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#so. yknow. harry is trans.
notquiteaghost · 8 months
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tbhly i know disco elysium was written by cis people but considering how much is established in single lines of somewhat-obtuse dialogue..... the bit abt having lost your dick as well as your badge n gun when you call the station? canon trans man harry. experiencing a microaggression.
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scarycranegame · 3 months
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every day i get on this app i'm reminded that there's still people on god's green earth who like harry potter. not a huge fan of that, frankly
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x-azier · 11 months
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I finished Harry Potter a decade after it came out. It feels like an achievement I’m meant to do like killing the enderdragon (I’ve never killed the enderdragon in survival)
For some reason I wasn’t satisfied with the ending yknow. It’s short and cute. All of them got a happy ending and now taking their kids to hogwarts for the first time but idk. Going from killing Voldemort, breaking the most powerful wand to just “oh we’re happy and stuff”.
But I really don’t care🤷the story was made by a terrible person
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ceasarslegion · 10 months
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I mean this in the nicest possible way but somebodys media tastes do not inherently mean anything. And yes that includes if someone has positive associations or mixed feelings or anything short of total hatred of harry potter. I mean this in the nicest possible way but that series was one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the 2000s whether you like it or not and you look like a massive asshole if you unironically go around saying shit like "if you ever liked harry potter i hope your transphobic ass dies." And if youre about to claim that i must support jkr and i must be a terf because i said this im informing you right now that that is the exact behavior this post is about.
I am so goddamn sick of people acting like hate campaigns against random ass people is an acceptable response to having had any association with the most popular childrens series of the 2000s at all. I am so goddamn sick of you chucklefucks acting like this is the pinnacle of trans activism or helps us at all. Do you think i give any hint of a fuck about what books someone read as a kid when i exist in the real world as a trans person who is affected by actual legislation? Do you think it helps me at all to be constantly reminded of an incredibly influential person who wants me dead who wont shut up, who you keep feeding attention to like your goddamn life depends on it every time she trolls for outrage on twitter? Do you think that helps us? Do you honestly think it helps us when you start talking about how people should lose their jobs over liking a book?
But sure. That youtuber with a video titled "i played the old and terrible goblet of fire game from start to finish" where they go haha look at how glitchy this is for 45 minutes is the most pressing issue in the world to us.
It also yknow, totally sounds amazing and helpful to how your cause looks to an outsider when you unironically say shit like "if you like that extremely popular book than you must be a terrible bigot who deserves to die." Youre not scaring anybody away and you are presenting us in the most favourable light to somebody on the fence who could still be swayed. Get it together.
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txttletale · 5 months
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(Other than the really weird bit about "Male presenting Doctor") what were your thoughts about the specials?
pretty mixed bag, pretty messy, but good overall. i think they were very obviously a nostalgia trip for people around my age lol and it worked! i loved seeing tennant and tate back onscreen together, their chemistry hasn't aged a bit, and honestly just watching doctor who that wasn't written by chris chibnall was a breath of fresh air. they weren't boring, like seasons 11 and 12 were, and they didn't go too far off the other end into nonsense like flux did. characters want things again! the show can let itself just be silly! i was literally cheering out loud when donna and the doctor were just saying random scifi gobbledegook at each other for like a solid several minutes during the star beast.
the structure of the specials kind of baffles me. i love wild blue yonder--i think it's definitively the best of the specials as a standalone, it's absolutely fantastic, creepy and atmospheric and bringing things around to RTD's strength, which is well-written characters interacting with each other and letting good actors just act. but at the same time i dont understand why it exists? it feels like...idk. imagine if you watched the star wars original trilogy but instead of the empire strikes back the middle film was just a feature length film about luke and han surviving on an ice planet with no reference to anything that happens in the last film except the two characters' relationship. and then the next film was still return of the jedi, unchanged. it felt like that
i liked all the weird campy silliness of the star beast and the giggle, and they were both very fun! neil patrick harris gave a fantastic performance, there are a lot of very memorable sequences from the giggle, but it's very very all over the place. so many threads get kind of picked up and go nowhere. the toymaker's haunted house dimension goes nowhere. RTD's eyerolling social media commetnary goes nowhere (thank god tbh but yknow im illustrating something here). even the toymaker kind of goes nowhere, after ncuti gatwa shows up he's bascially an afterthought who loses by dropping a ball. obvious parallels to david tennant's first episode with that ball scene could be made, but just... aren't. it feels like load-bearing sectikons of the plot and themes were cut out to make room for a backdoor pilot for the stupid fucking UNIT spinoff
oh and it goes without saying i fucking hate all the UNIT wank in the star beast and the giggle. i hope space nine eleven 2 happens to their stupid fucking avengers tower i cannot stand kate stewart who is constantly a murderous bonehead (in the giggle alone she gets two pepole killed by not listening to the doctor and assuming that this teleporting godlike entity could be restrainted by Two Guys) who is both in and out of universe just a boring nepo baby with no merit of her own
um. i still dont know what happened with the regeneration. i think the implication is that when david tennant dies hell time travel back to become ncuti gatwa inside himself--at least the rehab dialogue seems to make that implication. but it's not really explained or explored? baffling. i do think that fourteen getting to settle down and live a peaceful life with his friends is cute.
