• Im not saying they should necessarily part with it. Only interrogate their fucking relationship with it.

    you just dont understand, some kids were abused and took refuge in literature

    You had no way to know how funny it is to tell me this but i really hope none of my neighbors were asleep.

    Its like how one cant criticize lenin in front of a tankie without them throwing a fit.

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      I didn’t mean it as you specifically. Just in general. My family has a history of sexual abuse because of my grandfather so it was a pretty pertinent example from my own life experience.

      I’m sorry if that seemed insensitive.

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        22 hours ago

        More that i am very used to being used as rhetorical pawn by people who precisely misunderstand the identity/experiemce theyre leveraging.

        The harry potter fandom is communal. A tribal identity.