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Spew hate, fund hate, systemically implement hate and violence, politically platform and fund hate, and do horrific disgusting acts to individuals all the time.

Jkr is evil. Not a trash person, not a politically polarizing person, not just an outspoken person I disagree with. But an actual. Evil. Fucking. Human.

They're not that whimsical and the magic is kind of stupid. As in its not good magic and the world isn't coherently built around it.

I can pirate and indulge in my inner child from time to time knowing that cast and crew created lifetime bonds and had that experience with us - the fans.

Rowling? There aren't enough buses on earth to toss her under.

And few things matter less than the JK herself.

I agree, but she's rich and is putting her money into projects that are actively hurting people.

With a cactus, sideways

I would consider him averaged sized.

The easiest of trolley problems

Attention sometimes matters more than your money. And todays world is all about attention.

We will all do better to ignore such artists altogether.

Yeah it's actually been pretty handy to my language learning process to have a full series of books written at a child's reading level that it's easy to find secondhand or on Anna's archive etc translated into multiple other languages. They're mediocre and the author sucks but they've had a massive cultural impact worldwide and if you read them as a kid you'll be able to follow the plot pretty well even while you're still learning the language. I needed hardcopies because my job benefits from me being as analog as possible but like I said it's so easy to find translated copies of them for cheap.

As a side note, having gotten into the western esoteric spiritual traditions (tarot, astrology, etc) where she pulled a bunch of her worldbuilding from, idt people realize how deep the TERF roots are in that culture. There's a huuuge emphasis on a woman's reproductive status being the source of their power. It's much easier to separate yourself from that kind of thing with an esoteric religion compared to an institutional one like mainstream Christianity but it does still require being mindful of what outside sources you integrate into your personal philosophy.

I have the pirated Full Cast audio books. After book 3, they slowly get worse. First 3 I can defend as simple kids solving over the top mysteries. Reminds me of the Enid Blyton and The Secret Seven books I read as a kid.

But the casual elf slavery. Dumbing down politics for kids. The torture being used for detention in book 5. Pushed me enough to buy the inkheart audio books.

There are probably other books for teens that have magic and fantasy, but I am reccomending Inkheart by Cornelia Funke right now.

That's because they're books for children. Has everyone forgotten this?

Things are allowed to be kind of bad and people are allowed to like them anyway.

Things are not allowed to be bigoted, of course.

If you're talking about the original books you purchased years ago then sure, I guess.

But buying anything from or supporting the HP franchise now, financially supports JKR, and that means she can finance more of her transphobic bullshit that hurts all of us. So in that case no, no we can't have both.

God knows why you'd want to enjoy a story written by a person as awful as JKR these days, though anyway. I know I can't.

The argument goes that while pirating doesn't inherently support the author, continuing to participate in fandom perpetuates the cultural influence that the author has in society and can encourage others by proxy to go spend money on the author's work.

That works to an extent, as long as you aren't talking to your friends about the show, who might then go off and watch it somewhere that supports her.

It's pretty bad. Remember how abolishing slavery is literally a running gag? Or his there's one character of every non-white ethnicity? Or the prose kinda sucked?

Pirate, then donate to a trans-friendly charity what the books would have cost.