#Spread LOVE not hate

[loveforlukeynewts]

Dear Luke…

When I first started my @loveforlukeynewts accounts last summer, it was to drown out as much as possible all the unnecessary hate Luke was receiving.

I created a three-part “Dear Luke…” series in my IG stories which gave fans a chance to send Luke love and positive thoughts to let him know there were more supporters than haters.

I shared these with as many of those close to Luke as I could find on social media including the Bridgerton cast, crew and some of his friends and family.

I could tell if it was ‘read/seen’ and there were several who did read my note. Some even looked at my other IG stories which contained posts from my grid. Though to no surprise, no one confirmed they had shared these words of support with Luke.

I can only hope at least one of them did.

I did receive a lovely response from Ryan Wheeler, who was among those I reached out to:

“Keep spreading your positivity, it's very needed in this world!”

And I intend to do just that.

I still believe there are more of us who support him but over the last little while, it seems harder to find the positive among all the hateful words.

So I think it might be time to do a “Dear Luke…” Part IV!

In the meantime, as I get something organized, below (or go to my IG - the posts are pinned) are “Dear Luke…” Parts I, II and III if you’d like to read some of the thoughtful things fans have said about him.

(I would like to add that just because I spread positivity and love for Luke, it doesn’t mean I would look past any questionable actions. What it means is I have yet to see anything he has done or said that warrants the amount of hatred floating around about him.)

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Dear Luke…

Part I

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Part II

Part III

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[some-assholes-familiar]

Imma be honest as much as I enjoy the whole “nonbinary aro ace ppl have made exactly one decision in their life and it was ‘No’” jokes, I kinda feel a bit iffy around them on some level, kinda always have.

Bc it’s meant as an incredibly empowering statement right? (and I get it, I’ve fantasised about having that much confidence when confronted with sex or gender or romance, like a good chunk of aspec or trans ppl I’ve met)

But honestly it can kind of just feel insanely invalidating sometimes, of just how much choice we didn’t have, and how much people can punish us for it.

Just like the gays have always said, none of us chose to have the gender and sexualities that we do. We just are.

The choice was never just ‘yes or no’. just like everyone else it was between slowly killing ourselves trying to uphold the idea of what is normal for everyone else, or fighting on the front lines for the chance to just exist as we are.

Anyway, would love to hear of this is just a me thing or if any other aroace enby’s feel this.

[seventeenlovesthree]

Spring is in full bloom, so let's never forget to be kind - and do all things with love. 🌸

[glamboyl]

Support Love! Jensen Ackles - My Edit

[theresoneicouldcallking]

anyways i might be a hardcore buddie fan but i feel genuinely bad for the bucktommy fans out there, because this was rather abrupt and unexpected, so please accept this hug from me

[isalisewrites]

I just read your addition to another persons ask where you said the Harry Potter fandom not being responsible for JRK bullshit and honestly thank you.

I am so freaking exhausted of having to defend myself for finding comfort in a fandom that has been with me since I was a kid. Just because I’m not burning the books I bought 20 years ago doesn’t mean I support anything about her now.

She has her billions. Even if no one on earth bought another Harry Potter thing again. She would still have it. Whether or not I read fanfiction or watch movies I already own make zero difference.

You said it better than I ever could. But One day she will be dead and gone. And no one will care. But Harry Potter will still be around. Because it and its community is bigger and better than JKR will ever be.

Anyway. Just wanted to say that. It felt good to read something other than hate for HP again. If you would be up for talking without the anonymity let me know?

*huggles*

I’m just as weary, too, sweetie.

“There’s no ethical consumption of Harry Potter.”

Let’s be brutally realistic here. If you’re not living off grid in the woods where you’re 100% self sufficient with growing your own food, making your own clothes, drawing up well water, generating your own power, and buying nothing, then you’re not living ethically either. If you’re getting a Starbucks, then guess what? You’re supporting genocide. McDonalds? Yup, genocide. Going to Target? Uh oh, you’re supporting racism and sexism.

The reality is there is no ethical consumption under CAPITALISM.

There are literally hundreds of companies that support Israel’s genocide of Gaza and hundreds who financially supported Trump. I wonder how many companies supported UK’s ultra conservative politics. It’s not just JKR, I can promise you that.

