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WITCHES IN FILM: The Craft (1996) Suspiria (2018) Harry Potter (2001 - 2011) The Witch (2015) The Neon Demon (2017) The Love Witch (2016) The Little Hours (2017) Hausu (1977) Bell Book and Candle (1958) Pirates of the Caribbean (2006 - 2007)

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But I would actually be fine being stuck in a luxurious 20 million dollar mansion with a large pool, a tennis court and an elaborate garden maze for months on end.

It’s like when that prosecutor argued against house arrest for Felicity Huffman and showed a picture of her massive house: “Not being allowed to leave here is a punishment!?” 

The fact that people are boycotting JK Rowling for her blatant transphobia and not mentioning her blatant racism exemplifies why people are white before they are trans or gay.

The Wizarding school North America (Ivermory) is riddled with blatant appropriation of Native American cultures, but no one gave a shit.

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The Blatant Racism of JK Rowling’s Ilvermorny Houses

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The Geek Anthropologist

Magical Maladies and Injuries: Cultural Appropriation in J. K. Rowling’s Ilvermorny

Although the final book in the Harry Potter saga, The Deathly Hallows, was published almost a decade ago, J. K. Rowling has been quietly bui

But no one gave a shit until she started starting transphobic rhetoric.

She literally takes Native American beliefs and... I don't know what the words are for this bullshit. Misrepresents them to capitalize on them? Appropriates them? Completely ignores the original beliefs in order to make up her own?

the Guardian

JK Rowling under fire for writing about 'Native American wizards'

History of Magic in North America, being serialised on Rowling’s Pottermore website, attacked for using an ancient culture ‘as a convenient

Although the new insights into the universe of Harry Potter were welcomed by many, the author was strongly criticised online by a number of voices from Native American communities, particularly over her writing about skinwalkers, which in Navajo legend are said to be evil witches or wizards who can take on the form of animals.

Rowling writes that the myth “has its basis in fact … A legend grew up around the Native American Animagi, that they had sacrificed close family members to gain their powers of transformation. In fact, the majority of Animagi assumed animal forms to escape persecution or to hunt for the tribe. Such derogatory rumours often originated with No-Maj medicine men, who were sometimes faking magical powers themselves, and fearful of exposure.”

Responding to a question on Twitter, Rowling said that “in my wizarding world, there were no skinwalkers”, with the legend created by those without magic “to demonise wizards”.

But yeah. The transphobia is why we're boycotting her.

(This isn't to say the transphobia is okay or to minimize trans issues. This is to point out that white people only care about issues that effect other white people.)

Look. All I'm saying is if you're going to make a post about why we don't like JK Rowling. Say "we aren't going to support JK Rowling because of her racism and transphobia."

Not to mention. How shitty of a writer must you be if you can't create b your own myths and legends? The fact that she's gotta steal from others completely exemplifies how shitty of an author she is.

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extremely versatile yet underrated actresses: Anne Hathaway

When the boys are looking at the basement, searching for Peter, and Ryan hears something, the way Shane asks if he wistled it’s very casual, I don’t think he was making fun of Ryan or something. But the moment he realizes Ryan is serious about it after he yells, he stays silent and looking at him at first.

He right away starts making his funny voices, lookinig around as he starts a new bit. It cracks Ryan up in a second. And Shane keeps doing it until the man is laughing out loud and he’s no longer yelling and being frustrated for the sound.

Shane always, always searches a way to make the situation lighter for the two of them. And you can see it too, just to say another example, during the Hannah Williams episode, as they are in the master room and then the kid’s room.

He sees Ryan is getting tense and more nervous as they keep investigating. He first make the stupid yell that ″spooks ghosts″ and then ‘fights’ the whatever that is talking to Ryan in the room, laughing at its answers while Ryan looks at him to see his reactions. Both things immedately make Ryan laugh as well:

During the Lighthouse episode, later when Ryan is so visibly upset by what happened on his solo investigation, he doesn’t make fun of him. Shane checks on him and calmly says, well congrats. He knows that Ryan is nervous and it’s not the time to fight him on shit. I bet they did discuss it later, but in that moment what mattered was that Ryan was sweating, uneasy, and Shane keeps himself as calm as possible and just checks on him, and listens to him.

Aaaand this is why Shane is the best, and why the show works. He disagrees with Ryan, he doesn’t believe, but he believes in Ryan’s fear and anxiety, he believes in what upsets him because all Ryan is feeling is right there. It may be initiated by things he personally consider stupid, but the way his friend feels will never be stupid.

At the end of the day, Shane respects Ryan very much, he really loves his friend, which is also why Ryan feels so comfortable with him and it’s able to forget he is those terrible-for-him places, because Shane makes it easier to bare.

Their dynamic, as the seasons go by, has only gotten stronger and, like they have said before themselves, deeper. And it’s really exciting to see it on screen. 

“Para un habitante de Nueva York, París, o Londres, la muerte es la palabra que jamás se pronuncia porque quema los labios. El mexicano, en cambio, la frecuenta, la burla, la acaricia, duerme con ella, la festeja, es uno de sus juguetes favoritos y su amor más permanente. Cierto, en su actitud hay quizá tanto miedo como en la de otros; más al menos no se esconde ni la esconde; la contempla cara a cara con impaciencia, desdén o ironía: ‘si me han de matar mañana, que me maten de una vez’.” - Octavio Paz (El Laberinto de la Soledad, 1950)