristen stewart #lil rel howery #franky langelly #own pallett

[afieldinengland]

#bigupmordred

#thinking about him being arthur's unwittingly incestuous son rather than his nephew. it makes much more sense for arthur to plant the seed #of his own destruction than for a run of the mill blood relative to be like fuck this guy in particular. not that that's unusual for #arthurian myth. #i'm alright by the way. feeling better. woke up at seven and went into the kitchen and it was ablaze with sunlight. which felt like a sign

[the--highlanders]

so I did some writing today,

#personal #my favourite pastime is inventing relatives for jamie solely so i can kill them off <3 #i am also going to create a fic that is so niche <3 #featuring: 18th century survey map place names. statistics on river crossing deaths. gaelic dialogue. & way too much information on mills #this is barely even a dr who fic anymore this is an infodump

[tomatoluvr69]

Almost got caught with my suspicious knowledge of Bay Area geography by someone who knows I’ve never been to the west coast well it’s not my fault you gotta look that stuff up for when a certain somepony goes to california

#i was like uh well they put a lot of movies and books there…. #a northeasterner isn’t sposed to know mill valley’s relative location I guess lmao #not my fault I have spotless map recall #it has nothing to do with mash!!!!!!

[dclblog]

The Mill (O-Ton)...

...ist eine jener nicht übermäßig hochbudgetierten Horror-Parabeln, wie sie früher in der "Twilight Zone" und heute eigentlich in "Black Mirror" anzufinden sind. Diese kleine Scifi-Thrillersatire auf Turbokapialismus und einen uns alle immer mehr entmenschlichenden Algorithmusfetisch mag nicht der Gipfel an Subtilität sein und keine Räder neu erfinden, aber die Präsenz eines fast ausschließlich mit sich selbst spielenden Lil Rel Howery, eine schnörkellose Inszenierung, die mit wenigen Mitteln viel Welt erzählt sowie eine grimmige Grundattitüde einem Thema gegenüber, welches diesen Film in naher Zukunft relevanter erscheinen lassen könnte, als es viele Snob-Kritiken zugeben wollen, sowie nicht zuletzt eine perfekte Laufzeit von gut anderthalb Stunden ließen "The Mill" für mich zu einer absolut kurzweiligen Angelegenheit werden, die ich zu sehen nicht bereute.

D.C.L.

#filmkritik #kritik #d.c.l. #spielfilm #chronicles of d.c.l. #scifi #horror #thriller #the mill #lil rel howery

[jingbang1]

1、 Cutting method

Cutting method is currently one of the most widely used thread machining methods. This method can use cutting tools such as turning tools, cutting cutters, and milling cutters for machining. The cutting method is simple to operate, but requires precise machining equipment and low machining efficiency. In addition, due to the slow relative movement speed of the cutting tool, it may cause the problem of rough machining surface.

2、 Etching method

Etching method is a chemical processing method, which has the advantage of being able to process very small and complex thread shapes. The etching method requires the use of chemicals such as acids and bases for processing, and requires hazardous material management and strict operating procedures. In addition, the etching method also requires the processing of molds, so the cost is relatively high.

3、 Rolling method

Rolling method is a processing method that uses rollers to press the workpiece and convert its shape. Rolling can process the surface of a workpiece into parallel and continuous external and internal threads. Compared to the cutting method, the rolling method has the advantages of high machining efficiency, good surface quality, and high material utilization of workpieces, especially suitable for large-scale thread processing.

4、 Line cutting method

The wire cutting method is a method of using high current discharge to process the spiral shape on the electrode along the workpiece. This processing method can produce very small spiral lines, with high processing accuracy and good surface quality. However, the processing speed of wire cutting method is relatively slow, and it also requires periodic maintenance and upkeep of the processing equipment.

