Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture.

[ibraen@masto.ai]

@inthehands TBF she's not the first author to support iffy shit.

What annoys me is: This woman could've had it all and die an icon if only she had shut her mouth, pick fights with a marginalized community, and go all contrarian to the far right when called out for her bullshit.

Was it better to support a covert bigot? IDK. But I do know that her actions ruined her legacy and harmed fun literature tools. It reframed her fun use of puns for names into distasteful slurs. I hope the remake flops.

[epistomai@mastodon.social]

@inthehands this is so despicable. I usually don't support LGBTQ or even care, but funding something anti is totally despicable

[johnbrown@thecanadian.social]

@inthehands disgusting bourgeoisie parasite. She got rich- up from a teachers salary to *billions* thanks to Potter- and now she's using them to further the same dark ages nonsense trans folk have been dealing with SINCE the fucking dark ages.

All potter bullshit is banned in our home, and I have 2 children who would be big fans otherwise. We haven't given that nasty lady a dime in a decade or so, but... I did buy the original potter movies forever ago.

[mikelovesbikes@hear-me.social]

@epistomai @inthehands Sounds like you do care and support us, then! Thanks ️

[fnord99@mastodon.online]

@arazil @inthehands maybe u are not the demographics she plans to tap into...that stuff is for kids like 8 to 12 yo...

[f3715h@rubber.social]

@inthehands I'd not even pirate TERFling's trash!

[chloeg@mastodon.art]

@inthehands Look at the pain in that face. Those eyes tell a tale. She is suffering. I am rather pleased about that, not only is she a transphobic hate mongering pathetic human but her stories are crap too. They were always crap. Half the ideas were knockoffs. Her other stories are cringe.

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@inthehands

The entire company of Hogwarts would be against JK Rowling's anti-trans agenda.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@epistomai @inthehands LGBTs need support. Not bigots.

[yog_krakthulhu@mastodon.social]

That take isn’t all that hot.
I haven’t cared about Harry Potter since I was a kid and her books under the Psudonym Robert Galbraith weren’t very good either.

[orientalartsrl@mastodon.uno]

@inthehands disgusting person

[passenger@kolektiva.social]

@hellomiakoda @inthehands

It is extremely funny to me that Steam is offering it at 85% off. Given how big its launch was and how expensive it was to produce, seeing it degraded to shovelware prices so quickly is deeply hilarious.

(I haven't bought it and I won't, for the reasons you've outlined.)

[srfirehorseart@ohai.social]

@bigblen

This.

I don't think JKR understands the community that they helped create.

I enjoyed reading the books at the time, as I like the SF&F genre. I would re-read them but I am also pro and the two don't equate to me wanting to buy more from this franchise.

@inthehands

[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@inthehands

people like her and musk and their ilk could be living the most spectacular lives, but instead they wallow in hate and apply endless time energy and money making the lives of other people miserable in different ways

they are dangerous and pathetic

despicable

[theriac@plasmatrap.com]

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
I know this point has been made before but Harry is her.

Aside from that one time he bought Ron a chocolate frog, despite having unlimited wealth and despite practically adopted and living with Ron's family, despite being written as feeling awkward when confronted by the comparative poverty, Harry does absolutely nothing to help Ron or his family. Their lot is to be poor, his is to be wealthy.

[pynoh@mamot.fr]

@Yog_Krakthulhu it stays a "hot take" considering millions of people continue to buy her books / films / video games / toys. It's not because you agree to a hot take that it makes it less hot

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@Theriac Sooo... Through the books, she fantasised about being a male person with money..?

Quite remarkable

@inthehands

[mythlfrythtyg@mastodon.social]

@bigblen @inthehands She sold her soul - If she ever had one - to the noseless one a long time ago.

[theriac@plasmatrap.com]

@ElBeeToots@mastodon.nl @inthehands@hachyderm.io
she chose Robert Galbraith as her nom-de-plume when she tried to prove she could be a successful adult writer.

So perhaps?

[cambria@hachyderm.io]

@jillL
I don't know, I think I'd make a great billionaire. I'd buy a castle in Scotland and donate to wildcat rescues. And have a herd of house cats. And not have a social media. And leave trans people alone. Maybe even use some of that billions to give money to an org that's helpful to trans people.

This is the alternative universe JKR I wish we'd gotten.
@inthehands