oh yeah and the ask said other than that but goddd there was some good stuff in the star beast and honestly with the state of the UK media i will take any perspective on trans people that includes baseline human erespect but some of those lines made me cringe so bad. anyway overall i am cautiously optimistic for the future of the show--oh ncuti was fucking great did i mention that i instantly bnought him as the doctor he owned the scene, the moment he was there it was clear he was the protagonist, and i liked the church on ruby road well enough too--i am cautiously optimistic but i worry that a big UNIT-shaped tumor will devour huge chunks of it and it'll be annoying. also russel t davies is like 60 and i just dont want to hear what he has to say about twitter so im not looking forward to dot and bubble
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women-of-malevolent · 3 months
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All references to women in Part 29 - The Train
I hate John and Arthur's ~quirky~ new dynamic here /queasy
below the cut: a departure from my usual style, a long rant about the shift in tone from season to season
John is stuck inside Arthur's body and clearly feeling trapped in there. Arthur keeps dismissing John as yammering and nagging, John keeps mocking Arthur's happiness and relaxation. Finally we get to the root of whatever this argument is: John wants to see a film, he can't take himself to, and Arthur won't take him. Which. That sucks. You're the asshole, Arthur. John can't take himself, and he was just tortured for a thousand years and then helped you kill Uncle even though he really didn't want to. Jesus christ arthur pisses me off this season and I hate the quirky music trying to convince me his shit is cute :/
John is also gross here, mocking Arthur for eating, which is uncomfortably vicious. Arthur is really skinny, this comes up a lot, and he has a lot of trauma around food. In addition to the constant little jabs and corrections...
I think it's uncomfortable and bummery for John, a trying-to-do-good fragment of King In Yellow, be reduced to a petulant nag at this point in the story. Why now? Why does John now need to be taken down a peg, after being tortured for a thousand years by KIY and Kayne and then being made complicit in murder with Arthur? This sucks!
It's so sad, this line where he's like, "After all we've been through, you treat me like a passenger! I feel degraded and hurt!" And the music is like, silly and quirky, and Arthur is harried and ignoring John and talking to all the other people he's encountering in the world. HUMOR! Literally, who in the audience wanted this??? (no one did, this scene exists to shake off the dirty jarthur shippers who really liked when these two guys talked about love and finding each other in hell a couple episodes ago. This is a PLATONIC story, and platonic love means treating your friends like they're annoying nags for begging you to take them to a movie, something they can't do without you) (to spell it out I think canon!jarthur is not queerplatonic. It's not romantic. It's not anything; it's just here, every week, because that way there's a show. Arthur treats John like he's an annoying burden, and John is literally trapped inside of Arthur.)
I thought the weird John stuff was going to lead to a commentary or themes about misogyny. Like I thought they were intentionally (dysfunctional) husband and wife coded here and structural misogyny as a product of inertia, very real survival and safety concerns, and individual human fallibility was going to be explored. Now I doubt it
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Arthur asks John if he's allowed to talk openly in the traincar. John says there's a woman who's been here the whole time, listening, and she looks offended. It's me I'm the woman (jk no I'm the cackling harpy they released in Part 38)
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Just a random thought. I wonder how easy or hard it would be for a woman (or trans man, or enby) to get into the Freemasons 🤔 or any other all-male group, when they have to be invited and indoctrinated in. I think it'd probably be very hard. Like it was designed to make it impossible.
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Hey but yknow it's okay Arthur can get inside, he does know a member! "Faroe's mother. Err, Bella. Her father was a Freemason."
