#jkr bashing

[i-need-of-a-hobby]

i love seeing fic writers put "i dont support jkr!!!!" in their summaries-

like, yeah, i appreciate the sentiment but sweetheart, you're writing wolfstar a/b/o with the tags "background starchaser" and "trans regulus." i wouldn't have assumed you supported a terf sweetie.

[marauders-bs]

"Godric, Reg, why do your M&M friends all hate me?"

Regulus looks up at James and laughs. "So, first of all, it's Skittles."

"Yeah. Why are you guys called that, anyways?"

"It was Bat's idea. We're all fruity and we're a package deal."

James laughs a bit, sounding surprised. "He put quite a bit of thought into that."

"Yeah, well, we needed something to sign Severus Snape's hate card in fourth year, and Cas decided that it was just going to be our name."

James hums, and Regulus remembers why the topic was brought up in the first place. "What makes you think my friends hate you? I mean, Lily and Remus are honorary Skittles and they don't hate you."

"Still up for debate on the Evans one, but I'll take it," James says. "No, uh, all four of them glare at me every time I pass and they all have cursed or hexed me at least three times. Each."

Regulus has to laugh a bit at James, shut up in a tunnel together in his lap, and run his fingers through is curly brown hair. "That's because they know I'm into you and they don't know about this."

James laughs softly. "That's probably a good thing."

"Yeah," Regulus agrees.

[cryingoverdeadgaywizzards]

Starchaser fic idea

Im gonna explain starting with the stuff that happens BEFORE the fic takes place

James and Regulus dated in highschool, but Regulus broke up with James at the end of James’s last year because he was considering rejecting huge offers from professional quidditch teams just to be closer to Regulus.

James gets dumped and has no reason to reject the offers anymore, so he plays for a really good professional team. He is heartbroken though because Regulus never explained why he dumped him, so in James’s mind, he dumped him for seemingly no reason. Regulus is just angry with James for almost rejecting the offers and guilty for breaking his heart and he’s just feeling all the feelings.

Fast-forward a few years (still before the fic), Regulus and James are both professional quidditch players, and James is married to Lily. Harry is born and shortly after, James gets a terrible injury and has to quit right at the height of his career. The baby and James’s injury put a strain on his and Lily’s marriage, so they eventually divorced.

Now fast forward YET AGAIN to when the fic ACTUALLY takes place

Harry is a teenager (maybe like 16) and James became and Auror. Hogwarts is doing a career day, so Regulus comes to represent quidditch. Harry goes up to him to ask questions and Regulus is like

“Damn, you look just like my ex boyfriend James”

And Harry is like

“YOU. THE REGULUS BLACK. DATED MY DAD???”

Regulus is shocked but also immediately fond of Harry (mostly because he’s so like James) so he starts to coach him. He tried to keep it professional and not even think about James, but one day Harry says something like

“I asked my dad about you two, all he said was that you dumped him but that it didn’t matter. Then he just went back to cooking dinner”

And Regulus is just like. Ouch. I fucked up, didn’t I? Because James Potter only acts like things don’t matter when they mean the world to him. He still doesn’t do anything though, because he doesn’t know how and he’s kind of scared.

The final nail in the coffin is when Draco is picking up Harry from practice and they remind him SO MUCH of him and James that he just. Can’t take it.

Anyways he talks to James and they make up (and or out) yada yada old man yaoi (they’re both like 37) all that good stuff.

Thoughts?

(Also this goes without saying, but there will be absolutely ZERO Lily Evans bashing)

[my-castles-crumbling]

Most people, when meeting someone new and trying to figure out their morals:

What's your political party?

How do you feel about gay marriage?

Are you religious?

Are you an animal person?

Me, when meeting someone new and trying to figure out their morals:

How do you feel about Dumbledore?

Do you think JRK is a terf?

Have you read all the Harry Potter books?

What is your favorite Taylor Swift song?

Explain your feelings about Taylor Swift.

As a follow-up, explain why we hate Kanye.

