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[moniquill]

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated

[aranock]

I cannot stress enough she is a primary funder of transphobia. She is not just someone with bigoted views you can seperate from her work, her work funds the bigotry.

[mortalityplays]

jkr actively funds and lobbies for her hate groups and against my country's independence movement with the money she gets from dumb fucks who don't think their dollars count. if you're going to be a moral jellyfish at least simp for a dead bigot.

[mortalityplays]

americans love to treat her like an abstract concept just because she's not paying taxes in their country. last year I had to tell my manager I refused to work on a major account for our healthcare charity bc it was laundering her shitty money. can you put down the racist YA for thirty seconds in solidarity

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

J K Rowling is a monster.

All the money you give her for her books, movies, games and whatnot is going to fund anti-lgbtq groups.

You are financing the attacks on queer people, on our community and our charities.

Boycott this monster if you really support queer people.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

If you give this woman money, it will go to transphobic causes. If you give this woman a platform, she will use it to boost transphobic causes. This isn't a "well nobody's perfect" or "well x other creator also did something bad once" situation, this is an inordinate amount of influence for a creator to have, and supporting her by word or wallet actively hurts trans people.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

EXACTLY it's fucking disgusting

[thesoftboiledegg]

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

[mioxenoblade]

"Its so hard to just stop interacting with Harry Potter stuff" no it isn't. You just don't care that it funds a literal hate monger that's doing tangible harm to trans people. Stop lying

[radiofreederry]

Hey this is why you stop fucking buying her shit btw

[sadhoc]

Deleted the reblog for other reasons but. Jowling kowling rowling’s new book where the villain has ME, POTS, fibromyalgia, and Allodynia is going to be the first time a lot of able bodied people hear about these conditions. And it’s also going to be the first time that a lot of people who have these conditions see them in print. The harm that will do is immeasurable

[cistematicchaos]

Especially since JKR is known for successful campaigns against marginalized groups, including disabled people. She uses disability as a tragedy. She uses disability to discredit people, to villanize people and able-bodied people soak that shit up like a sponge. I can imagine way too well how horribly this shit is going to go down and I’m already exhausted.  

[sadhoc]

this is fine to reblog btw. and also with able bodied people it's like. they resent the idea that some people are sick all the time. they have a sort of constant low level anger towards us for not being able to meet their standards of productivity and physical perfection as proxy for moral purity. what stories that have disabled villains can do is take that resentment and stoke it into outright hatred and violence

[hamenthotep]

She picked those conditions specifically because they're hard to diagnose and are often considered 'fake' illnesses.

There's no real way to measure how much pain someone is in. Or how fatigued they are. It's about discrediting the villain. Not only are they woke, but they're a benefits cheat! Faking illness because they're too lazy to work.

But when the hero is a JK Rowling self insert, there's no room for reality to make an appearance

[blueinaseaofred]

Jesus Christ

[blueinaseaofred]

It’s more than 1000 pages long!! Does she not have an editor or does her editor hate her??? Currently has 2.5 stars on Amazon with 4 reviews.

[pelicanhypeman]

[fandomsandfeminism]

This is so embarrassing.

I saw people talking about this in the morning. I literally spent all day assuming it was the Onion or something similar.

You're telling me this is *real*? 😬

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Oh God, this so fucking cringe.

[also, re: the length, long before Rowling became Blessed Saint Jo, Our Lady of TERFdom, she was still eliciting eye-rolls from just about everybody in the publishing industry for refusing to let her work be properly edited. Even outside the bonkers transphobia stuff, it's clear she has a massively inflated ego about her abilities as a writer and researcher, which explains why she failed so miserable when trying to expand her wizarding universe beyond the borders of the UK. A more sensible person—especially one with her financial means and connections—would have sought input from historical experts and cultural consultants. But Rowling didn't, because she believes herself to be the goose that laid the golden egg, incapable of coming up with anything less than absolute brilliance. So what if she read one (1) Wikipedia article on Cities in Asia, or New York in the 1920s? Anything her extra-special magical TERF brain coughs out is a bona fide literary gem and deserves to be heralded as genius, and if you suggest otherwise she'll block you, or sue you, or say you're persecuting her]

[aestheticalgryffindor]

Can I ask is this a hate account a hate of JK Rowling?

I love her books and and think she's a brilliant Author

Hello! It didn't start out as a hate account, just as JK didn't start out as an openly, blatantly terrible transphobe. We changed with the times.

[fanonical]

terfs are saying “JKR is supporting Ukraine so much though” no bestie, she said she would match donations to HER CHARITY up to a million. like she’s one of the richest women on earth, and the best she can offer is One Million of her own money but ONLY IF you the humble reader pay her tax evasion scheme money too

[fanonical]

[genderkoolaid]

transmasc opinions on jkr are extremely valuable actually, specifically transmascs from the UK. her "save the poor lost autistic girls!!!" bullshit is targeting transmascs specifically. transmascs are literally the intended targets of the laws she is working to get put in place, laws that will and already have killed transmascs. boost UK transmascs voices and stop telling them they aren't the ones being impacted by this shit.

[transgentleman-luke-deactivated]

UK transmasc here!

She's literally caused such bulllshit for transmascs here in terms of transition. First, her money donations and fearmongering led to puberty blockers being stopped for 2 years for trans kids (after a court case involving a transmasc minor, who argued they had Gillick competence. JK and others campaigned against this case, which if it went in favour of transphobes- would have removed Gillick competence for *everyone*. Gillick competence is the reasoning vital to young teens who are pregnant and may seek an abortion etc.).

It was because of the pandemic mainly, but in 2020 we lost all of the transmasc bottom surgeons in the UK. They were drafted to help covid. When it came time to finding replacements, JK and terf groups kicked up such a fuss and culture war about "young (afab) teens 'mutilating' themselves" that the process was unnecessarily lengthened and so many trans men were left in limbo with half finished neophalluses in multi-stage phalloplasty.

JK Rowling uses her voice to attack us ans further a culture war that seeks to prevent transmascs from transitioning at all. Its scary times and I wish more people took transmascs in general seriously. And UK trans people seriously.

[your-fave-hates-jk-rowling]

YOU hate JK Rowling!

[disteal]

man, if this jk rowling transphobia marathon has taught me anything it’s that you can never trust cis ‘always be kind ✨’ disneyhead ‘let people enjoy things’ fandom types

[disteal]

if you choose to support this political agent, actively working against trans ppl and especially transfems, maintaining her enormous empire by consuming her shit IP, then i better not see you pretending to be an ally. I don’t care abt whatever trauma response or coping method you’ve cooked up to justify maintaining your comfortable bubble of nonthreatening childrens media, joanne will destroy trans ppl’s lives with the money and attention she throws at transphobic legislation. Take whatever love you have for HP out back behind the shed and put it down like old yeller, i stg. We can’t keep having this discourse, it’s over, move on.

[disteal]

hope its ok to post these tags cos theyre a banger mate

[naturalkillercyborg]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

it's really disappointing how people's critique of jkr starts and ends with her transphobia, and they completely ignore her blatant antisemitism, racism, homophobia, slavery apologism, sympathy for the wizard nazis, (the wizard nazi incel) snape's redemption, the villain of fantastic beasts trying to stop the holocaust, and the new game literally being a rehash of the blood libel myth.