If Youre An Active Harry Potter Fan, You Should Donate Money To Trans Women, Like For Example, Me, Perhaps?

if you’re an active Harry Potter fan, you should donate money to trans women, like for example, me, perhaps?

Why I don’t like Ross and Rachel as a couple from FRIENDS

Okay, I know I’m gonna get some hate for this, but I hope you’ll hear me out (or rather read me out). I’m also sorry if others have said this and said it better as I haven’t been able to find anything as of late. This is just a rant about a couple that I feel never should have gotten together. So if you like this these two together then I don’t think this is the post for you. And also, spoilers? (I mean doe it count if it’s an old show?)

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can we normalize loving classic literature but still devouring those trashy YA books and finding quotes and inspiration from them? like, i can love shakespeare but also six of crows and not be belittled or ridiculed for appreciating all kinds of literature? additionally, it’s probably only frowned upon because it’s what teenage girls like and, let’s be honest, that’s just fucked up.

DEAR FANDOM on AYO...

I know there will be hundreds of posts of gifs of that opening scene  w/ Ayo ~magically~ cut out of it… and plenty of takes with perfunctory compliments talking about how she’s strong, badass, etc… 

But I’d like to iterate that Ayo is *not* a simple SBW (a strong black woman), which is sadly, a pretty common reductive “compliment” white fandom likes to throw-out to feel good about themselves w/o ever actually seeing a black character’s humanity, except in relation to a white character they are actually focusing on… I chose this shot, because Ayo is tearing up here. She is demonstrating vulnerability (something black women are rarely acknowledged as having) compassion and empathy for her charge’s plight, well-played by Florence Kusamba. There is nothing *intimidating* or *scary* about her here.  She assures safety and then confirms a long suffering torment is over. Immediately, afterward, we see her in  the present part of the story… right after so many reductive jokes were unleashed after last week’s episode ending scene, about her “beating his ass” and being “scary”…   Again, I hope more of fandom sees what actually happened here. She wasn’t threatening… 

She was disappointed.

Which is waaay worse. And her former charge was contrite, his head down.  He didn’t even offer excuses, because he had none… She reminded him of what they did for him only for him to release the murderer of their king, and then.. magnanimously gave him 8 hours, once he told her he needed him for their mission. Later, there’s a fight and I see people already acting like literally diasrming him of the arm **they gifted him* was out of line…. …The same people who actually walked this foreign stranger and assassin out of a 70 year trauma… *sigh* Ayo is fleshed out a bit in this ep, thanks to Florence Kusamba’s nuanced acting. What I’m hoping is that fandom doesn’t decide to reduce her anyway to scary black woman hurting a white fave, when the show and actress has done so much with so little to show us this character is the opposite of that… Why in fact, she is second in command. It has everything to do with her wisdom and compassion, not how “badass” or scary she is.

If you are focused on your white fave? Continue to be so, but don’t drag a black character in wrong-headed directions, making someone who helped *SAVE HIM* an aggressor, for what you think is the sake of that white fave…which I’m already seeing happen. Stay in that lane if you can’t see anyone past the fave in your own. Sure, Ayo is strong, but she is also a generous and caring woman. She was written that way and Florence has played her that way. To imply differently to prop up a white fave is the height of white fandom nonsense.

a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:

pretending to gag at asian food

pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures

excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)

not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"

adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~

using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women

ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, *edit* west asians, and central asians

making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)

treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community

co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history

Ayo could have easily left with both the shield and Bucky’s arm if she wanted to. People want rage for Bucky’s arm being removed but has yet to show outrage about the people of wakanda not getting justice for their fallen leader speaks volumes.

The Dora milaje came for zemo and was generous enough to give him a deadline. The pushback and resistance that they received when coming to collect was disrespectful. Not just towards them but their country.

Let’s not forget that Zemo escaped meaning they have to live another day without serving justice to their country. Bucky put that arm back on like what, three seconds later?

And I’m somehow supposed to feel bad for Him in all of this?? I’m thinking some themes in this show are flying over your heads.