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  1. brainrotandbs on Chapter 3 Mon 23 Jan 2023 03:08AM UTC

    A photo of Pikachu looking over some cat-eye sunglasses with a small smile.

    You wrote Amos to be so realistically unpleasant, so casually bigoted, so goddamn pompous, I had to put down my phone several times when he opened his mouth. Good writing though.

    The 'cripple tax' part was again, way too realistic, and yeah the way Vulvamort set up the wizarding world, it does seem ableist. I think she once said something about wizards just curing disabilities... Okay then why does your main character have glasses, Joanne? I mean, with all the stairs and shit hogwarts has in its hallways, how does anyone get anywhere? Especially if you have asthma, chronic fatigue, EDS, or are simply not an Olympic stair-climber? What if you don't have legs? Makes no sense, I tell you.

    The casual bigotry against werewolves was heartbreaking and infuriating to read. While I haven't had any experiences like that personally (other than casual biphobia), I've seen it happen to other queer people, and it's just... I wish I knew what to say but honestly I don't. It's all very well written to the point where the bad stuff in the wizarding world hurts to read.

    Also, they are really just giving people brain damage to attend a sporting event... Damn, sports fans are extreme (/sarcasm, kinda).

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    1. Ardently_Queer on Chapter 3 Tue 24 Jan 2023 10:22AM UTC

      Red-haired white genderqueer man with green eyes wearing a red shirt and a black tank. His hair is mid-length, curly and he wears glasses and is in a wheelchair. There are several pride flags in the image as buttons, behind him and a ring around him.

      He's not even *hate*-worthy he's just so damn tiring, right? I sorta extrapolated from the kind of people I had to deal with when I was in the system and others I have to deal with now with my medical issues, based on his existing characterisation as rather pompous and annoying in the brief time he's seen in canon.
      The crip tax is also based on, yeah, a real thing. And Hermione's disabled herself *and* the child of a disabled person, so of course she's gonna know about it. Curing disabilities rather than dealing with them is in itself an ableist ideology. I just don't think if they can't easily transfigure air into food, there's no way they could do the same to human bodies in the wide array of ways things can go wrong for us. And even if they could, honestly, I'm not interested in exploring a world without us in it because our lives are worth living and our stories are worth writing about. Fun fact - I have asthma, chronic fatigue from fibro/possibly something fibro-like that is more specifically associated with my neurological heart condition, AND EDS so yeah you've just identified all the reasons I looked at Hogwarts and went 'wow fuck this' lol. It's honestly even more insulting that there *is* a canon wheelchair user and she's given absolutely no thought to how he'd get around that castle.
      Casual bigotry is its own special kind of exhausting and miserable. They don't even care enough to make it a big they and everyone around them just treat it like that's how you do with that group of people. I'm fat, disabled in a number of different ways and queer in several more so like, I've experienced that, and I've watched people pull it on others. It's *exhausting*. I can only promise that I have plans to drag the wizarding world into the modern age eventually.
      I mean, real sports fans regularly accept brain damage as a natural eventuality of sport, look at american football and how the league treats players. That particular aspect with Mr Roberts was all straight from canon with no modification.

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