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Arthur tells Percival, a stranger he meets on the train, a story to calm Percival's nerves. A man named Mat Rullen trudges through the wilderness of the frozen North, at the mercy of a disregarding universe. His mother had died, his wife had died, the men he loved had died. He was working towards something... and it's revealed to be a cabin, one he'd shared with a friend years back. And the friend is there! The fire is warm. His friend asks, why are you here? Mat says, he killed a man, so he needed to leave. Charlie tells him, he can't stay, Charlie is here with a woman. Mat pleads with Charlie, but Charlie says no, Mat must leave. The end (he's interrupted and can't continue)
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Eughhhhhhh ew John gets excited about having daring chases, and Arthur says "Well, you are my eyes, best be training them to think like me." He's not Arthur's eyes, he's John, and he's providing Arthur with exhausting accessibility labor that Arthur relies on.
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charmanderxerneas · 11 months
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can people get it thru their heads that you can like fnaf while hating scott cawthon? Imo its not fucking immoral to like fnaf like it is with harry potter or some shit
Like. Yes scott is a republican who gets money from fnaf, thats not good that money is going to republican candidates
but first of all like. theres no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism (as much as i hate it: i assume at least some of my money is going to republicans from buying at certain stores or restaurants or something). You cannot exist without at least SOME of your money going towards that, it sucks.
and he at least claims to love all his fans regardless of gender or race or sexuality (does not excuse his donations or mean hes a good person) but at least its better than like. jkr who has antisemitic and racism BAKED into her series lore and who actively spouts anti trans hatespeech. if you play fnaf at freddys its not like. shoving republican ideas down your throat. and hes letting steel wool and just other people in general the series now, stepping down from it (though of course hes still behind the scenes, his story so his lore goes).
i just. ugh you can like something flawed with a flawed creator 😭 its okay. its not as bad as something awful like harry potter and theres usually Some flaw behind every creator yknow? all that said i dont like scott. dont get me wrong, im not defending him. i Dont Like Scott. but grahhh makes me mad that i cant enjoy fnaf in peace without people crying at me about it
(i am trans dont fucking come at me about that shit. i just needed to rant)
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menlove · 4 months
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idk if you said this already but who were your fancasts for the beatles biopics (besides geo lol)?
honestly it was just geo bc all their faces are.... soooo difficult. I WILL say that jim sturgess in across the universe is like. peak paul to me but also he's almost 50 now so it definitely wouldn't work but like....
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what we could've had if he'd played paul when he was younger </3
but now you've interested me in this lmaoooo so here's some other suggestions I think could have worked!
igby rigney could've made an interesting paul w the right hair/makeup/styling I think. he's 21 so definitely a little young but hey the actors are gonna be playing them both older and younger so yknow. always bound to be some discrepancy
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and another actor on the younger side I could see if they'd done different casting for different ages would be harry collett for a teenage john... although honestly w how fast people age he's already looking older and by the time the movies are made these could both probably work Fine
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ringo is a mystery his face is so unique that I truly think any casting is going to be So Painfully Wrong that you just have to accept it. like sure barry keoghan why not I guess.
this kid could also make an interesting paul I think- pete machale but I have 0 idea how old he is and he's also trans. which would be great I think more trans actors should be casted in cis roles but you know there would be a FIT about it
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but sbhsshssb truthfully their faces are just so so hard to cast... especially bc media today does Not favor anyone who looks anything other than conventionally attractive so it's. interesting trying to find actors that aren't hollywood pretty when that's not the goal
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chronicallyblogged · 1 year
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I've been having a hard time caring about any progressive conversations surrounding media since I started getting help from the human trafficking/sex exploitation center.
Therapists, students, americorp workers, case managers, poc, trans, gay, etc all have bland liberal opinions on these things. They like Harry Potter (but not jk rowling). They love book series I've seen torn apart and boycotted. Rock out to Taylor swift. I've never bothered to say anything. Bc yknow what. They do far more and try so hard to be supportive and their in a way that really makes a difference in a way I don't know that caring about media does. People online act like they are better for developing these opinions about media but most of the time they don't do shit.
I dunno. I feel like im supposed to care to be a good person according to the internet. But irl the biggest help comes from people who don't and want to bond over "problematic" media
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hellonpluto · 1 month
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Spider-Man 2 (2004) during-the-movie notes!!! Goofy shit under the cut :]
Spider-Man 2 notes
-once again whipping out the banger intro sequence, this time with more colors being used and better transitions
-peter!!! Ur fuckin late peter!!! Gahd.
