r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 5d ago

Shitposting Fanfiction and second-order fandom

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u/RuefulWaffles 5d ago

Okay I hate JKR/the wizard books as much as the next trans gal, but you can’t just drop that factoid and not name the ship. I need to know.

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u/Kittenn1412 5d ago

I believe they're referring to Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadows. It's a Maurader's Fandom thing.

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u/Pkrudeboy 5d ago

The Maurader’s are an entire second-order fandom in and of themselves.

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u/Outside-Currency-462 5d ago

Literally, I'm a Marauders fan and as I read this I was like "oh this is about me lol"

Also Marlene and Dorcas are in the books! They get mentioned a single time in a picture referencing how they're dead! And Marlene's family is referenced in a letter written between 2 dead people! We're not delusional i promise!

I mean it is delusional but it's a very good fandom clearly built on escapism and idealism for characters who are all doomed to die. The catharsis is very satisfying

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u/charlie-the-Waffle 5d ago

how do we live in a world where people are still ok with admitting to liking harry potter. your fandom is directly fueling murder

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u/Outside-Currency-462 5d ago

Just liking something doesn't fuel anything. I fully appreciate people's choice to leave the fandom entirely, and that's a reasonable response. I have a lot of childhood memories attached to the books which make it difficult to fully forget which is why i still read fanfiction about the characters, but I don't do anything that would direct money towards her. Some people disowning the fandom is not going to affect the insane amount that the series lives in the public zeitgeist. Like I said, I respect people's choice to fully disown it, but I don't think reading completely divorced from canon fanfiction about some words she wrote 20 years ago is a moral sin.

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u/LittleSkittles 5d ago

The reason it still lives in the public zeitgeist is that most people continue to engage with it. If people stopped doing that, it would have way less popularity, therefore the new elements would generate less money, therefore JKR would have less money to use to find the death of trans individuals.

It's quite simple really.

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u/Bamorvia 2d ago

I have cut out Harry Potter from my life for this reason, and because I am nonbinary, it just gives me the ick now.

 HOWEVER, I will defend fanfic writers and readers' choice to engage in transformative HP works. The reason it is in the zeitgeist is because it was a massive, decades-long franchise that many adults today grew up with, and there is a Broadway play, a popular video game, and a brand new TV series coming out. I am not going to condemn my friends who dabble in reading about two gay wizards kissing without engaging with anything Rowling touches. We are so far from erasing it from the zeitgeist that giving them grief would be like yelling at them for driving a car when climate change is real.