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As promised! I wrote about the illegal fanbinding that's led to writers deleting their works recently, how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave, and what happens when the rapidly expanding sphere of fic readers starts to get disconnected from *fandom*:
The ever-increasing reach of fanfiction has inched the practice away from text-written-in-community to a more traditional author-reader relationship—and the context collapse that’s come with viral works being treated like any other romance novel has spurred clashes between different types of readers with different sets of expectations.
In the past few years, fic authors across all corners of fandom have increasingly complained about shifting attitudes from readers who treat them like any other content creator, demanding the next chapter as you might demand your favorite influencer’s next video. But unlike on creative platforms like TikTok and YouTube, the fic writer doesn’t get revenue from their new installment.
We'll also talk about this in some capacity on the next episode of @fansplaining! (In contrast with today's episode, on the non-monetized, gift-economy practices of many fanbinders, whose hobby is also imperiled by the people selling and buying fic.)
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When will people stop with the comparisons? The term "mudblood" was never the wizarding equivalent of the n-word, because it isn't preceded by centuries of imperialism, slavery, and institutional bias. Dramione is not the equivalent of a white supremacist and a black woman getting together, because bloody purity isn't based on white supremacy.
Similarly, Draco and other Death Eaters are not Nazis or Nazis in training. Around six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and those were just reported deaths. A higher number were tortured in concentration camps and gassed, and were never reported. Thousands of women were r*ped by officers.
Voldemort required muggleborns to be registered. Let's keep in mind that when this law was passed, the Ministry was controlled by him and he had complete authority. All he did was pass a law that required them to be registered. Maybe that was a stepping stone in what could have ultimately lead to the wizarding World War 2, but that isn't canon. Nothing in canon has ever hinted at the parallel to Nazi Germany. Don't draw lines equalling Voldemort to Hitler, because it simply doesn't hold.
Blood purity isn't based on anti-semitism or Nazi Germany. Calling Draco a "Nazi" is blatantly disrespectful to surviving Jews. Voldemort was nowhere near the level of inhumanity Hitler was on.
Sorry for the rant! I've come across at least three posts today calling Draco a Nazi or a white supremacist and it makes me feel nauseous that people actually feel justified in calling a fictional character by a term that is a trigger to so many people out there today, when the character isn't the term, at all.
People just want to feel "woke" or smart when they draw these (completely wrong and disrespectful) conclusions.
I've seen two this morning as well!
JKR admitted to taking inspiration from Hitler for Voldemort, but never said that the whole campaign Voldy used was based on the Nazis.
The word mudblood and the hate against the muggleborns and blood traitors has to do with class not race! We equate it as race since the major thing people now discriminate against is race, class is still something looked down upon for but in most countries in the world it's not important anymore. But race still is for some reason. So I can see why people will draw parallels, but they need to remember it's not the same exactly. And it's not right to call out characters as Nazis and then harass and be vile to someone who likes those characters.
I think that is the big issue here. People don't understand that this world is not real, these characters don't exist. So you cannot judge someone for liking the character just because you don't like them. Just because you don't like how the original author wrote them. You cannot be mean and say horrible things about people for liking a fake character.
And the people who do this are hypocrites, wanting to hate on Draco for calling Hermione a bad name all the while telling us fans of Draco that we are mentally ill and need help.
- Lisa
This is going to get me tore up from the floor up, but I’m just gonna go ahead and disagree to a certain extent.
For one, I wish I had better canon context. It’s been a long time since I read the books. But there is some indication that blood purity is based in the wizarding system of society. For one, a lot of purebloods are rich. Economically, they have somehow profited by being in the elite. We see that translated in white society on a racial plane, and we saw it happen with Germans during the Holocaust. The Weasleys, in particular, are cast out of both society and the economic status that comes with it by being “blood traitors” and turning on what pureblood society has come to stand for.
Further, in the last book, and to a certain extent in the new Fantastic Beasts movies, we see that there was major prejudice incorporated in government and society. For one, Anon, you bring up the fact that Muggles had to register when Voldemort was in charge of the Ministry. That definitely still counts as an example of how society just blatantly went along with a prejudicial law. Like, that happens so regularly unfortunately, even today, with people making laws that might seem innocuous on the surface but actually hurt large portions of society based on their skin color or gender, etc.--we’ve seen it with voting laws and abortion laws this year (2021) alone. In Fantastic Beasts, we see that in the 1930s there was major prejudice against wizards similar to the rise of the KKK and anti-race/Semitic sentiments reflected from Germany during the same time. There’s no way that would not have created a huge backlash of secrecy and fear and hate from the American wizarding community.
