It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

via @discipleofkleio

I hate Rowling so much.

[Image description: Screenshot of a post by “kandice_martellaro_” reading:

“If you’re planning to watch that HBO Harry Potter series, I really hope you understand two things:

1.) She pushed this reboot is because the original cast have publicly supported the transgender community and she wants a ‘do-over’ that doesn’t involve them.

2.) Putting money into her pocket WILL directly harm transgender folks and specifically transgender kids. She uses her wealth to block bills that would protect trans youth. It’s different than just hate speech (which is bad enough.)”

At the end of the post is a screenshot of a tweet by J.K. Rowling (@ jk_rowling) where she responded to the question “What actor/actress instantly ruins a move for you?” with “Three guesses. Sorry, but that was irresistible. 🤣🤣🤣”

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No hatewatching! No liveblogging your pirated version! Starve it to death!

I feel like as a trans woman being attacked the most by JKR I gotta weigh in on this—I couldn’t give a fuck less whether or not they’re parodying HP.

First of all: JKR doesn’t make a dime off of it

Second: HP was never really originally transphobic itself; you can enjoy HP without liking JKR; almost every trans person I know does. Ultimately, the only thing MisMag has in common is the wizard school setting. I know about the whole Rita Skeeter thing is bad, but MisMag in every way subverts that. Not only does it do that, but it a: has a literal trans cast member (Erika) and b: quite regularly incorporated the “fuck terfs” mantra.

Third: it isn’t even hp. It’s a hp PARODY. To not understand the basis of it is to not understand art and comedy themselves. No element of transphobia is present within, it doesn’t harm trans people now AND in the long run.

its cool that you feel okay putting your voice behind this, there have been at least 20 trans people who have dm'd or sent me asks directly saying they are also in uncomfortable with this season and didn't want to get dogpiled/didn't feel confident talking about it.

I would love to invite you to learn about how corporate brand deals work. Corporations and businesses do not make brand deals with IP or media property that are not popular, or aren't widely recognized. The Harry Potter franchise as of 2024 has brand deals with Lego, Amazon, Funko Pop, Polly Pocket, build a Bear, Target, and Scholastic is publishing a new "commemorative" series of the books. Why do you think they're making this shit. Why do you think so many big brands feel comfortable working with her even with what she's done. Because her brand has RECOGNITION. it has POPULARITY. Because you people won't let it fucking DIE. D20 doesn't need to be sending her money directly. As long as big brands can see people are interested in and giving credibility to her IP, they'll sign off on anything.

"HP was never really transphobic" Pansy Parkinson was a main villain and described as "pug faced, wide shouldered, mannish". Umbridge was a main villain, also described as "mannish, wide, square jawed" she regularly invaded children's privacy, their bedrooms, by transforming into "something she wasn't". The stairs to the kids dorms let girls go to the boys rooms but didn't let boys go to the girls. The books are STEEPED in transmisogyny.

" The thing mismag has in common is that it's a magic school" staff have explicitly said mismag is based on HP. They use the font stylization and hedwigs theme style music in official promo media

"they say fuck terfs and Erika is trans" Erika is not transfem. Erika cannot speak to transfem experiences. She cannot bring any lived transfem context to the table, which is crucial when JKR's targets are Specifically Trans women. As far as I've heard trans experiences were explored at the table, their character maybe goes by different pronouns now. Is that the scathing transmisogyny takedown you wanted? Or did they just say fuck terfs enough and give JKR more social capital to make another thousand to legislate for more trans deaths?

