#fuck Rowling

[millaniumcat]

"But we need to separate the art from the artist..."

NO. STOP.

"Separating the art from the artist" and "death of the author" does not mean what most people think it means, and i am so sick of people using this as an excuse for an artists horrible behaviour. Yes, i am looking at you, J.K Rowling and Till Lindemann (and so many more.)

"Death of the author" is a LITERARY THEORY that argues that the meaning of a piece of art is determined by the readers interpretation, not the authors intention. It is a TOOL used by LITERARY STUDIES to determine the meaning of a piece of art.

It is not a good argument in an everyday discussion about problematic authors. And it is certainly not an excuse for people to keep supporting artists (and art!) that are queerphobic, transphobic, anti-feminisitc, antisemitic and misogynistic.

And no, "separation of artist and art" is not a reason to ignore the problematic views of the author that are INHERENTLY INCOPORATED in the art.

DO NOT EVER use "death of the author" or "separate art from artist" as an excuse. It is not.

[achillurrito]

How long do we think it's gonna be till James Somerton turns right-wing grifter? The people he stole from will likely never see a single cent, but his career is fucked. Within a month, all he'll be left with is name recognition and the fact that a ton of leftists hate him. He could just take the money and run, but given what he was willing to do to get this far, I get the feeling he'd rather not lose his fame.

Let's look at Rowling for a moment. She had all the money she could ever hope to get from her books. She could have simply taken the money and settled down, but she didn't want to. She wanted relevance. Before she started hanging out with fascists though, she tried to become a celebrity of her idea of the left.

Remember those couple of years where she was constantly announcing random characters were gay? The obvious pandering to the left? The "at least one Jewish student at hogwarts"? The weirdly graphic description she gave of Dumbledore's gay sex life despite never even hinting at it in the books? Making Hermione black despite specifically writing her as white?

What I'm saying is, she tried to pander to the left and it failed because everyone could see it was pandering. So what did she do? She started pandering to the right. The right is fine with pandering as long as they're the ones being appealed to. And look at her now, we can't go a week without hearing about some fucked up thing she did, and the right loves her for it.

All of this is to say that Somerton is gonna have a realization that he's been grifting the wrong audience. His one honest trait is his hatred of women and that'll work perfectly for appealing to incels. Just watch as he spins this as the left turning on him and pushing him to the right. He's gonna join the Blair White school of being "one of the good ones"

[sayschu-fanfic]

I already hated JKR, but after learning more about the man on whom she based Snape's character, I think Rowling is the one person I could never give a redemption arc. I'll redeem Umbridge before I redeem JKR in my mind.

[gryficowa]

You know what sucks? Radical feminism (TREF) has so destroyed the opinion of feminism that every time as a feminist you have to explain that no, you are not anti-men, you are not anti-Arab, you are not anti-intersex, you are not anti-trans, thanks, radical feminists, for fucking up the lives of real feminists

I wish you an encounter with a truck or some shit

[januscorner]

Everyone in Harry Potter is trans now! Harry: Trans! Ron: Trans! Hermione: Trans! Dumbledore: Trans! McGonagall: Trans! Snape: cis

[hippityhoppityyourenowmyproperty]

So another shitty white girl is talking trash about Imane and claims she wants to 'avenge' the women and girls Imane 'got in the way of', boosting that she knocked Imane out in a prevois match and would gladly do it again.

Here's the funny part that blondie left out, though: Imane beat her in that match. Russia disqualified her on false rumours after she beat their white little champion.

Female, white boxers are showing the world what sore losers with shrivelled little egos they are.

[mekanikaltrifle]

This shouldn't even be needing said but if you have Harry fucking Potter referenced in your bio or on your blog you get blocked. I give too much of a shit about the trans people in my life and everywhere else to even remotely entertain that juvenile screed of neolib garbage.

[kas-needs-mental-help]

a conversation between me and my online mother:

[i-am-trans-gwender]

What if I sent this to Rowling with no context? Haha just kidding....unless?

[racheldi]

[ignus-moth]

Ok so a personal summer project is redoing hp world building and Ima share this one thing cus im trans and wanna live out my fantasy.

I must preface: Witches are self taught or taught by a community/family, wizards are taught in institutions like Hogwarts. And, muggles are not completely unaware of the casters (magic users).

Most donations to transgender supportive nonprofits made to give free transitioning go directly to helping trans people and supporting their gardens. This is because they can literally make magic potions.

They make these Gender Potions specially for muggles, though, because their systems are not as used to magic, so they’re more sensitive and it could make them sick. So if a caster used a muggle-specific Gender Potion, nothing would happen. However, they give out Gender Potion recipies to casters who can prove they’re trained enough to not blow someone up while making one.

