#just like with JK Rowling

[arttsuka]

People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.

[cryptidjeepers]

okay im not british and i admit my understanding of british politics is not great but i found out that david tennant's speech when he accepted the lgbt celebrity ally award made british politicans BIG mad. the way conservative transphobic politicans will weaponize any part of their identity to silence criticism agaisnt them is so disingenious and shitty.

THIS is what he said. okay

and this was the reaction of badenoch and sunak

literally weaponizing her identity as a woman and a woman of colour to distract from how dangerously transphobic she is. like what the fuck. anyways i just wanted to bring this up because it's something that terfs do constantly. especially to shut up trans woman and cis male allies. not to mention david tennant is a father of a non-binary child and i believe one of other kids is queer. he's not just being a performative ally, trans rights are important to him and his family. anyways fuck sunak fuck badenoch.

[thewolvesof1998]

I’m not going to debate cancel culture but in it’s most basic form its about holding people accountable for their actions and words.

Noah is a proud Zionist who has shown GLEE in the fact that innocent people are being killed, are being genocided. There is proof of this. This a fact. Which means it can’t be defamation. Also his PR team sucks if that’s the best statement they could come up with for him.

I’m sorry people are trying to hold him accountable in the only way they can with a public figure by saying their not going to watch anything he’s in. And from the videos I’ve seen thousands of people are listening to the ‘cancel him’ -as you call it- hysteria (I’m not going to even get into your choice of language here or with ‘angry mob’ but it’s real telling).

And the whole comparing it to Taylor Swift- like you said it was made up/exaggerated the reasons why to “cancelled” her where as the stuff with Noah is real, there’s proof of his Zionist beliefs and support of Israel as they GENOCIDE people. Like what the actual fuck was your point with this.

Anyways enough time spent on that Zionist asshole.

Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. Hold everyone responsible for these murders accountable in anyway possible. Boycott, cancel, bring awareness.

Bisan has called for a global strike week from the 21st-28th of January- boycott work, school, business, raise awareness, call for a ceasefire - whatever you can afford to do.

Also just because some people are terrible people I will clarify being against Zionism and what the Israeli govt and military and it’s supporters are doing is NOT antisemitic. And if you decided to use anti-Zionism as an excuse to attack and harm Jewish people, you are the problem.

Do people realize that cancel culture is so fucking stupid and no one takes it seriously? For fucks sake even Taylor Swift got cancelled. People made up a bunch of lies about her and harassed her relentlessly too. And then she went on to sell out her Reputation tour shortly afterward. Years later she's one of the most popular, respected artists in the world. Noah will come back from this. Because no one likes any of the people behaving like this. If they weren't so chronically online they would realize this. He has a good PR team and the only reason he needs one at all is because of these assholes. I seriously hope he sues some of them for defamation. No one is listening to their CANCEL HIM hysteria. They are an angry mob and no one respects an angry mob. These people have no power.

[bixels]

Always an experience watching the leftism leave FNAF fans when someone mentions that Scott Cawthon financially backed fascist politicians.

The switch from posting hardline leftist tweets about boycotts and signal boosts and critical takedowns of politicians and celebrities to ‘ohhh, well. everyone makes mistakes. who can blame him, listen he. he donated money to gay charities too. that makes it ok! a millionaire in his forties is allowed to have political beliefs. does it even matter? just let it go!’ is whiplash inducing. The antivaxxer celebrities have got to go, but this one horror dev who quietly handed wads of cash to antivax lawmakers? He’s chill, he can stay.

The charity thing is so funny too because suddenly utilitarian positive-negative point counting is the way to go. Maybe an abacus would help calculate the net good of donating to the Trevor Project minus donating thousands of dollars to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. -10 points if I push a kid in a lake but +11 points if I help an old lady across the street, so I’m chill. You can’t judge me. Hey, maybe. Just don’t push a kid in the lake period. How fucking low is the bar when we’re excusing maxing out the possible dollar amount of donations to Mitch fucking McConnell. That should be like. Default you’re a bad person.

[gingerswagfreckles]

I see a post about how JK Rowling's goblins are antisemitic. I click on the person's blog. Their blog is filled with Holocaust inversion, MENA Jewish genocide denial, Hamas support, political "takes" from Twitter bitches with the red triangle in their usernames. I click out and block.

[wizardbuckets]

YEAHGHHH GET THEIR ASSES‼️ FUCK YEAH‼️

[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

[antennatoheaven]

meta knight is the character ever. he got to wish for literally anything he wanted and he wished to fight against the strongest warrior in the galaxy, he has zero communication skills, he didn't like how everyone lazes around all day so he decided to overthrow the government and failed, his ship has his face plastered on the front for no reason, he decided to go down with said ship, he has a strict moral code but is willing to throw hands with an 8 year with no hesitation, he keeps getting his ass kicked by said 8 year old, he has a sweet tooth and feels the need to hide it even though literally everyone around him loves sweets. he's punched jk rowling in the face

[lylahammar]

this fat liberation month I'm wishing for every british author to be visited by the ghosts of fatphobic characters they've written past present and future

[cormancatacombs]

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Full offense here: can some people stop trying to turn the Neil Gaiman situation into something about JK Rowling??? Seeing posts doing this in the tag has actually pissed me the fuck off beyond reason now oh my god, this situation isn't about the terf queen and the fact that some of you are trying it just to try and say she isn't as bad as Neil is holy shit in a bad way.

[abearinthewoods]

Randomly thinking about how jk Rowling coded it in to the HP universe that the stairs to the girls dorms had a spell to keep boys out but not the inverse. Even having a character explain to Ron that its because the founders viewed boys as less trustworthy.

In retrospect given that it really shouldn't have been a surprise when she harpooned on about "men in dresses trying to invade women's spaces". She clearly sees sexual deviancy as a distinctly male trait.

[lovebeatriceplz]

Severus Snape >> The Marauders. FIGHT ME

[its-just-hyper]

In anticipation for the ending of my hero academia, I gotta say: man, is anyone remembering that one time that one beloved book series about a wizarding school ended with the flawed government staying exactly the same, everyone having kids and naming them after killed off characters, and the protagonist becoming a cop?

[maxdibert]

How would you have “fixed” Ginny’s character?

I think that just giving her some relevance throughout the series, so that she wouldn't come out of nowhere as the perfect Mary Sue, along with not turning her into a typical tomboy who isn't like other girls because she's basically a guy with boobs and is super hot (because clearly, to be the "girl" of the protagonist, she has to fulfill all possible male fantasies) would have been enough, honestly. The problem with Ginny is that she feels like a character written by the typical boomer man who projects his sexual fantasies into his books instead of creating real women, except it was written by a woman, which is quite embarrassing.

[thelaurenshippen]

cw: harry potter, jk rowling, transphobia

I occasionally see posts/get messages about the various harry potter references in the bright sessions, etc. and I've gotten a bunch of new followers recently so just so any new/younger listeners of my shows know:

jk rowling is a terrible transphobe whom I hold zero respect for and I haven't given a dime of my money to her since she revealed who she truly is. I want the whole bright universe to be a safe space for trans people (including the trans folks in our cast and crew!) and if I could go back and remove those references, I would. but I can't! harry potter was an extremely significant part of my life until...well, until it became very clear who she really was. it makes me so sad to think that folks might be finding TBS now and get thrown out of the story by these references, but just know that the people who made the show do not stand by jk, and that in many ways, the show is a product of its time.