#jk rolling

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Its kind of wild (though I suppose makes some kind of sense) that a lot of the residual Harry Potter fandom post-JKRgate seems to be made up of people who are militaristic, gleefully violence endorsing, and in denial.

There was a fascinating thread on reddit's r/harrypotter today that really emphasised this.

Somebody had quoted the scene where Harry uses Crucio, the torture curse that causes the victim unbearable pain and can cause brain damage due to the severity... as something not that they thought was morally questionable or a talking point, but as a heroic winning moment that they were upset wasn't adapted into the movies, and they hoped the tv show would include!

Up and down the thread around 2000 people agreed!

Those few people that pointed out that Harry's use of torture being okayed because he believed it was for the good of society retroactively also legitimised its use by any of their enemies who believed the same were pilloried by the group. Ah, you see, but Harry is the hero. Its fine for him to use literal torture as long as its for the greater good. So what if he causes so much pain his victim passes out? It's the greater good, man!

It kind of struck me that by retaining - and encouraging - this side of fandom, its making HP quite a good recruiting ground for general zealotry and extremism. If X is fine when Harry does it for the greater good, then is it also fine when Rowling does it? Or when the political candidate that Rowling endorses does it?

These people are being carefully shielded from the fact that just because a story has a first person perspective and a character is called a hero by others around him, that does not mean that everything they unilaterally do is objectively right. If you fight fire with the fire in the pursuit of your defeat of fire as a concept, haven't you become... exactly what you seek to extinguish?

[omniwhore]

This might be a hot take but I get so tired of the internets mentality of IT'S EITHER OR.

Either you buy the game nd u therefore don't give a shit about trans pple or you never touch the HP fandom w a ten foot pole again and you're ✨clensed✨

I understand both sides of this conflict so deeply.

As a nonbinary person born in a country where you still have to get sterilised in order to change your legal gender, I can come close to the outrage the trans community is feeling at people so easily compromising their principles and support for them over something like this.

But I also remember the toughest parts of my life as a neurodivergent person being stuck in depression nd anxiety and my fandoms being ny o ly reason to live and keep going. We can't control our hyperfixations and sometimes they're all we have.

All that being said I believe THERE IS A FUCKING MIDDLE GROUND.

You can absolutely, privately or publicly, consume or create HP related content without monetarily supporting JKR. JUST PIRATE THE GAME. Wait a while if you have to, you don't have to abandon your interests but you can do the bare minimum to make sure your consumption doesn't do more harm than it absolutely has to. PIRATE THE BOOKS. PIRATE THE GAMES. THE MOVIES. DON'T BUY OFFICIAL MERCH. DIY YOUR OWN MERCH. Buy stuff from fan artists whose wiews you know and support. CREATE FAN CONTENT THAT IMPROVES ON JKRS STEREOTYPE FILLED INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CHARACTERS.

The content is *yours*. Rip it from that bitch's hands and RUN WITH IT but for the love of god DON'T CONTINUE GIVING HER MONEY AND PUBLICITY

IT'S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO for your fellow trans folk out here.

[gcmuslimah]

The "JK Rowling wrote death eaters to be us" thing is just so funny to me because she literally just compared them to one particular aspect of the death eater's story and instead of reflecting on why their actions might have led to the comparison, now they're blowing it up to act like she said every trans person is a soul sucking death eater (her allegory was about their actions later in the series not the soul sucking stuff) and some are pretending she wrote them years ago as some secret anti trans dog whistle back before any old AGP could call themselves trans and Rowling probably barely knew they exist if at all.

‘We have been made to live in secret, and now is our time, and any who stand in our way must be destroyed. If you disagree with us, you must die.’

I've yet to see the pro transition side actually discuss how this quote supposedly doesn't represent their actions, slogans, call signs, and political leanings considering trans activists talk endlessly of ending the lives of those who don't agree with them.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Happy trans day of visibility everyone

🏳️‍⚧️

[much-ado-about-whomst]

So I've been seeing a lot of boycott the new hogwarts game (honestly I don't care enough to look it up atm, but if youve spent even 5min on tumblr you know what I'm talk about.) and I wanted to talk about it.

Now these opinions are probably going to be a little shocking, but please bare with me and give this some thought before you just respond.

Jk has already stated how she funds anti-trans orgs with the money she has earned from HP. And that is not okay, I hate that she does that.

But

I think the thing that really grinds my gears is that ppl on this website are sitting here and acting like Terf-queen rowling and chickfila are the only two conservative piggy banks that bank roll this kind of shit.

They're not

In fact according to this article, the top 5 companies to donate money to politicians to vote for anti-lgbt laws between 2015-2021 were

AT&T

GM

Anheuser-Busch

The Coca-Cola Company

NBCUniversal

Now, do you have to boycott these companies? You can if you want to. Thats your decision.

I could go on and on about the never ending spiral of, but what about what X company supports. What does company Y do?

The reality is this is a never ending cycle. An endless rabbit hole if you will.

Boycotting can be an effective form of activism. But boycotting a billionaire who's still earning royalties, won't get you very far.

If you guys are this passionate about this stuff then get involved with your local lgbt community. It also would hurt to get involved with your local goverment. Go to city council meetings, be apart of the community, help advocate for lgbt rights.

[niiightangeel]

NEW VIDEO !!!

[nbsky0w0]

The simple truth of things is that if the United voice of a community cannot sway you away from buying a single game you do not care about that community and you do not get to pretend you do

[voidpumpkin]

Step up your game everybody, don’t just give the cliffnotes version of the endings, go into detail, spoil every part of the plot, ruin the entirety of Hogwarts legacy.

[camiefromstatefarm]

Rick Riordan

JK Rowling (pronounced like 'rolling')

Rick Rowling

Rickrolling???

Oh my gosh-

[justalittlehintofleena]

a lot of the fan fiction writers stay true to cannon for Fred Weasley's death if they're prolonging the war. But it's not expected until it happens or I read it in passing. And it always hits me like new. Every. Single. Time. The struggle of the Weasley family and George's reaction.

Every. Time. I want it not to happen and then it does and it makes me feel like somethings just never feel better. aren't capable of getting over.

[yumartist]

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(Harry Potter is amazing.☺︎)

[ezrrraaa]

I WANT TO PLAY HOGWARTS LEGACY SO BADLY BUT I DON'T WANT TO SUPPORT ROWLING.

And it's not like I can watch videos because I don't want to support people that support it.

I guess I'll have to be in misery untill I forget the game's existence.

[the-immortal-asshole]

You can call me a bad person all you want but I will play Hogwarts Legacy because as a person who grew up with HP it is everything I wanted in a video game featuring the Wizarding World. I love the open world, the customisation and considering JKR it has quite good representation in characters from what I have seen. I also know that trans representation in video games is like almost zero so this isn't that much better. I'm not trans so I can't really say much on the matter as someone not directly influenced by it. BUT I also think that the way people gang up on others for playing this video game is ridiculous. Nothing is goimg to change just because a few people won't play HL, JKR is still gonna be a piece of shit, she will still get money through other means. It won't stop her from being rich and an asshole. If people keep harassing others for playing games they want that just makes them seem like a dickhead.

(Now I will not necessarily acquire the game through legal means cause I do not have that kinda money to spend on a game so take that as you want to.)

[capsulecomputers]

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