#hp fanzine

[hdwickedwixen]

Pre-orders open tomorrow!!! We are so excited, we’ve accidentally tripped and spilled these merch preview designs all over the floor! 🏃‍♂️💨

Oops, we’ve dropped this adorable die-cut sticker design from @kryptidfox​! While Mod Sky is frantically trying to peel it off the floor, these precious sticker designs from @warren-keplers-funk-band​ slide into view as well!

How embarrassing 😰 Well, we suppose you were going to see them tomorrow anyways when the store launches. 😋

[saijordison]

Hello fellow Drarry fans! Im putting together a non profit Drarry zine, and step one is to see if there’s interest in said project! Whether you want to participate with art or writing, as a moderator, or just as a consumer, I’m interested in hearing your thoughts!

If you would be so kind and fill out our survey, it would be greatly appreciated!

If you’d like to further help, a reblog would help spread the word! I’m also looking for a mod squad to make the project go smoothly, and you can apply here. Thank you for your time!!

Edit: The project is underway, and you can apply to be a writer or artist now! Go check it out!

[dotzines]

🎃 RED ZONE - Volume 3 RELEASE!!! 🎃

⚠ WARNING! PLEASE READ THIS ⚠ This is a Horror zine. We toned down everything to a PG-13 level for everyone to enjoy but if you're sensible to horror topics or images please skip this zine.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!  This fanzine is a digital book about original horror pieces, featuring 84 amazing artists & writers from all over the world.

CHALLENGES: ● ARTISTS: One Brush, Rule of Thirds, Values, Multiple Light Sources ● WRITERS: First Line, Poetry, Story Dices, The Biggest Twist

The zine is available for free! The only thing we ask is to share our Tumblr, Twitter, BlueSky & Instagram release posts and follow our contributors ♥

CONTRIBUTORS

Writers

🩸 688199 🩸 Aster M. 🩸 B 🩸 EV 🩸 fallsintograce  🩸 Francis Verelle 🩸 Franka 🩸 Kaija 🩸 KnowledgeBear 🩸 Kwiyatsi  🩸 Mango Gummi 🩸 Nate 🩸 Rose of Revolt 🩸 Victor Hannibal

Artists

🩸 Amenyx 🩸 anterograve 🩸 Aria Feliciano 🩸 ArtByGiraffe  🩸 ArtisticallyTwistedTea 🩸 Beartie 🩸 Beviate 🩸 C. Douglass  🩸 CAPPEYHEEL🩸 Cas Lynn 🩸 Catte Robyns 🩸 Chibsi  🩸 Confused Alpaca 🩸 desansen 🩸 EccentricQuill  🩸 Eerie Dearie 🩸 Ellie 🩸 Eter 🩸 Fawndolyn Valentine 🩸 Feiyu  🩸 Flaire 🩸 funeralcarnival 🩸 girlpire 🩸 Hellzelian 🩸 Hira  🩸 Jasper Y. Grace 🩸 Jichu 🩸 Jillian Emeneau 🩸 KeaneArts 🩸 Kisse  🩸 Kitzox 🩸 korryd 🩸 Little Weird Bird 🩸 LittleTroggo 🩸 Maddie  🩸 Maggie 🩸 Mangetsu 🩸 Max HP Art 🩸 May-Tine 🩸 MelloWammy  🩸 Memento Moray 🩸 Mezzonysus 🩸 Mic Salmon 🩸 Michel L.  🩸 Midnight 333 🩸 MITY FRESH 🩸 Morgan 🩸 Natalie Francisque  🩸 Natasha Cánepa 🩸 Nickel 🩸 okenki 🩸 Orion  🩸 Pauline Reinacher 🩸 pikafleetsyolo 🩸 Pizza Hats 🩸 PoppyMori  🩸 PoundToundHound 🩸 ReactorCoreArt 🩸 RIMAH  🩸 Silas Wendelin 🩸 Skunkoon 🩸 Soletti 🩸 SpamHands 🩸 Talia  🩸 That Guy With A Game Boy Camera 🩸 the-ill-doctor  🩸 The.Copper.Doll 🩸 Tor Severino 🩸 Victor Hannibal 🩸 WBY  🩸 Wisteria Writer

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Please continue to support us and we hope to see you in our future projects!