All of this being said, I will agree that the word “Nazi” is thrown around poorly these days by people who don’t understand the concept, and doing that does devalue the experiences of Jewish people from the Holocaust. 100% true. But to assume that the blood purity allegory is NOT an allegory for real life experiences of bigotry is both ignorant and harmful. For me to understand how the word “mudblood” would have affected Hermione (at age 13), I had to change the word to “bitch” in my head so that I could feel something similar to what she would have felt. I understood at 13 that I had the privilege of not being able to fully grasp what the sentiment meant to her. Just like I now know I have white privilege, and American privilege, and middle-class privilege. I think that this allegory serves as a good primer to children (whom the literature is meant for) who need to learn that some people are just discriminated against because the society they’re in tells people that’s okay to do. So to that end, I disagree with your original statement.
The comments on this post have really hurt me. For people to say multiple times that there is no indication of systemic bias against muggleborns in the Wizarding World shows how still completely ignorant we are to understanding how systemic policies and laws are made. Not OVERT policies and laws. SYSTEMIC ones. The ones that are so tied deeply into society that you don’t even notice them until someone takes you out of The Matrix!
The fact that Salazar Slytherin, a THOUSAND years ago, thought muggleborns shouldn’t be admitted to Hogwarts goes to show how long the idea has been around.
The fact that the Weasleys are still pureblood but are economically poor for being “blood traitors”
The fact that a group of kids can stand around while Hermione is called a mudblood and the only person to defend her is Ron.
The entire Muggleborn Registration Commission in 1997 and all that followed it. The fact that this commission was set up because the Dept. of Mysteries said magic could only be inherited was INSANE!
Slughorn’s representation of subtle bias against muggleborns among the wizarding community
It’s real. Something as (in the grand scheme of things) trivial as the systemic bias against blood purity is staring people right in the face through 7 books, and they still CAN’T see it. I am so disappointed.
Everytime I read a fic where draco is turning over a big new leaf and is decided he is going to do all business with the muggle world I always think what about the statute of secrecy... I know its fanfiction and can be au but this is one of those really weird things that pulls me out of a story similiar to draco driving a car or their going to primary school. I just get so caught up in the logistics of it in my head for some reason.
I think the annoying thing is I don't really understand the full limitations of the statute and it means whenever the purebloods get too integrated with muggle life I just get a bit 'hmmm'
One of the bad things about the book is that some concepts and ideas aren't properly explained. So now as adults you read something and your like wait what? How does that work?
Even if it's the smallest thing, it throws you off!
There are so many concepts to me that have me scratching my head and I wonder if JKR ever gave this any thought. Like love potions, I understand that for a kid it seems like a funny thing, like Fred and George selling them in their shop was a gag and I'm sure it was indeed a harmless product, but can you imagine something like that in read life??? I mean a potion to make someone like you? A potion taking away someone's consent and they are obsessed with you and only you against their will???? Horrifying! It's like a date rape drug!
Obliviation is another!! Someone just ups and removes memories from your head like nothing. And that's not even part of the unforgivable curses!!!!
Like I said as kids you don't see it, you don't get it, it's not a big deal, it's just a part of the story. But now as adults you're like huh? What? Does that actually make sense? Isn't that a tad bit on the illegal side??
hey I sent you a dramioneask about a fruitless year by everythursday and you said to message you if I wanted spoilers. could you please explain the ending to me?
Thank you for contacting me here. We have 17K followers, and if any of them are like me, they hate spoilers, so I’m happy to talk to you about it, but I wanted to do it on a forum less public.
Spoilers below:
The end of the story is clearly a happy ending (or HEA--Happily Ever After) and I believe that Draco and Hermione do not get divorced, and they agree to have a kid. This is apparent for a number of reasons:
For one, the running theme throughout the story is about how a tree is like a relationship. This is how we get the title--the tree of their relationship has experienced a fruitless year. The quotes that start each section are actually a threaded continuation of a particular scene in the story where Hermione is explaining to Draco (I believe, at Harry’s birthday party one year) that her dad told her this metaphor of “swearing by the roots.”
