Fuck stopping. Steal it all. Take it and enjoy it without her getting anything. Reclaim the art. Make it your own. Piss her off with fanfic and fan art based on things stolen from her.
This is how you do it. Hermione Grainger? More like HENRY GRINDER!! And he's PEGGING HARRY!
I think these hard line stances do more harm than good.
My wife and I are active in not supporting any new things, but to talk about how you think it's morally wrong to even talk about the franchise is going to alienate a ton of people.
I feel fine talking about it, and the memories I had with it. Because everyone I surround myself with is completely aligned that Harry Potter was meaningful when we were kids and also JK Rowling is a complete fucking asshat.
This sort of purity testing has got to stop. If mentioning the name of Harry Potter marks someone as a transphobe who is equally as bad as politicians actively stripping them of their rights... The movement will never build a coalition.
Saying that financially supporting JK Rowling is actively harming the trans community is a reasonable argument. Saying that talking about Harry Potter, even if you note that JK Rowling sucks, makes you an outright transphobe is not reasonable to me.
You don't need to stop doing any of this.
Just pirate all of it.
That's what I did.
That's still boosting the cultural impact of her work. In some cases piracy increases total sales.
Even better: pirate it, and whatever it would have cost, donate that amount to an LGBTQ+ charity.
I stopped the moment she showed herself to be a terf.
Never looked back.
I’ll never. Ever. Understand being rich enough to enjoy the rest of your life and choosing to spend that wealth harming innocent people.
I would love to understand why saying "Don't support cunts" is such a non-controversial statement.
Until it comes to Harry Potter.
Especially considering how simple it is to do.
member when the entire culture collectively dropped Bill Cosby like a hot potato and a crazy amount of people didn't wring their hands about pirating and nostalgia and "separate art from the artist" and ninety nine other fun and creative ways to miss the entire fucking point in their scramble to talk over the actual people affected so that they may excuse themselves to continue supporting the content and by extension the creator?
that shitty cookie company remembers.
STOP fucking talking about it
Proceeds to post it everywhere
And if you want a magical world fix that is from someone that supports trans people, look into the Young Wizard series by Diane Duane.
She as an author is also on Blue Sky and is one of the most positive, friendly, upbeat, likable people I've met there.
I know this is going to generate hate but, I just cant care anymore. She's a genuine POS who won't be missed but its my one single escape from reality. Im far to exhausted trying to tiptoe around everyone who's a POS. I'd say I'll stay at home but my builders were probably a POS too and I gotta go sell my house to make SOMEONE happy. If others wanna get her canceled and by some magic remove everything shes ever done from existence I'll make sure not to get upset but Im done being asked to be a soldier in every battle against a bad person.
Unpopular opinion coming, but fuck it. Harry Potter was never great, besides being set in the modern day it's very generic and the movies were mid. some people will worship whatever JK Rowling breathes on
i read that shit around 10th grade because it became fucking impossible to navigate anything in english class, since every other discussion related back to them because that was the only thing these cretins had ever read in their life or something.
they're fucking awful hack work.
the "plot" is razor thin and meanders most of the time, most of the length is filler, all the lessons beyond useless vagueries like "do the right thing" are awful things to impart to children, the worldbuilding is slapdash, the magic system tries to split the difference between whimsical and well-defined and is competent at neither, and the hero simply fails upward to the conclusion of his arc.
i said all of this back then and everyone to a person dismissed me as a "contrarian" and continued marvelling at the brilliance of this monumentally terrible book series.
if you love your kids you'll give them something better to read than fucking harry potter.
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