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Niléane 20h ago

Media coverage aside, looks like this Christmas is gonna suck for trans people who will have to deal — on top of everything — with their entire social circles of cis people gasping and gushing over the new Harry Potter series that's actively funding the policies that are torturing and killing them.

Niléane 20h ago

Cis people reading this, if you intend to watch the new HP series when it comes out, here’s two pieces of advice that you're not allowed to ignore:

• Have the decency to keep it and your reactions to yourself. This trans people-killing piece of media doesn't need any of your free publicity.

• Pirate the shit out of it.

BenjaminK 19h ago

@nileane it's possible this is a massive flop, people are still so attached to the previous actors. I thought it was a strange they decided to make this, for so many reasons.

Sar 15h ago

@BenjaminKlein @nileane

Not really. She wants to erase the performances of the 3 film leads because they're not supporting her TERF politics, and actively speaking up against her because of them.

To me though they'll always be the best.

geolaw 13h ago

@sar @BenjaminKlein @nileane Does this mean that the new leads are under pressure to publicly support JK Rowling?

🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥13h ago

@geolaw @sar @BenjaminKlein @nileane Well, they're kids. And like with the previous lot, JKR has been hovering over the set sometimes personally.

@geolaw @BenjaminKlein @nileane

Sar 9h ago

I would LAUGH my ass off if they took exactly the same stances as the OGs in a few years when they're a bit older. That would be hilarious 😂

@nileane @BenjaminKlein @sar

DavidM_yeg 13h ago

I’ve been really impressed by the way they’ve charted their courses since HP, the choices they’ve made and things they’ve said must stick so in her craw

zbrown 18h ago

@nileane you missed point three:
• The rest of us can and will judge you for it, and I for one fully reserve the right to assume you are a danger until proven otherwise.

MyView 17h ago

@zbrown @nileane

From my view one of the dangers is HBO ...

Kalamity Anne

6h ago

@zbrown @nileane Exactly, even if you pirate the tv series, you still give time to a deeply problemactic content. The all have better things to do.

Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺18h ago

@nileane I noticed that there's a lot of pirated movies and shows in https://www.hyphanet.org/ It's safer than torrent.

Hyphanet

Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)17h ago

I'll make sure to disable the seeding limit on this one 😇

Ember is so tired of people.

12h ago

@baardhaveland @nileane No. if you must pirate nazi media, don't reshare it

Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)6h ago

@Ember @nileane

The idea of seeding it, was to help sabotage the profits by keeping it available for longer (not that I think my protest matters that much anyway, considering how popular HP already is).

If more people are pirating it, then less people are paying for it.

I don't even plan to view the stuff...

Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)6h ago

@Ember @nileane

Technically, more people will not be tempted to pirate/view it based on my action. That's not how this works.

But those who already wish to pirate it, have a better chance of succeeding.

If they succeed, they won't have to pay a subscription to view it.

Ember is so tired of people.

5h ago

@baardhaveland @nileane most people pirating something will have never planned to buy it in the first place

Better if it's radioactive to both pirate AND buy, if few people seed it makes it slower and higher effort to download or distribute, and the fewer who view that shit the better

Also, piracy acts as free marketing (free because most people pirating would never have bought it) and unintuitively can boost sales (the free marketing + people who pirated and liked it enough to buy)

Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)2h ago

@Ember @nileane

I understand you'd prefer we wiped the show off of the planet, but that's not an option.

Loud protests works as free publicity (ironically, that's also how I got to hear about it.)

If not enough people are seeding, then torrents tend to die, and the only remaining option to see the show will be to pay for it. (I've ended up there several times myself.)

Thus... silently helping freeloaders for as long as possible, is the only way to sabotage the creators income over time.

Ember is so tired of people.

18m ago

Lmao, got blocked for this

“ally” my ass

Cavyherd 16h ago

Just saw an announcement earlier today.

Enjoyed HP back in the day.

Before JKR revealed herself to be a TERF.

