Writing Therapy

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

one of my favorite scenes in the entirety of asoiaf is the one where ramsay bolton’s dad is riding through the forest with theon giving casual long winded exposition about Why Ramsay’s Like That while theon sits there eyes bloodshot down several limbs shaking like a dog silently stewing in his own limitless agony and despite this every few minutes he has to be like mhm. uh huh. wow roose that’s craaaazy dude haha