• katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    hp was a big part of my pre transition life when i was in the closet. i hate jk so i dont buy new things but i still do reread my existing books. leaky, pottercast, and starkid were the first places i fit in.

    but i dont actively seek out pro rowling hp fandom tho. fuck rowling.

    • dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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      9 hours ago

      I think a lot of us trans girls are in the same situation. I learned to read on HP books, and Hermoine was a deeply important character to me growing up 😅 It’s hard for me, but I have gradually moved away from the series as it increasingly becomes associated with Britain’s Top Transphobe.

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        8 hours ago

        Dunno if you know dimension 20 and their Misfits & Magic mini-series, but it was basically a satire of Harry Potter, really attacking some of the unquestioned tropes in that series.

        Anyway, this is a beautiful clip of Erika Ishii, who is NB, at the start of the series, saying what they think of TERFs:

        https://youtu.be/4GiVpELykaE

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        9 hours ago

        same! i also got into chris colfers land of stories which is infinitely better too (and he’s a better person too!)