Jessie Kirk • 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 • 🇺🇦 🇵🇸6d ago

Harry Potter fans tend to argue for the seperation of art from the artist.

That's a maybe.

But unlike, say, Lovecraft, your money is going to an alive person that is trying to eradicate my people *using* that money.

I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror if I did that to any minority.

Show threadJessie Kirk • 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 • 🇺🇦 🇵🇸6d ago

I've seen many arguments for/against the franchise based solely on subjectives: that the stories are good or bad, nostalgic or unfamiliar...

Objectively, whether you like it or not, it's a massive franchise that directly funds transphobic politics.

No argument can really make me ignore that fact.

Show threadJessie Kirk • 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 • 🇺🇦 🇵🇸6d ago

I get the nostalgia.

Harry Potter was a big part of my childhood. Gaiman's works were a big part of my teenage years.

I put my books and things away, and away they will stay. And I will never give either another penny.

Because they're just things, and things are never more important than people.

Show thread🍄💀Shye Strange💀🍄6d ago

@thejessiekirk I remember having this exact same argument a long time ago about still listening to bands / artist / rocks stars who are known sexual predators. Trying to put across that basic understand that by doing so you are feeding that behaviour and making it acceptable... urgh...

I am going to be asking my friends / family politely not to watch the new Harry Potter series... but that said, I still can't get anyone off Facebook... sigh...

You mention Neil Gaiman, and I was also too a big fan, though I've not kept up with much in recent times, so have I missed something there? He hasn't gone all Rowling on us has he?

Show threadStarkRG5d ago
@shyestrange @thejessiekirk In the lead up to whatever Harry Potter game was coming out a while back, people I had thought of as friends started arguing that they shouldn't feel bad about supporting Rowling because the game developers had to get paid too, I informed them that the game developers had already been paid and they're just supporting her and others that support her. I don't really talk to those people anymore.
Show threadadaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

@StarkRG @shyestrange @thejessiekirk

The actors who have agreed to be in the new TV series are dead to me.

Nick Frost, you idiot!

May 1 at 5:42pmWeb
Show thread🍄💀Shye Strange💀🍄4d ago
@adaddinsane Oh no! Nick! I grew up with Spaced in my later teens - and so that's disappointing... I hadn't thought about that though - all the British actors, from other things, using it as an opportunity to get in front of a wider international audience. (Like with Game Of Thrones). But it will all be very telling I suppose....