In other words: why you should maybe step away from the internet for a hot sec sweetie, because fandom isn’t supposed to be a mind control cult where we all have to worship the very ground an author walks on. People are allowed to disagree with the author! It’s a free world!
@creatorofwords uh oh, thanks for playing but try again next time!! I came with the fucking receipts for this.
Racist
1). The Nagini Thing. Making an Asian woman a slit-eyed animal is not at all good, even worse when that animal is a literal object owned by magical Hitler and used as a vessel for his soul. I don’t care what you think it is possible to have people of colour represented without racist storylines. Lots of people are talkng about this from all kinds of angles, it’s fucking bad.
2). The representation of Cho Chang. For a start, her name is actually two Korean surnames for a Chinese character so that tells you all you need to know about JK’s respect for other cultures. You should watch this video all about how hurtful the way Cho is written is for Asian girls.
3). How many characters are in Harry Potter? About five maybe are people of colour? That’s terrible!!
4). “she literally wrote a book against racism” have you considered that talking over people of colour who try to have a conversation about your white feminism and deciding you know better than them about their own experiences isn’t actually a good thing to do.
5). In the lore around how magic works, she shows that wand magic is superior to other forms. She also writes on Pottermore that white people had to show Native Americans how to use wands. This just screams of colonialist bullshit about educating the poor savages for their own good. Fuck that.
6). The treatment of the Patil twins, more side characters who are mostly forgotten except when our white heroes want to take them to the Yule Ball and then ignore them the whole time while they moon over white women. Classy.
Homophobic
1). She straight up didn’t write any gay characters then instead of acknowledging that mistake, she retroactively claims Dumbledore is gay like we should all be grateful. But newsflash, that doesn’t count as representation!! And she doesn’t deserve woke ally points.
2). This has then got worse recently because the next Fantastic Beasts film is supposed to build on Dumbledore and Grindelwald when Grindelwald is coming to power. We know that supposedly Dumbledore was in love with Grindelwald as a kid and that’s why it takes him so long to bring Grindelwald down. So its massively relevant to this film’s plot then right?? And she’s already said he’s gay so it will be made canon now right?? Wrong. She’s stated she’s not doing anything to do with it at all. Because she loves getting fake ally points but hates actually doing anything.
3). Everytime queer fans tried to bring this up, even very politely, she blocks them and accuses them of bullying. Is that really anyway to treat lifelong fans just because they raise an issue they’re worried about? Especially when its her books that helped teach a lot of us to speak up when we see something wrong.
4). The queerbaiting in Cursed Child. Now she didn’t write this one so she’s not directly involved I guess. I haven’t read Cursed Child so I can’t talk on it much but if you just google queerbaiting in Cursed Child you should be able to find out more.
5). She recently stated that the werewolves are a metaphor for the AIDs crisis. Now a). personally, I think there are certain narratives that belong to the people they happened to and the AIDs crisis would be one of them so she needs to get her dirty straight fingers the hell off of that. b). besides Lupin one of the main werewolves is Fenrir, a guy who literally just goes around biting children to turn them. That sounds massively like the stereotype from that era that gay men were just predators and paedophiles and were out to infect your kids.
Transphobic
1). She liked a bunch of tweets where terfs were saying vile things about trans women. She claims this was an accident but you tell me how easy it is to like multiple tweets on the same topic by accident (especially when they shouldn’t even come up on your feed unless you followed people with those views or searched for them). So yeah make of that one what you will but I’m adding transphobia to the list.
Culturally Appropriative
1). She uses Native American mythology within her works, things that Native American groups have specifically asked her not to use because it is still an active part of their culture and it’s therefore offensive to portray it as “part of fantasy.”
Abuse Apologism
1). Despite including messages in the HP series about the seriousness of abuse she continues to support having Depp in her films and goes so far as to speak up for him despite the fact he beat his wife. She dares to call herself a feminist despite this.
2). Has the house-elves as stand ins for slaves but it’s okay because they like being slaves! They’re happy! Let’s laugh at Hermione for helping them!
JK Rowling is very much the kind of rich white lady who might have been progressive back in the 90s but then got comfortable and never bothered to learn or grow. Now she’s actively harming minority groups with her constant additions to the story and it’s bullshit.
I’m not saying you can’t love Harry Potter (I love Harry Potter!). But stop sending these kind of messages to people who don’t love JK, it’s honestly pathetic. You have a brain, think for yourself and stop believing that she can do no wrong. it’s kind of weird… no human being is perfect.
If you love a series so much that you have to insult people who disagree with the author despite all of the incredibly valid reasons they disagree with the author, then you really need to get a new hobby. it’s not healthy for you, it really isn’t. If you’re genuinely bothered or upset by people criticising an author, you need to take a step back.
P.S. Google is right there and all of this is a matter of public record so you could y’know, read about this stuff instead of yelling at me about it.
hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:
he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man
he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?
when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times
the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)
The new Venom movie has a scene with intense flashing lights (the lab entry scene) and I received no warnings and had to leave (just for that scene) as I am epileptic!!! PLEASE share this since I’ve seen NO warnings being shared and this is very important and can prevent people from having seizures etc during the film.
Therapist: here is a book recommendation for you, I hope you will like it.
Me: Cool,I’ll give it a read.
Therapist: I hope so, this book helped change my life 🙂
Book: weirdly religious, extremely ableist, says things like “if Hitler had only been able to over come creative art block ww2 would have never happened”
Me, profoundly uncomfortable and not about this life: I started therapy because always having to advocate for myself as a disabled/chronically ill person is exhausting and dehumanizing and I’ve hit critical burnout but god fuck and damn me I’m not about to let this pass…
The book is called The War of Art by Steven Pressfield and it’s a whole lot of Yikes.
It also states that attention deficit is a marketing ploy to sell you snake oil for your lack of self discipline. And that between 70 and 80% of people who think they are ill are actually self dramatizing for attention and a reason to justify their inability to be productive, and that doctors are laughing at their patients.
I tried to get past my initial “yikes” reaction to it earlier this week and persist, worried that I was just being overly sensitive, but the more I read the more upset I got until I voiced my concerns with friends and family and they all lost their collective shit too.
Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
Find a new therapist, Jesus wept.
rhetoric like that is the absolute worst and is the number 1 reason why i struggle with getting ant sort of help for my shit. like its so bad i feel like im lying just typing this out and reblogging this. i feel like i am 110% just making stupid excuses. i feel so smol and powerless against it all.
@avaeryn finding a therapist can be frightening, no doubt. But it appears this specific “therapist” was from BetterHelp, and a lot of folks are saying there are biiiig problems with that site.
I had a therapy intake appointment on Wednesday, and as someone who was TERRIFIED to hear “nah, you’re just faking” let me reassure you: not only was I treated with dignity and respect, when I began describing a problem I struggled to find words for, the counselor doing my intake said “it sounds like it might be fair to say X?” And he was right. He also didn’t judge me for the decisions I’ve made in the past regarding my mental health—he just met me where I was and looked at how to help me move forward.
Don’t let a scam website frighten you. The fear is very real—trust me, I KNOW on this one—but in this case it’s not a broken system, it’s a bunch of assholes.
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