There are caster clothing shops that are trusted by the Caster Society to be set up in muggle cities. They have magic mirrors that show what you’d look like with stuff like a packer or binder, anything non-surgical. They also offer ~magic~ binders that work like those tents with bigger insides. Yeah it just puts ur tits in a pocket dimension. But if you’re a muggle don’t wear it too long because un-monitered continuous magic exposure like that can be disastrous health-wise. DON’T WEAR BINDERS FOR MORE THAN 8 HOURS!!! BE CAREFUL!!! Oh also they sell packers, idk enough about packers to know what’d be cool beyond them becoming not realistic when taken out.

Pride parade after-parties occur in places where spells are allowed for fireworks with the flag colors and people using spells to do people’s hair. Either a gendery haircut or temporary BRIGHT RAINBOW colors.

Nisse (a temporary name, replacement for house elves, work similarly to Nisse from Hilda but are more tied to the building itself) can and will make someone’s life HELL if they find out they’re queerphobic. Hiding their phone, cutting up their shoe laces, tipping over fragile objects, and making their room smell REALLY BAD. Why? Cus they’re being a dick.

Witch covens are the best place to go if you need shelter, especially if you’re queer and/or a minor. Super accepting and will defend you with their LIVES. And maybe go commit a little bit of arson. Just a little bit. :3

[very-uncorrect]

The lives of Jewish and trans people are more important than your little nazi wizard game

[gryficowa]

If you consider yourself a feminist, but you don't care about non-white women, trans women, trans men, or cis men who experience toxic masculinity, then you are not a feminist, you are TREF

The rights of trans people are also the rights of cis women, because many cis women have problems with procedures because of fucked up laws, and many cis women are attacked for being "Not women enough", because they don't have a uterus, because they don't have periods, because they are infertile, etc...

By taking away the rights of trans women, you are taking away the rights of cis women

By saying that "Trans men are manipulated women" you are spreading misogyny because you claim that women are worse than men and less intelligent, this is not feminism, this is anti-feminism

By assuming that trans women are aggressive because they are men, you are spreading sexism, which is contrary to feminism and the fight against toxic masculinity

If you assume that black women are aggressive and overly masculine unlike white women, you are a misogynist and racist, not a feminist

If you assume that Muslim women are enslaved by the hijab and force them to take it off, you don't care about women, you are Islamophobic and you force women to wear whatever you want, which is against the idea of ​​feminism

If you assume that a woman has to prove to you that she is a woman, you are a misogynist and a sexist, not a feminist

If you don't care about women from Congo, Sudan, Palestine, Syria etc… you are not a feminist, you are ignorant

If you don't care about women with disabilities, you're an ableist

You are not a feminist, you are a TREF who calls himself a "Feminist" (specifically a "Radical Feminist") and you are a parasite which makes it difficult to fight for the rights of all women

Women are strong, men and women are not as different as you want to believe, gender roles are harmful and harmful so don't defend them and don't fucking promote them, stop lying that you're a feminist when you spread transphobia, sexism, misogyny and racism

You're not a feminist, you're a piece of shit

[cyan-magenta-your-mom]

No minority was harmed with a game bro

I assume you're talking about Hogwarts Legacy, and in extension about the Harry Potter universe.

There are multiple topics to dig into on this one, but I'm gonna keep it short:

The game has Jewish-coded characters (goblins), including many dogwhistles and using shofar as "just a trinket that goblins used to annoy wizards", when shofar holds huge significance to Jewish people. You're basically suppressing a slave uprising as the main story of the game.

The main creator behind the game, the one who wrote the story itself, was a far right neon@zi. Even tho they kicked him off team, they didn't change the story.

The goblins are believed to steal children = blood libel.

You can own slaves (house elves) in the game.

The only trans character is named Sirona (like sir, y'know).

To expand more on why Harry Potter universe is harmful:

Werewolves are coded as gay people with AIDS. Lupin being the only responsible one.

Using Dumbledore being gay as a distraction from when the book sales started dropping because he wasn't this pure nice person.

Again, so much racism, including the names of the characters and stereotypization. And antisemitism.

So much sexism as well. Someone tell me why Tonks didn't stay this bright vibrant character and settled down to more conservative look.

Rowling recently said that she wrote Death Eaters as a symbol for LGBT community "pushing their agenda". The only agenda LGBT people push is wanting basic human rights.

Rowling actively promoting transphobia AND getting money off the game as well, using the money to then harm trans people. She stated that any purchase of anything from her she considers as an agreement with her bigotry.

And yes, I realize this wasn't in good faith, but maybe someone reads it and changes their opinion anyways.

[fangirl-nadir]

I genuinely don't care if people still want to participate in Harry Potter content. But if you try to tell me that Rowling said nothing wrong, your ass is getting blocked and reported. It takes all of two brain cells to recognize what a bigoted piece of shit she is. And if you have the fucking GALL to support Rowling while calling yourself a Hufflepuff? You are a disgrace to your house. Hufflepuffs would never support that bitch.

[capaldofilcumbergirl]

I think we should use Joanne as an umbrella name for TERFs. You know, as Karen but more specific.

"You know JOANNE maybe you should shut the fuck up and mind your own business." Or something like that.

I think it's funny.