#jkr is such a disappointment

[ijustkindalikebooks]

#i still love this song #songs inspired by books #booklr #shame it's hp #jkr is such a disappointment #Spotify

[joannerowling]

Jo's TRG interview was really like: Robin is amazing. She's really come into her own. She's so brave. She doesn't take shit from any man no longer! What a girl.

And then Strike:

"Finally my man is waking up but boy did it take him long amirite ladies"

#jk rowling #jkr #cormoran strike #the running rgave #trg #trg spoilers #really loved what she had to say about the positive of ageing and wisdom gained from acceptance of loss and Strike being a vessel of that #EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED that no one asked about whether she meant the Hogwarts and Chapman Farm parallels lol

[courtofthevampireking]

i dreamed i was a member of the felt (trace i think? it was hard to tell all our hats had been switched around and nobody could remember who they were) and i looked at my phone and saw jkr died and told clover and clover was so happy he started running in circles

#words cannot describe how disappointed i was to discover jkr is still alive irl

[quillinhand]

Ok I really wanna ask this for some time now but it's fine if you don't want to answer. Which house are you in? ^^

I'm a ravenclaw if I had to pick one, but I have gotten Hufflepuff in the past. something between the two would be the most accurate for me. What's your hp house?

#from the ink well #senshipluto #harry potter #harry potter asks #I remember like doing a quiz like 7 years ago and being dissatisfied with being told I'm a Hufflepuff #and then being a Hufflepuff became popular #so I was disappointed that my results now said I'm a ravenclaw #it all feels so small when I think about it now #like how much of my life was purely just harry potter #it's still a part of my life but it's just so much smaller of a priority #If it even is a priority at all #and part of it was growing up and a huge part of it was jowiling kowin Rowling #anti jkr #I could go on but like people have went on about it far more eloquently #so I'll stop now #byeee

[sailor-rowling]

Some of JK Rowling's favorite books

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Emma by Jane Austen

(More at the source)

#jkr #pro jkr #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #very disappointed she called Lolita a love story though...

[sticknpokelightningbolt]

JKR has dug her heels in so far, there isn't even a hill anymore.

#seeing JKR trending and just *sigh's deeply* “what now?” #can't say i'm surprised but like still disappointed i guess #jk rowling #trans rights #fuck transphobes

[tidepoolalgae]

honestly, harry potter was a cool world to grow up with. There's stuff in the story I don't like and I disagree with some of the writing/story decisions now that I look back as an adult but heck yeah magical boarding school mysteries! I wish I could say that without the gnawing awareness that rowling loves being a hateful bigot and without experiencing terfs or so-called gender critical freaks liking my posts

#like.. i just mean they weren't bad books! #I had fun! #just thinking back on my life lmao don't mind me #ms rowling is a disappointment if I've ever seen one #hp #jkr

[blueberryspyder]

I’m super disappointed cause earlier today I learned that an artist whose work I ADORE (they’ve been doing a lot of Gale from BG3, I’m a simple man) is a fan of H*gwarts L*gacy and like. Look if you like the shitty wizard game that fine, whatever. But as a trans man I want you to know I don’t feel comfortable interacting with you!

And no I will not be naming the artist, because while I’m now uncomfortable with them, I’m not the morality police and I don’t think everyone who plays the shitty wizard game is doing it maliciously against trans folks. Doesn’t mean I have to put up with seeing them on my dash tho! 😜

#captains log #I was so upset #I was browsing through their artwork (which IS gorgeous) #and I saw an ask they replied to praising that terf game #I’m just disappointed tbh #*keeps my transmasc non-binary Tav tf away from their Tav* #and I won’t say anything more than this #cause it doesn’t matter enough to make it into any drama #I’m only commenting on it because I’m disappointed an artist I liked would support jkr #idk

[microsuedemouse]

sometimes you find yourself nostalgic for the Harry Potter fandom days, and thinking affectionately about the things that were good about that time and place, and you just have to reckon with that. like, yeah, jkr’s behaviour has escalated to the point of unforgivable over the years. yeah, her stories were problematic in the first place, and that’s all the clearer in retrospect. yeah, I don’t feel comfortable anymore refering to my hogwarts house or my patronus, nor would I wear hp merch in public; I don’t want to give any impression whatsoever that I support jkr’s views, let alone ever give her my money again.

but none of that changes the impact the story had on my life. none of it takes away the joy and wonder that hp once inspired me. it doesn’t erase the fun I once had - many of us once had! - engaging in fandom discussion, making and sharing some truly remarkable fanworks, or indulging together in any other aspect of the massive community that built up around the fandom. jkr may leave a bad taste in my mouth (to put it mildly), and her bigotry may make it difficult for many of us, myself included, to purely enjoy any of the books or movies (or etc) ever again. but there’s still an attachment there. there are still characters and details and ideas and ships in hp that I love, in spite of her.

figuring out what to do with that lingering affection is something I guess we all have to do on our own. everyone is going to draw a different line in the sand. maybe tonight I’ll decide to read some fanfic, and try not to moralize that too hard, because reading fic is a long way removed from supporting jkr and her views. but it can be really tough to decide where exactly your hard line is. sometimes it even moves.

this isn’t a productive post; I’m not drawing any conclusions. just sort of thinking out loud, so to speak. it’s not something I think about often these days, but it still hits me sometimes, and few storytellers have ever inspired and then horrified me to the degree that jkr has. it’s just… tough to reconcile these things.