Hard pass....

Dean R. T.14h ago

Man I’m cis and I don’t even think I’m gonna *watch* it

undead enby of the apocalypse 5h ago

@dean_r_t that’s good. I think ideally people should not watch it.

geolaw 13h ago

@nileane We could also promote an alternative creative work? For example "The Worst Witch" available as both a book series & tv series. Maybe time for a revival?

Red 10h ago

@geolaw You mean another revival? Well, I guess it's been ten years since the last one

Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱13h ago

I actually really wanna know so I know who to cut social ties with forever. So chat away about it. Please.

Franceska Mann 11h ago

I'll boycott it. It's a big world & there are other things to watch/read.

Hiisikoloart 10h ago

@nileane
I wish I had like a friend who could burn shows and such for me on dvd and send them to me because I am not good with tech. :P

(Also not likely gonna watch that. I used to be HP fan, and loved the books as a kid who literally lived in a cupboard under the stairs for a while...but I am also a trans person so, yeah. Queen Terf really abandoned a big portion of her own fandom with this hate campaign.)

Gnoufou 7h ago

@nileane I second the pirating thing.

mespique 7h ago

About point number 2:

https://fmhy.net

Welcome

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

undead enby of the apocalypse 5h ago

@nileane or… don’t. There’s so much more stuff you could watch that isn’t this problematic. I’m usually not the kind of person who berates people for enjoying art made by bad people (any more), but in this case i have zero patience. I get it, i also read those books as a kid and really liked them, but that was when i didn’t have the knowledge, critical thinking and english skills necessary to notice all the problematic shit, all the racism in the books themselves. And as a trans person, it hurts to see cis people still excitedly talking about this franchise as if nothing happened, after such a long time of her hate campaign which has a direct impact on me and people like me.

Ellyse 3h ago

@nileane i was so confused, i thought you meant High Potential which i was meaning to watch! (https://deadline.com/2024/11/high-potential-ratings-delayed-abc-most-watched-new-series-1236164654/) -- the other HP is dead to me.

‘High Potential’ Drives Impressive 7-Day Audience Growth To Become ABC’s Most-Watched New Series In 6 Years

High Potential is driving big audiences in the seven-day viewing window

Deadline

Sharp Cheddar Goblin 1h ago

@nileane Not watching it and will shame anyone watching it or refusing to give it up. Plenty of things in my childhood have turned to shit (or were actually shit from the start and I didn't know better), I walked away and so can everyone else.

I'm quite close to kicking HBO from my subscriptions too.

Andy Carolan

20h ago

@nileane Yeah, nobody could pay me enough to watch that. Disappointed in the actors taking part knowing now what we do about the author tbh.

Simon Rolfmore 19h ago

@nileane I have zero intention of watching it. I will carefully avoid it while watching more Starfleet Academy

Paco Hope 17h ago

@nileane My best friend is a huge HP fan, but he also wants to do the right thing. I had no trouble turning my back on it when she started her anti-trans bullshit. He’s taking it slower. I’m trying. He already knows what I’m going to say if he says something positive about HP, so he rarely brings it up. But it’s tough to strike the right balance. I’m not giving an inch on JKR is bad and trans people are good. But I can’t yell at him every time we talk. Doing the best I can.

Sirana 15h ago

@paco If you're not doing this anyway already, maybe try to reroute his attention to other works from less problematic creators? The Discworld universe for example when it comes to books, or Owl House in terms of TV shows? (Or anything similar that wasn't discontinued, I'm sure there are many other recommendations online.) It's easier to give a thing up when you have another thing to look forward to.

Ret 20h ago

@nileane why do we need another one of these bloody things

Barktic Fox

14h ago

@ret @nileane because she’s mad that all three main child actors from the movies have since called her out for her transphobia and distanced themselves from her and the franchise. She needs fresh puppets.

