#but harry potter is one of my hyperfixations and i can't let it go

[vazaha-tya]

blood supremacy in harry potter is at a crossroads between xenophobia/racism (not as we understand it), ableism and classism but with jkr having no in depth of understanding of these issues, it really ends up in a sort of twilight zones where power dynamics are incomprehensible. and considering power dynamics have everything to do with discrimination, it's really frustrating

(i'd mention speciesism for the way centaurs, house elves etc are treated but that's a common problem in fantasy. besides, the parallels between centaurs and secluded indigenous communities + house elves and chattel slavery are so fucked up i think analysing it is just gonna make me mad. she should have never touched that with a ten foot pole)

wizard-raised magicals are both the minority according to the subtext (witch burnings, smaller population, inability to blend in, need for their locations to remain hidden) with muggles being their dominant counterpart and the majority because they essentially hold the power to fight back on a higher level than muggles do. hence the xenophobia/racism parallel, which is incomprehensible because of the way the lines between oppressor and oppressed are blurred. she also tried to make it a parallel to antisemitism but talking about that is not my place i think. from what i said before i'd imagine the problem with that is kind of obvious, i mean, the subtext alone, yikes.

the pureblood-muggleborn relationship looks more like a classism thing, especially with the subtext of purebloods being wealthy and having status (+the whole blue blood idea is kinda obvious) and this idea of muggleborns being sort of upstarts encroaching on this "higher society" and introducing their commoner ways. more straight-forward than the former but even there lines are weirded out by the way muggle things really do seem to replace stuff that could be read as parts of wizard culture. muggle holidays are fic writers' favourite example of that and for good reason. how does celebrating halloween make sense? and christmas? the yule ball kind of indicates some awareness of pagan holidays and everyone swears by merlin, i doubt wizards are christian. it mostly stems from jkr thinking of worldbuilding as aesthetic rather than foundation but it really implies weird stuff about how all of those muggle things came to be introduced

the ableism discussion is the only one that has clear and delimited power dynamics but it's pretty obvious it's not done on purpose. here, squibs and muggles are clearly considered less than wizards. i'll admitmy first thought about it was like "duh? i'd rather have magic than not" then i kinda slapped myself because that is not the issue there. of course it's better to be able to do something than not. i wish i didn't have worms for brains and a high chance to inherit my mom's chronic illness. the problem is that not being abled doesn't make you less and yet, that's pretty much never argued in HP. just look at the way filch is treated. at best he is pitied, at worst mocked and scorned. it's really nasty

anyways, listing everything that's wrong in the books would take hours but i have a google docs titled "unhinged ramblings on the nature of blood supremacy in harry potter" so i thought i'd at least share the sparksnotes before deleting it

#harry potter #hp #tya rambles #hp meta #harry potter meta #blood supremacy #everything is fcked up and making sense of it is hard #but harry potter is one of my hyperfixations and i can't let it go #i wish i could because the transphobia issue alone makes me sick #but here i am #writing fics to salvage a little bit of the series #but the more i write the more i realised i can't solve everything #so i might as well complain about it here as well

[my-castles-crumbling]

Hello,

I recently got back into the Harry Potter fandom, mostly because of tumblr. Otherwise I wouldn't even consider talking about my hyperfixations with my real friends.

So here's the thing, I know JKR is problematic and that is an understatement. I know this. And I came across a post which basically condemned her and said you shouldn't need more reasons to drop HP than this or something along those lines right.

And I completely agree with them. So I reblogged the post adding to it saying that the only way I am connected to this fandom is through this site.

Idk if this sounds like someone just like pettily complaining about people or whatever. They reblogged that post with my additions saying it's bad to even connect with the fandom, it gives her more support and kind of shamed me for still being a part of this.

Idk I just feel so guilty rn. And I just wanted someone to say it's okay to be here I guess. Until now I have loved HP content here, and this has been such an important part of my life. I can't just let it go.

I just wanted to let it out somewhere. Ughh as I type it out I feel I'm overreating but still. It's kinda been eating me up.

No, don't feel guilty at all! This is such a real feeling, and something I struggle with.

I guess to me, it's a personal decision.

Some people view loving harry potter (and any potter-related fandoms like the Marauders) as support of JKR. And that's...I can't fault them for that. Because people are so excruciatingly MAD. As someone who grew up literally idolizing her, it was absolutely devastating to see her turn into this. It was literally a betrayal. Like...the queer community used to really love her for pushing the idea of love and being yourself and fucking....not living in a closet. SO when she turned into this? It was really upsetting. People have literally had a staple of their childhood tainted, and for some, that's enough to completely write everything HP off completely. And that's fair.

For other people, they've decided to take the series as their own. To basically steal it and say- nope. Sorry, bestie. Not yours to be an author of anymore. I think that's more my view. Harry Potter (not even exaggerating) probably saved my life when I was a child, and got the through so much that I can't just get rid of it. It's quite literally a part of me. So while I respect the people who can't do it anymore, I just can't let go of something that really was a coping mechanism for years.

And then there are some people (like a newer generation) who never saw JKR as the author. It's always been the fandom. And I think that's also valid.

I think it's fair to say JKR doesn't have control over the fandom anymore, and we've made it our own. I don't lose sleep over being a part of it. But again, I think it's a personal decision, and one you can only make for yourself, you know?

#ask #asks #ask cas #marauders era #marauders fandom #harry potter #harry potter marauders #the marauders #jkr is a terf #jk rowling #fuck jkr #anti jkr #screw jkr #fuck jk rowling

[clare-with-no-i]

20 q's for fic writers

thank you sooo so much for tagging me @kay-elle-cee I unfortunately could not approach this in a completely earnest fashion due to who I am as a person, so everyone please take this slightly ersatz set of answers with all of the love I intend…which is a lot I swear…

AO3 Username: clarewithnoi (pronounced 'clare with no eye')

1. How many works do you have on A03? lol I keep orphaning stories when they annoy me but for now 37 (I think?)

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 403,419…what is this word city

3. What fandoms do you write for? Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, others which I have not published lol

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

not the statistics page!!!!!!! john mulaney voice that's the thing I'm sensitive about!!!!!!

one long day (all my love will make you shake) at 1,151 WOW my god I did not realize it had surpassed 1k!!! did I know that? holy shit!

I will carry you, always at 873 ok this is also shocking but I do know that my they-lived AUs tend to be more popular and they're older so they've had time to accumulate hits

foreigner's god at 701 still can't believe this <3

theogony at 682 (!!)

growing pains at 675 another they-lived AU! I really carved out a niche early on

5. Do you respond to comments? don't look at me…I always want to…I swear I just get overwhelmed…put the gun down please…

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhhhh jesus idk, probably the derelict art of letting go? I don't write a lot of angst but I guess that one is on the sadder side

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? foreigner's god! or I will carry you always! in one of them I contend with reincarnation and shared grief and second chances at life. in the other one they hook up in the DADA classroom. so it's a toss-up

8. Do you get hate on fics? not really, and given the number of public fights I've had on this account you'd think that people would take their dislike of me to ao3 more often, but everyone's been remarkably charitable in that regard. thanks guys <3

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? only if I can exorcise personal trauma through it. or if it's 2020 and I'm dissociating in my studio apartment.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? no and no one say theogony or I'm turning this bus around

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? yessiree and it was not pleasant!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? yes! a few! the ones with my permission were lovely. the ones without my permission not as much.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? naur…

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? it's like a three-way tie between jily, percabeth, and zelink tbh! but I've mainly read jily fic in the past few years I think. but this answer can change dependent on me developing a new hyperfixation lmao

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? the last time I answered this question I did it as a joke and then I wrote theogony about it so I'm going to choose peace and just plead the fifth here lest I commit to another wip that'll take three years

16. What are your writing strengths? I do a lot of (an excess of) research, I'm good at description, I am funny when I want to be, I've had some really good prose moments if I do say so myself (I do)

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I am structurally a very weak writer, I can't be succinct, I don't have a great literature background so I never really know what I'm in conversation with and have limited points of reference for writing, I am very bad at writing characters who are subtle about their emotions/romantic feelings, I submit to time pressure and rush myself, the list goes on

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I've always wanted to write a fic in Spanish omgggg

19. First fandom you wrote for? either Zelink or Percabeth when I was like 12 lol.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? theogony!

tagging @thequibblah yes I know you've been tagged already. cope <3 and @mipwrites go get 'em champ

#yeehaw! #clare is tagged

[impishtubist]

Factually, I know that there are a bunch of younger people in the marauders/wolfstar fandom who haven't actually read the books, but the thing I just can't wrap my mind around is: WHY??? And I don't even mean it in the sense of "these kids are ruining the fandom and should read the canon before they start writing fics" (well... at least not entirely). I mean that I utterly don't get it as a choice for them. Like, there is SO MUCH media out there that (a) has way better canon, (b) has canonically queer characters, and (c) wasn't written by a racist TERF. For example, Young Royals. In itself, a really good show. And if these new MWPP fans' fics are anything to go by, it has the exactly the kind of character archetypes, character relationships, and story lines that these folks are actually interested in seeing/reading. There's also Good Omens, OFMD, the (small but great) the Old Guard, etc. The options are abundant these days!

Now, for all I know, a lot of these folks might be in a few of these other better-suited fandoms in addition to MWPP. But why do they bother with MWPP at all? I get that MWPP & Harry Potter in general is a bigger, older fandom with a lot of existing content. But I feel like this newer pack of MWPP fans could really help build up more vibrant communities in the fandoms that genuinely suit them if they just invested their time & energy on that instead of on attempting to shoehorn characters & story arcs that they don't even (canonically) like into a form they enjoy.

I have many thoughts about this, actually! It's an interesting thing to discuss.

(I'm going to start out by saying that if you're a newer/younger fan here and you are reading this post...cool, you do you. I understand that the hyperfixation brain worms sometimes lead you places you didn't expect and you can't extract yourself very easily. But I'm still going to talk about how it 'tis a bit puzzling to me.)

This is not going to be universal at all, but I find personally that the fandoms I'm more active in are the ones where the queer relationships aren't canon, or are only hinted at very very slightly. Like, I wrote 18 fics for Good Omens before the romance was confirmed, and after that I wrote...1. I've written one fic for Maurice and 130 for Sherlock. I think that once the couple I want to get together is actually confirmed in canon, there's nothing left for me to do, you know? No more writing sandbox to play in. Don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic that Aziraphale and Crowley kissed and I cannot wait for season 3. I'm just not as compelled to write fic for that fandom now as I am for, say, Temeraire. So I can see people being more drawn to write for MWPP, with so many possibilities to play with and so many characters/couples, as opposed to Young Royals, which was a fun show to watch but I am not compelled to write anything for because the romance already played out on screen! Same with OFMD and Old Guard - LOVED watching them, don't really feel compelled to write for them.

Obviously this is not universal because those fandoms are thriving, but it's just kind of how my brain works.

Also, there must be something about the way that Sirius's and Remus's characters have been watered down/changed entirely for TikTok videos that is compelling to the younger crowd. I don't know, because I don't go there, but I've heard so many younger fans say they started shipping Wolfstar because of what they saw on TikTok.

So...yeah. I am as baffled as you! With the abundance of queer content out there not written by a TERF, it is definitely surprising to see the fandom gain new members. I am only here because Sirius Black grabbed me by the throat when I was 7 years old and hasn't let go since. If I hadn't been seized by the series at a formative age (and before her TERFness was known), I don't know if I would have gotten into it as an adult. But I can't speak for those fans! I can only speculate, like you.

#imp speaks #chaos night #we are turning this into an analysis night actually i feel

[sophiebernadotte]

I've been on this website since 2012, technically since 2011 if you count my first account, & sometimes I wonder how things would look if I had just let things be. If I hadn't deep-cleaned & deleted all of my posts from 2012-2020. If I hadn't been so strict about who gets to follow me & therefore had semi-regular clean-throughs where I removed followers who seemed to have abandoned their accounts.

But then I remember my One Direction phase in 2013-2016, my 5 Seconds of Summer phase in 2014-2015, my Shawn Mendes phase in 2016-2017, my "I'm going to be a photographer!" phase in 2016-2018, my has-it-ever-really-ended Harry Potter & Percy Jackson phase... basically, all of my awkward teenager years & whatever new hyperfixation I had, it was documented on here & to be honest, I'm kind of glad it's gone & can't come back to haunt me 😂

#I always joke that my longest lasting relationships have been with Ariana Grande and Little Mix #both started in 2013 and are still going strong #saga.txt

[thesoftboiledegg]

I've had hyperfixations for my entire life, way before I knew they were hyperfixations. Pokemon was my first. I have vivid memories of lying in bed and imagining stories with my favorite characters. In fact, I remember this so vividly that I can recall a specific story and what Pikachu was saying. Someone was carrying him (maybe a member of Team Rocket) while he rambled about how happy he was and how he "loved the world."

I was in preschool around this time, so I was pretty young. This might've even started before I went to preschool. I also remember my mom telling me to go to sleep instead of telling myself stories (I used to whisper them out loud for some reason.) I'm 29 now, and I still lie awake doing that.

Anyway, let's see if I can remember all my special interests in order:

Pokemon. This was when I was preschool age.

Some show about superhero dinosaurs that I can't remember. I didn't like how all the characters were male, so I made my favorite character female. This was around the same age.

Scooby-Doo and The Powerpuff Girls, probably around the same time. Blossom, Shaggy and Scooby were my favorites. I made up stories about Scooby-Doo and the gang for hours.

Maaaaybe NSYNC? But maybe I was just a huge fan.

Neopets. Man, I was SO into that one. I was attached to a character named Jeran (I think) in particular. I even remember a specific dream I had about Neopets. I don't remember why I moved on, but I probably just grew out of it.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I don't remember much about this one. I was attached to the main character, Marche, and another character named Shara. I could not care less about that video game now.

The comic strip Foxtrot. I have no idea where this one came from. Who gets fixated over a newspaper comic strip?

Harry Potter. I'm not totally clear on the dates with this one. It feels like it was before Artemis Fowl, so maybe it didn't last as long as I thought it did. I was getting to my preteen years when you feel everything so intensely, so this hyperfixation was pretty deep.

Artemis Fowl. That's my favorite hyperfixation. I was around 11-12 when it started? Maybe a little earlier. When "The Opal Deception" came out, I was so excited that I snuck glances at chapters while I was in class. I was in love with that series.

The Avengers. This was in 2012 when I was actually starting to wonder if I'd ever have a special interest again. I was 18 or 19. Loki was my favorite character and attachment (and he still is, in fact.) This hyperfixation didn't last as long as the others and was a lot less intense--probably because I was an adult.

Artemis Fowl again, kind of. The last book came out in 2012 and revived that spark for maybe a week.

Loki again in 2017 after Ragnarok came out. Again, the intense feelings that come with a hyperfixation didn't last long, but I enjoyed having those feelings again. Loki is probably my all-time favorite fictional character.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Garashir in particular. I had a fic idea and regret not writing it. Maybe one day I'll get back into it and write that story.

Futurama almost became a special interest maybe around 2012-2013? This was during the Comedy Central revival. But it made me embarrassed, so I squashed it. Things might've gone differently if I knew about the Tumblr community on here.

And that brings us to now.

#autistic culture #autistic girl #autistic women #actually autistic #autistic experiences

[callsigndragon]

Hi this is shrimp and this is my first ask!

🖌️🍾🎨

Hope you’re doing well! So excited to read the upcoming work!🥹💛

Shriiiiiimp 🥺❤️ I'm excited for the next works too hehe

🖌 - Do you have/want any tattoos?

Yes! I have six for now. I'm planning on getting the seventh soon! I won't go into many details but I'll tell you what's the meaning behind them:

The very first one is on my wrist. It's from one of my ECGs (yes, it's a heartbeat line from my very electrocardiogram). My heart doesn't have a normal rhythm so it made the tattoo more personal. At the end of the heartbeat line, the word 'hope' appears. For me, this means that even if my heart didn't beat like it should, at least it was still beating. There was hope in every heartbeat

The second one I have is a small potion tattoo! It's in my other wrist, and my mom has the same matching tattoo.

Third one is the word 'Always' but changing the 'A' for the symbol of the Deathly Hallows from Harry Potter. Harry Potter saved my life in my many ways (we don't talk about the author here, just the books, that woman can burn in hell) It was my safe place to go when life was overwhelming. It still is, and I'm sad that I don't get to see more of the Fantastic Creatures world :( (thank you warner)

Fourth is another Harry Potter tattoo. It's a wand and a Patronus. It's a doe. Lily's Patronus. Due with that information whatever you want.

Fifth is a stack of books (7) and they slowly move up and turn into birds flying away. Reading can make you fly to other worlds. It also has some watercolor splashes on it. It's beautiful. I have it on my back.

Last, but not least, the word 'resilience' in my forearm, right above of the antecubital fossa. If you've been around long enough, you know my life has been a shit. Looks like I lack healthiness but I am the most resilient human I've encountered.

🍾 - Have you ever gotten drunk?

Nope. And I actually can't bc of the pills I take for my heart.

🎨 - Any hobbies?

Apart from writing? Let me think... I like drawing and painting. Reading. And I have a lot of hyperfixations every year so... Who knows. Maybe Top Gun is the newest one 😂

#jenn answers

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

"At least with Persona, I can expect the world to keep going and expanding (either it's main continuity or the larger continuities in general)" I mean, you say that, but then P5 and its spinoffs happened and there sure weren't a buncha posts about how they conflict with/retcon various lore and story details no siree (tho that could also be the unhealthy side of hyperfixation, that does pop up)

I mean......I didn't specify that the expanding was always good and consistent. TT0TT Just that they at least put in the effort to keep building on it a little bit at a time. So I at least have a steady and manageable stream to work off of.

I feel like it's more of an issue of "this is a big franchise. They'll make goofs, have changes in creatives and writing teams. Sometimes they'll be conflicting info, sometimes it's retcons (replacement/override types and "additive" types)"

How angry I get might be more of the unhealthy side of the hyperfixation I gotta deal with. TT0TT But I'm aware goofs are gonna happen.

Avatar's gone through a lot of this, between the "nick extras" (I thought we all agreed that was bunk? but I saw some people using these more as facts recently?? TT0TT), the comics, Korra, and the new chronicle novels (and lord knows there's a bunch of other supplementary material nowadays too TT0TT)

My issue with P5 (ah, a statement as old as time 8U or is it a dead horse? ...or a broke record? Or all of the above? TT0TT) and it's spinoffs was just.....egregious tbh, that if they are retcons, it felt more akin to gaslighting than retconning TT0TT P5 even having issues within it's own game let alone the others so I'm like????? But hey, P3 has a timeline problem.....it annoys me a lot too, but at least I can be like "Atlus can't math, they mean 1999 not 2000 here, it's the 4 fucking iteration of P3 but they still can't fix it I see but whatever I'LL DO THE HEAVY LIFTING!"

That's a bit more doable, esp since it's one semi-consistent issue (makes me wonder if they meant for the game to take place in 2010 rather than 2009).

But yeah, both franchises have varying issues, esp because of their size. Same thing can be said about Harry Potter (fuck JK), which is famous for shitty retcons. And Naruto, which is famous for additive retcons.

All those are different than like.... say.....Addams' Family and it's spinoffs (and if anyone says different, they are wrong and don't know anything! 8U). Because, despite it also being a long running franchise, if you took a good hard look at each entry.......they all have diff canons. The have a lot of similarities, they share a lot of key canon similarities, but they don't share EVERYTHING. And they certainly don't execute things the same way (just look at the char Wednesday, there was a big shift in her key component as a char around the 90s!). So that's not really retcons or rewrites. It's literally just diff canons. TT0TT (ah I'm getting off topic so I'll just stop there).

TLDR; I only claimed that they got content (not that all the content was good or bad). Long running franchises will just have goofs, how bad they get varies. How annoyed I get varies depending on various factors, but yeah that can be part of the negative side of hyper fixation too sadly TT0TT

#silly asks #silly answers

[faint-kitten]

Speaking about Hyperfixations, and how they hurt you if you don't let go of them when you're done with them.

I eventually burn out on things. I need hyper fixations to placate my demons. Hyper fixations can be games, or food, or shows, or other content. Even working. Doing work at a Job, if satisfying and it makes the time pass, can be an amazing hyper fixation. But I inevitably build up a tolerance to the amount of dopamine I get back from the thing I do. Sometimes getting stuck in Ruts where I'm still "farming" but for fewer and fewer dividends until i wake up one day and realize "Oh this thing doesn't make me happy anymore, it makes me miserable." But as a result I find myself moving on from franchises. It's okay, I like it, it serves it's time in my life but I'm done with it now. I don't need anymore.

Which is why youtube can be something of a hellscape for me, as I wake up and the algorithm is just pushing more of whatever I clicked on. If you click on ONE clip of simpsons: here's 50 more things about the simpons. Or breaking bad. Or whatever. I think that's a huge reason why I just abandon IP all together. Star Wars is something I frequently say "if it dropped off the planet tomorrow it wouldn't be missed." I'm reaching that point with Super hero movies, DC or MCU. I reached that point with harry potter long before JK Rowling just revealed herself to be a colossal piece of shit. If I'm surrounded by too much of the same for too long, I get depressed, angry, anxious, and suicidal. People don't get this. Like I don't want the same things over and over. I'm literally in a post Apex world right now, where... I have nothing to do. I could boot it up right now. but my brain is like: NO. NO FUCKING MORE. Even looking at my old clips and content I'm like, no fucking more. I suddenly can't stand the sight of it.

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

I've been trying to get my thoughts in order about media consumption, especially in the context of the Wizarding World, and how best to steer people away from the franchise in an effective way, without falling into traps of associating media consumption with morality or activism.

There are people out there who use HP to stay alive, and I'm certainly not going to blame them for not being able to simply discard the series from their lives fully. Special interests and hyperfixations can be hard to stop. Personal thoughts on these facts are irrelevant; different circumstances have to be taken into account for an effective boycott. For me, it's been pretty easy dropping the series from my life, but I know it isn't for many others.

Something I want to address is how to handle guilt. I found it a lot easier to change habits and act when I wasn't dwelling on my guilt, whether that's moving from Chrome to Firefox, cancelling Amazon Prime, or boycotting Nestle. Feeling guilty 'cause you bought a KitKat on a bad day is not only unlikely to spur you on to doing forms of activism, it's likely to inhibit it instead. When you feel guilt, acknowledge it. Don't suppress it. Allow yourself to feel it, and then move on. From personal experience, I've found myself feeling less guilt as a result in the long run. You'll be a much better accomplice, offer much better solidarity, and be much more open to listen if you're not spurred on by guilt.

I also worry that a focus on individual buying habits runs the risk of people - especially cis allies - failing to self-reflect on how transphobia has intercepted into their worldview because, well 'I don't buy HP merch, so I can't be transphobic.' And I'm already starting to see it a little on here. Fighting transphobia, or any form of bigotry for that matter, should never be limited to one aspect of its presentation in society, and should always include reflecting on how to combat the various different ways people are complicit in it. Including themselves.

Striving for better personal habits is admirable, but I don't want it to come at the cost of effective collective means of activism. I'm much more interested in what we can do together and organised against the forces of systemic and institutional oppression, than whether you buy some sliced ham packaged in plastic once a week.

I do wonder whether having a more specific boycott could perhaps be more realistically implemented, especially as the general public is generally less aware of her bollocks than your average Tumblr user. A focus on boycotting the new Fantastic Beasts film for instance, given that trans folk, those in solidarity with trans folk, other marginalised groups the previous texts represented poorly, and D*pp fans, are all pissed off. Couple that with the poor reception of the 2nd film, and its relatively low box office performance, and we might stand a chance of a much more successful boycott.

With all that being said, minimise the spread of the Wizarding World as much as you can - not talking about it, getting rid of any merch, and yes, ideally, not watching or reading the content. If that's not possible, pirate or buy second-hand, or borrow. Don't recommend it. Don't pass it on to the next generation. Give the series as little attention and money as you can.

If you're finding it difficult to let go of the series, try out the first book of a similiar series. The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin is a series I keep meaning to get into, and I've heard a heck of a lot of good things from (I mean it is Le Guin). Discworld by Terry Pratchett is another. Or take a look through the Fantasy Books list on Goodreads (there's even a What To Read After Harry Potter list). Feel free to add any examples in the replies or reblogs.

But also recognise that people pissed that you still consume or create fanworks for the series are doing so because of a genuine fear and anger at the damage JK is doing and fueling. And whilst there's potential arguments about the effectiveness of different tactics, I'm not here to tone police how oppressed people express their frustration at their own oppression. If people don't wish to interact, or engage with your work, because you still consume the franchise in someway, they have every right to do so.

#jk rowling #harry potter #fantastic beasts #anti jk rowling #fuck jk rowling #fuck jkr #anti jkr #anti harry potter #anti fantastic beasts #fantastic beasts and where to find them #secrets of dumbledore #anti terf #anti radfem #transphobia tw #guilt

[morewyckedthanyou]

Alrighty then. So... 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 21, 26, 30 and 39 for Meme for Shippers. A lot of questions I know (but you better answer them! jk). You know I <3 you.

Wow you sure didn't let me get away easy with this, huh? Sorry it took me FOREVER to answer these, but then again, you probably knew it would anyway. 😂

Under a readmore because I don't want to flood anyone's dash, lol.

2. Talk about three of the most important ships throughout your life. Wow, ok, this... is going to be really difficult actually. Because as you well know, I have been into fandoms and shipping for more than half of my life and as such I have SO MANY ships. Oh man...

But... 3 most important ones. Throughout my life. Hmm.

I think since I can interpret this question however I like... I will just go with 3 ships that may not all be very important to me anymore (or I don't really even ship them at all these days), but which have played a very big role to me for different reasons in the past. I also want to say to anyone reading this post that YES, I know the first one of these ships is considered extra problematic but idgaf, I liked what I liked and if you want to cancel me or whatever now, be my guest I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok here goes:

1) Snarry (or Snape/Harry) from Harry Potter Yes, really. When I think back, I think this is probably my longest lasting hyperfixation ever, something that I started, at first jokingly, shipping way before the 7th HP book was ever even published, so I must've been like 16 or so. I think the amount of Snarry fanfics that I read was simply crazy. I even wrote some very bad, very questionable Snarry ff myself. I never published any, thank god, lol, because like I said it was bad, but it was the first time I ever finished writing a fanfic of my own (I remember it was very long too... probably at least 30k or whatever) and this was my number one hyperfixation for years and years. I was under a lot of dress during those times and I did have several other fandoms alongside this one, but this was where I always felt most at home and where I "went" most often to escape the real world. This ship and these characters, especially together, just talked to me in such a real way.

2) Holmes/Watson I can't remember how old exactly I was when I read my first Sherlock Holmes stories and started shipping them in earnest. But I can't have been much older than 20, I think. Back then I was also struggling badly with my sexuality and my sexuality felt like one of the biggest defining things about me because I felt like everyone around me were settling down or at least dating non-stop and I had zero interest in any of that and it made me feel bad and like an outsider. Then I discovered asexuality and while i I didn't know if I was really ace myself, along those times I also started reading more Holmes/Watson fics and then BBC Sherlock happened and suddenly there was a lot more ff where people were writing about ace!Sherlock and I don't know... I felt comforted? Once again, fanfiction helped me cope with difficult times in my life.

3) Reddie from IT (miniseries) Honestly, THE ship for me because in a fucked up way I can relate to both Richie and Eddie a lot (although let's face it I think I'm way more like Richie - masking insecurities with humour is like, my brand, and all that) and idk, even just thinking about these two disaster men makes me feel better. It's really a comfort ship for me, and a very wholesome ship as well. I don't very often go for the friends to lovers trope at all, I just feel like enemies to lovers is a lot more fun but in their case I just... don't need that aspect at all, for some reason? They are similar but so different, they compliment each other perfectly, they are fucked up and in need of therapy. I want to put them in situations and see them mutually pine for each other like the big idiots that they are and then kiss and make it all better.