[00queasy00]

question; how many accounts do you have? ive seen your "queasyghosts" one and thought that was ur alt, but then i saw something similar to your art atyle on an account called "ghostmatte"?

Oh! I wear many hats! >:3 I got three blogs I usually jump around, but it’s pretty much:

queasyghosts: my main blog (mainly South Park + misc.) and it is where I follow from. Now it’s run on queued posts mainly that will last till next year XD

00queasy00: my side/alt hp blog that I ended up using more often.

ghostlymatte: my general art blog but I don’t usually post my tomarrymort / soulseeker / Harry Potter art there. Sometimes I share stuff from there on 00queasy00 just because (shrugs)

I was also running a South Park fanzine (k2-fanzine) and the project just ended yesterday so I did share a post from there on here yesterday, because it’s because like 00queasy00 the most :3

[fic-history]

2000's and Beyond: Modern Fic

In this iteration of Fic History, we’re going to be exploring the fic culture in mega-fandoms from the early 2000’s and beyond. That’s a big field to cover, I know, so each section is probably going to be a bit less detailed than usual in order to make things easier to digest. To begin, we’re starting with:

Harry Potter

I think it goes without saying that the HP fandom is probably the fandom of the 21st century. No book series has become so ubiquitous as HP, and there are still more HP fics on FF.net than from any other fandom. Since HP was published when the internet already existed, most of the fandom’s fics were published online, although a few printed fanzines were created. HP fic is also extremely varied, most likely due to the wide cast of characters and length of time covered by canon lore. You could find fic on anything from coffee shop AUs of the Hogwarts founders to explorations of the main trio’s children when they eventually attended Hogwarts. Like most fandoms with a large internet presence, the HP fandom had its own fic sites, some of which were dedicated to specific attributes like certain ships or tropes, but fic was also posted en masse to multifandom archives like FF.net and AO3. In fact, as of 2017, there are still more Harry Potter fanworks on FF.net than any other fandom.

Twilight

If HP is the fandom of the century, Twilight is probably the fandom of the 2000’s decade. At least in the media, Twifans were portrayed as either feral teenage girls or feral middle-age women, but the fandom is actually much more diverse. In terms of fanfiction, it goes without saying that the most famous fic within the fandom is probably Master of the Universe by Snowqueens Icedragon, more commonly known by its profic title of Fifty Shades of Grey. Snowqueens Icedragon, A.K.A. E.L. James, filed the serial numbers off of her fic and sold it as an original piece of fiction to massive critical attention and success. You can read a bit more about Fifty Shades here.

One Direction

This is the odd fandom out of the bunch, as it’s the only one listed that’s completely focused on real person fic, or RPF. According to FanLore, since there isn’t traditional source material to function as a canon to write fic about, canon in the 1D sense consists of “One Direction's members' original appearance on the reality show, plus their concerts, albums, music videos, video diaries, interviews, books, photo shoots, award ceremonies, other television appearances, band members' and families' personal twitter accounts, media gossip, authorized candid photos and selfies, and unauthorized candid photos by paparazzi and fans.” 

RPF already has a bad reputation in fandom spaces, but since 1D is an engineered boy band adored mainly by teenage girls (fandom’s least favorite demographic), the 1D fandom reputation is in the pits (Jamison 2013). Despite this, the fandom is still quite large, and produces a lot of fic, especially on Wattpad, where the fanfic series turned profic After by Anna Todd was published from 2013 to 2014. The most popular ship amongst directioners is Larry Stylinson, or Harry/Louis. 

