They’ve tried their best to wipe this article off the internet:

The trouble with S.P.E.W. is that Hermione wants it all and wants it now. Political movements take time as well as effort, so the notion of changing the world overnight is quite naive. Even when people are well-meaning, there’s always the risk of doing more harm than good.

Hermione’s methods might be ill-advised, but this doesn’t render her entire cause unworthy. Just because most elves don’t want freedom doesn’t mean they don’t deserve better treatment. Hermione’s dream of an elf in government might be far-fetched, but there’s merit in wanting to protect the vulnerable and allow them more choices. However, she ought to be careful – ‘tricking’ elves into freedom is arguably as unethical as enslavement.

Before we go, let’s consider Kreacher. Think of how he changed when treated with kindness by his new master, Harry Potter. Previously he’d been bitter and unpleasant, not to mention a liability to his previous owner. Had Sirius treated him a little better, things might have worked out differently. Dumbledore was right – being kind to Kreacher was in everyone’s best interests.

If you look at other translations, “SPEW” is often changed to that language’s word for “vomit,” “fart,” or “snot.”

The idea that Dobby is mentally unwell for wanting to be free has some upsetting historical precedent.

Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby.

As a sorta half blood rape baby, this has always driven me mad. I am not evil because my conception was.

The point of S.P.E.W. is that Hermoine is an obnoxious activist for caring about slavery so much. Winky gets freed and becomes a depressed alcoholic, the other house elves get pissed that Hermoine tries to give them homemade socks. Hagrid calls Dobby weird for not wanting to be a slave.

Pottermore used to have an article “To SPEW or not to SPEW” which was critical of Hermoine. The text clearly condones the race based slavery. Heck - even the name “SPEW” is a joke.

He had a stroke in 2011, and I think having two kids die fucked him up. (Some of his early works had sympathetic portrayals of gay men.)

I’ve always found it amusing that the guy who wrote Wyrms (fourteen year old girl is destined to be impregnated by a monster, and the book is her weird horny journey to it) and Hart’s Hope (where our hero has to rape a teenage girl in front of an audience in order to claim sovereignty over the kingdom, and she turns into the story’s main villain) got so hung up about sexual purity.

“At minimum five women have died from being denied abortions in the US because of Dobbs, but at least those evil trans girls can’t be third place at a track meet anymore!”

I hope so too. It’s evil and sick. She deserves better. I hope the attention brings her better things and support.

It’s adults bullying children.

It sounds silly, but San Andreas is really underrated. Like I know it’s considered one of the best games of all time, but the writing, the confrontation with racism and the police and the dynamics of gangs….

I mean, most of the time it’s just fun to get 5 stars and enact your own revenge for the MOVE bombing. But that main storyline is so slept on.

I had an amazing day yesterday, and now I’m sobbing because I failed to save a baby bird.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N-gger, n-gger, n-gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n-gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N-gger, n-gger.”

They threatened to reach out to any colleges she got into as retaliation if she brought it up on social media.

Private schools in the US have historically been a way to shut out the “wrong” kind of kid anyway.

As a “fun” exercise, if you are in the US, look up when your state was desegregated and compare to your local non-Catholic private schools’ founding dates…

Fabuloso is the best for floors. Smells so good too - good enough that you want to drink it.

If you go to any grocery store in predominately Latine area, it’s pretty common. Lots of old ladies swear by it.

No weed, very little beer for most of the week. Had a job interview at a place that I love. I think it went well but I don’t want to jinx it. Part time, and I’ll be back to 50 hour work weeks with that and the second job likely, but both positions are things that don’t make me miserable.

Everything would be fine, tbh, if my billionaire ex husband hadn’t maxed out my credit cards before kicking me out two years ago.

Some of them are trolls from places like KiwiFarms and 4chan. Many are not. It’s more “posing as girls to create a hate group OF girls.” They groom and recruit teenagers, especially ones dealing with gender dysphoria themselves.

Edit: TW this is pretty sick. I don’t want to hide it - I really really need people to start paying attention to this. The alt right is radicalizing children.

This movement is going to end up killing people. It’s a cult, it’s the alt right pipeline for girls.

I don’t think anyone is going to pay attention to it until one of these women goes and shoots up a school.

Tumblr will not take down shit like this either:

Violent rhetoric against trans people is A-OK on Tumblr.

Slavery didn’t really stop.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Ever see those “funny law” books? “You can’t eat ice cream on a Sunday” or whatever? That’s why.

Also - can’t you pick up tea at some point, when you need to have the item “no tea” to complete the game?

I played the Apple II version. Old games were cruel. I’d get frustrated and rotate between Rivers of Light and The Return of Hercules.

It’s creative bankruptcy. Things don’t need to be realistic, it’s called style.

Stuff like Zeno Clash and Dishonored hold up aesthetically because they aren’t going for realism. And I’d take Morrowind’s arthropod bodies back if I could have the moral complexity and ya know, themes back.

Hitchhikers Guide was even worse.

Fuck the babble fish puzzle.

I liked them until the fifth book came out - I was about in fifth grade. You could tell that when Order of the Phoenix came out that she had George Lucas syndrome and wasn’t being told “no” by editors anymore.

I still did the midnight releases and fun stuff, but it jolts from a decent “monster of the week” children’s series to overwrought garbage.