#fuck jkr and her terf shit

[shipsgaysfordays]

in light of:

i want to finally do the inconceivable and SHARE. A. DRAFT. that i’ve had since....

so here’s that:

idk if anyone else in the marauders fandom feels this way, but i actively fear for the day that anything harry potter or marauders is on the trending page while i am in this fandom

like it’s only going to be shitty news

like if there’s anything that’s created “officially” with the marauders, then fuck off no, i’m not consuming it and i may even just leave the fandom or see if we could collectively decide to change everyone’s names just to avoid the curse that is being connected to the wicked bitch of the west

like if anything was made canonically in the marauders fandom it would NOT BE GOOD, it would be soul crushingly heteronormative and cisgender and likely whitewashing all of the characters, it would be a story that likely worships snape and would go out of it’s way to ruin any characterization of the marauders. it would be hell to see, even in my peripheral vision

honest to god, not trying to gate keep, but i honestly hope this fandom never gets too big. like it makes me a bit uncomfortable to think of how some of the fancasted actors know and it’s a whole other can of worms, but still wondering and thinking about if jkr knows. wondering if she would do anything with this ip, it’s honestly terrifying. as a queer person in this fandom it’s terrifying

i already feel such a huge sense of judgment and discomfort for even associating myself with something vaguely harry potter themed and slightly connected to that transphobe antisemite, but to imagine how things would go if she actually picked up this story

i wish i wasn’t so invested in these stories, i wish i didn’t love these characters as much as i do. if i could i would cut ties with this fandom, and it has nothing to do with the members of the community that i’ve interacted with, all of you guys are lovely and amazing and if anything you guys are a big part of why i stay

i don’t know what to say, i’m just thinking off the top of my head. i can’t come up with a conclusion.

i don’t support jkr, i fear for the day that she may discover the possible goldmine of the marauders, i fear for the possible people in this fandom who would side with the devil and consume her content. 

all i can think of as a sort of conclusion is to state this: i love the marauders fandom because of it’s queerness. because of how i can feel a sense of gender euphoria in how masculine and feminine i can imagine sirius black as being (because i’m the one interpreting them, i have the power). because of the inherent metaphors for queerness and disability that come with an angsty depressed werewolf with severe anger issues. because of the many different perspectives and experiences that i have been able to observe through the fics in this fandom.

so, here i will be, manifesting some deal with the devil and/or some other demons that would take me up on it, so i never have to worry about jkr trying to take this fandom over with her own trash content. (yes i am wishing death on this woman, because of the extreme negative impact that she has had via her making being transgender a political issue, via ostracizing those of us in the community, via making it hard to simply live and be as she and her supporters continue attempting to criminalize us and begin a genocide against trans people.)

to anyone trans who is reading this, i love you, i support you, i’m sorry and i hope we can all get through this to dance on her grave and the graves of all those who have wronged us.

[saturnniidae]

I will never understand how people will agknowledge just how jk rowling is as a human being, and still like Harry potter. You can't fucking "separate the art from the artist" when the 'art' is filled with antisemitism, racism transphobia and more! You can't even think about doing that when the 'artist' herself is a fucking HOLOCAUST DENIER.

(Also it's even more pathetic considering jk rowling is actually a shit writer. Like let's be honest, everything people love about Harry potter is from the movies. Every bit of personality Harry had was from his actors portrayal of him)

These people don't care that they're clinging onto the mediocre work of a holocaust denier that wishes death to trans people because they're too wrapped up in nostalgia or whatever. It's pathetic and honestly disgusting.

And it speaks volumes how pretty much all the people I see behaving this was are white

[orphic-writes]

This fandom should be a safe space for queer and trans folks, and by supporting/promoting that stupid fucking reboot you are actively endangering that.

And yes, posting, reblogging, and claiming that you wish the show was about another era (i.e. the marauders era/the founders era) falls under supporting and promoting.

So what this all really boils down to is this: FUCK JKR and all of her vile ass views. I will block anyone who posts about her or the reboot.