Autumn Meadow 20h ago

@nileane
Remember when a bunch of subscribers canceled their streaming subscriptions over Jimmy Kimmel? What if a lot of HBO subscribers canceled with the reason for canceling be "Cancel Harry Potter."

They back peddled on Kimmel. If HBO loses enough money over this, they will change too.

I'm disappointed I don't have an HBO subscription to cancel.
@verge

wil 19h ago

@meadow same. @nileane @verge

Spring Cat 20h ago

@nileane @verge I was too old to care about HP when it came out, I am too worried about the well being of trans folks to care about it right now.

I have zero respect for people who, in 2026, still consume HP

Bond. James Bond.19h ago

Sad part is some people will read that and say - oh good!

Kat S 19h ago

@nileane
Thanks to @verge for using their platform to call this out.

luca 19h ago

@nileane @verge TBH, maybe she wouldn't need those funds, if her lovely friendship with Jeffrey wasn't abruptly interrupted by his sudden death. An horrible event, happened when he died in a US penitentiary. Before he could name his other accomplices in a criminal pedophiles network. Even before some have been elected to governmental roles. The rest is secret history.

calcius 19h ago

@nileane @verge
I don't want to be mean but Harry looks a lot like Ruth Davidson.

MyView 17h ago

I will never understand why it is that people with miserable unloved private lives, decide that as THE most miserable, they have the right to take their self-imposed misery out on other people ...

Dmian 🇪🇺17h ago

@nileane @verge Fuck J.K.Rowling and her transphobe views. I don’t want to be even near any shit she does. Trans rights are human rights! #transrightsarehumanrights 🏳️‍⚧️

GhostOnTheHalfShell 16h ago

I will always hate finding out that the authors of beloved books or songs are absolutely horrendous. People whose moral sentiments completely abhorrent.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Violet Madder 14h ago

Marion Zimmer Bradley was a nasty shock for me.

@violetmadder @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Cavyherd 14h ago

Neil Gaiman broke my heart. Thank god at least he wasn't one of my seminal authors....

@cavyherd @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Violet Madder 14h ago

I missed most of Gaiman's stuff until relatively recently, so I wasn't heavily invested but it still blew me away what an incredible asshole he is.

MZB's Darkover series was really formative to me growing up, though. I was beyond stunned to find out that the author had NONE of the empathy described in her characters... the cognitive dissonance there is just breathtaking. I can't even.

People smart enough to know better. People who understand emotions and morals well enough to describe them in great detail, and yet... somehow, they're still monsters anyway and they don't even feel bad. How does that WORK??

@violetmadder @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Cavyherd 13h ago

Right? Yeah, there has to be some sort of weird dissociative thing going on.

Or maybe it's just—they can do compassion hypothetically in principle, but IRL is just a bridge too far? 🤷

I'm lucky that so far none of the authors I've had deep emotional investment in have turned out to be predators.

That I know of....

disorderlyf 14h ago

@nileane @verge Honestly, bitch could be slated to not make a dime off this show and I still wouldn't watch it. I left for the transphobia, I stayed gone fir the realisation of her apparent inability to not name a minority character something not obviously fucked up.

bUt sHE haD a tRaNs cHaRaCteR!1!

Named SIRona, for fuck sake!

Ry Chaz 13h ago

@nileane @verge I wouldn't use that exact phrasing. It can be read as endorsing her funding for her hate. Too ambiguous.

"...to fund her disproportionate paranoid hate towards a minority..." would be more effective.

Elizabeth

12h ago

@nileane @verge Harry Potter and the “holy fuck why is this still a thing”

Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸12h ago

I haven't given any money to the HP franchise since I learned she was a TERF, and stopped engaging with the fandom about the same time. With the damage she's doing to people, she's worse than her own villains.

oscarfalcon 11h ago

I don't get it: the books have already been adapted to feature films, why make a tv show (wasting money probably to launder money for someone), I don't really get it...

bookspiegel 8h ago

@nileane @verge My faith in news outlets gets restored a little bit every time I see good, contextual coverage like this