monsterfucker

jkr can die. shes a fucking terrorist. don't support her monetarily. this is a side blog so people don't have to interact with any hp content. other monster and fantasy content too.

[antiqueanimals]

Білолобий. Illustrated by Tatyana Kapustina. 1966.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Hour of the Beast, werewolf illustrations by Mark Fielding

[peoplecallmelucifer]

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[ozu-teapot]

L'urlo (The Howl) | Tinto Brass | 1970

[closet-keys]

Honestly, the The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter video essay by verilybitchie was very useful to me in terms of understanding why that series (which is not very unique or interesting in its genre¹) became so overwhelmingly funded.

The discussion of how that story in particular was so useful to capitalists in its easy merchandising and branding, the way so much of the narrative involves buying things and engaging in consumerism, how the protagonist is very wealthy and his distinguishing superpower is essentially the ability to buy things--

like just looking at it in those terms allowed me to better understand the material reason for the abnormal growth of a very bigoted but ultimately very ordinary story, to better understand why it amassed incredible wealth and influence for the author, who is, of course, using that same wealth to materially enact violence in line with that same bigotry.

anyway tl;dr: fuck jkr & fuck capitalism

¹ "In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don't know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it's coming from, what it's trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers' blank ignorance of its genres (children's fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn't read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, 'But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?'" - Ursula Le Guin

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[cndarts]

hes a masterpiece covered with art

[goryhorroor]

werewolves in cinema

[poison-p1nk]

RAGE.

[lycandrew222]

you heard of werewolf wednesday, get ready for werewolf thursday

[inactive97543215789]

Well, sharpen your teeth, tell yourself that its just business

[ayeforscotland]

JK Rowling wrote a Polish character, and it went how you’d expect it.

It uses the term ‘Slavic eyes’ ?????

[deefews]

Rowling couldn't even fucking bother translating the word detective and see ITS THE FUCKING SAME IN POLISH

[kikicolors]

There’s something off about those wolves…

[thecollectibles]

Reflection by Karina Pavlova

[sapphicazzie]

daniel radcliffe calling out j.k. rowling on her bullshit is big dick energy

[wakingfromthewater]

One thing I have not seen mentioned in light of this statement, perhaps because it's just well known or perhaps because it's been forgotten, is that Radcliffe has dealt with this before. About 10 years ago his friendship with a trans musician named Our Lady J became known to the tabloids. They immediately published sensational articles calling her a transvestite and a drag queen (she was not), and speculating about the nature of their relationship. He responded to insinuating questions by simply being aggressively positive about what a great musician and good friend she was. They did at least one interview together for a queer magazine. This at a time when trans people were even more marginalized than now, and when he as an actor was finishing Harry Potter and under a lot of pressure to ~manage his image~ as he transitioned to an adult career.

TL;DR - Radcliffe has a record of not just saying nice things, but supporting trans people in his life.

[gaysie]

all i want is nothing is so funny he really couldn’t leave the scoliosis out of it

[maswartz]

[thecollectibles]

Reflection by Karina Pavlova