Remember, if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.

[mitternachtskopfkino]

I actually don't wanna talk about this any more, but if I continue seeing people defending and praising JKR shit writing, imma take one for the team and reread the whole fucking HP series and write an detailed analysis of why it's not only problematic but also sucks.

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

absolutely rich as well coming from jk is that she's so violently vocal about so-called 'men' dressing up to covertly harass women and yet was one of the biggest apologists for mr piece of shit wife beater himself, mr d*pp

[menagerie-politics]

Thank you JK Rowling for inspiring, all the women mentioned above as well as, in no specific order;

Sappho

Virginia Woolf

Harper Lee

Zora Neale Hurston

Lousia May Alcott

Alice Walker

Edith Wharton

Xue Tao

Charlotte Brontë

Anne Brontë

Sei Shonagon

Frau Ava

Li Qingzhao

Catherine Parr

Arangela Tarbotti

Phillis Wheatley

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Maya Angelou

Laura Riding

Beatrix Potter

and many other amazing female authors worldwide.

but yeah, jkr paved the road for female authors everywhere!! Better thank her because now women can write!!

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them…

[vinecoveredgarden]

You should hate J. K. Rowling.

You should avoid her work as much as possible.

You should dunk on people who continue to buy and talk about her work.

You should not tell people who have a lasting attachment to old works to kill themselves by the virtue of having that attachment and not being willing to pretend they never loved her work to begin with.

Harry Potter especially is something that was so, so important to a lot of characters. By all means - don't buy the books, or the spinoffs, or that stupid fucking game. But you can't pretend like HP never helped anyone. You can't pretend that aren't a fuckton of people alive, today, right now, who are only here because they had stupid wizard adventures to turn to for escape from their problems.

Hate JKR. Hate her work. Hate the people who continue to support her.

Do not hate the people just trying to get by in a world that is so, so incredibly persistent in trying to kill them.

[sammygender]

i don’t mind being a they these days. it’s kinda cute. old friend of mine they/themmed me yesterday and it fell off her tongue so fluidly it seemed natural and all the girls around her were doing it. i think that would’ve made me mad, a little, a couple months ago, and it almost did now but i felt like i didn’t emotionally mind it very much. i suppose that enforcing pronouns, for me personally and not for anyone else, to me feels beside the point. i want people to gender me correctly without having to tell them more than maybe one little side comment, i don’t want to have to fight them for acceptance. so she called me a they and i thought does this bother me enough that i want to change it? if she’s seeing me as a ‘they’ fluidly and easily, isn’t that sort of a huge step forward from the ‘she- sorry he’ business of earlier? and there aren’t really many nonbinary people these days, not in my circles. at one point there were a few they/themmers but they’ve all gone back to she/hers at this point; bejng called a they no longer feels like i’m being put into the box they were part of, the way it used to back then; no longer feels like i’m being forcibly degendered and sanitised, the way i felt when i HAD to be a they— a they/them, that parts very important, not someone who used they but A They— because i knew i’d lose everything if i was a he. now i’ve been a he for a year, just a little over a year, and the they feels ok. if anything i cracked a tiny smile. & my mother they/themmed me today in the car when talking about me in the third person; she’s a little transphobic, or not really a little i suppose, in the british, left-wing, generally-queer-supporting-but-undeniably-cishet, victim complex bc she’s been victimised and therefore inability to see women like her as anything other than the ultimate victim, squeamish about surgeries and hormones and change and prone to fear mongering and full of i think partially diagnosed anxiety, transphobe way. i suppose that way isn’t especially normal, but it feels like it is. you know—the logical kind of transphobia! the type where, yeah, of course you support anyone’s right to do whatever, but when it’s Your Kid, and they’re possibly making Irreversible Changes, well that’s just—

anyway; she’s a little transphobic, and she refers to me as her gender-experimenting child, and she mostly uses what she thinks is my chosen name, and still sort of she/hers me, but this time after she she/hers me in the third person she goes ‘oh sorry!’ and stumbles over her words for a second before she starts to they/them. and it feels good; really good.

i suppose the sort of good it feels is- different, though. it’s the good that comes in the absence of distress when you’re so used to distress; not necessarily the good that comes at actual euphoria.

anyway. this is my way of saying that my pronouns aren’t he/they, because people will take that as me being less of a man; which i am not. but theys sort of cute, sometimes; and i like how it pays homage to my quirkier side.

