J.K. Rowling's new book, The Ink Black Heart, features a storyline about creator who was doxxed by her own fandom over content viewers found transphobic and racist.
The first few books had all sorts of LGBT-coded characters, magic that literally let you change your gender, and a young group of alienated iconoclasts fighting against a moribund, sclerotic status quo that threatened to crush them for being different.
Then JK Rowling blew up, got personally famous, and partnered with Disney. Suddenly the stories were about defending the status quo, horny teenagers in painfully vanilla relationships, pro-sports, and big explosions.
The pro-sports was always there, none of them were really queer coded, she didn’t partner with Disney, they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes, and magic never really changed anyone’s gender. We see women only look like men using magic in the last book, ever other transformation was in the same gender, because jkr can’t imagine gender changing. Thd books and author sucks but learn what you’re talking about before speaking.
The rec-league shit was there as a rhetorical device to build drama and advance the plot. Book 2’s use of Quidditch as this insanely dangerous sport that puts you in the hospital was good aktuly.
she didn’t partner with Disney
It was Warner Bros. My mistake.
they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes
The first three books were genuinely anti-establishment in character. Book 3, in particular, did a great job of painting the institutional world as cruel, corrupt, incompetent, and plagued by bigotry.
magic never really changed anyone’s gender
The Polyjuice Potion does this on a number of occasions.
Thd books and author sucks but learn what you’re talking about before speaking.
The first few books had all sorts of LGBT-coded characters, magic that literally let you change your gender, and a young group of alienated iconoclasts fighting against a moribund, sclerotic status quo that threatened to crush them for being different.
Then JK Rowling blew up, got personally famous, and partnered with Disney. Suddenly the stories were about defending the status quo, horny teenagers in painfully vanilla relationships, pro-sports, and big explosions.
Oh well…
The pro-sports was always there, none of them were really queer coded, she didn’t partner with Disney, they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes, and magic never really changed anyone’s gender. We see women only look like men using magic in the last book, ever other transformation was in the same gender, because jkr can’t imagine gender changing. Thd books and author sucks but learn what you’re talking about before speaking.
The rec-league shit was there as a rhetorical device to build drama and advance the plot. Book 2’s use of Quidditch as this insanely dangerous sport that puts you in the hospital was good aktuly.
It was Warner Bros. My mistake.
The first three books were genuinely anti-establishment in character. Book 3, in particular, did a great job of painting the institutional world as cruel, corrupt, incompetent, and plagued by bigotry.
The Polyjuice Potion does this on a number of occasions.
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