Ellie 🎭🎬

Community cleanup at the Holiday Inn this morning - last night's fascist violence DOES NOT speak for Rotherham. There was a brilliant turnout, showing who isn't complicit in this. Solidarity with every asylum-seeker, every Muslim, every victim of this destruction across the UK ❤️

getting out ahead of this right now - we simply do not claim wes streeting as the first gay PM a man who has thrown trans people under the bus, who backs govt attacks on lgbtq migrants, on poc, on working class etc is not emblematic of our movement+ is certainly no trailblazer

can we get to the part of the timeline where everyone recognizes that engaging with this franchise actively contributes to transphobia lol

the UK film & tv industry is the most insanely classist shit possible too. the amount of talented actors who had to struggle for years because they have a working-class accent and not the posh 'default' accent

not sure ‘let’s starve british kids so we can blow foreign ones up!’ is the winning campaign slogan he thinks it is

[Zack Polanski]: hey we got this policy that should improve things somewhat. [20 year old lad from provincial town with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍺🍋🇬🇧 in his name and the number of stadiums he’s been to in his bio for some reason]: this man will ruin this country. he is evil. this man scares me.

its actually a bit shocking how capitalism just has no bounds

This is the very real threat to women's rights in the UK, all women's rights not a privileged few who think they have a "right" to never see any trans people. Of course the media and "Gender Critical" movement will do absolutely nothing because they're allies with these people

What if a lamp/fish/robot/toy had feelings? Disney: Awww What if two girls ha- Disney: Not relatable

ah! life....

pastry doesn’t need protein it has an even better thing called Gives Me the Will to Carry On

Three lads having a daft laugh and a mess about.

i’m sick she is so beautiful

april is sexual assault awareness month, sending love to every victim of sexual assault, it’s not your fault and it will never be your fault, your story is valid. also, let’s be reminded that no means no and coercing someone to sleep with you is sexual assault.

How long does the Queen have to be dead before we can start talking about her using our money to almost make Andrew's Epstein accusations go away?

a lot of people think of platonic love as inherently inferior to romantic love and i genuinely think that is a big issue

While You Were Watching the Harry Potter Trailer The new Harry Potter promotion is everywhere. The nostalgia is loud. The excitement is real. Millions of people who grew up with those books are feeling something exciting. Hold that feeling for a moment. Then read this. Between 2019 and 2025, 46 transgender children under the age of 18 died by suicide in England. That data was not handed over willingly. The Good Law Project spent years fighting for it through Freedom of Information requests to the NHS-funded National Child Mortality Database. The government commissioned its own review in response. That review accounted for fewer than a third of the deaths the FOI data revealed. When challenged on this, Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s department fought tooth and nail to block every Freedom of Information request, often on spurious grounds. They did not want you to know. Deaths rose roughly fivefold in the immediate aftermath of the Bell v Tavistock ruling, with 22 trans children taking their own lives in a single year. The government called that figure dangerous misinformation. Then the data came out and confirmed it. J.K. Rowling wrote those books you loved. She also built a parallel career. She donated £70,000 to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 after it lost its challenge to a Scottish law that legally recognised trans women as women. When the UK Supreme Court later ruled in that group’s favour she posted a photograph of herself with a cigar. The post read “I love it when a plan comes together.” That was not the end of it. She has since launched the JK Rowling Women’s Fund, a private organisation using her personal fortune to bankroll legal campaigns against transgender rights in workplaces, public spaces and what she terms protected female spaces. The Harry Potter franchise is estimated to be worth around $25 billion. She retains creative control over every adaptation. She is an executive producer on the new HBO series. Every ticket sold, every piece of merchandise bought, every streaming subscription taken out to watch the reboot feeds that fortune. The Good Law Project’s Jolyon Maugham noted that money earned from selling her books to children will be used to harm trans children. That is not an accusation. That is the financial reality of where this money goes. Forty-six families are not watching the trailer. You are allowed to hold both things at once. The books you loved as a child and the knowledge of what the woman who wrote them has done with the wealth they generated. Nobody is asking you to burn anything. We are asking you to be honest with yourself about the chain you are part of when you buy into this. The wizarding world taught a generation that it takes courage to stand up to powerful people doing wrong things. It would be a shame to forget that now.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ We do not yet know the full consequences of the puberty blocker ban. The data takes time to surface. The Freedom of Information requests take years to fight for. The government reviews come back incomplete and the real numbers have to be dragged into the light by lawyers and campaigners while ministers call it dangerous to even ask the question. We do not yet know the suicide rate of young transgender people in the years since that ban became permanent. We will find out. In time, as we always do, the data will come. And when it does we will be able to see clearly what this campaign has actually funded. Not women’s rights. Not child safeguarding. Not evidence-based medicine. This is a tragedy unfolding in the United Kingdom in real time. Children are living inside it right now. The Harry Potter trailer is everywhere and 46 families already know what it costs when powerful people decide that some children do not deserve care. History will not be kind to this moment.

@melhappens @twobytwo_ Tagged Mel and Claire because they took the photo, was lovely to see you both again Taskmasters 💖💖

First @FoilArmsAndHog gig in SIX years was everything I hoped for and more!! So lovely to see them afterwards (minus Hog, hope he's OK!), and for them to still recognise the 3 of us sums up why I love em 🥰 (Also come back to Yorkshire soon lads, the CORRECT side of the Pennines)

The show won't work. It'll collapse, or be cancelled. Essiedu (Snape) is already receiving death threats before a single episode has aired. An Italian actress has been cast as Parvati Patil, a canonically Indian character. Stanton's parents had to disable all of their daughter's social media within an hour of her casting announcement due to racism and, again, death threats. She is eleven years old and already articles dissecting her skin colour have since been written. The cast is already fracturing. Lithgow nearly quit over Rowling. Nick Frost publicly distanced himself from her views. Essiedu signed an open letter supporting trans people, while playing a character in a show exec produced by Britain's most prominent anti-trans voice. The show is also biannual, not annual. Season one arrives Christmas 2026. Deathly Hallows, if they get there, lands around 2040. John Lithgow will be 95, almost guaranteeing he'll die during filming, much like Richard Harris died aged 72 after just two films. The story itself is a now a logistical trap. A Black Snape being hung upside down by the Marauders, spending years fighting for blood purity, then dying for the cause of a white woman he loved. Those scenes cannot be written cleanly anymore. Every choice will generate a fresh brand new controversy from absolutely every angle and political sphere. This franchise requires a sustained decade of audience goodwill to function. That goodwill simply does not exist anymore, as her base is now the most vitriolic, toxic abusers, a narrative at some point (if not already, seemingly) HBO Max will have to adresss. The three child leads have not signed long-term contracts. What happens when they're 18, 19, 20, with fully formed opinions about the woman whose name is on the tin? The magic is a dead horse.