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Hey everyone, it’s moments has arrived to reveal the prompts for the 2022 LB;MR Week!! I can’t believe it’s been four years!!

A catch up for those who haven’t heard of the bash or forgot, it’s a fan week celebrating the anniversary of the mystery game Layton Brothers;Mystery Room. Prompts are given that fans can use to make content for the small fandom. This year, the week will run from Sunday, September 25th to Saturday, October 1st

This year, each prompt is inspired by seven of the ten cases in the game. No need to participate in the whole week or use the exact prompts, it’s just about celebrating the game!

The Prompts:

Day 1: Double Meanings

Day 2: Backstab

Day 3: Truth and Deception

Day 4: Incognito

Day 5: Comeback

Day 6: Lockdown

Day 7: Legacy

When you upload your fanwork, you can tag it as #lbmr;week and/or any of the usual Mystery Room tags. Then, I will reblog all fanworks here, at @laytonbrothersbirthdaybash . If I miss any posts don’t be afraid to message or at me. You can also submit your work if you’d prefer that!

Painting of one of my minecraft builds- 10 hours ish total

Howl’s Moving Castle - Howl Pendragon piece

JKR actively funds campaigns for anti-trans legislation in the UK and is the leading face of active transphobia. This isn't like Lovecraft where he's dead and therefore can't benefit from his work. Every dollar you spend on merch supports her and her campaigns, every seat you fill in the theater is a data number showing how much support her work has. Every fanblog gushing about her is giving her free publicity and sending the message that it's okay for other people to publicly support her as well. (Also the books are not clean of her bigotry. Pikachu could have written Harry Potter and it would still have issues with racism/transphobia/antisemitism.)

This is not something you can ignore. This is not “well goblins are based on an antisemetic stereotype so anything that contains goblins is antisemetic.” The way goblins are portrayed in the books is mildly questionable, probably unintentional on JK’s part, and are more important to a wider conversation about the prevalence of these tropes in fantasy than they are a strong example of it. The movies unfortunately doubled down on the jewish stereotypes associated with goblins in a move that was definitely intentional on the part of some of the creature, costume, and set designers at the very least, and they were rightfully called out for that. Hogwarts Legacy saw that criticism and decided to double down further by turning actual historical propaganda against jewish people into the plot of their game. From controlling the banks to actual Blood Libel, the goblins in this game are an intentional hateful caricature of jewish people. The films also get up to some pretty heinous antisemetism without any goblins involved at all, just in case you thought maybe this was just a dreadful mishandling of a single fantasy race. Sorry, no, it’s a running theme.

It’s not just subtext anymore, it’s not something you can handwave as only being there if you look for it. It’s straight up nazi propaganda at this point.

I grew up with Harry Potter. I won costume contests at midnight book release parties at barns and nobles for gods sake. The idea that I’d one day get to go to Harry Potter Land at Universal Studios was for a while a primary motivation for not dying!

But the Harry Potter books are transphobic and racist. They were always transphobic and racist. They were written by a transphobe who is now the figurehead of a hate movement. And the parts of the franchise which are not directly in her hands are violently antisemetic. Continuing to support this franchise is not just tacitly supporting violence against trans people and jewish people, it is actively enabling it by spreading their message and attracting more people to their cause.

Imagine if someone said they LOVED PragerU's little animated kids videos, like they say "fuck prager u" in their bio or whatever but still make/reblog a lot of their content, write fanfiction about the characters, and bring up that episode with the line "I'm against slavery, but..." to talk about how much it means to them.

Layton 15th anniversary!!

We finally get a look at what the Monte d'Or crew has been up to (that is, not much).