When it comes to climates in fantasy settings, it's good to bear in mind that "normal" and "freaky" are a matter of where one grew up. There are things that only live in one climate, and not in another. It might feel tempting to make the people from the Scary Fucky Nightmare Climate not flinch at anything at all, but it's far more fun and realistic to make them frightened or at least unsettled by things they've never seen before. Doesn't matter if it's harmless to humans, What The Fuck Is That Thing And Why Is It Indoors.
Cold climates, for example, are dominated by warm-blooded creatures like mammals and birds. Your big nordic valkyrie warrior woman whose first baby chew toy was a bear skull, and who once kicked a lynx in the face for trying to get her little brother, would not be chill about the concept of a lizard as big as a squirrel, or a spider bigger than her thumb. These two examples are the biggest upper limit hypothetical examples of absurdly large reptiles and invertebrates that they could possibly imagine.
i never know how to phrase this so it doesn't sound like "just stop being scared around wasps lol" but literally Just Stop Being Scared Around Wasps. i mean stop acting scared. you see a wasp and you start making erratic movements and loud noises to chase it off? congrats, you made it worse! don't do it.
and then, when you force yourself to instead act Very Calm and make slooooowww movements, the wasp will not sting you. it might even land on you and walk around a bit and it will not sting you. and it will happen again and again and you're going to feel stupid, like "was i seriously afraid when nothing happened at all?" and you are me. i know this because i did it. Just Stop Being Scared Around Wasps. it's that easy.
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To sum up: they still think that trans peoples human rights are an online conversation, and expect the series to run for 10 consecutive years.
So let's get ahead of this right now.
I propose a media-wide blackout of everything Harry Potter related when the first season is released. No tweeting about it, not even to trash it. No posting online about it at all - No Instagram stories or posts, no TikToks, no snaps, no memes on FB, not a word on here, nothing. They will not commit themselves to 10 consecutive years of something if the first season flops. They might attempt a second season, but we can shoot that down, too.
I cannot still be dealing with the hate this woman has for us in 10 years. I cannot still be having this conversation when I'm in my mid-30s. I need her to be dead & forgotten by then, or used as a cautionary tale after her death. We can revive the fandom after she has died, depending what her will stipulates will be done with her bloodmoney. Okay? Is that a good enough compromise for you? You just have to wait for her to die, and not leave her estate & bank account to anti-trans stuff, and then you can get back to loving Potter. Deal?
But in the meantime, we need Warner Bros. to see that they cannot make money from this show. We need them to lose money. We need them to lose enough money that even JKR funding the entire project won't be enough for them to take the risk. Right now, they're saying that JKR's reputation & blatant transphobia have not impacted their ability to find more than enough people to audition for the series. We need them to rethink that. We need them to see that this is not the next Marvel-length franchise to get rich on.
Since I know some of you haven't participated in a media blackout protest before, here's how it'll work:
Don't hype the series / fandom / author / cast up in the lead-up to the series being released. Don't trash it, either. Ignore it. Forget about it. || This means that they won't get good word-of-mouth rates online, which means they will need to really push advertising to get enough people interested.
Don't watch the adverts online. Don't like or comment on the videos, not even with hate or pro-trans stuff. || Engaging with online ads or videos in any way gives them positive data, because it feeds the algorithm & let's them make money from the adverts. We don't want that.
When the series is released, don't watch it. Don't talk about it. Don't tweet about it. Don't post about it. Don't tiktok about it. Don't complain about it. Don't trash it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Ignore it. Forget about it. || They need their launch to earn them money, and even if you're posting about how bad it is, or posting anti-JKR content using the show's hashtags, even if you're watching it in order to know exactly what to complain about & critique, you are still giving them money. They still earn royalties from you watching it, regardless of your intentions. They still get word-of-mouth and clout from you posting about it, even if what you're saying is negative. You know the expression "There's no such thing as bad press"? This is what that refers to. It doesn't matter if you're sharing love or hate for the franchise, because you're still promoting it by saying its name. Also, an overwhelming amount of negative press online can and does lead to other people deciding to watch it to see why everyone is complaining, and arguing about it online, all of which feeds the creators more royalties. We don't want them to earn money from this.
Spread news about other shows & films & franchises & books. Get a fandom which has been dead for 10+ years trending again. Get anime shows & Futurama & ATLA & Adventure Time & Owl House & Over the garden Wall & some really obscure franchises trending across all social media platforms. Get something from the 80s trending in the Top 3 on Twitter. Engage with fandoms you're not even part of. Get BL shows trending in Netflix's Top 5. || This will completely skew analytics online, and it will flood people's dashboards with cmenough content that they won't see promotional content for the series we are blacking out. It will also show spikee data for which genres & shows are more popular & getting more attention & more royalties.
