#jkr tweet

[lizardsfromspace]

One of my fave narratives of the writer's strike was watching every studio-friendly Hollywood news source go ":( this movie was delayed due to the mean ol' strike", meanwhile random Wallace and Gromit-obsessed Twitter account DiscussingFilm would include "because studio executive, [executive name], refuses to pay workers fairly out of greed" on literally every piece of news, no matter how tangential to the strike, and anyway I'm pleased to see they're still at it

#twitter #film #movies #anti jkr #almost makes me feel sorry for editing their tweets into a hoax about Godzilla and King Kong fucking

[sailor-rowling]

#one of my new fave tweets #the queen #pro jkr

[watermelinoe]

i think it's kind of offensive to try to make holocaust denial about trans people but idk

#when you say holocaust denial people think antisemitic conspiracy theory #so it just seems... hm.... disingenuous to use that specific phrase? #i do think jkr's tweet was kind of unclear #but it was not ''the holocaust is a jewish conspiracy it was all faked they control everything'' #contesting the idea that trans people should be centered in holocaust discussions is not the same thing at all #that wording just grosses me out bc it feels intentional. they know what holocaust denial actually is and they know they can piggyback #off of the enduring suffering of people who were the primary targets of the holocaust #and they know no one is gonna bother to even read what jkr's little tweet said in the first place #isn't it obvious they just want to be able to call themselves holocaust victims

[sandwichsugarbong]

These hands are rated E for everyone.

#fuck jkr #trans man #trans rights #transgender #twitter #tweet #funny shit #anti radical feminism #radblr #lgbt #nonbinary #trans #transphobia #terfism

[thund3randrain]

An ex of mine who I think is enby or at least used to be said jkr wasn't transphobic, and I had to fully restrain myself from pulling out my screenshots to save the next three hours of my life

#we were meeting up with some other friends #and they had hogwarts legacy #and i watched them all play it #i literally wanted to scream #i mean who looks at these tweets and thinks #ah yes what a perfectly pro-trans woman #what the fuck #jayden's thoughts #trans #transgender #transphobia #transphobes #fuck transphobes #fuck jkr #jk rowling #anti jkr #jkr #anti jk rowling #tw jk rowling

[rewritingcanon]

what exactly has jkr said that's bigoted? word for word, not just something you heard from someone else?

just look what shes posted on her twitter in the last 24 hours u fucking nark

now i can hold ur hand and explain to you why these statements are phrased in hateful transphobia but u seem like u dont care so 👍

#sometimes i click on her twitter to check if shes still obsessed with trans people 💀 #its the fact that i could just ss her first four tweets and not look very hard #shes a transphobe first and a radfem second lol she talking about them more than the women she says she gaf about #harry potter #hp #anti jkr #ask #anon #rewriting

[jaskiersbard]

Fuck JK Rowling but it makes me so angry to think we could have had a complete Fantastic Beasts series with an autistic lead who isn’t a total stereotype, who is loveable, who has a love interest instead of just being infantilised…and instead we’re getting a seven season Harry Potter reboot/remake that no one asked for or wanted on HBO Max.

When I was going through the process of my autism diagnosis, feeling anxious and worried about what being diagnosed would mean, knowing that Newt Scamander - a character who is adored by so many in a major franchise - was being played as autistic helped me tremendously. I saw much of myself in Newt, and it made me feel seen that an autistic person like myself could be the hero, that Newt wasn’t a joke or stereotype. It was so important to me coming to terms with my diagnosis that a character I loved was like me and not limited by being autistic.

I’ve mentioned this before but on the opening day of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in the UK, there was a boy on the row in front of me. When Newt came onscreen, he started bouncing and flapping his hands excitedly - like me, he was autistic and saw himself represented on the big screen.

