#jo rowling

[musingsofsarasate]

Haven't seen any discussion on here about how JK Rowling portrayed people with chronic illnesses ("spoonies") in the Ink Black Heart, and it surprised me. This article by Alicia Hendley says it all excellently, I've grabbed two screenshots, but it's definitely worth reading it in its entirety. In the book, the distinction gets made between characters with real, legitimate, visible disabilities (such as Strike) and those with invisible, chronic, implied fake/exaggerated illnesses (like Kea). The description of Kea's bio and tags on her tumblr account were there for ridicule. It saddened me that the chronic illness community has been represented in this way, though it has not surprised me at all, especially coming from JKR.

#the ink black heart #jk rowling #Jo Rowling #Robert Galbraith #cormoran strike #strike #Spoonies #chronic illness #Chronic illness discourse #ink black heart #Invisible illness #Alicia Hendley

[hjellacott]

Happy birthday Jo! (And Harry!)

Today my role-model turns 58, and The Boy Who Lived, 43.

You don't always get lucky that the people you love for subjective reasons become even better for objective reasons, but we did. I admire other authors, characters, actors, but sometimes they do things I frown upon, things I can't defend, and yet, it isn't the case with Jo. With her, I can breathe in peace knowing what she does will always be for the benefit of those who need a hero the most.

Harry was a hero for any of us who have known terrible loss, and taught us to make the best out of shit situations, to look at the bright side of things — consider your friends, choose your own family, fight for things you believe in — and to be brave and persistent, to stay true to yourself, to be selfless and kind, to be heroes of our own stories. To me, he's one of the most humane and extraordinary characters I've known, with tremendous depth, someone that is heroic not because he wants to be, not out of a deep desire of protagonism or power, or because he likes the limelight, but because he makes the best our of every difficult choice, and he tries to do the right thing. He's so deeply flawed, but always within logic (i.e. when he isolates himself from his friends because for 11 years he never had any and it's still hard to know what to do with them), and then he raises above his challenges, even the self-imposed ones.

In the Harry Potter books I found solace through a sometimes miserable childhood, again through more and more loss, and again in times of Covid. I found advice, I found the friendly words I needed, I found courage and inspiration, I found good old friends — and realised Hogwarts would, indeed, always be there when I needed it, even twenty plus years on.

Harry's story almost seems to mirror Joanne Rowling's. She knew incredible adversity and overcame it, and like Harry, she found true love, she made a family of her own, she found a place she could call home and true friends to stand beside her. And after all the success she's known, she's always giving back to us. This is a summary of some of her charitable work:

About 16% of her wealth in 2011 went to organisations fighting worldwide poverty, something that she's continued doing year after year.

Various work with Amnesty International.

The Ickabog royalties went to supporting charities that supported vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

J.K. Rowling is Founder and President of Lumos, an international children’s charity fighting for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world. Lumos sheds light on the root causes of family separation and demonstrates that children can safely be united with loving families that help them thrive.

The Anne Rowling Clinic was founded by a donation from J.K. Rowling in 2010 in memory of her mother Anne.  The Clinic delivers clinical care and research to improve the lives of people with degenerative conditions affecting the brain, as well as hosting specialist NHS clinics for these conditions.  Jo continues to fund MS research exclusively through the Anne Rowling Clinic.

J.K. Rowling's charitable trust, Volant, which she set up in 2000 to administer grants to charities, to alleviate social deprivation particularly affecting women and children.

She's also created Beira's Place, a service for victims of sexual violence, focused on women (including trans men with female sexual organs).

Additionally, substantial donations to charity in the form of book royalties.  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages are sold in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard is sold in aid of Lumos. Royalties from The Ickabog go to Volant, to help support vulnerable groups who’ve been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, in the UK and internationally.

And then J.K. Rowling is a decorated social warrior, standing up for children, for homeless, for people who've suffered major disaster in life, and for women, doing anything and everything for us even when she meets opposition. She never gives up.

Thank you, Jo. You're my hero. Thank you for your hard work, and for the stories that will keep your memory and your activism alive, long after you're gone. Thank you for making my days so much brighter. Wishing you and Harry a wholesome day of much-deserved joy and laughter. HAPPY BIRTHDAE!!!

