Fact Finding

After years of being too lazy and too sentimental¹ to do so, I finally deleted all my Harry Potter fanfics off of AO3 and FF.net. It was someone commenting on one of them that triggered it for me. I realized I've been getting irritated every time one of those sites emails me about kudos or comments on Harry Potter fics because it means those people are still reading Harry Potter, still supporting a bigot who is using her money and power to make trans people's lives even harder than they already were. And finally I just had enough of it. The series were abandoned, but people kept reading them anyway.

The comment was saying that Rowling had spent time, before being published, in a women's shelter because apparently she'd been abused. And this just pissed me off so much because if true, that means an abuse victim became the worst kind of abuser, abusing trans people and others with her power and influence.² So I deleted everything off both AO3 and FanFiction dot net, with the exception on AO3 of a couple works where I left only one "chapter" up, which is just a long explanation of why I had deleted everything. Also I turned off commenting.

Oh, and I mentioned my Ravenstone series in that long explanation, and put some links in my bio/profile, to here, my website, and my BlueSky account.

Now I won't get anything from either of those sites unless I decide to write fanfic for another fandom. Which I probably won't do, because I'm too focused on my own stuff. But if I did, it would probably be one-shots. The most likely fandom for me to write for now, if I was going to do so, is the Murderbot series. Or maybe Addams Family, but not the Wednesday series. It's a good series, but the makers have gotten some very important things wrong about the family. The dynamic between Morticia and Gomez isn't right, and in season two I've heard they made Grandmama into an entirely different character, basically turning her into that one woman from "The Devil Wears Prada." Unless that's supposed to be the other grandmother of the family that never featured before. I dunno, I haven't seen season two yet.

On a side note, my wireless keyboard that has somehow gone for over a year without needing to be charged just started blinking a green light at me. So I plugged it in and the light stopped blinking. I guess it finally started running out of electricity. I wish I knew how long it's been since I last charged it, because it's been at least a year. Possibly two. It's a modern marvel, truly the eighth wonder of the world.



1 = Sentimental because writing those fics helped me polish my writing, and because my Ravenstone series wouldn't exist at all if not for them, because of the polish to my writing but mainly because the Ravenstone series started as an idea for an Addams Family/Harry Potter crossover series. Basically, it was going to be "The Addams Family are witches in the HP universe." But I didn't want to be writing a third fanfic series because it was stressful enough writing two series at once, so I filed off all the serial numbers and made it into the Ravenstone series instead. Somehow, working on that while working on two fanfics wasn't as stressful as having three fanfics. Of course I eventually gave up on the fanfics and focused instead on the Ravenstone series.

2 = It also explains how she got twisted to be a transphobe. Someone abused by men, thinking trans women are just men in dresses? Explains her bigotry but in no way excuses it. I still will celebrate her death date with a rousing rendition of "Ding Dong The Bitch Is Dead," and if someone would help me get a passport and pay my way to the UK, I still will want to take a big fat shit on her grave, and set the gravestone on fire with napalm.