She's fucking right. Also y'all should stop interacting or buying or watching any Harry Potter related shit.

Let jkr disappear from the public discourse. Let her go back to the fucking pit she crawled out of

This was better than I imagined

Is a box of granola more or less costly than 25 Amazon boxes because I see potential for a grift here

New design available on my Teepublic store! For all your Fuck JK Rowling needs!

its 2024 stop writing harry potter slash and go read blood meridian

The goal is to kill them.

Hogwarts Legacy update!

We've confirmed the plot: there's an uprising among the race of hook-nosed bankers who control the economy. (Note that the more evil they are, the bigger their noses are. There's a good one who has a big nose but he used to be evil when he was younger.) They're "rebelling" because they want their stolen cultural artefacts to be returned to them and want to not be oppressed anymore, which for some reason means they also want to massacre their oppressors' entire race, because of course marginalised people asking for liberation actually secretly want to kill you. As part of this sinister cabal's nefarious plot for white—I mean, wizard—extinction, they want to kidnap a child, because that's what hook-nosed bankers like to do, right? And their leader is willing to do anything for material gain, up to and including teaming up with fascists who hate his race.

You guys know that conspiracy theorists think Jews funded the Holocaust, right? They claim we did it so we could milk it for reparation money afterwards. And did you know they think we kidnap children? Or that we actually want supremacy rather than equality, and plan to subjugate the rest of the world for our own gain? Presumably you've at least heard the claim that we control the banks. And you know this is all very popular with the alt right, don't you? Have you also heard that this game's original head developer was an alt right YouTuber?

Don't act like this is a fucking coincidence.

No, JKR wasn't involved in the game, and it's actively intended to be trans-positive. Yes, she gets money from it, and will likely donate some of that to anti-trans causes. But even if you pirate the game so she doesn't make any money off of it, you're still going to be be playing the fucking Protocols of the Elders of Gringotts.

Fucking TALK ABOUT THIS.

#being trans and jewish makes this such a weird time to be in the circles im in online#because all i see in protest of the game is 'its transphobic to play it!' and nothing about the antisemitism#EXCEPT from other jews#with exceptions for my beloved frienda who are part of the Surprisingly Jewish friend circle (via @jonaldronaldrolkientolkien)

If you're not Jewish, read those tags and read them again.

I came across this and I'm not jewish but I've seen some on Twitter say that this "goblin artefact" is in fact a Shofar. In case anybody is still doubting that the goblins in HP are pretty much a caricature of jewish people.

fucking hell

Doesn't 1612 also have historical significance, or am I misrembering video essays?

Yes and no; a bunch of misinformation about it was going around a while ago saying that it was the date of a real Jewish rebellion, which is inaccurate. There was an anti-Jewish uprising in Frankfurt that began in 1612 and led to a pogrom in 1614, but Jewish people themselves weren't rallying troops for a rebellion in 1612.

Happy anniversary, Stonewall riots! Stay revolutionary!

help

Thought abt going to coworker bar trivia but then found out the theme is Harry Potter. Goodbye

This is breaking containment into the TERF enclosures which I very much expected, but I will happily shout from the rooftops that furry porn artists are more productive and beneficial to society than JKR’s incessant whining on the elon musk dick riding app about how much she hates trans people

1439 votes but 288 reblogs because the TERFs are afraid of the truth so they're just linking it directly to each other lmao

#get jkr to less than 1% I know we can do it

@demilypyro

It's down to 4%!!!!!

another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated

Y'know, Harvey Pounder!

unironically just blocked someone for tagging my post with a h*rry p*tter ship. either start using an obligatory "fuck jkr" disclaimer every time you reference it or stop referencing it and I'm not kidding.

I don't care if you've pirated it she's already a billionaire your 10 usd is not going to make a difference at this point the problem is that she's going around telling all her terf buddies and potential terf fans that everybody secretly agrees with her and CITING THE WAY HER CAREER HAS BEEN UNHURT BY HER EXTREMIST BIGOTRY AS PROOF and you are going along with her narrative. THAT'S the problem. it's not about the fucking money.

even if you do say "fuck jkr", if you enjoy harry potter get off my profile. she has stated that enjoyment of her work = support for her beliefs

ppl pulling the 'just let people enjoy Wizard Game' are often met with 'JKR funds anti-trans groups!' and that's. entirely true. but doesn't actually go far enough.

like if you're on team Let People Enjoy Wizard Game hey. did you know. that in my city RIGHT NOW JKR is sole funder and key board member of an unregulated private agab-policed rape crisis shelter set up specifically to Own The Transes

and which now sits on several gendered violence prevention boards alongside representatives from the (publicly funded and accountable) existing Rape Crisis Centre, against the staff of which her friends and followers have been involved in a years-long harassment campaign purely and explicitly because they run trans-inclusive support services and bc their CEO is a trans woman of colour.

