#Anti Fantastic Beasts

[punkeropercyjackson]

'Progressive' Harry Potter fans are so hard to take seriously because they'll be talking about 'reclamation' and then their idea of that is.......bashing the characters who're literal traumatized children and ignoring the canon poc and calling rich dudebro bullies punks while claiming they're the ones who're minorities Ackstually

[demiaroacejadeharley]

After the recent discovery of JK Rowling being a Holocaust conspiracy theorist (which I'm not surprised), Miriam Margolyes was right about Harry Potter fans needing to grow the fuck up. Harry Potter fans should be ashamed of themselves that they put their feelings over the people that JK Rowling has harmed over the years.

It makes me glad that I was a Percy Jackson kid and not a Harry Potter fan. Despite the fact Rick Riordan being a Zionist, at least he's not going on social media pulling the same bullshit Joke Rowling has been pulling.

Also, Harry Potter sucks. It's just magical Star Wars, as someone who is a Star Wars fan. Seriously, just watch Star Wars, the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, or read any other fantasy books that aren't written by bigots.

[delicatebluebirdruins]

of the films I’ve watched with Johnny Depp in Fantastic beasts and where to find them was the absolute worst in almost every way

[hellcheer-munson]

JK Rowling is being a Holocaust denier now…makes sense now why in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, she wrote the villain as evil for wanting to prevent the Second World War - and by default the Holocaust - from happening 💀

[spooky-albi-bumblebee]

Tbh i lowkey think the reason a lot of wolfstarries hate grindeldore and cursed child so much has less to do with the quality of grindeldore as a ship, and cursed child as a play, but more to do with the fact they’re still bitter wolfstar isn’t canon and grindeldore is, and scorbus practically is at this point

[soraya-snape]

I was bored, so I used a template to rank some Harry Potter ships. I modified it a bit by adding some more categories and two of my OTPs (Newtina and Tedromeda).

I'm not so sure with how I ranked some ships because I simply never thought of them/haven't thought about them enough to really have a strong opinion on them. Therefore some of them could be in the tier above or below it if you'd ask me again tomorrow.

[ismellpestilence]

I hate you constant production of sequels and prequels. I hate you reboots that contribute nothing. I hate you origin stories that no one asked for. I hate you everyone that makes adaptations and leave the original creator in the dark. I hate you everyone that takes stories and strips away everything they have to say so it can appeal to every possible person. I hate you everyone involved who thinks no one notices when you directly ignore the events/cannon of the previous installment. I hate you shows that only make sense if you've seen all the other shows. I hate you studios that think you can buy yourselves a good story.

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

As someone who has been in the Harry Potter fandom since the 2000s, it becomes obvious that what really made the power go to J.K. Rowling's head wasn't her new fame and fortune - but rather, how the Harry Potter fandom practically worshipped her as a god when the books were still coming out. If you look at old interviews with J.K. Rowling and Emerson Spartz of MuggleNet, and Melissa Anelli of "The Leaky Cauldron" website, Rowling and her PR team specifically curated these interviews - much like with "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" - to only see and praise her in a good light. (Spartz was a fanatical JKR supporter in particular, even going as far as to mock and attack Harry/Hermione, or Harmony, shippers "on her behalf". Rowling laughed at it.)

The Harry Potter fandom and their militant support for J.K. Rowling as a deity-like figure in the 2000s, simply because she wrote the Harry Potter books, really went to Rowling's head. It's also probably where she gets this idea of, "I read my most recent royalty cheques, and find the pain goes away pretty quickly." She genuinely still believes that the Harry Potter fandom still supports her, and still has her back, because she still thinks that fans are putting her on a pedestal. However, in the 2000s, most of these fans were teenagers and young adults who didn't know any better, and weren't mature enough to see how this was unhealthy, for both them and Rowling.

