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Fuck this person in particular, because I still have more to say that cannot be hidden away in a comment section. If you accuse me of being a J.K Rowling supporter when I’ve went as far as to burn the books I’ve had since childhood and drop life long friends over funding her bigotry by still visiting filming sights and buying merchandise I have a right to speak about it. Especially when they’re still watching the films on streaming sights and planning to watch the new series.

So here I am, addressing my need because it was so sweetly implied and not at all a condescending threat.

Despite popular belief fandoms like The Marauders have little to no connection with the main series other than the names of said characters. Taking part in The Marauders fandom brings J.K Rowling no profit, and considering the fact a majority of these characters have been used as outlets to express queer issues (and likely still will when people move onto the next big thing, forgetting about trans rights in the UK entirely) I see no issue in it.

By taking part in this fandom I am not screaming my support to a known bigot, I am simply connecting with other LGBTQ+ people and minorities who needed a template to express themselves through. The Marauders fandom is that template for me and for many.

I myself am a queer trans man, and I’ve been aware of my true self since I was 13. You cannot even imply I do not support my trans sisters, brothers, and siblings when ones in the past have given their lives for us to live now. Do not paint me to be some bigoted prick with your little question.

I’m in the UK. I’m in the country she actively harmed with her blood money. Do you think it makes me happy, to know I can’t go outside without being unsafe because transphobes take this new law as a reason to act against us with violence? No. I fucking don’t.

I’ve been hate-crimed before. I’ve almost been jumped for being myself, so don’t you or anyone else dare treat me and others like an inferior trans person for being in a fandom that has hated the author before this news even came out.

And I am so sorry, for taking comforts where I can; knowing my life has just gotten unchangeably harder because of a court bribe. I will paint characters she has no care for as LGBTQ+ people, because I fucking can, because it’s natural for me to react to this news with all the spite I can muster.

So again, fuck you and stop policing people on an online space. You want to make a real impact? Protest, sign petitions, spread the word to family and friends. Despite it making you feel miles better starting things with strangers on the internet who by the way, have no way to get the message across to J.K Rowling; if you want to spread this message over the internet gather a group and confront her- for fucks sake, even hack her. Don’t attack people who don’t support her.