“It’s not crazy. It’s a good metaphor. And he always used to say to me, swear by the roots. To swear by that when you really believe in something, or when it’s an integral part of who you are. When you need it to survive. When you want it as part of you. When you’re willing to put your life out there for it. Because the roots are everything. What we grow from, what anchors us to the world, what keeps us alive.” (Session 7 or p. 51)
We know it’s a continuation of the conversation because closer to the end of the story the quotes include more colloquialisms and interruptions, such as, “Exactly that!...It doesn’t just--What? No. Well...I don’t know if one could survive without the other” (Part 3 or p. 92). This entire metaphor culminates to the final line of the book, where Hermione asks Draco if he swears to stick with her through the good and the bad, and he replies, “By the roots.” By that, he’s swearing that he believes in her, that he needs her to survive, that he’s willing to put his life on the line for her, that she anchors him to the world. Everything in that quote is echoed in that final line of the story.
If that alone is not a good enough explanation, then consider when Draco plants the rose bush in the lawn. He does this, at first, on page 96, after Hermione has confronted him about how he has to tell her whether or not he wants to keep doing this thing--and he replies to her by planting the rosebush in the garden with her, and stating “You’ve had that garden picture pinned to the fridge for months.” Indicating that he’s paid attention, and he’s making an effort. Then, in the last section, on page 116, after they’ve skipped their last therapy session to have sex, Hermione wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Draco working on a tomato plant. This hearkens back to a memory of when Draco said in one therapy session that, “I knew I loved her the moment she declared herself a tomato plant to the Minister of Magic” meaning that this act of ensuring the survival of the tomato plant reflects his willingness to keep his love for her alive and stable.
In this same section as the rosebush, Hermione finally compromises by telling Draco she’s willing to give Malfoy Manor a trial run. This is her extending her end of the compromise that she’s been asking him for the entire story. She’s very clear about her terms, but she’s indicating to him that it’s possible to compromise and she’s willing to work on the relationship.
Also, if nothing else, Draco tells Hermione about the end of the book he was reading--the one where the main character has killed his wife out of spite--and he specifically says he does not want to be that guy. Everything after that is just banter to end the story.
As for whether or not they have a child, it appears to me that in return for the Malfoy Manor compromise, Draco almost has no choice but to agree to a child. (I know that’s not how the world works in real life, but this is fanfiction and it can be as ideal as we want it to be.) In Part 3, Draco, prompted by the fact that he and Hermione are babysitting baby Alice, blurts out on page 102 that “You can’t do a trial run with a child.” This indicates to me that he’s looking for a way to pay her back for her willingness to compromise on Malfoy Manor. What this does, though, is opens up some dialogue about why Draco has been anti-child from the beginning anyway, and allows Hermione to reinforce her love for him, while pointing out the flaws in his logic. They revisit the issue on page 111, where Draco asks, “You’re serious about having children, though. You really, without a doubt, want one?” This allows Hermione to give Draco some insight into how much she’s thought about a child and how willing she is to compromise for that dream, too, (i.e. by working less). In the end, what seals the deal, and I don’t even think a lot of people would realize it, is when Hermione points out that even if Draco were a bad father, she would be a great mother, and the point of their relationship is to balance each other out; to that, Draco replies, “Next time I find you, you’ll be trying to persuade [the spider] out the window with compliments, logical reasoning, and a fork behind your back.” This implies that Hermione has used compliments and logical reasoning to persuade Draco that he might not be such a bad parent after all.
Everythursday’s stories are a treasure but can sometimes be confusing, for sure, because she was so great at writing people in the middle of a conversation as you might hear it in real life. But that ability to reflect life as it happens, combined with the artistry of telling a story through metaphor and juxtaposition, helps to create a lifelike story that is jam-packed with drama, angst, and romance while not being too lengthy with unnecessary declarations that spell everything out. This becomes much more complex in other stories such as The Fallout, which is probably why it is both so popular, but also so little talked about as a discussion topic, because it’s meant to be a subtle story.
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To be more specific, this episode was focused on Aspergers snydrom when George (the moose seen in the GIFs above) was attempting to understand his new friend with it better and Alan (the boy narrating the GIFs) was explaining how his uncle explained it to him.
In summary, children in this show are trying to understand one another better so that they can help and communicate with each-other.
i normally hate the alien analogies, but i like this one because it’s from the autistic person’s perspective and depicts the neurotypicals as the aliens, like yeah technically he’s the alien if he’s on someone else’s planet, but the phrasing “imagine you’ve crash-landed on an alien planet” explicitly frames the neurotypicals as the aliens and shows that neurotypicals seem just as weird to us as we seem to them