However, I've encountered this issue before in the realm of YA authors and the book community in general, and what J.K. Rowling doesn't realize is that the only reason why Harry Potter fans supported her at the time was simply because she wrote the Harry Potter books - and was continuing to write the series at that time. They didn't care about J.K. Rowling, the person - they cared about J.K. Rowling, the content provider, who kept providing them new Harry Potter content. They only cared about her because she was writing new Harry Potter books.

Once Rowling finished the Harry Potter series, and started writing her adult mystery books, readers' interest in Rowling as a content provider dropped off sharply, and they lost interest, to the point where she had to publicly reveal that she was "Robert Galbraith" in order to boost flagging book sales. It became clear that people only cared about her Harry Potter series.

I feel this is also why J.K. Rowling's slide in to TERFdom is not only performative and self-seeking, but that the people who claim to support her only do so solely because she's anti-transgender. Much like with the Harry Potter fandom - which only cared about J.K. Rowling, in the sense that she was providing them new Harry Potter books and content - TERFs only care about J.K. Rowling because she supports being a TERF. Most TERFs don't actually seem to care about her as a person, and as such, I think J.K. Rowling is seeing them as a misplaced source of support.

It's also worth noting that J.K. Rowling seems to have sought out the TERF community to fill in the gap left by Harry Potter fans, and the fandom at-large, increasingly distancing themselves - or growing and maturing beyond - their single-minded support of J.K. Rowling. For years, Rowling had her ego constantly stroked and fed by Harry Potter fans, to the point that she internalized her entire sense of self-worth on "being the author of Harry Potter" and providing content to people. Or, in the mind of J.K. Rowling: "Without Harry Potter, who am I? What is my purpose?"

Unfortunately, Rowling decided that her new "purpose" was fighting "trans rights activists".

When the Fantastic Beasts film franchise - which J.K. Rowling co-wrote the scripts for - crashed and burned, and her attempt to win back Harry Potter fans and the fandom with new Harry Potter-based content failed, she turned to a new echo chamber for self-validation instead: TERFdom. The TERFdom provided easy and lazy source of validation for Rowling, as instead of putting in actual work to create new Harry Potter books and scripts, she can just rest on her laurels, and occasionally post low-effort tweets that she can post instead, and which garner her a lot of attention. Rowling tunes out all of the negative attention, and only focuses on those praising her, or even worshipping her as their own "Personal Jesus" - the same as she did back in the 2000s with her Harry Potter interviews, and then later on, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

The Harry Potter TV show reboot on HBO Max is now Rowling's third attempt - if not fourth, counting the travesty that was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - to either try and win back the Harry Potter fandom, or to create a new Harry Potter fandom by exposing Gen Z and Gen Alpha to the series. However, things have changed a lot since the 2000s, and that includes far more support for LGBT rights, so I feel like this third attempt is going to backfire horribly on her.

quoted (but not formatted as a quote because it's too long for the new tumblr engine) from the comments to the r/Contrapoints thread on her 2023 JK Rowling video, a striking takedown/analysis of why it seems the author of Harry Potter has gone so far and so fast off the deep end away from the core principles that initially made her work so popular with a western millennial and down YA audience

[theycallmehobbitrex]

Went exploring and found something that made my little hufflepuff heart happy.

[anti-dazai-blog]

y'know, it's kinda ridiculous that dazai eventually won without much difficulty. in recent chapters of the manga, we witnessed for the first time that dazai was struggling so hard, which showed him less omnipotent than he was, and more human at the same time. but it turns out that he was making a fool out of fyodor all along!!!! he lost to the power of alliance!!!! ...excuse me? then what was meursault arc all for?

i love bsd, but there are too many things that annoy me, and the flaws of the series are rarely talked about. so im reaaally happy to see you criticizing the series. i love your blog sm, please never stop posting!! 💕

YES EXACTLY!!

Dazai’s omniscience does NOT help humanize him. All that it does is give him more accountability in everything that happens. He doesn’t get the luxury of pleading ignorance because at this point, the story has made that no longer believable. 

