I casually enjoy the movies and books. I read or watch them once every several years.
I will also never give her a single penny in any way possible.
I got the bluray set from a thrift store probably a decade ago. Books I just downloaded from a torrent. Watched the whole series with a few friends recently and we just found a free site to stream it. We all went into it well aware of how garbage the author is
Even not giving her money is still supporting her. Piracy has a less oppositional relationship with promoting media than you might think. The best thing is to always just move on to less evil stuff
I remember seeing someone post recently that pirating Harry Potter is like stealing a confederate flag. It’s good you didn’t give them money, but you’re still showing your allegiance by having it at all.
I don’t think this is quite the case. There is no one alive who could possibly have formed an attachment to the confederate flag before it became a bad thing, but the same is not true of HP.
I think you can continue to enjoy things you already own - if you can - so long as you do it quietly, and I think that more or less applies to piracy as well.
I don’t give a shit when you formed an attachment to the confederacy, I care why it’s currently so important to you to have a confederate flag in your home. Even if you keep it in the basement, you still have it. Worse, you went out of your way to get a new one, fully knowing it’s evil.
There are people who liked the confederacy before you, and more than you, who have grown past it and given it up to protect others. Why won’t you?
I am genuinely confused as to whether you are continuing to use the confederate flag as an analogy for “New Harry Potter [YTS].mkv” or if you somehow misinterpreted my comment as a defence of confederate-flag-having, given that the following quote:
There are people who liked the confederacy before you
would quite possibly not apply to Harry Potter. I’m going to have to assume the latter is a possibility. (I don’t like Harry Potter, actually, but I was in target demographic when the first book was written, so it’s entirely possible that I could have been one of the first fans.)
The existence of the confederacy was predicated on the maintenance of chattel slavery, and the memorialisation of its flags and leaders is inextricably linked to the effort to continue to subjugation of black people in the south of the US, and has been for as long as anyone has been alive. That makes it a hate symbol, and thus the having of a confederate flag is, prima facie, sus af.
Harry Potter… isn’t that. For twenty full years Harry Potter was just upper class British wish-fulfilment slop until Rowling went off her rocker. Is it upsetting to me, a British trans woman, that HP continues to be fucking everywhere? Sure. But at the end of the day, pirating HP does less measurable harm to me than e.g. simply using twitter does, so I’m not going to end a friendship over it.
When Harry Potter was first made, it was wish fulfilment written by a closeted bigot that we all assumed was harmless. Sure, but who cares? We’re not talking about things people were doing when it was first made. We’re talking about things people are doing TODAY, when we know what the franchise has done and continues to do through the support of its fans.
Knowing what we currently know, actively engaging with the series is the same as deadnaming someone: It proves they don’t support the trans community. It doesn’t matter if they keep it quiet. If anything, that makes it worse. It shows you know it’s evil, but you don’t care, so long as nobody tells you off for it. Just like a confederate flag, why do you even want it?
And why would you want to be friends with someone who won’t support you?
(Side note: A gun does less measurable harm to me than a flamethrower, but I still don’t want someone to shoot me. It’s a false dichotomy.)
Just like Harry Potter, I’m done with this conversation and won’t engage with it anymore. Goodbye.
There’s very little to get over compared to the picture in the post. I don’t own any merch. I’m not part of the fandom. My life does not revolve around Harry Potter. I think about it once every few years basically. Very heavy emphasis on the “casually” enjoying it.
Before the recent watch with friends, it had probably been 5 to 8 years since I last watched or read any of the series.
I casually enjoy the movies and books. I read or watch them once every several years.
I will also never give her a single penny in any way possible.
I got the bluray set from a thrift store probably a decade ago. Books I just downloaded from a torrent. Watched the whole series with a few friends recently and we just found a free site to stream it. We all went into it well aware of how garbage the author is
Even not giving her money is still supporting her. Piracy has a less oppositional relationship with promoting media than you might think. The best thing is to always just move on to less evil stuff
This, mind share is a powerful marketing tool. Which is also a big issue with the rule34 suggestion in one of the other comments
I remember seeing someone post recently that pirating Harry Potter is like stealing a confederate flag. It’s good you didn’t give them money, but you’re still showing your allegiance by having it at all.
I don’t think this is quite the case. There is no one alive who could possibly have formed an attachment to the confederate flag before it became a bad thing, but the same is not true of HP.
I think you can continue to enjoy things you already own - if you can - so long as you do it quietly, and I think that more or less applies to piracy as well.
I don’t give a shit when you formed an attachment to the confederacy, I care why it’s currently so important to you to have a confederate flag in your home. Even if you keep it in the basement, you still have it. Worse, you went out of your way to get a new one, fully knowing it’s evil.
There are people who liked the confederacy before you, and more than you, who have grown past it and given it up to protect others. Why won’t you?
I am genuinely confused as to whether you are continuing to use the confederate flag as an analogy for “New Harry Potter [YTS].mkv” or if you somehow misinterpreted my comment as a defence of confederate-flag-having, given that the following quote:
would quite possibly not apply to Harry Potter. I’m going to have to assume the latter is a possibility. (I don’t like Harry Potter, actually, but I was in target demographic when the first book was written, so it’s entirely possible that I could have been one of the first fans.)
The existence of the confederacy was predicated on the maintenance of chattel slavery, and the memorialisation of its flags and leaders is inextricably linked to the effort to continue to subjugation of black people in the south of the US, and has been for as long as anyone has been alive. That makes it a hate symbol, and thus the having of a confederate flag is, prima facie, sus af.
Harry Potter… isn’t that. For twenty full years Harry Potter was just upper class British wish-fulfilment slop until Rowling went off her rocker. Is it upsetting to me, a British trans woman, that HP continues to be fucking everywhere? Sure. But at the end of the day, pirating HP does less measurable harm to me than e.g. simply using twitter does, so I’m not going to end a friendship over it.
When Harry Potter was first made, it was wish fulfilment written by a closeted bigot that we all assumed was harmless. Sure, but who cares? We’re not talking about things people were doing when it was first made. We’re talking about things people are doing TODAY, when we know what the franchise has done and continues to do through the support of its fans.
Knowing what we currently know, actively engaging with the series is the same as deadnaming someone: It proves they don’t support the trans community. It doesn’t matter if they keep it quiet. If anything, that makes it worse. It shows you know it’s evil, but you don’t care, so long as nobody tells you off for it. Just like a confederate flag, why do you even want it?
And why would you want to be friends with someone who won’t support you?
(Side note: A gun does less measurable harm to me than a flamethrower, but I still don’t want someone to shoot me. It’s a false dichotomy.)
Just like Harry Potter, I’m done with this conversation and won’t engage with it anymore. Goodbye.
So you are not able to get over it.
There’s very little to get over compared to the picture in the post. I don’t own any merch. I’m not part of the fandom. My life does not revolve around Harry Potter. I think about it once every few years basically. Very heavy emphasis on the “casually” enjoying it.
Before the recent watch with friends, it had probably been 5 to 8 years since I last watched or read any of the series.
We’re not gonna rake you over hot coals for it, but we’re also not gonna lie and say that it’s ok.