[ SECRET POST #6881 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6881 ⌋

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


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Comments

[iff_and_xor]

I think it's actually pretty common for people to have messy or conflicting feelings about artistic work made by awful people. Especially if the creators' awfulness wasn't known to them from the beginning.

Hell, people who directly suffer abuse or assault by someone close to them can still have positive memories of or feelings for that person. Human brains can hold a lot of conflicting feelings.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, some people are capable of separating art and artist. Other people aren't. Other people have nuance - for example, they might not read a book written by a single awful author, but they might watch a movie with one awful actor in it because that person is part of a bigger project. I sometimes wish I was more able to do this, because I am ridiculously sensitive about it, even though I try to avoid news. I was a big Sandman fan, for example, but now I can't even look at the comics.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess to me it just feels like excuses to continue liking a thing that you now know is written by someone who is actively harmful--a way of shifting blame and patting yourself on the back that you're still an ally, just don't look behind the curtain.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not an "ally." I'm literally trans. I can indeed read the original books from before she was a TERF and look at a cute Ravenclaw plushie and feel a surge of squee in my heart for a hot second without thinking about JK Rowling.

[(Anonymous)]

It was a general statement. General you still exists, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't need an excuse. I enjoy Harry Potter. I enjoy plenty of other things made by creators who suck, too. It's not something that requires excusing or explaining.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay then don't be upset when I and others think you have some internalized transphobia you need to work out and want little to nothing to do with you because you support someone loudly calling for my death.

[(Anonymous)]

this is so fucking dramatic. get off the cross, we need the wood.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay OP. You keep telling yourself that.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this so much. The song *Chandelier* by Sia is one of my favorite songs ever, about alcoholism. The routine, the drinking, the mania, the depression, the guilt, the need to survive. A track I listen a lot and get very much emotional about, especially as I see the alcohol problems in myself and people I know...

... and I happen to be autistic, while that dumbass made a bigoted film about Autism.

It's one of those things I feel very much conflicted about.