“But Luna Lovegood” - you know what, controversial but fuck your “but Luna Lovegood”. Her actress sided with the TERF, and Luna is NOT confirmed to be autistic, it’s just a popular fan headcanon. Meanwhile Newt Scamander has been confirmed by Eddie Redmayne (not JKR, fuck her) to be on the spectrum. I’m not saying she definitely isn’t because I can definitely see it, and it’s wonderful autistic people can relate, but I’m talking about a character who is intentionally written and portrayed as autistic instead of just fan headcanons.

What does having a love interest have to do with this? Believe it or not, this isn’t me just being a shipper: too often are autistic people infantilised, as if we can’t love other people or that people are incapable of loving us. But - as anyone following me most likely knows - Newt Scamander has a love interest, Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein, who he’s canonically married to in the future. They even have a grandson who is called Rolf and marries the aforementioned Luna.

In the three films, we only got a few scenes (and then JK Rowling cut Tina out because Katherine Waterston called her out on multiple occasions for being a transphobe) of Newtina but what we got showed that not only is Newt capable of forming a romantic attachment but also Tina clearly loves Newt as he is, quirks and all. She understood his odd compliment of “salamander eyes” because she knows his special interest is magical creatures and it’s his way of saying he adores her eyes. She read his book and genuinely made an effort to learn because she knew magical creatures were important to him, and we saw her grow from thinking he was writing an “extermination guide” to giving him the name for his book, “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them”. My girl Tina LOVES Newt for who he is and always has, and that’s beautiful.

Seeing an autistic person not only fall in love - he spends the whole of the 2nd and 3rd films lamenting on how beautiful she is, talking about her and with her picture in his pocket/suitcase - but also being loved for who they are is something so rarely seen and is so important.

I’ll be the first to hold my hands up and say that the second and third Fantastic Beasts movies weren’t the greatest, by the way. I will agree to that. The first one seems like a damn masterpiece in comparison, even with its problems, but I’m still angry.

The fact that JK Rowling’s bigotry has contributed to losing this rare example of autistic representation in a major mainstream franchise is something no one talks about when discussing her actions, and it hurts that no one seems to care about canon autistic representation.

#this was prompted by me rewatching the first two films whilst sick last week #I tweeted this out last week but felt it relevant to post here #fantastic beasts and where to find them #newt scamander #eddie redmayne #autism #actually autistic #tina goldstein #porpentina goldstein #katherine waterston #newtina #fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald #fantastic beasts: the secrets of dumbledore #newt x tina #anti jk rowling #anti jkr #radfems dni #terfs dni

[gayvampyr]

she just never knows when to shut the fuck up. hun put the typewriter down, your 15 minutes are over

#you’re obsolete #seriously does she even hear herself #r/pe tw #sa ment #jkr #transphobia #twitter #tweets #undescribed #no id #intersexism #racism #h slur #death threats #ableism

[minyicho]

all without supporting terfs too :o

#screw jkr #tw transphobes #tw terfs #harry potter #jk rowling #problematic fiction #hbomberguy #harry potter legacy #twitter #tweets #twitter drama #harry potter game #antisemitism #hogwarts #hogwarts legacy #problematic #youtubers #anti jkr #terfs #hp #minyicho

[radsplain]

remember the dancing plague of 1518 when hundreds of people from a small town in what is now modern day France literally danced themselves to death because of what we know now was mass hysteria and social contagion? yeah something about the left's manufactured and drawn out public rage over jk rowling’s insanely mild tweets from 2020 that are still being used to malign her to this day reminds me of that

#like actually it's insane how unproblematic those tweets are #and back then i was still in my 'libfem' era and when i saw the tweets i remember having to MAKE myself angry bc everyone else was like??? #truly feels like a fever dream #jkr #radsplain.txt

[sailor-rowling]

#jk rowling #j.k. rowling #jkr #pro jkr #okay there needs to be a book composed entirely of her most hilarious tweets!

[joannerowling]

https://www.tumblr.com/desinteresse/730003743388712960/your-post-about-the-writing-of-jkr-when-it-comes ?

…Wow. This really should be on Rowling's lawyer team's radar, i hope they're made aware of this somehow. Let's go over this then, since the poster conveniently blocked me and i can't respond directly.

