in the summer of 2011 i was 13 and visited my grandparents who lived in Canada at the time and they had this Canadian friend who had a swimming pool & she told them i could use it so i showed up in my bathsuit with my grandparents and she smiled and said “i heated up the water just for you its 95° now!” and i SHRIEKED bc i was sure she was gonna boil me alive like a fucking lobster

peteseeger:

hermionelodge:

radicalmercy:

radicalmercy:

hermionelodge:

peteseeger:

Remember when JK Rowling created a race of slaves who loved being slaves and resented any effort to make them stop being slaves and the one who didn’t want to be a slave was presented as a strange outlier

can ppl chill out and enjoy things maybe

you enjoy shit that portrays slavery in an even slightly positive light? i’d be more concerned about what that says about your own priorities in life to be fucking honest

“can ppl chill out and just swallow the ideology maybe”

they arent human???????? or real in case you didnt know… harry potter isn’t real.

Harry Potter, as with all media, reflects and comments on the ideology held by its author and that of society at large (and passive acceptance or approval counts as a comment). Rowling presents is with a race of enslaved beings, who resent attempts to free them. When abolitionism is presented, it is ridiculed and derided as overzealous and childish, and the narrative presents “they like being enslaved” as a perspective worth considering. Whether you like it or not that is a statement with ideological weight that reflects on Rowling and her work. Things are not beyond criticism because you enjoy them.

bunny-butch:

bunny-butch:

Having a halfway decent relationship with your abusive parent during adulthood is so weird. Its like, “oh mom, you’re so funny and cute! You violated me and made my childhood a living nightmare, causing trauma that I will never recover from, but nowadays you’re just a barrel of laughs!”

Like, its so great bc as parent and child you share a lot of mannerisms and personality traits, you’ve got a lot of in jokes, you just also have the heart wrenching awareness that this person will never, ever apologize for how they have victimized you, or even just admit to it