Wafrn has rules against transphobia. And the no jkr positive talk on the main instance is how we do it
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@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
How strongly can they possibly feel about this topic if they're having an LLM generate the complaint for them?
Silly made up "even worse" plot twist (fictional)
@gabboman it's even worse cause its Yudkowsky's rationalist fanfic
@coolcalmcollected@kind.social @KayOhtie@blimps.xyz
I am scared to ask
@gabboman I have had problems with community moderators in the past, but IMO their point is invalidated by "I was warned for" not a direct ban they were warned allowing for some conversation on why the rules are like that.
I can understand a No JKR rule since JKR does go against Trans Rights and I am sure there are better authors to support.
@VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
no no you see i am a fascist
@gabboman did they ask ai to write a three sentence thing? holy
@nu@ko.she-a.eu
Probably
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
why is it always the harry potter fans
@gabboman m-must.. not.. gigaquote...
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
"waaaaaah wafrn mods are fascists bc they don't let me publicly endorse the work of a woman that literally uses her money to destroy trans people's lives waaaaaaah"
that's how they fucking sound from the perspective of a non-miserable person who doesn't throw a fit when they can't give attention to an obvious asshole
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
Tbh, it still takes a little trouble understanding what the right approach is. I was never a Harry Potter fan so in this case, I don't care, but if this happened, let's say, with Doctor Who, honestly, I wouldn't know what to do. Is my favorite show in universe
If someone told me to stop seeing Doctor Who, it would probably be impossible for me, absolutely.
But, anyway, fuck JK, and that post looks like AI so, deserved 
@nube @gabboman Me personally I don't worry so much about the material as keeping Rowling from getting anything out of it, without sales numbers, without money, she wouldn't have a platform, so nothing wrong per se with enjoying Harry Potter, so long as you do it in a way that she doesn't benefit from, and especially good if'n you do it in a way that fixes issues with the stories.
@nube@app.wafrn.net @vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus
She having any cultural relevance means she will use the money to kill trans people
@gabboman @nube True, but she still needs money, and she only gets that from new sales and streaming, at least in the US, so support fan fics, buy used and don't stream, especially don't stream the new series. This series and her name certainly won't go anywhere for a long long time, though cutting off the money will speed up the process of her fading away.
@vextaur@blog.taursnd.haus @gabboman@gabboman.xyz
Hey let's go with this for a second.
JKR has two houses, one in Perthshire and one in Edinburgh, from what I can find (2020): https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8073535/JK-Rowling-renovating-2-million-Edinburgh-home-putting-4ft-gates-Perthshire-estate.html
Let's assume she's not living alone. Cost of living, monthly, for a family of 4, in Edinburgh: $4,163.90 USD (£3,124.20) https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Edinburgh so yearly £37,490.40 ($49,966.8 USD)
"Pottermore Limited," her company, made a pre-tax profit of £17.2M per this article from Dec 2025: https://deadline.com/2025/12/harry-potter-audiobook-sales-cursed-child-revenue-slumps-1236653700/ (also confirmed by financial filings here: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06979090/filing-history )
After tax, that was £12,872,000 ($17,147,854.00 USD) per the same filing. Total revenue (this is where her money gets taken out of, not out of the profit) £54.3M ($72.3M USD)
On page 24 of the filing, where it says "the company is controlled by J.K. Rowling," the "amount due to individuals with control of the company" was listed as £22,196,000 ($29.5M USD)
And let's assume, even though this isn't true, that this is her only income. (She supposedly receives anywhere from 50-100M GBP each year from diverse streams https://www.newsweek.com/jk-rowling-making-money-hogwarts-legacy-what-we-know-1777087 )
If she quit working right now and lived only on 2025's income from one of these payouts from one company, making no other investments or changes, she would live at cost-of-living for 592 years.
When we talk about boycotting JKR, when we talk about removing her cultural relevance, no one is talking about removing her source of subsistence. That ship has sailed. She has enough for her, her children, her children's children, and probably her children's children's children to live comfortably for decades. But she isn't using that money to support herself or anyone else, and acting like she is using it for that purpose is playing into her public wing-dragging about how she wrote HP as a poor single mother trying to make ends meet.
When we make fanworks, when we promote fanworks, when we buy used, when we perpetuate her work in the common parlance, we are solidifying her cultural relevance, such that other people - not you, who already knows the series and carries that with you, but those who have not yet read it - will go out and read it, because they have to, to partake in that common culture.*
Whatever her reality used to be, it isn't that anymore, she's literally fine, but she does have a lot of money to throw around to harm people in massive ways using the UK's legal system as a cudgel.
This is not a woman who is worried about her livelihood: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-celebrates-supreme-court-ruling-5Hjd5Ww_2/
*I also want to take a moment to highlight that JKR's transphobia is not the first sign that she was a bad person, or that her books were rotten. They are riddled with racism and acting like they aren't does a great disservice to our siblings of color, be they trans- or cisgender. From "the house elves like being enslaved" to the ambiguously East Asian character "Cho Chang" to a number of other instances, including antisemitism, all of these things have ruined the books and movies for people of color and other marginalized people long before JKR started tweeting. For that reason alone we ought to discard her work from the foundation of cultural relevance, in the interest of a more equitable and kind society. https://www.themarysue.com/is-jk-rowling-racist-jk-rowling-naming-characters-explained/
@nube@app.wafrn.net
I did like Harry Potter when i was a child. And I understood what it is so i do what I can
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
i feel like that post was written with AI LMFAO
@sunnydazed@social.dazed.party
Is what the mod team said.
My opinion is that I rather just shame on harry potter, its enough
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
i feel like the anti harry potter rule is completely reasonable tbh. continue to stand your ground, i might not be on flagship aside from my alt but i think you're fighting the good fight
@sunnydazed@social.dazed.party
I made that rule and people who has complained about it:
Someone who said “antisionism is antisemitism and we should bomb gaza more”, people with a history of harassing trans people, and someone who also complained about the lolicon rule
@gabboman@gabboman.xyz
"wafrn warned me for breaking the rules that were already there before i posted"
@BrotoSolar@app.wafrn.net @gabboman@gabboman.xyz
Also being like 'no appeal' about a warning is fucking hilarious. You're getting rapped on the knuckles and told not to do it again. You don't need to appeal that, you just need to not do it again. No one even would've known it happened if you quit crying.
@gabboman Fascism is when you receive a moderation warning on a microblogging website for posting about Bigotry the Magic Book Series
- Benito Mussolini
@gabboman holy buzzwords. also love how AI needed to be used for such a little post.