#j.k. rowling #j. k. rowling #joanne rowling #jo rowling #harry potter #feminism #Queen Rowling

[tudorblogger]

‘Dumbledore: The Life and Lies of Hogwarts’s Renowned Headmaster’ by Irvin Khaytman

‘Dumbledore: The Life and Lies of Hogwarts’s Renowned Headmaster’ by Irvin Khaytman

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction – Literature Published: 2021 Format: Hardback Rating: ★★★★ I picked this up in Forbidden Planet on a trip to London last year. Dumbledore has always fascinated me as a character in the Harry Potter series, and I was looking forward to this deep dive into his motivations and what he knew at different points. The book didn’t disappoint. Khaytman has obviously read and…

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#Albus Dumbledore #Book #Book Review #Dumbledore #hallows #Harry Potter #Hogwarts #horcruxes #irvin khaytman #J K Rowling #JK Rowling #jo rowling #Literature #magic #Review

[kryptonians]

#JK Rowling #Harry Potter #please shut up Jo

[oxfordelise]

Harry Potter is guilty of many crimes but one of the more trivial ones on my mind today is how it introduced a character who can fucking shape shift and did absolutely nothing with her.

#harry potter #jk rowling #nymphadora tonks #shape shifter #metamorphmagus #why’d you leave her hanging Jo? #pink hair #could have been better #hp #hp fandom #books

[chaoscalamari]

Remember childhood and the funniest joke was like, Barney either being killed or breaking character and swearing or flipping off a kid or going on a cruel rant on live TV?

That's what JK Rowling's latest antics feel like.

#jk rowling #'Im Jo Rowling and this is why disabled people should doie.' #TERFSs fuck off and die #make Jo rowling sub to my anime blog tags feed forever. suck fuck eugenicist POS

[advictoriams]

Heh what would you think if someone with a pirated version of Hogwarts legacy modded the game and released a mod so the alt right and terfs were the villains and jk Rowling was the final boss, like the antisemitic parts of the game were removed could you tolerate playing that or people playing that

I mean I wasn't going to play it anyway cause idk a game about antisemitism doesn't at all interest me.

Having said that, I do think that boycotts are kinda useless and a better counter approach would be links where folks can donate to trans charities and holocaust foundations.

Also I do think that picking on terfs and fascists who buy the game is also okay to do. Hope that helps.

#hogwarts legacy #dunno why I'm being asked this. like I've made it pretty clear that i have no intentions buying anything associated with Jo Rowling

[witchchick1228]

Newest chapter of my cute, sport-centric, wlw fanfic! A lot of setup, but I promise, it'll pay off soon enough.

#stereotypes and those that oppose them #sattot #hp fanfic #hp oc #jo wood #this is anti jk rowling propaganda

[satellites-halo]

people saying scott cawthon is as bad as joanne rowling is weird to me I do not get it. where was all this backlash before the movie??? it feels kind of like people just don't like seeing others have fun and are tryna justify it through the shitty stuff scott did

#fnaf #idk #i hate jk rowling as much as the next guy #and scott is eugh #but fnaf isnt inherently bad #like harry potter #harry potter has jo rowlings views #in it #fnaf dont #so idk #getting mad at peiple for liking it #seems dumb

[omgthatdress]

Just taking a moment to remind everyone that JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier.

The looting & burning of the library of Die Institut für Sexualwissenschaft is an incredibly well-documented event that marks one of the first major events of Nazi persecution of the LGBT community.

Guess what, Jo. This definitely happened.

She has gone further to perpetuate lies about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld that engage with the anti-semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are encouraging LGBT identities to end the reproduction of the Aryan race and take over the world.

HEY! GOOD NEWS! IF YOU DO HISTORICAL RESEARCH, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING REALLY COOL!

LGBT persecution by Nazis, especially trans persecution, is an area of the Holocaust that remains under-researched and under-documented. Historians are working hard to identify trans and queer victims and to illuminate their life stories. If you are at all interested in this, it's something you can do, too. Research for all!

#JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier #trans history #transgender #trans #transgender history #lgbt history #queer #queer history #gay #gay history

[ma1dita]

hp!verse masterlist

a reminder: fuck jk rowling

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key: fluff - ☼ angst - ☽ smut - ☆ jo's favorite - ᥫ᭡

marauders era oneshots

「 ✦ remus lupin ✦ 」

to chase the sun ☼

more than friends, less than lovers ☼

「 ✦ james potter ✦ 」

it will pass ☼ & ☽ , without a doubt ☼ & ☽ (pt 2)

kiss his face with an uppercut ☼ ᥫ᭡ , heavy hitter ☆ (pt 2)

this will be our year ☼ 

about you ☽

no hard feelings ☼ & ☽

「 ✦ sirius black ✦ 」

liar, liar ☆ & ☽ , truth be told ☆ & ☽ (pt 2)

tangible ☼ & ☽ ᥫ᭡

「 ✦ regulus black ✦ 」

to love is to rest ☼

marauders era miniseries

「 ✦ remus lupin ✦ 」

my love, mine, all mine ☼ & ☽ (on hiatus)

「 ✦ james potter ✦ 」

en route ☽ masterpost (five part series on hiatus)

#jo's navi <3 #made by ma1dita ♥︎ #james potter x reader #remus lupin x reader #regulus black x reader #sirius black x reader

[locuas642]

I am beating a dead horse I know. but I thought of something else about James Somerton.

Because it recently came to my attention that, right around when the video that destroyed his career came out, Somerton had been fishing for Neil Gaiman to like his Good Omens video.

Now, this in an of itself is nothing weird. youtubers fish for people to share their stuff all the time, sometimes it is reasonable, other times it is rude. and other times is like "Please dont force creators to interact with you". but it is nothing weird or uncommon for what is Youtubers.

Neil Gaiman being associated with Queer content is also nothing weird. The guy was the "Thor god of Lesbians" before Thor was a thing. He is such an ally there is a whole section of the community ready to explain to people the context of Wanda in the Sandman comic. So Somerton trying (excuse the expression) "to get Gaiman-Senpai to notice him" (Yes, go ahead shoot me i deserve it) is also not weird.

but I cant help but see it as part of a certain pattern.

Because we all saw the video, and how Hbomberguy points out the inherent misogyny in a lot of Somerton's views and how he erase people's gender and orientation in order to shit on women (and how that also ties him to transphobia, biphobia, and a lot of other things). And also how he will dismiss criticisms by claiming it is white straight women harassing him.

Except between that video and Todd in the shadows, I did find one particular instance of him talking positively of a woman. Jo Rowling. A Cis Straight Woman who nowadays is defined by the transphobia she constantly tries to rules-lawyer deny she ever expressed.

Obviously, the video wasnt about him Defending Rowling, but it was a weird video in which he tried to claim Rowling was more progressive than she actually was, at one point even claiming when the books were written she was pro-trans folk. Which is a lie. There was this need of him trying to sell Rowling as this tragic figure, this person who changed for the worse. And this was from the guy who was quick to dismiss the intentions of any woman or GNC person.

And then I remembered his weird claims about Bob Iger. This... honestly revisionism of the fight of Gay Marriage (the thing he also dismisses in importance in a different video) as Iger pressuring Obama into making it law among other things that tried to elevate Iger, a Cis Straight Man, into an important role in queer history.

And then there is the "Stupid Sexy Nazi" stuff I wont even go into detail.

My point is, there was this weird trend in his videos that I noticed. That he would rather elevate straight and their participation in queer history at the same time he dismissed plenty of non-cis gay men. Sometimes even doing revisionism to describe a version of history that did not happen, but which weirdly feels like the version of history he would want.

And again, Neil Gaiman is an ally and there is nothing weird in and of itself for him to want Gaiman to like his stuff. But when taken into context with everything else, both his antagonism with actual queer people, and his elevation of non-queer people, I feel that says something.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #my stuff #probably just ramblings

[joannerowling]

have you seen this? https://thecritic.co.uk/j-k-rowling-is-honest-not-nasty/ the og article is rage-inducing. how dare she write books where there are bad men other than the one single bad guy!?

The Critic's article is great – short and to the point. The original though… First of all the accompanying image.

????? Anyone has any idea what that's supposed to convey cause i'm at a loss.

The actual article written by a certain Nick Hilton isn't just nonsense, it's badly written nonsense. What adult seriously calls someone "nasty"? Well, i suppose the kind of person who gets offended by the use of the term "sodomise" to describe the very act, in a novel which amongst other themes deals with sexual abuse (something that makes Nick apparently very uncomfortable), might.

(Side note on that, i counted, and he used "nasty"/"nastiest"/"nastiness" FIVE times in an article that's like 2000 words long including a fair amount of quotes. I just find that detail particularly funny, considering he complains about Jo using "sodomise" twelve times, "in its many tenses". And she conjugated it too! How uncouth.)

