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it kinda defeats the point to condemn jkr online whilst actively still buying hp merch or going to hp studios. those royalties are going straight into her pocket. i don& #39;t really get it.
sorry but half of the popular mlm ships are driven by straight girls or girls that find this shit "hot" when the main faces of the shippers should be actual mlm that find rep in these ships and half of them don& #39;t even make sense and wouldn& #39;t be popular in other circumstances
3. forgot to number but i don& #39;t think i care about any harry potter ships and i don& #39;t understand how you can be so invested in hating one (except for the gross ILLEGAL ones - adults x minors) but if someone ships something "toxic" just let them? it& #39;s fiction? it& #39;s not exclusive?
4. liking snape is way too controversial in this fandom like if someone likes him i don& #39;t get what& #39;s hard about letting them? i hate snape more than anyone and used to go OFF before i realised its *fiction* and people can find him complex
5. simultaneously i do think u shouldn& #39;t glorify certain traits. don& #39;t stan villains or bar people if u aren& #39;t willing to admit they& #39;re evil or have awful traits. don& #39;t airbrush them and justify their actions.
6. i can PROMISE u this fandom just like everyone is shallow as fuck and u can& #39;t even deny it. 99% of the big characters people stan are "attractive" and that& #39;s why they have massive & #39;fanbases& #39;. draco or tom riddle wouldn& #39;t have so many stans if he& #39;d been played by someone ugly.
7. that said i don& #39;t think there& #39;s anything wrong with fancying a character and only liking them bc u fancy them. at first i didn& #39;t understand bellatrix (i was a CHILD
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Erleichtertes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Erleichtertes Gesicht">) but man i fancied her so much and that was my gateway. thank u.
8. shipping the characters that are minors in sexual ways makes me so uncomfortable and has done since i was 13 and knew what smut was. the fandom doesn& #39;t see anything wrong w writing sex or sex acts between 13-14 year olds and that& #39;s what ppl need to address
9. people get so angry with fancasts but forget they& #39;re fancasts for a reason like this isn& #39;t unpopular i don& #39;t think but just shut up debating and let fans interpret how they see characters they love
10. y& #39;all love to be fake woke in this fandom and then speak over literal minorities. if ur a straight or wlw girl stop speaking over mlm when it comes to mlm ships and whether they& #39;re weirdly fetishised.
11. let ppl headcanon straight characters as any sexuality they like. it& #39;s up to interpretation and often reflects rep they need. if ur angry that cho is called bi or luna is called a lesbian ... go away
12. but obviously these headcanons can reach limits. if ur a straight girl who finds "gays" hot then stop looking at every boy and shipping them together. if ur a guy that thinks girls kissing is hot just jump in the sea
13. a lot of women in the fandom have baaadd internalised misogyny. hating ginny purely bc she gets in the way of drarry or hating cho bc of hedric or just hating women in general other than them being obstacles for y& #39;all .... reflect and find good reasons if u wanna b mad https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Zwei Herzen" aria-label="Emoji: Zwei Herzen">
14. comparing voldemort to h*tler isn& #39;t a woke take it& #39;s highly sensitive and offensive to equate the deaths of fictional characters to real life victims of genocide .
15. to add to that point comparing blood purity and the slur "mudblood" to REAL LIFE RACIAL INJUSTICE AND SLURS isn& #39;t woke either and once again you& #39;re equating someone& #39;s real life struggles to something in a fictional children& #39;s book and diluting the severity of it.
16. this ones unpopular but man .... i actually love delphi diggory (obviously her story has so much useless shit and plot holes and i& #39;d erase so much of that) but man she& #39;s so gay n im saying proudly that i love her
17. leaving peter out of the marauders or acting like he never existed makes me think ur just boring. that& #39;s what makes his arc so interesting. life isn& #39;t just black n white n whether u like it or not he was a marauder and he betrayed them
18. marauders stans stress me out. i love y& #39;all and i used to stan them hard in 2015 but like ... they& #39;re four canonically white boys. what is there to stan.
19. on the subject of the marauders too some of y& #39;all that write fanfictions forget they& #39;re british and wouldn& #39;t be like american high schoolers. they wouldn& #39;t be woke as fuck like in 2020. they grew up in the 70s.
