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i know i use the word iconic a lot in relation to harry james potter but i feel it bears repeating here

Nico: I literally cannot believe I let you talk me into this.

Will: I literally said “I have an idea,” and you just went along with it without question.

forever pushing the harry "my mummy will hear about this" potter agenda btw. you thought draco was bad? try harry if lily lived. like...harry scrapes his knee? "mummy my knee!!" harry breaks a window? "mummy i'm sorry!!" draco is rude to him? "mum i hate him!!" snape is an asshole? "mum my potions professor!!" and ofc lily rushes in every time to solve all harry's problems for him.

like. harry is lily's number one fan. he brags about her constantly. he is worse than draco could ever be. "your dad bought the quidditch team brooms?? well my MUM killed VOLDEMORT!!" "your mum owns an apothecary?? my mum has a mastery in charms AND potions." and lily is just as bad!! "did you know my son's the youngest seeker in a century?" "that's my son right there, top marks in defense you know" they are ridiculous. they are the mother son duo ever.

R.A.B. ✧

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.

Will totally let’s the little campers put bows n shit in his hair. And fun bandaids all over his body. You walk into the infirmary and his appearance is a collage of every person he’s seen that day. Doodles connecting his freckles, bows and hair clips scattered through his curls, bandaids all over his arms, etc