Parvati was the only light in the darkness for me. I love her and her quest line, and hope there’s more good ace rep like her in other media.

I stopped playing the game as soon as I finished her quest line because I was bored with everything else =\

No thanks. The first was not good enough to warrant buying the second at $60, let alone $80.

Good.

The thing is - there are millions of other things that you could find enjoyment in that don’t actively harm other people.

How about, for example, the plethora of IP that JKR plagiarized to create the HP franchise? Or anything that doesn’t have harmful stereotypes of various marginalized peoples? Or one that doesn’t degrade women’s roles in society by actively mocking main characters, or even passively by only having a grand total of 28 named women characters across over the one million words that make up the series?

Edit: apologies, I misremembered. There are 28 named women characters within the top 100 named character as listed by number of total mentions within the series.

Even if she weren’t a bigot, and she didn’t use her money to actively harm people using the money she makes, you would still be better off finding some other form of media to enjoy. You don’t have to land on one thing and make it your personality for the rest of your life. It’s okay to grow as a person especially if you’re an adult.

While I don’t disagree I think it’s important to keep in mind that kids and teenagers aren’t stupid - they are capable of understanding that you shouldn’t allow a bad person to continue to be a bad person if you have a conversation about why what JKR is doing is bad. Most of the vocal pushback that I’ve experienced offline has actually come from teenagers.

The problem lies squarely with millennial parents who continue to buy books/movies/games/merch for themselves or their young children because of nostalgia. They are old enough to know better, and should be held responsible for their actions.

The reason is simple: she’s a bigot. She has been successful at pushing her transphobic agenda into UK law, and she will continue to move across the spectrum because hate only knows how to hate even when they succeed.

This is exactly the reason I’m shifting from just warning people that buying her shit is immoral so outright calling them bigots for supporting bigotry. If they don’t want to be bigots they can stop giving her their goddamn money.

The record was broken and he’s still going!

He is more coherent after 24 hours standing and speaking than Trump is on his best days.

Are we seriously back on this again?

Good.

Perhaps, but that is what I was told by my doctor for my area. Seems like she would know.

That is really helpful to know. I don’t recall there being any MinuteClinics around here, but I’ll take a look for next time, thank you :)

I live in NYS. I had to pay $200+ out of pocket for the booster because my medical insurance would only cover vaccines administered by a doctor’s office, and the booster was only distributed to pharmacies. My medical insurance does not cover ANY prescriptions because apparently it’s an optional DLC now.

Only CVS and Walgreens were given the boosters too so they could set whatever price they wanted.

I don’t know a single other adult other than my partner that paid out for the booster because it was so expensive. If my immune system worked I could play roulette with vaccines too, but it doesn’t so I just continue to get my physical safety held hostage for more money.

Being allosexual sounds exhausting. You get some kind of feels for a person just by looking at them? I can’t wrap my head around that. Or sex drives. I don’t mind participating, but I could live the rest of my life not having sex just like I could live the rest of my life not eating a specific kind of cereal.

To me sex is optional. I don’t usually even think about it unless our allo centered world forces me to.

Is there a word for when something looks like a vulva?

Y’know, like phallic, but… That.

Okay, sure. Maybe it’s not from driving specifically, but it is just from sun exposure. Which I hear Aussies get a fair bit of, yeah?

Y’all it’s sun exposure from driving. You’re just old enough to see the damage.

Ew. Pass.

I’ll stick with my local small business retro shop that doesn’t stink of wage slavery, misogyny, and poor corporate decisions, thanks.

That’s fine the Olympics are terrible for people, the economy, and the environment anyway.

Me too.

I couldn’t believe that people were convinced to vote for him the first time. I couldn’t believe that after a term people were even considering voting for him the second time. Now, I’m struggling with how the man is allowed to SPEAK IN PUBLIC.

Any other felon would have been shunned to obscurity.

Felons struggle to find work and housing, yet this man gets another crack at leading a nation.

The man who complimented AMERICAN TERRORISTS after they successfully murdered his constituents gets to try to LEAD A NATION.

Republicans like to scream about CaNCel CuLTure, but fucking where is it now? This man shouldn’t be allowed to own his own clothes just for his financial crimes, and yet he is treated as a viable option for the presidency.

Edit: oh yeah, I forgot that he was impeached twice, refused to leave office, THEN lost the vote and tried to stay in office via violence.

I am absolutely grieving right now because of how much of the discourse following the debate is “BIDEN OLD”. Both of them are old. I wish I had another option other than Biden, but at this point it’s between him and a 34-time convicted felon that tried to throw a coup as soon as he was going to lose power and STILL will not admit he is wrong about the election results. Nor will he promise to honor the results of this upcoming election. There really isn’t a choice here.

What a fucking failure our political system is.