As you should 🫡

Oh damn this is gorgeous

So I'm having my holiday watch of a story in which a young transmasc kid struggles to find a place he belongs while his guardians try to cut him off from any knowledge of his community. They literally lock him in the closet and burn his mail, but they fail.

He finds his community anyway.

But I'm also still gonna watch movies I already own made by mostly very good allies. Because those queer themes and stories she stole? They're distilled through hundreds of kinder hands, and delivered to me re-contextualized and reclaimed.

✨We get to reclaim our stories.✨

Obviously, since the author is a vindictive billionaire using whatever profits she isn't hoarding on attacking trans people's rights to exist freely,

I'm very much in the "Let's NOT buy any Harry Potter stuff" camp.

In Fantastic Beasts, the most heavily queer-coded characters suffer, turn evil, or live in eternal guilt. The movie also treats the memory-erasing rain as an uplifting moment. Like its a great thing to re-closet. I was becoming quite disillusioned a few years before the TERF essay dropped.

When the North American content started to come out, the red flags got big enough I noticed them. The appropriation of Native concepts, just to glorify white colonizers, was particularly egregious.

When Fantastic Beasts came out, her first terrible screenplay, I was appalled.

Many of us didn't see the warning signs that the author was appropriating queer experiences in bad faith. Oblivious to the racist tokenizations, the glib dismissal of rights for house elves, the antisemitic depiction of goblins...

Like a lot of queer neurdodivergent millennials, little me intuitively recognized the queer experience woven into the pages and film of the series. What other communities are forced to closet and mask, lest they be abused and witch-hunted by a fearful majority?

What your map is so pretty aaa

Meanwhile I just throw up a sloppy scribble.

It’s being aggressively pushed on everyone from every angle and the average uninformed person feels like they have to try it..

Thank you~~ 💙💙💙 I wanna see their inspiration in person someday!

This month’s pin is based on an amazing sign we saw in Japan. It comes in LGBTQ, Pan, and ADHD pride!

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