#1、 Cutting method #Cutting method is currently one of the most widely used thread machining methods. This method can use cutting tools such as turning tools #cutting cutters #and milling cutters for machining. The cutting method is simple to operate #but requires precise machining equipment and low machining efficiency. In addition #due to the slow relative movement speed of the cutting tool #it may cause the problem of rough machining surface. #2、 Etching method #Etching method is a chemical processing method #which has the advantage of being able to process very small and complex thread shapes. The etching method requires the use of chemicals suc #and requires hazardous material management and strict operating procedures. In addition #the etching method also requires the processing of molds #so the cost is relatively high. #3、 Rolling method #Rolling method is a processing method that uses rollers to press the workpiece and convert its shape. Rolling can process the surface of a #the rolling method has the advantages of high machining efficiency #good surface quality #and high material utilization of workpieces #especially suitable for large-scale thread processing. #4、 Line cutting method #The wire cutting method is a method of using high current discharge to process the spiral shape on the electrode along the workpiece. This #with high processing accuracy and good surface quality. However #the processing speed of wire cutting method is relatively slow #and it also requires periodic maintenance and upkeep of the processing equipment.

[floorman3]

The Mill Review- A Fasinating Film About The Concept of Workers and Employees

One-location films are usually horror-centric. Films like Buried, Inside, and Saw have been a few that come to mind in recent years. Now Hulu has a new one-location horror film that has come down the pipe, and it has an interesting premise. I’m sure a lot of people can relate to this one. I sure could when I watched it. Joe (Lil Rel Howery) is happily married and he has gotten a promotion at his…

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#Hulu #Jeffery David Thomas #Karen Obilom #Lil Rel Howrey #Pat Healy #Sean King O&039;Grady #The Mill

[geekcavepodcast]

The Mill Trailer

A businessman who wakes up in a prison next to an ancient grist mill. He is forced to work pushing the mill for The Mallard or face "termination."

The Mill stars Lil Rel Howery, Pat Healy, and Karen Obilom. The film is directed by Sean King O'Grady from a screenplay by Jeffery David Thomas.

The Mill hits Hulu on October 9, 2023.

#the mill #mill #lil rel howery #pat healy #karen obilom #sean king o'grady #jeffrey david thomas #hulu #huluween #TGCLiz #Youtube

[redgoldsparks]

I wrote a 12 page epilogue to my 2019 comic "Harry Potter and The Problematic Author" because I found, in 2023, that I had more to say. You can also find this comic on my website, and I have PDF copies available on etsy. I may sell print copies at some point in the future.

instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble

Full transcript below the cut.

PAGE 1

Part one: Ruddy Owls!

I was in fourth grade when the first Harry Potter Book was released in the US.

Panel 1: Sometimes our teacher would read it aloud in class. “Mr and Mrs Dursley of number 4 Privat Drive were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much…”

Panel 2: I was 11 years old when Harry Potter finally broke through my dyslexia and turned me into a reader.

Panel 3: Every night in the summer before sixth grade I waited for the owl carrying my Hogwarts Letter. I cried when it didn’t come. “I have to go to Muggle school!”

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Part Two: Hats

I dedicated myself to being a fan.

Panel 1: I began collecting Harry Potter News article.

Panel 2: I asked my relatives to mail me ones from their local papers. I filled a thick binder with clippings.

Panel 3: I wrote my own trivia quiz

Panel 4: and participated in the one held annually at the county fair. “Next contestant!”

Panel 5: I usually got into one of. the top five spots. I won boxes of candy, posters, stationary, and once a baseball cap. (Hat reads: I survived the battle of Hogwarts).

Panel 6: In high school I sewed a black velvet cape and knitted many stripped scarves.

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Part Three: Double Trouble

Watching the last film in 2011 felt like the final note of my childhood. 

Panel 1: I remember driving home from the midnight showing thinking about the end of 13 years of waiting; wondering what would define the next chapter of my life. 

Panel 2: That same month I heard of something called Pottermore. “Okay, so there’s a sorting quiz… I already know my house! Patronus assignment? Mine’s a barn owl. Duh!" 

Panel 3: You can read the books again but with GIFs? Why? 

Panel 4: I lived in a place with very slow and limited internet at the time. Pottermore sounded inaccessible, but also boring. I never joined. 

Panel 5: "I’ll just read the actual books again, thanks." 

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Part Four: Sweets

In 2016, a series of short stories titled "History of Magic in North America” were released on Pottermore to pave the way for the first Fantastic Beasts Film. These stories display an extreme ignorance of American history, culture, and geography, but the worst parts are the casual misuse of indigenous beliefs and stories. Fans and critics immediately spoke up against this appropriation. Some of the most quoted voices included Nambe Pueblo scholar Dr. Debbie Reese who runs the site “American Indians In Children’s Literature”; Navajo writer Brian Young; Johnnie Jae (Otoe-Missouria and Choctaw), founder of A Tribe Called Geek; Dr Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), a Professor at Brown University who runs the blog “Native Appropriations”, and writers N.K. Jemison and Paula Young Lee.

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Rowling is famous for responding to fans directly on twitter, yet she did not respond to anyone calling out the damaging aspects of “Magic in North America.” Her representatives refused to comment for March 9 2016 article in the Guardian. She has never apologized. All of this, plus the casting of Johnny Depp and the specific declarations of support by JKR, Warner Brothers, and director David Yates left a sour taste in my mouth.

For further thoughts on the new films read The Crimes of Grindelwald is a Mess by Alanna Bennett for Buzzfeed News, November 16, 2018.

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Excerpt from Colonialism in Wizarding American: JK Rowling’s History of Magic in North America Through an Indigenous Lens by Allison Mills, MFA, MAS/MLIS (Cree and Settler French Canadian)

Although Rowling is certainly not the first white author to misstep in her treatment of Indigenous cultures, she has an unprecedented level of visibility and fame, […] One of the most glaring problems with Rowling’s story is her treatment of the many Indigenous nations in North America as one monolithic group. […It] flattens out the diversity of languages, belief systems, and cultures that exist in Indigenous communities, allowing stereotyping to persist. […] It continues a long history of colonial texts which ignore that Indigenous peoples still exist. […] In the Wizarding world, as in the real world, Indigenous histories have been over-written and our cultures erased.

from The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature Volumn 19, Issue 1

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Part 5: Music

Panel 1: Also in 2016 I discovered two podcasts which radically altered my experience of being an HP fan. The first was Witch Please created by two Canadian feminist literary scholars Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman.

Panel 2: “If it’s not in the text it doesn’t count!” “Close reading ONLY!”

Panel 3: They talk about Harry Potter at the level you’d expect in a college class with particular focus on gender, race, class, and the troubling fatphobia, fear of othered and queer coded bodies, violence against women, white feminism, gaslighting and failed pedagogy in the books. They bring up these issues not because they hate the series, but because they LOVE it.

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These passionate, joyful conversations went off like fireworks in my mind. I had never taken a feminist class before. I gained a whole new vocabulary to talk about the books- and the world.

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Panel 1: The second podcast I started that year was Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, created by two graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, Vanessa Zoltan and Casper Ter Kuile.

Panel 2: They read one chapter per episode through a theme such as love, control, curiosity, shame, responsibility, hospitality, destruction, or mystery. Like Witch Please, they are interested only in the information on the page, not thoughts from the author. The delights and failures of the text are examined in the context of the present day, and new meanings constantly arise.

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What does it mean to treat a text as sacred?

Trusting that the more time we give to it, the more blessings it has to give us.

Reading the text repeatedly with concentrated attention. Our effort is part of what makes it sacred. The text is not in and of itself sacred, but is made so by rigorously engaging in the ritual of reading.

Experiencing it in community.

“To me, the goal of treating the text as sacred is that we learn to treat each other as sacred.” -Vanessa Zoltan

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Part 6: Tooth and Claw

In October 2017, Rowling liked a tweet linking to an article arguing that trans women should be kept out of women’s bathrooms because of cisgender women’s fears. In March 2018, she liked a tweet about the problem of misogyny in the UK Labour Party which included the line “Men in dresses get brosocialist solidarity I never had.” The author of the tweet had previously posted many blatantly anti-trans statements.

Rowlings publicist claimed she had liked the posted by accident in a “clumsy and middle-aged moment.” Yet, in September 2018 she liked a link posted by Janice Turner to her column in the Times UK titled “Trans Rapists Are A Danger In Women’s Jails.”

Screencaps of these tweets can be found in the article “The Mysterious Case of JK Rowling and her Transphobic Twitter History”, January 10 2019 by Gwendolyn Smith (a trans journalist), LGBTQNation.com

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Excerpt from: Is JK Rowling Transphobic? A Trans Woman Investigates by Katelyn Burns

Ultimately, the answer is yes, she is transphobic […] I think it’s fair that she receives criticism from trans people, especially given her advocacy on behalf of queer people in general, but also because she has a huge platform. Many people look up to her for creating a singular piece of popular culture that holds deep meaning for fans from different walks of life, and she has a responsibility to handle that platform wisely. (Published on them.us March 28, 2018)

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Part 7: Home

At age 30, I’m still not over Harry Potter.

Panel 1: I’ve recently found a local bar that does HP trivia nights. “Poppy or Pomona?” “Poppy!”

Panel 2: I currently own an annual pass to Universal Studios so I can visit Hogsmeade.

Panel 3: I love talking to kids who are reading the books for the first time. “Who’s your favorite character?” “Ginny!”

Panel 4: And I’m planning a relisten to the audio books to next year to help me get through the election cycle. “Jim Dale, I’m going to need you more than ever…”

Spoiler from 2023: I did not do this. By mid-2020 JKR had posted her transphobic essay; we were in covid; I never visited Universal Studios again.

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But I do want to learn from her mistakes. I never want to repeat “Magic in North America.” As I write, I will do my research. I will consult experts and compensate them. If a reader from a different culture/background than me speaks up about my work, I will listen and apologize. I KNOW I WILL MAKE MISTAKES. But I will own up to them and I will do better.

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Excerpt from Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power and Publishing by Daniel José Older

We can love a thing and still critique it. In fact, that’s the only way to really love a thing. Let’s be critical lovers and loving critics and open ourselves to the truth about where we are and where we’ve been. Instead of holding tight to the same old, failed patriarchies, let’s walk a new road, speak new languages. Today, let’s imagine a literature, a literary world, that carries this struggle for equity in its very essence, so that tomorrow it can cease to be necessary, and disappear. (Buzzfeed, April 14, 2017) 

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Harry Potter is flawed, & JK Rowling is problematic. But the books helped me learn a lot: 

*One of the greatest dangers facing the modern world is the rise of fascism 

*The government cannot be trusted 

*Read and think critically

*Question the news: who paid the journalist? Who owns the paper? 

*Trust and support your friends through good times and bad

*Organize for resistance

*Educate and share resources with peers

*The revolution must be diverse and intersectional

* We are only as strong as we are united

*The weapon we have is love 

MK 2019

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PART 8: EPILOGUE

In 2021 I removed a Harry Potter patch I sewed to my book bag over a decade ago. I took 15 pieces of Harry Potter fanart off my walls. I got rid of my paperback book set, 2 board games, and 8 t-shirt. [images: a Hogwarts a patch with loose threads, a pair of scissors and a seam ripper]

Panel 1: Maia holding up a shirt with the Deathly Hallows logo on it. Maia thinks: “Damn, this really used to be my entire personality.”

Panel 2: The t-shirt gets thrown into the Goodwill box.

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I wrote my zine wrestling with JKR’s legacy in 2019, after her dismissive and racist reaction to indigenous fans and critics of “Magic in North America” and after she had liked a couple transphobic tweets. Since then, she has gotten so much worse.

A Brief Timeline (mostly from this Vox article)

June 2020- JKR posts a 3600 word essay making her anti-trans position clear

August 2020- The Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Org issues a statement about her transphobia, JKR doubles down on her position and returns an award they gave her

December 2020- JKR claims 90% of HP fans secretly agree with her anti-trans views

December 2021- JKR mocks Scottish Police for recognizing transgender identities

March 2022- JKR criticizes gender-inclusive language and legislation

December 2022- JKR retweets trans youtuber Jessie Earl’s critical review of Hogwarts Legacy, starting an onslaught of transphobic harassment towards Earl

December 2022- JKR removes her support from an Edinburgh center for survivors of sexual violence with a trans-inclusive policy and funds her own center which explicitly excludes trans sexual assault survivors

January 2023- JKR tweets “Deeply amused by those telling me I’ve lost their admiration due to disrespect I show violent, duplicitous rapists.” It got nearly 300K likes

March 2023- One the podcast “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling”, hosted by a former Westboro Baptist Church Member, JKR compares the trans rights movement to Death Eaters.

