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Mike Mignola, “Lost Hope”

watercolour on illustration board, 2024

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~A MESSAGE TO J.K. ROWLING~

When I was young, your writing inspired me. It made me hopeful. I hyperfixated on it for years, played Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit, drew my Patronus, and infodumped on my dad for hours on end. I turned my garage into Honeydukes for my eighth birthday, and put a drawing of Moaning Myrtle in my family's bathroom. My grandma and I watched the movies together, staying up late and complaining about the fact that Peeves didn't make an appearance. I idolized you.

Then I realized I was a transgender boy.

I read about what you'd said. How we were predators and r@p1sts. How trans women were just 'men in dresses'. How there were no trans kids. I lost that spark of happiness I used to get from seeing Platform 9 3/4 pins on people's bags, from finding fanfiction on ao3, from my Snitch replica that hung from my ceiling. My Harry Potter paperbacks, well-worn from taking them everywhere, were left to gather dust on my shelf.

And now this.

I am not looking for attention. I am not trying to "let complete strangers know I don't fancy a shag." I am not pretending I'm oppressed. I AM oppressed. Yesterday, I marched with thousands of people, to fight the people like you, who ARE oppressing us, who want us to disappear. I can't believe I loved you, I wanted to be you, I trusted you. And you betrayed me. You betrayed us. I don't understand how you sleep at night, knowing what you've said.

I hope the dementors come for you next.

we all deserve an extended sentence in jailtime

everything a mess😭

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Some nameless threat lurked just on the horizon of the world, waiting for the sun to sleep. The feeling gnawed at her insides like a hungry cat. There was a sense of the imminent, the remorseless, the mindless; it growled like a heat maddened panther, ready to strike at the long shadows of the dying light