listen, we’re all here in this space engaging in hp content in the year of our lord 2024 and i’ll be honest with you, i do not feel great about that. hate it, actually. but i comfort myself with the belief that what we’re doing in this space a lot of the time is critically engaging with the og text and the politics of its author not mindlessly consuming or supporting it. which is why it makes me INSANE when people in this space go out and buy licensed merch or play the video games or watch the sequels or prequels or spin-offs or whatever the heck they’re doing these days, or buy the books (like guys u can steal all that shit you know that right??? what are you doing) or go to the studio or the theme park or WHATEVER. it especially makes me insane when they go to those places or do those things and talk about fanfiction because like. i feel implicated now. i am not interested in providing free advertising for Joanne goddamn Rowling. i thought we were on the same page here boys. and like i said, i get it, we’re all here, me included, so im not exactly speaking from a moral high ground, but goddamnit the least we can do is not give her our money fuck me.
