#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

[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

[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

[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!!!

[def-not-kaz-brekker]

*Me when I was young and naive, being a gryffindor and holding a Harry Potter book and waving my wand that lit up when I shook it*: omg I love jk Rowling so much I wanna be like her when ur grow up—

*Me now, gay and trans, opening ao3 to read another wolfstar fanfic on my phone after reading “the sun and the star” and another kanej fic, being a slytherin even tho on the test it said ravenclaw, smirking deviously*: oh she-who-must-not-be-named would hate me so much

[soliss-occasus]

I want to punch her in the face

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

I think purity culture has ruined fandoms: everyone is so ansty to prove how pure they are that they attack and harass people horribly and call it "activism". Be it people attacking teenagers in the Marauders fandom because there's this new rule you can't even write the words Harry Potter without summoning a hoard of naysayers who accuse you of endorsing holocaust or some shit just for liking something linked with Miss Black Mold, or be it people harassing SA victims who still dare say they find solace in their old NG's fandoms, in the stories they loved and made theirs from their childhoods or as adults. This uglyness that runs into tumblr and is infecting every fandom, every social media actually, is so fucking gross. Putting the blame of the evils of consumerism or rich people onto the single person reeks of late stage activism. No one knows what to do anymore, so we start eating each others, and then purity culture morphs into these extreme forms of harassment, that are becoming more and more normal by the day.

I'm starting to get tired of the internet as a whole.

[bookdragonideas]

The simple fact that dozens of wonderful kids novels go overlooked every day while people argue to the point of screaming hate about Harry Potter makes me incredibly sad.

Harry Potter is a decent series. It's fun, well written, and if you like it, great.

It is not an over-the-moon, once-in-a-lifetime, we'll-never-get-something-this-good-again, book.

I grew up reading Redwall and Keeper of the Lost Cities. And those are wonderful books. When I joined the world of the internet and found the fandoms I was thrilled to realize there were other people who loved them.

But those were not the best books I read.

(Well, Kotlc is on the list, but I digress)

Some of my all time favorites include: Narnia, How to Train Your Dragon (the original book series is so much better than the DreamWorks franchise and thats saying something.), Tuesdays at the Castle, Dragon Slippers, Half Upon a Time, Rangers Apprentice, and literally everything by A L Tait.

Seriously. I love every book Allison Tait has written to date. My favorite being Mapmaker Chronicles with the Ateban Cipher a close second.

She writes so well and every time I reread her books I find more secrets in the story that make it even better.

I have LITERALLY MEMORIZED most of Mapmaker with how many times I've read it!

In particular she writes female characters beautifully. Giving them excellent personalitys and realistic strengths that are easy to relate to as a normal human female. I also loves how she writes injuries.

You know that really common and completely unrealistic trope where a character gets hit on the head hard enough to be knocked out and then wake up with no side effects?

Well she does something similar, BUT when the character wakes up he has a horrible headache that doesn't go away for days AND experiences serious memory loss as a result! It's beautiful! and so realistic!

Also, it took me 2 rereads to realize that the Ateban Cipher is A Robin Hood story. It stands on its own so well it doesn't even need to be a robin hood story, but she weaves the pieces in so excellently that any good bookworm will LOVE the references. It takes a mishmash of story points from Robin Hood and twists it into a mostly female cast of Merry Men told from the perspective of the stand-in Friar Tuck. And it works SO WELL!

Special shout out to the Maven and Reeve mysteries for having one of my all time favorite female protagonist (Maven, you beautiful manipulative mystery-solver, you.) AND for having a fascinating format, switching between 1st and 3rd person narrative, seamlessly.

So basically what I'm trying to say is: Harry Potter = good. But. Mapmaker Chronicles = ten thousand times better. If you haven't read Httyd you're missing out on a modern classic disguised as a kids book. And you should read more from small time authors cause they always have the best books.