#Or you write Harry as some hulking sex beast of a generic brown guy and Draco as a dainty pale elf prince

[teledild0nix]

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#I see a lot of people complaining about the idea of ppl watching a tv show that doesn’t actually exist #And talking about protecting like poc and queer people from being hurt by a bigoted creator #Which like. #Not giving her your money is s good thing! #But there is RAMPANT bigotry already existing in fandom ? #Like if you talk about how important it is to protect the experience of poc in fandom by not forcing us to see you engage with jkr #And her new work in particular #But you uncritically include house elves in your fic #Or you write Harry as some hulking sex beast of a generic brown guy and Draco as a dainty pale elf prince #Or you’re a grown up who writes adult/teen fic in a fandom where you’re surrounded by kids #I am going to start to suspect that you don’t actually care that much #About welcoming people of color to fandom #Or safeguarding people who are vulnerable #A lot of people do truly engage with the problems of canon #Bc it goes beyond no gay couples fr!!!! It has a ton of issues #But a lot of people are dragging around the same problems of canon and just adding gay sex which like #Okay like chase your bliss I guess #But i guess I’m trying to say #That while it is canon to denounce jkr as a bigot #Which she is!!!!!! #It is much much less common to think deeply about what the bigotry that manifests itself in canon looks like #And how to address and rectify it in transformative works #And people make a very big deal about how rude it is to take issue with the way other people express themselves in fandom #While also claiming to be intensely anti bigotry #Well sometimes those things are at odds and ppl express themselves in racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic ways #Even in fandom #And the answer isn’t to run people out of town on a rail every time they make a mistake #But it also isn’t to pretend every one in fandom who only engages with the original canon #Is doing so in a perfectly progressive way #And this pretense that the line between conscientious progressive fans and selfish bigots is as bright as