Finally, we have

SuperWhoLock

Behind HP, this is probably the largest fandom on the list, simply because it’s actually three fandoms smushed together: Supernatural, Doctor Who, and BBC’s Sherlock. Fans in this fandom are called SuperWhoLockians. This fandom was especially active on Tumblr in the early 2010’s, and while the main form of fanwork was gifsets, lots of fanfic was produced in each fandom individually as well in crossovers. The most popular Supernatural ships were Castiel/Dean (Destiel) and Wincest (Sam/Dean, who are brothers, hence the portmanteau between Winchester and incest), while Sherlock’s most popular was Sherlock/Watson or Johnlock. Doctor Who is different, as each individual reincarnation of the Doctor is considered a different character, so each Doctor has different pairings, usually with their respective companions or the Master. SuperWhoLock has a reputation for being cringy due to member’s repeated hijacking of Tumblr posts with fandom related GIFs, but now that the fandom is much less active, the cringe has turned into a feeling of nostalgia.

There are so many more fandoms I could talk about, which just goes to show how fandom spaces have only exploded in size as time has passed. Even though these descriptions aren’t the most detailed, I hope you found them informative and interesting!

Happy reading,

-KP

[fashionbooksmilano]

Artus Présente JC/DC Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Artus de Lavilléon

Éditions Casterman, Paris 2007, 150 pages, Broché,  20.4 x 29.5 cm,  ISBN 9782203005686

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Autobiographie en bande dessinée de Artus de Lavilléon

... Et puis, par le plus grand des hasards, je m'étais retrouvé invité au Festival de BD d'Angoulême en tant "qu'auteur", alors que j'avais arrêté de dessiner 15 ans auparavant, préférant une vie aventureuse aux heures passées à griffonner sur une table, dans le coin obscur d'une pièce sans fenêtre. J'allais sortir un album chez Casterman avec Jean-Charles de Castelbajac et un rêve d'adolescent prenait forme. Je ne savais pas si je devais le regretter ou pas. L'enfant qui lisait avec délices les aventures de HP et Giuseppe Bergman avait grandi, fait du skate-board, et des magazines, monté des boutiques concept et était devenu artiste - autant dire n'avait pas arrêté de faire ces rencontres qui, tout d'un coup, forment une vie. Je n'avais jamais cessé de croire. Le fanzine en noir et blanc, où je racontais mes diverses péripéties, tiré à 12 exemplaires et rapidement dessiné à 36 ans, avait fait boule de neige. J'étais piégé par mes rêves passés, mais l'étais-je vraiment ? J'étais amoureux et libre comme j'avais toujours voulu l'être, et cela était finalement le plus important.

08/03/23

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[leam1983]

It might be pithy consolation, but as someone who's coming in from literary studies, what seems to really lie behind the sense of wounded pride and spurned attachment that a lot of Potterheads face is the fact that, well, JK Rowling is still alive.

Compare and contrast with HP Lovecraft. Guy was a racist douchecanoe with terribly offensive theories about race, segregation, miscegenation, and the roots and value system of the Western world. In today's world, he probably would've turned full-on Trumpanzee before his death. Thankfully, that never happened. HP Lovecraft died of pancreatic cancer a virtually unknown and forgotten fanzine author, and survived his own literary agony only thanks to the works of friends and fellow literary theoricians who managed to extricate him from his own works - and who preserved them.

Today, his legacy spans all of Weird Fiction and is covered by POC, Native, Trans, Nonbinary or generally Progressive writers of all stripes. Cosmic Horror is appreciated by people from a wide massing of backgrounds and only pays lip service to some of his more contentious themes - usually to denounce them in the same breath, or to flip them around. See Frogwares' The Sinking City and its town of various fish-men and ape-persons in expensive designer suits realizing they harbor a chapter of the KKK, and your only interaction with the group being the act of gunning them down where they stand. You might be facing off against the Spawn of Chtulhu, but you've still got time to fill criminalized bigots full of lead...

