*tugs You Around By Our Red String Of Fate Like You’re A Dog On A Leash*

As a trans person, I am never, ever, ever giving up Harry Potter. And our fandom isn't going anywhere. Fucking deal with it.

Around this time last year, when JKR made some stupid comment (totally forgetting which one, there's just been so many at this point), I wrote a defense of Harry Potter fans' decision to remain in the fandom that essentially boiled down to this: giving up this fandom means giving up our people. In the wake of JKR's horrendous role in the anti-scientific UK Supreme Court ruling conflating sex with gender, this sentiment remains exactly the same.

I don't begrudge any HP fan who can no longer engage with JKR's IP due to this vile development. But I remain loud and proud in my support of the ✨community✨ that Harry Potter has brought together. As I mentioned in my last post, this community is not only full of the funniest, nicest, cleverest, and most creative people I've ever met in my life, but it is also the most diverse I have ever been a part of — and as an extrovert and community organizer who has lived in four different countries and speaks three languages, I have met a shit ton of people and been a part of lots of communities, significantly more than the average person. You are out of your mind if you think I am going to turn my back on the community that has been so critical to my survival as a queer, brown, neurodivergent, depressed, burnt out, poor Muslim femme in this capitalist, fascist hellscape. Day in and day out, my friends and I are pushing forward some of the most powerful narratives about queer, trans, and colonial liberation that society has to offer, which will have ripple effects on media and pop culture in the time to come (as is the nature of fandom). Nothing JKR can do or say will take that away from us. Nothing.

So to everyone who wants to claim that we're being transphobic for FREELY engaging with JKR's IP and doing things with it that would make her combust — that we're transphobic for wanting to keep this beautiful, generous community in tact — I not so kindly ask you to fuck off and leave us the fuck alone. You resist your way, and we will continue to resist in ours.

grug hate two factor authentication. first grug have to remember password. then grug have to point out which cave painting has birds. now they want grug to hunt and gather new thing called numbers. grug won’t do it grug miss the bird paintings grug was getting pretty good at birds.

that pistachio completely sealed in its shell is scared and alone, like a miner trapped by rubble. you need to free it by any means necessary. get the gun from your dad's cabinet

i love this so much

You don’t owe anyone a perfect story.

Maybe you forgot the exact date. Maybe your memory skips or rewinds. Maybe you didn’t document it. Maybe you didn’t tell anyone right away. Maybe you still don’t know what words to use.

That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. That doesn’t mean you’re lying. That doesn’t mean your story doesn’t count.

What happened is real. Even if it’s messy. Especially if it’s messy.

Wolfstar vs Jegulus

love this so much

What appeals to me about whump: an incomplete list

this is so wholesome.

gummy lamas

omg frrr

listen i love hermione but can we stop victimising her?

she’s not some overlooked, underappreciated character. her brilliance gets acknowledged all the bloody time. remus and sirius literally call her the brightest witch of her age and harry praises her like three million times throughout the books. and she’s one of the most popular characters in franchise. where is she underappreciated?

god i hate woke culture.

it’s honestly rather insulting to claim the feminist narrative with hermione because all these woke idiots try to claim that she’s some exhausted damsel in distress forever in servitude to these two tyrannical boys who use the hell out of her and it’s absolutely not the case.

she’s not a pushover. if she has a problem, she would argue and fight back. she and ron bicker all the time in the books. she’s ridiculously stubborn with her convictions in the books. she’s more than recognised for her talents, both remus and sirius literally call her the brightest witch of her age.

here’s this competent, intelligent, loyal, assertive female character whose talents are more than recognised and admired by her friends and everyone around her and then here comes these woke idiots who claim that she’s this poor little girl whose talents get taken advantage of, implying she’s this weak and spineless little thing who doesn’t speak up against her supposedly ungrateful friends who regularly show their appreciation and love for her, it’s such an insult to the character.

A bit upset that my four year old niece figured out how to fold the beach chairs and I still don’t know how to do it