[envoyartsguild]

Fuck Hogwarts Legacy

[olderthannetfic]

Sorry to revive the hp wank on your blog but, yk, it was pissing me off. I’m so sick of “grow up children the lore isn’t even good.” Should I pick up some sci-fi fantasy brick instead? Some TikTok romantasy shit? As if the solid magic system is why I or anyone is into hp fandom, as opposed to the gaping holes authors and artists use as planters. The volume of work and history of fandom, and yes, history as a cultural phenomenon. It sucks that jkr used her wealth and prominence as a springboard to be hateful, but done is done on that. Jkr doesn’t, for me , atp, come into it, not since she published DH, and I know I’m not alone. The majority of book character slash fic enjoyers w fuck terfs in bio are not the same people w hp jansport and herbology t shirt. They are not hitting retweet. Email warner brothers abt their new theme park, or better yet, the media that legitimizes and platforms her, or better yet, actually pivot to activism /for/ trans people.

Like, it’s not my fault that jeffree star made good music in 2009, and all the racism, transphobia, and sex crimes he’s done before and since don’t actually make my eBay copy of beauty killer slay less. it’s not like he’s getting proceeds. Those are perfectly valid reasons to not be able enjoy something you might otherwise, but like. What we like and dislike is more to do with the gut than ppl act like it is, when it comes to stuff they can’t personally see the appeal of.

I don’t like fascism or mark wahlburg, but that doesn’t mean I think those things being bad is an actually compelling reason for someone to deny their extant enjoyment of Attack on Titan or The Italian Job, even though it /is/ the reason I personally can’t stand these things.

On the other hand I still like Home Alone 2 AND Two Weeks Notice, and Friz Frelings non-overtly-racist ouvre.

This is just another case of moralizing a personal squick, an iteration of which a broad chunk of self proclaimed proshippers seem perfectly happy to engage in.

I have a bunch of new and comfort fics queued up for my top surgery recovery. If one more person tells me to just decide to like earthsea instead I will metaphorically kms in front of them. There’s exactly one earthsea fic on ao3 with gay sex. And, yk, my blorbos aren’t there. Joy you can’t personally relate to is not less important or more immature for being unrelatable to you.

And ngl it wasn’t gonna work on me anyways, but telling people to discard something they enjoy and care about bc otherwise they’re bad evil cringe immature babies with shit taste who only read one book is like, not the winning argument people seem to think it will be.

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[transexualpirate]

ok last thing ill say on this i promise but to be perfectly fair i do think that jkr gets more hate than other equally as bad people and that's mostly because other people as bad as her are usually men and/or not nearly as famous as her. famous people get more hate and famous women even more. lotta respect to the people that call out the misogynistic statements made about her without ignoring the fact that she kind of sucks.

this is not to say she doesn't deserve hate but some of the shit y'all say (not just about her tbh but we're talking about her rn) really cross any and all boundaries. as someone who's been at the receiving end of it im repulsed and disgusted by the terfs that send death and rape threats and suicide bait trans people but i am also repulsed and disgusted by anyone that send death and rape threats and suicide bait terfs, yes, even trans people. none of that is excusable in my eyes and the only acceptable exception to it is bolsonaro. i am not a perfect person id suicide bait the fuck out of that bitch /hj

[cormancatacombs]

Bonus points if the trans person who claims the record is dressed as a witch, wizard, mage, etc.

