#cw rowling mention

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Writing Advice From Various Authors!

Writing fiction isn’t easy but it can be fun and rewarding once you get the hang of it. It’s helpful to look at the advice of popular authors to find your groove. Here are various writers and their advice on writing:

Ernest Hemingway

“Write drunk and edit sober?” I never said that. Do both drunk, wimp.

William S. Burroughs

Just goddamn write and don't damn censor yourself or you should be hanged like a twink what's set aflame as he’s hanged on rope made of the lies and deceits of the city, the cursed city, the lugubrious city.

Yukio Mishima

You cannot capture beauty in words. Instead, die very painfully on someone's office floor, in that alone there is beauty.

Stephen King

Write six pages a day and don’t cut anything, even if everyone says “Stephen, for the love of god don’t write that, the rest of the novel is great but please don’t include that, what are you thinking?”

Cormac McCarthy

do whatever you want dont even use punctuation then people will think youre brilliant for some reason for each writer is the writer of all writers who suffers the sins of all men

J.K. Rowling

It’s critical to teach tolerance, understanding, and compassion in your books. Then and only then will people believe you when you tell them to hate and harm the people you tell them to.

E.L. James

Put your pen to paper so hard it can poke past that thin membrane page and plunge hard into your imagination. Write with strokes gentle and firm that make the reader soaked in their own gratification and struggle to close the book back up again, so hard did they break its spine in the throws of their perusal.

Hunter S. Thompson

The hell are you asking son don’t you dare YOU GET OFF MY PROPERTY! I invited you? Maybe but it won’t make you less dead THIS IS THE TIME WHEN THE WORD IS MADE FLESH! Republican meat needs no salt.

Ari Bach

Writing fiction isn’t easy but it can be fun and rewarding once you get the hang of it. It’s helpful to look at the advice of popular authors to find your groove. Here are various writers and their advice on writing.

[troythecatfish]

[victoriadallonfan]

…Oh my god, she’s just copying South Park

That’s seriously where she’s at right now. Copying South Park’s attack on the trans movement.

Also, like, this is a TERRIBLE thing to bring attention to, considering the black character of Kingsley Shacklebolt she created.

And the fact that house elves really love slavery and Hermione trying to free them was seen as naive and ignorant.

Anyways, her post is in response to people upset that she’s targeting Lucy Clark, the first openly transgender football (soccer) referee in the world, who came out in 2018. She honestly just seems like a nice person.

But this was too much for JK Rowling! She posted the above tweet and several more

Misgendering and sending stray shots at people who cross dress too - apparently because the media(??) is too nice to them(??)

I wonder how JKR would react to learning that pants were initially unisex, and that pants were deemed “unmanly” at times

Or the fact that people who cross dress have played important roles in history, like Dorothy Lawrence

Of course, JKR doesn’t really care about facts.

All she cares about is that Lucy had the audacity to… lightly warn people to not make transphobic comments:

JK Rowling is a real asshole

[silverstrike]

In all honesty, TERFs should fuck off with this one.

Yall act as self-righteous defenders of women and talk about caring for survivors of SA now, when not that long ago you had no problem throwing two women of color to the dogs because they don't fit your racist, eurocentric standards of femininity.

Eat shit.

[unhinged-transmasc-man]

(This is a very long post, but worth reading)

Being a trans man is bizarre. Because you grow up being treated as a girl and sexualized as one, mocked and diminished and dismissed as one. “Oh you’re just a whiny little hysterical girl, shut up.” You’re constantly gaslit about your interests and experiences and trauma. You know what it looks like when someone sees you as small and insignificant, unworthy of listening to. You have femininity forced onto you and get punished if you disobey. If you’re Asian, you’re even more sexualized and infantilized due to fetishization. And if you’re black or brown, society never considered you innocent to begin with. You’ve been an adult from the moment you were born. Being socialized as having a white girlhood is a very particular experience. But if you’re on the internet and in queer spaces you learn that femininity is always really good, actually, that it never punishes anyone, and that you can be anyone except a man. You can be a lesbian, you can be non-binary, you can be butch, you can be transmasc, as long as you don’t Step Over The Line to being a man. As long as you Stay Good. These ideas slowly creep into your head and stay there, sometimes being what keeps you from realizing you’re a man.

