#looking at you rowling

[thefloatingstone]

Not to be like "haha I'm better than you guys!!!" or elitist or anything because that very sincerely is NOT the point of this post.... but I never really understood people extremely love for Harry Potter.

I read them as they were coming out. Most of the time they came out soon enough that I was the same age as Harry. I liked them. They were cool. Goblet of Fire was my favourite and I was always happy to see what story the next book would bring but that's all it was. Interest to see the next story whenever it came out. Like a sitcom you enjoy but you didn't set your tv to record for you in case you missed it.

And then the word "Chosen one" was uttered and, just like that, I fucking lost all interest. Honestly there was "Chosen one" talk in the 4th book and already I was like

Honestly I think I liked Goblet of Fire the most because there was no friggen Quidditch. And there was less focus on the SCHOOL part of Harry Potter and more this weird Video game Quest setup which just appealed to me more.

In retrospect, I think that might be a big part of why I enjoyed it but never LOVED it like other people.

Like

"Oh boy my absolute biggest most favourite fantasy! THE BRITISH EDUCATION SYSTEM!!!!"

The fact that the books take place in a school seemed like a default to me because, well, most teenage focused cartoons and shows I watched had the main characters at school. Because they're teenagers. But the school wasn't why I enjoyed the books. The school was just a location. No I didn't want to go to Hogwarts. No I didn't want to get attached to a specific school house (although I feel it worth mentioning that when I was 13 I did the online house quiz thing on the official site and it said I was Hufflepuff so make of that what you will).

I really disliked whatever the one was that came after Goblet of Fire. So much so that it completely killed any and all enjoyment I had in the series. Which, considering I was only mildly entertained by them wasn't a massive loss or anything.

I know I read whichever book it was where Dumbledore died but I very genuinely cannot remember one single thing that happens in that book whatsoever. I read half of the Deathly Hallows after coming back from College and gave up because I wasn't enjoying any of it and I never picked the book up again.

I saw the first movie in theaters when I was 13 and I did not like it. It was visually very very dark and gloomy and just... extremely uninteresting to me. Idk how to explain it. The first book just felt so much more vibrant than what I was watching on screen.

I know I saw the 2nd movie although I have no memory of where or why. And I... THINK I saw the third one??? I think??? I'm actually not sure. But that's about where I just stopped and completely lost interest.

Because it wasn't very good.

They just weren't very good books.

They weren't TERRIBLE or anything like that but they were just so.... blah. The earlier ones 13 year old me enjoyed the one time I read each of them but I don't think 13 year old me had the best taste considering I also disliked the Princess Bride at this age.

But I was reading other books because I was a kid with ADHD in high school who desperately needed something stimulating to stop myself from going insane. And frankly, there were just far better books out there. Books I actually re-read. Books I borrowed from friends which ere just... so much better and more interesting.

So I just don't understand this insane appeal so many people have for it, even if they have severed that connection due to Jowling Kowling Rowling's bufoonery and showing herself to be a withered old crone with a shrivled heart and mind every time she opens her mouth.

I grew up with these books the same way as a lot of people. I was the exact age to go through the series' highest popularity and I just did not click with them despite reading them.

So seeing so many people my age or a little younger try and do their best to re-analyse and de-tangle what the books actually are and that... maybe.... just maybe.... they might not have been very good?? Maybe?? is very weird to me because I'm just like.

"Yeah they're overrated as hell and not that interesting."

It's a very weird thing to live through because it's like looking into a bizarro version of the world you remember living through... but not like THAT. I remember the Pokemon craze and yes, it was like that. I remember when anime started to become big and yes, it was like that. I remember DBZ airing and yes, it was like that.

But this insanity around Harry Potter while it was releasing?

Yeah I don't remember it being like that at all.

They were just mediocre books I read because I needed something to occupy my attention and eventually they got worse and worse and I just stopped reading them. That's all.

