#goodbye misogynistic wizard witch system

[dr-alphys-lizard-mug]

I just got reminded that terf wizard book lady exits and :(

-rant ahead-

Sure, the books helped me through my childhood. They helped me cope. Escape. Hope. They helped me realize I was being [TW] abused. They got me into to witchcraft.

But they also caused harm. To me. To others. I once looked up to her. I wanted to be her [rät starts playing]. But it turns out she was a fake. A fool. I first heard about her being odd in political ways. I brushed it off because I still didn't know any better. Then I learned that she was a terf [trans exclusionary radical feminist]. Then I read Cursed Child and saw how little she cared for her stories. And then there were the Fantastic Beasts movies. And her being weird about gays. (I guess him wearing "feminine" boots in the first book was supposed to allude to that???] And then I learned she was anti-Semitic (hope I'm spelling that right) [jewish caricature goblins], anti lgbt, racist, misogynistic or at least sorta, weird about poc and different religions [not many/stereotypical poc characters. Also mr. Dark lord head from the first book) and who knows what else.

There's so much icky stuff in her books. It's everywhere. I can't separate the art from the artist when the artist fucked up this badly. Everything. Everything is bad. And I just

It has helped me and so many others but I think it's time to put it to rest. Like and old friend you drifted apart from. You can still hold the memories. You can still mourn the loss. But please, keep moving forward.

It was fun, but now that we've grown up, don't you think it's best to leave it behind?

Additional notes:

Reality shifting [please don't comment on if this is real, thanks] is just shifting to a different reality. And there are infinite of those. People who shift there can shift to a non problematic version without all that icky stuff. Yes, I know it'd be wildly different, but do you really want it to be the same?

Idk what to do with stuff you already own. I might burn mine as part of a detachment(i think that's right?) spell.

I clung to Hermione as a kid. She was me. I was her. I didn't have my own identity, so I took hers. It hurts learning about all this. She truly was a comfort to me.

Autistic and adhd folk: i know you can't control hyperfixations or special interests just please don't financially support her

Osdd and DID alters, I am so sorry about what happened with your source. I wish you well

I want to completely rewrite hp/cursed child/fantastic beasts without all the -isms and -ists snd cultural appropriation. At that point it'd be it's own series. Different characters. No dark lord. No death eaters. No romanticized abuse. Just magical escapism. Idk if I'm going to do that, but if i do it'll be it's own thing with different characters/names and I'll try and learn as much as i can about all different types of cultures and people (I'm a white person, so yeah. I'd need to do some research) the characters would be pagan probably and there wouldn't just be wizards and witches. Mages, warlocks, etc. If i do this I'll put in on wattpad or ao3 or something