#This post has been edited to be less of a flaming firebrand

[theimaginatrix27]

All right, I'm going to say my piece on this

I don't think I'd ever consider myself a Potterhead, but I grew up with those books, and the movies. I was in the fandom, I used to get just as excited about the next thing coming out as many people in my vicinity.

I'm not any more. I haven't been for years.

I got the HP audiobooks, just before the big transphobic Twitter rant in the middle of 2020. I'd been wanting those audiobooks for a long time, read by a narrator I'm not even sure I should continue liking at this point, but I loved him then and I wasn't going to let the oncoming storm stop me getting them.

I can hardly bring myself to listen to those audiobooks now, despite buying them from Audible/Amazon, with credits, to minimise the amount of money she got while still maintaining my own integrity. That's a hollow sentiment now, I'll be honest. I almost wish I had found a way to pirate them. Or maybe if I'd waited long enough I'd never have gotten them at all.

Every time JK Radfem is brought up in public online spaces, I get a sick twisty feeling in my stomach. I dread hearing what fresh cruelty she has inflicted on the trans community, especially in the UK. I watched Jessie Gender's video last week and my heart is still aching from what Aranok said (if I spelled that wrong I'm sorry, I only read it once).

When it comes to the game-I-shall-not-invoke-by-name, I have no stake in this fight. I am Cis, white, Christian and blind. I couldn't play it even if I had any interest in doing so, which I do not. Any dreams I had of going to Hogwarts died a long time ago, around the time I found out she said disabilities wouldn't exist in her world because they'd be magicked away.

I stand with the trans community, the Jewish community, the disabled community, and all other groups she has wronged. I do not want to give her another cent. I am tired of thinking about her, truthfully.

One thing I will not give up, because I refuse to let her take it from me. I will still write my HP crossover fanfictions. I disregard much of her worldbuilding in them, and she doesn't get anything from fanfiction.

Apart from this, I have nothing to say. I don't want to waste more energy on talking about this woman, or anything with her brand on it. She's not worth the space it would take up in the post. I can't make others' choices for them. I will not waste energy yelling about that, either. I choose not to support JK Radfem. I choose to support those she has harmed with her wide influence. I choose to move the fuck on with my life.