A Gift

I‘m so tired of talking about this shit again and again. Yet there are still some stupid comments constantly pissed me off. And I’m so bored right now(working on finals). So here we go.

It’s not homophobia to picture a gay couple without any sexual scene.

It is homophobia to insist every gay couple have to announce their sexuality and relationship out loud in front of the audience, or they’re not gay.

Do you need Newt to say he’s straight and he’s fallen in love with Tina to get they’re in love? I didn’t see anyone having an issue here.

If two different gender characters were close to each other during the teenage years, “closer than brother and sister”, then they formed a fucking blood pact of not hurting each other. One of them still saw another in the mirror which can reveal your deepest desire after 20 years. Anybody would get how they were at least once in love. When they became two males and that’s suddenly not clear enough???

Who’s the one trying so desperately to deny and hide?

Also, again, it’s the 1920s, and that’s Dumbledore, a very reserved person ever since he was a little child(“He learned secrecy at our mother’s knee“). Throughout the whole HP books, we can hardly see him get really emotional and talk about anything from past until the very end. So who do you expect Dumbledore reveal his love to? To whom, Dumbledore can say, oh yeah when we were 17, I and Grindelwald were crazy in love…… Who??? How??? It’s not about courage or pride, it’s about privacy. If you didn’t get how Dumbledore valued his privacy and barely exposed his true emotion to anyone in his whole life, I suggest you can read the books all over again.

I don’t even wanna talk about Grindelwald. Any expectation for him to talk about Dumbledore as his ex is just too ridiculous.

I know some comments said they don’t need to say it, they can show. Yes, they can, and they already did. The blood pact, the mirror, the faint smile when Dumbledore looked at the mirror, and the jealousy inside Grindelwald’s voice every time he spoke to Newt. They were all so subtle and beautiful that I cried at the theater multiple times. There is a million way to show love. I pity you if you can only think of physical touching.

To be clear, I don’t think fb2 is a good movie. And I’m clearly expecting there would be more scene of Grindeldore in the future. They can make a tv show out of this ship and I’m gonna go down with it. But, did they disvalued the love between these two powerful souls? Not a little bit.

Hey shout out to my aroace people who are sex and romance repulsed and feel like they have to be comfortable with sex and romance to be accepted. you don't, and you deserve a space where you can feel safe.

This is including arospec and acespec people too

Y'all (and me ig) deserve characters who are allowed to be hot and not sexualized

Y'all deserve a place where stories dont have to have sex to be fun/interesting

Y'all deserve a space where people dont get annoyed at you for disliking overly sexual or romantic stories

Specifically for arospec people who are romance repulsed, yall deserve a place where friends are valued and its ok to have sex/be attracted to people without any thought of romance. Yall also deserve characters and stories about this.

Specifically for yall acespec people who are sex repulsed, yall deserve a place where you can feel safe knowing that sex wont be expected of you, a place where you can date someone and not be expected to have sex with them, and most of all, yall deserve characters and stories about people like you who's story and sexuality isnt erased.

Yall dont need to be comfortable with sex or romance, theres been an uptick in people talking about aroacespec peeps who are comfortable with that stuff, and are very prominent in fanfic and smut areas of the internet, which is very cool and good, but that does not need to be you.

If youre romance and or sex repulsed, that is completely ok, you should not have to feel like you have to be comfortable with that to be accepted by people.

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Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

if any of you went to Białystok Pride today (20.07.2019) - apparently nationalists were taking photos of people who participated in the march so that “they can finish what they started” (by chasing and beating people up, throwing things at them, maybe even killing them) - so please stay safe, i hate that i have to say this because we should be allowed to simply exist without having to fear some piece of shit will come and murder us in cold blood for not being cishet, or maybe even “not looking straight”, but be careful. buy pepper spray if you can and carry it with yourselves. use your self-defense skills or start going to classes if you have money for that. take care of each other. we can’t let them win.

You can’t just hide that in the tags, that’s the best thing I’ve seen all day. Here, get more drawings as a treat.

The Grandmaster: Thanos! Long time no see. So, I have this problem. I’ve been texting my boy toy, goes by the name Loki, and his line was disconnected mysteriously. I can’t seem to find him anywhere. Everyone’s been telling me you were the last to talk to him. Do you know where he might be?

Thanos: Ahem! Well…funny story-

The Grandmaster:

wip

Source: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2019/08/02/ethiopia-tree-planting/

I feel a kinship to Dr. F Welling, my skeleton also crawls its way out of my body if someone interrupts my work.