So. Look. I Held Off On Saying Anything, And I'm Still Putting This Under A Read More, Because I Have

So. Look. I held off on saying anything, and I'm still putting this under a read more, because I have zero interest in starting an internet fight over something this silly. On the other hand, I have very little chill, so I'm still going to foist my thoughts out into the tumblr void anyway.

I don't care about the J. K. Rowling discourse.

Not in the sense that I don't care about the HP books, or the shitty transphobic sense that I think her shitty transphobic views are remotely okay.

What I don't care for is the way this discourse has sparked tumblr's usual lack of nuance and gotten people claiming that to care about or talk about the HP books nowadays is synonymous with validating or supporting J. K. Rowling's views. I don't care for the performative virtue signaling it has inspired in every bit of HP related content I see cross my dash. I don't need to read a disclaimer from every HP fan about how guilty they feel for still enjoying a series of fictional fantasy books, a rambling rationalization of how this or that bit of carefully curated engagement with HP is still okay as long as you do it The Right Way, or any more performative glee from someone who still spitefully enjoys the books while not supporting the author's views.

The HP books are not J. K. Rowling. Even if I did want to judge them by the author's views and circumstances, it seems kind of absurd to judge them by her views and circumstances today.

She began writing those books over two decades ago. When she wrote the first book, she was a young single mother struggling to support herself and her child on government welfare. The only reason she was able to complete the first book was because of a loan from a friend that gave her a stable place to live, and she completed the second book only with the help of a grant she applied for before the first book had been published.

Beyond that, the whole series espouses the opposite of her current transphobic views. The HP books are about the value of love, compassion, friendship, and bravery in the face of tyranny and oppression from a dominant social group. It is about not giving into the views of an intolerant minority obsessed only with maintaining their own power, about not giving up hope in the face of a complacent majority afraid to stand up against oppression or uncaring about issues that don't seem to directly affect their own lives.

Loving the HP books today is not incompatible with recognizing that their author has become one of the wealthy and powerful people that the HP books themselves called out for the self-centered and short-sighted cruelty of their views. Enjoying the work she wrote when she was a person who prioritized kindness and understanding of other people and their differences does not negate any criticisms of J. K. Rowling's current intolerance and bigotry. Participating in the creation and sharing of HP fanworks, taking part in conversations about the fantastical world she created, loving any of the characters she wrote into being with love - none of these things mean that you agree with her on the question of whether transgender women are women deserving of respect and dignity and the same basic rights as any other woman.

People shouldn't be made to feel guilty for enjoying a work of fiction, just because the author is Problematic now.

All human beings are flawed. Every piece of media you consume was created by someone imperfect.

Love what you love without shame. Enjoy your favorite fictional works without guilt. Those are the views that I stand behind.

I think.

Look. I think fanfiction just absolutely rips because the stakes are so low.

I am literally just Out Here making dilfs pine and yearn and cry. I am making gal pals kiss on the mouth. I am mashing messy little trios together and daring them to figure themselves out while I watch with unbridled glee.

Nobody is paying me. Nobody is expecting anything of me. I am audacious and I am free. Viva la fucking weird, baby, make that shit sizzle.

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another finished doodle from my backlog pile this time inspired by that post that started with batman adopting zuko because duh… of course he does, and ending with iroh and alfred being passive aggressive about superiority of eastern and western tea service

and of course it was started a while ago and now I cant find it >.< 

Still raining, still drawing S1 Avatar. 

This time the angry ponytail guy and the I C O N I C grumpy pose. 

Armor is hard so I gave mysellf 10 min for the poses and 15 mins for color. I kept the sketch part in the layers to see what is the first 3 min of the process.

Nice going ruining Aang’s day.

inspired by this post!

bonus:

none of them know how to appreciate a joke