No matter what, Dazai knows everything all the time, doesn’t make mistakes in his plans and strategies, and is capable of anything. If this is the case, which I said it was semi-jokingly in the early days of this blog, he really can be held accountable for pretty much anything and everything happening. Which I’d really rather wasn’t the case.

One of the main themes of bsd is humanity. No one’s special or perfect, everyone’s a human being trying their best to get by. The Meursault arc did a pretty decent job of humanizing both Dazai and Fyodor, two characters who were previously shown as (intellectually) flawless, by having them struggle in their battle of wits against each other. Having both of them mess up or miscalculate in some way made them seem like real people and not just two algorithms playing chess. 

Having Dazai reveal in this final episode that he knew everything all along, everything went according to his plan, and there was never any challenge to begin with entirely defeats the purpose of the arc. What are we supposed to take away from this? That Dazai automatically wins any fight because he’s Dazai? That removes all stakes. 

Why continue watching a show if you’ve already been told that one specific character will always win—and not only that, but it won’t even be a struggle for him to get there, because he knows everything about everything all the time. 

I really, really hope that this was an anime-only ending. Asagiri can still fix this. Admittedly, bungo stray dogs has always been character-focused rather than plot-focused, so while I trust Asagiri to handle the characters better than this, I’m not really sure what to expect plot-wise. But I’m gonna hope for the best.

[dragynkeep]

I cannot wait for the Harry Potter series to become the number one series on Max. You just fell into the trap of lies and heavy exaggerations SJWs are spreading about JK Rowling. So please stop praying it’ll flop and accept the fact people will still buy and support it and its author, who is an actually decent person contrary to what that group of people say about her.

"SJW"

Opinion disregarded

[taylorluvsstars]

No bc how did JKR get away with writing Newt Scamander. he's literally just The Doctor.

[hellcheer-munson]

Fuck JK Rowling but it makes me so angry to think we could have had a complete Fantastic Beasts series with an autistic lead who isn’t a total stereotype, who is loveable, who has a love interest instead of just being infantilised…and instead we’re getting a seven season Harry Potter reboot/remake that no one asked for or wanted on HBO Max.

When I was going through the process of my autism diagnosis, feeling anxious and worried about what being diagnosed would mean, knowing that Newt Scamander - a character who is adored by so many in a major franchise - was being played as autistic helped me tremendously. I saw much of myself in Newt, and it made me feel seen that an autistic person like myself could be the hero, that Newt wasn’t a joke or stereotype. It was so important to me coming to terms with my diagnosis that a character I loved was like me and not limited by being autistic.

I’ve mentioned this before but on the opening day of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in the UK, there was a boy on the row in front of me. When Newt came onscreen, he started bouncing and flapping his hands excitedly - like me, he was autistic and saw himself represented on the big screen.

“But Luna Lovegood” - you know what, controversial but fuck your “but Luna Lovegood”. Her actress sided with the TERF, and Luna is NOT confirmed to be autistic, it’s just a popular fan headcanon. Meanwhile Newt Scamander has been confirmed by Eddie Redmayne (not JKR, fuck her) to be on the spectrum. I’m not saying she definitely isn’t because I can definitely see it, and it’s wonderful autistic people can relate, but I’m talking about a character who is intentionally written and portrayed as autistic instead of just fan headcanons.

What does having a love interest have to do with this? Believe it or not, this isn’t me just being a shipper: too often are autistic people infantilised, as if we can’t love other people or that people are incapable of loving us. But - as anyone following me most likely knows - Newt Scamander has a love interest, Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein, who he’s canonically married to in the future. They even have a grandson who is called Rolf and marries the aforementioned Luna.

In the three films, we only got a few scenes (and then JK Rowling cut Tina out because Katherine Waterston called her out on multiple occasions for being a transphobe) of Newtina but what we got showed that not only is Newt capable of forming a romantic attachment but also Tina clearly loves Newt as he is, quirks and all. She understood his odd compliment of “salamander eyes” because she knows his special interest is magical creatures and it’s his way of saying he adores her eyes. She read his book and genuinely made an effort to learn because she knew magical creatures were important to him, and we saw her grow from thinking he was writing an “extermination guide” to giving him the name for his book, “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them”. My girl Tina LOVES Newt for who he is and always has, and that’s beautiful.

