this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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Rules
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😇 Be Nice!
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🏘️ Community Standards
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- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due
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📋 Post Formatting
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✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
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🏴☠️ Internationalization (i18n)
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Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
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It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.
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When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
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Lots of the worst criminals have tragic back stories. Maybe demented by childhood trauma. Maybe they never had a chance due to sharing genetics with their abusers.
Heck, for all we know, Rowling might have some sort of trauma that helped shaped her into one of today's leading assholes.
What I do know is that Rowling doesn't seem to have broken any laws, but I have been told that Michael had individual victims whose lives he likely altered for the worse with criminal actions. (I speak with a little hedging because I haven't actually reviewed any of the most recent evidence against him.)
I'll acknowledge that Michael broke laws while (the thoroughly vituperable) Rowling has not.
But I don't hold that to be an arbiter of morality.
For me it comes down more to how they seem to view other living beings.
Michael has no clear evidence of deliberate, knowing, harm. Yes, he should've known better, and without being in his head I can't know for sure... But it seems to be plausible.
Meanwhile J. K. (I feel more comfortable with a gender neutral name even now everyone knows me but gender bending is right out) Rowling has made it clear that she doesn't value trans-people as much as cos-people and is willing to set up conditions which greatly increase sexual assault against trans-women if it might only slightly reduce the threat of sexual assault against a single cos-woman, and does not find issue with cooperating with actual neo-nazis and crypto fascists who have strong misogynistic and homophobic stances on anti-trans issues - despite claiming she doesn't want to harm those groups. She is choosing to value particular groups and ignore, and create, suffering for others she seems abhuman. (And yes she has a tragic back-story of an abusive husband and marital rape, which she says is why she must ensure gender is immutable.)
But - evil and harm can't be compared and the totally different natures of what they do make comparison even more pointless.
If you continue to enjoy either of their work (or that of any other harmful person, be it Marquis de Sade, H. P. Lovecraft, or whomever) more power to you - but just try your best not to fund She Who Shall Not be Named's warchest.
Absolutely. This is a fantastic reason to pirate certain material. I'm all for paying the owners and creators of materials I enjoy for said material, but there are exceptions.