I'll skip over the bad faith claims that the world of Strike is "populated with paedophiles and rapists and terrorists who are never the murderers"; besides being patently false (Career of Evil and The Running Grave both have killers who are also rapists, and so does Troubled Blood even if it's not The killer), complaining about these topics showing up in crime novels is fucking stupid. What's next, an article decrying the amount of gore in horror novels titled "Stephen King Is A Big Meanie"?

But beyond all that weird pearl-clutching, it's also just… lazily written. There's no actual argument and the tone is all over the place as a result. Like, he expects you to naturally agree with him that JKR is "nasty", so he's just citing some book excerpts that are, i guess, supposed to speak for themselves? Like this:

… Ok, and? JKR was illegally hacked by a journal, the one bit character who works for said journal in her novel is unpleasant… conclusion she's nasty?? i don't get it Nick.

Because of stuff like this you're left wondering if he actually hates or rather admires her. Very bizarre. Not helped by the fact that he reuses JKR's own turns of phrase?

Like, was this on purpose in a clumsy attempt to parody her, or was it subconscious? I have no clue.

And finally, the funniest bit:

No comment.

#replies #anon #jkr #jk rowling

[starrylayle]

Marauders Fandom > "There is no canon !!" and other rhetorics

Guess who's back in their marauders phase after 2-3 years of being dormant lmao?? ((spoiler its me lol)). Anyways, a lot has changed since 2021 in this fandom so I just wanted to talk about the direction i think it's going.

I remember in 2020-21 the fandom started to boom in popularity on tiktok --> esp with the rise wolfstar + atyd. I remember people were so suprised with remus' characterization as 'rougher around the edges' instead of the 'soft boi' thing, and how that influenced the new wolfstar dynamic. [Just want to add that the atyd characterisation is much more complex than this and its one of my fave fics --> I'm more talking about the fandom at large's reaction to this)

And since fandom is incapable of having two nuanced and characters who are not stark opposites,, their roles were basically reversed and now Remus is the toxic dom alpha male and sirius is the cute girlyboy twink --- which um,,, the oc-ification is so real its embarrassing but whatever (omg don't even get me started on jegulus 💀)). I just assumed these would stay as headcanons. But now we have people saying, that 'we barely know anything abt the marauders in canon' or 'isn't the whole point of fandom to make shit up?' which i have sO many issues with so let me just try and compile my thoughts into dot points for the sake of coherency.

'we barely know anything abt the marauders in canon' ---> First of all, Remus, Sirius and Severus are fully fleshed out characters in the og series -- why do you think people would care enough to create an entire fandom based on their backstories if they were 2d flat characters in canon?? Like bffr. I saw a post on here (forgot who it was by, let me know if u know!) that said, 'I didn't cry over sirius' death in OotP just for ppl to say that we know nothing abt him in canon'. Like, its just mind-boggling to me lol.

'isn't the whole point of fandom to make shit up?' --> Ok y'all. For a fandom to work, there have to be some guidelines, some kind of source material, some point of reference so people can build upon it and make content. I think we can all agree on that. One reason why HP is such a popular place for fandom is the world-building and potential plots/storylines. I see some people argue that jk rowling was a shit writer anyways so might as well contradict everything she says. Now, I don't disagree with that point in particular, Jo is a pretty mediocre writer and a terrible person. HOWEVERrr, I'd argue that it is a lot more fascinating when people expand or work on the concepts in HP. JK Rowling has a lot of great ideas but executes them terribly -- I love when fic writes do this, which prolly explain why I love atyd as it is still very much canon compliant but executes themes on class, disability and queerness that jkr could barely do in subtext. This doesn''t mean I only think canon compliant fics are valid. That's not the case! I think as long as the charcterization is consistent to the character and the particular circumstances/world they're in, its fine! In fact, I love seeing how the same character would function if in a different place! I also love seeing explorations of the magic and magic systems in aus or fix it fics (or even canon compliant ones) that still fit in with the canonnical system that we know.

I guess what I'm trying to say I wish the marauders fandom explored the world and charcterizations more deeply instead of creating shallow oc-fied version of the characters that fit into whatever's trending -- like just write your own book or smth lol -- booktok will eat it up i promise.

Also, kinda related kinda not but um,,, why are we romanticising fascists -- like babe no evan rosier is not your babygirl he canonnoically tortured multiple ppl and became a death eater soo... not saying that I wouldn't want an exploration of his character or even a relationship with barty -- (who's not some cool dairk-haired edgelord but a actually a cowardly fascist murderer with blond hair -- yes the blond hair is important) -- I'd just want them to be portrayed as the not morally good people they are. Like,, if u want to oc-ify a character like pick someone whos not a death eater or has little info on them like dirk cresswell or frank longbottom,,, or ya know,, one of the MANY female characters in the fandom ((This fandom also has a problem with women and sapphic ships in general but that's a whole other issue lol).