-pizza ....
-broom closet scene is so silly
-boyfail pt 2
-pizza time(you can kill me)
-pizza time again bc oughhhhh pizza time
-pizza ROLL time in a minute actually(gonna make pizza rolls)
-"ill give you 150." "300." "Thats outrageous! Done."
-desk lady is now nicer! Yay!
-osborn would be proud. He would
-OCTAVIUS???? who's octavius
-"..ben? Oh, peter..." aunt MAYYYYYYYY
-is 20 dollars alot? What year is this set in. Am i stupid
-when peter knocked on the restroom door my dog perked his head up like "huh? What?"
-peter is getting shat on in this one. Like what the fuck
-"eeehhh rosie i love this boy!"
-this movie is making my inner 'getting shit done' want to beat peter up. Reduce time as spiderman, or try and encourage others to be better. Sit down, set a timer for 2 hours to get college work done. Then work. Bud.
-run past the evil landlord guy
-get those carnations for yo NOT GIRL
-"how'd you do that?" "Uh.. work out, plenty of rest. Yknow, eat ur green vegetables?" "Thats what my mom is always sayin'! I just never actually believed her!"
-pider man.....
-🤨 towards street lady
-i honestly think the older suit looks cool
-spiderman. In elevator
-its giving elevator scene from neon genesis
-holy shit its so awkward
-doculous oculous. In the house
-mans could just admit he wanted to wear a fucked up corset but ok
-bro is just showing off his evil lair crap n nobody bats an eye
-"the power of the sun... in the palm of my hand." Girl ok slay
-system unstable? More lik... system of a down
-"he humiliated me by touching me." He saved yo life harry
-horror movie ass scene in the surgery room
-lowkey fire tho
-they act like pet snakes
-"dr. Strange. Thats good! Its already in use."
-dr octopus....
-bro i love how they did the arms. They're so cool
-cool ass doc ock shot
-what the fuck
-shoutout to aunt may for stopping the guy from stealing
-eating the cinematography up rn
-aunt may slaying in this movie, actually
-let peter rest!!!! Let that man sleeep!!!!!
-newspaper man is best character ngl
-peter caught fumbling part a billion
-harry. Wtf. Thats ur lover
-beeber barker loses powers
-bro is just peter parker
-this is so fuckjng sad what
-he did his homework!!!! Yay!!!
-"peter. Im getting married." Ive heard that before
-spiderman no more...
-doc ock
-sorry its 12 am
-pov u save little girl from fire but someone else dies
-mystery girl is so cute
-chocolate cake break
-do a flip!!!!!
-"my back!!! Ough ... my back....."
-why is she recreating the upside-down kiss with her fiance 😭😭😭
-mj knows. I think
-peter pick a fuckin struggle
-please
-oml
-peter looks like he has more lip gloss on than mj
-doc ock is def trans
-anyways
-Doc ock? More like. Do cock
-ANWYAYS
-"did he just grab his BOOBS??" (rewinds a bit) "oh no its just his shoulders... ok"
-THE TRAIN SCENE OMG
-"He's... just a kid"
-OUFGHHH
-"we wont tell nobody."
-HOOPLAHHH
-"HE'S MINE!!" Man what
-"run!" Proceeds to stand there
-doc ock is so cool man
-ew i forgot mj exists
-MB MB MB
-"i will not die a monster." BANGER AFTER BANGER AFTER BANGER
-doc ock niooooo.... NOOOOOO
-harry wtf
-mj runs away from wedding! Everyone is disappointed!
-"cant you respect me enough to make my own decision?" Girl respect his. He doesnt want u to get hurt, dingus
-WHAT
-ew
-ew. Ew
-ugh
-blue eyes white dragon(pt 2)
-banger ending song version of the amazing spiderman song
-good movie!!! 8-9/10. Rlly good!!
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sufficiently-advanced · 7 months
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hi! I got a bunch of asks, and I figured I should (after 5 years) finally give an update.
unfortunately, though I enjoyed this for a long time, the hobby of writing faux-academic analyses of wands has long been soured for me bc I am, yknow, trans in the uk. I don't want to help sustain positive and neutral attention on jk rowling and contribute to the money she is using to fund and spearhead uk and us movements against trans people. It is truly wild to have reason to have beef with a famous children's author but here we are. Years later, these movements are still using that harry potter money and social cred to try to make questioning trans people's existence seem like a liberal free-speech common sense position that's unfairly targeted by radical, hysterical trans activists.