Seeing an autistic person not only fall in love - he spends the whole of the 2nd and 3rd films lamenting on how beautiful she is, talking about her and with her picture in his pocket/suitcase - but also being loved for who they are is something so rarely seen and is so important.

I’ll be the first to hold my hands up and say that the second and third Fantastic Beasts movies weren’t the greatest, by the way. I will agree to that. The first one seems like a damn masterpiece in comparison, even with its problems, but I’m still angry.

The fact that JK Rowling’s bigotry has contributed to losing this rare example of autistic representation in a major mainstream franchise is something no one talks about when discussing her actions, and it hurts that no one seems to care about canon autistic representation.

[nightingale2004]

My Fantastic beasts oc's

Seraphina Prince

Age: 29

Personality: cautious, protective, intelligent, aggressive, motherly, distant, caring, strict, serious, cold, strong-willed, brave, loyal, observant, calculating, determined, passionate, patient, calm, devoted, confident, stubborn, cunning, blunt

Looks:

Species: Witch

Blood status: Pureblood

Family: Bertram (father), Oksana (mother), Octavius (twin brother), Benedict (husband/dead), Eileen (daughter)

School: Durmstrang

Durmstrang house: Wolverine

Patronus: Raven

Occupation: Durmstrang graduate, agent of Dumbledore, author of "The theory of magical arts and objects"(unpublished), Cursebreaker

Love interest: Phillip Kincaid

Jewelry/items: silver wedding ring w/ a black gem (given by Benedict), crow feather necklace (given by Octavius), picture of Eileen and Benedict, her wand

Extra: Seraphina and her twin brother Octavius both went to the Durmstrang institute due to their parents' demand. After they graduated, they both were encountered by Gellert Grindelwald, who managed to convince both the twins' parents to join his cause, but the twins wanted no part of it. Then Albus Dumbledore found the Prince twins and managed to convince them to join his fight against Grindelwald and his followers in exchange for the safety of their family. Seraphina was also married shortly after she graduated to a German Pureblood named Benedict, who was Eileen's father. Seraphina and Octavius were given the role of spies for Albus and they infiltrated Grindelwalds cause and turned ths tides of the war in Albus's favor. After Gellert was confronted along with followers, the twins were marked as traitors and their parents were taken away to Azkaban and the war resulted in Benedicts death, and due to Seraphina and Octavius's parents investing all their money to Grindelwald's cause, the twins were left with nothing so after the war, they immediately went to work to keep themselves afloat

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Octavius Prince

Age: 29

Personality: intelligent, calculating, observant, confident, stoic, caring, quiet, blunt, sarcastic, independent, cunning, patient, calm, level-headed, protective, stubborn, nice, creative, artistic, strong-willed, selfless, cautious, courageous, passionate, loyal

Looks:

Species: Wizard

Blood status: Pureblood

Family: Bertram (father), Oksana (mother/dead), Seraphina (twin sister), Benedict (brother-in-law/dead), Eileen (niece)

School: Durmstrang

Durmstrang house: Ucilena

Patronus: Crow

Occupation: Durmstrang graduate, Spy for Dumbledore (formerly), Potion master and Dark arts theorist

Love interest: Theseus Scamander

Jewelry/items: Raven feather necklace (given by Seraphina), picture of his sister and niece Eileen, black leather bracelet, his wand

Extra: When Octavius and Seraphina first became spies, they both knew what they were up against, but what they did not prepare for was betraying their own parents and Octavius seeing his own sister becoming a stranger to his own niece and losing her first husband. After the war, both the twins went into work almost immediately to scrounge up money to keep themselves going, Dumbledore even offered free education for Eileen as a way of saying 'thank you' for their services. Just when they thought they were done and everything was starting to feel normal for them, Grindelwald escaped, the twins were re-called and both Octavius and Seraphina's new adventure took them all the way to New York in America and getting involved with an eccentric Magizoologist and his strange new group of friends.

