#i hate rowling so much

[skypalacearchitect]

remember how people in fandom would repeatedly defend this

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here but remember when Harry Potter had a B plot whose explicit moral lesson was "chattel slavery is good and trying to stop it is cringe"

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

JK Rowling being a Holocaust denier wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but in hindsight it probably should have been.

At this point I don’t care how much Harry Potter means to you, I don’t care if it saved your life, if you think having some dumb fucking House scarf from a made up fantasy series is more important than calling out a white supremacist, transphobic, ableist hag then YOU are part of the problem and you are just as bad as she is.

[lady-raziel]

hate to put anything about JK Rowling on your dash but I saw this post and immediately thought about how much of Rowling’s future ideology was foreshadowed in Harry Potter looking back and how much the really shitty things both the “good” and “bad” characters do are all totally reflections of herself…

Like I was specifically thinking about how much Dumbledore’s insistence on calling Voldemort by his birth name bothered me more and more growing up…and now it’s like oh my god duh it was because Dumbledore was literally deadnaming him because using a person’s chosen name (and by extension, pronouns!!) is something that Rowling thinks should be a privilege you receive if someone respects you that can be instantly taken away if you are “bad” and not worthy of respect

Dumbledore refusing to call Voldemort by his chosen name and calling him “Tom” instead (and keep in mind how Voldemort willingly changed his body to a form he was more comfortable with) was literally just thinly-veiled transphobia wasn’t it and the only reason Voldemort isn’t explicitly trans is because Rowling wrote these books in the early 2000s and Voldemort probably IS a trans woman but the whole damn time she’s being misgendered by an unreliable narrator

[srslylini]

the best kind of experience is reading a fanfiction from a fandom you are actually in but with couples you do not ship.

Which sometimes turns out to be the best media you have ever laid eyes upon, even though you do not ship the main couples and never start shipping them even with the fanfiction existing

[cormancatacombs]

[poems-of-the-anentomologist]

She Who Shall Not Be Named

When I was in second grade,

I read all your books in two weeks

I wanted to be like you

A writer renowned the world over

I would write letters to your characters,

It’s how I got my start

You inspired me,

Gave me joy,

Shaped me to be who I am

And then I grew up

And suddenly,

I am a monster

A 15 year old pervert who will sneak into restrooms

To leave tears and smashed innocence behind

When I am still fragile myself

A cup just waiting to be chipped away

And washed down the drain with blood

[lord-of-the-time-wasters]

Ur crashing out because of lack of turnadette and I'm crashing out because everyone is just so ?????? Out of character?????? and the writing choices aren't making sense????? This Vexes Me.

[aj-lenoire]

i do not enjoy harry potter anymore and even when i did, snape was not a character i ever liked, but for some reason my ‘for you’ page is just full of dedicated snape stan accounts and i hate it

[icksam]

“Severus snorted when he found out Draco didn't know the word trauma in the medical sense. He informed Draco that these were called panic attacks, common among people who had suffered terrible things, especially at a young age. He said he'd known more than a few people with them, and that Draco shouldn't have been ashamed to ask for help. But Draco was mortally ashamed, all the more so when Severus said those brutally kind words. This was not how he wanted his godfather to think of him.”

- Chapter 4, The Silver Wolf.

This is a little scene from Draco Malfoy and the House of Black, also the third book of a 7 part rewrite series by starbrigid on ao3.

I’m so sick of looking at this unfinished illustration whenever I open procreate, so I very half-hazardly completed it. sorry? better than leaving it to rot without sharing, I guess.

The timelapse claims this piece took me roughly 6 hours, but I actually started this maybe around mid-july this year. and. well. it’s now mid-september. AHHH

[cepheusgalaxy]

I get it why people like Harry Potter. I hate it deeply but tbh I disagree with people that say it is a very poorly written series with shit characters and worldbuilding so why bother. I think the prose is pretty engaging, the worldbuilding is not the best, but it's endearing and interesting enough to grab a kid/teen's attention and the plot is fun. Jkr is not a bad person because she is a bad writer and Harry Potter is not bad because it is badly written (it does lack quality in certain aspects and plenty of times the author's despisable values show through her words tho).

I used to like it very much. That's why it kinda hurts to see it anywhere. The other day a kid a few grades below me was walking away from our school's book club with a HP book in one hand. He was smilling so much. It made me so deeply upset just to see the cover. I didn't say anything

It's just. It's not the best series. But it's just so twisted that it is the way it is. That every penny sent to the franchise is used to chase trans people off. To ruin their lives.

