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Dear third year Gryffindors,

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Sincerely, Professor Snape

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Cerberus at Sadly, No! has an incredible piece up that righteously deconstructs a transphobic shitheel. The whole thing is epic, but this part – this made me cry.

Dude. I will trade you my dysphoria in a heart beat. If you really think it’s a “bad feeling” and nothing more and it’s the sweet ticket to free stuff, then by george, I will hand over this experience to you and you can get that sweet lucrative surgery access you think we’re scamming off you.

Cause buddy, it ain’t no “bad feeling”. It’s not being able to look at yourself in the mirror for most of your life. It’s being crippled with depression to the point where others need to hide the sharp objects because someone touched you wrong or a period started or a hard-on crept up on you. It’s being left in a panic state constantly, unendingly because people keep calling you the wrong pronoun (and for those that say whatever, think about being called the different gender and treated as the wrong gender, all day, every day, always and now think about how you have friends who’ll flip the table if they are ever teasingly called a girl or a boy once). It’s not being able to be intimate with the ones you love because your naked body is wrong. It’s dealing with all manner of discrimination and violence and rape and hatred and people actively trying to take away what little rights you have, because all that is better and less painful than what dysphoria brings. It’s trying over and over again to pretend you’re something you are not, failing and failing to get it right, because you aren’t. And you’re never going to be and the longer you keep pretending to be the gender that makes “everyone else happy”, the one the doctors guessed you would be at birth, the more definite it is that you’re just going to check out from this world once and for all.

And worst of all, it’s not even realizing how fucked up you have really gotten with dysphoria because everyone told you that was natural to feel, because some fucking doctor took a look at your junk and guessed wrong. When you only ever realize what that happiness feeling, that ease of mind feeling everyone else gets when you finally are recognized for who you are and are allowed to fully participate.

But hey, I’m sure you’ll deal great with all that.

After all, we’re a bunch of whiners and it’s just a “bad feeling”.

This is the kind of thing that needs to play on endless loop until these transphobic fuckwads who want to deny trans people their humanity, not to mention the medical care they need, get it. It needs to be piped into the ears of every parent of a trans kid who refuses to cope with reality. It needs to be tattooed on the eyelids of politicians and preachers and everyone else who’s made it their mission in life to make life shitty for trans folk.

Someday, we will have a world where trans people are treated with compassion and respect, but above all, treated like human beings.

Anybody need a hug now? Let’s have some hugs.

This video of Stephen Fry has been making the rounds. He was being interviewed by Gay Byrne as part of an ongoing series for an Irish TV program called The Meaning of Life, with this episode to be aired on Sunday 1st February at 10.30 pm. Fry is asked that old chestnut about what he would say to god if, upon his death, he discovered that god existed and he was in his presence.

Believers seem to delight in envisioning this scenario, that we atheists will be mortified and regret our past casual dismissals of god’s existence and be fearful of being sent to hell for our insolence and that it will serve us right.

Fry was having none of it and it is fun to see Byrne’s facial reaction to what he says.

With Series 3 of the Friendship is Magic Trading Cards debuting at Ponycon in NYC next weekend, there have been a lot of spoilers lately over on Enterplay's Facebook page, with more coming over the next couple weeks! Highlights include:

• Every new major character from Season 4 has a Character Card, along with all the old favorites like the Mane Six, Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, Discord, and more
• All 91 episodes are featured in their own Episode Card, with a lots of info like first air date, a synopsis, and trivia
• There are 9 Lenticular Cards that bring scenes from the show into motion, 4 of which can be found in pack and 4 are box toppers
  

Above are four of the Lenticular Cards in Series 3, featuring scenes from Sleepless in Ponyville, Boast Busters, Dragonshy, and Magical Mystery Cure. And there are lots of new cards to check out below the break, including the Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich Special Foils!
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Mockingjay – Part 2 might not be the last time we see The Hunger Games on the big screen. Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told investors during an earnings call on Friday that the studio is exploring the possibility of a prequel or sequel, though no other concrete details were shared. It’s very possible Feltheimer threw that nugget to investors in an attempt to gauge market response. But, I mean, of course folks would want more movies from The Hunger Games universe.

Based on stories created by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games has become a worldwide movie sensation, making it a prime candidate to live beyond the world Collins created. It was pretty obvious Lionsgate wanted to milk the franchise when it split Mockingjay into two films, and Feltheimer even said he is using what Warner Bros. did with Harry Potter as an example of what Lionsgate might do next. (Warner Bros. is creating a Harry Potter prequel of sorts with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.)

The thing about The Hunger Games, however, is that the story is so contained that there might not be much room for expansion. A prequel makes the most sense, but, without spoiling Mockingjay, a sequel doesn’t really seem like it could work; the end is satisfying as is. If Lionsgate does decide to go in the direction of a prequel, it could mean Jennifer Lawrence, who is a big reason why the big screen adaptation is so successful, won’t be involved.

In any case, it was also announced The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 will be released in both IMAX and IMAX 3D when it hits theaters on Nov. 20, 2015. With the idea of a prequel and sequel now out there, we’ll see how this one develops. Part 2 of Mockingjay will no doubt be a success, but I imagine Feltheimer will use that to gauge just how badly people want more.

Source: ComingSoon

The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses how atheists can deal with death:

A rough transcript of the video can be found on the YouTube page in the “About” section.

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Speaking of great stuff, I still have some super cute cat valentines for sale in my shop. If you want ’em in time for valentines day, you should order soon!

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