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With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

It was built around "we need to own the servers" so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone else's judgment calls about what was acceptable in fanfic: Not corporate sponsors, not evangelical religious groups, not "save the children" activists... and not other fans who think that The Gross Stuff should be banned from public view, only shared via private email after you've sent in a request heavily laden with special keywords.

Some of the founders remembered when slash fanfic was kept under the table at the dealer's room, distributed with brown paper wrappers only to people who knew to ask for it specifically.

And they said: Fuck that. Our art is not a crime and we're not going to be ashamed of it. If you are ashamed to have your art next to it - there's a whole wide internet that's ready to host your G-rated genfic.

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

It’s not a debate anymore- I’m going to judge you. You either care or you don’t. It doesn’t matter if Harry Potter is your favorite thing in the world or if you’re depressed or anxious and it’s your comfort fandom- whatever reason you come up with doesn’t matter to me, I don’t give a fuck. It doesn’t even matter if you yourself are trans- I’m going to judge you.

You got a complete book series. You got a complete movie series. You got spinoffs. You’ve gotten plays, parodies, games and illustrated novels. You have an amusement park and enough merch to spend a year’s salary on.

You Do Not Need More.

Caitlyn apologists in the big 2025 are a red flag to me, sorry gang.

You can love a character and not have to defend every single action they do.

Like if I have to explain to someone one more time that the Grey does not pick and choose who to affect and that it, in fact, spreads like actual gas I’m going to crash out

she wanted to go back to that, not cause it was extraordinary, but because it was hers. she had carved a life for herself where she could help other people and it was enough for her.

she didn't need the stars, she didn't need some far away galaxy to tell her what she'd always been. and she definitely didn't need another doctor to try and show her what she's known all along.

she wasn't someone's daughter, she wasn't someone's mother. she didn't have to go back she had to be something for someone else, she wanted to go back because she wanted to be something for herself.

I fell into this rabbit hole of show analysis after posting the last chapter of my fic on ao3 ‘All We’ve Left Behind’ where I start to explore my headcanon for the Day of Ash, the revolution in general and Vander and Silco’s past.

It’s a very emotional moment as Vander relives the attack on Silco in his mind, torn between the guilt and regret over what he did and the responsibility he feels now for not having been able to actually kill him and stop him for good. In my story the focus on their relationship means that everything that happens between them, then and now, has a very personal component but it’s also important to me to maintain that the rift between them is largely ideological, stemming from irreconcilable differences over how to fight for and protect their people like in season 1.

I think season 2 cheapens the whole thing by erasing all that in favour of UNEARNED personal bullshit (and overshadowing the political conflicts in general but let’s not get ahead of ourselves)

To be clear I don’t actually have a problem with the catalyst for the attack being Vander’s grief and anger over Felicia’s death because that’s a very flawed and very human reaction which is what we love about the characters in arcane. My problem is that season 2 shoehorns that in, entirely forgetting the concepts previously introduced about those characters and the conflict between them.

It doesn’t add context, it undermines what was already there.

The flashback scene in s2e5 does no favours to anybody and (together with the stroll we later take in Vander’s happy go lucky family time memories) proceeds to retroactively assassinate both of their original characterizations which we so loved.

Season 1 shows Silco as a man who was always a bit too extreme and angry, making him dangerous in the audience’s and in Vander’s eyes, but a the same time he is very ideologically sincere and sympathetic as a human with relatable vulnerabilities and trauma. His bottom line is righteous is methods are not. 10 out of 10!

As his counterpart Vander is shown as a man who WALKS HIS WAY BACK from a similar place of anger and extremism towards different values that prioritize protecting the weak over fighting for an hypothetical future. Dropping his gauntlets to become a father when faced with the horror of war. 10 out of 10!

In season 2 Vander doesn’t walk his way back from anything! They tell us he was always a piece of bread, a loving uncle that had always been very involved in the girls’s life, undermining the choice he makes to change for them in season 1.

And (in my opinion even worse) showing us the trio and Silco being so close to the girls’s mum makes everything he does in season 1, which was horrible but understandable, truly evil, cold and unforgivable. Because the implication is that he knew the girls as children, swore to their mother, a comrade, to make a better future for THEM and yet he is ready to kill them both without batting an eye. Him, a man to whom loyalty is everything?! That stinks of nonsense!

And the show knows that because it refuses to give us any more context about him whatsoever. His personality doesn’t match, he is basically absent in Vander’s memory slideshow and we get no meaningful information about their dynamic pre bridge disaster, Silco simply becomes an empty narrative foil to bend out of shape as needed.

In my opinion the writers did this for three reasons:

1. To make him an exact mirror for Powder/Jinx. On the bridge he is doing what he thinks is right but he ends up only causing death and destruction, just like Powder in e3, which is (now) the main cause of Vander’s betrayal and abandonment, like with Powder and Vi.

2. To hammer home the ‘it only takes a bad day’ idea they’re so fond of in season 2. Again reducing him, and his relationship with Vander, to a mirror for other characters, mainly Caitlyn (they are basically the same person, gay vampires with serious anger management problems, I’ll die on that hill) but also Viktor. Both of them are trying to do good from their prospective but end up committing atrocities because they are blinded by emotional pain. Reminds you of anybody? Also nobody can convince me that Vikto and Jayce aren’t meant to be the direct embodiment of Silco and Vander’s dynamic, much like Jinx and Vi, and that’s why we don’t get to see it. Guess the writers where afraid of repeating themselves too much (says sarcastically)

3. The parabole of forgiveness. Silco was a good person before the betrayal, a pretty chill dude and he could have stayed a chill dude if he’d just chosen to forgive! You get it? Systemic injustice, police brutality, the negligence and indifference of a corrupt government, the consequences of terrorism, none of that matters every character should have just forgiven each other guys and every problem would solve itself!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! I am so unreasonably angry about all this!

They turn every relationship in the show into a mirror of itself as this grand metaphor for ‘the never ending cycle of violence’ but it’s not! It’s a damn dog chasing it’s tail! It’s like they heard the praise over the parallels in season 1 and went “Great! Now everything is a parallel! More praise please.” Entirely missing the fucking point!!! They didn’t get praised for being self referential but because the parallels were well done, contextualized and narratively justified. Which is what we lose in season 2.

None of that is bad, on the contrary, but it feels so hella contrived because it’s spottily executed and contradicts itself! They flipped it, reducing the story in service of decisions that feel arbitrary instead of allowing context to organically build the story.

Anyway I’m sorry, I feel like I’m becoming less and less coherent, I’m done with the angry rant I promise.

In truth I don’t know that I’ll ever stop grieving over the wasted potential with this story because I love it so much.

And to conclude on a more positive note I want to really stress my love and gratitude for the incredible work of art the is Arcane.

Even with everything one could complain about I still believe Arcane is a nearly perfect show. I love every character, it’s visual style is mind blowing, and the voice acting and soundtrack will forever live rent free in my head. I am still in disbelief that this story has inspired me so much that it has pushed me to actually start writing myself and even posting online which had always terrified me. We need more content like this to inspire us to be creative and bring us together.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

american indian men are at the 2nd highest risk of death by murder compared to all other ethnic groups. in their lifetimes, 82% of native men report having experienced domestic violence. yet the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are non-natives (88% of native men and 92% of native women who reported violence said their attacker was non-native). what’s more, tribal governments are often stymied in their attempts to bring justice against non-natives, meaning that many of these cases go unresolved.

this was an intersectional attack. the fact that he is indigenous matters, even if the motivation was homophobic, because it made him even more vulnerable and disposable in the eyes of his killer.

*(Jonathon Joss took a bullet for his trans husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales)