also obsessed with the people trying to justify buying hogwarts legacy by donating to trans orgs. babygirl you are buying indulgences. martin luther is rolling in his fucking grave right now trying to get out and nail his 95 theses into your head. you are so fucked up by the culture of performative activism that you believe that you can undo/compensate for real harm by doing something good somewhere else. they don't cancel out. you have still done real harm, no matter what you do to make yourself feel better about it. i hope your guilt never leaves you no matter how hard you try to wash it away.

What we’re not going to do is say “there are actual wars happening and y’all are worried about a game?” when it comes to Slavery Simulator: Blood Libel

Passivity is what leads to war. You are siding with oppression when you ignore it. You cause actual, real world harm by ignoring issues until the snowball gets too big, and when the war does come you’ll just say you can’t do anything about it. You are just pointing towards “bigger issues” because something will ALWAYS be bigger, and you’ll always look for an excuse not to act. You just don’t care about people who aren’t you.

The game tells the players that an enslaved race (who are literal caricatures of Jewish people) deserve to be enslaved so they can’t oppress their oppressors. That is Nazi propaganda. It promotes the far right extremism that causes war and systemic oppression.

The United States government is pushing a trans genocide AS WE SPEAK. JKR uses her social standing and wealth to influence anti-trans policies in the UK. She WANTS a war on trans people. She openly says that supporting the IP is supporting her values BECAUSE IT IS.

You don’t care about war. You don’t care about “bigger issues.” You won’t care until you’re the one being oppressed. By then there’ll be no one to support your cause because we’ll be dead or worse, and you’ll have to listen to everyone left tell you your problem isn’t important yet (hint: it never will be to them). You should be allying with the oppressed, not your future oppressors.

Just so everyone knows, that post I made about 'creating another Harry Potter' was not about people creating their own individual universes.

I meant, as I SAID, that people could come together to create a big one, like GONCHAROV.

I was not saying you can write your own story or worldbuild your own universe on an INDIVIDUAL level. I was saying you've proved with goncharov that the fandom CAN come together to create something, AS A TEAM-- to replace it.

So no, don't get out there and create your own thing. Work together to create a big overarching thing that can truly take its place. That's what I was saying.

Do Goncharov: Harry Potter Edition, that was the point.

I like this. Let's make a new Harry Potter...

The main character is Xander and they are non binary

Posts that Tumblr will blaze:

• Blatant NSFW that breaks community guidelines

• Christian proselytizing

• Vent posts

Posts that Tumblr won't blaze:

• Spoilers for a shitty game that lines a transphobe's pockets

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the universal trans experience of seeing your deadname in the wild and involuntarily making the minecraft damage noise

i’ve been noticing tumblr getting dubbed the Autistic Website™️ which i love but i’m curious how sizable the Autistic Population here actually is so…

the best thing you can do is give people an alternative

This this this

E-VOlution: a poll-based interactive fiction

part 1 here!

part 2 here!

"What was I made for?"

"Uh... well. So they were trying to develop a multi-purpose, MacGyver type robot, you know?" He pushes hair out of his face. "A bot that can be a field medic, or defuse a bomb, or hack a system, or--engineer a solution for whatever needed solving in the, you know. In the field."

"The field," you echo. "So I was supposed to be, what, police equipment?"

"Well. Yeah. I learned what they were going to do with you after... after I'd activated your base program for the first time." He turns his big eyes up to you. "I didn't like the reasons we were working on you, but--but you're amazing, E-Vo. I couldn't just quit my job." Those big eyes slide back down to the ground and his voice drops in volume. "I'd have never seen you again," he mumbles.

my first poll is gonna be straight data collection:

Obviously Harry Potter is fucked up as hell, filled with bigotry and stereotypes, and a lot of the morals they claim to espouse are very broken aesops.  

However, there’s one broken aesop/fucked up thing that I haven’t seen anyone talk about: the fact that the narrative tries to push wizards as “oppressed”, when really they are oppressing basically everyone else.

Literally the only time we see a wizard being oppressed because they’re a wizard is Harry with the Dursleys, and a couple mentions of the Witch Trials.  The Harry thing is one isolated incident, which hasn’t happened to any of the other known muggleborn and/or muggle-raised characters.

I’m not saying that the Dursleys didn’t abuse Harry, or that he “deserved” how they treated him.  I’m one of the first who will call the Dursleys’ abuse what it is, and no child deserves to go through that shit.  Also, I know that HP-verse wizards are born with their ability to use magic and they can’t help it.

However, wizarding society as a whole oppresses everyone who isn’t a wizard, and even some wizards.  

Wizards see muggles(non-magical humans) not unlike how muggles see those apes that know sign language(and other intelligent animals).  They also see nothing wrong with regularly fucking with muggles’ minds and memories, and they often all but divide/isolate muggleborn wizards from their muggle family members.  

Wizards treat all non-humans and part-humans like utter shit.  This includes oppressive laws(eg. werewolves and goblins, as well as the whole bigoted “beasts vs beings” classification the wizarding government does with non-humans), mass enslavement(eg. house-elves), wars and thievery(eg. goblins), full-on genocide(eg. giants), and general societal assholery and disdain(eg. half-giants and other hybrids, and centaurs, and others).

Wizards even see their own kind as “lesser” if they have any muggle ancestry that is more recent than great-grandparents.  They especially see wizards that have completely muggle parentage as “lesser”.

Even the “good guy” wizards tend to be dismissive of muggles and prejudiced against non-humans!

So like, it really screws over the supposed messages about “bigotry being bad” and “your blood not mattering” and whatnot.  Especially since most of the supposed “good guys” are still bigoted, and the bigotry against non-humans wasn’t changed even when things got better for muggleborn wizards.  

Also it honestly makes me uncomfortable these days when I read a fic that suggests that wizards are “oppressed” for being wizards/having magic.  This is most commonly seen in fics that mention/are about Harry and his experiences with the Dursleys.

Again, Harry was abused by the Dursleys and treated like shit for having magic.  He was arguably “oppressed” by his blood family for having magic, and he didn’t deserve what he went through.

However, Harry’s case was one isolated incident, once which hadn’t been seen in the cases of any of the other known muggle-raised wizards.  The only other character who arguably had an abusive muggle family member was Snape, and from what I know his dad mostly fought with his mom, and, while Tobias Snape was an asshole, he wasn’t the horrifyingly physically abusive monster that the Snape Stannies paint him as in their Snape-woobification stuff.  

And even if you take Snape into account, there’s still the fact that Harry went from being “oppressed” to being in a high rank of the oppressor class as soon as he joined the wizarding world: he was a fully human wizard, and one of his parents was a pureblood wizard from a rich and well-known pureblood family, and he also has the “Boy Who Lived”/“Chosen One”/“Savior Of The Wizarding World” fame and celebrity status on top of that(though the way he got that fame/status is fucked up and tragic, I’ll admit).

So, while Harry did have a shitty life, he wasn’t oppressed in the wizarding world, especially not for being a wizard.  In fact, he’s actually really privileged in the wizarding world, outside of the whole “dead parents + abusive relatives” thing and the “constantly targeted by Voldemort” thing.

Writers accidentally making Autistic-coded characters be like