We left Twitter behind when Elon pushed bigotry and cultivated an unsafe environment. It is long overdo for the Harry Potter franchise to receive the same treatment. 99% of the time, I support people engaging with what they enjoy. This, however, is one rare instance everyone NEEDS to disengage. - ThreadSky

alycore.bsky.social • 22 days ago

We left Twitter behind when Elon pushed bigotry and cultivated an unsafe environment.

It is long overdo for the Harry Potter franchise to receive the same treatment.

99% of the time, I support people engaging with what they enjoy. This, however, is one rare instance everyone NEEDS to disengage.

Reposted from The Advocate

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”

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blabidil.bsky.social•22 days ago

And then someone always says "what you can't separate the artist from the work?" Like no, both of them want my friends to not exist anymore

alycore.bsky.social•22 days ago

Overdue*

alycore.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’m sorry that I wasn’t more firm on this when I posted about HL 2 last month. The truth is, I take no pleasure in asking people to discard things that bring them joy, especially given how shitty the world is. However, what this creature is doing is going to kill people. Don’t be complicit.

kutiekatelyn.bsky.social•7 days ago

Preach 🧡

mistresslilith.bsky.social•22 days ago

people who think some wizard book series from their childhood that was never even good to begin with is more important than people's lives can go to hell

mistresslilith.bsky.social•22 days ago

The books were always filled with different flavors of bigotry, we were just too young to notice it. They were very poorly written too, every book had the exact same beginning.

kaylamariah.bsky.social•22 days ago

As a die hard Harry Potter fan, I agree. People's lives are at stake and that means more than childhood memories.

tseikkis.bsky.social•22 days ago

Same thing, this franchise just doesn't exist in my head anymore except as some memories, can't support it. I can live with an artist being a BIT of an asshole, but things like Rowling or Gaiman whose art has been very dear to me? They're gone, stained forever, even without conscious decision.

tseikkis.bsky.social•22 days ago

What I mean is that it doesn't even need a choice. The things these artists have done are so serious that I cannot look at their art anymore without remembering these things immediately. So it's destroyed for me.

kassette.bsky.social•22 days ago

Agreed, I've been purging my house of any Harry Potter merch

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