i feel bad for all the people i know who got harry potter tattoos 15 years ago

Why? I have a HP tattoo and don’t regret it. The fandom has gone past the author at this point. She’s a hateful removed but that doesn’t mean that we can’t still love the world and characters she created. We’ve made it our own.

Except she still gets royalties and uses those to donate to political organizations, so you know

Tons of ways to enjoy the fandom without giving her any money.

I’m happy for you being able to pretend these things are separate from the weird cringe asshole who created it. personally, hp shit just makes me think bigot

Better apply that energy to other things, too.

Like the rolling stones? You’re a pedophile.

Enjoy Top Gun? You support scientology.

Ever played any Blizzard game? You support sexual harassment.

Ever ate anything related to Nestle? You support slavery.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You better get used to it.

Pretty much everything you listed is a convenience that can fairly easily be cut out of your life. Except for Nestlé, because keeping tracking of what brands are under any given food companies umbrella is not an easy task and the lack of competition means that oftentimes there are simply no good alternatives.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but that doesn’t mean that I’m under any obligation to respect somebody who continues to give money to an author who has openly said that they consider buying their merchandise as explicit support of their politics and donates a portion of their proceeds to extremist political groups with ties to far-right Christian groups in the US. The same as I’m not obligated to respect Republicans who say that they’re not racist, homophobic, etc, but still continue to vote for extremist candidates year after year who openly run on bigoted policies.

It’s one thing to have no alternatives to buy or to simply not know of an issue with a company, it’s an entirely different thing to continue to buy something from a company because it would be a minor inconvenience to avoid them.

Nobody is saying that we should go without things that make us happy, but there are plenty of other books to read, movies to watch, and games to play that don’t support the FART.

Enjoying Harry Potter doesn’t mean they have to engage with JK Rowling.

It can mean talking about it with fans, getting a tattoo, cosplaying, or just rereading a book.

If you see a harry potter tattoo and the first thing you think is “bigot”, youre just a prejudiced dickface.

If you see a harry potter tattoo and the first thing you think is “bigot”, youre just a prejudiced dickface.

LOL

If someone got a tattoo before rowling “came out” as a giant dickface, does that make the person with the tattoo a bigot?

Just try thinking for a moment. There is a pretty simple conclusion here.

i think 2 things when i see a HP tattoo: 1) that IP was created by a bigot; and 2) i would have made it a pretty high priority to cover that up, out of respect for the trans people i know

Gonna be honest, if someone is making snap judgements because another person enjoys of the most popular stories of all time, im not sure theyre worth anyones time.

Guess ill go tell my trans friend with a deathly hallows tat they are bigoted.