"it's an hp parody" you don't even seem sure of that yourself.

if Dropout actually wanted to platform trans voices & performers, then they would implement a gender diversity quota into their shows. “but then it would be forced” so? ten years ago the BBC implemented a rule for all of their panel shows to have a woman on every episode. and obviously it didn’t End Sexism On TV Forever, but there was an immediate & noticeable difference even for female comedians looking for small time untelevised standup gigs. the reason Dropout don’t do this is for trans folks because they consider the public perception of trans women to harm their bottom line too much to consistently hire any of us, and it would be immediately obvious if they only gave these positions to TME trans people (and to be honest — they already do, and it already is).

the biggest & most obvious problem here is that the reason trans women are unmarketable for Dropout is because they have spent years cultivating an audience of people who would prefer to see drag queens than trans women in their "queer content". functionally identical to Ru Paul's audience in that sense.

okay but I think it’s not that deep trans women just aren’t marketable idk what to tell you same way furries aren’t marketable there’s nothing wrong with either concept it’s just not made for mass appeal and that’s okay

the straights and the cis are allowed to have their own opinions too and they make up the majority of society so it lowkey makes sense that their whims dictate where business investments go like what are you complaining about here 💀

average dropout fan when you tell them trans women feel unrepresented & unvalued in dropout’s content

@samreich

So based on @plaidos's posting about lack of trans fem rep at Dropout and the ensuing arguments about how true it was, I did a deep dive on the numbers;

Dimension 20, Game Changer, Um, Actually, and Dirty Laundry have featured (to date) 319 performers, ranging in frequency of appearence from Brennan's 290 episodes, to 167 people with one each.

74 people have five or more appearences:

:/

ID: Two graphs. The first is titled: "Performers" and shows the highest number is for "Cis man" with 38, followed by "Cis woman" with 26, followed by "Non-cis TME" with 7 and then "Non-cis TMA" with 3.

The second graph is titled: "Episodes" and "Cis man" is highest with 1546, followed by "Cis woman" with 824, followed by "Non-cis TME" with 317, followed by "Non-Cis TMA" with 26.

End ID.

ok since jk Rowling has picked a new woman of color to harass i feel the need to remind everyone that she's not doing anything strange or like. out of the ordinary. and that women of color (both cis and trans) have always had to fight to be acknowledged as real women in white society. like yes she is being transmisogynistic but she is also continuing a very long lasting racist & white supremacist tradition of denying women of color our womanhood.

Welp, if JK Rowling being executive producer and therefore being fully involved in the show wasn't enough for people to boycott, then here's HBO basically saying they don't care JK Rowling is a bigot from hell who literally helped lead a harassment campaign of lies against Imane Khalif in her transphobia and obsession with women being terf's standards of women alongside posting harassment against trans people on twitter at times, they gonna stand by her, while using the excuse, "personal views". Hmm, yes, personal views- that's one way to uh, call what the fuck JK Rowling comes out with a-lot- last I checked personal views do come with consquiences if said out loud....a thousand times in JK's case and still counting....especially if they hurt people, but hey, if it means making another Harry Potter project to milk, just let it fucking be I guess.

God I'm so over the fucking wizard school. Fuck you if you're still buying the merch. Go read another book.

As much as i hate JKR i will not tolerate any slander or hatred aimed towards the kids that get casted in the Harry Potter reboot.

If they get accurate aged kids then they’re gonna be between 10-12/13 years old to represent year 7’s (11-12.) Chances are they’re child actors aiming for a big break which shouldn’t be biased on who they author of the books are or they are being pushed by their parents which is something that happens more often than not.

I refuse. point blank refuse to fuckin ‘cancel’ any kids casted. They are children and they deserve a chance.

I won’t be watching it. But i will not obliterate a child’s chances to succeed based on a woman’s shitty view of human beings

This is why the best thing to do isn't to hatewatch the show, or to meme on it, or drag it down. The best thing to do is starve it for viewers.

The kids on the show aren't the problem. They're innocent in this.

You wanna hurt the producers, the directors, the people actively contibuting to the issue?

Don't watch the show. Don't talk about the show. Ignore it.

Transphobes will pump up the view count for a bit purely for the sake of transphobia, just like they did with Hogwarts Legacy. And then, also like Hogwarts Legacy, the popularity will fade and the majority of transphobes, who don't like this stupid series and only pretend to for the sake of being antisemitic, transphobic pricks... will move on.

