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894 upvotes, 41 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in LGBTQIA+.
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Anonymous 2d

like the world building is shit and full of plot holes, the magic system doesn’t make sense, and none of the characters grown and change in any meaningful ways

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Anonymous 2d

Both is me

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Anonymous 2d

I agree the books suck and jkr is even worse, but the fan works are typically pretty well thought out and I will continue to consume them and rework the whole thing into my until the story is 99% headcanons

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Anonymous 2d

“And for my next trick, I will spend like forty pages describing Harry walking up and down the stairs repeatedly and talking to no one.” -JKR writing The Order of Phoenix

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Anonymous 1d

there’s also the fact that she was buddies with Epstein

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Anonymous 2d

Seriously, people tell the story of Rowling having to go to a bunch of different publishers before she found one to publish HP like it’s inspirational. All of that is undercut by the fact that Harry Potter 1 is a steaming pile of hot garbage

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Anonymous 1d

I really enjoyed the books as a kid. But yeah as an adult I’m able to recognize that they’re objectively not very good. There’s still a nostalgia component but JKR sucks and I’m trans so she shall get no more money outta me lol

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Anonymous 1d

THANK YOU OMFG. I’m much more of an Animorphs fan.

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Anonymous 1d
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Anonymous 1d

I've got strong aura then

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Anonymous 2d

i never got through the series as a kid cos i prob have adhd and got bored by book 3

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Anonymous 1d

I felt so validated when all that came to light cause the literally almost fell asleep reading those books (made it to book 2)

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Anonymous 2d

HEY I’m allowed to enjoy shit media. I like Harry Potter and I’m especially allowed to download PDFs of the books from sketchy websites and torrent the movies from TPB

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Anonymous 1d

Harry Potter is fire

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Anonymous 1d

TERFS are good though.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Based

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

“What if there was a school…..but it was a magic school :O” - JKR, literary genius

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

Fuckin’ “Mahoutokoro”…. Magic place. Wow. So creative. 🙄

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

and what if there was an ethnostate and it was magic

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 2d

Can’t forget the fact the books make fun of Hermione for trying to end literal slavery too

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 2d

Colonizing the Harry Potter fandom is always justified

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 2d

I don’t play video games or buy merch. This bitch is not making a penny off me

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Anonymous replying to -> amethyst_headphone51 2d

I love your username

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 2d

And yet you’re still engaging with the IP and others think that’s okay and go about monetarily supporting her as a result. It wasn’t a good series. The nostalgia is not worth people’s lives.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 1d

Yeah, you’re allowed to enjoy shit media. This is shit media that funds trans genocide. And any engament with the franchise IS a promotion of it, is taken as endorsement by the companies that watch us, and used to further their terrible agenda. I have nostalgia for Harry Potter, and I like shitty media. But I don’t engage with it because of that. Because it’s wrong to

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Pirating, buying second hand, and engaging in fanworks doesn’t support or fund Rowling and her genocide campaign

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 1d

They do, though. Not fund directly, but we live in an attention and engagement economy. They generate social capital, which spends just as well as the real thing. She’s not Orson Scott Card, where all the Ender’s Game fans unanimously agree he’s awful. HP fans don’t discuss Rowling at all if they can avoid it; they’re willing bystanders

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 1d

Just. Leave. It. Alone.

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Anonymous replying to -> amethyst_headphone51 1d

rather than #7 “colonizing the fandom”, it sounds more like Rowling is the one colonizing territory in #7’s brain with her IP

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

I never got past the first one 😭 and I absolutely loved reading as a kid

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 1d

Your mother constantly regrets not getting that abortion she considered

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 1d

The fuck there are

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 1d
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Anonymous replying to -> #14 1d

The world would be better without you in it. Please make the world a better place

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Anonymous replying to -> #18 1d

A garbage fire

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Anonymous replying to -> #18 1d

bait

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Not bait, it’s a top 5 children’s book series

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Anonymous replying to -> #18 1d

dawg this comment is obviously bait given the context

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Anonymous replying to -> ireallylikepancakes 1d

Animorphs was so legit. K. A. Applegate really took a look at the climate of mid-90s USA, said “these next couple generations are gonna grow up to be full of furries, conspiracy theorists and obsessive body horror appreciators” and got right to work on crafting an age-appropriate introduction to those kinds of themes

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1d

And respected the audience enough to write an actual war narrative that wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows at the end. There was grief and loss. People didn’t make it. It hit home

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