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velvetvexations · 8 months ago

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There are a lot of things that suck about JKR and Harry Potter in retrospect, but while everyone knows by now about the goblins being disgustingly weird Jewish stereotypes I don't think I've seen anyone else express is that when I was younger I found the alternative moral framework of goblins to be interesting and inspired me to think a lot more about "blue-and-orange morality". Now that kinna thing is something I'm really big on in both my own work and in the works of others, but it really sucks having that original inspiration soured by not only the general awfulness the franchise has come to exude, but also that element in particular being one of the most blatantly gross things about it since it boils down to "fantasy Jews be greedy, am I right?".

#I feel as though this reads like I'm virtue signaling as if to prove I don't hate Jews or something #after being asked to not say a particular word #but I really did just have this thought while thinking about HSH #and I've always been broadly melancholic about missing being a big Harry Potter fan #but this is one of those things where my NPD makes me catastrophize about how literally everything I say could be taken the wrong way #and my brain just invents the most convoluted possible ways I could be interpreted in bad faith #which is hard to talk about because I feel massively annoying even attempting to explain the paranoid delusions I obsessively entertain #harry potter

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