[sneppu]

uhhh idk lily thoughts (I'm about to spew critical rambling bullshit, big sorry. these things are my badly worded opinions and nothing else.)

thinkin bout how my feelings for Lily are so complicated tbh.. in canon, I cannot like her. I just can't. The disconnect between what the narrative tries to tell us about her and the reality of who she is and what she does are just too jarring to me. for all that she's meant to be a paragon of virtue and goodness, her actions and choices come across wrong and off and bad in a way that is visceral to me, as someone who has been bullied and sexually assaulted myself. And to clarify, I'm not talking about her breaking off her friendship with Severus; she had every right to do that, and I dont think I've seen a single Snape fan actually seriously state otherwise - but because she *knowingly and deliberately chose to get with an abusive bully.* That she and Snape were no longer friends is irrelevant to me. I understand not everyone feels this way, and that's fine. But It's important to me, and so it carries weight to me. The implications are just too offputting to me, and yes, I am biased. Snape is my favorite little guy, after all. I dont pretend otherwise. To each their own, and she, as written in canon, is certainly not for me, historical context and location be damned.

So i can't like her in canon. If anything, I cant help but feel acute resentment for her character, because it feels almost like betrayal to be told "here is a perfect and good person" and then get.. that. Ironically, I would like her a whole lot more if the narrative didnt try insist on her goodness and instead was just like "actually, ngl she was kinda shitty sometimes. questionable as hell. she was a bit of a gremlin and a little bit fucked up" because then it would feel honest. she would no longer feel like a hypocrite to me, and then those moments of kindness would carry more weight, would feel more meaningful. Her actions would be more believable, would feel more nuanced and I would maybe even love her.

...and that, ultimately is what my problem with her is. she has all the potential to be such an interesting character, but she instead falls short of being a full character at all. it's not her fault; this is a jkr skill issue (and her portrayal of female characters in general leaves A Lot to be desired.), so in the end i'm not too pressed.

its exactly why i like Lily so much more in the context of fanworks. Canon lily? offputting. An incomplete character. but fanfic lily? such potential! she could *actually* be the good person she was meant to be and make different choices or at very least have reasoning that makes more sense! or she could go a new direction entirely and be an absolute gremlin menace alongside Snape and in the process, add more interest and nuance that way! all of these things are enjoyable, and for this reason i cannot say I truly hate her - because I do love her so so much when people make her their own and make her make sense, to do her justice and preserve what - i think - would have been that spark that brought Severus and Lily together in the firstplace - whether it be genuine kindness, or a friendship based on being able to relate to one another at a deeper level, on having that shared weirdness together, or even both things! (that's not to say I love every portrayal; and sometimes there are pet peeves, but they do not ruin the character for me in that scenario, for the simple reason that in these fics she *IS* ultimately a full character, which is more than what can be said about canon lily.) ... and that's the joy of fanfics and fanart and creation, isnt it? that you can make your own ideas come to life, put things together in a way that makes sense to you, and see how others would make a these stories and characters come to life. its why I can despise the marauders in their canon, and yet ship everyone of them with Severus given the right scenario. it's why I can dislike snily in the context of canon, and see their relationship as purely platonic under that lens, and yet wholeheartedly ship them otherwise in the context of fanfics and fanworks. It's why when I say i ship Severus Snape with literally everyone I can truly and genuinely mean it. Because I do. I think theres always room for a scenario, for a characterization, or AU, to allow for it. Fiction is a lovely and magical thing, and it ultimately exists for enjoyment, for entertainment and creativity.

anyway, idk if i worded this wrongly or weirdly but tldr: I dislike and am put off by canon lily, but I love what lily can be, what she could be, what she SHOULD be, I love what fans are able to do with her, I love what I wish she was.

