#ive had the whole 'man i just hate harry potter and the fans' stance in the past but ive changed my mind

[burning-sol]

My most controversial thing I could say in this Tumblr circle is that I'm actually kind of tired of people who are excluding Harry Potter fans and telling them not to interact with our anti-J.K Rowling spaces, because that's the one sure way that you let a fandom space get overrun by bigots. It also isn't even advocating for anything, it's just "fuck you for liking the art everyone enjoyed before the person was outed as bad". Cos' if that's just your personal boundary, that's fine, but it's not exactly a comprehensive stance moreso than it is "fuck you".

If Harry Potter fans interact with me, I don't care if you like HP, but I do care if you're not being proactive in combating bigotry. I do care if you let bigots into your space. I do care if you're not critical of the books. I do care if you spend your money on Harry Potter merchandise rather than sharing pre-owned copies, if you wear your HP scarf without considering wearing a trans patch to go with it, if you don't speak up to say that Harry Potter was written by a shitty person who is actively trying to take people's rights away.

Put an ugly DNI on your posts, blog about all your POC and queer headcanons for characters, just do your part to make sure everyone knows J.K Rowling is not a good person and you don't tolerate bigots in your space.

Okay that's the end of my rant.

#📚 my posts #📌 thoughts #ive had the whole 'man i just hate harry potter and the fans' stance in the past but ive changed my mind #i dont actually care abt harry potter #if someone tells me they like harry potter then my first response is to be to press them abt the related issues and gague their response #a lot of ppl irl just dont know shit and if u tell them abt the issues theyll change their tune quickly #being a fan isnt like. a dogwhistle. harry potter was a social phenomenon #it was rampantly popular with everyone and ur telling me ALL those people were heinous bigots? #of course there's a correlation between hp fans and terfs but i think weve reached that point where we're too chronically online again guyz