It’s impossible for the average person to avoid every company. You have to buy food. You have to buy essentials. You have to buy gas if you use a car to get to work. 

You have to survive.

It’s not our fault these greedy companies support the politics that preserve their power and their ability to make more and more money. JKR is a drop in the bucket of hate. She is one of MANY. Where the UK’s fucking 900 paged manifesto of hate? The American Project 2025 that’s currently being pushed by the Trump party wants to make it so that the mere appearance of wearing clothes that don’t align with your birth sex equate to pornography.

And then they want to make pornography a federal crime.

But I understand. We all feel powerless. So, what people do to give themselves power is they target someone easy. Instead of going after the roots of the problem, they attack the budding flowers on the tree. 

I’m aggrieved for UK’s transpeople. I’m devastated for them. But it’s bad everywhere and we’re not to blame for the actions of our government leaders. We can vote. We can protest. We can spend our money in the right places as best as possible. A storm is likely coming, but it’s not our fault. Evil people are in power. The wealth imbalance is astronomical. The world is controlled by oligarchs and there isn’t a ton that we can do, except survive and try to spend less money overall. 

In the end, I cope by taking these characters and creating something beautiful. Terrible, But Great is about love and redemption. Elysium’s Sanctuary is about love and healing. TBG contains my soul, while ES contains my broken heart. Badger Prey and Moon Rite are also about love; they're written to shake off the chains of purity culture. All of these stories are precious to me.

I’d hope that in a hundred years, there will still be readers discovering Harry Potter fanfics. Someone years to come will read our works and be touched by our words, both our stories and our author’s notes. JKR will go down in history as a woman who used her influence for terrible things while the Harry Potter fandom will stand as a beacon who rose above her. 

What she hates, we celebrate. We protect. 

Yes, you are absolutely free to DM me. Anyone can. Just DM me with more than a Hi, haha. Otherwise, I won't know it's more than a random bot or something.

I know it’s so very hard to maintain hope in these times. I keep having to repeat to myself, "Show me how good it can get." Even when it feels like everything is falling apart. Instead of falling into despair, I pour my soul into writing for both my own healing and the healing of others.

Spread love, not hate. And when you can, create. Keep trying. <3 Because it’s worth more than all of the combined wealth in the world.

Isa

[biggaveli1994]

DEAR GOD, THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER DAY. WATCH OVER MY FAMILY, AND FRIENDS AND WHOEVER IS READING THIS, BLESS THEM IN A WAY THEY NEVER KNOWN BEFORE 🙏🏽💙

[ankabaiam]

With everything going on here, I'm sharing a safe space for everyone who needs a break

You'll find no hate here or on my blog. Please feel free to share, so that we can create a drama free and safe place.

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

I was just watching “V for Vendetta” last night, and it’s got so many amazing quotes that can be applied right now. But I thought the most important one for me to send out, especially being a person who doesn’t live in America, is what Valerie said in her letter…

[bihansthot]

If you hate Bi-Han, block me please. No I’m serious. I don’t want to see your hot takes about him. I don’t want to interact with you at all. He might be flawed but he’s been my comfort character since I was 8 and I don’t want to see negative BS about him. Don’t worry I will be liberal with my blocking too. I’m just over it, you’re certainly allowed to dislike a character but spewing hate over one is just childish bullshit and I’m too old for this crap.

[y0urtemptation]

Is it really that hard for people to be kind to one another? Truly sad & disappointing..

[seventeenlovesthree]

This is just a selection of potential wlw ships in the Digimon universe of course!

[glamboyl]

Heart by Lily Bose. Thanks for Sharing my Friend!

[isalisewrites]

I have been reading your posts tagged as anti jkr and I deeply appreciate how loud and stubborn you are to continue with loving and creating with your full heart.

I have been feeling so conflicted with the recent news and it hurts more being surrounded by people who are so ready to throw me into the pits if they knew. I create hp fanworks in private and away from my other accounts but that doesn’t take away the nagging fear. Well anyways, as you say, I am not going to let these people bully me into what they deem as “good and pure and what is right” I am a trans queer polyam loving person and I refuse to back down.

Thank you immensely again. I hope you have a wonderful night.

And this is why I stay.

Who is anyone to tell a transperson what they're allowed to do or how they're allowed to feel or how they're allowed to interact in this fandom space? This is a shitty situation all around. We know this.

