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[I just posted this as a Twitter thread, regarding today's episode (#139) of FilkCast, which I'd been listening to since it started.]

I haven't complaind about the wizard rock before, because I know "do people have to give up Harry Potter?" is contentious,
  and I feel bad penalizing artists who wrote good songs before JKR poisoned the whole meme-space,
  and yes I've noticed a song or two over the last couple years about this and saying JKR's wrong,
  and a lot of it is genuinely good musically, ...

But the message it sends is still "we love this more than we love our trans friends whom we know it hurts" / "we want this too much to give it up for their sake". Especially a whole episode of it.

Things you mentioned in the intro, not referring to JKR as anything other than "the author", saying they're "taking this world back" from her, noting that she made you angry too ... it's not enough. It feels like mere pinkwashing, like merely rationalizing not wanting to do the hard thing.

It feels like "If we add the right phrases and symbols, that makes it okay and lets us off the hook so we don't have to face the fact that it's still problematic, right?" And no, that does not work. It's still the Potterverse, it's still celebrating the work of someone who wants me not to exist, and it's still saying "we love this more than we care about how it hurts you." Fuck that.

So I will definitely not be listening to this week's episode. I've not yet decided about next week's, or any after that. I'll decide that after I've slept on it a couple of times.

But today -- today I feel gut-punched. What you tried to do in your intro, not good enough.