#i can’t wait till Harry Potter enters the public domain!

[chequerootlurks]

Reblogging this for that last line:

“Just be critical and aware as you do so.”

I still own my Harry Potter books and merch. Obviously haven’t giving J.K. Rowlings any more of my money since she turned out to be TERFY af.

Still, the truth remains that destroying stuff I’ve already paid for won’t hurt her in the slightest. It would be symbolic at best, but my little HP purge wouldn’t help anyone.

I can however, speak out against all the things that are straight up pandering and -ism bullsh*t. I can be honest about all the reasons I’ve really come to loathe Rowlings, and I can refuse to drop another penny towards her merch.

That doesn’t change the fact that I still like said merch that I do own, and I enjoy the books/movies... it just means that I’m not afraid to point out the problems.

Like Shakespeare.

If the man were alive today I’d be hard-pressed to buy stuff he produced. But looking back with a critical eye, I can enjoy what he wrote.

It is, however, most definitely easiest to detach the creation from the creator post-mortem. Much harder when the creator’s still alive and on social media spouting TERFy rhetoric.

One of my favorite authors is a hetalia author, and I feel bad supporting her. I know the show is anti semitic and racist. But she doesn't write about like Germany or anything. And she does human aus. I don't want to be a bad person

Okay. Let me put it this way. There are a lot of people to this day that write a bunch of romcoms and romance novels that are basically Romeo and Juliet fanfiction. William Shakespeare was incredibly anti-semetic. Do you think that those people are all bad people? Do you think that everyone, all the Shakespeare scholars and actors and English students over the past half millennium have all been terrible people?

Are you aware of the racism and antisemitism within the original work? Are you taking steps to make the world a little less racist and antisemitic? Then go ahead and watch Hetalia and read Hetalia fanfic. Just be critical and aware as you do so.