#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?

[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.

[crossthread]

Tbh it was the worldbuilding that took you over and made you completely feral about it, 9 or 29. The more I get back to it, the more I kinda weep all over, cause there's so many problematic things about the subtext, character history, etc the more you get on.

[astracora]

Actually obsessed with the way his eyes do the widen when he's shocked or unsure what to do.

[irnbraw]

New Harry Potter Title

The Shona-Humza Shitshow & the Half-full Hall

[belgianreader2]

“It's beautiful, yeah... The sky's burnt orange, with the citadel enclosed in a mighty glass dome, shining under the twin suns. Beyond that, the mountains go on forever. Slopes of deep red grass, capped with snow.” - The Tenth Doctor

Oil on Canvas, 40x60cm.

It took about 30 hours over the course of nine months, and I learned about four new painting techniques for this, and it was all so worth it to finally bring the Gallifrey in my head to something tangible.

[ollylotl]

catching up to wonderlust. love these two.

edit: if u notice the tiny lesbian pin on wd's jacket i did that b4 anything was confirmed. its not meant to be bi erasure i was just sneaking in a little projection you know how it is. a real lesbo such as myself would never take away a bisexual's beautiful identity. peace and love on planet sapphic. good night.

[gimbapchefs]

good morning you two 🥹

[channie-binnie]

OMG THE CLIPS OF THE FANMEETING WTF

THE SWAPPED SOLOS OMG

CHAN DOING SO GOOD, LEE KNOW DOING HALLUCINATION, CHANGBIN DOING AS WE ARE, HYUNJIN DOING UNFAIR, HAN DOING RAILWAY, FELIX DOING HOLD MY HAND, SEUNGMIN DOING ULTRA, AND I.N DOING YOUTH

WTF WAS IN THE AIR

[coldsummernight]

More of the weed dsmp au..........

Reminder that tommy eats random things in this au, he is immune to any ill effects so weed doesn't effect him!!!

[mabaki]

Maelmordha and Harpp tussle over... :checks notes: ....Vampire MILFs: overrated or not...?

Maelmordha @lady-quen Harpp @kolibri-kolibri

[grievetherat]

My two weed smoking girlfriends

[cowboylikeyouu]

"😩💅🏻but i was going into tosche station to pick up some pOwEr ConVeRtErS💅🏻😩"

oh luke skywalker, the crimes i would commit for you

[teehee-vibes]

Helloooooo Cattlepunk nation… new oneshot alert

[sweetpaintedladie]

Keith Richards backstage at the final Faces concert, 1974

©️ Graham Wiltshire

[hsw3k]

"Come with me"