I stay to make people like you feel safe and loved.

I send you all of my huggles and my love, sweetie. Keep being you and keep creating beautiful things that can only be created because you exist.

I'll opine for a bit here. Harry Potter fandom is nothing like Harry Potter canon. No one over here is praising JKR's writing and her version of events.

I write Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort and Newt Scamander/Tom Riddle | Voldemort, both wildly gay pairings. But I'm a multi shipper, so I'll read just about any queer pairing. I've read Sirius/Severus. Draco/Harry. Hell, I've read a handful of Fenrir Greyback/Voldemort. (Not enough of those, I'll say) If the haters think we're obsessed with JKR's version of Harry Potter, they're woefully out of touch. We don't give a shit about HP Canon. I've haven't read the books in over a decade and, little known secret, but I've actually never read HP7 and I've only seen the HP7 and HP8 movies once. I fucking HATED HP6 when it came out and boycotted the series when I was 17. Two decades ago. I only returned to HP because of fanfiction, Severitus fanfiction specifically, when I was 24.

I don't give two shits about canon.

But fanfiction? I love it. I want to see more trans characters in Harry Potter fanfiction stories. I want to see more gay characters. I want to see trans Harry, trans Voldemort. I want to see a variety of ethnicities and sexualities in fanfiction.

Oh, I do have one recommendation off the top of my head.

Godfathers is a Severitus fic that features a Severus/Sirius pairing and a trans ftm Severus. This is my all time favorite version of Severus Snape. One of the best written Severus Snape of all time, in my humble opinion. I appreciate this fic so much.

Those of us in fandom understand that the canon material is subpar. But watering it down to "It's just a children's book. Get over it." is ridiculous and just uninformed. Books 1 - 3 definitely feel like children's books, but books 4 - 7 are far too mature for children. I'd classify Harry Potter as YA (young adult) novels. You know, the same category of The Hunger Games and Twilight.

And I think it's for these very reasons why Harry Potter is the largest fandoms of fanfiction stories of all time. Nobody really cared about HP until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire came out, the book where Voldemort comes back. The same one where Cedric dies and Harry is tortured by Voldemort. Nobody cared about HP when it seemed like it was just a children's book series.

There are 850k fics on fanfiction.net and 573k fics on AO3. This isn't counting other websites that solely host Harry Potter fanfiction, too.

There's a reason why there is SO MUCH of it.

It's because the source material is so shallow. We're given just enough to play with and given enough space to change it for the better. JKR isn't a good writer, including her recent stuff. I've broken down passages of her writing before and she's woefully deficient in the art of writing itself. She got lucky. Right time, right place. She got the fame and the money, and this is what she's chosen to do with it.

If someone who has no resources decides to send anon hate to others, I can't imagine what that person would do if they suddenly have the same amount of resources.

To all those spreading more hate because of JKR behind the safety of your screens with what tiny amount of influence you have, if you suddenly had billions of dollars, what would you do with it? Would you suddenly be kinder and advocate for others? Would you suddenly be kind?

Or would you continue to be the same exact person you are today where you try to hurt and frighten others simply because they see a side of this nuanced area that you don't see? Because life isn't black and white.

JKR can't see transpeople like we do. JKR can't love like we do. JKR can't build friendships like we do.

To the haters, you're no different than JKR; you just have less power than her.

I think I'll indulge a bit into canon and quote Movie Harry from The Order of the Phoenix for this.

“You’re the weak one. You’ll never know love or friendship... ...and I feel sorry for you.”

Isa

[biggaveli1994]

Reminder: In this world it's so important to take a moment and remind ourselves to be kind to one another. You never know the kind of battles people are fighting behind closed doors so even a small act of kindness or a positive word can mean the world. I just want to take a moment to remind everyone to choose kindness, to spread positivity, and to be gentle with those around you. Even when things feel tough, it's amazing what a smile, a kind gesture, or simply listening can do. I truly believe in the power of good energy and I want you all to know that I’m constantly praying for everyone I come in contact with whether here or in my day to day life. You’re all in my thoughts, and I wish nothing but peace, love, and strength for you all. Let’s keep supporting each other and lifting each other up we’re all in this together 🙏🏾💙