#HP CW

[neechees]

I just found out that the charity that Rowling "Donated" to (the one that people praised her donating so much money to because she was previously a billionaire & then after donating made her a millionaire) was actually a charity SHE was the founder of and owned, and this gave her a huge tax write off because it is a charity

[spidersins]

Who was your first muse?

♡ Munday Meme ♡

oh yikes this was a while back now ( like 15 years a while back ). my first muse was hermione granger, wayyyyy back when when you used the GIANT fucking gifs all saved to your laptop in folders labelled like smile1, smile2 etc and a bunch were just from interviews with the actors, and everyone wrote like this: *smiles* did you need something?

[zaeedsflipflops]

i really wish the main focus of the hp game conversation would pivot away from being about transphobia. not that it isn't important, it is transphobic as it is funding a transphobe, but when that's the only thing that's brought up it means people are gonna defend themselves by bringing up the trans character or saying "ill just pirate it then" (as if it's not still giving it a platform...)

it's so worrying to me how little people bring up the game's content when talking about why no one should play it. the antisemitism is always such an afterthought in so many discussions i've seen. but the game's plot is founded on it! a primary developer who had tremendous influence on the game is openly alt-right!

i want people to be more consistently called out on why they even want to play a thoroughly antisemitic game. because even in a situation where you pirate it, play it in utter secrecy, and never speak of it to anyone, therefore "not funding or platforming transphobia," you're still playing a game that is blatantly antisemitic. and why is that okay with you? why does that seem like a fun time? why would you ever want to touch a game like that with a ten foot pole?

[dandyshucks]

if Wardell somehow broke containment from this little blog, my biggest fear is that the marauders girlies would be like "OMG IS THAT REMUS??? IS THAT REMUS MARAUDERS??? OMG MARAUDERS FANART??? THIS LOOKS LIKE REMUS!!!" bro keep your nasty HP shit away from me and my creations :[ keep that distasteful offensive AIDS/HIV allegory character away from me jfc

[thedragonagelesbian]

Here's the thing about the hp game: you could just quietly buy it or pirate it and no one else would need to know that you're prioritizing your nostalgia over the lives of trans and Jewish people.

If you're publicly self-flagellating about that decision on social media? You're just being dishonest and looking for moral clemency. You KNOW what you're doing is fucked up, and instead of just shutting up about it (or, even better, NOT DOING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE), you've turned it into a public performance. And you are not owed absolution.

[organicclownfarm]

Funny how just bc Rowling is a bad person everyone just says harry potter is shit lmao, if she wasnt problematic everyone would still think hp is great and im saying this not even being a fan of that series

honestly i straight up can't disagree with half of this. i think if joker rotflmao had never joined twitter or learned to shut the fuck up a lot of us would HAPPILY view it through rosy nostalgia goggles and the red flags would just look like flags. shit, some people still do REGARDLESS of terfany's unhinged hateful bullshit.

when her insane manifesto dropped, that knocked a lot of peoples rose colored glasses right off and had us looking back at the long list of questionable ass things she added to those books and the world they're set in; how badly she writes the maybe 5 people of color in the ENTIRE series including but not limited to giving a character who is meant to be chinese two korean last names, naming a black man "kingsley shacklebolt", making the two indian characters 2-dimensional props. the way she wrote about a slave race who is often graphically abused but are so stoked about their own slavery that one of the heroes talking about how she thinks they should have rights is played for laughs. the fucking antisemetic caricatures. lycanthropy as a metaphor for aids while there is a character who makes a point of attacking and infecting CHILDREN. the list goes on and on. i could be here all day.

and thing is? a lot of these issues were being spoken about and criticized well before she became an out and proud bigot. the bigotry was baked in on a near atomic level and showed in nearly every page. if it wasn't racism or antisemitism, it was classism, if it wasn't classism it was disdain for welsh irish and/or scottish people or even people from different parts of fucking england, if it wasn't that it was fatphobia, on and on and on.

but like. even if u were to somehow make all of that vanish, you would STILL be left with messy and often inconsistent worldbuilding, a lot of poorly done character development, absolutely no research and it shows, plot holes, occasional pacing issues, and straight-up plagiarism.

harry potter and the world around it was, if anything, a fun sandbox. it was an easy world to place yourself in and play with and imagine as something better than it was. a lot of us loved it not just for the nostalgia but the POTENTIAL so much of it had, because it did have a lot of potential that a better author might have been able to realize.

i myself think i might have still enjoyed the world to this day if jkr never opened her mouth! it's possible to enjoy or even love a thing and still be critical of it or even if u don't love it, you can discard the canon entirely and make ur own little world out of the scraps. but after a certain point u just gotta cut your fucking loses and take the L and say "yeah this wasn't ever good i was just 9 and needed the escapism".

like death to the author or whatever but not when the author is v much alive and proudly using her royalty checks to campaign to make life even harder for a marginalized group in her country.

and i am saying this as person who's special interest for YEARS was hp and the hp world, who bought and re-read the books as an adult just before jinkies ratlicker decided to. y'know.

[haveyoumetmythief]

In honor of @strange-aeons releasing a full My Immortal read, enjoy this My Immortal insult generator

[yeahlikethebird]

New follower had their HP house in their bio so uhh... in case this isn't abundantly clear, I'm trans and I hope JKR dies in agonizing pain as soon as possible.

[technicontrastron]

Ja geil der NDR haut ne Doku zum H**** P***** Musical nicht mal eine Woche nach Launch des Antisemitismus-RPGs raus und löscht jegliche Kommentare die darauf hinweisen. Reicht das Werbebudget wirklich nicht aus, dass die noch den ÖR mitreinziehen müssen? Kann ich nicht wirklich glauben. Die kriegen einfach den Hals nicht voll.

[epihlogue]

@heartscfvalor: cont.

Harry snorted and shook his head. “You might be worse off than me, mate.” Though he understood. Having his fair share of nightmares, more than really, Harry rarely went without a full night of sleep. And honestly, the firewhiskey was the only thing that sounded worth having to even attempt to help with that.

He tapped the glass against Draco’s and then downed near half of it all in one. Harry had become more skilled at such an act over the years, though it was nothing to be proud of. “Blimey, is it bad that I think that tastes good? Though I think we’re going to need a few more if you’re planning on blacking out.” Chuckling softly, Harry poured them another glass, swirling his own as they sat there.

“How are you though, really? You can be honest with me, I won’t judge. I know we’ve both had the worst tail end of it as of late.”

[faerytle]

@thechosengryffindor: liked for a starter.

"Are we ... really supposed to guess a riddle just to get into the Ravenclaw common room?" Color her surprised, Cassandra wondered what students did that couldn't get in for the evening. "Are you sure we can't just meet Cho somewhere else? 'What happens once or twice a minute in an age but doesn’t happen in a thousand years?' What is that even supposed to mean?" Cassie liked to think she was smart for a Hufflepuff, but there was a very good reason why she hadn't been sorted into Ravenclaw. Maybe Harry would be able to figure out the answer to this one?

[hasmephydoneanythingwrong]

Don’t tell me Nintendo’s still trying to sell this embarrassment!

[toorumlk]

from bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to political fugitives on the run

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

the person who tagged barty crouch jr on that stitches photo ??? 😭

[gemscales-and-tea]

He's been staring at the poll results for two minutes now. Finally he mutters, with conviction:

"I am a Gryffindor, the hell with all of you."

[ailurinae]

what the...? Even if they are like, unaware of the whole JKR thing, who's talking about HP backstory on random posts in 2024?

I'd be unstoppable if I didn't have to worry about time or money or having a body