And then you realize you’re a man. And you still have all those experiences, you’ve still been hurt by misogyny in the same way, you’ve still had violence enacted upon you. But now it’s somehow worse, because the same people who supported you when you were butch, or a lesbian, or transmasc but not a man, suddenly they’re gone. You can see the distaste they have for you. Suddenly those “jokes” about men you and others made out of pressure and internalized self-hate affect you, and it hurts. So you speak up, say that actually, you’re a man and you’re not bad. And they laugh at you. They say that either “oh we didn’t mean YOU,” or “if you’re a man, then you’re included.” And what are you supposed to say to that? Either all men are evil but you’re not evil so you can’t be one, or you become a victim of a kind of violence resulting from 2010s Buzzfeed “progressive” gender essentialist bullshit “feminism”, where you have to tolerate demonization of your identity as a man to be acknowledged as a man. Sometimes you’ll take it, because you want to be seen as a man so bad that even being complicit in your own dehumanization is better than being forced into womanhood. (I’m also talking about you, pick-me trans guys. If you grew out of it, good in you, but this may be a wake up call you need.)

So you go on the internet for a supportive trans community and you find that things have shifted since you thought you were still an identity of Not A Man. You still have the same experiences, but now you can’t complain about them. People call you “a whiny hysterical little girl,” but in different words. Now you’re “an aggressive toxic man.” Keep in mind, you’re still regularly misgendered and treated as a girl offline, but that doesn’t matter to these people. You’ve crossed that line, and now you’re Bad, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You can’t talk about experiences, you can’t talk about prejudice, you can’t talk about issues that uniquely affect trans men. You can’t talk about how cis women throwing a tantrum at inclusive reproductive language is at words meant to include trans men, not trans women. You can’t talk about how afab socialization still effects you, that it keeps you from speaking out at this very moment. You can’t talk about the rate of violence, or of murder, or of sexual assault. Suddenly the people who know full well how inherently violent it is to misgender trans women in death are saying “but terfs like trans men, they just want to save you, you don’t die like we do,” and you don’t know what to say. Because it’s so untrue.

You know exactly how terfs attack trans men, all the fear-mongering about “poor autistic lost lesbians,” and “amputating healthy breasts and fertility,” and “internalized misogyny, they did this to escape the patriarchy.” You know the fear-mongering about it and where it comes from, because you’ve seen it from the day you were born. It’s the language of putting men who they see as deviant women back in their place. And yet no one besides you and other trans men seem to see it. When JK Rowling comes out with her transphobic manifesto, she talks just as much about trans men as she does trans women. And yet the only response you see to her is “trans women are women!!!!”. And generally, that’s the only response you ever see to any type of transphobia. That trans women are women. This gets so ingrained that anyone other than you is completely unprepared for how to defend trans men against transphobia, because they think transphobia only affects trans women and don’t understand the unique language. It also doesn’t help that most of them already believe the same things (mainly, that being a man is Bad and Not Progressive) and they can’t argue against what they believe.

And so here you are, still experiencing misogyny and violence, still being misgendered and threatened, uniquely in danger for being visibly trans, but you can’t talk about it now. Because you use he/him now, and that makes you evil. Other trans people, who are supposed to be your family, think you’re evil. They project their hatred of cis men and masculinity onto you, and you’re bewildered. You realize they can accept you for being trans, but they can’t accept you for being a man.