Also, I've published 8 fics in total of these two and I plan on publishing at least one more (once I finish that goddamn WIP almost one year in the making) and I have ideas for at least one more fic that's gonna be multichaptered and told from the POV of both of them. These fictional guys made me create and participate in a fandom in a way I never have before.

5. Do you have any poly ships? I do actually! :D I don't have that many, and the ones I have also always include a pair of people that I also ship just the two of them together as well, and which is usually my "main ship", but yeah, there are some.

There's the Triumvirate from Star Trek aka Kirk/Spock/McCoy (or McSpirk). Obviously my OTP in Star Trek fandom is Spirk... but I also ship just Kirk and McCoy together, as well as just Spock and McCoy. And then all three of them together, lol.

Talking about another big scifi franchise, Star Wars... I don't ship Luke and Leia together, but I do think they can both definitely date Han at the same time. 😏 But again, I also ship Han with both Leia and Luke separately as well.

I know I haven't really talked about Dragon Age here in a long while, but from Dragon Age 2 I have OT3 which is Hawke/Anders/Fenris. But once again I also ship all three of these characters separately with each other as well because that's how I roll. (I also have another poly!ship from the Inquisition but that actually includes my OC Inquisitor as one of the characters I ship so I won't be going into that)

When I was really into Queen a couple years back I had my certain favourite ships obviously... but I also read many amazing OT4 fics of the whole gang together. 😂

And now that I've really been into Cobra Kai and Lawrusso lately... Well, I also lowkey ship Daniel/Johnny/Amanda. I really enjoy this headcanon of Johnny ending up in bed with the LaRussos one time and then one time becomes two becomes three and he's just torn because he actually has feelings for them but also surely this wealthy, happily married couple is just enjoying having him as their boytoy and nothing else? and then he gets proved wrong I've read some good fics about these three with variations of this headcanon, but I would read a lot more - if there were any! 👀

8. Have you ever shipped yourself with a character? Honestly? No. I guess it's the aro in me, because even when I really like a character and find them cute or hot or whatever, I still never have any desire to get myself involved in any way, not really. I want to appreciate from afar, not get myself involved in this mess. 😂

10. Do you ship any characters that have never met? Way back in time when there was only one season of BBC Sherlock (I think?) I used to ship Lestrade with Mycroft even though they never were seen interacting with each other, lol.

And in Dragon Age I have this very niche ship that is Dorian/Fenris. Potentially they could've met. But in the canon they have not. (I am only familiar with the actual games and have not read any of the comics/visual novels so if they have met there, then I have no knowledge of that whatsoever.)

There are probably some other ships too but these are the only ones that immediately came to mind.

12. Have you ever been disappointed when your ship finally got together? I don't think so? I usually never ship anything that ends up becoming canon anyway, so it's not like I have much experience of that even happening.

But I can tell you that very often if I have shipped something really hard for a really long time, I have already built this whole elaborate story in my head about how it all should go IF they ever were to get together and as such I actually don't even want the ship to become real canon. Because obviously the showmakers would just do it wrong anyway, I don't trust their visions. Does this kind of answer the question? 😂

16. Talk about a ship you initially disliked. Hmm, I can't think of any such ship right now, although I am sure there must have been at least a ship or two that I disliked first and then later on learned not to... 🤔

But I will go with a ship that I was at first very indifferent towards and which later grew on me anyway and now I actually do ship it (though it's still not my OTP in the fandom because of course I had to go for a more rare ship with almost no content, lol).

I'm gonna go with Mash and Trapper/Hawkeye. At first I had no feelings about this ship. Then I kinda went "yeah they fuck sometimes but that's it". Then I started shipping them in a joking way and by now I actually ship them for real. Idk what changed but I'm not even mad, lol.

20. Talk about a ship you feel alone in shipping. I know I am not actually alone, but there are only a handful of people who do ship Hawkeye/Mulcahy and the even smaller handful of fics there are of them I have already read several times. 😅

I also know I am not alone in shipping Richie and Eddie, there's a big fandom and all that. But as someone who prefers the miniseries over the new IT films any day, I do feel quite alone in that sense. I could talk about miniseries!Reddie for hours with someone, but Reddie from the new films... not really. Completely different energies.

Also lol, there are those few ships where you and I are almost the only shippers. I'm talking about lovely stuff like Renegades and Hank/Buster, or The Young Guns films and Chavez/Doc, and of course the classic Morgan/Erkki from Den som frykter ulven. 😂😂😂

Oh! And this only came to my mind because literally a few days ago when I was reading Lawrusso fics, I accidentally stumbled upon an author who had also written a fic about these two guys whose names I don't even remember lol from the film Killer Klowns from Outer Space and I was like !!!!!! because I have shipped that for years and there has literally been not a single fanfic - before that one. That is the only one. I haven't read it yet, and in fact I should rewatch the movie before even attempting to, but... oh god. I was literally so alone but at least now I know there is one (1!) other person who ships it too. 😂

21. Is there a ship you just don’t get, but have nothing against? Probably most of the more popular ships in those fandoms where I belong to but I don't actually ship the popular thing myself... But I'm trying to come up with some proper examples.

From Mash I can think of BJ/Hawkeye. I really have nothing against people shipping it but I also have zero interest in the ship myself, nor can I really see it myself.

This next one is not a popular ship I don't think, but from IT (the new films specifically) I remember being really surprised to find out some people actually ship Bill and Stan because as far as I remember those two don't really even have many scenes together or interact at all? Although let's be real I've only watched the first film of the two and only 2 or 3 times I think so maybe I've missed something. Anyways, again I have nothing against this ship, I just have zero interest in it and can't personally see it.

Again, there are probably other ships that I'm very indifferent about but those two came to mind first.

26. Have you noticed a pattern in your shipping? Is there a romantic dynamic you’re more drawn to? Well, there is definitely the enemies to lovers dynamic that I have always been very much into. And if not enemies to lovers, then I at least tend to prefer ships where opposites attract, I guess? Not in a way that the people have nothing in common, there is always something in common, whether it is shared/similar kinds of trauma or whatever. But yeah, I guess that's it.

30. Name a couple of fandoms in which you have no ships. Fuck! You know what, I am shipper trash and if I like something enough to consider myself as part of the fandom, it is a very safe bet that I also have a ship in it. As such, I can't think of a single fandom that I've actively been interested in where I didn't ship something at least in a kind of a joking way. 😅

39. Is there a fictional relationship you’d really want for yourself? Tbh, not really... I don't really feel comfortable in relationships and the moment anything starts getting too serious I immediately start freaking out because I am a weirdo with trust and commitment issues so... No matter how much I like something in fiction, no matter how cute and healthy and wholesome it might be, I can't even begin to imagine that for myself. Like, sure, unconditional love and great (preferably gay) sex would be nice to have I guess, but also that's too much responsibility for me so... yeah. None for me thanks!

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[lostnfinding]

i recently learned about rick riordan's writing being stereotype ish and like... not the good stuff i thought it was. now im sad bc there r so many issues with like representation and like i can't really do anything about it :( i feel so useless bc all i can do is educate myself? and idk if i can enjoy any of the books anymore... idk i just feel bad about myself thinking they were good representation. i'd like to talk abt this with my younger sibling but idk how... sorry im really lost rn.

hey... ive been seeing that too, and honestly im also pretty confused. from my point of view, rick did do a few things wrong, but he didnt seem to do them intentionally. im really bad at reading people, so this can be wrong, but from what i can sense, he really tries to be inclusive as much as he can, but him being a white, cis, straight male doesnt really make that his strongest point.

i know he made mistakes, but i personally cant stop enjoying his books. they are one of my "hyperfixations", and they were one of the only things i had when i was going through really tough times... plus, they were what brought me and one of my best friends together... i have a deep connection to those books, and i realize that they arent perfect, but they are a big part of my life that i just cant let go of.

its like harry potter: its been a part of my life since i was 5. my 7th birthday was harry potter themed, and it was all i knew gow to talk about for years (probably between my firsts "hyperfixations" and the one that lasted the longest). i have too much of an emotional connection with those two series to stop enjoying them. jkr is just a terrible person, thats a fact, but that doesnt mean we cant enjoy hp anymore. for me, its heartbreaking everything she does, but i decided just to not support her anymore. i wont buy new book editions, i wont go watch new movies, and i wont buy merch.

sure, rick did a lot of things that arent really nice. but he did open a lot of doors. a little while after i finished the heroes of olympus series, i started questioning my own sexuality, and having nico there was actually pretty helpful. it showed me i wasnt alone. the stereotypes can be (and are) harmful, im not going to mask that, but i honestly dont have that much authority or knowladge to talk about this.

i am part of a few minorities he represented (sexuality and gender minorities, and neurodiverse people) but not all, so its not my place to talk about the other side of things.

i still have to do more reaserch, and if i said anything wrong, i apologize. i tried my best to be as uncontrovesial as possible, and give you my personal expirience on that. various people have various expiriences, and im in no place to talk about those

i wish i had people to tag and help you, but i only follow a couple pjo blogs, so i dont have much stuff.

i really do reccomend you do a deep dive in the fandom and the books, so you can conprehend the situation better, and draw your conclusions and opinions from that

and about talking to your sibling: i would suggest aproaching them with a certain character (piper, for example) and talking to them about who she is and how she was potraid, and also look in the point of view of people in her place (native americans, in this case). you could do that to as many characters as you want. be pacient, depending on your siblings age, they may take a while to understand, but if you explain it properly, after doing your reaserch, they will understand.

im sorry i couldnt help more

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