I wish that franchise never existed.
Don’t forget that Daniel Radcliffe is a huge trans ally
I would consider him averaged sized.
Hear hear
I’d argue that trans lives matter more than JK Rowling’s life. I’m bringing out the champagne when that bitch dies, and I don’t even like alcohol.
The easiest of trolley problems
The fact that she recently threatened to sue amnesty international and posted an upskirt picture of a (trans) woman (claiming it contained genital, and stating it’s because this woman refused to debate her) would in most circumstances convince people to drop her. But for some reason we’re still struggling to convince people that they can live without this series.
It was important to my childhood too, but I don’t get to have nostalgia the hatemonger who wrote the books made them into something deeply associated with extreme bigotry against me, I wish that ruined it for everyone else too.
Jesus Christ she literally committed a sexual offence ahainst someone while claiming she wants to prevent sexual offences. FFS
Yeah and in case anyone is curious here’s a source after all, I’m just some lady on the internet with a bias, you shouldn’t trust me.
But yeah, it’s really fucking bad. She should be arrested for it, but we all know she won’t face any consequences. Hell with how the uk has been lately I wouldn’t be surprised if the victim gets charged. No mercy for “evil trans predators” especially when they’re mad at “brave citizen journalists who are simply documenting their sex”
Disgusting, I plan to make sure she gets none of my money. She hasn’t really since the last main series movie came out. I just wish people would get over their nostalgia and see how this woman is using the money gained from tgeir love to fuel hate. I have never eaten ChicFilA and don’t plan to for instance. I do my best to not support problematic shit when I can. Buy bootleg merch if you want the stuff and pirate the movies and games.
I made my kindergarten teacher call me Harry Potter for like 2 weeks when i first got glasses. They were HP branded glasses too. I had all the binders and everything. Harry Potter, Star Wars, and LOTR were all pretty equal in my mind as a little kid. (i now recognize that LOTR is superior and SW is better than HP).
JK Prowlings actions shattered me. Even though i was no longer that level of fanatic by that time. She was just getting super vocal about her trans hate and racism as i was coming out and starting my transition. What a cunt. Ruined a good thing for so many because she couldnt just not be the worst.
People hate trans people so much that if they had any they’d throw any ethics they had out the window to get rid of them.
I think it’s also important to remember that they’re not going to articulate it to themselves as “hate,” when they think they’re only passively supporting someone who is hateful. Liberals conceive of morality as individual actions and intent exclusively, which is partially why we still have to teach adults that racism is more than one person calling another a slur.
The idea that financially supporting – let alone merely endorsing – a franchise owned by a hateful person is inconceivable to them as an act of hatred when they have no ill-will toward any trans people individually (if they even know any). I’m sure we’ve all experienced the family member who shuts down at the notion that they have to be better than simply not committing hate crimes directly.
i don’t want anyone to feel conflicted because they like harry potter and hate jowling kowling rowling. i want them to feel peace with not watching or reading harry potter because it’s a terribly written story by a talentless hack who got extremely lucky. literally everything about it is awful, the characters, the plots, the conclusions…
please get over your nostalgia. you’re not a child anymore, just think about how much you projected your own good will into a story full of bigotry and vile.
Right? I feel bad for adult Harry Potter fans in a way, because it’s almost certain that they’ve simply never read another book since they were literal children.
They are missing out on some actual really good shit because they’ve formed their personality around a mediocre series of books written for literal children.
But they already read book! They’re done! Shat is this, school!?
I’m so bummed about Rowling. I loved those books so much growing up. Its such a shame the person who put such whimsy and magic in the world has gotta spew that hate. RIP Harry, a wizard no more
If it makes you feel any better (and sorry if it does the opposite), she sort of plagiarised from earlier series including The Worst Witch and The Adventures of Willy the Wizard. Kinda all of it, including the premise (magical vs ‘normal’ kids called to a magical school, houses, many of the spells and plots, etc. So much so that the latter sued her over it (that author lost, because it wasn’t a word-for-word lift).
If you like the genre, I’d recommend reading those series instead now.
Spew hate, fund hate, systemically implement hate and violence, politically platform and fund hate, and do horrific disgusting acts to individuals all the time.
Jkr is evil. Not a trash person, not a politically polarizing person, not just an outspoken person I disagree with. But an actual. Evil. Fucking. Human.
It’s strange to me how they wrote a book about how muggles are oppressed, then they turn around and become Voldemort IRL
From the very beginning she makes it clear which muggles are “good”, and which are not, and thus are ok to do violence to. Same with other groups.
Yeah, Hagrid performs body modification surgery on an 11 year old boy because he stole a cake. This is presented by the story as just deserts.
