[ SECRET POST #5567 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5567 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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(image is from The Story of Yanxi Palace)


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[image is from One Piece]


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[Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed]


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[Centaurworld]


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[Hogwarts Legacy]


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[How I Met Your Mother]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 34 secrets from Secret Submission Post #797.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it's more about new properties within the world than full scorched earth. A lot of the other "problematic" media I like is over; boycotting it wouldn't accomplish anything, because it's over and done and the shitty creators aren't still making money off of it. Unfortunately not so with JKR, so I feel like that adds another element to the new video game specifically (and makes it a bad comparison to Ender's Game as a "finished" media).

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah-- my problematic author is super dead, so it's... not remotely the same. And with most living problematic authors, it's... still not remotely the same.

The conversation is so different when it comes to hp/jkr, like... I've read and enjoyed one of Orson Scott Card's non-Ender's Game books without knowing who he was, and then after I learned about his views, I had to sit with that and think about what I took from his book vs what he believes, and come to the conclusion that I wouldn't be monetarily supporting his work (around the time the Ender's Game movie came out), and while I knew some people who were excited about it because that book had been a formative one for them as young readers, the reaction to my saying 'eh, I don't like the writer so I won't see it' was pretty much a shrug and moving on.

I don't get that experience with jkr. Even with blocking her on twitter I'm seeing her transphobic tweets, hearing about this or that thing that's racist/antisemitic/ablist/homophobic on top of that, and then having relatives who talk openly about being excited for/spending money on new hp things because their kids loved the story, and surely this is more important than the fact that she wants people like me dead and uses her place of privilege to enable even more violent transphobes.

If I don't bring transphobia etc into things and say 'eh, I don't like it so I'm not going to see the new movie/play the new game', people DON'T shrug and move on the way they do for other books. People insist that this one series is different and sacred and I need to give it another chance when they think I just didn't enjoy it. It's a whole other mess if I 'bring politics into it'.

Ender's Game was never BIG on the level of hp, there's no theme park for it. I've never been in the position of defending WHY I wasn't a fan to strangers, any more than any other book or movie.

[(Anonymous)]

All of this!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.