#and everyone is trans because fuck jkr

[nehpihcs]

sirius knows that pink is punk

[disconnected-dragon]

yknow I really didn't think it was possible to make me angrier at JK Rowling but then I found out she wrote a book abt an autistic person being sucked into a cult (that's totally not an analogy for trans people what you talking abt) because they just can't possibly know what's good for them, they need their fathers to come and hire private investigators to get them out of a cult. And in the book autistic people are referred to by the r slur and called "a bit simple".

I didn't think it was possible for me to hate this paternalistic, honeyed head-patting, self-righteous, hate-driven HAG of a woman more than I did but fuck me here we are.

[ryn-holt]

Me Seeing a Video about new Cozy Games: Fuck yeah I’m always on the lookout for new games that aren’t already on my radar

Stupid Fucking Asshole: And then there’s Hog-

Me: Fuck all the way off to hell motherfucker

[ishedadordaddy]

JK Rowling hates all she doesn’t understand.

And unfortunately for the rest of the world.

She doesn’t understand much.

Idc if it’s “nostalgia” to you. it’s mainly hate speech.

Plain and simple.

Just when you thought cinema wins couldn't get cooler.

[so-3i3]

Being online recently has just been like there's a constant siren right in front of your face blaring 'TRANS ACCEPTANCE IS NOT THE NORM' :|

[ineffectualdemon]

What I got from the Hbomberguy video and from Todd in the Shadows video beyond that James Somerton is a liar and plagerist and misinformation and plagerism are rampant on YouTube and need badly to be cracked down on is that James Somerton is also:

Really weird and kinda racist about Asian people. Neither Hbomberguy or Todd said this but that's what I felt listening to his own words and seeing his facial expressions

Very misogynistic. Especially against straight white women but he also isn't afraid to shit on queer women

Except he also wants to crawl up JKR's ass and make everyone believe she used to be a really good ally to trans people (no she never was???? What the fuck)

He knows nothing about the politics of attaining gay marriage and what it meant in the 90s nor why not wanting to be murdered or lose your job if you were outed while in the military might be important to some people and in general this topic is infuriating

He really really thought the Nazis were hot and gayer than they were which is uh, kinda a red flag my guy

I'm that fry meme about his transphobia. I don't know if he hates all trans people or just non-binary people and/or trans men. But I doubt he's nice about trans women either. I just don't have any evidence because I am not watching that man's videos

His line delivery is shit full of weird pauses. I don't think he bothers to even pre read or practice the shit he steals

[finnslay]

Happy trans visibility day!!!

[evesaintyves]

one of the most confusing aspects of the "make harry potter characters straight again" discourse that's been circulating for the past few months is the assertion that the only reason people headcanon Tonks as queer is the fact that she's introduced with short hair and that's a lesbian stereotype. i mean, i think that's self-evidently silly and an incredibly shallow reading of her character, but i've elaborated on some personal and canonical reasons that i write tonks that way here and here; @saintsenara summarizes this discourse beautifully here as well. i've seen a number of deeply queerphobic takes on this, including entire metas that insinuate that it would be a disgusting self-betrayal for tonks to use her shapeshifting abilities to, for example, change her sex; imagine how trans people in your readership might feel about that.

but beyond that, the logical extension of this argument is that queer people recognizing and making a space for themselves in fiction is discriminatory somehow - insisting that everyone is canonically heterosexual because of their endgame relationship, however, occupies some kind of moral high ground. i understand that much of this is a reaction to wolfstar and jegulus and how silly, annoying and sometimes actively hostile, fetishistic, and misogynistic those fandoms can be - tons of legitimate criticisms here! - but i think we should acknowledge that canon-compliant fic is also absolutely rotten with misogyny, poor characterization, etc. further, there's a sinister through-line in this discourse that people who just want to see characters be straight and make babies are being persecuted by having to countenance queer readings at all - i've literally seen the word 'heterophobia' bandied about - and it's hard not to notice the parallels with some of the real-life backlash against increased queer visibility, which has actual, life-altering consequences for some of us irl. like, some of these posts are just fandom-specific jordan petersen tweets - the woke mob won't let you be straight and have babies anymore!! especially ridiculous to someone living in a place where a miscarriage is a potential criminal offense and federal courts have had to intervene to prevent drag performers and trans people from ending up on the sex-offender registry.

it's been really disappointing to see the vicious enthusiasm with which the remadora fandom has embraced these posts, and it's incredibly alienating as a queer author and reader who just wants to scroll my fucking feed without ten different reblogs of bad-faith arguments that queer imaginings of hp characters are not just personally irritating to you but are somehow destroying canon, fandom, and the very fabric of society (won't somebody think of the endangered institution of heterosexual male friendship?!); you may not mean to direct this kind of thing at your queer readership, but you are, we see it, and it's unmistakeable that there are a lot of ugly unexamined ideas about us behind all those fuck-jkr bios.