I mean, as a kid there were definitely some people in my life I felt would deserve to have a pig tail
Hopefully your ethics are a bit more developed now
As an adult, i would hope one could tell the difference between a child’s imagination and reality.
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The Dursleys? They’re tories, pretty sure a lot of people here wouldn’t mind punching a tory.
This is the exact kind of simplification that I’m talking about.
What do you mean? I don’t remember anything like that. There were jerk muggles yes, but also jerk wizard and witches
I’m pretty sure that the examples I’m remembering are from a video essay on youtube which I don’t expect anyone to go and watch if they wouldn’t be interested in spending time that way anyway. But I found it interesting.
Shaun - Harry Potter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs
People who are overweight, except molly weasley because we like her, she’s in our group
Stuff about house elves, goblins, professor trewlany, Rowling tends to decide if a person is good or bad, and then their actions are viewed in that lens, with good and bad often indicated by group membership, like what house you are in, who’s your blood ancestor,…
I can pirate and indulge in my inner child from time to time knowing that cast and crew created lifetime bonds and had that experience with us - the fans.
Rowling? There aren’t enough buses on earth to toss her under.
They’re not that whimsical and the magic is kind of stupid. As in its not good magic and the world isn’t coherently built around it.
They’re not even good.
I mean, personally I agree the magic system is lazy and the world is nonsensical, but “good” is more subjective than that. I disliked the books and never even finished the series, it tool YEARS before I even read 5&6, and I don’t think I’ve seen past the 3rd movie. Except meme clips anyway.
But if someone else wants to lament how something they liked is tied to a bigot, let them lament in peace.
Yeah, I too personally never really cared for them. Like, they were OK, I read the first 3 books and yeah, it was a story but I never really got into this “world of wonder and whimsy” stuff. I read the rest of the books as they got released just to finish the story and I don’t think I saw any in the cinema.
But that was me, one of my closer friends at school though was utterly obsessed. They purchased all the merchandise, watched all the films in the cinema, multiple times, read all the fanfiction (and the naughty fanfiction…), played the games etc. etc.
So yeah, I agree that for me I, never really cared about it, it meant nothing more to me than any one of the number of kids books I read. But for others it did form so much of their childhood, it was important. From writing their own fanfiction to drawing art or programming games, I’m sure a lot of people have had it influence their adult life really heavily and, especially those who don’t quite understand the level of harm she is doing and maybe don’t even know anyone personally who is being harmed, this could seem like a real attack on their childhood, we should be able to recognise that and treat that with compassion rather than say the books are crap and you are an evil person for still liking them, which will only serve to harden them.
You’re allowed to like horrible things made by horrible people! There’s a rice dish my mom used to make that’s kind of my not-quite-comfort food. I just wouldn’t recommend it. Its trash. And when I make it, I don’t even burn it every time.
Harry Potter is trash. It’s not the worst thing ever, but it’s not worth your time. Anyone’s time, really.
I’m not defending Harry Potter, I don’t even like it myself, but Christ that first sentence rubs me the wrong way. Maybe things can be subjective and not every art piece is just “good” or “bad” in the end. There’s no reason to be so passive aggressive and belittling in your response here.
Its morally horrible technically uninteresting creatively uninspired. Sorry, I’ll be more nuanced in my broad thesis statements rather than the main body of my comments. I forget sometimes people only read headlines.
I read the rest of your comment, you know. The work you’re talking about arguably being shit doesn’t mean you have to be so passive aggressive.
No like… There’s subjective stuff about what food is good. Is the best food curry? A perfectly grown raw strawberry? Caesar salad? Expresso gelato? Engineered hypernutritious silicon valley bodybuilder slop? but like… Harry Potter is a gas station burrito with some popcorn ceiling sprinkled on top, rolled in the author’s opinions.
Ah, the heaviest artillery of art criticism: food comparisons.
You can’t exactly call it art except in the broadest sense that choosing to splatter shit over one part of the toilet bowl instead of another is art.
the sad thing is that harry potter was one of the only things that kept me alive before i came out of the closet/transitioned T_T mostly for leaky, starkid, and pottercast not so much anything rowling did
(i like land of stories now more because chris colfer is a FAR better author and person than rowling)
Just pirate it ffs, separate art from artist and simply don’t give her any money
Attention sometimes matters more than your money. And todays world is all about attention.
We will all do better to ignore such artists altogether.
I have the pirated Full Cast audio books. After book 3, they slowly get worse. First 3 I can defend as simple kids solving over the top mysteries. Reminds me of the Enid Blyton and The Secret Seven books I read as a kid.
