quick notes - fandom
Reading new blogs through RSS reader and came across this quote that I just want to save here from a post by Bix:
(I don't know them or have read the rest of their blog but this something that resonates with me re: my fandoms, so just wanted to save this.)
The real example to use here more naturally would be people still liking the Harry Potter franchise despite J.K. Rowling being a fetid, rancid TERF. In that actual situation, there are nuances. For example, if the books (or movies) meant a lot to you and you still own them and you still revisit them, you aren’t actually giving Rowling any more money or visible support as a human being. If you’re continuing to buy, rent, or attend any of her work, you actively are supporting a fetid, rancid TERF. It’s valid for people to judge you on that.
To put this more in my fandom contexts - I still enjoy reading and rereading the fanworks that brought me peace in a time of my young adult life where I was feeling pretty hopeless. But I don't see myself going to HP world, buying licensed HP merch, watching the new HBO show (which I don't know anything about, actually), or anything like that ever again.