Continuing to engage with HP content, even fanfic, encourages others to continue engaging with official HP content. I respect your stance as an improvement, but you are still choosing to actively perpetuate the larger problem.
It’s harm reduction for people (many of them trans and/or autistic) who literally cannot let go of the world despite Knowing That, but experience extreme psychological stress at the idea of causing harm to others/their community.
I would also go so far as to say it can siphon off people/fans who would instead engage with the source material or new material from the author and bring them to a place where they can actively combat the issues in the source work that perpetuated that ideology and teach others to do the same in a completely free gift economy until they’re ready to leave the world entirely.
Autism doesn't mean you can't ever let go of anything. I let go of D&D and jumped ship to something better within the same genera.
I refuse to believe it's impossible to jump to a different book. I'm certain there's a fantasy novel series set in a magic school that's got much much better worldbuilding than shit like, "Actually the slaves like being slaves and the main character owns one. Also, the one character who has a problem with slavery is ridiculed for it because it's ridiculous to want to free slaves."
I mean. Yeah, Pathfinder (first edition, then second).
But also just. There's so many, and I like running little one offs in them. Mutants and Masterminds is good, so is Cyberpunk Red, Reclaim the Wild is a fanmade Zelda TTRPG that I've had fun with. Suspense is cool. Ghostbusters International is an official Ghostbusters TTRPG and a fucking hidden gem as far as I'm concerned.
There's a whole world of TTRPGs made for different genres and franchises and it drives me up a wall how people act like D&D is the end-all be-all.
Thats really neat, have you ever played vampire the masquerade? Thats one I've been interested in just because i thought of a fun concept for a character to play as
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u/AmazingScoops 11h ago
Continuing to engage with HP content, even fanfic, encourages others to continue engaging with official HP content. I respect your stance as an improvement, but you are still choosing to actively perpetuate the larger problem.