why is my old laptop so slow
Listen. Until your cishet ace people have an entire race of people trying to erase your history for centuries and kill you and oversexualize you and demonize you and constantly attack you PHYSICALLY and make laws against you and get you profiled by police and attacked sexually/physically by the police due to your asexuality then you can tell me its the same. Cause literally thats what colonialism has done and is still continuing to do. How exactly is it the same? You can’t take away context
//here
//im not answering this rn
//ill leave it for the adulting asexuals
//or
//anyone really
Yes, don’t erase context.
The context that this overwhelming affects trans women. Trans people, in general, like the person you’re screaming at with your incoherent, impotent, child-like tantrum. But, most important, trans women of color, which is where your little colonialism argument actually comes into play.
Like how many aces of color are told they literally can’t be ace because the people of their race are too sexual for that. Or how aces of color already risk immense levels of sexual violence on the basis of their race alone, and I can only imagine how much worse things go when someone finds out they’re ace. How our already tiny amount of representation is overwhelmingly in the form of white men, and a large portion of their race’s representation is entirely sexualized for the consumption of white people.
Or, for just general aces, how a plethora of states still give grounds for a divorce if your marriage has never been consummated. Or how asexuality is still in the DSM despite a tiny little addition at the end where you can’t be diagnosed if you identify as it, so see our lack of representation for why that’s a problem. Or how one of only two studies ever done about us reports our systemic discrimination and hatred for a number of tested areas is beyond or tied (with bi people) for every single category compared to other sexualities (in the GL, at least). Or just take a cursory look through our blog and count how many times we’ve had to recommend a suicide hotline to someone in the last month alone (removing several instances of when we did it to someone off anon without posting, of course).
Meanwhile, gay and lesbian folks can get away with saying bullshit like this ask while bolstering their numbers of abuse and hate by absorbing bi and trans statistics, while simultaneously taking all the federal funding they receive for their organizations, leaving the trans groups with scraps (because the transgenders are useful for the moment) and leave the bi groups with absolutely fucking nothing. It should also be mentioned how bi people make up about half of all LGB people, so if we’re being logical, they should get at least half the funding between the three groups (also a hefty percentage of trans people are bi, around 20%).
So you can sit there and either be one of these people or their token lapdog, ignoring all this and ignoring how misleading and downright despicable your attitude and assertions are, or you can decide to shut your mouth for once and actually try to learn history. Such as the simple fact that straight people don’t give a shit about your specific orientation or gender, just that it’s “not normal”. So while you and your ilk stand around circlejering about some imagined oppression ladder (with a rather odd numbering system for those rungs, I might add) and whether someone’s Gay Enough to be in your club, you can actively ignore how everyone’s dying and suffering out there by people actually doing the oppressing.
Your willful, cowardly ignorance and disingenuous use of race, gender, and other sexualities to fight against other vulnerable people is sickening.
You are a professional assassin for the CIA. But you are also a double agent. One day, you are assigned with killing a foreign agent. This foreign agent is your other alias.
#Gemini Problems
imagine mutant tumblr like “if you don’t have a visible mutation then mutation positivity is not for you!!!”
don’t let tumblr tell you that self-diagnosing a mutation is ok!!!!!!! only a professional doctor can determine if the ice that shoots out of your hands is a mutant power or an aggressive case of special snowflake!
can someone please make magneto’s tumblr account
I still say America needs five wizarding schools:
A northern school, a southern school, a historically Black school, a Native school, and a Spanish missionary school on the west coast.
Or just something that fits in with American history.
as a side, I also think Canada would have at least four: one in Québec where everything is taught primarily in French (it serves the Acadian population in the Maritimes too, but anyone can attend the school so long as they’re fluent); one in Ontario (serves everything east of Manitoba); one on the west coast (either in the forests in BC or in the Rockies); and one in the northern territories, on one of the shitload of islands.
All the schools would look like the railroad hotels, bc those are the closest things we have to castles here. The one in the territories looks like Château Montebello though.
(Saskatchewan gets nothing bc it’s flat where are you supposed to hide a school behind corn?!?!)
yeeeeeeees
Up until the 1870s, wizarding schools in North America were small, insular, and devoted to a particular cultural group. During the 18th century, New York City alone had 4 schools: The old Dutch Haardhuis (steadily losing popularity), the fancy new British school that met in across the street from St. Paul’s, the Swedish school consisting of only 3 students and their tutor, and the secret door in the Bowery which led (if you knocked three times and threw a pinch of ashes into a barrel) to where slaves and black freedmen learned magic at night.
Americans come from varied experiences, varied backgrounds, and no one school can service them all. Besides, the agrarian year would have prevented most magical kids from leaving home long-term. Also immigrant wizards would have brought the culture they tried to blend in with: A French Catholic from Maine wouldn’t want to go to school with a Spanish Floridian or Pennsylvania Dutch. I don’t care what anyone says about international magic cooperation.
I think with the advent of the latter industrial revolution post-Civil War and the attitudes of nativism and cultural assimilation, particularly towards immigrants, the American magical community would have consolidated into at least 5 major schools. I headcanon Ilvermorny, a school in New Orleans, Area 51 (established post-WWII as a technomancy school. WIZARDS IN SPAAAACE), the Bermuda Triangle (who offer course loads in Spanish, French, and English), and a school in Santa Cruz, CA (almost as old as Ilvermorny) not-so cunningly disguised as a Mystery Spot.
There are still small schools and insular communities. One community of wizards in Illinois got away with appearing un-charmed for 103 years before the US wizarding government stepped in. Their non-maj neighbors assumed they were a religious sect because of the weird clothes and antiquated technology. Both the Japanese and Chinese schools of magic opened remote campuses on the West Coast, accessible by mirror, to allow immigrant wizards a well-rounded education.
