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genuinelyshallow

Mona Alkurd , one of the Palestinians Israel is trying to kick along with 28 families out of their decades long homes in Sheikh Al Jarrah , the last Palestinian block in Al Quds ( Jerusalem ), to complete the restriction of the area to Israeli Jews .. simply an Apartheid by settlers.

“ Your posts and tweets are treasures to us “

Here a rough translation of what she said:

“ It falls on us and Palestinians and the honorable people supporting us with posts and tweets. You have no idea how much that means to us. Everyone who shares even one short post or tweet. Don’t feel like you’re doing nothing. Those posts and tweets are treasures to us. Help us get our cause heard. We are 28 families. 500 individuals. If we are removed, then there will be no Palestinians in Al Quds. And in the end, Allah is our hope. And it falls on us. And we will remain here to our last breath defending our lands and homes”

el-shab-hussein

Palestine's case is one of the rare ones where retweets, hashtags, reblogs, etc... are one of the most effective forms of support (besides boycotting and protesting) because donated money goes nowhere and petitions do not work in an apartheid state that seeks to eliminate its victims openly. We need the rest of the world watching and protesting and speaking out.

auroramancy

Here’s a more thorough translation (with the help of my mother who is a translator):

“We are going to hold on to our homes until the last moment. We depend on the youth and people of Al Quds (Jerusalem), those who are in Palestine, and anyone who can reach Al Quds. And we depend on the honorable people who stand with us, and who tweet using انقذواحيالشيخ_جراح# and #SaveSheikJarrah daily on all social media platforms. We count on those people. For us, the support of these people, even if [just] with a hashtag or post, even a short post or a short tweet, on any platform. For us, it’s like a treasure. So, we don’t want anyone, anyone to feel like they’re not doing enough. Anyone who posts or interacts with the hashtags, and posts about the cause and spreads awareness, and gets the word out that: if four families are removed, or seven or eight, then twenty-eight families will be removed, five hundred people. Those 500 people, if [we] are removed, then [all Palestinians] will be removed from Al Quds. This is why it’s important to spread awareness among people on this matter. Continue the campaigns on social media. This supports us. Those who can’t reach Al Quds and Sheikh Al Jarrah, keep going [with the social media campaigns]. This is the best kind of support for us. In the end, our hope lies in God and ourselves. This is our right (we are in the right). We’ll stay to the last moment and our last breath, in our lands and in our homes.”

fanonical

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

fanonical

JK Rowling’s prevalence in pop culture has had a direct impact on trans rights in the UK. our rights are being stripped from us as we speak. Gender clinics are shutting down all around the country, and those that aren’t are understaffed with years long waiting lists. why support her and her works, when y’all clearly give no shit about trans women’s safety and happiness tbh

fanonical

accio

i still can’t get over how the first fantastic beasts film is set in new york in the 1920s and there’s exactly one black person in it

lunarnoona5342

fanonical

Harry Potter is not a good book

fanonical

my least favourite bits were the slaves who argued slavery was a good thing, the werewolves who bite children as an allegory for AIDS, and the transmisogyny ever-present throughout the entire franchise

youwinoryoudiethatswhatpeopledo

Don't forget the fatphobia - mostly towards literal children - as a source of comic relief and the blatant antisemitic tropes

90sto2000s

Behind the scenes of Harry Potter movies

bashhowardproductions

lbibliophile

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant.
The young werewolf.
The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

wizardtowizard

Who gave you the RIGHT?

bonnini

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question.

marauders4evr

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

not-a-bit-good

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

marauders4evr

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years.

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect.

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse.

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley.

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends.

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

since1938

my-sun-is-gone

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

gehayi

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

frostyemma

well… well, shit

a-fangirl-summary

what

mintedpotters

Oh shit. Its been updated.

garrettauthor

…I’ve been in the “Dumbledore was on the darker side of morally grey” camp for years but this…this. Holy shit. Oh no.

champagneholland

justcatposts

“His favorite spot since he was a baby.”

(Source)

thekinkpopstandsforkrackheads

official-lucifers-child

i’m teaching a tiny little girl to say “nonbinary” and she keeps saying “no banana” and once she said “none bananananary” and honestly? close enough, she’s adorable and her parents are super chill with me and they already taught her to say genderfluid (to her it’s genner-flooood) and transgender (trains genner) and a bunch of sexualities so now i’m adding “none bananananary” to the mix

sharkenthusiast

Taught a kid I was babysitting how to say “genderqueer” and he keeps forgetting how to pronounce it so another good one is “gender weird” and I love it so much

official-lucifers-child

the genners: