Welcome to the awkward dying remains of bloodyhellharry
I started this blog in 2014 to dump fanart and have fun with other fans. At the time, I had no one else to talk to about my embarrassing obsession with the Harry Potter series and I was finally able to find people online who felt the same. Back then, life was easy.
Today things are different. As well as proudly holding vile values against the lgbtqia+ community, J.K. Rowling openly and proudly finances anti-trans organisations and seems to sadistically enjoy stripping a marginalised and vulnerable community of their basic rights and dignity.
Today, buying Harry Potter products, physical or digital (merch, books, games or streaming), directly shows your financial and political support of JKR's hateful agenda. It allows her to believe that she is ultimately untouchable.
But the reader is sacred, not the author. The author does not get to control your personal connection with the work or what you do with it - as much as she likes to think she does.
However, be realistic with how you’re engaging with the media. Are you making wild excuses to expiate your own guilt for buying a new illustrated edition of the books while pretending that writing Sirius Black as a minority in your fanfic counts as activism? Is a trans minor character in a videogame, and half-hearted statements that "JKR had nothing to do with the game" enough for you to forget the active damage this woman has done to the lgbtqia+ community, bankrolled by her IP? Are you being relentlessly targeted with Harry Potter products, news, and trends, and happily engaging with it, offering Warner Bros your data and your time of day?
I appreciate the freedom that fandom spaces offer - freedom to explore complex themes and our own identities through this shared connection with a story. Just pay attention to whether you’re really exercising that freedom, or if you’re inflating the pockets and egos of millionaires and big corporations by engaging with their versions of these stories. Essentially, is the work prompting you to question and create, or prompting you to buy shit?
In conclusion, read outrageous smut for free on AO3, donate to Action for Trans Health or your local charity that supports the trans community. In São Paulo, I recommend Casa 1. And don’t buy or watch Harry Potter products, get out of twitter.
If you’re not willing to do that, please unfollow.
Also, don’t repost my work, I don’t want it leaving this bin-fire of a website. I don't really talk about Harry Potter anywhere other than here and I'd like to keep it that way.
You might be looking for this
Harry Potter + The Office Comics | you can tell my age from these.
The Order of the Phoenix Portraits | (I actually doubt anyone is looking for this but I want to put it forward because I was really into drawing characters with no visual descriptions based only on the sound of their names).
Under the Whomping Willow (comic) | this is my baby.
Past Commissions
Sparknotes projects | these were all done commercially when I was an illustrator for @sparkitors. I think they changed their website layout radically and a lot of my work was relinked, you won't be able to see the series in full.
Underrated Harry Potter Characters | this was also done for @sparkitors, but it got fairly big so I'm picking it out for your viewing convenience.
Werewolves sketches | potentially a nefarious contribution to the fandom?
This will be pinned here permanently, but I'll be coming back here to add or edit links as I organise them.
I don't do much of Harry Potter fanart anymore, but hopefully, the other stuff I make won't put you off completely.
