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𝙰 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜, 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎.

𝙸𝚗 𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎…𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎, 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚠 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗.

Rules/DNI:

- 𝙽𝚘 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚜

- 𝙽𝚂𝙵𝚆 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝟷𝟶𝟶% 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚍. 𝙵𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚟𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚟𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚛.

- 𝚆𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚜, 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝙹𝙺 𝚁𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍;

- 𝙽𝚘 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚊, 𝙷𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚊, 𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚖, 𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚐𝚢𝚗𝚢 𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚍. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚞𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚖 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎 ‘𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞’ 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚛𝚞𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝. 𝚃𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎.

- 𝚆𝚎 𝚞𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎. 𝙼𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚒𝚝 (𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙, 𝚊 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗, 𝚎𝚝𝚌.). 𝙰𝚋𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎. 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎. 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚘𝚛 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎.

- 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚜𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚛 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙼𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗, 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚊𝚢. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚞𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚢. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎. 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚏𝚞𝚕.

🕯️𝙰𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚌𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗s 𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒c🕯️

You can be a fan of the world without supporting the creature. You can easily refrain from giving her any money by being smart about it. It just feels really ableist and like policing people. Anyways yeah just wanted to share some thoughts I’ve had for a while now.

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Reminder to please read our rules before you send any confessions in.

We will not accept confessions that insult fans or people in the fandom you simply find cringe. If you want to share your opinion on specific fan content or books in a respectful manner, you may! You may not, however, insult the people that may not agree with your take or that DO enjoy a piece of content that you do not.

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Hello Wizarding World!

How are we feeling about the series trailer?

Confessions box open!

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I am so on the fence with Harry Potter as a franchise.

I use to be such a big fan back in late 2021/early 2022 and it was prime demographic at the time cause I was 14. I watched all the movies, brought all the books, brought figures and all sorts of merchandise and had a crush on Hermione.

I’m now 18 and trans (FTM) and been diagnosed with autism and I’ve also completely dropped it.

The world of Harry Potter is a place for everyone, no matter what race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc. it’s a place where weirdos like me can find a place and call home, either that within the walls of Hogwarts or an original place.

JK has ruined the franchise and it makes me so sad and not just her transphobia but her racism. Not every book or franchise is perfect, especially one that’s been around as long as Harry Potter.

I also don’t really like the off shoot fandom of the Marauders (sorry) BUT REMUS CAN GET IT THO

You are completely valid.

I’m also Trans (FtM) and being in my 20s I have had this hyperfixation for pretty much my entire life. I can’t let go of the franchise, though I have a lot of criticism towards the writing, the depictions of POC and marginalized groups, and I despise JKR as a person. You’re right, she has ruined it for a lot of people and that is absolutely valid.

Personally I have taken the stance of being a spiteful bitch and putting my grubby little transgender hands all over it because I believe that nothing is a bigger fuck you to a transphobic bigoted terf than not letting them take away your safe space. I will push my trans headcanons, I will keep writing my fanfiction, and she can go eat shit as I reinterpret the entire franchise and its character through an unapologetically queer and inclusive lens. I’m not separating the art from the artist, I’m taking the art that gave me comfort and turning it into what the artist hates most for myself, and there’s nothing she could do to make us disappear. Frankly I know there are so many trans people like me who have found comfort and community in this space.

But maybe that’s just me being particularly rebellious in nature.

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You using a03, when before it got popular all the fics were on fft.net, live journal, skyehawke, adultfanfiction, kinda discredits your whole argument just an fyi.

like there are dozens of that ship on fanfiction dozens.

Jegulus I'll give you. but tomarry nah that's been around for ages I remember seeing it all over the place.

Unclench and relax. If no one is in your face telling you to ship this or hate this character, does it really matter if they don't like the same stuff as you.

Has no effect on your life whatsever and if it does, get your shit together. I like Draco Malfoy, other people hate him and Igaf ain't gonna stop me from reading and writing fics about him.

So long as they ain't personally in my dms and mentions asking me why I like him, or saying I should stop, idgaf. Stay mad.

Block, ignore, move on, who cares. continue writing and reading your stuff. Enjoy yourself, that's what it's all about.