Ignore it and let it die. That's the safest option to starve JKR's popularity and wallet and also to protect the kids on the show.

On that last note though JKR will always be financially successful. Even with the recent substantial drop in her profits residuals and good investments mean that unless there is a total collapse of society in which money becomes useless she will always be well off.

What she craves is relevancy, she loves the spotlight and regardless of it being good or bad attention she wants the attention.

So the best thing to do is total shunning. No pirating, no hatewatching, no flimsy justification, there is no carbon footprint of guilt that thinking donating to just causes will negate supporting her.

Let Hairy Snotter slip into irrelevancy and JKR with it.

The thing about killing JK Rowling’s relevancy is that you stop everything Harry Potter related. That means

No more Harry Potter fanfictions or AUs.

No more “Which Hogwart’s house are you” (not even “screw your Hogwart’s house what’s your…” just say “what’s your x”).

No more Harry Porter movie marathons.

No more Harry Potter memes.

No more “what’s your Patronus charm” quizzes.

Stop everything tied to Harry Potter. So long as it has some hold on current pop culture relevancy than it’s still not enough.

And on a secondary note, truly this is upsetting, because people are taking it as a personal attack to Dropout, Aabria and the cast, when I haven't seen anybody be unkind to them specifically. No, this doesn't change the fact that Dropout as a brand has been great until that point, and this mistake doesn't magically erase all the other great representation they've had and causes they've supported. It can be just a misinformed mistake, but for it to be they need to be told so and do better in the future. They can't know that they've fucked up here unless someone tells them "I know you had good intentions but this isn't working the way you intended it to and it's doing more harm than good". Criticising something doesn't have to be a crusade or an attack or a cancel, it can be done out of love and care and a true desire to see something you love do better. It's because we love Dropout and the content they've released that we need to take the time to engage in this conversation topic and listen to why the transfem community has a problem with it. It's specifically because Dropout is an inclusive brand that prides itself on being a safe space in general that this conversation needs to happen. If it were something I didn't care about I'd just be saying "Ok, fuck these guys, let's just not watch their content and let them disappear from memory." But I do care about Dropout and I want to see them do better for my transfem sisters. Because they deserve to feel safe and listened to when watching D20, and they deserve to know that a platform that dedicates itself to hosting all kinds of safe contents for all kinds of marginalized folks isn't giving more visibility to someone who's actively working to suppress their rights.

No, Mismag isn't a love letter to HP, and yes it's supposed to be a satire. But officially attaching itself to the HP name and brand, even as a parody, even without directly collaborating with it's god awful creator, is a bad move. It's a shit move, even, and they need to be told so. I have no doubt in my heart that no harm was intended and that the people involved with Mismag can hear the point being made and understand it's value and truth. But the point needs to be made.

And yeah, the fandom's reaction is just not it. That so many people immediately jump to belittling and minimizing the completely legitimate anger and hurt of an extremely marginalized and persecuted minority is suspect as fuck. I love Dropout, but at the end of the day if you put not hurting the feelings of a brand over the wellbeing of real people, you have not been listening to the stories D20 has been telling you. That very notion stands against everything they've said they believe in.

She's fucking right. Also y'all should stop interacting or buying or watching any Harry Potter related shit.

Let jkr disappear from the public discourse. Let her go back to the fucking pit she crawled out of

The Israeli company Nordic Wind is attempting to build more windfarms on unceded Sámi land. Our community has been joining forces with the Palestinian encampment in Tråante to protest and block these developments. No genocide on stolen land. #NoNordicWind

Imagine being so antisemitic you refuse to combat climate change…

imagine being so antisemitic you just lie and say a norwegian company is israeli

Now normally I don’t like AI overview, but this time is an exception. Quit fucking lying for once in your goddamn life and take like five seconds to google something so incredibly, stupidly simple