[illustriousday]

no because the urge to completely rewrite the hp series while removing all the racism/sexism/anti-semitism/homophobia AND filling all the glaring plot holes is so strong

am i british? no. do i have the willpower to to rewrite that much canon and make it actually good? also no. i’m just thinking about it

imagine if a rewrite like that existed and we could all read that as hp canon and not have to be subjected to jkr ever again

[lokigodofaces]

Apparently something dangerous to do is to like a reel on Instagram that's a funny Christian thing. Like a meme about a Biblical story or whatever. Because then you start getting lots of Christian reels. And while many are great and funny, inevitably you will somehow get a reel saying that women shouldn't wear pants and that Harry Potter is demonic or bashing one Christian denomination (at the moment all the reels are bashing Catholics and saying they aren't Christian...which honestly is a WILD take for anyone that knows remotely anything about Christian history. I'm not even Catholic but I find that take wild and I hate needless bashing over different beliefs). But it means that you block a lot of that flavor of Christians because no matter what Insta will send them to you. Insta thrives on views and comments and shares so controversial reels tend to do well and get put on the feed to cause a stir. Thankfully I know how to block people :).

[m--rtyr]

Azalea banks I will never have a solid opinion on you

Is my favourite tiktoks comment ever

Because this girl has hatred and truth in her heart and nothing is ever as perplexing as her bashing on bigots whilst using the most foul language she could imagine.

[regulus-lantsov]

Chapter 1 is out !

Comments are always liked and encourage me to continue

[cryingoverdeadgaywizzards]

I’ve literally never written a fic before but I might do it purely for the idea I just got

Basically, a fame au where James is part of a band (the marauders) and Regulus is a singer.

The fic starts when the two are already broken up and James is with Lily (there will be ZERO Lily bashing though because I’m a REAL MAN🙌(I’m a woman)).

Sirius wants to reconnect with his brother so he reaches out to Regulus and asks to make an album together. The problem is, Sirius doesn’t know James and Regulus are exes.

The reason they broke up was that Regulus didn’t want to be out to the public but couldn’t handle a secret relationship, so no one actually knows about their history.

Nevertheless, Regulus agrees to write the album with the marauders.

*insert black brothers emotional bonding + platonic moonwater *

Him and James agree to stay professional and just ignore what they had. HOWEVER, as the album is being written, it becomes increasingly obvious to them that the other is writing about them.

James enters his emo era and Lily notices that James is being all funkadoodledoo and she’s like “James what is happening”. He tries to ignore the fact that he’s still very much in love with Regulus for Lily’s sake.

Regulus breaks first and asks James if they could try again. James doesn’t want his heart broken by Regulus again so he tells him about him and Lily.

James finally breaks when he sees Regulus cry on stage singing the lyric “maybe I’m too busy being yours to fall for somebody new” from the song Do I wanna know.

He breaks up with Lily immediately after (they stay besties though, trust).

And then him and Reg get together and live happily ever after yada yada. I don’t really know.

I don’t know if I’d actually write this or if it’s even a good idea, but it was in my head and I needed it out. Here you go I guess??😭

[22degreehalo]

Pulling my hair out........

Whyyyyyyy are people SO DESPERATE to find ways to justify harry potter being an awful book that nobody ever liked. Why is is SO GODDAMN HARD for people to just admit that a bad person could make a good thing!!!! Even a pretty decent thing!!!!! As if millions of people around the world didn't sit down to read over a MILLION WORDS for fucking nothing!!!!!!!!!!

Because I work in a library!!!!!! Harry potter is still so goddamn relevant guys!!!!!!!! We still have harry potter signs up!!!!!! There are still so many kids reading them for the first time!!!!!! Still soooooooooOOOOO many spin-offs and 'wizarding world crochet' and 'the science of Harry Potter' and 'essays on Hogwarts' and literally anything you can think of!!!!!!!! I wore a cheap-ass witch hat and two separate people asked me if it was a 'Hermione hat!'!!!!!!!! And my coworker dressed up as Professor McGonagall!!!!!!! Another coworker has an 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good' lanyard!!!!!! Hell, my aunt in goddamn America moved in to a new apartment and do you know what event they put on to bring the tenants together? A Harry Potter crafts day!!!!!!!!!!!