(my friend works there and the pure volume of transphobic harassment has caused several long standing members of staff to quit. which I'm really fucking angry about bc I would not be here today if the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre hadn't been there to help me)

and that on those boards they're known for supporting increased police harassment and approaches that disproportionately criminalise trans people, unhoused people and sex workers and provably don't positively impact the issue of gendered violence.

what I'm saying is that yes JKR funds anti-trans groups but she is also pretty directly involved in materials worsening conditions for vulnerable people at a local and personal level too!!!! she's running an unregulated crisis shelter out of spite and using that to legitimise her political lobbying!!!!!! fuck you!

btw I don't actually give a shit about Wizard Game beyond the fact that you're pretty obviously no ally to trans or Jewish people if you put playing ANY game over their direct wellbeing

but this isn't actually a post about Wizard Game despite the framing. I'm not mad about people playing a video game, I'm mad that JKR is working in my home city to use extremely vulnerable people that she pretends to care about as pawns in her escalating moves to fuck over another group of extremely vulnerable people. and in the process providing cover for legislative pushes that will fuck shit up for all survivors of gendered violence, trans or cis, and negatively affect support and funding for inclusive crisis services. that's what she's doing personally and materially as well as rhetorically. I'd guess she's sunk at least a couple of million into getting this set up (property in the centre of Edinburgh ain't cheap) and it is very directly causing harm.

(if I wanted to take this off JKR specifically and onto the movement she's part of, I would point out the recent push to frame feminist organisations like Rape Crisis Scotland and Women's Aid Scotland and Engender as Paid Shills For The Government's Trans Agenda because they supported gender recognition reform and, unrelatedly, recieve Scottish Government funding. I would point out that in December, when Beira's Place launched, this specifically looked like pundits framing almost all the big gendered violence prevention and abuse support organisations in Scotland as corrupt and evil and unworthy of funding bc they supported increasing trans people's access to basic rights. I don't want this to be the focus bc I think it's important to separate out 'things that the movement JKR associates with have done' from 'things that JKR individually and personally has done' but I do think. It's significant context.)

anyway this isn't about a video game. one way or another. Wizard Game isn't the point, it's just a touchstone of whether or not any of this matters enough to you for you to make minor changes to how you behave. like. not buying Wizard Game won't stop her doing this, she's already richer than god. I recognise I brought up Wizard Game but Wizard Game is so much not the point. the actual material harm is the point. shut up about the game we're talking about the spending-millions-to-materially-harm-vulnerable-people bit.

Royalties from the game do very much fund those materially harmful things, I'm given to understand, and frankly I do not consider anybody who paid for the game a trans ally.

Yeah they obviously do but also she's got enough money that boycotting the game isn't actually gonna prevent this. like I already said yeah if you still wanna play the game you evidently value the people she's attacking way less than your ability to play Video Garm and that's not allyship.

but also I'm getting real frustrated with the notes of this post filling up with people arguing about whether or not people should buy or pirate or refuse to play a video game when like. the video game is at most a litmus test for whether you're willing to put anything at all on the line to push back against this.

JKR already has the money to buy her own rape crisis shelter to push her personal agenda, and to fund anti-trans groups, and to pay for legislative lobbying. She already has the platform to give voice and performed legitimacy to reactionary shit like "the death eaters represent the trans lobby!!!!" That doesn't come from Hogwarts Legacy and even if nobody had bought, played or talked about Hogwarts Legacy she'd still have that from the books and the films and the events and the walking tours and the billions of tons of useless tat with Harry Potter branding slapped on it that sells every year (did you know Le Creuset, the fancy cookware company, brought out a range of Harry Potter themed iron casseroles???? clown world.)

Hogwarts Legacy isn't the make-or-break product, but what it is is a collective touchpoint where anyone still buying into the JKR brand had the opportunity to break with Harry Potter. like to look at the extent and depth of the fucked up things she is doing to rhetorically and materially attack marginalised people, think about what it means to continue supporting that, and use Hogwarts Legacy as an opportunity to divest from the brand that's giving her that power. and in all fairness a lot of people HAVE got more aware of the need to divest from Harry Potter as a result of the chat around Hogwarts Legacy. A lot more haven't, but have had to acknowledge it and justify it in a way they didn't when it looked more like 'buying a Primark snitch onesie'

but like. the video game isn't the point? The video game was never the point? (except in a couple of instances which are about the video game, to whit making the antisemitic subtext around the goblins very much text) The video game is emblematic of the whole structure of corporate-led Harry Potter fandom which keeps merch on shelves, money going into JKR's pocket, and a veneer of legitimacy on JKR's bullshit.

if you can't drop the video game, you're fully bought into this. if 'don't play a video game' is too high a price for you to pay to stand against genocidal rhetoric and exploitation and abuse of vulnerable people then your politics aren't really grounded in anything. but that doesn't mean the video game is the point, or that without the video game she couldn't do any of this.

and it's really tiring that instead of using the video game as a jumping off point to talk about why we need to push back on JKR's power and actions, instead people keep coming back to the game itself (which, like a month after release, is kinda of diminishing relevance, unlike Rowling herself who continues to do outsize harm).

the jocat situation is disheartening but let's be real here

the actual reason he got harassed off the face of the internet isn't because some idiots thought his video was cringe, it was because he was very vocal about his support of trans people back when h*gwarts l*gacy came out and the (predominantly cishet male) audiences of the vtubers who came under fire for streaming said game are still big mad about that and blame solely him for all the harassment their faves received even though he spoke out against it

the "video is cringe" thing was just a convenient excuse

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

High fives all around, friends. If we’ve accomplished nothing else today, we still have this.

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