[anti-terf-posts]

TERFs tell on themselves so much when they defend JKR because they leave out all the ACTUAL things people are mad about and straw man the fuck out of arguments (which if you actually look into her she's fucking vile.) and then act like because she HAS done good things that automatically absolves her of any guilt.

But I bet you MONEY that if a trans person did all the nice things she did most of them would STILL shit on them.

And I think it kinda just shows how bad faith and dishonest they are and they aren't worth taking seriously online.

They also act like leftists only hate her bc she's a woman and they wouldn't hate a man for the same/worse things when uh.. Dude that is literally not true. I could make a fucking BOOK of men who have gotten ""cancelled"" over less. And that also pisses me off because claiming everyone you don't like hates women waters down anti woman and anti female sexiam and makes it look like a joke when people are literally dying over it and THIS is what these people are concerned about?

The whole thing is a self report lol.

NO FR hating an antisemite/racist is NOT the same as hating her for being a woman 😭

[unhinged-romione]

i'm prolly going to get a lot of shit for this but here goes anyway: to everyone who is side-eyeing the hp fandom or trying to convince us to jump ship, i'm begging you to leave us alone and let us enjoy what's left of this fandom in peace.

the fandom is not the creator and neither is the art she created. this is no more apparent than in how the OVERWHELMING majority of the hp fandom denounces jkr and activities that line her pockets. and we're like this precisely because of the morals she reinforced within us through the series (the greatest irony of it all).

i am a proud trans person and the hp fandom is the ONLY space in my life where i'm able to fully embrace my trans creative self. it's full of the funniest, nicest, cleverest, most creative people i've ever encountered in my 32 years. through our fan works, we are queering and transing the fuck out of the series and engaging in other creative acts that foster the best of what the series has to offer: tolerance, love, resistance, and inclusivity. our continued engagement with the hp narrative and how we're making it our own is, in fact, the best form of resistance.

so when you ask us to give up the hp fandom, please understand that you're asking us to give up something that goes way beyond jkr. you're asking us to give up a profound source of our creativity. you're asking us to give up something that's etched deeply within our psyche. you're asking us to give up our people.

[groverapologist]

JK Rowling once again showing she doesn't care for anyone but white cis women by spreading misinformation and hate speech about imane khelif and acting insanely hypocritical about her situation.

she first stated she's a biological male with no proof. when news began to spread that that wasn't the case, she refused to take her original tweet down.

she then proceeded to say women with a biological advantage...shouldn't compete? say that about michael phelps. say that about tall athletes in basketball whose height is incredibly rare. say that about any athlete, actually, because sports has never been about biological equality. it's about maximising what you were born with. or, y'know, i'll just start rioting against the olympics since everyone there has a biological advantage over me so i can't join. since we're going with that mindset.

this isn't even mentioning the fact that, clearly, imane khelif isn't at too high of a biological advantage considering she's lost to women numerous times before. (it's awful that i even have to mention this, that i have to mention her failures to prove her womanhood.)

she is specifically spreading targeted and hateful speech and misinformation about a brown woman who doesn't fall under her idea of what a woman should be. imane khelif is not trans. there's no proof she's intersex, only proof that she has higher testosterone levels. she's passed sex and gender tests and proven time and time again that she's a woman. god, she's literally born in a country that bans gender transitioning.

under every one of rowling's fucked up check boxes, imane should be considered as much a woman as anyone else, but JKR's too fueled by the same white woman tears that fueled this entire hate campaign that she'll refuse to admit this, refuse to admit there's no actual reason she can come up with for imane khelif's disqualification. she'll also refuse to admit that this entire hate campaign is just a white woman targeting a brown woman for the white woman's failures. "i've never been punched so hard" this is a combat sport, and you're voluntarily competing against the best in the world. grow the fuck up.

tldr. fuck jkr and her racist terf ass, and imane khelif, i am so sorry for what everyone's been saying about you.

[nehpihcs]

let’s just pretend they lived happily ever after

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

Lol, why is canon so important to some people?

Think about it dude. What is canon? Canon is a book series written by one person (who btw is a terf but let’s not talk about that now). One woman.

What is fanon? Fanon is a bunch of people all coming up with new thought and ideas that they love. Fanon is a group of people who saw their opportunity to get representation in fiction, whether it’s trans representation, aroace representation or bipolar disorder representation. It’s beautiful, because these people might have never seen their disorder, their gender identity, their sexuality, their skin condition or their body type be represented ever before. Because people like jkr exist, and they write stories excluding people they don’t respect, and that is horrible. In the marauders fandom, young kids with a love for writing get their chance. Young people who have a curiosity and imagination like no others get to put it into their own works. People get to discuss, people get to bond over their favourite headcannons and characters. I find it so beautiful. Or perhaps you’re just one person. A young child who has no happiness in this world, but finds comfort in their favourite ship or their favourite character, a character they headcannon with their own skin colour or sexuality. It brings them comfort, and that’s all that matters. Young children don’t deserve to feel guilty about this. Perhaps they already are abused at home and yelled at 24/7, when suddenly grownups on the interest start shaming them for their favourite ship, their favourite dynamic, their favourite fanfiction. Is that fair? No, it isn’t. Not in the slightest.

