We have terrible people who have been great artists, and we as a whole separate that just fine
i think this is a good place to start. placing Beethoven, Poe, Wagner, and Rowling in the same category of "great artist" seems like a stretch. i get that people think the wizarding world is fun, i think star wars is fun even though the plot is full of holes and the writing and lore are OK at best. i grew up in the HP era, and i feel that i just grew out of them. what really baffles me is that people consider HP to be a great work. like i've read a lot of YA fiction and HP doesn't really stand out to me. Rowling is clearly a commercial success, which is a fine thing to be, but i think that's different than being a great artist. buying her media contributes to that success and increases the size and scope of her platform, which does have political consequences that can't really be removed from the transaction. i guess piracy is probably a fine way to gain access without being part of the commercial success, but i still wonder why you'd want to do that in the first place. like, i don't agree with Rowlings politics (obviously), but i don't even need to go there to decide that i don't want to consume HP content.
Honestly for me, it's mainly tied to nostalgia and just having been invested in the world the series created for so long. I was around 10 when the first movies started coming out, and I read them at release from 4 on, and the series is largely what brought me into fantasy and sci-fi in general. In a lot of ways, it was the basis for a lot of things that I've come to love throughout life, and letting it go is hard. I just wish the whole IP wasn't wrapped up in so many contracts its more like papier mache. That way other creators could contribute more positively. But as it is, Universal is probably going to snap it up the moment JKR croaks and monetize the fuck out of it even more.
Idk, to me JK Rowling was just a name on the cover of books I liked. I didn't care who that was or what they were like, it was just a couple of words I was vaguely aware of because I saw them a lot. I just want that level of not giving a fuck back. I can't, because she's a terrible person and that isn't going to change. She just keeps doubling down. But I still like to look at every pirated copy of media as a dollar out of her pocket.
i think this is a good place to start. placing Beethoven, Poe, Wagner, and Rowling in the same category of "great artist" seems like a stretch. i get that people think the wizarding world is fun, i think star wars is fun even though the plot is full of holes and the writing and lore are OK at best. i grew up in the HP era, and i feel that i just grew out of them. what really baffles me is that people consider HP to be a great work. like i've read a lot of YA fiction and HP doesn't really stand out to me. Rowling is clearly a commercial success, which is a fine thing to be, but i think that's different than being a great artist. buying her media contributes to that success and increases the size and scope of her platform, which does have political consequences that can't really be removed from the transaction. i guess piracy is probably a fine way to gain access without being part of the commercial success, but i still wonder why you'd want to do that in the first place. like, i don't agree with Rowlings politics (obviously), but i don't even need to go there to decide that i don't want to consume HP content.
Honestly for me, it's mainly tied to nostalgia and just having been invested in the world the series created for so long. I was around 10 when the first movies started coming out, and I read them at release from 4 on, and the series is largely what brought me into fantasy and sci-fi in general. In a lot of ways, it was the basis for a lot of things that I've come to love throughout life, and letting it go is hard. I just wish the whole IP wasn't wrapped up in so many contracts its more like papier mache. That way other creators could contribute more positively. But as it is, Universal is probably going to snap it up the moment JKR croaks and monetize the fuck out of it even more.
Idk, to me JK Rowling was just a name on the cover of books I liked. I didn't care who that was or what they were like, it was just a couple of words I was vaguely aware of because I saw them a lot. I just want that level of not giving a fuck back. I can't, because she's a terrible person and that isn't going to change. She just keeps doubling down. But I still like to look at every pirated copy of media as a dollar out of her pocket.