Indigenous North Americans, in general, do not having wizarding schools in the sense of Rowling and Ilvermorny. They keep their traditions and magical arts to themselves. Removing children from their community and lands is counterproductive. With few exceptions (most distinguished being the schools of the Anasazi and Iroquois Confederacies) indigenous wizards were taught at home, by their own people. Groups would meet at yearly gatherings to exchange news, trade, and information. One such notable indigenous wizarding rendezvous is the yearly event at the Straits of Mackinac, held for thousands of years where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet- hidden from view thanks to the Mackinac Bridge.
But yes, the Americas are too big, too varied, too mixed an experience to have one narrative, one school, and well… one writer.
(Sorry for getting carried away, I was having a storm of a headcanon session post-Ilvermorny. I’m mixed race indigenous, so I had some gripes…)
AU where everything is the same except that Ron and McGonagall start a chess club, and it’s FREAKING AWESOME.
• Because Minerva McGonagall isn’t gonna let an eleven year old kid beat her at sudden death chess and get away with it.
• Ron is a really good president just ‘cos all he expects from members is that they try. You can be horrible at chess (Harry) or extremely good at it (Dean Thomas and his deft hands), and it doesn’t matter in the end because Ron’ll clap you on the back anyway and say, “Good game, mate.”
• Meetings are held in the library because Madam Pince has always had a softness for wizard chess and trusts Minerva when she promises that no one will [probably] get blown up. (Seamus Finnigan whistles innocently somewhere in the background.)
• The library is actually the perfect place for it. The atmosphere is charming. Books are floating around their heads all the time—some leaning down curiously to watch, others being plucked lovingly from the air by Hermione. The usual quiet is exchanged for whispered exclamations and barely stifled sniggers, and just this once, Madam Pince doesn’t mind. Oh, and the light coming in through the colored windows shines on the pieces in a really beautiful way, I tell ya—reds, blues, and golds flickering off kings and queens like badges of honor. (Everyone kinda loves it.)
• THE GOOD: (i.) Dean Thomas: Vice President. His games are works of art.
Dean Thomas is a work of art.(ii.) Justin Finch-Fletchley: He used to play chess all of the time with his muggle grandpa. It took him a little bit to get used to all the moving pieces, though. (iii.) Susan Bones: She learned precision from her aunt and applies it nicely to the chessboard. (iv.) Astoria Greengrass: Boredom and a desire to do something interesting has bred a mean chess player out of little Miss Greengrass. (v.) Cho Chang: Cho doesn’t get to attend all of the meetings because of Quidditch, but she’ll pop in occasionally and make fools out of anyone who dares to cross her. #RavenclawPride• THE OKAY?: (i.) Hermione Granger: Hermione’s not bad per say. She’d be better if she would stop overthinking every, single move. (ii.) Michael Corner: He’s a bit of a sore loser. (iii.) Neville Longbottom: He’s actually a pretty decent player—just needs a bit of polishing around the edges. Neville likes the patience of chess, how he can sit and think a little while before he has to make a move. (iv.) George Weasley: In many of his and Fred’s wonderful schemes, he’s been responsible for the finer details of the prank, the complexities and the nuances. His attention to detail makes him a player to contend with.
The UGLY:
(i.) Harry Potter: Harry J is constantly distracted by everything and everyone in his tragic life to be any good at chess, but he wouldn’t miss a meeting for the world. Ron gets this big, stupid grin on his face when he’s playing that’s worth every second of it. (ii.) Draco Malfoy: “Did you see the way Potter moved his chess piece? It wasn’t very graceful, was it? I’m much better than Potter. Besides, chess is for inferior people. LIKE POTTER. Have I mentioned that I’m better than Potter?” “Oi, Draco, you lost.” “Oh.” (iii.) Daphne Greengrass: She only joined because her sister made her. Most of the time, she just sits in the corner and reads a wizard comic. Nerd. (iv.) Ernie Macmillan: Brags ceaselessly when he wins. Threatens to quit when he loses. Finally acts on his words when Astoria creams him with many pawns to spare.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: (i.) Seamus Finnigan: Did not blow a single person up. (ii.) Fred Weasley: Isn’t really interested in the chess part, but enjoys alternating between cheering his brothers on and pranking them. (iii.) Hannah Abbott: Her weary apologies for Ernie’s pompous behavior should be duly noted. (iv.) Luna Lovegood/Dobby: Their collaborative banners for the club are lovely.
• In light of Dumbledore’s Army, the Hogwarts Chess Club is later renamed Dumbledore’s Pawns.
Too on the nose?• Over the course of the club, there are certain match ups that everyone gets really hyped over: Dean vs. Ron, Draco vs. Harry (even though both of them are horrible at it), Astoria vs. Ron, etc. But no game is more anticipated than the occasional one that Minnie McGee and Ron play. It’s epic. The pieces are all but broken by the time they finish up. At the end of Ron’s sixth year, the record is in his favor, but only just.
• (Quite a few Weasleys have come and gone in Minerva’s time at Hogwarts—many of them extremely gifted and well liked by her—but for this, for his prowess at a game that she loves, she will always have a particular fondness for Ron.)
• Other teachers stop in to play, too. Flitwick and Pince have a delightful rivalry. Snape has never beaten Minerva McGonagall for all his sneering. Lupin is okay, but his main contribution to the club is giving chocolate to unsuspecting members. (Where does he get his supply??? Does it just randomly appear up his sleeve?????) Dumbledore himself once popped in, won against Ron and Minerva alike with a twinkle in his eye, and then Apparated out of the library just because he knew Miss Granger’s mouth would fall open.
• You have to admit, that man has style.
• Just Hogwarts chess club, y’all.
• I think Ron would love it just as much as his Chocolate Frog card. (Okay, maybe a little less.)