20. also a marauders series would be so boring riverdale 2.0 like i don& #39;t want to see a show where james and snape just rival each other and forget theres a literal war brewing.
21. my bias is jumping out but if u had a tom riddle movie saga that covered all up until he was destroyed by lily& #39;s sacrifice it would not only cover the marauders in a movie but also from a better approach (aka actually focus on the threat of evil instead of & #39;highskewl drama& #39;)
22. i am ready for haterz https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="LĂ€chelndes Gesicht mit Sonnenbrille" aria-label="Emoji: LĂ€chelndes Gesicht mit Sonnenbrille"> but y& #39;all loveee to bandwagon and attack people for no reason and then call it shits and giggles. if someone likes a (legal) ship or a character y& #39;all will go after them relentlessly and people join thinking they& #39;re impressive. it& #39;s old.
23. also the way y& #39;all tweet "omg there was a fight what did i miss?" and desperately seek validation by involving yourself in certain matters that u don& #39;t need to be involved in is ... childish.
24. people love to praise jkr and her work but most of the characters lack depth and are lazy copy paste versions of each other and the only ones that do have depth and who should be explored more are demonised by the fandom (peter, tom riddle etc)
25. whilst i admit that given harry potter takes place in a world that mingles with real life and therefore the marauders would probably not be woke in the 1970s it& #39;s a fantasy world if wizards exist then i don& #39;t think real life issues would need to be present if that makes sense
26. james and snape in their earlier years have the same dynamic as harry and draco but if a single person dared ship james and snape the way y& #39;all ship drarry they& #39;d be destroyed.
27. the most interesting marauder is peter and you won& #39;t change my mind. i& #39;m sorry. i wanna know what shifted his loyalty. his feelings after betraying them. the events leading up to the betrayal. none of that black n white, good shit vs bad shit that remus, sirius n james have.
28. y& #39;all hyped prisoner of azkaban up to the point where it stopped being enjoyable. the shots were gorgeous but 90% of the hype came from the lack of death in the movie and the fact that remus and sirius were introduced when they& #39;re two of the most popular characters.
29. you can& #39;t separate art from the artist if you& #39;re directly funding them through their work and it genuinely bugs me when harry potter fans condemn jkr but buy harry potter official merch. if you& #39;re gonna do it at least support small businesses that make merch and not fund jkr.
30. burning your harry potter books after problematic things jkr has done is pointless and wasteful because you still bought the books and put money in her pocket AND you& #39;ve wasted it instead of donating it to a charity store where someone else can enjoy it without funding jkr.
31. marauders stans will use modern day examples of friendship for their fics and whilst that& #39;s good i really recommend a movie called cemetery junction because the marauders vibes are immaculate and it& #39;s actually a realistic portrayal of a young brit friendship group in the 70s
32. i do not care what anyone says. even if it& #39;s a joke. if you share fanart or manips or fanfiction of gross ships that often involve minors with adults it& #39;s not acceptable. doesn& #39;t matter if you& #39;re sharing it to show oomfs how disgusting it is. it& #39;s not funny or okay. <3
33. idk why i find draco annoying but recycling the same three pictures of him in prisoner of azkaban won& #39;t make me stan him ..... but you do you and i& #39;m not about to shame anyone for standing him if he& #39;s your king carry on xx
34. y& #39;all will say "i love draco / tom riddle they& #39;re so complex" then shit on ppl who like snape or dumbledore (probably bc of looks). you can like any fictional character so long as you acknowledge that they& #39;re bad people and don& #39;t glorify them as good people who do no wrong.
35. please stop romancising and fixating on draco& #39;s angst in half blood prince it& #39;s not cute to be indoctrinated the way he was by his family and made to do that shit and even tho it& #39;s only fiction it& #39;s terrifying how much people are obsessed over romanticising it https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="â€ïž" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">
36. chamber of secrets tom riddle isn& #39;t all that i& #39;m so so so sorry oomfs .... i know lady riddle has disappointed herself in saying this but it& #39;s true.
37. i don& #39;t focus on the golden trio or many of the characters who are minors when it comes to forming opinions about whether or not i like them and idk why but i feel like they& #39;re growing kids and they change and i can& #39;t love or hate any of them the way i do w adult characters