Christ all fucking mighty, regardless of how you personally feel about it now (or back then, if you were ~oh so smart~ enough to uhm Acktchually have hated it from day 1), it was a global phenomenon that got millions of kids into reading. Was it in the right place at the right time? Yeah!!!!!! Just like literally anything that becomes a phenomenon!!!!!!! But IT HAPPENED, and *to this day* Harry Potter is a global symbol of reading and wonder and childhood and it's been fucking decades and you simply cannot change that now!!!!!!! You know what people still to this day recommend to people learning new languages? Reading Harry Potter, because it's immediately assumed of everyone that you'll not just be familiar with the story but know all the beats well enough to follow along with the story even when you can't fully understand what you're reading!!!!!!!!!!

Just oh my fucking GOD, I know this is an unhinged rant but I still keep *hoping* that *this time* if I take a peek behind those filtered tags, I might see a post with some vague tangential reference to reality as it pertains to the most popular modern book series of all time, but as always: nope!!!!! God for fucking bid we acknowledge even for a microsecond that Goodness and Beauty are not inextricably intertwined!!! Absolutely anything to justify ourselves as True Of Heart because we, The Good Ones, would never commit such thought crimery as having positive emotions about a work of art whose author later became a transphobe!!! And of course we can't possibly ever praise the work's anticlassism messages oe statements of tolerance or diversity, because that means Saying She's Right About Everything Ever, so we have no choice but to continue this vicious cycle wherein people only ever hear bad things in this goddamn stupid echo chamber and that just becomes the 'objective truth'!!!!!!

God I'm just fucking waiting for when somebody posts some old letters of Tolkein's and suddenly everyone remembers that he was an old white Catholic man who started a lot of the goddamn racial charicatures HP is blamed for and wrote a whole goddamn race of Always Chaotic Evil sentient beings. Where's all that ~hopepunk~ ~ohhh it's about community gathering together (unlike Harry Potter which idk I guess the MC just did everything huh)~~ bullshit going to go then? Not that I think LotR is actually objectively bad, even though I tried to read it and didn't like it and never cared for the movies at all (they're just action movies. They're literally just action movies in a fantasy setting yall I'm glad you guys enjoy them but to me they're pretty goddamn boring 90% of their runtime) because I am a person capable of nuanced thought and acknowledgement of the concept that sometimes other people can find meaning and enjoyment in things that I myself do not without being objectively wrong!!!!!!!!

[newtscamandersbf]

'oh my favorite death eater is greyback' STAY AWAY??? BACK TF UP??

[stabknives]

It is so so crazy how people will like jump out of the woodwork when you make even a slightly serious post to say yes actually um this strawman. That's me. I'm the strawman in this post. Also i dont know how to read like... I dont know how to read the literal words on the post

[phrolovaa]

I get the impulse to compare ng to jkr if you see them as nothing more than formerly respected authors turned awful people but you gotta be astronomically stupid to think that they are even close to the same level. we’re talking about a violent rapist vs an out of touch old white woman with shitty opinions. Like im sorry but these are not remotely comparable

[theres-an-endless-starry-sky]

Saying it once again as I got told to off myself last time.

As a gender queer, aroace person who likes Harry Potter (cough marauders cough) and hasn’t supported the terf in years while writing HP fanfiction that’s trans/queer and openly bashing the terf in these fics:

There is a differnce between a JKR fan and a Harry potter fan. A Harry Potter fan will NEVER AGAIN support the terf financially, legally, emotionally etc. a JKR fan is a terf.

Learn the difference.

I write trans and queer fanfiction about Harry potters dead parents. I don’t watch Harry Potter, I don’t buy Harry Potter merch, I don’t go to conventions or theme parks.

FUCK JKR

[haveuevermetme]

watching any video on youtube about feminism is destined to lead to one of the two options:

1. a whole section of the video will be dedicated to bashing jkr, how the creator hates jkr and how jkr hates trans people. we would, of course, never hear the same amount of hate towards any man in any of her videos

2. bimbo feminism and its lovely “some feminists are just bitter when they shouldn’t be, feminism is about woman’s choice, there is nothing wrong with makeup, trad wives, porn, and men are just uwu little funny guys, not some evil people”