They’ll try and get you to separate those parts, say nonsense like “all transphobia is only based on trans women,” when you know for a fact it affects people in different ways. If you say telling all men to die is problematic, they’ll call you transmisogynistic and sexist as though you don’t know misogyny like the back of your hand. You try telling people who have been dehumanized for being trans that you don’t want to be dehumanized for what makes you trans, and get demonized even further. You get the worst combination of all. You get diminished and mocked and condescended and dismissed, “Oh you’re just a whiny little hysterical girl, shut up,” turns into “Oh you’re just a whiny little hysterical man. Stop speaking over women.” You’re still constantly gaslit about your interests and experiences and trauma, because liking masculinity is seen as bad now that you’ve realized you’re a man. You know what it looks like when someone sees you as small and insignificant, unworthy of listening to (especially as growing up as a Jewish girl, and now a Jewish man). They see you as not only small and insignificant, unworthy of listening to, but they justify it with your identity. Before, it was that “women” weren’t worthy of being listened to because they were stupid and insignificant, and now it’s that you’re a man, and men shouldn’t talk about their experiences fear because they’re Evil. You had femininity forced onto you and got punished if you disobeyed, and now you get that again! But now you’re a “toxic man” if you hate being misgendered. You get the misogyny of being treated like a woman and the demonization of being a man, and you can’t talk about either. “You can’t complain now,” they say, “you asked for this. You chose this.”

They use the same language of those “he’s only pulling your hair because he likes you” teachers (“terfs want to forcibly detransition you bc they care about you”) or “you were asking for it” adults after being catcalled for the first time at age 12 (“you chose to be a man”) or the same fucking language as terfs, who they claim to hate. They use this same language, except now it’s a chance for them to project their trauma with masculinity onto you. You learn a lot of people only hate terfs because they don’t include trans women, not because they’re fascists who believe in innate gender essentialism and that your genitals determine everything about you. You learn a lot of trans people are terfs. In everything but name, they are. They believe in gender essentialism, in radical feminism, that all men are evil, just including trans women. In their view, they slot trans women into the status of white womanhood as eternal victims, and trans men into the status of white manhood as eternal oppressors. Except that doesn’t work.

(Not to mention that non-binary people can also be men or/and women, and are entirely left out in all of this except to fit into this oppression point calculator developed in a previous un-invented circle of discourse hell)

You find a small circle of trans men and mascs talking about the same stuff you’re talking about. You realize that realizing you’re a trans man means you have to become an activist for trans men. Every word you think of to describe your own experiences is, again, mocked and dismissed. You’re gaslit even more heavily than you were before, by the same people who claim you have power over them. People who have never talked to a trans man in good faith spread misinformation, that testosterone is easy to get (it’s actually harder to get than estrogen because it’s a level three substance that results in a felony if taken without a prescription), that it’s poison (and maybe it was for them, but they say it as a universal statement), that all trans men worry about is misgendering, ignoring the very real violence against us specifically for being TRANS MEN. And you die a little inside and grow very disillusioned and alienated from other trans people. You notice that traits of a testosterone-induced puberty are demonized even when that hurts trans women, and you notice any trans women who try to speak up are silenced, just as you are. And it hurts. Where is the community in this?

But still, you have your own community, slowly raising awareness for these things. You dust off your skills you got from validating yourself from harm from your abusive mother, and put on that same shield you used against abusive cis boys in high school who made period jokes and said cis lesbians just wanted to be men. You use the language to describe your own oppression that you know to be true. You use “transandrophobia” and “anti masculinity” without apology. You’re not going to apologize, flutter your lashes and give a nervous laugh the way you did for cis men when you were in danger, to other trans people about transphobia. Not anymore, not now, and not ever again. You work through your own self-hatred of masculinity that the queer “community” fully endorses and practices daily, and realize that being a man is good, actually. You start defining your own ideal of masculinity, and start being your own role model of what you want to be as a man.

You’re on testosterone and see it demonized daily by other trans people, and see that what gives you happiness is mocked as what makes you unlovable and disgusting. It hurts, but you learn to brush them aside. Solidarity is important, you’ve always known this. Sometimes you can get through to people, who will realize they’re hurting you and stop. But some people won’t, and will victimize themselves eternally. That’s not your fault, and the emotional labor you carried over from being raised as a girl means you especially need to hear this. That’s not your job. Not because women should have that job, but because no one should have to do more work than is equal. You are trans because you are a man, and so your manhood cannot be separated from your transness. Other people practicing transphobia against you is their fault, not yours.