(Here is a tracker of the rise in current legislation restricting trans peoples' participation in public life in the us; the current uk prime minister made a jab against trans people this week in parliament, unknowingly in front of the mother of a trans teenager recently murdered in a hate-motivated attack, part of his customary appeal to right-wing culture war rhetoric. This is, as that first link points out, not his first public joke lampooning trans people, and as the stonewall link below mentions hate-motivated crimes against trans people have increased over 150% in the last few years, but only in the aftermath of a girl's murder has labour pushed back against our identities being part of a national debate.)
Interacting with people still into harry potter feels like a real toss-up. It feels depressingly likely, given what I see online and the beliefs of some of my coworkers, relatives and acquaintances, that I'm writing for someone who thinks nonbinary people are fine as long as they aren't too scarily masculine-looking, and trans women are fine as long as they're really nice and never say anything challenging and make themselves as small and cis-acceptable as possible and only react to people's cruelty with self-sacrificing grace, and trans men are fine as long as they are cute and don't look like neckbeards and are suitably disdainful of masculinity but also not too trender-y, and this whole thing about harry potter is kind of overblown but you can't say that because trans people looove to cancel people. I don't want to write stuff for people who hold these beliefs if I can avoid it! Writing non-harry potter related stuff is the best way to avoid it right now.
If some of these statements feel challenging to you - I was there once too, as a confused angry teenager who felt like gay people were trying to make me feel bad about myself. The social media landscape genuinely makes change more painful than it has to be. Personally, working to humanise and listen to people I was unthinkingly taught to disregard, ignore, disdain or pity has been one of the most rewarding projects of my life, even though by definition it will probably never be complete, and also it can be difficult and vulnerable. I hope you can find it rewarding too. If you're mostly like 'wow, I for real didn't hear about any of this', happy for you, there are links below so you know what's up and can identify some messages you might have absorbed without knowing it.
I won't be updating this blog with any more analyses. Thanks for reading, especially if you had to push through discomfort or fear to do so, and for liking my analyses enough to follow! If you have questions, here are some good resources to look at:
the basics of 'what does trans mean, like, practically?';
a great primer on what we actually know about trans people in britain (useful for outside-of-britain questions too);
a video introducing jk rowling's contribution to anti-trans movements and the discussion of whether to separate the art from the artist, and, if you're interested, a dry but short video about some of her direct links to conservative anti-trans and anti-gay groups in the us and uk
if you have more questions after looking at these, the facebook group 'You Might Wanna Learn More About Trans People' is an active group where you can ask them, anonymously if you want to.
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funnywormz · 1 year
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🏳️‍🌈 Harrier du Bois?
send me 🏳️‍🌈 and a character for my lgbt headcanon and a doodle
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HARRY <3 i think that these headcanons probably don't need much explanation but im gonna put a lil elaboration below anyways
bisexual: harry is The bisexual guy of all time. he just is. i can't see him any other way he's just bi to me. i mean it's basically canon bc he shows attraction to both men and women and at one point he can call himself bicurious iirc? anyways he's bi, you know it i know it everyone knows it
transgender: i know this one directly contradicts some canon stuff LOL but honestly i do not care. something abt harry being trans is so comforting to me and makes me so happy. also all of the jokes abt him waking up after getting memory loss and thinking his dick fell off are so funny. idk this one is just more of a personal thing rather than something with any canon evidence or support at all but it just warms my heart yknow......... gross weird transgenders rise up.......... i tend to see him as a trans man myself but there is also something comforting and compelling abt nonbinary or trans fem harry, no matter what i am transing that old bitch's gender so hard idc
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rollercoasterwords · 1 year
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omg thank you for speaking on this. so much of the marauders fandom IS actively transmisogynistic like… the way people act if, god forbid, somebody makes remus or sirius a trans woman or gender-fluid—you’d really think they know better but they don’t???
