As A Trans Person, I Am Never, Ever, Ever Giving Up Harry Potter. And Our Fandom Isn't Going Anywhere.

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.

i once dreamed that

we all are some kind of robots and we're taking part in an experiment to see if our technology is advanced enough to be self sufficient

• Like therapists are the scientists that need to figure out what others need to improve

• And doctors are the ones who improve your Body because maybe in the production something has gone wrong

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dream robots dreaming crazy? technology i once dreamt

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storyparrot

7 months ago

aawww, you're a very cute compliment giver (if that makes sense somehow) and it's Didaktik (that's the german word), the definition is something like "the science of learning and teaching" and it's about how children learn and stuff and it's honestly dry theory. Like, right now we have "Verkleidungsspiel" so dress up game and it's basically why do children play that?, what do they learn with that? And the thing is it's the most important subject at my school (Secondary Training College for Preschool Education (for some reason we aren't allowed to use the german word anymore) but yeah thanks for "listening" to me ranting

Nice you're good too, and trust me, it's the same with me! I also feel so freaking motivated when i'm in school like "I'm gonna rock this shit" and then it's all gone as soon as I really have time to do it

i still remember your post about how death eaters are hairdressers and bc you’re hilarious to me, you’re officially one of my favourite moots (it’s such a great title, i swear on my life etc. etc.) (ok so you might not feel honoured but I AM HONOURED and that’s really what matters) (wait but you also matter) and because you matter and you’re awesomely funny HOW ARE YOU?!

oh my god thank you!! I AM HONOURED TOO! I really love your posts! Okay now i forgot what i wanted to say but thanks for the compliment!

I'm good, just studying for a big test tomorrow (for a subject I hate), how are you?

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storyparrot

10 months ago

the moment when you buy a book and you start reading it and it's so good you buy the next one right away but you accidently read the text on the back of the book and spoiler the whole plot of the first book and then you're just sitting there like

what am I doing with my life now? what is the purpose of living? why is life

And then you sit there and stare at some random object doing nothing, thinking about nothing until someone comes in and reminds you that Life still exists