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The new Lego Spider-Verse CMF Series 🕸️

Very excited to add this to my Lego Marvel display

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mixed feelings and complicated thoughts

Next week, 07-10 September, is BrickCon 2023, the longest-running LEGO fan exhibition in the United States. The convention is usually in Seattle, Washington, but this year, it's in Bellevue, which is perhaps a little bit closer to where I live. It's a wonderful convention and if you are local or have the ability to attend, I strongly recommend it :) Meanwhile. I am registered to display a MOC (My Own Creation). This will be my first ever public display and I'm a little bit nervous. I've built a pink castle defending against a skeleton army, which will likely be categorized into the "fantasy" display area. One of the other women in my LEGO Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL) / LEGO User Group (LUG) posted elsewhere on social media that she would be displaying her "Umbridge House" and that it would probably be placed for display within the "fantasy" display area. I'm mildly concerned about how our displays might be placed near each other, as they are both pink and "fantasy". Why is this a concern for me? I'm part of the QUILTBAG (Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual/Agender/Aromantic, Gay) community and I don't feel comfortable around JKR/HP (abbreviated to avoid algorithms, henceforth known as "the garbage human") because of how damaging that author is to the entire community. The garbage human not only says and supports positions damaging to queer lives, but she is one of the only authors I've heard of who read her entire publication contract and kept her rights to her work. This means that for every HP toothbrush sold, the garbage human gets money. So while the LEGO Group is not giving the garbage human money directly, they are required to pay a certain profit/percent of the licensed LEGO they sell back to the owning company, in this case Warner Brothers, who then generates a royalty check back to the garbage human. The garbage human then uses the millions of dollars made in profit to purchase lobbyists all around the world. These lobbyists spend a great deal of time and effort drafting political bills in countries all over the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and a whole bunch of other countries, in order to specifically remove the rights of all QUILTBAG personnel. I have a really difficult time understanding how people can claim they love and support the QUILTBAG community only to actively give money to those who are using said money to take away rights and endanger lives. I know there's a lot of thoughts out there about how people have a right to like what they like and it's too much work for people to care about issues like this. I know many people who have a very powerful sense of nostalgia for HP. HP got a lot of people through some very tough times. But. The love/obsession of many of the fans often chooses to turn a blind eye to the actual and real damage and danger of financially supporting the garbage human. I know it's possible people don't understand that buying LEGO HP is giving the garbage human money to fund horrible things. Or maybe they don't care, as they can't actually see the damaging actions and they would rather remain ignorant. Or they know and just don't care because their own comfort and happiness is more important than "other" people's lives and rights. If I arrive at BrickCon and I find that I am displaying next to HP MOCs, is it fair for me to ask to be moved? I know this is a very sensitive topic and I am open to all well-thought-out and considerate comments. It's possible I'm missing something and I do appreciate the views of people who aren't me, so long as those comments are respectful.

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