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[partisan-by-default]

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

Rowling has been transparent about her desire to keep assisting people in their efforts to rob transgender people of their dignity and human rights. That seems very much to be the entire point of The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund — an organization Rowling launched in 2025 that claims to be “fighting to retain women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in all aspects of life.” The Fund offers financial support provided by Rowling to cisgender women who are looking to file lawsuits. The Fund’s website makes no mention of gender as a concept, but it explicitly points to the For Women Scotland case as the kind of “victory” that it wants to see more of in the world.

Rowling has been rich enough to pour cash into organizations like this for some time now because she continues to hold primary intellectual property rights to the entire Harry Potter franchise. Every Harry Potter book, movie, video game, stage show ticket, theme park pass, and piece of merchandise that’s sold puts money into Rowling’s pocket, which she can use to keep her crusade against trans people going. Given the property’s lasting popularity, Rowling, who is currently worth about $1.2 billion, could probably do all of this even if HBO wasn’t producing a new Harry Potter series. But because the network is and it wants to keep the show going for at least a decade, Rowling will have even more capital at her disposal to impose her retrograde views onto others.

Clearly, this doesn’t concern HBO’s executive leadership whose primary goals are to boost the company’s stock value while taking home outsized paychecks and hefty exit packages of their own. But it is absolutely something that HBO’s subscribers should be thinking about as Warner Bros. cranks the Harry Potter hype machine up ahead of the show’s premiere later this year. HBO does not want you to think about how it is platforming a known bigot and making it easier for her to spread patently hateful, harmful messaging that can endanger people. And Rowling would probably rather people not consider the fact that there are plenty of other magical academia series to become obsessed with.

[apolladay]

Breaking my own rule about wizard boy because fuck JK Rowling and anyone who supports her.

[homunculus-argument]

I know I'm not the first person to observe this, but banishment is a hell of a funny punishment. I now sentence you to fuck off. I don't care where, just get out of my sight. Go on. Git.

[free-my-mindd]

May you be protected from all eyes that are secretly not happy to see you win in life.

[busket]

he's gonna die one day soon and it wont fix everything but it'll feel great and the whole world is gonna fucking party together

[busket]

no it applies to one man and you know exactly who I'm talking about

[hollowboobtheory]

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

[hollowboobtheory]

internet soft skills

not opening the comments

letting people be wrong

letting people be wrong about YOU

letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)

knowing when your input isn't needed

spotting bot comments

block button

[hollowboobtheory]

blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them

[ceramicteapot]

Yesterday, I made a paper boat. 

Crooked, imperfect, not meant for the sea. 

But did I love it still?

Did I mind its fucked up bottom, or the way it collapsed down in the middle at the mere thought of touching water?

Did I want it to touch the water?

“You’re paper,” I whispered to it. “Not meant for water. Not promised to the sea.”

“But I’m a boat,” It would say if it could.

And I would, despite my will, set it afloat in the nearest puddle I could find. I would worry that the water would swallow it whole, while I watched it swim. 

Even if it was for a few seconds, it did what it was made for. It was a boat, as the boat would have said. Who am I to not let it be one, even if its body was paper?

Is that how parents feel when their nest empties? Is this how they feel when their child becomes a person? Their own boat?

[marinella-ela]

[yamauchi-sakiko]

psychosis needs to lose its negative connotation, its a thing that happens. you are far closer to psychotic episodes than you think and we need to all know how to deal with them properly

[theautisticschizo]

I always say that psychosis is a natural part of human experience or state of mind. And guess what, non psychotics get MAD when I say that. "No, its not natural or normal at all! Dont normalize it!" Guess what happens when you haven't slept in a few days? Psychosis. Guess what can happen when you're too stressed? Psychosis. Guess what can happen from physical conditions? Psychosis. Psychosis is the same type of normal that any other negative state of mind is. Someone experiencing depression due to circumstances? Normal. Someone dissociating during a stressful event? Normal. Psychosis isn't different. ANYONE can experience psychosis and it doesn't even have to be a disorder. Psychotic disorders are disorders due to the frequency and intensity of psychosis.

