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Welcome to #TransTuesday!
There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter
Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated.
EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia
If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die
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TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it.Tilly Bridges (Tilly's Trans Tuesdays - transgender education for everyone!)
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Gwen The Red Moss
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •I mean. I'd like to hear the reasoning for "even pirated" just because I'm not following that logic.
For the piracy angle, is it more "you're still absorbing it and possibly talking about it, and it still causes it to spread"?
🎃 Killy Witches 👻
in reply to Gwen The Red Moss • • •@Gwendolyn studios TRACK pirating, and consider high numbers interest in their shows
it also keeps the franchise alive and spreads its influence. just like fanfic and fan art.
ALL OF IT keeps HP alive
You have to let it all go
Just read the essay
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Gwen The Red Moss
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •Curioso
in reply to Gwen The Red Moss • • •@Gwendolyn
They probably track mentions in social media, and the engaging those mentions create.
And you just reminded me there is at least 7 books and who knows how many films of that thing I haven't read.
I will resist the urge to fill that gap, but you get my meaning...
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in reply to Gwen The Red Moss • • •@Gwendolyn honestly as a person who used to be a fan when i was young and thought about the content for a bit. Ursula K. Le Guin is 100% spot on in her assessment: "stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited"
There's just better content and her transphobia is proof she's ethically a broken person and i would no longer want to feed my mind from her well.
🎃 Killy Witches 👻
in reply to hot tran*sexual menace • • •@missqarnstein @Gwendolyn it's literally not about how good or bad you think the books are, and conflating your opinion of them with how horrid their author is is not good, actually. read the previous essay for more on that
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in reply to vramvoolenaar • • •Curioso
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •@vramvoolenaar
Peter Pan and Oz books, for example, are good, and there are much more of them than JKR has ever wrote.
They are a bit more childish, though.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me @vramvoolenaar
Discworld is top notch comedy and top notch fantasy, all in one. The first three books are not so good, but Pratchett gets better fast.
Not really children books, they are more all-ages; they frequently make references to things only adults get.
AFAIK, the only issue could be Pratchet wrote Bad Omens (how ironic!) with Gaiman, who ended up being a very shitty person.
But it is unlikely Pratchet knew, so he is blameless.
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Wilfried Klaebe
in reply to Curioso • • •I once tried reading "Where is my cow?" to my little ones... I guess that was too early though.
@jcurioso @me @tillybridges @vramvoolenaar
neon_mate
in reply to Wilfried Klaebe • • •Especially if you have daughters, I can recommend Patricia Wrede - "Enchanted Forest Chronicles" for the younger ones and all Tamora Pierce Books for the older ones. I loved the "Song of the Lioness" and the "The Circle of Magic" Series the most.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •disorderlyf
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •EDIT: just saw the "even pirated" line. I want to stress I still won't look fondly on it even if I think it's less bad. I'm leaving the original comment for transparency and the hope others catch it if they didn't in your original post.
P.S., some of us won't judge you as harshly if the nostalgia trip is too strong, but you pirate it so the bitch doesn't get a single red cent. Y'all already do that for shit that isn't made by obsessive genital police.
🎃 Killy Witches 👻
in reply to disorderlyf • • •@disorderlyf pirating still supports it! when you say things like this you condone keeping it alive and a viable franchise
no Harry Potter means
NO HARRY POTTER. AT ALL. ANYWHERE.
disorderlyf
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in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •Lydia Conwell
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •When I see someone with a Harry Potter T-shirt on or something I immediately think of them as anti-trans. But I also see people in Starbucks or Gail's and I immediately think of them as anti-Palestinian racists.
I mean, they *might not* be those things but if they're so oblivious to what's going on in the world and are just ignorant, they might as well be those things. Ignorance is complicity.
🎃 Killy Witches 👻
in reply to Lydia Conwell • • •@lydiaconwell ignorance is not complicity, not in this society. some people *genuinely* do not know. does mainstream news cover these things? people are overworked and exhausted and worried and stressed all the time. people miss things.
this is why we inform those folks, like my essays on this topic have done. because then they will know. and THEN if they still choose to support, they are complicit.
and people who feign ignorance to cover their bad choices are something else entirely.
Carsten
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in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •i REALLY need you to start getting it
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in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •oh I checked her work out around 2005…I could see the appeal but it didn’t appeal to me. i think I read one book and maybe saw 2 movies.
Meh and Feh…just something innately wrong about it all. Chalked it up to cultural differences between here and there.
But still it felt like she was popular due to a Cross Roads Demon Deal.
Not far off the mark…
Franceska Mann
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Franceska Mann • •@Franceska Mann @🎃 Killy Witches 👻 I tend to refer to JKR as "she who shall not be named". It feels to me to be the only apropriate reference to her work.
Edit: If that does cause problems, please correct me.
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Franceska Mann
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me
I love this!!!!
Malte
in reply to 🎃 Killy Witches 👻 • • •I was never into HP (too old I guess) so it's rather easy for me to do what feels like the right thing to do.
Personally, I'm only that radical (in a positive way) when it comes to veganism. So thank you for your take. It made me think.