When I criticize jk Rowling do not assume I always hated Harry Potter. I knitted hogwarts house scarves. I got my first binder to dress as Draco Malfoy for Halloween. I reread the books multiple times. I read probably every pottermore article there was at the time.
I’m not here to validate your smug feelings about not liking a children’s book series 20 years ago. I’m here to discourage others from spending money on it and to give myself and others words and space to work through some feelings. I’m a trans person that made Harry Potter one of my cornerstone interests. One of my favorite things. I’m not some cis person doing cope.
Harry Potter was a big thing. Like. Big in a way that’s difficult to fully understand. It still is. If you were caught up in it during your formative years it’s normal to need to process all of the horrid things now associated with it.
Having to burn down the house you grew up in is going to be hard even if it turns out that the house was always rotten from the inside out. Even if it turns out that the foundation was made of straw. But the destruction and deconstruction must happen if one hopes to move on and move forward. That’s why I talk about it at all.
This. There has to be a balance of burning down the house but also evacuating everyone before the smoke inhalation hits.
Processing betrayal sucks. JKR screwed over the millions of readers who grew up on her stories about standing up to fascism, judging people by their actions and not their heritage, and finding out who your real friends are in times of crisis. She’s admitted she only cares about the money now, not about her readers.
When we say we’re mad at JKR, we’re mad because she either decided that the values extolled in Harry Potter no longer mattered to her or manufactured empathy. But it’s hard when you think of how the series provided so much connection and may have given us courage in times of darkness.
The house has to be set on fire. Also, the house still has people inside. We can’t get everyone out and treat them for smoke inhalation, but we have to try to save those who want to breathe properly.
If you see the quote “I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn’t defend it politically” or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it’s gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don’t know it’s from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.
Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn’t said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.
Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!
The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.
This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.
The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.
You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.
If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!
I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.
If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!
*currently suffering from a horrible migraine. Tries this*
Are you fucking shitting me it works!?
@thebibliosphere I don’t know if it’ll help, but it may be worth looking into.
This is something my magic physio man also taught me. It helps if your migraines are triggered by muscle tension. Not so much if you have other root causes like OP mentioned above.
what the fuck??!? WHAT THE FUCK?!?? WHAT! THE!! FUCK?!?!?!?
I couldn’t find/ wasn’t aware of a character meme for Warframe so I decided to make one to my liking! Featuring my Operator Goss and his main frames, second image previews/explains the template. Hoping to get a Drifter put together at some point as well.
CSP/PSD downloads here, feel free to edit or treat elements as optional. Arial font, colors/decorations lifted from game screenshots.
Feel free to tag me if you use it, I’d love to see everyone’s operators!
The longer clip didn’t save. Those cops beat the shit out of anyone blocking the right wing assembly as they could.
Good God! Don’t be a coward and reblog this shit!
The rise of Greek and German nationalism are the most cookie cutter versions of white supremacy to exist and to look away from it is 1000 percent to condone it.
It affects everyone with a conscious and working brain.
I’ve never given a fuck about yalls blog themes even once.
*handing you the mic* You think white supremacy is BAD. RIGHT???
