That’s a great point you bring up about retroactively disowning things like Harry Potter. For me, they were a large part of my childhood, I made friends through it, even had an attempted fan character once, and while I no longer seek fic or art for it as I once did, I’ve still got fond memories of its fandom hey days and of reading the books themselves. Eventually I dropped off, not out of boredom or frustration but perhaps because it no longer filled the niche for me it once had? I simply threw myself into other things.
It is painful and awkward to mention in passing sometimes how much I enjoyed the books as a kid, especially with an author making a spectacle of herself very currently and very accessibly on social media. But really those are other folk’s assumptions at play. In the end I don’t regret reading or enjoying the books and no one was thinking about subtle bigotry, lacking text and diversity or anything like that in 1998 when our teachers read us chapters during classroom down time.
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Date: 2020-10-07 08:01 pm (UTC)It is painful and awkward to mention in passing sometimes how much I enjoyed the books as a kid, especially with an author making a spectacle of herself very currently and very accessibly on social media. But really those are other folk’s assumptions at play. In the end I don’t regret reading or enjoying the books and no one was thinking about subtle bigotry, lacking text and diversity or anything like that in 1998 when our teachers read us chapters during classroom down time.
Haha sorry I’m rambling but that stuck out to me!