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

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

[xenotrope@bsd.network]

@inthehands There's pirating the new Harry Potter series to keep money from going to Joanne.

There's not watching the series as a protest.

And then there's not watching the series just because you don't care about Harry Potter and never did.

But you're never gonna look at Nick Frost the same way again.

[arazil@elvenstar.cafe]

@inthehands Hot Take: Joanne hasn't produced a good story since 2000. The first few Harry Potter installments were kind of interesting but the series quickly devolved after the novelty factor wore off and some of her more problematic ideology started shining through. I have been able to sample some of the newer "Fantastic Beasts" films and... Boy are they terrible. This is one boycott that will be easy to for me to follow (especially since I stopped wanting to give her money and attention around a decade ago).

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@inthehands Sony still offers me Harry Potter for free. I still refuse to play it, and I refuse to click on it. Anyone using my console is warned they are not allowed to install that shit on anything I own. As far as I'm concerned, that franchise is like cobalt. If I could block content by title, I would. It just occurred to me, I haven't checked if I can at least hide it from my PS Plus.

I would be mortified to have that shit on my account history or trophy list.

🫂️ for all y'alll ️‍⚧️️

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@inthehands It's worth noting, I otherwise try any game Sony tosses me as a freebie, no matter how trash. I wont touch the cobalt though!

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@xenotrope @inthehands

there is also not watching the new series cause you're not going to watch the same old story you already watched 15 years ago.

Time for a new original and better kid's franchise (minus ghoulish bigot billionaires).

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@inthehands I like how that one sign replaces the O in her name with a drawing of an anus.

[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