So sure, go ahead. Enjoy canon. Enhoy whatever makes you happy. Enjoy reading what’s already written. You don’t have to use your own imagination if you don’t want to. But please, don’t shame others for their favourite ships, characters or headcannons. If you can enjoy the fandom and find peace in it, why can’t everybody else?

The words of one woman, a transphobe btw, against the words of a teenager, lonely in this world and lonely with the struggles of being the seemingly only loving person in a world of transphobes etc. What is canon, really? Maybe my headcannons are canon to me?

Edit: And for the love of God, people don’t deserve to be called blood purists, zionists or anything like that for liking Regulus, Jegulus, the Slytherin skittles etc. That is a very close minded thing to say. Slytherin is not all about being a pureblood and above everyone else. Jkr did a mistake there, describing all the qualities of the house and then proceeding to use Slytherin as the house for all the evil, fucked up, ugly characters she didn’t like. And I am far from a Zionist. I am against discrimination of all sorts, I feel very strongly and have strong opinions about things like these, I’m against racism, queerphobism etc. Keep in mind, I am a minor and I already know more about this cruel world than most people my age that I’ve ever met. I’m a loving person. I have struggles of my own. Being called a Zionist, transphobe etc. is EXTREMLY triggering for me. To think that there are people out there, on this planet, thinking such things about me and believing I have beliefs like that, is extremely upsetting. Especially since they don’t know shit about me. I can ship whoever I want and like whatever character I like without being an arsehole.

[izzysbeans]

i will only comment on the situation in this post.

all I'm going to say is this:

1 - idolizing people is ALWAYS BAD even when they don't turn out to be bad, please stop doing it, parasocial relationships are getting way out of hand

2 - comparing this to the JKR situation makes no sense whatsoever i have no clue what y'all are on about on that one

3 - we don't actually know shit. I am all for believing victims but we actually don't know ANYTHING and the court of public opinion isn't fair or reliable. All sources i found for information on the situation seem to have no evidence to back any claim up neither in favor of or against the accusations.

There is some truth to it i believe undeniably so. You are free to look for info and form your own opinion. I have read as much as i could stomach and have concluded that i do NOT know enough to form an opinion.

as for the JKR thing i personally am of the opinion that i do not want to give my money to people who use it in ways i do not approve of. Gaiman has done nothing but support trans people and the LGBTQ community with his influence, his works as a writer AND his money.

When more information will come out i will decide how i want to spend my money. As for now i think there is no harm in enjoying Gaiman's work in any way shape or form. You do as you please tho.

If the accusations are true they are BAD. Gaiman is a 63 year old man in a position of power. I will not associate myself with that kind of behaviour. I don't believe any of his works contain content that promotes or even insinuates behavior of the sort. At least not the ones I've read.

i will not give you that "everyone makes mistakes, nobody's perfect" bullshit because that is not something you say when a regular person commits a serious crime. If he is actually found guilty i will not consider this a fuck up. I will consider this a crime, and there is NO EXCUSE for this kind of crime. NONE.

if you disagree with me that's fine i don't particularly care to be honest. You can block me if you never want to see any of his works ever again, i have no issue with how anyone wants to deal with this situation. I will also be blocking people who either defend him as tho he has done nor can do anything wrong, or saying he is a monster who has done everything people claim and more with no proof. Black and white opinions make no sense and some of you switch so fast it gives me whiplash.

that's all i have to say about it. I will not be answering questions on this matter

[sapphia]

i think billionaires with egos the size of supercontinents attack trans people because they need a cause they can’t really affect with money.

if musk suddenly gave a shit about the climate like he did about trans people, he’d have to clean up his companies and add massive money to their operating costs and he’d actually have to fucking do some work or something instead of jerking off over twitter.

when jkr got involved in scottish independence she had a fairly sizeable influence, but she was pretty restrained — imagine if she’d gone this hard for trans people or picked another cause the left could support. she’d be a queen! her impact would be phenomenal! it would be incredibly effective but it would also make her part of the establishment, put her within the normal moderate framework that she obviously found unfulfilling. she wants a cause where everyone thinks she’s wrong because idk fixing the damage of capitalism is a bottomless pit and wasn’t stroking her ego enough. she did a lot of good with her money at one time, the reason she’s only approaching billionaire status now is because last time forbes worked out that happened she’d already given away so much of her wealth that she actually wasn’t a billionaire anymore.