#I'm watching a youtube essay on the weak writing in the HP books #and it's like looking into an insane alternate reality where people really were THIS obsessed with this franchise #It's a very uncomfortable feeling #Like your memories don't line up with everyone else's despite knowing you were there #text post #cw #Harry Potter #JK Rowling #rambling #For context I grew up reading Terry Pratchett #I read my first Pratchett book when I was 11 #14 year old me groaning at the concept of a chosen one probably says a lot about my media criticism even as a child

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Maybe God does hate fags. But I don’t think so. Why? Well see before a certain children’s property was actively being used as a mouthpiece for a hate movement by its disgraced Brit-faced author I was unfortunately a rabid, insufferable fan for most of my childhood up until my late teenage years. And yet, some little voice in the back of my head always whispered “don’t get a Harry Potter tattoo, you’ll regret it someday for Reasons” that right there y’all was the voice of a fag-loving God :) Jesus saves <3

#no i’m not actually religious it’s called female intuition <3 #all women have it including trans women joanne #now i look at ppl w hp tattoos like damn can’t believe i thought ab getting in their car right b4 they all crashed and died #if you got a hp tattoo b4 all this shit went down my sincerest condolences #anti harry potter #anti jk rowling #anti jkr

[convolutedblasphemy]

It's always "You can't judge what people enjoy in fiction!" and never "Maybe being critical of what societal stereotypes and narratives we feed into with the content we make is a good thing, actually". Sometimes it's not about whether you're a bad person or not, sometimes it's about the giant pile of garbage propaganda you add onto. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#imagine if jk rowling looked at the criticism about the antisemitic and racist narratives in her books and said don't like don't read #i'm not saying you HAVE TO pay attention to represent minorities and sensitive topics with respect #you dont bc freedom of speech #but like don't be surprised that people think reaffirming bigoted stereotypes or rape culture narratives sucks #no one should come into your inbox and tell you to die or something #but some randos making posts like 'i think it kinda sucks when people do this' doesn't make you a victim of harassment or censorship #fandom #fandom discourse #writing #fiction #shipping #discourse

[spoopydeboop]

Are other people like me in the way that, once I started making OCs I couldn’t stop????

Like, I used to think I was crazy when I was young bc I had all these characters that I would draw and they lived in my head ONLY and nobody else knew about them??? Then I learned what an OC was and I was like, ‘Oh.’

I have OCs that started as Sims characters. Every RPG that lets me make a player character spawns a new OC to fixate on and write for. Some get dragged into completely different pieces of media???

And they are so important to me, too!!! I know what they’d like and what music they’d listen to and their signs???

UGH pls someone relate to this so I feel sane :’ )

#oc #ocs #original character #character development #palia #I’m looking at YOU currently Palia! #also I have a hogwarts OC bouncing around in my skull but jk Rowling soured it for me #jk Rowling sucks tbh

[vulpinesaint]

i need everybody ever to watch this video actually. the issue is not difficult but if you’re somehow still feeling uncertain in any way about hogwarts legacy watch the video. they say it well and they say it with confidence and i love them actually

#hogwarts legacy #all of their videos on the topic are extremely good. downloaded the tiktok app so i could save this one on my phone #fr though it is really Not That Complicated. and none of your arguments to the contrary are good #if you still interact with harry potter i don’t like you and i don’t want you in my spaces. #if you’re going to play hogwarts legacy i hate you actually. and i am going to respectfully posit that you fuck off #nd i don’t care if you’re trans or queer or whatever. wearing a pronouns pin while you send money to legislate trans people out of existence #is not a cute look nor does it excuse you from moral culpability. #if ppl wanna start a fight in the comments i’m happy to tell you to go fuck yourself and die though it’ll help me blow off some steam <3 #valentine notes #harry potter #jk rowling #anti harry potter #anti jkr #anti hogwarts legacy #not even to MENTION the racism and antisemitism. dear fucking god

[thetimelordbatgirl]

One: shout out to discussing films for calling her what she is really, let alone proceeding to close replies so her fellow transphobes can't proceed to try and defend her and sprout transphobic shit, plus also proceeding to link trans charities, aka The Transgender Law Centre and Trans Lifeline , in the tweets attached to this one.

Two: well we knew this show would be fucking trash anyway, but nice to know it'll even more trashier with her attached to creative decisions on the show.