I could not have said it better myself

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The ship currently sits at 839 pages on AO3, but before 2019? Only 168 pages. That's not unpopular, but the dramatic surge coinciding with TikTok's explosion is undeniable. That app single-handedly launched it from 168 to 839 pages on AO3. It's the exact same phenomenon we see with Jegulus. Both fall into the same category of booktok ships championed by people who'vs never read the actual books but have seen fanart of hot anime boys and think reading overwrought, amateurish fanfics that abuse a thesaurus makes them literary connoisseurs. Half these works are probably Al slop anyway.

The shippers all carry that distinctive, brain-dead TikTok mentality, and honestly, they give me secondhand embarrassment every single time I encounter anything they produce or say. The correlation between platform and ship popularity reveals everything you need to know about the intellectual depth we're dealing with here.

Firstly, I must implore you the next time you send a confession, please be sure to closely and thoroughly read our rules. Specifically the very last one. We do not bash, insult, name call or ridicule people over ships you don’t like—whatever the reason you may have. We practice fandom etiquette here.

I don’t have any particular interest in this ship, personally. I’ve always felt neutral towards it. But even if I did have a strong opinion, my points here wouldn’t change. I don’t see what’s wrong with a ship gaining more fans because of an app. Many ships in this fanbase that were once rare, bordering death, or straight up nonexistent prior to TikTok blew up in traction and fan content. There are many ships that have been given a breath of life that correlates to the rise of TikTok, im afraid that’s an experience many fandoms have been impacted by. As is the nature of a new platform that allows for fandoms to grow and revive.

Personally, I consider that a good thing for those who genuinely enjoy the ship. I can understand feeling frustration if you see many people who have never touched the source material of a fandom. I am personally of the belief that if you have never consumed any viable source material of a fandom (the books but I would count the movies as well for some), then you have no business being in the fandom of that material. That being said, I don’t believe it’s right to generalize an entire ship fanbase and accuse them of such based on…what exactly? I also don’t believe in accusing and generalizing fanfiction from a group of people as being “Ai slop” without proof and in such a mean spirited manner. Not liking something doesn’t mean you can just insult and accuse them of things like that without real proof of this being an actually common issue. Sadly Ai slop in fanfiction and art is rising in all spaces, so you’re likely to find it amongst any ship, as disappointing as that is

I have never read any of these fics because, as I said, I don’t personally ship it. There have been ships in the past that I have deeply despised and could not fathom why they were so popular, to the point of finding disgust towards people who shipped it and constantly insulting them and their intelligence. But that was when I was 14, and maturing into adulthood has a way of making you realize you cannot generalize or make assumptions about people just because of your distaste towards media they consume.

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it may just be the number of transmascs in the fandom

but it makes much more sense for severus to be a transwoman or non-binary transfem

i know people are making self-indulgent transman snape fanart

but it annoys me seeing little to no content for transfems

That’s valid. Personally I find that Severus being transmasc or nonbinary-transmasc makes the most sense, but everyone has their own ways of interpreting a character. That’s what makes fandom fun.

The best way to remedy a lack of content is by creating the content. I feel like, if you really want to see more of something in a fandom, you have to take that first step and participate in fandom. It has to start somewhere, and a lot of people get inspired when they see something done by another fandom participant that they’ve been wanting or didn’t realize they wanted/liked until they saw it. This is something you see a lot among rare pairs too so trust me, I totally get the struggle of there not being much or any content for a specific idea or headcannon.

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I’m inclined to agree, Anon. He’s a very complex character. - 🐍

I think perhaps what it is, is that people get defensive over characters or things they like and end up perceiving criticism as a form of hate. Critique isn’t always given to things you hate, a lot of times it’s given because you want something to be better, or like something and think it can improve. We also really need to normalize agreeing to disagree instead of taking an opposing opinion on fictional characters so personally. It’s okay to debate people over interpretations, I myself think it can be fun and interesting. But when it devolves to accusing people of stuff or name calling just because you don’t like their interpretation, that’s just a bit childish.

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This but also canonizing ftm Remus😌

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