TaDaffyd
@tadaffyd.bsky.social
A friendly queer and neurodivergent gamer. I may not be the best gamer, but that's fine. I am not trying to be the best. I am just here to share what I love. Catch me live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/tadaffyd
To be fair 90% of the time it's me going "When the hell was that added to Minecraft?!?!" Because I am still playing a modded Minecraft 1.pre-historic edition
January 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To be fair 90% of the time it's me going "When the hell was that added to Minecraft?!?!" Because I am still playing a modded Minecraft 1.pre-historic edition
Anyway sorry for the long post this has been on my mind for a while and Vera finally put into words what I was feeling.
Go watch her video if you haven't she says it much better than I did, but I needed to say something.
Love y'all!
Go watch her video if you haven't she says it much better than I did, but I needed to say something.
Love y'all!
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Anyway sorry for the long post this has been on my mind for a while and Vera finally put into words what I was feeling.
Go watch her video if you haven't she says it much better than I did, but I needed to say something.
Love y'all!
Go watch her video if you haven't she says it much better than I did, but I needed to say something.
Love y'all!
So while I do not support that franchise anymore because of the real harm JK Rowling is causing. I am allowed to mourn the loss of something valuable.
It's uncomfortable, but that's what it has to be. That discomfort means I will work to make the world better. I won't look away.
It's uncomfortable, but that's what it has to be. That discomfort means I will work to make the world better. I won't look away.
January 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
So while I do not support that franchise anymore because of the real harm JK Rowling is causing. I am allowed to mourn the loss of something valuable.
It's uncomfortable, but that's what it has to be. That discomfort means I will work to make the world better. I won't look away.
It's uncomfortable, but that's what it has to be. That discomfort means I will work to make the world better. I won't look away.
Vera is right though, that was a tool to try and help myself feel comfort at that cost of acknowledging the truth
They were good, they were of value, and it was JK who caused that to be diminished. That doesn't lessen the importance that the franchise had to me.
They were good, they were of value, and it was JK who caused that to be diminished. That doesn't lessen the importance that the franchise had to me.
January 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Vera is right though, that was a tool to try and help myself feel comfort at that cost of acknowledging the truth
They were good, they were of value, and it was JK who caused that to be diminished. That doesn't lessen the importance that the franchise had to me.
They were good, they were of value, and it was JK who caused that to be diminished. That doesn't lessen the importance that the franchise had to me.
I have struggled for years to balance that pain. Because for me HP was always more about my mom than Rowling. And because of that I don't think I can ever get rid of the stuff I do have.
I have tried everything to assuage that pain including saying the series was never good I was just young.
I have tried everything to assuage that pain including saying the series was never good I was just young.
January 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have struggled for years to balance that pain. Because for me HP was always more about my mom than Rowling. And because of that I don't think I can ever get rid of the stuff I do have.
I have tried everything to assuage that pain including saying the series was never good I was just young.
I have tried everything to assuage that pain including saying the series was never good I was just young.
I'm queer, I have trans friends and family, we JK took off her mask for the world to see it hurt.
It especially hurt because HP was that one strong connection I still had with my mom even though she was gone. I would read HP when I missed her or watch the movies.
It especially hurt because HP was that one strong connection I still had with my mom even though she was gone. I would read HP when I missed her or watch the movies.
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm queer, I have trans friends and family, we JK took off her mask for the world to see it hurt.
It especially hurt because HP was that one strong connection I still had with my mom even though she was gone. I would read HP when I missed her or watch the movies.
It especially hurt because HP was that one strong connection I still had with my mom even though she was gone. I would read HP when I missed her or watch the movies.
My mom passed away at 48 years old in 2021 from ovarian cancer. A hard fought battle that because of finance and covid I barely got to see her during.
She didn't lived long enough to see the monster Rowling would become.
She didn't lived long enough to see the monster Rowling would become.
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My mom passed away at 48 years old in 2021 from ovarian cancer. A hard fought battle that because of finance and covid I barely got to see her during.
She didn't lived long enough to see the monster Rowling would become.
She didn't lived long enough to see the monster Rowling would become.
That book was the back bone of shared interest between me and my mom. And my mom was one of the kindest, most caring people I know. Any good characteristics I hold can be thanked because of her.
She was the kind of person we should all aspire to be. You will note I say was.
She was the kind of person we should all aspire to be. You will note I say was.
January 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
That book was the back bone of shared interest between me and my mom. And my mom was one of the kindest, most caring people I know. Any good characteristics I hold can be thanked because of her.
She was the kind of person we should all aspire to be. You will note I say was.
She was the kind of person we should all aspire to be. You will note I say was.
Some of my earliest positive memories, especially involving books, are my mom reading the HP series to our family. It was my first fandom. Hell as a kid with glasses Harry Potter was one of my first Halloween costumes and my kids still have that admittedly generic wizard cloak.
January 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Some of my earliest positive memories, especially involving books, are my mom reading the HP series to our family. It was my first fandom. Hell as a kid with glasses Harry Potter was one of my first Halloween costumes and my kids still have that admittedly generic wizard cloak.
I grew up where men weren't allowed to want to be pretty. I don't want my kids to have to grow up in that same world. So I will do my best to be my authentic self so that I carve out a space for others to be their authentic selves.
I don't need to justify my existence, no one does.
I don't need to justify my existence, no one does.
January 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I grew up where men weren't allowed to want to be pretty. I don't want my kids to have to grow up in that same world. So I will do my best to be my authentic self so that I carve out a space for others to be their authentic selves.
I don't need to justify my existence, no one does.
I don't need to justify my existence, no one does.
The true hubris of man, always believing we can handle more spice than we can. My personal achilles heel.
January 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The true hubris of man, always believing we can handle more spice than we can. My personal achilles heel.