Rose and Eridan: Review Harry Potter movies.

hey

this isnt a thing i normally do but. bear with me.

the big woman's gonna keep it real.

the original plan was to focus in on harry potter and just loosely motion towards jkr being being awful. id have rose sort of unpack her memories of being a harry potter fan, and realize that she remembers it as being a lot better than it actually was, to an almost shocking degree. i think this kind of narrative is really common among fandom because well, fandom sort of reinforces that. a lot of peoples reads on stuff that forms fandom consensus is only ever surface deep.

people really, really thought karezi had endgame written all over it.

that's a cool thing to pull apart, and harry potter is ripe for it because well, its bad, and jk rowling only gets worse with time.

........ but thats also the thing. its almost quaint. like. haha, isnt it funny how lame the wizards are. they just wear normal people clothes and say latin words sometimes. hasnt anyone in this world heard of latin? the politics are neoliberal and incomprehensible! harry is a jock that graduated directly into being a cop after being told to do so by the evil nazi guys! haha. isnt that so funny how bad the books are. its adorable.

but........

would that have been satisfying to you? like, would you have been okay with that? having rose and eridan retread the classic criticisms of the books and maybe get a few jokes in at its expense and my expense?

i write these bonus comics in bursts, mostly because my attention is split a lot of ways for this comic and these take the backburner more often than not now that im updating regularly. and the day i went back to resume writing this comic, jkr posted, guess what, more heinous twerf shit. and because of the way online works, that has to be my whole day.

and it goes all the way back. her writing is bad, and it always has been. her politics are worse, and always have been. im only talking about the transmisogyny because its the thing i can talk about. people infinitely smarter than me have put together countless dissections of the ways jk rowlings writing keeps the tentpoles of bigotry stable. everyone and their mom has read the 4chan post about how harry potter doesn't fight fascists because fascism is bad, he fights them because fascists threaten the status quo.

and the same goes for her politics. they became visibly awful when she realized she couldnt be hit back for these opinions, but its evident that these developments arent *new*. go read goblet of fire again. rita skeeter having manish hands and being duplicitous and mannish sucked back then, but it sure hits different now. she keeps getting worse and she keeps getting away with getting worse. and i dont really know what to do about it. thats actually a little bit dishonest. i know what to do about it, im sure everyone does, but i'm a trans woman, and jk rowling is notoriously litigious with people like me. did you know she sued one of her interns into bankruptcy for buying starbucks with a company card sometimes? yeah, she actually really did that. ultimately, power like hers protects its own first. and that kind of power comes at the cost of people like me and, more than likely, people like you.

and i know im probably preaching to the choir here. you know every note of this song, and every step of this dance! you've done it so many times that you've made it your own. you probably knew every single point i was going to hit from the moment i started this self-insert. and youre tired of me and everyone you know circlejerking about an author i hate. and i'm tired too.

but when we leave this circlejerk, we have to return to hers.

sorry this wasnt a comic.

the next one will be better. i prommy.