Distance, I think, will eventually be a balm to most Potter fans. Unfortunately, that's not something that could just be granted to them just right then and there. Rowling's going to die, her supported charities will peter off, her dissonant tone will settle - and it'll probably be easier to be a Potter fan, from then on. Plus, all it takes is a few surviving fanzines for Rowling's oeuvre to follow the same path as Lovecraft's, where the Wizarding World is divested of her influence. Warner Bros. having a stake in it, it stands to reason the exact year of Rowling's death sees the Potterverse more or less explode with new content.

As distance is good, it could also be good for fans to... maybe take five from all things Potter, too. A better appreciation for the material could then be found, later on.

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

[nahokootsuka]

マット・ウルフ監督 紹介

Introduce : Matt Wolf (Excerpt from his official website and Press Note from Teenage)

『ティーンエイジ』 マット・ウルフ監督紹介。映画の製作に加えて作家、アメリカ芸術学科アカデミーの会員でもあり、自身のユース時代には 「Primary Concern」 というミュージック・ファンジンも制作。ハードコア、パンクを中心に作られたそのジンも初期衝動100%でめちゃかっこいいので上映会の時に出すZINEの中に纏めよ��と思います。『ティーンエイジ』 のサイトもかっこいいしマット・ウルフ監督のHPもペールカラーを基調にとっても素敵なので是非、作品と共にチェックしてみてください！

Matt Wolf, is a director of Teenage, also a writer, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and during his youth he created a music fanzine called "Primary Concern". The zine, which focuses on hardcore punk, is also very cool and is 100% based on early impulses, so I will include it in the zine that will be available at the screening. The website of "Teenage" is also cool, and Matt Wolfe's website is also nice and pale-colored, so please check it out along with the film!

マット・ウルフ（1982年5月11日生まれ）は、ニューヨークを拠点に活動する映画監督、脚本家。長編映画作品にはカルト・チェリストでディスコ・プロデューサーのアーサー・ラッセルを描いた 『WILD COMBINATION』 初期のユースカルチャーとティーンエイジャーの誕生を描いた　『TEENAGE』 30年間1日24時間テレビを密かに録画し続けた活動家マリオン・ストークスを描いた 『RECORDER』 8人の人間が地球のレプリカの中に隔離されて生活した実験として物議を醸したバイオスフィア2（アリゾナにある地球科学の研究施設）を描いた 『SPACESHIP EARTH』 などがある。

プロデューサーとしてのマットの最新作 『THE STROLL』 はニューヨークのミートパッキング地区の歴史を、そこで生活し働いていたトランスジェンダーのセックスワーカーの視点から描かれた作品。この作品はサンダンス映画祭で審査員特別賞を受賞しHBO（アメリカの有料衛星放送）でストリーミング配信されていてマットは現在ポール・ルーベンスと彼の分身であるピーウィー・ハーマンを描いた複数部構成の映画を完成させている。

マットはアーティストやクィアの歴史についての短編映画を数多く制作しており、その中には1980年代初頭に平等な権利を得るために年下のボーイフレンドを養子にした公民権運動家バイヤード・ラスティンについての 『BAYARD & ME』 「エロイーズ」のイラストレーター、ヒラリー・ナイトについてのHBOの 『IT'S ME, HILARY』 アーティスト、ジョー・ブレイナードについての 『I REMEMBER』 1992年の悪名高いベネトンの広告についてのTIME誌の 『THE FACE OF AIDS』 などがある。最近の短編 『ANOTHER HAYRIDE』 は自己啓発の第一人者ルイーズ・ヘイについての作品でニューヨーク・タイムズのOp-Docs（製作者の主張が色濃く反映された映像シリーズ）とPBSのPOV（独立したノンフィクション映画を特集する公共放送シリーズ）で公開された。 Op-Docsでは、ジョン・サヴェージとの共作 『THE ROLE OF YOUTH』 サンダンス・チャンネルの 『HIGH LINE STORIES』 シリーズなどがありマットはCMの監督も務めている。

