#jkr mention

[georgies-ftts]

As much as i hate JKR i will not tolerate any slander or hatred aimed towards the kids that get casted in the Harry Potter reboot.

If they get accurate aged kids then they’re gonna be between 10-12/13 years old to represent year 7’s (11-12.) Chances are they’re child actors aiming for a big break which shouldn’t be biased on who they author of the books are or they are being pushed by their parents which is something that happens more often than not.

I refuse. point blank refuse to fuckin ‘cancel’ any kids casted. They are children and they deserve a chance.

I won’t be watching it. But i will not obliterate a child’s chances to succeed based on a woman’s shitty view of human beings

[nonbinarymlm]

Nothing drives me up the wall like “progressive” cis people who justify, minimize, defend, and/or equivocate about supporting JKR and Harry Potter. It costs you nothing to NOT do something and NOT make those comments acting like trans people are stupid or overreacting. It’s disgusting, especially how many of them get on their high horse and act like they’re so profound and smart for being beyond trans people’s measly concerns about systemic oppression.

[marauderstars]

Ways J.K Rowling did poc dirty in canon:

Making the last name of one of her most powerful black characters “Shacklebolt” - a crude af reference to slavery and just in very poor taste.

Naming her only east Asian character “Cho Chang” - a Korean surname as a first name for a Chinese character - proving she did no research whatsoever into Chinese naming traditions.

Cho’s characterization also leans in to the trope of tragic Asian female characters being defined by their romantic connections to white men, as in “Miss Saigon” or “A Quiet American.” Cho’s storyline centers on her romantic involvement with Cedric, Harry and Roger Davies. She gets no meaningful arc of her own.

The sidekick-ification of Lee Jordan.

Michael Corner being referred to as “the dark one” which is bad enough, and then him being whitewashed in the films.

Pansy Parkinson’s comment about Angelina Johnson’s braided hair looking like “worms” goes completely unpunished. Rowling treats this as standard bullying instead of a racially-charged comment. Rowling clearly didn’t understand the serious implications of this comment and its rooting in deeply-ingrained discrimination against black hairstyles, or she would have written a similar reaction to this as she did to that of Hermione being called a “Mudblood.”

House Elves as a metaphor for slaves is highly problematic because they are depicted as “liking” their enslavement and being complicit in it, much like the black slaves in “Gone With The Wind.” Despite Dobby being a beloved character, he is also seen as an anomaly for desiring freedom, and many other House Elves are depicted as grotesque, fawning, ridiculous or sinister. Pretty garbage metaphor for black slaves.

In Goblet of Fire Rowling describes a group of “African” wizards wearing “long white robes” and “roasting what looked like a rabbit on a bright purple fire.” This is just… *sigh* The way this is worded is very clearly just token exoticism and includes no genuine detail about their clothing, cultural food or nationality. It’s just “wow those zany rabbit-eating Africans and their purple fire.” Once again black characters are being used as examples of otherness rather than shown as human beings.

Rowling has openly admitted that she created a detailed backstory for Dean Thomas, one of the series’ few black characters, but did not include it in the books and included the backstory of Neville Longbottom, a white character, instead.

Approving the casting of a white actress in the role of Lavender Brown in the films, a character the majority of readers assumed was black.

The portrayal of Blaise Zabini’s “famously beautiful” black mother who was known for offing her husbands and taking their money. Like. Come on. Tbh she sounds like a queen but violent woc gold digger is still a shit trope.

Just the entire treatment of the Patil twins at the Yule Ball, the way Harry and Ron treated them and Rowling’s garbage attempt at describing their traditional clothing.

Padma Patil’s portrayal in Cursed Child as the stereotypical controlling Indian wife. The idea of ending up with her instead of Hermione being positioned as some kind of horrible alternate reality for Ron had very xenophobic undertones, and while Hermione is portrayed as black in the play, I don’t believe that Rowling originally intended her to be a black character nor that casting directors deliberately set out to cast a black actress as Hermione in Cursed Child initially.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I keep getting the most wildly unhinged Instagram ad, presumably because I stare at it for so long Every Single Time it thinks I want to make a purchase.

T'is not desire that makes me pause, t'is befuddlement

who is the targeted audience for this, and why does the algorithm think it is me?