Which brings me to three: if you still insisted on attempting to watch the show whenever it came out because you for some reason think JK Rowling isn't somehow attached to Harry Potter stuff still, then this is confirming to you she will be actively attached to the show so if you watch it and support it, you are supporting a bigot.

#harry potter #anti jk rowling #fuck this show to hell #i still bad for any child casted in this dumpster fire #because lord knows what their contracts under JK will look like #and before anyone asks 'cant i pirate it' no #thats still giving it something #you really will survive without this show i promise you

[anglerflsh]

the entire concept of "if I was alive in the middle ages I'd get burnt for being a witch" does make me mad because if you were born in the late medieval period you would not have been behaving like this. Like I'm sorry you being a #girlboss on twitter doesn't mean you'd go around being that insufferable in the 1500s. You'd be the one holding the pitchfork and you damn well know it

#[.txt] #brought to you by I looked at one (1) post about jk rowling #ALSO WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SAY THE MIDDLE AGES WHEN WITCH HUNTS HAPPENED AFTER!!!!! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT #but like no. no you are not the daughter of the witches they couldn't burn first of all witches weren't even being burnt they were hanged #second of all why? because now from the safety of your house you demonize people you dislike? Hm seems like familiar behavior

[vibrantvenus]

I was looking into the HL tag bc free blocklist, and I keep seeing people saying, "Just because I'm playing this game doesn't mean you know my politics, I fully support trans and Jewish people, blah blah blah."

And you know what, sure. I don't know you, I don't know anything about your beliefs. But you do know whose beliefs I do know about?

Jk Rowling's.

And that's the whole point. I know nothing about you, but what I do know is that you have willingly and GLEEFULLY, given your money to this woman who is actively funding anti trans legislature. The people she surrounds herself with and acknowledges. We know about Jk Rowling's cruelty.

So yeah, sure, I don't know you, I can't tell you how to spend your money. But I can tell you to stay the fuck away from me.

#hogwarts legacy #jk rowling #anti hogwarts legacy #im not going to speak on the antisemitism bc im not jewish and its not like. my place to speak #but the game is fucking rife with antisemitic stereotypes and im not going to hear anyone say otherwise #and look. as someone who fuckin loved hp and found a lot of safety and comfort in it i can tell you this. #it is so fucking easy to just. move on. read new books.

[def-not-kaz-brekker]

*Me when I was young and naive, being a gryffindor and holding a Harry Potter book and waving my wand that lit up when I shook it*: omg I love jk Rowling so much I wanna be like her when ur grow up—

*Me now, gay and trans, opening ao3 to read another wolfstar fanfic on my phone after reading “the sun and the star” and another kanej fic, being a slytherin even tho on the test it said ravenclaw, smirking deviously*: oh she-who-must-not-be-named would hate me so much

#i fucking hate jk Rowling so much #fuck her #if I ever met her I’d be all nice and polite then I’d be like ‘anyways what’re ur pronouns mine are they/them’ #‘tho I am experimenting he him’ #I’m proud of the fact that she would probably call security on me #fuck jkr #anti transphobes #yes percy Jackson #Rick Riordan is everything jkr pretends to be #leigh bardugo #is a queen #six of crows is a work of art #also I just feel like the marauders would get along with the crows #I’ll have to look for some fics #ao3 #lmao I can’t believe I used to think I was a Griffindor tho #also that the pottermore test puts me in ravenclaw like I’ll fucking burn u if you put me in a house where people have standards #anyways #marauders #sorry about all these tags I just have a lot of suppressed rage #all reserved for jkr ofc

[thewistlingbadger]

Whoever said trans Ronald Weasley first, i love you so very much never change you're the best sending you a big fat platonic smooch and-

#when you look at his relationship with his mom and apply the hc. big ouch #i love it #fuck jkr #fuck jk rowling #tw jkr #tw jk rowling #tw hp #tw harry potter #hp #harry Potter #ronald weasley #trans ron weasley

[finntheehumaneater]

fuck JK Rowling, but can I just say that the fandom’s version of Sirius Black IS COOL. That is all.