You start to learn that damn, the patriarchy really does effect men from how other queer people treat you. Because people, especially women (both cis and trans) start treating you like a non-human robot, an emotional punching bag. That’s if they don’t demonize you entirely. But still, you have your community, you’re transitioning, and you’re happy. You start growing into your manhood and masculinity, really growing into it. And there are times when you’re really, really happy. You decide to make your own representation. Don’t let anyone take that away from you, fellow trans men. You are handsome, you are strong, you are resilient. Your are courageous and lovely and kind. You are worthy of love not despite being a man, but because you are a man. It’s been hard, it’ll be hard. But it’s worth it to be a man.

(This ended up being a long post, a combination of what started out as a rant and turned into more of a personal journey narrative. I want to make people feel heard. You are valid. It’s not just in your head, they are gaslighting you. You aren’t sensitive, you aren’t dramatic, you aren’t toxic, and you aren’t whiny. You’re a trans man who wants to be known as a man without being demonized for it. Never be afraid to speak up against transphobia, especially when it’s from other trans people. They should know better, it is not your fault. I love you. I’ve also learned more about multigender people and intersex people, but I can’t speak to their experience at all and so didn’t want to misrepresent. But I can only imagine it’s even more complicated and hard for you, so you get even more love and support <333)

(If you’re not a trans man or transmasc reading this, and you support it, thank you. This was specifically about trans men because it’s the man part people really demonize, and transmasc as an identity is still seen as “safe” because it’s “not a man”. For supportive trans women and transfems, I love you. Keep speaking up for us. But for anyone who comes at this in bad faith, re-evaluate why you feel attacked. Are you perpetuating harm against trans men? Are you continuing gender essentialism but justify it because you have a marginalized identity? Are you projecting your trauma against cis men, men in general, and masculinity against people who can’t fight back? Reflect and grow the fuck up. Are you a trans man who’s bought into dehumanizing yourself so you can be seen as “one of the good ones”? Are you a white trans woman weaponizing your newfound sense of white womanhood onto trans men, especially non-white trans men? Reflect on how demonizing men and masculinity as inherently predatory and dangerous effects jewish men, black men, brown men, disabled men, and Asian men. And maybe just white cishet men as well!!! They’re also people!!!! Being a man isn’t inherently a bad thing. You should be mad at systems, not people, and individuals when they perpetuate harm. Being marginalized in one area doesn’t mean you can claim to be the voice of the community while hurting members of the community you supposedly consider yourself apart of.)

[dddemigirl]

Joanne is at it again.

Good luck, you’re going up against a Time Lord and the people that are actually on the right side of history. I don’t need to explain why comparing 🏳️‍⚧️ people to the Taliban is offensive…

[ravensincowboyhats]

WHY, aside from misogyny, do we refer to the (Harry Potter) magical world as the ‘wizarding world’ if wizards are referred as exclusive to a gender?

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry makes it sound like witchcraft and wizardry are different arts, but it’s treated like it actually just means Hogwarts School for Magic-Wielding Girls and Magic-Wielding Boys. I’m not surprised because jkr wrote it, but I thought we’d divorced her. Shouldn’t it be settled by now?

Witchcraft ≠ art of magic for girls

Wizardry ≠ art of magic for boys

They are different practices, they’re not gendered roles. They teach witchcraft AND wizardry (pretty sure Potions comes under witchcraft, Transfiguration under wizardry) so why are we still referring to magic-wielding girls as witches and magic-wielding boys as wizards? They’re not. That’s jkr’s mistake. Divorce. Separation. Settlement. Exorcise her from it. Graduated students of schools for magic are qualified in witchcraft and wizardry. It’s not gendered.

Gender isn’t different for magic people. If it were, there would only be two and that just doesn’t make sense. Again: this is jkr’s mistake and her views don’t align with ours so why are we following her transphobic shit if that’s one of our biggest issues with her???

