[cw: JKR] [fandom] oh man, tumblr drama because Joy answered an ask about engaging with HP after JKR's comments where she essentially talked about how she approaches fiction and The Author etc. She really said nothing at all about JKR's views or tweets.

But now there's someone reblogging her and mocking her intelligence and basically parroting all the ways in which JKR isn't transphobic! Joy is an idiot for repeating this libel!

When really Joy has no idea what JKR has been up to

She was mostly talking abstractly about Death of the Author and how that's nuanced, and stuff

So now she's getting anon asks about how she should take down the original ask for repeating the horrible slurs about JKR!

LIke it feels like there's this contingent going around attacking anyone who says anything about JKR and like... attempting to control the narrative?

Which Joy didn't actually realize she was wading into in that way

/sigh

As someone with an HP related tattoo it’s important to talk about problematic and horrible things an author has said, if their work matches their beliefs, and call the author out if still living. I think with written word it gets more complex in the art v artist discussion.

Oh, sure

What I am talking about is a party of people going JKR HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG

Because it is frequently a singular person. So it can have greater effect on how their work is viewed

Or digested.

now attacking Joy for even answering

Do I support JKR no, does it change the fact that her books and the HP fandom came at a time in my life when I really needed an escape and tightknit fandom family no

Sorry Plurk is lagging for me on my phone

Ugh attacking is nonsense I don’t understand people defending her

Like at all she keeps doubling down.

i believe this can be answered with a simple "go fuck yourselves"

but we all must find our own path in the great circle of life

[gestures over the serengeti]

I’m still going to do my rereads, but avoid giving her anymore of my money. I think people can’t handle realizing someone from their child hood is trash? Given I am of the older side of HP fans

yeah I'm just disturbed by the notion we need to STOP DEBATE because MY FAVE

It’s hella nuanced on multiple levels more so with an answer that wasn’t specific to the JKR stuff because I know I have different answers for JKR than I do Polanski, H.W, or Allan. Same goes for Shakespeare and HP Lovecraft

Not surprised TERFs come out in full force for JKR

like "Delete this ask because it mentions her"

Sometimes it’s not even her fans it’s people who support her org and her anti trans rhetoric

Or not HP fans rather

Yeaaaah, terfs are one of those obnoxiously vocal minorites, from what I've seen. It's unfortunate, really.

yeah