Gunnerkrigg Critique and Commentary

Genuinely kill yourself

hey. you don't need to reply to this if you don't want to or anything, but i wanted to apologize, specifically, for wielding a recent death as a cudgel to attempt to get you to see my perspective. it wasn't kind. also, i'm not trying to cancel Tom, not trying to get you or anyone else to cancel Tom. i'm frankly kind of uncertain where this talk of cancelling comes from, because i wasn't rallying anyone to do anything --except for 1. asking *you personally* to reconsider whether people who were hurt or not are silly for feeling the way that they feel, and 2. question whether having expectations that a specific queer-friendly creator should know better than to reference harry potter is a reasonable notion or not. we don't agree on this, obviously, but i genuinely believe that as long as JKR is materially benefiting from the existence of Harry Potter, engaging with the franchise normalizes the harm she does to people like you and me. i feel compelled, in a very uncool and unfun way, to point this out to friends, family, and strangers when the opportunity arises. yes, even though it's very popular, and is never going to go away. i understand you don't share this perspective, so this probably comes across as stupid to you, but this is the context of why reacted so strongly. i wasn't accusing you of endorsing anti-trans violence, but i *was* accusing you of not caring about some trans people's feelings, and the way i expressed myself was pretty shitty. it wasn't productive or smart to have attempted to hurt you in order to try to get you to empathize with my own/other people's hurt, even if i didn't realize that's what i was doing at the time. i was lashing out because i personally was hurt and disappointed in Tom, and when i went hunting to see if anyone felt the same way that i did, i was met with your post telling me that my perspective was ridiculous. i hope i've explained myself a bit better, and sorry again for the misaimed vitriol

I used to find the commentary on here interesting, but I needed to take a huge step back from both this blog and your discord community because of, as others have mentioned, some of the wild and parasocial speculations about Tom and Magnolia’s personal lives and politics. Fwiw, I still have my own critiques of GC. But if it’s gotten to the point where you have no desire to keep up with GC, but still keep speculating about the author with 0 evidence, I don’t see what this is for anymore.

“Acknowledging the fact that Harry Potter franchise *exists* and that fiction containing magical schools is often compared to it” = “endorsing transphobia and murder” is one hell of a take.

There's a mention of Harry Potter in the latest page (Monday 20th, May) and it's really making me side-eye the author. Is Tom really not up-to-date with JKR's terf reputation?? I know some people aren't, and he left Britain before she went so full mask off plausible deniability no longer covered her, but I thought either he or Magnolia would know by now???

I think the biggest problem with Tony is that the comic is obsessed with the "twist" that's he's not an unfeeling monster. In "the Tree" he comes off as unreasonably mean for the sake of cheap drama. He ends up backpedaling most of the demands made in that chapter so it feels pointless. It feels manufactured to make the reader dislike him. I think he could have just been introverted and struggling with his wife's death;I don't need 5 chapters about discovering he's capable of human emotion.

lol did you see magnolias hourlies today where she shows tom "despairing about his work"

Just found out tom siddell supports uk maga (reform). Makes sense why the comic has gone downhill in the last couple years :/

there's been a lot of unbeliveable events in gkc over the years but the idea that tony of all people would want to keep one of omega's earrings as a KEEPSAKE is literally. my suspension of disbelief has evaporated. he knew her for all of five minutes. i simply do not believe this.