i feel like we’re all just kind of reblogging it in a circle and looking at each other uneasily like, waiting for someone to finally give in and yell it out in the reply chain
On the Pottermore website,
J.K. Rowling explains how wizards poop.
There’s an excerpt about the Chamber
of Secrets that says wizards didn’t need
toilets because they ‘simply relieved
themselves where they stood,
and vanished the evidence.’ SourceSource 2
i fucking hate jk rowling so much because years and years after this franchise has ended she is still continuing trying to make it bad to the point where she said that every character in harry potter canonically shits themselves and then casts a shit vanishing spell
fuck this is b a d
This reminds me of the hufflepuff group masturbation tweets
The what?
Just imagine you’re taking a test for potions with Snape and the guy sitting next to you just fucking shits himself the nastiest, slimiest shit of his life out of stress. And you literally have to sit there with a straight face while fuckin Todd JingleJangles cleans himself up in the dead quiet room with some stupid ass line like “vanish me poopum” and you just gotta live with the knowledge that some kid just shit himself beside you during a fucking test.
whales are the evolutionary equivalent of pulling a u-turn on the freeway
>start evolutionary journey in The Ocean
>grow legs and learn to breathe air, leave The Ocean
>say nvm, go back to The Ocean, sometimes keep the hips? and they just. float there.
>continue needing to breathe air, which is in short supply in The Ocean, Where You Live, so you evolve to hold your breath really long, but you still have to come up for air
man I feel bad for all the russians who aren’t gonna get to see this episode
When I was a kid my Favorite Thing Of All Time was Sailor Moon.
(It still is. That is beside the point.)
The amount of tangential learning that spawned from my love of Sailor Moon was immense. I learned to use the internet, learned HTML, learned about geology and astrology and astronomy and mythology. I learned about Japan. It was easily Baby’s First Exposure To A Multicultural World.
I also learned there was MORE SAILOR MOON than I was able to watch. Episodes, entire seasons, I’d never seen. Bits from the episodes that I had seen that had been cut.
I was in elementary school when my best friend Lindsay showed me a picture she’d printed of Sailor Uranus (who hadn’t yet appeared on US TV). “She looks just like me!” she’d said. And then she’d whispered conspiratorially, “She’s a lesbian.”
“Woooooow.” I said, “What’s a lesbian?”
Over time I learned a LOT about the stuff that was in Sailor Moon that was being kept from me, and it was my first introduction to both queer media and homophobia and censorship. That kind of introduction quickly cemented my opinions on both.
It basically meant that I first leaned about gay folks as Something Accepted In (The REAL Version Of) My Favorite Thing and I fist learned about homophobia as The Thing Keeping Me From Getting To Have ALL Of My Favorite Thing.
I was Mormon, raised by parents who voted Bush twice. I was also a gay rights activist (in halting, embarrassing, misinformed but well-intentioned ways) by the time I was finished with 6th grade. Common sense had wiggled its way into my psyche through a silly kids show and my love for it before my parents or religion could get there first.
I feel really bad for the Russian kids and Chinese kids who aren’t going to get this episode or get a censored/edited/rewritten version of it.
I hope they find out what’s been done, and I hope their anger is as righteous and petty as mine was.
I am eternally grateful to Rebecca Sugar and Cartoon Network for putting the onus on those countries to do the censoring, so those kids have something to get mad out. I’m so glad they didn’t go “Well, Russia is gonna cut it, so we shouldn’t do it at all.” I’m glad we weren’t denied this because someone somewhere wouldn’t like it in their market.
Sometimes a censored show is a Trojan horse for the idea it censors, but you have to give them something to censor first. I’m so sad Russian kids don’t get to see this show as is and feel immediately safe and loved. I hope they find out they were meant to. I hope they feel safe and loved somewhere, even if it’s not where they currently get to be.
I hope there’s a kid in Russia right now telling her friend, “This is Sapphire. She’s a lesbian.”
Her tuition so damn high she can wear whatever tf she wants
Spite goals
There’s a better thing to her story. She CONTINUED her thesis in her underwear and afterward her professor said “what would your mother think wearing those kinds of clothes”
And she responded “my mother’s a feminist also a gender and sexuality studies professor. She’s fine with my shorts”
i think the best part is that a majority of the class also stripped with her in solidarity
Just to give a little more perspective after reading the story:
The sequence of events is a little jumbled in the telling above. The actual chastising from the teacher came days before the woman’s thesis, during a practice run of her presentation. This was not a spur-of-the-moment thing where she just whipped off her clothes for the sake of being angry. Chai took the time to think things through before deciding this was the way she wanted to protest. She used critical thinking and level-headedness to decide instead of becoming volatile and aggressive, she would choose non-violent protest.
I just don’t like the way the story’s being told by others because it makes her come across as “overly-emotional” and “erratic” (as women often do in the media, because it’s easier to attribute extreme action to “hysteria”), whereas in actual news reports, she had time to think about her decision and choose the best way to handle what happened to her.
Can we have a Harry Potter AU where Regulus Black is the Death Eater spy turned potions master instead of Snape?
I can’t believe I only JUST realized all the comedy potential that is Sirius showing up to kill Peter 3rd year and finding his supposedly evil brother working at Hogwarts and having civil conversations with Remus about Harry’s grades
Please let this be after a full year of awkwardness of Regulus working with his evil brother’s ex
Sirius and Regulus are both convinced they’re the good brother
Overdressed & Underappreciated 