Matt Wolf (born May 11, 1982) is a New York-based film director, producer and writer. His feature films include "WILD COMBINATION" about cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, "TEENAGE" about early youth culture and the birth of teenagers, activist who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years RECORDER," about Marion Stokes; and "SPACESHIP EARTH," about the controversial Biosphere 2 (an earth science research facility in Arizona) experiment in which eight humans lived in isolation inside a replica of Earth. Matt's latest film as a producer "THE STROLL" is a history of New York City's Meatpacking District from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and is streaming on HBO (a pay satellite in the US), and Matt is currently completing a multi-part film about Paul Rubens and his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman. Matt has made a number of short films about artists and queer history, including "Bayard & Me" about Bayard Rustin, a civil rights activist who adopted a younger boyfriend for equal rights in the early 1980s; "Eloise" illustrated by, HBO's "IT'S ME, HILARY" artist about Hilary Knight, "I REMEMBER" about Joe Brainard, and "THE FACE OF AIDS" for TIME magazine about the infamous 1992 Benetton ad. His most recent short film, ANOTHER HAYRIDE, about self-help guru Louise Hay, was shown in the New York Times Op-Docs (a series of images that strongly reflect the producer's point of view) and on PBS POV (a public affairs series featuring independent non-fiction films). Op-Docs includes THE ROLE OF YOUTH, a collaboration with John Savage, and the Sundance Channel's HIGH LINE STORIES series, for which Matt has also directed commercials.

[out-of-the--closet]

✨ PRE-ORDERS OPEN! ✨

Thank you for your relentless hard work and your support in the zine! Our shop is up, and now you can pre-order the zine either with the digital merch included, or without. We're grateful for this journey and the magic it brought.

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[hdwickedwixen]

It’s finally time! Pre-orders are officially OPEN!!! 🎉🎊🥳

Mosey on over to our pre-order shop here to pre-order your preferred bundle! 

Pre-orders will remain open through the end of June, and will close on June 30th. If you need time to decide which option to get, you still have plenty of time! 

If we can meet 50 orders of physical items, then the cost per-book, per-sticker, and per-print start to come down enough that we can offer you new items at no additional cost. This might include more prints, larger prints, more stickers or sticker sheets, or maybe even something completely new and exciting like acrylic charms! Stay tuned for more details as we see how sales start going.

[jeanjauthor]

Somewhere back in the '80s, my cousin had bought a hand-bound fanzine anthology of Star Trek stories, and let some of us read one or two of the short stories inside.

But I will say that the first fanfic online that I remember reading...is an HP SSHG story my sister introduced me to...and it was good enough, I got hooked. I don't even remember the name of the story, save that it had "rose" in the title, and I certainly don't remember which website it had been posted on...

But that story hooked me on the 'ship that I ended up writing in, and that writing got me noticed by a real-world editor at a major publishing company, who asked for access to some advance chapters of a fanfic she knew I hadn't posted yet, and asked if I had any original fiction in women's literature (no) or romance (yes) that I'd be interested in submitting to her for consideration.

...After I got over my shock, obviously I said YES!! and the rest became history.

So that one story that my sister shared with me? Whoever wrote that body-swapping story? THANK YOU.

(Also, this is why I don't feel in the least bit qualified to give any deep advance on literary agents, other than that they get paid a certain percentage out of your royalties; just like legitimate publishing houses, literary agents should NOT be making you pay them just to get started.)

[marauders-pride-fanzine]

Soon the time will come and the zine will be released! Pre-orders are still open, for which you can find the link at the top of our profile. But already now we would like to thank the many participants who made this project possible and introduce them here. 