Fascinated by this TERF on Twitter who runs half-marathons in a witch costume as some arcane way of supporting JK Rowling & who paid to get the Guinness Book of World Records to enshrine her 1:55 half marathon time as "the fastest half-marathon done in a witch costume"

And who scrawled the names of transphobes like JK Rowling, Dave Chapelle, and Graham Linehan on her legs since they're witches they (who? I don't know) can't burn. Even the men I guess

But this witch's wards did not give her the strength to pass over a "symbol of hatred" for women:

a progress pride flag crosswalk

Just before I could finish they nearly defeated me with their misogynistic crosswalk paint! I had to face down the great power of a two-dimensional flag to post a unremarkable half-marathon time I paid to put in a book to honor a millionaire author I don't know, or as you may call it, "equality for women everywhere".

Truly a hero speaking truth to power by winning a half-marathon in Madison, Wisconsin in the name of JK Rowling, clearly feminism's greatest struggle.

Oddly enough during her time in Wisconsin she didn't tweet about that state's abortion ban even once, but I'm sure she'll get around to talking about women's rights being restricted by laws passed in the 1800s when she's won the real battle of making a rich lady who hates trans people have more sub-two hour half-marathon times accomplished in her name

In conclusion this half-marathon was in November and she had four months to decide not to post this but never reconsidered even once

[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 😭

[the-gentleman-pining]

Righto party people, we had a good run, we got a beautiful S1 of OFMD unmarred by bullshit, which was the first time a lot of us had seen queer rep in that way. It meant a lot, it's been my hyperfixation for a couple years at this point! I even met Rhys, Vico, and Samson this weekend gone, which was unfortunately a bit soured by everything going on.

It boils down to this: how can I enjoy a show with themes of anti-colonialism and rising up against oppressive powers, knowing one of the biggest people behind its creation, Taika Waititi, is himself in signing letters in support of Israel as they occupy and mass slaughter Palestinians. The whole thing smacks of hypocrisy. As someone in the UK, I couldn't watch this recent season in a way that financially supported it anyway. But it's about more than that. I don't know how fans can continue to comfortably engage with it.

We had widespread abandonment and condemnation of JKR in queer circles after her TERF bullshit, and yes it took a while to catch on and for people to realise the smear campaign against an entire group of people wasn't worth them holding onto that piece of media. It's hard letting go of something that means so much. Or is it? I personally was never a huge HP fan, so I didn't share that struggle. But here? With OFMD? Yeah it's safe to say this show has been my life for a couple years. I'm heartbroken this is going down the way it has, and I don't mean that to have anything to do with the quality of the media in S2. It's not a relevant factor when its creator starring actor and co-creator is ADVOCATING GENOCIDE*. If that doesn't put you off, I don't really have more to say.

My conclusion? It's not hard to let go, you just don't think it's important.

I think, unless there is significant backtracking and work done to undo this damage, and even then probs not, this will be my last OFMD post.

Fuck you Taika, you betrayed your fans, but you also betrayed yourself by forgetting the things you used to stand for. Eat shit.

*some people have pointed out that pro-Israeli support is not inherently advocating genocide, because Taika may be ignorant to what's really going on. This is possible, however, firstly, if you don't fully understand something, don't fucking advocate for it. Secondly, intentional or not, he has contributed to a pro-genocidal rhetoric, by signing a letter that one-sidedly condemned Hamas taking hostages without awareness that Israel has taken far more, and for someone in his position of influence, that amounts to the same impact. Obscuring nuance pushes a biased narrative. It's insidious and easily denied.

[crystaltoa]

God, I hope I didn’t come across as defending her when I said I thought she was ignorant. Ignorant is not the same as innocent in my view. I knew there were some nasty pieces of work in her circle these days, and from what I understand TERF culture is very much a cult-like echo chamber that isolates people from those with a more reasonable viewpoint. Maybe calling the end result of that mutual brainwashing ‘ignorance’ is too charitable, though. And she chooses this despite having many reasonable people in her life that could inform her why her TERF friends are in the wrong. She absolutely chose this path of hatred and cruelty.

There is some compelling evidence of her deliberately trying to employ a misinformation argument strategy, though I think she probably could and will fall back on plausible deniability and claim innocence/ignorance, if she responds publicly to this at all.

