s1ocki have you heard his rationale for why he played magneto and the lotr dumbledore
― abanana, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Harry has definitely come back into fashion as a kids name, like George and Alfie, but Ron is really dated. Plenty of people with east Asian ethnicity have English names in the UK, not sure how different it is to the US though.
― ogmor, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
My best mate is called Harry, but then he was named after a man born in 1907.
― Mark C, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
two of my harry friends are jews, which makes some sort of sense to me, at least. they're both around 23? the other is more peripheral, and he is (surprise) Japanese.
― the table is the table, Sunday, 21 October 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ LAMAR SINGLETON
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time I see this thread title I want it to say "'Dumbledore is Mad Gay' sez Rowling".
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
ya rly xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
nice of jkr to make the reveal after she's already ended the series and sold 15 gajillion books. woo yay and all, but also kind of having yr cock and eating it too.
OTM. I find it hard to believe she's really like, "Oh, he's always been gay, I just didn't bother to mention it before."
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
ppl get *christened* harry?
the fuck, people.
it's like christening your kid dave.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
'christened' to troll tuomas; insert whatever equiv you might want.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
What?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
To troll me how?
no other thread
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/books/a-detective-storys-famous-author-is-unmasked.html?smid=tw-share
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 July 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
That is one of the coolest things ever. It must have been really gratifying for her to get reviews minus all the usual "for grown ups, Harry Potter, mature, change of direction, blah blah" BS.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 July 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah gonna buy this to see what the fuss is all about
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 July 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Don't expect a trans retcon in the Potterverse:
https://www.out.com/transgender/2019/12/19/harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-comes-out-terf
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 December 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Yeah she’s been a fucking mess on this for years. Think I read somewhere she’s friends with W1ngs 0f Sc0tland?
― glindr jackson (gyac), Monday, 23 December 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
That seems unlikely as she's anti Scottish independence.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Monday, 23 December 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
You’re right but I am sure there’s some weird connection between them and some really objectionable people? Let me check this out
― glindr jackson (gyac), Monday, 23 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
They both live in Dorset perhaps?
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Monday, 23 December 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
jk rowling has been a terf for years. she is also very friendly on twitter with "brian spanner" a unionist troll account that has tweeted at multiple female snp msps calling them cunts
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Monday, 23 December 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
don't want to link to wings over scotland but he details her literally @ing the brian spanner account 200 times.
― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Monday, 23 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
xp ok thank you, that’s who I meant!
― glindr jackson (gyac), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
Here we have positive proof, if any were needed, that writing a series of wildly popular and lucrative children's books does not guarantee one has the ability to think sensibly about every issue that arises in a society. Other than her being rich as Scrooge McDuck, why would anyone regard her opinion about this as worth repeating?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
That's Twitter for you.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Monday, 23 December 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
now fantasy fans can have the same crushing disenchantment and disappointment in their authors that sci-fi fans have had to deal with since forever.
― akm, Monday, 23 December 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
to me it seems unlikely that an angry entitled millionaire soft Tory would be a terf
― a very powerful woman in the dog world (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 December 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
sister is watching the TV adaptations of her detective books and dear god do i hate Rowling on a near visceral level
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
this is a brief interruption to my "more positivity" resolution, she pushed me into it
I've almost finished the last book with my kids- She refuses to use the present subjunctive, which is infuriating- She has a remarkably small stock of ideas- Her conception of what magic is, and what wizards and witches are, and what they’re for, is weirdly stunted/unarticulated. She starts from a base of adorable cliches i.e. cauldrons, broomsticks, wands, but they never turn into anything interesting. They’re trappings. There’s a bank, a prison, a series of schools with terribly important exams but.. what are these wizards actually expected to do with these powers?- Technically she’s quite good imo. Good sentences. The language flows. It’s extremely easy and satisfying to read aloud. And she always gives a clue as to what sort of voice to use i.e. Flitwick’s “squeaky voice” etc- I don't buy Hermione and Ron at all. Ridiculous- Harry and Ginny I do buy, depressingly. Harry supposedly cares about her deeply then manages to spend the entire last book without her. Would have served him right if she'd ended up among the dead- They did Hagrid dirty. He starts as this cool big old gamekeeper who takes a shine to Harry. quite quickly he becomes The Crying Guy. oh he’s huge and rough- but he has a sensitive side! he’s just a big old softie! who’d a thunk it??? if i have to read one more time about the large tears rolling down Hagrid’s cheeks, each big enough to fill a teacup etc I’m hurling the book out the window- speaking of, I never, ever need to read about Harry’s scar throbbing ever again. twice, three times- it’s enough. when he wakes up in the white mist-world talking to dead Dumbledore and he reaches up and doesn’t have a scar i was like 🎶 HALLELUJAH
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
can’t wait for my wee girl to be old enough to want to read these and then spend years trying not to yell about how all harry does is defend his elite private school and the horrible racist status quo it supports from having to make any sort of change and then grows up to be a cop so he can do it some more and also that rowling is a blairite terf
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
I read all the books and enjoyed them but nothing stopped JK's horrible politics and generally shitty world-view soaking thru. She did one of her usual Twitter "body-shaming women is bad" things a couple of months ago which a friend approvingly shared and I bit my lip because I didn't wanna be that guy but I was gagging to shout about how she wrote seven books where one of the marks of the Dursleys's wickedness is "lol they fat"
She is a fucking mare, don't start me on this detective shite.