but she doesn’t want to give away all her money or do slow, painstaking work to improve small areas of this massive broken paradigm we find ourselves in. she wants to feel bold and outraged and effective, like she’s bringing something to a cause no one else possibly could - it’s normal for celebrities and the really rich to give money and support to causes, but jointing a despised movement where you think you’re defending all womankind from this new type of covert sexism back when no one else in public gave a shit or even really new what terfs were (or fuck even what trans people were).

idk i just think when you’re that rich and that full of yourself, it’s got to be weird to accept that the world is shit because of people like you and then constantly be reminded of that and put yourself amongst the masses with the people actually harmed by these issues while you sit in your mansion and feel incredibly incredibly guilty. thats no fun. but if you’re struggling in your cause because everyone else around you is just wrong, then suddenly your money doesn’t matter or make much of a difference and you can rail against the norms all you want without actually having to put your money where your mouth is in any sort of meaningful way.

[nekropsii]

Also that June post sucked I wrote it on sleep meds at like 6 in the morning I articulated myself like shit. Not an excuse, but it is an explanation.

Further rambling under the cut.

I was trying to make the point that it’s deeply frustrating to me how much of a big deal was made out of it (in a negative sense) and how much harassment ensued especially right in the moment when nothing had even really happened yet and still hasn’t really happened but I said that Badly.

The JKR comparison was not a statement of there being any bigotry present, it’s just literally the only example most people - me included - can think of when talking about an author confirming some kind diversity before it even happens, if we see it at all. I’ll admit part of why I’m so cynical is that I grew up in an era where queerphobic jokes and queerbait were just about the only thing you could get in mainstream media, and everyone would still tout that as if it’s real representation, so I’m always prepared for people to just be lying to me.

So, I see that June gets confirmed in 2019 because someone won a treasure hunt, and we still haven’t really seen her, and I’m just instinctively deeply skeptical it’s even gonna happen. Especially considering we got that fuckin’ Roxy Detransition arc first.

Another sticky point is the canonicity of Postcanon, period. I do not see any works outside of Homestuck proper to be canon, especially not in the way that Homestuck itself is canon. I’ve said this several times on my blog and didn’t feel it worth reiterating but it’s kind of important, especially given the JKR comparison. I think June is awesome, it’s a really cool progression of her character, especially considering Homestuck was once pop culture and she’s the literal main character. But part of why I kept saying it was “literally nothing” was because I was operating under the mindset of “it’s not even canon anyway, why are you harassing people for being excited about it?”. It’s stupid to act like a character or person coming out as trans ruins everything for you in general, but it was especially stupid to me for this to be such a federal fucking issue when basically all we had to go off of at the time was a Tweet, especially in a fandom that proclaims itself to be so progressive, and especially when so many people who were denouncing June as being “not real” due to being in Postcanon got so excited when Roxy was turned into a trans dude. It’s just stupid and unfair and transparent, and I hate it.

The Junecourse situation was super fucking messy and really hard to navigate, and it frustrated me a lot because a lot of people were being kind of silly or even just outright bigoted. It was strange that people got so mad about it, it was strange that some people acted like June was a real person, it was strange that people got badly harassed no matter what they did or said. It was stressful and weird, and it was dumb to me that all that warring and all those lies were circling around a tweet, for the most part, and plenty are still operating under the simple tweet confirmation.

I should acknowledge that there’s apparently more than just the lone tweet now. I’m sure I’ve seen all that before, but I’ve got pretty bad memory issues and, again, I was writing it at 6 am on sleep meds, so it genuinely spaced my brain. That is completely on me and I apologize for contributing to false narratives. The post’s been deleted. I’m not asking for forgiveness or anything, I’m just explaining myself. It was a bad post, but I wasn’t making it out of malice, though I do recognize that in situations like this, intent doesn’t matter nearly as much as actions and impact does. That was a failure on my part. I’ve since deleted it.

I’m apologizing here not because there’s a fire being lit under me or anything - I’m not being pressured - but because this is a genuinely important issue to me. Sadly, I am merely an ally and still in the active process of reading theory, so I lack the general polish one acquires from lived experience and actual real learnedness. Transmisogyny is not a reality I have to live with every waking moment of my life, and as a TME man it is a systemic force that works directly in my favor, so I’m liable to accidentally perpetuate it, even if it’s something I do not believe in personally and am making strides to, for lack of a better, less cringe-inducing term, “be a better ally” about.

TLDR; I fucked up and made a sloppy post that contributed to false narratives surrounding a confirmed Transfem character and the discussion of her online. It sat around 77 notes as of deleting, though most were thankfully just likes rather than there being a whole lot of spread. Still sucks, though, and I’m sorry.

Thank you for reading.