It would be fascinating to see how this goes down with her TERF friends given what a contradictory and volatile group of people they are. Some are openly Nazis, some are horrified by the very idea of inviting someone so hateful and vitriolic as a Nazi into their vitriolic hate group.

It’s too optimistic to think that the infighting that results from this could be a wake-up call to her, but maybe it will lead some women who’ve gotten involved with similar groups to realise exactly what kind of cesspool they’ve gotten themselves into and start looking for a way out.

i actually think we should not be giving JK rowling any attention in general but to be honest maybe normies should know that woman is straight up doing holocaust denial on twitter now

[joannerowling]

that g*iman article is so vile holy shit. it makes the stink his fanbase has risen after the podcast even more rancid. at this point im confident that people who are wholeheartedly trying to please the gender movement are either spineless coward or predators who are building themselves a loyal support net. bc even now his fandom still have a problem with victims going to a "terf podcast" and treat it on the same level as actual serial sexual violence. like be fucking real for once. and it took them like a month to start actually taking about the basics instead of running a fucking conspiracy about secret trans rights sabotage.

also, ive made a personal observation. this whole incident has turned me away from good omens book and series 100% the minute I've finished listening to the podcast. I haven't gone back ever since and don't feel any significant loss about it what so ever. Analysing this made the constant moaning about ethics of consuming content from La Sorcière TERF maléfique and producing fan works about it pathetic. if they had any consistent principles, like they demand everyone else to have, it wouldn't be such a tragedy in the first place. I can, of course, recognise that HP probably has a much more significant role for these people than anything g*iman ever produced. but the question remains – if she is so harmful and evil, and she harms you personally, why are you still engaging with her universe and characters? I've read a lot of g*iman to be very confident in saying that his books and comics do contain disturbing shit that is unsettling and unpleasant, and that looks and feels like it was a choice to write it that way. i was being turn away from his works simply because the content was uncomfortable and g*iman was starting to look like a hypocrite because of what he said and wrote. good omens was sorta like the last straw, partially become it was co-written by Prattchet (his attitude towards Rowling soured my experience with his lit too, btw. thnx, Joanne, for sparing me lots of time and nerves 🩵), and it's gone now too. so like, if the hp book are crawling with bigotry that makes them feel unsafe and targeted, why even touch them still? read another book, indeed.

Reading the article convinced me to listen to the podcast (now that it's been added to Deezer i can do that in the train, yeah!), and my god, it's absolutely horrific what these women went through.

But re: your second paragraph. Here's the thing, i don't think clues about writers doing horrible shit out of the public eye are to be found in their work (as Gaiman himself apparently put it, writers can lie). It's not his fiction which should have tipped people of, it's his actions.

Middle aged married man with kids, publically hanging on tumblr, a website known for being full of insecure teenage girls and younger women who find refuge in fandom culture. Plenty of famous men would probably do the same if they didn't fear it'd look suspect, but the fact that Gaiman was bold enough to actually do it spoke of someone who had compulsions he couldn't reign in even if it would have been smarter. And those types are usually the ones who act on their impulses.

The fact that he has high charisma in general. Not just with young women but older writers as well, men and women. He's reasonably attractive for a man his age and very eloquent. Never trust a man who can make that sort of impression on people.

The way he used Pratchett's death and their friendship to prop himself up. Well, that one is touchy i guess, they were clearly friends, but i don't know, i always had a bad vibe about this. Adapting Good Omens was fine, but he pushed season 2 with this "Terry would have loved this, it's the sequel we always planned on writing" angle i knew he was a manipulator who would steep low to get what he wanted.

The fact he never directly attacked JKR, unlike other men of his ilk (like RT Davies or GRRM), only once published that ask of that anon on his tumblr who said she'd plagiarised Diana Wynne Jones (which she obviously didn't). Gaiman just answered "we should always read more of Diana Wynne Jones" or something like that. Sly fucker.