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1AlWxfi.jpg
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
lol
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Saturday, 28 December 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
(for the record, gender is real)
if j.k. rowling tried to make an album based on the harry potter novels it would be so fucking awful
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
btw I didn't get into all the house elf / snape's hooked nose etc stuff because I figure it's all been hashed out plenty; ditto everyone being straight; but yes it is EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC. lol when dobby dies and rowling tries to make it into a Big Moment and has harry really drinking in his grief, it all rings so fucking hollow.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I'm still mad about Hermione and Ron btw - there is absolutely NOTHING between them for like four books. Ron's an idiot. it comes from nowhere. no little clues, no key moment where Ron does something unexpectedly gallant, nothing. it's like jkr really doesn't know her characters. Hermione and George I could see. Ron and Parvati. we're starting to get into that second tier of jkr character now though, the characters with no personalities of their own. God knows how I ever managed to differentiate the voices of Dean and Seamus.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's that weird that there's nothing between them at ages 11-14, but then as teens they couple up. All the couplings in Harry Potter seemed as stupid as inconsequential as teenage love so often is. And then at the end it turns out they all married and stayed together forever, and that's when it became shitty...
― Frederik B, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
yes, THAT’s when it became shitty, otm
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
look it isn't the place of fiction to explore characters' motivations or give them any kind of internal consistency
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
On the plus side, everybody on my feed has stfu about Harry Potter for once
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Teens don't have internal consistency :) That's one of the few things Rowling got right, actually. #Bookfiveisthebest.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
neither true nor an excuse for bad lazy writing tbf Fred
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
my biggest problem with the books is that she uses this phrasing fucking non stop: "well its xxxxx, isn't it?" I swear someone says this on every page.
― akm, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
well, it’s rowling, isn’t it?
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
She uses "ejaculated" a lot
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), 28. december 2019 17:38 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's definitely bad and lazy, I'm just saying, it's not because the teens are oblique and acting inconsistently.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
I also love that they make fun of Muggles for approximating magic, meanwhile they have to wait for an owl to show up to get a message from someone
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Also quidditch is a stupid game, only getting the snitch ultimately matters
Also they use Time Turners to give Hermione special privileges and save a hippogriff
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Ridiculous and bad way to conduct politics.
The SNP leadership candidates were asked if JK Rowling is a national treasure in live Sky News debateRead more: https://t.co/WUnquWwffN pic.twitter.com/uWuKW5BAcw— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 13, 2023
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:30 (one year ago) link
Pathetic and enraging.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link
So, within a week of an American conservative radio host calling for the elimination of "transgenderism," JKR is likening trans activists to Death Eaters?
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 March 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.cnet.com/health/screen-time-is-rising-and-its-ruining-us-here-are-11-ways-to-cut-back/
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:23 (three months ago) link
????
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:48 (three months ago) link
was this a mispost
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:49 (three months ago) link
I took it as friendly advice for JK who has screentimed herself into embracing Holocaust denial
― rob, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link
holocaust denial seems to be inevitable for the obsessive transphobes, hopefully rowling manages to get herself into legal trouble somewhere from it
― ufo, Thursday, 14 March 2024 01:16 (two months ago) link
A tweet thread explainer on a couple of Rowling’s anti-trans holocaust denial exchanges in the last day or so.
― bae (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2024 01:30 (two months ago) link