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lilmaneater:

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heavyroken:

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Character: Harry Potter
Appears in: Harry Potter Series
Commonly Interpreted as: Straight

But Really: While he marries Ginny and has had relationships with other women, he never says he is only attracted to women.

He never says he isn’t bi, pan and/or queer. So he’s bi, pan and/or queer.

So because he never said “I LIKE GIRLS”(even though he is married to Ginny and has relationships with women) that makes home BI?

Hello, there. I was wondering when you’d show up.

This is stupid, let’s just assume he’s straight.

why? why does he have to be straight

because it is demonstrated over and over in the series that he is in fact, straight. he is never shown being attracted to guys. if rowling wanted him to be bi she would have written that into the story. but she didn’t. so he’s not.

It isn’t, actually demonstrated that Harry is straight. It’s demonstrated that Harry is a.cis man who is sexually and romantically interested in cis women….and turns out there are plenty of bi folks who fit that description!

As for the argument that authorial intent should be the final say for interpretation of a character…well I can only guess that a show like Penny Dreadful has you seeing red! Talk about screwing with authorial intent! I can tell you for sure that Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde never intended for their characters to appear in the same work. You must think Penny Dreadful quite sacrilegous.

And of course there’s the other problem that even when an author makes their intentions known that a character is bi…folks argue against it. Take Kieran Walker from In the Flesh…the show runner has explicitly stated Kieran is bi, and yet folks still ref r to him as gay because apparently there isn’t enough in the show itself for folks to believe Kieran is bi.

Or take, for example, how many folks argue against interpreting Dumbledore as gay because it wasn’t in the book…just something JK said later. My pojnt is, when it comes to interpreting characters as queer…folks take any excuse to deny that interpretation

astronomifier:

rachelhaimowitz:

obsessionisaperfume:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

queensimia:

palavenblues:

holy shit there is a name for it

Well damn. Explains a lot.

Suddenly I understand some of my fan base a LOT better.  That is Awesome. 

“holy shit there is a name for it” was my reaction before I even scrolled down to the comments.

I just need to keep reblogging this because I cannot even begin to tell you how profound a feeling of YES and THIS and THERE IS A WORD FOR ME OMG I get every time I see this, and I hope it helps others too.

seriously, anytime you see a post with a comment saying “theres a name for it?!” reblog that post because even if it doesnt apply to you any of your followers could be waiting for that revelation.

impurefools:

connorsrockinbooty:

what if every god in every religion exists

like egyptian, hindu, and greek gods alike are all chillin on some clouds

and since every deity has something to control in the mortal world they get into fights on whos turn it is to do the job since there’s more than one

“Helios it’s my turn to rise the sun”

“Ra for the last fucking time you did it last week”

#disney what are you waiting for

So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly. They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong.

God, what a Mary Sue.

I just described Batman.

http://adventuresofcomicbookgirl.tumblr.com/post/13913540194/mary-sue-what-are-you-or-why-the-concept-of-sue-is (via twerkinshield)

WILL AUTO-REBLOG FOREVER.

(via carnivaloftherandom)

skullopendra:

micdotcom:

Dyed armpit hair is the latest body positive trend no one saw coming

Pink, green, blue, purple — the options are endless. No, we’re not talking about crayons. We’re talking about armpit hair.

In an interesting twist, the debate over whether or not women should shave their underarms seems to recently have evolved beyond razor talk. Indeed, it’s no longer about whether or not you shave, but rather what you do with the hair you do keep. 

This is about more than just personal expression

oh my god this is beautiful

Sorry I wasn’t clear. I tend to just sorta go off on a thought when I ask a question. Umm I’m not specifically looking for a bi girl or bi boy. I am aiming to find a book that has their main character explicitly showing their interest or some interest in both a girl and boy. I aim working on a syllabus project for a queer lit class. And wanted my focus to be broaden the vocabulary of high school students.

bisexual-books:

And thus I am trying to find a book from almost every identity. My main worry is if the bi character isn’t at least shown a little interested in more than one gender then the thought would be ‘oh yeah she says she is bisexual, but really she is a lesbian’ which isn’t true. So I was hoping for a book that doesn’t have the main character only attracted to one gender. …I don’t know if that is being a terrible person. On a side note totally siked about this blog in general half of my xmas list now

Ok, hmm, collecting my thoughts.  

Offhand, the books I KNOW show a bisexual person DEMONSTRATING attraction to multiple genders are:

Bi-Normal by M.G. Higgins
The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
The Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

That said…. I get what you’re trying to do, but It makes me feel a little weird.  Bisexual people are bisexual when they say they are bisexual, not when they jump through adequate hoops that prove their bisexuality beyond a shadow of a doubt.  If I had a message to give to teens as part of a class, it would be that bisexuals DO NOT have to somehow PROVE their attractions to men and women to be taken seriously as bisexual.   And that to ask them to do so is unfair at the least and biphobic at worst. 

But I’m glad that you’re enjoying the blog and I’m happy to have you here.

– Sarah

I personally like reading books where bi characters demonstrate attraction to and engage with multiple genders… it’s kind of escapism of a sort for me. For the asker, if you like fantasy, Sing the Four Quarters has a main protagonist who has functional healthy relationships with men and women, and so do many of the other residents of the world. I highly recommend it, and its sequels.