I used to read it over and over again when I had bad days. The basic and fantasy-y storyline of a boy having a bad time and then defeating the big evil in such a light and fun prose always made me feel better. I cried when Dumbledore died. I read all of the books more times than I can count and watched the movies with my family while we were cozy in blankets on our living room.

It feels like a betrayal. Like it was a lie. I cared about the books but it turned out the will that sewed them into life didn't think I deserved it. It wants me dead. It wants me bleeding out in the streets and it wants me to stop being myself so I can have a quiet and miserable end. And the woman who carries this will does it so eagerly and it's just—it's like being stabbed in the gut by someone you thought was your best friend, only to find out they had been betraying you for far, far longer than you even thought about trusting them.

It is not the best series, yes. I found Percy Jackson a few years later and it honestly made my whole year that time. You can find fun prose in many places. You can find the same tropes with better writing and more engaging perspectives of you look a little further. It is very hyped up but Harry Potter is not actually the best book series out there. The thing that hurts is that I liked it. It was my childhood. It was the book I found first. It was the movie I saw when my parents were together. It were the pages I would go through after having a bad day. It was the characters I daydreamed about when I was scared about the new presidency that I saw as my irl voldemort, because I was scared.

But every single thought I spent with it, every moment, every page, every excited chatter only served to make it grow a little more and to expand Rowling's platform and influence that she wants to use to hurt more people.

And that hurts.

[notcryingtoday]

I hate that one of the most original villain written in a children fantasy book was just born from misogyny.

Because Umbridge? Absolutely incredible villain. She represents the government trying to control people and the mind of the youth through school, instead of having a basic dark aesthetic she's coquette and dress in pink and has several images of cats in her office. She has her own character and personnality and... Yeah, actually the author just has to deal with internalized misogyny and most of the female characters in the books who love "typical feminine stuff" are villainized.

I say most but the only one who isn't seen as plain evil, stupid or shallow is Fleur Delacour and she was still written as the least talented person who participate in the Triwizard Tournament even less talented than a literal 14 yo kid (he was helped but you get the idea, obviously it would be the girl).

[lucyflawless]

my mum, for all her pros including being hyper-queer and trans supportive, is pretty terrible at calling me CT, which I'm honestly not bothered about. but bc that's my name on whatsapp, it obvs jolts her memory and she'll call me CT in texts and it's so funny to me. clearly all I need to do is just wear a nametag around her AJDGSKSH

[totisviribus]

As a writer myself, I'm continuously baffled at how JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter. The story is so fundamentally opposed to her hateful views against trans people to the point where it's almost comical. The main character spends seven books fighting for the societal acceptance of a minority group to which he does not belong - it doesn't get any clearer than that. The books have issues, of course (Gringots goblins, Hermione's saga with the elves, etc.), but the overall themes seem to resist everything Rowling stands for. I'm definitely not the first person to point this out, I just can't get over it.

Writing is so personal for a lot of reasons, but the biggest to me is that I believe in the message my writing is trying to send. My book, for example, advocates for having compassion for those with mental health problems, something I strongly believe in. I can write villains or other characters who don't have the same values as me, but I'm not going to spend a decade writing a series where the main messaging is morally opposed to my values. At that point, that would mean that I'm advocating for those values.

If Rowling applied her current worldview to the series today, Harry would likely say that mudbloods detract from his status as a "real" wizard and befriend Malfoy in that moment in the first book before the sorting hat ceremony.

It's difficult to tell whether she's so deluded in her own hatred that she doesn't realize the connection or if her values just changed since she wrote the series. But it's fascinating how the story now lives separately from her in culture, adopted by fans who believe in its themes more than the author does and deeply resent her. Almost like something brilliant was raised from a hateful place, but then taken to a place where it's accepted, belonged and loved. Throw in a half-giant and a squished birthdae cake and that starts to sound like a familiar story.

[absolutedoorknob]

Terfs: no you don’t understand!!!! If you have two X chromosomes you’re a girl and if you have one X and one Y you’re a boy!!!! Go back to high school biology 😤😤😤

High school biology: *on the concept of sex and chromosomes*

[oakthefrog]

REMEBER TO SPAM TERF TAGS TODAY!!! IT'S JUNE FIRST, LET'S SHOW THOSE BITCHES WHO'S BOSS TUMBLR!!!

[beigetiger]

Every day I thank god that I got obsessed with Skulduggery Pleasant and not Harry Potter