Ashley Reese

spend money on this IP.

I'm not going to give JK Rowling more profit.

But there is also the contradiction.

It's like, okay, we're still engaging with this IP from this woman who I never thought in my life I'd have to block JK Rowling.

Like, if you told me this, like, you know, a little over 10 years ago, like, I'm just like, it's just repugnant.

It's frustrating.

And I think that when people try to twist themselves into knots to kind of

defend this bad or the other bad.

I'm just like, we're compartmentalizing you guys.

We're trying to kind of cope.

This is all cope.

We're coping with the fact that this woman is kind of tainted.

Something that meant a lot to a lot of people.

Let's get into thorny stuff.

We can both talk about thorny.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

Ashley, I see you nodding.

Yep.

I think that we need to have like a come to Jesus moment about the fact that we are just increasingly going to be in an era where a lot of writers, whether they were even that deep in the weeds in fandom or not, have read fan fiction.