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Phillip Kincaid

Age: 30

Personality: serious, brave, clever, loyal, dominant, sarcastic, protective, creative, observant, headstrong, smart, strong, determined, cunning, bold, playful, stubborn, kind, aggressive, reckless, rebellious, flirtatious, arrogant, competitive, passionate, headstrong

Looks:

Species: wizard

Blood status: half-blood

Family: Iris (mother), Sanders (father), Aurelius (uncle/dead), Pamela Silverthorne (aunt-in-law), Astrid (cousin), Astara (cousin/ twin to Astrid), Anthony (cousin), Eden (cousin), Isabella (cousin), Rietta (cousin-in-law/ married to Astrid)

School: Ilvermorny

Ilvermorny house: Wampus

Patronus: Wolf

Occupation: Ilvermorny graduate, MACUSA (formerly), private eye

Love interest: Seraphina Prince

Jewelry/items: his wand, scarf w/ his house colors, a small bag w/ magic related case files, a silver ring

Extra: Phillips mother Iris was his uncle Aurelius's younger sister, and when they got the news that their uncle was killed by one of Grindelwald's followers, they were all devastated and rarely went to London except for the holidays, but they always assured them that they always had a place in New York City. After he graduated from Ilvermorny, he fought in the war alongside his cousin Astrid, and Theseus Scamander and went back to New York, where he lived in his flat and worked in the MACUSA until he started his own private eye career with Astara until the whole Grindelwald obscurus business. He then soon joined Astara on her cases regarding the magic world, its creatures, and people and promised to look after Astara for his aunt Pamela. He also quit his job at the MACUSA and supported muggle and witch relationships

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Astara Silverthorne

Age: 27

Personality: clever, creative, intelligent, observant, headstrong, brave, persistent, driven, stubborn, protective, confident, methodical, skeptical, kind, caring, artistic, patient, bookish

Looks:

Species: witch

Blood status: Half-blood

Family: Pamela (mother), Aurelius (father/dead), Astrid (twin sister), Anthony (younger brother), Eden (younger brother), Isabella (younger sister), Rietta (sister-in-law/married to Astrid), Phillip (cousin), Iris Kincaid (aunt/ Aurelius's sister), Sanders (uncle-in-law)

School: Hogwarts

Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw

Patronus: Panther

Occupation: Hogwarts Graduate, Private wizard investigator

Love interest: Newt Scamander

Jewelry/items: Her wand, dark blue feathered earrings, travel papers, grey satchel with a raven pendant on it, looking glass, picture of her family

Extra: Astara was a student at Hogwarts along with her siblings. She was one of the brightest students at Hogwarts and was good friends with Leta Lestrange. After she graduated from Hogwarts, she wanted to be a detective for wizard-related cases, so she created her own business as a private eye in London, but then she decided she wanted more of a challenge and went to New York in America and lived with her cousin Phillip who lived in New York. At first, it was slow going, but when Newt came into New York and an obscurus started killing people, making the magic world known, she got her adventure and got closer to Newt. Back in Hogwarts, she had a huge crush on Newt and his connection with the magical creatures of their world, she even studies cases regarding the magical creatures, like selling them illegally, even wizards or wizard children. Her twin sister is a Gryffindor and an Auror, she is also married to a curse breaker and supports her twin sister's choice in career, her little brother Anthony is Gryffindor and a quidditch player for the Chudley Canons, and her other brother Eden is Slytherin and works for the ministry of magic, and her youngest sister Isabella is still in Hogwarts and is a Hufflepuff and is planning to be an Herbologist. Her mom is also a retired Auror, while Iris works for the MACUSA and lives in America with her uncle Sanders

[troythecatfish]

I Wonder What JK Rowling’s opinion is on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians? 🤔 🧐

[sleepyphoen1x]

Just for curiosoty.

What do you hate Albus Dumbledore?