Share media with transgender actors / directors / crew. Share media with LGBTQIA+ storylines. Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content. Share & donate to fundraisers which help Trans & LGBTQIA+ people. Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ history. Show & Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ positivity & love & pride. Do all of this without acknowledging the series or creator we are blacking out. || This will show overwhelmingly positive & inclusive analytics, which will prioritise showing more of the same content. This is what we want the data to show.
Do not give in to temptation to look the show up. Do not look up the cast. Do not look up the directors or producers or executives. Do not look up the soundtrack. Do not put anything remotely related to the series into a search bar of any kind. || Search algorithms still store data, and if enough people look the same stuff up, it will show positive online engagement. We do not want this.
Do not give the actors hate. Do not tag them in hateful content online. Do not abuse them & do not bully them. || This is just unnecessary.
Give the blackout a cool-down period. Continue to ignore it for at least 10 days after the launch. || This forces the show's analytics to fall into negatives. If you suddenly start engaging with something immediately after blacking out the launch, the analytics show a delayed uptake - but it still shows them that people will engage with it, and that they will make money from it. We do not want this.
After the cool down period, mock it. Remember the mocmery that the Velma show got? And you've seen the mockery of the Rachel Zeigler version of Snow White is getting? And how that is impacting the ratings for Songbirds & Snakes because people don't want to watch her, at all, in anything? That is what we need to create on purpose. || If a show gets hate, the creators can use it to feed controversial interest in the show - 'Come watch this to see why people are hating!'. It's as beneficial as positive reviews. They can recover from it. But mockery? Mockery & dismissal is far more difficult to recover from, as it does more damage to their names and reputation. People do not want to be associated with a project which was mocked after it lost them a lot of money. Audiences are also much less likely to engage with a series which has been publicly mocked, compared to hated.
Only mock it for the same amount of time as the cool-down period. || This prevents the series from getting a large spike in analytics.
After this, ignore it. Move on. Talk & post about other stuff. Watch other stuff. || This will result in the show's analytics returning to negatives, and remaining there.
This is a strategy which is proven to work. It has worked for multiple franchises. It is behavioural analytics. It will work for this, but only if we commit to it & get enough people taking part.
All we have to do is:
Do not watch the HBO HP series
Do not post about it online
Ignore it
Do not play, stream or buy any games related to HP
Do not rematch the movies on a streaming service - JKR will still earn royalties from that
Do not post about JKR during the media blackout
Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content & history instead
Support trans creators & actors
Mock the series after the cool down time & then move on
Stick to this method. It WILL work.
And to dispute any attempted justifications for engaging with it:
"But she won't be involved!" || She is listed as an executive producer for the show
"But it's not the actors' fault!" || Actually, it is. The adult actors should know better than to involve themselves with this franchise, and the child actors' parents should know better than to exploit their children's desire to be famous &/ or their love of the series, because the adults should be socially aware enough to know that this franchise will harm their children in the long run.
"But what about my childhood nostalgia!" || What about trans people's human rights & dignity? What about trans children who don't think they'll make it to 18? What about the fact our Prime Minister is selling out transgender rights of his people for Trump? Wht about all of the trans people in the UK who are now facing the possibility of losing more of our rights? What about all of the little trans girls & boys & envies who saw those TERFs celebrating stealing their legal right to identify as their gender, with champagne on national TV? What about trans children who won't be able to go on 100% reversible hormone blockers because JKR funded the vitriol which made them illegal? What about all of the trans women & girls who just lost their legal rights this week? What about our right to legally exist? What about privacy rights and medical & legal autonomy for women & afab people in the UK? What about all the trans people who just watched 21 years of work & progress go down the drain in one afternoon? Are we not worth as much as one of the many memories of your childhood?
Nobody is saying you're not allowed to watch the DVDs or pirate it or read the books or listen to CDs or records of it. Just do not use streaming services for any of it, do not use YouTube, do not talk about it on Twitch & don't post about it online.
We need this franchise to die. We need the producers to see they can't make enough money from this to justify continuing it after the first season. We cannot still be having this argument in the mid 2030s.
We need to get ahead of this right now and stamp the fire out before it kills more trans people.
You understand that buying a Tesla = supporting the Elongated Muskrat & Trump. You understand that buying McDonald's or Starbucks funds Isreal & harms Palestinians. You understand that watching Sandman supports Neil Gaimen.
So why is it so hard for you to apply that exact same logic to JKR, when you can see the harm she is causing in real time to real people?
