#rowling

[philbatrax]

[matt0044]

Neil Gaimen’s time has come. Is anyone ever surprised by this point?

Not because “Oh, I never really liked them” or “I knew they were bad news.” Rather because… no one gets this famous without something to hide.

Here's something a lot of people have to understand: EVERYONE has skeletons in their closets and those with fame especially. Some more grotesque than others and in need of clearing out but either way, there's a reason "Never meet your heroes" is a terribly timeless cliche.

This artist, that writer, this actor, that director? Each of them have some sort of dirt that can be used against them. Be it something they did long ago they hoped to bury rather than make right or a reoccurring pattern of bad behavior behind the scenes. There's something.

For those who made a big impact on the world or in a niche of said world, their work was not a fluke. They were or became very bad people but produce works of art that spoke to the human soul. J.K. Rowling's queen of the TERFs but Harry Potter was still a worldwide phenomenon. It wasn’t a fluke, it didn’t trick us, it was just that good.

Vic Mignogna has been a creepazoid since the nineties for those willing to do actual research on the claims. BUT many of his roles in Anime are considered legends even among sub-onlies. His voice acting as Edward Elric speaks for himself. Still a sleezeball.

I could go on but the point is we can and should recognize these artists for their bad behavior but know that they garnered fans for a damn good reason. That's nothing to be ashamed of in this age of Social Media where more are empowered to have a voice compared to real life.

There will be many more Rowlings, Gaimens, Austin St. Johns that either reveal their true colors or change into something nearly different from who they were before. We weren't "swindled" or "tricked." We just didn't know. And some of us, I bet, wish we never did know.

It's selfish but natural to wish that these allegations weren't coming out of the woodwork and up-ending your escape from the world that's already a crapsack. But we can never truly escape reality. Take a break, sure. But our letter to Hogwarts was always a pipe dream.

[hjellacott]

The people now choosing to cherry pick from Emma Watson's recent interview and spin the story into "she's being so kind to that bitch what a forgiving angel", are the same people who took Rowling's years of fighting against the oppression of women, violence against women, and attacks on freedom of speech and thought, and turned it into "transphobic bitch what an evil".

For once in your lives read the whole story from the original source material, not Pink News and clickbait. Rowling has spent YEARS fighting for women's rights, even as millions called for the rape and murder of her and her children day in and day out in front of all of us to see. At the height of it her FRIEND, whose career is entirely owed to Rowling, who could've just talked things out with her privately, went and unnecessarily added fuel to the fire with complete disregard for the safety and wellbeing of her supposed friend and her family. Emma didn't need to do what she did, she did it for brownie points with the trans collective, just like Dan did, with zero respect for women, particularly those who've suffered male violence, and with complete disregard and disrespect to those victims' opinions and lived realities. They're privileged brats who wanted to look good in public qnd didn't even attempt to talk to Rowling in person and discuss things because women's wellbeing, or hers or her kids' for that matter, were never important to Emma and Dan.

And then following what she did Emma, who again could've called or texted, sent a card saying "I'm sorry for what you're going through". That's what she did after making it worse, like what a fucking out of touch person she is you can't make this shit up. Like stab a friend in the back and then be like oopsie!

And this is the FIRST time Rowling has told exactly what happened in public after all the times they've ruthlessly attacked her, and even then, she can't say anything worse than "she's ignorant of how ignorant she is". Like up until now, she's still protected those pricks while they continued to think solely of themselves and showed 0 ability to pit themselves on the shoes of female victims of male violence. Of course they're privileged and out of touch with reality.

[snigepippi]

Everyone who say they cannot let go of Harry Potter and fully boycott Rowling You know.... My whole town (200k people) managed to do that!

We used to have a Harry Potter Festival during the national harvest vacation. There were all kinds of stuff, quiddich tournaments, exchange money to HP money in the bank, make your own wand, people dressed up as figures from the books, show your house colours etc. And they even got the cathedral to play the theme melody every hour.

Then rowling and her croonies went after the city and asked for money. (There was no money, because everything is mainly volunteering or small creatives selling their art. We do a lot of volunteer work in Denmark.)

Did everyone bow down and say that Harry Potter was too important to stop?

No! Of course not. We don't need Harry Potter.

Now it's called Magic Days.

It's filled with local/national folklore instead. Local trolls and Elffolk, old stories about local witch craft and rune magic, local spellbooks, potions and herbs that we have stories about from the last 500 years. You can get your magic element alignment, if you want house colours. There's unicorn riding tounaments and live rollplayers and viking and medieval reenactors dressed up and acting out whatever they want.

We don't need harry potter. You don't need harry potter. Do better.

(It's in week 42, everyone's welcome, most of the events are free, but some you have to pay for materials or to reserve a space )

[maxdibert]

Rowling also refuses to give any female teenage characters female friends lol. Lily doesn't have Friends outside of her husband's friends after marriage apparently. Hermione isn't well liked by other girls and she gets yelled at by ginny in order of phoenix while actually making sense. Ginny is said to be popular, but her defining characteristic is how popular she is with the boys. Luna is so wierd that she apparently has no friends. In fact female friends are often treated disdainfully in the narrative (cho and her friend whose name I can't remember, lavender and the patil sisters). Ginny is quite terrible to Fleur as well. In Rowling's universe only men can be afforded a life outside their immediate family and love interest.

Let’s not forget when Cho was treated like a traitor just because she chose to defend her friend (being the ultimate girls’ girl, a goddess, honestly, thank you Cho for so much, and I’m sorry for all the mistreatment) over a boy and even over political duty, exactly what a real girl would do, because friends come first, even when they mess up. But instead of being portrayed as the boss she is, Rowling paints her as a whiny, immature traitor.

Fleur is only respected by “the cool girls in the story” once she stops being herself and becomes a housewife who lives entirely for her husband. Basically, for Rowling, everything revolves around male validation: you’re only intelligent and brave if your friends are boys, because if your friends are girls, then you’re shallow, superficial, and a gossip. You’re only “cool and popular in a good way” if you’re admired for the same reasons a boy would be, and if they think you’re cool and popular, it doesn’t matter what the girls think.

And above all, every female character who’s treated positively is filtered through purely masculinized gender standards. Their “virtues” are virtues from a male perspective based on what men like, find attractive, or consider “worthy” in a woman. Every teenage girl or young woman who doesn’t perform a kind of femininity that’s acceptable to or built around the male gaze’s approval is ridiculed, diminished, or treated horribly by the narrative. Rowling hates women, and it’s honestly not surprising that she didn’t have female friends in school. The problem wasn’t the others; the problem was her.

[inthemoodforblastt]

"Lily Evans was a feminist"

Yeah, as feminist as JK Rowling, love.

[mutantrenegade]

This is so fucking funny. "You can fag it up as much as you want in the wizard world but if your blood isnt pure we're gonna fuckin kill you"

Like sure Joanne, dont even give that a second thought, blood quantums are very lgbt friendly ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