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@michealawithana

no, I didn't move here from Twitter, pls don't block me she/her 24
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Reminder that jkr basically funds a large portion of the terf movement in the UK and promoting harry potter and actively giving her money is helping fund that movement and is actively encouraging her and her followers because they see this as support

Stop adding in the tags for ways for people to engage in this content without giving her money when i explicitly stated that promoting harry potter also helps support this movement its really shitty to see people turn around and go “okay but you can still engage and promote this content but this way because were only helping it stay relevant and not giving her money”

Since I apparently wasn’t clear enough JKR will not be deplatformed as long as Harry Potter continues to remain relevant and people are still reblogging this with tags with ways to promote the series it’s really disheartening that a fucking book series is more important than the safety of trans people

JKR claims that the number of Harry Potter fans is proof of how many people support her transphobic views. Literally, any time you post HP content, JKR considers it a statement that you're "team terf." Do what you will with this information.

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god-dan-itt

this right here is the face of a man who kept a secret for 5 years and finally having it revealed

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nicolauda

Rhianna Pratchett confirming her father wouldn't be a """gender critical""" activist (whatever the hell those GCs stand for) if he were still alive

The GCs are Terfs. A specific type of transphobe. Quite a few British celebrity got recruited to their ranks and they have the money and clout to do a lot of damage unfortunately.

Terry passed away before Rowling started her downward spiral and played a significant role in creating the current toxic atmosphere around Trans rights in England . It is good to see that his daughter ,who is also a writer, stands up for human rights.

That’s despicable trying to “recruit” someone who’s DEAD. Not to mention there’s NOTHING in Pratchett’s books—including the ones of essays, articles, and speeches—to suggest he join in if he was alive.

And obviously his own kid would know his private opinions so hopefully the assholes will see her tweet and back the fuck off.

(GC stands for “gender critical”, when you see that it usually means that you’re talking to/about terfs who are trying to rebrand their image).

For those of you who are wondering who else the original tweet is referring to, they are talking about Margaret Atwood, a very prominent feminist author (probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale). Because she is a feminist the terfs assumed that she’d naturally side with them, and it came as a massive shock (for some reason) when she very publicly opposed and humiliated all of  terfdom.

But yeah I don’t know how terfs can possibly get through Discworld books without any kind of self-awareness but apparently they do. I’ve also seen them talking about how the Wives in the Handmaid’s Tale are all trans women (solely based on the fact that they are infertile). If you know anything about the plot or even the basic premise you’ll know how ludicrous that suggestion is.

Terf rhetoric basically revolves around throwing shit at the wall and then crawling around in anything that sticks, but the underlying transphobia is always present.

Rhianna Pratchett is the best.

“Terry Pratchett” is now a trending topic on twitter and everyone is just slamming the people who claim he would be transphobic. It’s been really nice to see

Also there’s this

I’d already seen most of this on Twitter, but the Tom Hatfield tweet was new to me and got some laughs.

Also, this is the one that made me get all teary:

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kloonissmall

they couldn't have picked a worse choice for someone to claim to be a terf. like. terry fucking pratchett?

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Notice the huge difference between economic advice and, say, medical advice.  The typical doctor will tell you, “Cigarettes are bad for your health, so stop smoking.”  For an economist to give smoking advice, in contrast, he needs to know more than the mere fact that smoking has a downside.  He needs to discover a discrepancy between actual and perceived downsides.  Do you under-estimate the health risks of smoking?  Then economics tell you to smoke less.  Do you over-estimate the health risks of smoking?  Then economics tells you to smoke more.  Unlike doctors, economists know how to give advice and respect pluralism at the same time.

Caplan

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god-dan-itt

imagine how brennan must have felt 5 years ago when emily was like "i bet porters bad" like if i was him and i was trying to set up something super long game that wouldnt be relevant until much later i'd be shitting absolute bricks

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kermit-coded

maybe it's just me being an aro hater but i never really was rooting for oisin being good/redeemed. i didn't hate him but i had no interest in him being adaine's love interest or even found him all that interesting.

my haterisms continue to be validated.

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