[marlinspirkhall]

[just-antithings]

it's genuinely upsetting for me to just. like. always discover one of the people i followed has such horrible takes on how people should enjoy fiction. i left tumblr years ago and decided to try it again since i did miss fandom interaction, but a lot of people--even those who don't identify as anti--have such vile takes on how fans should enjoy hobbies

the recent one i saw was how harry potter fans had no excuse in enjoying harry potter even if they did pirate content and made fanworks that are queer-friendly because... apparently you're still supporting jk rowling, i guess?

why? does this apply to other works with shitty creators like lovecraft? danny phantom? rurouni kenshin?

why doesn't transformative works count???? i feel like if some rando made a fanfic of harry potter being trans that would be an amazing act of absolute spiteful "fuck you" to jk rowling, not support?

and idk if it's just me but why does it feel like there's some layer of denial a lot of people have that a person can have shitty morals and still make something that you find beautiful and entertaining? yeah, it's not a comfortable feeling to have and there's no... right way to confront the fact that jkr became successful with harry potter. but shitting on fans (especially fans who actively take steps not to give any money to jkr) feels so goddamn performative. does this help anyone besides their own comfort because they don't want to see harry potter fans that have complex thoughts and feelings?

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[boobie-fem-x]

the fat characters who blew up and flew away were child abusers….

also not every fat character in hp is a villain, yall will grasp at any straw to accuse jkr of being an evil fascist nazi who wants to genocide anyone who is different

[thelittlestpika]

You know what I've been thinking about recently? How funny it is that JK Rowling is just digging her little TERF hole deeper while Neil Gaiman is over here shouting from the rooftops how none of the Good Omens characters are cishet.

[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.

[actuallysafe-for-aro]

Things I've had people online tell me about the HP game outrage:

"Relax, It's just a game"

"Turn the other cheek"

"You can't cancel everyone who doesn't agree with you"

"I don't get it, but ok"

"I'm sorry you feel that way"

Do these people realize how wild this is to say about something so harmful and bigoted. They do not care about the lives and safety of Jewish people and trans people

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I was watching a video earlier where someone was going though all the most popular fanfics on ao3 and like, this isn't a big deal or anything but it did stick out to me a bit the fact that every time they came across a dsmp fic, they weren't rude or anything and were actually pretty even and level about it all things considered, but they did go "I've heard this one is good, but with all the drama around the creators idk if I should check it out or not", and I would've been unphased by that. except like. a good chunk of the other fics were Harry freaking Potter and there was not a single passing comment about jkr being problematic and like...! why must the whole internet have such a double standard against mcyt stuff. like there's much worse issues out there to be frustrated by, but like. c'mon. how is a couple creators out of 30 something of them being bad worse than literally the sole writer of the whole thing being bad? if we're fine with death of the author for miss #1 transphobe who wrote every single character, plotline, and worldbuilding element, then why can't we handle the story where - what, less than 15%? - of the characters were written and acted by bad people

it's either a weird double standard, or the youtuber who made the video could just be on jkr's side I suppose. neither of those is a great thing (tho ngl I'd personally prefer to believe it's the former, 'cus as frustrating as that is, it's ultimately not evil or bigoted in the same way being a jkr apologist would be. just annoying)

[crisisdotorg]

ok, fuck jkr's hogwarts legacy anti-lgbtq+ néo nazi shit, I want a percy jackson camp halfblood game PLEASE

[strebcr]

me anytime i feel bad about my art : it could be worse. it could look like butch hartman's

I wanna see Butch Heartman and Ken Penders get in a cage fight to see who wins. The winner has to fight JKR :^V

[daenerys-targaryen]

jkr STILL being transphobic? isn’t she bored 😭

[just-antithings]

Any Harry Potter discourse that's related to the thought of "You must be as bad as JKR for still being into HP!" feels kiiiinda concerning on their views with media tbh? Like I've seen people insist HP is an actually shit book series (and you should be ashamed you're not big brained for not seeing it), shit on people's ages (often, and eerily specifically, adult women who ship "icky" drarry or whatever), say that you're still supporting JKR even if the only official merch you have is the old books you got as a kid, and have this kinda hilarious fear that they'll get infected by anti-trans, racist, antisemitic, etc brainslugs if they even open a page of the books or see the menu screen of hogwarts legacy

Like I feel HP is like a similar example to how someone writing horror, violence, and murder doesn't mean they're murdery in real life? But in an opposite flavor? There's nothing really horrible in the original books (there are issues, like oh boy Cho Chang wasn't the only oof in the books), they're fun to read and the movies were a delight to watch. That doesn't mean JKR is a paragon of virtue and that's super obvious?

A person's skill or talent isn't connected to their morality and I feel it's dangerous to think that way. Like bad people must only make bad works and good people make good works. And that's not true?

Idk something something it feels like people are scared if they read HP and enjoy it they'll have the Old Christian Horrific Guilt, lacking any ability to go "Huh, I'm enjoying this but I'm also noticing weird things about the book now that I know JKR is a piece of shit. Interesting. Next page." and think everyone who still enjoys HP and lacks the Christian Guilt must be a horrible person. Instead of like... someone who probably likes reading books and never had the urge to be a terf.

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[fancy-fangs]

JKR may be a terf but she also created the most transmasc looking main character ever