It would be very surprising if I’m the first person to bring this up, so what are the alternatives? It’s always annoyed the shit out of me (PS has like one sentence that gives the impression that they are magical arts, but then she switched to calling them gendered arts but I might have imagined that. At 9 I already had a strong desire to extract answers from her regardless of her expense lol).

[haystarlight]

I love how, as much as she messes with every single other time period in the hpverse, JKR doesn't seem to want to even get close to the Marauders. She touches Harry, his kids, young Dumbledore, Tom Riddle's family, the founders, etc. but it looks like she wouldn't touch the Marauders with a ten foot pole.

Allowing the fandom to fill in all the blanks to the point that that side of the fandom has created it's own mythology and headcanons so much that it's completely divorced from canon at this point. Half the stuff that comes out of there not even remotely canon compliant. They're not even hp characters anymore, just ocs with the same name as hp characters like

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Google To Relist "Fascism" As "Happy Fun Party Time Thanks To President For Life Donald J. Trump Blessed Be His Name."

FIJMU News 1-28-25 by Apollo Redball

Shortly after the announcement that it would be obeying President Trump's idiotic nationalist order to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," Google has announced several more search term changes.

Not only will searches for fascism replace the word with "Happy Fun Party Time Thanks To President For Life Donald J. Trump Blessed Be His Name," but the following searches will also be altered against the user's will:

Freedom Of Religion -> Why Jesus Is Republican

Trump Civil Rights Violations -> How To Mind Your Own Business

Naziism -> Jewish Plot To Make Hitler Look Bad

Racism -> Why You Are Just Paranoid And Not At Risk

MAGA Covid Misinformation -> Vaccines Kill Millions Kittens Daily

Transphobia -> Why Holocaust Denying Has-Been YA Fantasy Authors Know Your Identity Better Than You

Political Ethics Reform -> New Discounts on Bread And/Or Circuses From Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby And Amazon

Revisionist History In Schools -> Why Colonialism Is Silly Fun For The Whole Family

Trump Jan 6th Traitor Pardons -> National Heroes Set Free After Persecution By Satanic Baby-Eating Taylor Swift Fans

Child Concentration Camps -> Why Your Memory Of The News Is Worse Than It Really Was, And Camps Where You Can Be Re-Educated For The Glory Of The Nation

Abortion Rights -> (It just forwards your address to the cops)

Instagram Forcing People To Follow Trump -> Boots Are The New Lollipop!

Rage Against The Machine -> How To Report Neighbors to ICE

We Are So Fucked -> Cure Depression By Working For Amazon

Help -> Use Code "HeilMusk" For 5% off BetterHelp

Not to be outdone, the Bing search engine will continue to not function at all. With Google's AI results, extreme advertising priority and this new fascist shit, that is in fact genuinely better than Google.

[troythecatfish]

Source: Mattxiv on instagram

[victoriadallonfan]

“Local Moron Who Denies Nazi War Crimes and Associates with Nazi Apologists Upset that People Call Her a Nazi Apologist.”

Remember who JKRowlings friends (aka homophobes, transphobes, and fascists) are:

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

I think purity culture has ruined fandoms: everyone is so ansty to prove how pure they are that they attack and harass people horribly and call it "activism". Be it people attacking teenagers in the Marauders fandom because there's this new rule you can't even write the words Harry Potter without summoning a hoard of naysayers who accuse you of endorsing holocaust or some shit just for liking something linked with Miss Black Mold, or be it people harassing SA victims who still dare say they find solace in their old NG's fandoms, in the stories they loved and made theirs from their childhoods or as adults. This uglyness that runs into tumblr and is infecting every fandom, every social media actually, is so fucking gross. Putting the blame of the evils of consumerism or rich people onto the single person reeks of late stage activism. No one knows what to do anymore, so we start eating each others, and then purity culture morphs into these extreme forms of harassment, that are becoming more and more normal by the day.

I'm starting to get tired of the internet as a whole.

[tommyssupercoolblog]

There's a blind spot people have sometimes when trying to talk about HP that I noticed

whenever there's discussions on reclaiming it in some way people forget that....a lot of the people who want to reclaim it are trans women. A lot of the people who are making queer spinoffs to try and get control of that narrative are trans women. And other groups JKR has harmed as well, such as Jewish people, anyone who isn't white, anyone with aids...