Really guys, we couldn't be more honored! Thank you all very much for your great works and the fantastic support. ❤️

Authors

@4eyesBarbie @faabyy21 @she_is_destroyer_of_worlds @remywrites5 @dannikathewomanika @bandsarelife109 @here-is-thegreatmoon @notmycatsname

Artists

@mlim8 @artymakeart @erithanart @meekinthedraw @kerubinart @casualmaraudering @unyarima_art @girlwithacrown @winter-weepingwillow @hufflepuffx17 @greywolfandmoon @evax3 @tardisgrump

And shout out to all the others who were also part of this project, even if they were not able to submit their piece in the end. You know who you are and our thanks goes out to you as well for making this experience even more enjoyable! :)

[striveattemptfail]

“Out of the closet” HP fanzine pre-orders open Mar 20 – Apr 14!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility guys, gals, and enby pals~! Here’s a preview of my art for @out-of-the--closet 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It’s a digital only zine with a PDF full of amazing art and fic, plus awesome digital extras like my art ;pp All proceeds go to Black Trans Alliance, so please support if you can 💙🖤❤️

Shop link: https://outoftheclosetzine.bigcartel.com

[latineslytherin]

So there are one of two typical ways you can earn money in the video game industry as an IP holder. Royalties and Advance payment. And given the controversy of the IP holder, we will likely *never* get confirmation of which way she got paid.

That aside, I’ll give you the typical payment method for the industry. And this is purely because the video game industry does not actually make a lot of money per game. Like I know it looks like they do given these bombastic budgets and stuff but the cost to get there is high and they do advance payments for a lot of it. So a game selling well really just means they’ve barely covered production costs. (And I can go on a rant about higher ups getting the bonuses when a game DOES do well and very little of it trickling down to the actual writers, devs, and QA [if they even remember the QA team] but that’s a different point). So with that in mind the gaming industry is volatile. And only if the studio is a big triple A company like Bethesda, or EA or Ubisoft or Activision, would you have any sort of assurance of actual return on investment and that is still relying on really unethical practices like extreme crunches for more than six months consecutively. So if the IP holder was smart…given the fact that the studio making this game is NOT a triple A company at all and even with WB’s funding… they’d take the advanced payment option. And because HP/WW is already an existing BIG IP, she does come from a place of power to negotiate a higher payment in that contract.

Now here’s the part that people should ACTUALLY be concerned about. And I find hilarious given people who want the game to NOT do well at all, and for HP to fade into obscurity keep talking about the game. The game’s existence (even in theory, or boycotted, or released) DOES have a way of making her money in a different way. As in the game’s visibility increases Merch sales and residuals from people restreaming the movies, THAT gives her more money. Even talking about the game negatively pushes marketing for the game and related media up. It really doesn’t matter if it’s negative or positive, it’s the fact it’s ENGAGING people. There’s a reason why people on YouTube want you to COMMENT. Because likes and views aren’t doing it anymore. Comments indicate engagement, and engagement indicates dollars.

There’s a reason why she brings up controversial shit when some of her stuff is releasing. It gets people talking. The saying about “there’s no such thing as bad press.” And this is true to an extent and sad to say, unless she’s actually physically harassing/grooming people directly and not just flapping her mouth and donating money - any negative press about her is just money in her wallet. So if people really want her to fade away- whenever people talk about her - talk about something else. And I don’t mean in comparison I mean don’t mention her at all and switch to something else. Make her irrelevant.

And I say this still making fan content for the IP. Because fanfiction doesn’t increase sales for any IP - if anything it increases fan made product (fanzines, fanart, fanworks etc) sales which is an antithesis to the corporate model. It’s a grey market. Game publishers use YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit (last I knew) to determine an IP’s engagement. Not ao3 and certainly not tumblr.

It’s amazing how people keep peddling the whole jkr will get money if you buy the game, which just shows how those people do not understand how game development works. She’s already been paid. She’s not getting any royalties of the game. The money the game makes will go toward the studio, the developer bonuses, and toward any future projects they are working on/planning.

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