Glyph1d ago

I guess moderation is the theme of the day, so, here goes another one: denying resources to JK Rowling is unequivocally a good thing. Being personally vicious to people who like Harry Potter—particularly if they are already mourning its destruction and AREN'T giving JKR any money—is performative bullshit.

Personally I never liked the series much; I fell off entirely around book 4. But I know *several* trans people that the story still resonates with. They don't need you to tell them JKR sucks.

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People need to know what a monster she is. Providing good factual information about what she is doing with her money is great. Critiquing the books is great; giving people some analytical tools to help them let go of emotional attachments to some its shitty themes is also good. So I'm not saying "don't be critical". But being mean for the sake of mean because you're *right* doesn't prove anything except that you're an asshole. Ironically the kind of asshole JKR valorizes.
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There is of course a strong identity component here. Trans people who want to feel a certain way about people portraying symbols from the series, or engaging in intra-community discourse, have feelings that are beyond my purview to criticize. But there's a growing contingent of straight, white, cis folks who have started to take it upon themselves to be competitively cruel to HP fans to demonstrate their allyship and it's really not a good look. Cruelty is never good allyship.
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Anyway, if you need to help a child develop a love of reading and magical fantasy, give some money to B.B. Alston instead https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53240817-amari-and-the-night-brothers
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Show threadder.hans7h ago

@glyph Really enjoyed Amari and the Night Brothers, it was fun read

I didn't realize books 3 and 4 had come out, time to catch up on that series