Hello! I know my posts are infrequent, but I just wanted to address and thank you all. I don't write much anymore, but I still love and appreciate your support. For both new and old readers, I want to call attention to the fact that I wrote Him when I was 12, so it is not very well written and at many times does not reflect the morals I uphold today.
This applies both to some themes I chose to write about as well as my current feelings about J.K. Rowling, who I wholeheartedly do not sympathize with in her rhetoric against the trans community. I encourage my readers to think before supporting her, and I simultaneously acknowledge the impact this story had on us at a young age. I thank the story and the story alone for making us accepting to communities that we may not identify with, and I do not appreciate the author's active support of transphobic campaigns.
I have written my stories out of a place of acceptance of both myself and others. I have always learned by writing more than anything, and I was ignorant when writing these stories, but I have come to understand my identity through my passion for storytelling. I hope that J.K. Rowling envies the way I and countless others thrive with my identity as a queer woman. I hope that she envies the joy that queer and trans people, women, and men experience by ignoring the harmful ideas we were raised with. I hope that she knows how her story made us so aware of our identities. Always remember that this is not politics—this is life.
I owe a lot of my success not to this horrible author, but to you. I have thrived the past few years as a student, a writer, a lesbian, etc. I am happy and devoted to my work as student of literature. I hope to be a professor of literature one day, and furthermore I hope to share the positivity and devotion I have experienced from my early works as a young writer on Wattpad.
To my followers, this is not a goodbye. I will write again, as always. Don't stop thinking.
-Liliana