I know this 'babygirlification' of death eaters doesn't mean to do this, but it also ends up watering down the themes of oppression, bigotry, etc and leaves us with not nearly as complex characters. Also one of the issues I had with the og HP world is that JK will introduce concepts like wizard racism and slavery and then just like,, not really do anything about it or just have half-arsed redemption arcs whilst not ever actually exploring the root of the issue. And now i feel like the fandom is following in those footsteps unfortunately.

Anyways, i've been rambling for too long so I'll just leave it here. Sorry if this came off as mean spirited in anyway,, I just have a lot of thoughts™ and my family is sick of hearing them lol. These opinions are not set in stone however so I'd love to hear your thoughts on this subject! At the end of the day this is fandom and we're supposed to have fun -- so yeah !! thanks for reading if you made it this far!

#marauders #marauders era #the marauders era #sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #unpopular take #i think #evan rosier #barty crouch jr #rosekiller #marauder headcanons #marauders hcs #james potter #atyd #atyd fandom #lily evans #sorry yall i dont know how to tag #jegulus #?? #I mentioned it briefly #fun fact my first post on this app was a long post on how much i hated jegulus in choices #but then i deleted it coz it was a bit too mean spirited lol #anyways #I do love me some transfem/gender fuckery sirius #just don’t like cute little uwu sirius #femininity ≠ being weak or whatever #plus it’s not in sirius’ canon character to be uwu #so yeah

[djuvlipen]

Hello can you kinda explain the whole JK rolling thing and why people hate on her a lot cuz i seen ppl do nothing but hate on her and call her transphobic and i'm so confused on it as to why

Hi! Sorry I let this ask go ignored for a little while, it's a big topic so I wanted to answer it once I have some free time; I went looking for a post that could summarize the situation but, Tumblr being what it is, I couldn't find any. So here is a quick timeline, as I remember it, as someone who was a TRA on Twitter while most of it unfolded:

in 2019, Jo followed Magdalen Berns on Twitter (I also believe she liked one of her tweets and that's how Twitter users found out she was following her). Berns was a gender critical lesbian and YouTuber who was one of the first critic of TRA misogyny.

At the time, Jo was much, much more liked than she is now, obviously. This event caused some drama, it trended for a while, but it was quickly brushed aside and things went on. In my spheres (TRA Twitter), it was seen as kind of a bad look to follow Jo on Twitter following this, but you still could get away with it.

Jo has since explained that she uses the 'like' feature on Twitter to archive things she finds interesting and wants to have a closer look at. Many believe that she probably got interested in Berns' content while writing one of the Cormoran Strike novels, a crime novel series that often explores the themes of male violence and misogyny.

in december of 2019, Jo made a tweet in support of Maya Forstater, who lost her job after misgendering a non binary colleague.

After this tweet, it became forbidden to follow her on Twitter if you were a TRA. Things got worse in June of 2020, when Jo reacted to an article talking about period poverty while referring to women as 'people who menstruate':

Right afterwards, she made a thread going more in details about how transactivism harms women and LGB people:

(I'm pretty sure there was another, longer thread but I can't find it)

After this, former HP actors like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson accused her of transphobia, while other actors (namely Evanna Lynch and Robbie Coltrane) defended her. She got thousands and thousands of death and rape threats, was called sexist slurs, and was threatened with doxing.

A few weeks later, she published an essay on her website, explaining her views. It is a very well-written and insightful essay that I recommend to read:

And that's pretty much it. As you can see, her position is pretty tamed. She has never been rude to anyone, she just defended sex-based rights, lesbians' right not to sleep with men, and using language accordingly. She helped thousands of poor women with her charity work, funded a rape crisis center, uplifted Iranian women, supported LGB activists and helped a hundred Afghan women escape the Talibans, but because of a few Twitter threads she made, her entire political activism has been misconstructed and boiled down to "she is a fascist who hates trans people"

#asks #anon #jkr

[starchaserdreams]

God made rivers

God made lakes

God made Jo Rowling

We all make mistakes

#jk rowling #jkr #harry potter #marauders #marauders era #dead gay wizards