Everything matters more than Harry Potter. Harry Potter is fantasy slop, it is insanely unoriginal in so many ways. There’s better stuff out there to read and support. I don’t understand why people go gaga for this shit.
Amen to that 🙌
I feel vindicated every time i see one of these, because i never liked Harry Potter; But now i actively dislike it after watching Rowling lose her head entirely over trans people.
I’m glad I found the first book too boring to finish, and never tried again.
That’s right! FUCK Rowling
With a cactus, sideways
I’m so bummed about Rowling. I loved those books so much growing up. Its such a shame the person who put such whimsy and magic in the world has gotta spew that hate. RIP Harry, a wizard no more
They’re not that whimsical and the magic is kind of stupid. As in its not good magic and the world isn’t coherently built around it.
They’re not even good.
I mean, personally I agree the magic system is lazy and the world is nonsensical, but “good” is more subjective than that. I disliked the books and never even finished the series, it tool YEARS before I even read 5&6, and I don’t think I’ve seen past the 3rd movie. Except meme clips anyway.
But if someone else wants to lament how something they liked is tied to a bigot, let them lament in peace.
Yeah, I too personally never really cared for them. Like, they were OK, I read the first 3 books and yeah, it was a story but I never really got into this “world of wonder and whimsy” stuff. I read the rest of the books as they got released just to finish the story and I don’t think I saw any in the cinema.
But that was me, one of my closer friends at school though was utterly obsessed. They purchased all the merchandise, watched all the films in the cinema, multiple times, read all the fanfiction (and the naughty fanfiction…), played the games etc. etc.
So yeah, I agree that for me I, never really cared about it, it meant nothing more to me than any one of the number of kids books I read. But for others it did form so much of their childhood, it was important. From writing their own fanfiction to drawing art or programming games, I’m sure a lot of people have had it influence their adult life really heavily and, especially those who don’t quite understand the level of harm she is doing and maybe don’t even know anyone personally who is being harmed, this could seem like a real attack on their childhood, we should be able to recognise that and treat that with compassion rather than say the books are crap and you are an evil person for still liking them, which will only serve to harden them.
Most everything matters more than Harry Potter.
And few things matter less than the JK herself.
And few things matter less than the JK herself.
I agree, but she’s rich and is putting her money into projects that are actively hurting people.
Wouldn’t pirating kinda solve the issue? The fiction itself is not inherently bad and if you pirate you are not supporting the author. Normalize pirating harry potter stuff ig.
Arr.
Tell me if I am wrong tho i cannot really see dislikes.
The argument goes that while pirating doesn’t inherently support the author, continuing to participate in fandom perpetuates the cultural influence that the author has in society and can encourage others by proxy to go spend money on the author’s work.
That works to an extent, as long as you aren’t talking to your friends about the show, who might then go off and watch it somewhere that supports her.
Well I didn’t consider that because I have no friends-
Jokes aside that’s fair lol. But like of you go to watch it somewhere that supports her it’s kinda not pirating anymore. But I guess uou are more likely to do so if you already consume the content ig. I doubt anyone would in an scenario like this tho. But it is a big world ig.
It’s pretty bad. Remember how abolishing slavery is literally a running gag? Or his there’s one character of every non-white ethnicity? Or the prose kinda sucked? Or how dumb the magic sport is? Or…
Edit: if you want someone from the same place writing genuinely whimsical important meaningful bullshit wizard stories, try Pratchett’s ‘discworld’ novels. They’re far from perfect, but the author died of old while never being outed as a raging piece of shit, so I think you’re safe. There’s also one where all but one of the main characters turns out to be trans or in drag.
I take issue with “they’re far from perfect”
Even the ones where you can see his early-onset Alzheimer’s developing are excellent
GNU Terry Pratchett
Don’t forget the names of the non-white characters are racist caricatures at best.
try Pratchett’s ‘discworld’ novels.
I second this, but I found even his Tiffany Aching novels tougher to read than HP 1-2 for a youngster.
Chris Ridell has written amazing books for the younger audience. The Ottoline serie (youngest public) were the only books I enjoyed reading to kids for the Nth time and you find a similar humour in Lily Goth and such.
Pirate, then donate to a trans-friendly charity what the books would have cost.