But the casual elf slavery. Dumbing down politics for kids. The torture being used for detention in book 5. Pushed me enough to buy the inkheart audio books.
There are probably other books for teens that have magic and fantasy, but I am reccomending Inkheart by Cornelia Funke right now.
Yeah it’s actually been pretty handy to my language learning process to have a full series of books written at a child’s reading level that it’s easy to find secondhand or on Anna’s archive etc translated into multiple other languages. They’re mediocre and the author sucks but they’ve had a massive cultural impact worldwide and if you read them as a kid you’ll be able to follow the plot pretty well even while you’re still learning the language. I needed hardcopies because my job benefits from me being as analog as possible but like I said it’s so easy to find translated copies of them for cheap.
As a side note, having gotten into the western esoteric spiritual traditions (tarot, astrology, etc) where she pulled a bunch of her worldbuilding from, idt people realize how deep the TERF roots are in that culture. There’s a huuuge emphasis on a woman’s reproductive status being the source of their power. It’s much easier to separate yourself from that kind of thing with an esoteric religion compared to an institutional one like mainstream Christianity but it does still require being mindful of what outside sources you integrate into your personal philosophy. There’s definitely times I’ve been vibing along reading about somebody’s homebrew ritual practices only to have a record scratch moment when they start talking about their inner mother goddess expressing it’s power through her womb like bitch the only reason I even kept the thing was to maybe donate it some day jeebus.
Yeah, the 20th century versions of western esoterica are really bad about that for the most part. To the point that transfeminine pagans have a few specific directions we’re typically recommended towards. Off the top of my head it’s largely Avalonianism, Cybelianism, and Inanna/Ishtar worship.
It does seem like the only tarot books worth a shit are written from an LGBTQ perspective and they work on de-gendering and decolonizing it. I don’t fuck with astrology, because… it’s astrology. Also, at its core, it’s about judging people based upon when they were born, and that makes as much sense as judging people based on their skin color.
Well the thing is that if you get real deep into tarot (which is amazing for introspection and helping others explore their emotions in a spiritual context) you basically have to learn astrology.
As an example, the Thoth vs RWS decks place the major arcana differently because they disagreed on how they should be ordered to best correspond with the orders of the fixed elemental signs. You also see the signs depicted visually especially in the RWS deck, which is what most themed decks are based on (haven’t gotten into Marseille yet, but that’s probably my next step).
And then when you get down to it you realize that the MBTI is literally just astrology with a self deterministic twist (they’re both ultimately based on four humors / temperament theory), so when you layer that, you can usually find a datetime either tropically or sidereally that represents you or an important event in your life that can then use to tell a story about yourself that feels richer spirituality and symbolically. So for instance tropically I’m an earth sign and my chart overall leans very yin, but when calculated sidereally I’m a fire sign with strong Yang elements and it also fits better with MBTI-ENTP (although it’s an air its very fire adjacent).
In the end, all of it is so vague that the whole point of it is to just find something to latch on to give yourself identity and connection to a wider culture, it’s just important to understand that that’s ultimately what you’re doing.
TLDR; astrology glyphs are prettier than MBTI letters
And the TERF thing itself isn’t even really colonialism it’s actually somewhat integral to the original belief systems. Fertility cults are some of the world’s oldest religions. Especially in the case of something like Easter, colonialism actually reduced the influence of the fertility ideology. The anti TERF sentiment that’s (thankfully) taking hold is more of a modernization than decolonization.
It’s also wild to even talk about decolonization with tarot specifically when the very first tarot decks were literally Italian where it started as a trick-taking table game and a children’s card based RPG and was then adapted into a sellable game by the VERY white order of the golden dawn and printed and sold by a board game company. It’s been the occult / gnostic tails side of Capitalist Institutional Christianity coin basically the entire time it’s existed, there’s nothing to “reclaim.”
It’s a pretty good way to train boycotting.
Yes. Yes they always will.
JKR is a fucking ghoul. A projection worst than any of her creations.
Most everything matters more than Harry Potter.
And few things matter less than the JK herself.
And few things matter less than the JK herself.
I agree, but she’s rich and is putting her money into projects that are actively hurting people.
Pretty sure what they mean is that JKR is a worthless human being because she’s chosen to do those things.
You want some real wizardry? Join forces with Tzeentch or Slaanesh.
Lady Space marines ftw \m/
(I don’t know the equivalent for that in the old world or mortal realms but whatever)
That’s right! FUCK Rowling
With a cactus, sideways
I was given the books as a kid, I wasn’t really into reading like most children and my pet budgie ended up ripping them apart and covering them with shit. :)