First of all, a general "how to read information" tip: you'll notice that there's no trace of the actual radio interview this sentence is mentioned to come from, to fact check it. That means no context surrounding that one sentence is available. The only thing we have is the reported interview (here, if you're interested by actual links instead of screenshots). It may not seem important, but this is already a subtly biased way of providing information.

Now let's look at what's actually being said here. Praising the quality of writing of Nabokov is, obviously, not the same as calling the actual relationship depicted in Lolita "a great love story", unless you're being intellectually dishonest on purpose. There is no doubt in Lolita that Humbert, the protagonist, thinks of himself as being in love with Dolores, and it is that perspective that makes it such an interesting and layered novel. It's a story that makes you empathise with a despicable man in spite of yourself, which speaks of Nabokov's genius.

The fact that we even have to explain this is grotesque; JKR has time and time again proven that she's a defender of children's rights and safety, recently most of all (it's one of the reasons she invoked for standing up to transgenderism) but also continuously in the past. But of course, people who make such accusations rely on forcing their target to defend themselves, because it's psychological warfare. On top of the distress it causes, the aim of defaming is to seed doubts in the minds of onlookers, so that even if the accusation doesn't stick legally the damage is done.

In addition, i will say that this poster calling JK Rowling a pedophile (or heavily implying she might be and doubling over when called out on her bullshit) right at the time JKR's published a book where the main topic is denouncing pedophilia and coercive rape in a cult is… uncanny, to say the least. I wouldn't usually throw that out lightly but the timeline is pretty suspect. At best this is an unfortunate coincidence, she's just an idiot who has a bit of subconscious guilt about the kind of fanfiction she consumes, and is redirecting it at Rowling. At worst… well.

On a lighter note, the influence of Nabokov's writing on Rowling's has been studied before, if you're interested. Here's an example of what has been written on it (i don't particularly like this blog's author but there's no denying the depth of his analysis here).

#replies #anon #jkr #jk rowling #i strongly encourage anyone with a formerly-known-as-twitter account to tweet this post at Rowling - her PR team might be watching

[marmorada]

The DESPERATION these people have over figuring out ways to hate the reboot is killing me omfg

#jkr #I was permabanned for posting a link to a tweet in this thread btw

[1tbls]

this is maybe a big ask, but god i want to find a good video essay about trans-exclusionary feminism and its role in the current wave of transphobia, that is also 30 minutes or less, and hopefully doesn't use (too many) swear words so i can get away with showing it to my students.....

#i found one good video addressing JKR's recent holocaust denial tweet. but it's not *comprehensive* about the terf movement

[climbdraws]

wc & firestars family should have ended at the end of oots. it's the perfect ending with fires death and being the fourth cat to the prophecy makes everything come full circle back to into the wild

genuinely do not understand why they continued with a linear plot after that - it would have made soooo much more sense to start a completely new arc set either pre TPB or wayyy post OOTS. I haven't read the new books but I can't fathom why they're going with the insecure Firestar clone for like..the 4th time? Po3, OOTS and Avos were all about living up to firestars legacy and being involved in prophecies and the self doubt of being the Chosen One. HarperCollins is just going to keep beating the horse until it turns to dust huh

#long ramble sorry but like??? know when to fucking tap out and end the series my god #i dont care about firestars great grandkids i want shadow wind river protragonists and pov for a change #the special editions are honestly getting to a point too where its like jkr tweets #you cant keep adding in canon/lore 20 yrs after it originally came out just let it be

[gender-trash]

reading the narutopedia page for the mangekyo sharingan and going "thats SO stupid. THATS SO STUPID" aloud at every new piece of information it reveals to me

#the trashcan speaks #I HAVE SUCH A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH NARUTOPEDIA #on the one hand imagine only being able to get naruto information by watching or reading it. couldnt be me #on the other hand every third sentence feels like that jkr tweet about wizards shitting themselves #its the naruto