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What are The Witch Trials of JK Rowling?

Panel 1: Maia speaking. “It’s a 7 episode documentary style podcast hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper. Nearly every episode contains interviews with JKR as well as critics, journalists, historians, protestors and fans.

Panel 2: Maia speaking. “In episode 1, JKR speaks more candidly than she has previously about being in an abusive marriage. Her ex-husband hit her, stalked her, broke into her house overlapping with the time she was writing the first three HP books.”

Panel 3: Maia speaking. “What she went through genuinely sounds horrific. I have a lot of sympathy for the kind of life-long traumas those experiences leave.”

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HOWEVER.

It is clear from reading the June 2020 essay on her blog and listening to the podcast, that JKR still to this day feels unsafe. Despite her wealth and privilege she moves through the world with the mindset of a victim. And the group of people she finds most threatening are trans women.

Or rather, she is afraid that allowing trans women in women’s spaces invites the possibility of male predators entering those spaces.

Here’s a direct quote: The problem is male violence. All a predator wants is access and to open the doors of changing rooms, rape centers, domestic violence centers [...] to any male who says “I’m a woman and I have a right to be here” will constitute a risk to women and girls. - from The Witch Trials episode 4 as transcribed by therowlinglibrary.com, March 2023

Image: A stem of Belladonna with flowers and berries.

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Let me introduce here the term: TRANSMISOGYNY. The intersection of transphobia and misogyny, this term was coined by Julia Serano in 2007. Scout Tran, on tiktok as Queersneverdie said: “Transmisogyny occurs in people who have been previously hurt by traditional misogyny. Who have been driven to hate men or at the very least to be scared of men. They will sometimes take out that rage on trans women. (March 2023)

JKR claims to care for trans women and understand they are extremely vulnerable to assault and violence. In her 2020 Essay she wrote: “I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe.”

So she cares about trans women… just less than cis women, and she’s willing to throw all trans women under the bus because of her unfounded, prejudice fears.

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Panel 1: Maia speaking. “JKR claims to have seen data that proves trans women have presented physical threats to other women in intimate spaces, but never cites sources. She also uses “producer of the large gametes” as a definition of “woman”.

What about transmen and nonbinary folks?

Panel 2: Maia leaning on a stack of all seven HP books, the first four Cormorant Strike books and The Casual Vacancy, gesturing to a series of quotes with a tired and disgusted expression.

I’m concerned about the huge explosion of young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning. * [...] If I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. -June 10 2020 essay

I don’t believe a 14 year old can truly understand what the loss of their fertility is.

-Witch Trials episode 4

I haven’t yet found a study that hasn’t found that the majority of young people experiencing gender dysphoria grow out of it*. -Witch Trials episode 7

*No sources cited

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It’s hard to over emphasize how fixated JKR has become on these topics. As of the date I’m writing this, 14 out of her 20 most recent tweets (70%) are in some way anti-trans. She tweets against Mermaids (a UK based trans youth charity), against trans athletes, against gender neutral bathrooms, and in support of LBG Alliance- a UK org that denies trans rights while upholding gay rights. Here are some gems from her archive:

“People who menstruate.” I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? -June 2020

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman. - December 2021

And in response to someone asking “How do you sleep at night knowing you lost a whole audience?”

I read my most recent royalty cheques and find the pain goes away pretty quickly. -October 2022

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Hashtag Ruthless Productions a queer nerd podcast company created a great guide on ethical engagement with HP. Image: the two hosts of Hashtag Ruthless productions, Jessie (They/she) and Lark (he/him).

Stop buying all official HP Products: books, movies, games, toys, etc, Universal Studios tickets, food, merch.* Boycott any new TV series or movies. Instead: buy the books and DVDs used. If you still want to wear HP merch, buy fan-made. Engage only with fan content: fic, podcasts, fanart, wizard rock, etc. Show transphobia is bad for business. None of this will change JKR’s mind. But the Fantastic Beast series was canceled and after record Pottermore sales in 2020, they fell in 2022 by 40%.

*She gets a portion of ALL tickets. In 2019, this was her largest income source. Read the full guide: hashtagruthless.com/resourceguide

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As late as 2019, I was still reading JKR’s murder mystery series. But by the fourth book my experience began to sour.

