Fuck stopping. Steal it all. Take it and enjoy it without her getting anything. Reclaim the art. Make it your own. Piss her off with fanfic and fan art based on things stolen from her.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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This is how you do it. Hermione Grainger? More like HENRY GRINDER!! And he's PEGGING HARRY!
Yes. Can we get a trans Harry fan fic where he defeats an evil trans hater? Make it a kids book to for extra points!
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You don't need to stop doing any of this.
Just pirate all of it.
That's what I did.
Even better: pirate it, and whatever it would have cost, donate that amount to an LGBTQ+ charity.
That's still boosting the cultural impact of her work. In some cases piracy increases total sales.
It’s basically impossible to be perfect, pirating the work stops the money from going to jk Rowling which therefore stops it from going to anti trans groups.
Shopping at Home Depot hurts trans people Using Amazon hurts trans people Shopping at basically any big box store hurts trans people
They are a heavily oppressed group and you aren’t able to live your life perfectly so don’t sweat pirating a game
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Aye. I still have all my first edition books from when I was in 6th grade on and I sure ain't giving those up, but all the movies live on my server that were obtained from the high seas. I never bought their merch anyway, I'd rather have my band merch.
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I think these hard line stances do more harm than good.
My wife and I are active in not supporting any new things, but to talk about how you think it's morally wrong to even talk about the franchise is going to alienate a ton of people.
I feel fine talking about it, and the memories I had with it. Because everyone I surround myself with is completely aligned that Harry Potter was meaningful when we were kids and also JK Rowling is a complete fucking asshat.
This sort of purity testing has got to stop. If mentioning the name of Harry Potter marks someone as a transphobe who is equally as bad as politicians actively stripping them of their rights... The movement will never build a coalition.
Saying that financially supporting JK Rowling is actively harming the trans community is a reasonable argument. Saying that talking about Harry Potter, even if you note that JK Rowling sucks, makes you an outright transphobe is not reasonable to me.
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I stopped the moment she showed herself to be a terf.
Never looked back.
Me as well, and I stopped watching anything with Dave Chappell too. TERFS can take a flying leap for all I care.
says to stop reading the books and watching the movies with the reasoning of giving a bad actor more money but... I already own them all from before it was known she was an asshat. I'm pretty sure she doesn't get money when I pop the DVDs in my player or decide to re-read the books on my shelf.
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I’ll never. Ever. Understand being rich enough to enjoy the rest of your life and choosing to spend that wealth harming innocent people.
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STOP fucking talking about it
Proceeds to post it everywhere
I would love to understand why saying "Don't support cunts" is such a non-controversial statement.
Until it comes to Harry Potter.
Especially considering how simple it is to do.
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And if you want a magical world fix that is from someone that supports trans people, look into the Young Wizard series by Diane Duane.
She as an author is also on Blue Sky and is one of the most positive, friendly, upbeat, likable people I've met there.
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Yeah that's fucking stupid. Most fans of a franchise care about the franchise, and especially with one this old, they treat it as a part of their identity and deeply like it.
Stupid statements like this will only alienate them and make them give Rowling money anyways. Instead, you could easily get some people to avoid paying Rowling for stuff (e.g. buy third-party Merch or second-hand stuff) and reclaim it (e.g. supporting the actors' views instead).
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Unpopular opinion coming, but fuck it. Harry Potter was never great, besides being set in the modern day it's very generic and the movies were mid. some people will worship whatever JK Rowling breathes on
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Go read Le Guin's Earthsea books instead, which are genuinely better written, and LeGuin was a great person who wrote a lot of socially progressive literature. Not to mention that it hasn't been turned into a fucking corporate media franchise like LOTR.
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I know this is going to generate hate but, I just cant care anymore. She's a genuine POS who won't be missed but its my one single escape from reality. Im far to exhausted trying to tiptoe around everyone who's a POS. I'd say I'll stay at home but my builders were probably a POS too and I gotta go sell my house to make SOMEONE happy. If others wanna get her canceled and by some magic remove everything shes ever done from existence I'll make sure not to get upset but Im done being asked to be a soldier in every battle against a bad person.
my builders were probably a POS too and I gotta go sell my house to make SOMEONE happy
Your builders don't continue to receive payment for your house after it is built, right?
but Im done being asked to be a soldier in every battle against a bad person.
I think that is sorta overselling what a boycott is.
I understand the sentiment. But then I'd say: buy used media.
As long as she doesn't get any money
Or ..... Sail the high seas.
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But I'm a Huffledore and that's my whole personality!! 😭
I've had the first four books in the study at my mom's house since I was a kid. My nephew and nieces will read them. We have the box set of DVDs from forever ago. Same deal. I wouldn't consider myself a die-hard fan. I still don't understand why die-hard fans could still be spending so much money on the franchise. Did they add to the books?
The short answer is it's not books. It's mostly licencing deals in the form of video games and merchandise... However HBO is about to put forward a new series that JKR will have executive control and an executive sized pay check for.
It's the "well it already exists and licencing deals are already paid, might as well watch it/play it/own it" that keeps the whole engine rolling on. Every time there's a little bit of advocacy to disengage from the fandom it is always spun as "too late" or focuses on the books or death of the author... But all that's really required is ambivalence.
Inevitably the new HP thing will come out and whether or not trans people mention anything people will drag up the controversy, use the reminder to brigade the spaces trans people connect online, try and goad their trans coworker for a commentary and set off yet another flurry of right wing backlash that makes elevating the franchise a patriotic duty to "stick it to the moralizing trans people to show them who is boss". All of this causes more cultural pressure on a population already underwater with being chased out of the public sphere but it will be framed as a just retaliation for a perceived slight.
It's a song and dance that will continue ad infinitum as long as it's profitable because appearantly nostalgia is worth turning a blind eye to the where the money goes.
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