People need to stop demonizing normal human experiences

[kidsomeday]

I work in psychiatric facility on a male-only geriatric unit. Most, but not all, of my patient’s are convicted or alleged criminal offenders.

I’ve learned a lot over the time I’ve spent in this position, but one of the major ones is that anyone can wind up here. I have patients who are college educated, have families and successful marriages, ran business, are scientists.

The brain does not care who you are, or what you’ve accomplished.

A lot of my patients were just living their lives when something triggered their psychotic break. Sometimes it was being houseless and unable to access their meds. Sometimes it’s mental or physical trauma, or sudden changes to their environment. Sometimes it was drug use, or bad reactions to medication. Sometimes, in geriatrics, their condition was manageable until they developed frontal-temporal dementia or Alzheimer’s.

Some of my patient’s have diagnoses and treatment starting when they were in their teens or twenties. Some of them had their first psychotic break in their 50’s.

Which is to say, like any disability, it can happen to anyone. It’s always a few steps closer than we’d like it to be.

And if you do have psychosis, either once or as a chronic condition, you deserve treatment, care, and a sense of humanity.

[paperchits]

i'm constantly side-eyeing the person who gave machines the power to verify whether we're humans.

[paperchits]

hi! I don’t really have anything to vent about, but I know everyone putting everything on you probably weighs you down. I hope you’re doing okay! we love you!

hi shroomie, thank you so much for your kind words <3

it really helps me go on and brightens up my day by landslides!

i hope you've been keeping well, and if not, I'm sending you a lot of strength and love <3

take care!

[paperchits]

um if u had read the rant, it wasn't a crisis. It was a incident that occurred in the last regarding the term

oh okay, i’ll get back to it within 24-48 hours then! i currently have an evaluation i need to appear for.

thanks for the ask!

[paperchits]

u didn't answer the vent about the college club debacle. Do u want me to dm you?

hi there, for your ask you had put in a warning about suicidal ideation. i’m currently not in the headspace to engage with crisis content at all. i hope you understand.

if you’d like me to share any crisis support resources with you, feel free to send an ask about the same and i’ll link some things.

thanks!

[paperchits]

Hi! Feel free to not respond but I was wondering if this is normal or not. After arguments with anyone I feel as if they’ll kill me in my sleep, it gets me very paranoid to the point where I struggle with sleep after arguments. Is this a regular thing that happens? Also the people in question can be anyone— no one in my life is violent so there isn’t any evidence to suggest why I feel like this so I hope it is normal?

hi, thanks for your question! unfortunately, this is not a "normal" or adaptive pattern. Most well-adjusted people after arguments, do not experience this intense paranoia.

However, i want you to know that you are not what you experience. there is a part of you that experiences this, likely a part of you that wants to protect you from some subconscious or unconscious fear/threat.

also, such thoughts and even paranoia do not exist without a cause. even if you don't have violent people around you (i'm glad), there must be something underlying here, which you can explore with a therapist! this doesn't just have to be an environmental or even external factor.

if this continues to persist and you feel like it overwhelms you to a great extent, causes hurdles in your day to day functioning, and is disrupting your health, please seek a professional consultation!

take care :)

[paperchits]

Can I pls vent?

hi, yes please. go on <3

[tomorrowwithme]

If you're not Indian or Hindu and you're into Vedic astrology, yoga or some other practice rooted to Hinduism and you can't speak up for oppressed Hindus or when when Hindus get attacked & selectively murdered, then you have no business using them for your aesthetics or profiting off from those practices.

[paperchits]

just want this year to be over already

[paperchits]

you ask what’s the similarity you can’t place a finger on between psychologists and lawyers?

socratic dialogue.