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June 19, 2015

Darren Criss: Running Around | The Late Late Show with James Corden

#I'm mad about all of this #who gave him the right #also look at me using tumblr for the first time in ages #i'm still here i'm just lurking #anyway i'm obsessed with this performance and i'm glad rockstar!darren is back #darren criss

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Wig in a Box | Can’t Cancel Pride: A COVID-19 Relief Benefit for the LGBTQ Community | iHeartRadio

#He went so hard on this one #I miss Hedwig #Darren criss #hedwig and the angry inch

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#i'm so pumped #hamilton #hamilfilm

Because of Royalties I checked the ASCAP database to see Darren's songwriting credits and found a few intriguing entries (some of these might be old but there's definitely some I've never seen before). First Class Hands? Sango Sango Sango?? Oh the songs we'll never get to hear...

#Darren Criss

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All the time!

#Happens to me all the time

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Sorry if this sounds weird but like... a mood has descended upon me. So like I want to punch Rowling but like Harry Potter was and is a major part of my life and it’s like how do I not feel guilty about enjoying it? Like death of the author theory and all that but like idk I just trust your advice bc you post good things. Idk. So sorry for how weird this is! (it’s possible I just needed to vent) Sending you love💜💙💜

on a very practical level you can just stop giving money to the franchise. don't go see the sequels at the movies, don't buy any new merch or new editions of the novels, just, completely opt out of it financially. don't buy any harry potter stuff unless it's secondhand or fanmade. find ways of celebrating this story that a terf doesn't benefit from. pirate the fuck out of it. she's got enough coin.

i also think it's important to recognise that the story itself does have some very problematic aspects to it (even though it hurts). acknowledge the racist analogies, the lack of poc characters with real character development and significant page time, the complete and utter lack of lgbtq+ representation, the homophobic aids/werewolves analogy. that's not to say enjoy it less. but this story was written by a woman with plenty of blind spots and biase. it SHOWS.

on a related note, when painting/writing/reading harry as a biracial bisexual king etc, make sure to actively acknowledge that kind of representation was created by FANS. jkr did not intend for it to be there and does not get credit.

the rest is just ... the emotional work of disentangling jkr and the story she wrote. you cannot do that entirely. but in recognising its shortcomings i think we can arrive at a place where we recognise that what we love about this story now has little to do with jkr's bigotry. a lot of what we love about it we put there. we made it so.

#Harry Potter