New Harry Potter Themed Communities
from Teknevra@literature.cafe to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2025 17:54
https://literature.cafe/post/16563396
from Teknevra@literature.cafe to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2025 17:54
https://literature.cafe/post/16563396
Hey everyone,
I started a couple of Harry Potter themed communities focused on various Harry Potter Ships, they’re based off of the Subreddits with the same names, and I’m looking for some potential moderators to help manage them, as well as some potential users.
Drarry:
For fans of Harry Potter x Draco Malfoy
HarryandGinny:
literature.cafe/c/harry_and_ginny
For fans of Harry Potter x Ginny Weasley
Hpharmony:
For fans of Harry Potter x Hermione Granger
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Hello,
The current most active community is !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social, maybe you can start posting there first? It’s not a very popular topic on Lemmy, so your posts should get good visibility
Yeah. There are a lot of trans and queer users around here, and anything to do with the High Transphobe of TERF Island is bound to get a bit of the cold shoulder.
And rightly so.
Well that's people voting with their feet which is their right.
The same way people who like potter have right to do their sin in peace in a some corner of fedi.
That community is doing okay. From an ethical perspective, the author doesn’t get any benefit from us posting meme or fan arts about that universe.
That’s totally ok. I know there are critiques of that, but by and large I don’t agree with them.
It’s just that thinking about Harry Potter stuff makes me think of the wicked witch of the TERFs, and that makes me sad. And angry.
And I need to save my anger for other stuff right now.
I completely understand where you’re coming from.
I happen to be Queer myself (MtF, Pansexual, although all of my life, I have been forced to present as Male.)
Where I am coming from is:
1.) As the other commenter mentioned, there’s no monetary value for JKR for there to be HP-Themed communities.
2.) By making Fics, “non-canon” pairings, Fan-Art, etc., YOU control the initiative.
I.e, you want Harry to be gay, make him gay, want him to be trans, BAM!, now he’s Trans.
You can make him Gay /Straight/Black/White/Fat/Slim/Good/Evil/etc.
Same thing with all of the other characters.
Don’t let JKR win by ruining it for you.
3.) It’s not like I set up a requirement that everyone who joins has to donate to a gofundme for JKR, Joining and participating is COMPLETELY free.
IDK, just my two cents.
Yes there is, because it helps keep her relevant
I actually originally applied for an account on leaky_cauldron, but I never got a response back, so instead I decided to make one on Literature.Cafe
Yes, the admin on diagonlemmy isn’t very reactive.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that diagonlemmy feels somewhat dead?
Like, all of the posts only have one upvote, and the whole community just doesn’t feel very active, at least IMO.
This post had 93 votes: lemmy.cafe/post/12021854
Let me check from your instance
Alright so I just manually parsed the comments theree: literature.cafe/post/16567061
The federation seems to be a bit clunky between your instance and that community.
Even beyond the federation issues, that’s unfortunately the level of activity for HP on Lemmy at the moment. I’ve been trying to post there every few days, but I’m mostly the only one with @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
We can usually quite a few votes and some comments, but that’s it. You can maybe create a post there to promote your communities as well. The community still has 532 subscribers, all of them interested by HP, so you might find a few people into ships
No offense intended, but… Attempting to create Harry Potter themed communities while JK Rowling holds the rights to them, on a social media platform with a huge trans/enby population, doesn’t seem like it would go very far.
As much as I enjoy Harry Potter, fuck Rowling and I will be looking forward to the day she dies or sells the IP.
I think that “The Death of the Author” applies even if the author is still alive. Just because a creator is or has become a jerk doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy their work.
Not when the author proudly flaunts the fact that every dime spent on her works goes towards eradicating trans people. (Yes, that was a bit hyperbolic, but she absolutely has stated that if you’re enjoying Harry Potter then you’re helping her fight against trans people).
To be fair, I honestly enjoy Harry Potter. However, I don’t want to give people the temptation to buy books or go see movies.
I’m not sure Lemmy is big enough to have communities for specific ships.
Then again, people seem to be looking for alternatives to big tech lately. There's probably interested people out there, but it might be more efficient to recruit outside of Lemmy.
I don't know what a ship is and after checking out a community I still don't understand, but I hope they are successful whatever it is they are doing. :)
It’s a couple for characters. Leia and Han are a ship
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
‘ship’ as in ‘relationship’
TIL ha ha, it never crossed my mind
I’m not particularly interested in the non-canon ships, but I suppose I could take the Harry and Ginny one. I don’t (yet) have an account on literaturecafe though, which could present moderation challenges.
@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
Would you like for me to mod this account, and then later on you could potentially mod yourself if you ever decide to make a Literature. Cafe Account?
You can’t appoint mods from non-local accounts unfortunately
Is Literature.Cafe down?
I’m completely unable to login, and whenever I attempt to click on any page about Literature.Cafe online, I just keep getting an error message.
Huh, that’s odd, I’m pretty sure I did exactly that for !catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world.
I’ve applied for an account on LiteratureCafe, I’ll let you know when it is approved.
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Please don’t, bullying is never nice
Ugh, fine, just 'cause it’s you asking though.
Appreciated 😄