to be honest i was not really referring to/thinking abt headcanons--i was more talking abt the way that like. actual transfems r treated in hp fandom. like personally i have not necessarily found hcs to be the most reflective of someone's politics, esp. bc in my own short time in this fandom i've seen people be very enthusiastic abt like...a transfem hc but then turn around and get really angry at irl trans women for saying something negative abt hp fandom. not saying that u can't tell anything abt a person's politics from stuff like hcs, just that i'm really less concerned w that than i am like. how u are responding 2 actual live human beings who say things u don't like abt the fandom ur in, yknow?
and unfortunately i would not necessarily assume that a harry potter fan would know better! as laura pointed out in her message it is more natural to assume that someone who is engaging with a fundamentally conservative piece of media created by a transmisogynist holds views that align w that media, unless that person has done something to make it very clear that they don't. like, i can only speak for myself here, but personally i feel wary of people who like...loudly + publicly talk abt how much they like hp, bc if i don't know anything abt u + ur talking abt how much u enjoy the hp books/movies/franchise it is more natural for me to assume that u share at least some of the politics contained within them, or that u either don't care that jkr is a terf or r so blind 2 trans issues that u don't even know, neither of which makes me feel safe around someone lol. within hp fandom i basically only interact w people who have made it clear that they do not politically align w hp by being critical of the series + jkr, which is why i also tend 2 be wary of people who get very defensive when someone criticizes hp fandom--bc i also do not think jkr + the series r something that can just be neatly excised from fandom as though they have nothing 2 do w each other, and so if ur critical of hp + jkr then it follows naturally that u should at least be open 2 criticism of hp fandom as well imo.
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six-six-cicada · 1 year
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guy who doesnt know what dysphoria is or what being trans is who also somehow lives up to his name purely by threatening to be Upset (#real)
cloak given to him by Inland. they r not on the best of terms they simply just Do Not Vibe Well Together but yknow. Inland is trying (and Electrochem keeps trying to force them to be closer. lmao)
Inland noticed the dysphoria first lmfao. It was like "hi maybe dressing up would help u stop being a little bitch. dressing up is fun. ok bye." it worked a bit!
really really low on the pecking board™ of Harry's skills bc the fucker put EXP into others so he's not threatening at all appearance-wise. He makes up for it though!!
Empathy WISHES her ass could cry on command. She is soooo Jealous (also #real)
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wizardpigeon · 1 year
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Yknow you're actually perfectly fine to like, enjoy, and interact with Harry potter content, as long as you make it clear you don't agree with anything jkr has said, it's just such an amazing series that's so well written of course you wouldn't want to let go of it just like that
Of course you also need to understand and accept that no trans or Jewish person you know is ever going to fully trust you again, especially your family members
In fact they'll probably pull away a little, especially if they've expressed their discomfort to you and you brush it off, maybe you won't notice it, but it'll be there,
Are you prepared to lose someone over a children's book series? That you probably haven't read or interacted with since you read/watched it last years ago?
Because that's what you're doing, you're telling us that a book series is more important to you than our safety,
Look at how restricted trans rights are becoming across the UK, in the United States, as a direct result of her influence
(Cis people reblog this but I will block liberally if you get weird about it)
[Jewish ppl I hope its alright I included u in this I just remember that people don't really mention the antisemitism in their posts about it and I didn't much cause I don't know as much as I do about the trans bit sorry]
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bisexualrapline · 2 years
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What's your opinion about the debate (not sure what to call it) around the new HP game?
i’m not entirely sure what the debate even is tbh like i don’t get why it’s so hard to Not give money to the franchise of a billionaire who is not only actively introducing terf rhetoric to the general public (on basically an hourly basis on twitter bc even though she’s a billionaire she apparently doesn’t have enough money to buy herself a hobby) but also actively endangering trans people around the world like congresspeople are literally quoting her while they vote against bills that would expand rights for lgbt folk. like and as many people who are much smarter than me have pointed out: the series itself is not devoid of her politics. they are pretty evident through her writing and there was many a time when even i, reading the books as a child, was like hmm this sounds off. i honestly don’t believe in this “separating the art from the artist” crap that so many people seem to be espousing as a justification for playing the game like you can’t separate it when she is alive and making shit tons of money from literally every piece of licensed harry potter media or merchandise. it’s really not that hard to just yknow. pretend she (and the whole industry she’s made out of harry potter) doesn’t exist and find better media to become attached to
sorry i didn’t mean to rant at you anon fkdkdkd i’m just like if i, with a deathly hallows tattoo, can comprehend this, why is it so hard for some freaks on twitch to understand, i would love to know
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