I don't know if reclaiming it is a good idea and honestly I don't personally care because I don't like any of the characters or the worldbuilding even a little bit and don't have any personal nostalgia for it, so I don't really feel emotionally invested in taking it back?? It's some stupid wizard series to me. I don't want it!! And I can't pretend I personally understand the people who still do.

But I think arguments we have on it should account for the fact that trans women (and other groups she's bitchy too) can and do still care about the series and want to hold onto it in some way. I think that should be a part of the discussion and at least part of your argument should address that group directly.

When you argue that no one should make fanart or try to reclaim it somehow, don't phrase it like every trans woman is in agreement, because they aren't. They can't be, they're all individuals with their own opinions and ways of doing things. Don't act like only the cishet, white, not-HIV-positive people care about it.

Explain to the people who are IN those groups how and why they should abandon it, too, don't rest your entire case on a mythical complete-agreement between everyone affected ever that they don't want Harry Potter anymore. Your argument will be a lot stronger if you account for this- it'll not only reach and be applicable to more people but it'll also make you seem like you've thought this out more. If someone personally knows a Jewish non-white HIV positive trans woman who loves Harry Potter, and your argument pretends those people don't exist, then that person is going to write you off, because "well x still likes it". If someone IS the Jewish non-white HIV positive trans woman and they see your argument they're just going to write you off because "well they don't speak for me I think fan content is fine". You have to address the whole room. /gen

[enbycrip]

I’ve emailed a local community group about a Boy Wizard themed Lego event basically saying “Hey, JKR and HP are awful - transphobic, disableist, antisemitic and racist. Lots of families are trans, disabled, Jewish and BIPOC and don’t deserve events like this, so please don’t in future? Please feel free to ask me for recommendations for inclusive books or tv shows if you’d like for future themes?”

Place your bets now on me getting something egregiously transphobic back?

[sanisse]

What exactly is a terf?

Hi!

Terf stands for trans-exclusive-radical-feminist. It refers to a person who describes themselves as a feminist, but who are transphobic and assert that trans women are not women and have no place in women's spaces. They have a weird obsession with biological sex, and subtly or not-so-subtly equate being AFAB with being a victim, and being AMAB with being an oppressor. Men evil. Women good. Etc. Etc. (This absolves a TERF from any kind of moral responsibility because if they, due to their biological sex, are inherently always oppressed, they can never be an "evil oppressor". It makes terfs extraordinarily difficult to reason with). Like terfs wanna be oppressed so bad. They wanna be oppressed so so bad it's embarrassing for them.

JK Rowling is a textbook TERF. But to break it down into common red flags of TERF or borderline-terf ideology:

Patriarchy is bad but it always benefits men. Terfs get really upset when you point out that patriarchy is a system that oppresses and harms and traumatizes men and women. They get VERY upset when you point out that men have any gender-related trauma at all. TBH this is the biggest red flag that I see pop up with terfs.

Terfs generally believe it's impossible for men to be assaulted or abused. This is also a huge red flag. Even little boys. It's disgusting.

Terfs will complain about how men are "invading" women's spaces (trans people in bathrooms issues but also this goes WAY beyond that)

Terfs like to assert that all men are predators/pigs/evil etc. etc.

Terfs will assert that men are stealing resources allocated to help oppressed women (they mean trans women...that trans women are "stealing" resources allocated to "real" women).

Again, weird obsession with vaginas.

All that to say, I put "terfs fuck off" on all my blogs because trans women are women, and patriarchy hurts men, too, and I think men are great, actually, and that actually misandry (men bad lol) is a frankly crusty and tired Take and that's its not funny or cute or sexy or edgy to be misandrist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and MOST importantly, I have no interest in engaging with someone who is transphobic -- especially not on a blog where I'm writing quite a lot of queer smut lmao.

[haystarlight]

Funny how Transphobia Georg made a fictional sport where different sexes play on the same team