#harry potter #specifically I miss Neville/Luna tn #they were I think my first ever real intense OTP #and for some reason I’m thinking about them. idk. #Courtney thinks #btw the only other storyteller I’d put actually on par with jkr for me #in terms of the ‘love the work dearly/horrendously disappointed with and appalled by the person’ thing #is joss whedon. fuck him. but Firefly is still so fucking important to me.

[aaayyygender]

Not sure if y'all saw this, but Big Dan Gaming--known for his YouTube videos on Mass Effect and Dragon Age--posted a video saying that the discourse surrounding the Hogwarts Legacy game is "just internet drama" (quoting the video description he wrote) because a lot of people are still buying the game.

Idk about you but I don't think that directly financially supporting the already-rich violent transphobe JKR and ignoring the blatant antisemitism in the game is internet drama. I'm incredibly disappointed in Dan, Babish, and everyone else who cares more about a video game than Jewish and trans lives, safety, and well-being.

#hogwarts legacy #harry potter #jkr #j.k. rowling #transphobic #transphobia #transphobe #big dan gamjng #bdg #antisemitism #antisemitic #anti-Semitic #disappointed #disappointing

[satelliteddt]

gotta be honest, I’m feeling a lot of “y’all can’t even boycott chick-fil-a” vibes lately with how excited ppl on Tumblr are about a certain misogynist’s return to AEW

#feels very ‘still posting and talking abt hp despite all of jkr’s politics’ #but you know that’s too negative and we have to let people like things #right? #even when what they like is a man who publicly boasted about abusing and assaulting a woman #but you know people on Tumblr think he’s hot #so who CARES about the woman he abused right? #it’s only violent disgusting misogyny it isn’t a REAL issue right? #fuck off #I have tags blocked but it is truly disappointing to see how many people are thrilled for that aew return

[diandrarumi]

jk rowling really RUINED her entire work, the characters and world she so carefully built for a fuckass play cash grab that 100% everyone had forgotten and gave zero shit about. cursed child needs to be burned page by page.

#will forever be a cursed child anti #jk rowling had been a constant disappointment since hp7 ended #harry potter #harry potter rant #fuck cursed child #jkr #jk rowling

[roguetelepaths]

so Neal Shusterman apparently came out with a new book while I wasn't looking and. hooboi. feeling more and more like he should have stopped publishing after the Unwind series finished. (I enjoyed Arc of a Scythe but towards the end of that series he was really starting to show his inability to write competently about certain topics. like. Neal. Buddy. Why is the only nonbinary person in this series from an island where everyone is raised nonbinary as part of a social experiment, why can they not simply exist. Please talk to the community a bit more before handling any queer issue more complicated than Some Kids Have Two Dads.)

Anyway this new book, Game Changer, has been described as "a white savior narrative where a young, white, straight, popular football player mansplains a lot." So. That's fun. I'm sure I'll have things to say about it once I'm done reading it.

#i used to be the biggest neal shusterman fanboy way back when lmao #so this is a little disappointing #not like JKR levels of disappointing but still not fun yknow #unwind started me on the road to becoming pro-choice. i'm used to neal shusterman's books being a bit more socially aware and nuanced

[nikialexx]

grindelwald and dumbledore’s story actually had the potential to be really interesting and i hate that it was watered down so much in an attempt to keep the fantastic beasts series as appealing to homophobic straight audiences as possible

#the first movie was the only good one and that's only if i ignore the fact that grindeldore are meant to be a main factor of the series #and with the. uh. general state of everything else aka jkr being a revolting person i haven't had much interest in the other two #but i pirated this last one cause it looked like we would get grindeldore content and their story really does fascinate me #but ofc there was no 'content' to speak of and the movie was um not great otherwise (in my opinion) #so yah i'm disappointed lmao but not surprised #does anyone know if a fic that actually gives those two the story they deserved exists?

[mydarlingdearestdead]

I tried to ignore them, the voices penetrating my bubble of peace. They didn't like that.

But what would mama think should you fail this? One asked.

Oh a whole dynasty ruined, surely! Another answered

I pulled out my notebook and started writing. I detailed each conversation as they began. Eventually I realized I had started deciding what they said next and stopped.

That was that.

#who is this? #you shall never know #fuck jk rowling #fuck jkr #writing #relatable content #relate to me #disappointment #issues #high standards #gifted kid burnout

[soloh]

Whelp, that's another actress off the "people I want to be like" list

#helena bonham carter #NOT SAYING I AGREE with what she said about Johnny #but i do understand that they're friends and that friendship can create bias #but afaik her and jkr are not friends #so she's definitely just a terf #or at least a terf apologist which is basically just terf lite #so disappointing