Panel 1: Maia holding a copy of Lethal White. “The only gay character in this book is a government official who gropes his staff?”

Panel 2: “The only genderqueer character is misgendered and portrayed as a whiny faker?”

Panel 3: “The only Muslim character is disowned by his family over gay rumors?”

Panel 4: “Even the women aren’t portrayed very well…”

Panel 5: “Why is the main female character defined by the rape in her past?”

Panel 6: “Wait, what happens in the rest of this series…?” Maia scrolls on eir phone.

Panel 7: “Is the series heading towards an employee/boss relationship?”

Panel 8: “And has a man wearing women’s clothes to commit assault?”

Panel 9: “Yeah, I’m done. I’m never reading a new JKR book ever again.”

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And as for JKR herself?

As tempting as it might be to tweet your frustrations at her, I don’t recommend it. In 2021, she tweeted, “Hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me.” Getting hate online feeds her sense of victimhood and she waves it as proof of her moral high ground. Instead I suggest you block her on twitter, then delete twitter, go to the library and try to find a new book that feels magical.

Stack of books: In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin, Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane, A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir.

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In “Emergent Strategy” adrienne maree brown writes: You do not have the right to traumatize abusive people, to attack them, personally or publicly, or to sabotage anyone else’s health. The behaviors of abuse are also survival-based, learned behaviors rooted in pain. If you can look through the lens of compassion, you will find hurt and trauma there. If you are the abused party, healing that hurt is not your responsibility and exacerbating that pain is not your justified right.

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Seeing anyone over age 12 wearing HP merch now makes me uncomfortable. Are they ignorant or actively a TERF? I hate wondering how much money JKR has probably poured into anti-trans legislation… This zine is a culmination of my slow breakup with a story that once brought me joy. Now it just makes me angry, tired and sad.

Image: Candle in a fancy holder burned down to less than an inch.

Maia Kobabe, 2023

#harry potter #harry potter and the problematic author #jk rowling #transphobia #jk rowling transphobic

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm going to give the chickens to my mom for the winter 😬

years ago, I had a coop built on her property in case my guys ever needed to be re-located. she's since put her own birds in it, but it's large enough that there's plenty of room, and she's expanded on it since then, adding a fenced off area for everyone to wander in relative safely.

the problem I'm having is rats. they figured out that my chicken run isn't airtight, and they've been stealing feed and reproducing. it's not fair to my neighbours to be running a rat mill out of my yard, and I also can't do much to prevent them so long as there's a food source (believe me, I've been waging active war against these guys all year, trying all sorts of devious things).

so my plan is to remove the chickens, remove the chicken feed, and turn my yard into Fort Knox. really go to town fixing up my fencing, lay down gravel to interfere with digging, etc. it'll be easy to see if worked or not, because over winter any wandering rats will leave footprints in the snow.

and then in spring, if I've successfully made the rats move on, I can bring my birds back into their upgraded coop + run.

#tallgeese #wormbecca #none of my neighbours have complained #but I also feel like I owe it to them to try to fix this

[yamujiburo]

Hi, first of all: I love your style, it's very expressive!

You say you've basing some of your Pokemon comics on personal experiences. If that's the case, are you the Jessie or the Delia in your relationship? :3

Thank you!!

I've answered this question quite a bit before, but I'll make it more thorough! I'm the Delia and my girlfriend, Mille, is the Jessie for SURE.

Millie is very extroverted and outgoing. She's a lil hotheaded and stubborn (affectionate) and SO passionate. She loves with her whole heart very deeply. She's worldly, has traveled a lot and is experienced in so many different things much like how Jessie's traveled the world and had many careers.

I'm a little more down to earth and much more of a homebody. I'm relatively quiet and like to keep to myself. I don't think Millie would disagree that I'm a bit more nurturing hahaha.

@miwwiew feel free to add to this

#ask yam #girlfriend posting

[mmmthornton]

So both my phone and my phone case are so busted at this point that I literally need a paperclip to hit the button to turn the screen on/off. Christ. >:(

#my life #lol if an unknown relative could leave me a modest property i could invest in and maybeee a couple mill.....i'd be set. -_- #thats all i want baby