#Like I’m giggling and kicking my feet at the fanart of him he is so trashy boy band on drugs and I love it #Look at him with all his fucking tattoos and piercings and his cool hair #Also hey mutuals don’t kill me for posting about something related to Harry Potter thanks #I hate JK Rowling just as much as you—maybe even more—but please just let me enjoy this one silly gay trans man without yelling at me :) #Thanks :) #Sirius black #mauraders

[cephalopod-celabrator]

Any romantic trope is made better by making it gay, polyamarous, or include a trans/enby person in it. I will not back down from this position. Edit: of course it is made exponentially better by combinations of these

#looking at you marissa meyer #queer #gay #queer pride #gay pride #mlm #wlw #lesbian #trans #non-binary #polyamory #marissa meyer has no balls #Jk rowling certainly doesn't #Rick riordan and melissa caruso have balls like churchbells

[scentedluminarysoul]

Today TERFs loudly protested ALL KINDS of Pride flags a train station had put up. ALL of them

Because they don't want to see them

Self-hating cis LGB who support TERFs should really start paying attention now

It was never just about trans people

It was never going to stop with trans people

Open your eyes

They hate you too. No matter what they print on their T-shirts

When the leopards come to eat your face, you have no one to blame but yourselves

#fuck terfs #terfs are scum of the earth #transphobia #queerphobia #homophobia #just in this photo #you can see the aro flag #the pan flag #the og rainbow flag #THEY HATE ALL OF THEM #it's not about trans people #oh and #would you look at that #they are holding up i heart jk rowling signs #jk rowling is the figurehead and patron saint of this hate cult #so fucking STOP engaging in the harry potter fandom and change your url if you haven't yet #today was also the ruling in the brianna ghey case #no way this is a coincidence #they just have that little respect for human life

[whatohitsonfirewelp]

Daily reminder that Severus Snape isn’t a good person and Molly Weasley isn’t a good parent

#did they do good things? sure #but does that make them good? absolutely not #(ha me being far more realistic about fiction characters than the adults in my family ayeee) #there’s so much they’ve done wrong and continue to do wrong and it’s ignored because they were some sort of saviors to the boy who lived #(I was gonna say boy wonder and was like wait no wrong fandom whatoh) #and this is absolutely on jk rowling because she’s let this happen #she’s let people idolize these people who are genuinely terrible #and I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to like these characters #but you have to realize when a character isn’t good despite how they are portrayed at first glance #I’ll stop now before I start ranting about how jk rowling actually isn’t that great of an author once you really look #whatoh back at it again #tw hp fandom #molly weasley #severus snape #anti molly weasley #anti severus snape #flashback to my old post where I said movie them is way better than book them #IM RIGHT ABOUT THAT FACT AND YALL #KNOW IT

[andromeda3116]

Sounds like you were pretty ignorant then if you didn’t see all the mass of super explicit and easy to see racism and Jew hate in hp. She literally says black people are inferior, Asian girls are objects, and goblin bankers are like jews word for word in the books.

I mean... Yeah? I was a sheltered tween and teenager in Mississippi? I started reading the books when I was ten and got caught up in the magic and escapism of them, like, um. Most of my entire generation?

You're sending me this with this like, gotcha! tone, as if "as a child and teenager, you got so caught up in the escapist fantasy of having magic and saving the world that you didn't notice the Problematic aspects of the story" is some kind of blistering burn, but like. Yeah, I didn't see it.

I was fucking thirteen, Jesus. To be "woke" now is an admission that I was once asleep.

#harry potter for ts #fuck jk rowling #i should also note that these things were MUCH less-discussed in the early 2000s as compared to now #the people who pointed it out were few a d far between and you kinda had to be looking for dissenting voices #which i was not #because i was like fucking thirteen and in love with the magic #like this is not the blistering burn you seem to think it is anon

[sukimas]

if you apply the moral proportionality people on tumblr use with regards to being fans of media to anything else, then driving a motorcycle for 1 mile means you personally support bonesawing journalists

#i still think harry potter fans are often extraordinarily fucking annoying and fall over themselves trying to justify things #and i'd prefer to not be reminded that j.k. rowling exists #but yknow. proportionality factors #(if you do not understand what this post is about look up aramco on wikipedia.)