THH may be my least favourite danganronpa game but that really just says a lot about how much i love the series. i genuinely think All*Star*Apologies is the best written chapter in the entire damn franchise. to me it is perfect in every single way: the structure of its trial (the way in which toko and yasuhiro are suspected first and then the game subverts your expectations by implicating hina, sakura's best friend, as the murderer), its final twist (sakura killed herself; hina was scheming!), even the beautiful simplicity of its premise while still being exciting and mysterious to figure out (the whole locked-room mystery and the poison are not difficult or convoluted to grasp at all unlike, say, mikan's twitch livestream or kirumi's looney-tunes bullshit). the larger theme of kyoko vs byakuya vs hina, what a genuinely goated trio as a point of conflict. byakuya vs hina was already built up throughout the chapter but it goes further back than that as a throughline the entire game, that we had established byakuya as the logical superego and hina as the emotional id. what hits byakuya the most and what makes his downfall so satisfying (to us and, most likely, to kyoko) is that he was outsmarted by hina. hina, who he considers to be a stupid, overemotional idiot, tricked him fully and completely. if it weren't for kyoko the ego, the middle ground between logic and humanity, who figures out hina specifically because she is not only intelligent but also understanding of how hina feels, byakuya would have fell for the trap and died along with everyone else just like hina wanted. because byakuya never considered how hina feels. he never considers how anyone feels. for the first time he is forced to confront that living like that almost killed him.
and like i said everyone who enjoys this game must truly give hina her flowers because she is simply glorious during this chapter. like on a baseline, trying to commit what is essentially a murder-suicide because your girlfriend died and you believe yourself and everyone around you to be responsible is awesome. the fact that, when everyone else thought of sakura as a traitor, hina alone stood by her side, loyal to the end. the reveal that sakura thought of everyone as her friends, even when they hated her. maybe even when they tried to kill her. she was so selfless she sacrificed herself so everyone could stop fighting, and she was happy to do it, the exact opposite of a traitor. if i were hina, i would feel resentment as well! it's genuinely heart-rending! and there's something crazy to witness about hina, who has mostly been the bubbly upbeat genki girl, whose anger has always been righteous, just losing it in desperation as she gets found out. she is voiced by the one and only cassandra lee morris so of course she is good but jesus what a performance. ("it's over." "nothing's over! i did it! i killed sakura!") nobody ever acknowledges it because her personality is remarkably different and she is not very calm or collected or cunning, but in this vein she is almost exactly like kokichi or nagito, playing the mastermind villain to lead the group to a conclusion she believes is right. (though naturally kokichi is far more heroic than hina is being and nagito is... far beyond those two in terms of being cuckoo bananas).
her final suicide note is such a hit as well! the pain of hina falling for the fake suicide note that led her down her path of fury! i love how the game never, ever tries to villainize hina for what she does, even if it's objectively wrong. she's just a girl who lost her best and dearest friend, after days of witnessing her being suspected and ostracized by everyone around them. "i'd rather be dead than alone." but even with sakura gone she was not alone. sakura died so she wouldn't have to be alone. i'm sure that's what she realised after reading the real suicide note, just like how everyone else in the cast realised the folly of their behaviour in regards to how they treated sakura. sakura, who does not fit the mold of a typical dainty conventionally attractive girl, who was treated as an invulnerable object they could attack simply because she was physically strong, was just as human as the rest of them, and hina was the only one who recognised that. She had weaknesses, just like any other person. If she got cut, she bled. If someone hurt her, she felt it. That's weakness... that's normal...!
hina was perfect for sakura not because she recognised her strength—after all, everyone knew sakura was strong—but because she recognised her weakness. this alllll loops back into the overall plot the depth of sakura and hina's relationship tied into the theme of kyoko and byakuya and what it means to be truly intelligent, and it's flawless really. and in the end, this chapter also proves kyoko as one of the best detectives to ever do it, simply because of this dialogue of hers:
You still haven't realised? We don't all act according to calculations and cost-benefit diagrams. That's what makes us so complicated. That's what you don't understand, and that's why you couldn't solve this case. ... See? Didn't I tell you? When you dismiss other people's feelings, it'll always come back to bite you in the end.
and it's why it frustrates me when people portray kyoko as someone who cannot understand human emotion. she's quite the opposite. she has emotional issues herself, but that doesn't change the fact that she knows humans, and she knows humanity.
after all, she is the Ultimate Detective. and what's a detective if not a scientist of humans?
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
On my recent trip, I found a word search book in the house we were staying at and I thought it would be a fun thing I'd be able to make a bunch of SFTH-themed ones of. Most of them are gonna be based on longforms, but I might also do smaller ones for certain short forms too (like at the end of this post, for example). I did save these as PDFs as well but either Tumblr doesn't allow those to be shared in posts or I just don't know how to do it, so here's images instead if anyone wants them.
Bonus Word Search: Thirsty Vamps!
I will be making more of these, they're pretty quick to make. I'm open to suggestions for other SFTH non-longform themes as well, if anyone has them
brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed
It's because the writer communicates their feelings for them. If people wanna pull that off in real life they need to hire a guy to walk around behind them narrating.
ace ace ace if you're still doing likeness drawings while on holiday, do you wanna draw me? (i'll have to dm you, because i refuse to face reveal publicly, but that would be so cool)
omg absolutely! I brought my sketchbook and pencil and I still haven’t filled the page so I need more people anyways lol
mutuals if I like your vent post I promise I’m acknowledging your post and sending happy thoughts and hoping your ok bc I don’t know what to say and I promise I’m not happy you’re in pain
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