Enought people agreed with you that they were able to be parted from their money in great amounts
This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____.
Enought people agreed with you that they were able to be parted from their money in great amounts
Dude has a room temperature iq
Women are not multilingual you can’t be a good person overall.
Wtf
They are certainly tricky. Very vicious critters, but are shaped like a friend.
When I first came across this, I thought it was so cute I sent it to everyone I know irl. They got mad at me for sending them furry shit. 😿
Fun fact about pinnacle pizza: You have never had pineapple pizza which was made correctly. The original recipe calls for the pineapple to be cut into wafer-thin slices so that they dry out and caramelize while the pizza is cooking, sort of like fruit pepperoni.
Fairly sure those are called Visigoths and they sacked Rome in the 5th century
Ok. Since you have clearly been living under a rock for the past 10 years, here’s the deal with Rowling. It’s not really a political divide here, it’s an age divide.
Harry Potter was a formative experience for almost all of Millenials and Gen Z. That’s 40 years worth of kids right there. A lot if Gen X parents were fans as well. There’s a lot of gay/trans people who credit Harry Potter for helping them figure out their identity and come out to their friends and family. And Rowling is a master of cultivating a fandom; ask anyone between the ages of 40 and 12 what their house was, and I’m pretty sure you’ll get an answer. My point is, there are a lot of people (people who are adults now) who have formed their identity around Harry Potter, and Rowling made sure that it was seen as normal to get so invested in her books.
Problem is, Rowling is a Blairite Conservative, and you can see this all over her writing. As kids, we didn’t pick up on details like how the plot bends over backwards to not have any change happen in the world, how few girls there and how all the bad ones are ugly, the house elf slaves, etc. So when Rowling started to be more loudly TERF-y, we collectively went through a few phases of realization about how wrong we were about her:
To address another thing that might confuse you, I know that I’ve been using TERF and conservative somewhat interchangeably. To define my terms, when I say “conservative” I mean Rowling thinks the world was perfect at some point when she was a young adult and any attempt to change how the world works from that point is Evil and Bad. The Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist movement was seen as progressive in the 80s and 90s but has remained almost exactly as it was back then, so now it only contains “moderate” conservatives. To be fair, her political beliefs are pretty in line with most members of the Democratic party in the U.S., so I understand if you thought she was left-wing. But she is very clearly a conservative, and more importantly her whole fanbase was at minimum progressive liberals and many are much farther left because, you know, millenials and gen z have on average only been moving further left as they get older. Another thing exaggerating this is a fun little statistic that 67% of all book readers are girls, and guess which subset of Gen Z is most likely to be anticapitalist?
If she had just stayed quiet about hating trans people, I think Harry Potter might have been remembered as one of the most world-changing works of fiction, at least up until Gen Alpha gets old enough to enter academia. But she just had to use her platform to try to spread her beliefs, and now she’s so hated by her own fandom that attaching her name to a project is sure to make that project never sell, and any actually successful Potter-related project has to constantly reassure potential fans that they do not hate trans people, they are not associated with Rowling, Rowling has no involvement in their project, and a portion of our profits will be donated to a nonprofit that helps Trans kids. For example, Hogwarts Legacy did all of these things, and despite its good sales and despite most fans enjoying it there was an abstract dread looming over the project as if the fans expected Rowling to interfere with their enjoyment at any moment. It honestly just makes me sad that there are so many adults that feel so wounded and betrayed by their favorite author.
The way I reacted to this was to stop joining fandoms altogether, and I still feel icky when something I like has a fanbase. I don’t think this is healthy. Maybe I will work through this someday.
He’s really experiencing his food in there
Why subject you and those around you to such a torture when you can have native plants and landscape that barely requires any maintenance.
HOA compliance
Friendly reminder that HOAs require their council members to be elected. You can run for HOA president and potentially change many of these policies
Guess there’s 5 left lol
What I know is that there is an apprenticeship process, where they see if you have what it takes to care for a raptor. They are delicate little apex predators and need lots of love. They are also borderline endangered because of pesticides making their eggs weak and prone to cracking. I’m sure you’ve heard of the falcon sex hat? It was invented to solve the problem of failed eggs by making many more of them than normal.
The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was involved in a rollover accident on the Tri-State Tollway near west suburban Oak Brook late Monday morning, Illinois State Police said.
The famed hot dog-shaped vehicle was traveling north near Roosevelt Road about 11:10 a.m. when it hit a Hyundai sedan that was also traveling north, state police said. The wienermobile lost control and overcorrected after hitting the second vehicle and rolled over onto its side, according to state police.
The tollway’s northbound right lane was shut down from the time of the crash until about 12:25 p.m. while state troopers investigated. No injuries were reported, police said.
Thank you. I sent this to my fiancée. Made her smile
Yeah, that they smell
Yes. But is it moral? Also yes. Will you get sued? Almost certainly not.
What the fuck does milking mean in this context?
That’s a hoax. Kiwis can’t fly.
The only reason I know so much about Lancer’s lore is because of her telling me about it
I don’t get it