"Dumbledore is Gay" sez Rowling

what with ilx/facebook crossover and everything

"Can I say my girlfriend's into Harry Potter sex slash on Facebook?"

haha its a bit late for that now hoos

way xpost to Abbott -- I've always found it kind of cute/interesting how Rowling tries to use the kids' names/details to make various ethnicities clear without having to say anything (and without going overboard and being like "the young wizard LAMAR SINGLETON raised his wand"), which is funny business when you're trying to make things clear for children; there's some funny bit early on where one of the black kids wears dreadlocks for pretty much the sole purpose of us imagining him as black, instead of being told straight. (I find it funny, too, that one of the Indian girls is named Parvati, and so I consistently imagine her as Parvati-the-witch from Midnight's Children.) But then in standard British style she goes a bit broad with the foreigners ("Fleur"!), and Cho Chang has always made me wonder if maybe east Asians in the UK don't do the assimilated-name thing like in the US.

I assume the way ALL the names scan is way different in the UK, obviously (which kinda kills my Lamar Singleton joke) -- I'm probably missing a lot of class signifiers with the names, too, aren't I.

Hermione = posh
Ron = common as dog muck

Harry = wtf is this the 1940s?

Yes, yes, definitely a step back in time. There is more than a touch of Enid Blyton.

Hermione pretty much seemed like Theo in a cloak to me.

OOOOPS maybe I meant Rudy (meaning I entirely meant Rudy, I wasn't THAT, um, unclear on Hermione.)

I just canceled an 8-paragraph post about Theo's late-diagnosed learning disabilities

There IS that one scene where she keeps calling Ron BUUUUD

HAHAHA sorry to make you abort what was surely a hilarious frolic.

There was nothing hilarious about it, Abbott. In fact, his early-college discovery of the simple learning disabilities that had made him struggle in high school was precisely what made him decide to major in education, so he could help kids like himself find ways to

I'm sorry, I'm getting a little misty, one second

wait you guys don't know anyone named harry? i have THREE friends named harry.

I have never known a person named Harry that was younger than 60.

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.

prince harry

Now this raises all kinds of interesting questions.

1) Does what Rowling think matters?

lol subject-verb agreement

my little dog is called harry, he is like a tiny old-fashioned travelling salesman who breezes into town and makes hearts flutter.

in the remaining films, dumbledore will now be played by ian mckellen

because he's gay!!

it would be funny if michael gambon took a cue from this and just really queened it up in the next couple movies.

s1ocki have you heard his rationale for why he played magneto and the lotr dumbledore

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.

My best mate is called Harry, but then he was named after a man born in 1907.

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.

lol @ LAMAR SINGLETON

Every time I see this thread title I want it to say "'Dumbledore is Mad Gay' sez Rowling".

ya rly xpost

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."

ppl get *christened* harry?

the fuck, people.

it's like christening your kid dave.

'christened' to troll tuomas; insert whatever equiv you might want.

What?

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

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.

yeah gonna buy this to see what the fuss is all about

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

Yeah she’s been a fucking mess on this for years. Think I read somewhere she’s friends with W1ngs 0f Sc0tland?

That seems unlikely as she's anti Scottish independence.

You’re right but I am sure there’s some weird connection between them and some really objectionable people? Let me check this out

They both live in Dorset perhaps?

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

don't want to link to wings over scotland but he details her literally @ing the brian spanner account 200 times.

xp ok thank you, that’s who I meant!

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?

That's Twitter for you.

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.

to me it seems unlikely that an angry entitled millionaire soft Tory would be a terf

stoked for characters named like Enby Snowflake and Trance U. Premissist

I realize JK Rowling's new novel might seem a little long at 1200 pages but a good portion of the space is taken up by fictitious mean tweets pic.twitter.com/6xaH27fUUT

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) August 31, 2022

Extraordinary, scarcely-believable stuff here. Would love to see her defend herself on these points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_xvXJJk7k

these english feminists are fucking weird

these fascists get to dominate UK coverage of feminism because they offer a version that doesn't threaten power and punches down at all the same targets the state and media already wants to eliminate... most english feminists i know think this crowd is full of shit they just can't get a word in since this is the only feminism UK state/media gives a shit about

(relevant that these self-described radicals are uncritically supportive of empire, nation, police, prisons, borders, the nuclear family - and don't seem to care much about abortion access or reproductive labour or gendered poverty or basically anything except transphobia and the purity of white womanhood, conceived of as essential to the national project)

this crowd might represent an official english or british feminism but they're deliberately unrepresentative of feminisms that exist within britain - I wanted to draw that out because I think the specifically national and nationalist character (and utility) of the terf wave is fairly underexamined even as people make jokes about terf island and so on

yeah this is mainly an english thing afaict. for instance check out this booming answer:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMF6cD2U5/

I’ve never seen these terves talk about the lack of provision of abortion in Northern Ireland, or even very much about Roe v Wade.

Let’s not forget you have the right to call Johnny Depp a wife beater in this country cos even a shitehawk like Dan Wootton could notice the incongruity of these beliefs.

https://www.lawfuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/danwoottonlibel_lawfuel.png

they don't want US evangelical funding to dry up and honestly they seem a step away from going full pro-life anyway given the rest of their politics and their general attitudes about reproduction and bodily autonomy

has JKR reacted at all to the recent depp bullshit? I know she loves using the law to silence people too - but people must have been asking her to comment

I am watching the trash truck take away my complete set of harry potter books - so long!

feels good man!

This makes me feel like one of the Old Ones sagely nodding as things come full circle, saying, "I saw Harry Potter arrive and I saw it go."

The Rise and Fall of The Writer Who Stole the Ideas From "The Worst Witch"

first time seeing the term “terves,” excellent work

she's approaching Glinner-level brainworms at this point, seems to tweet about nothing else.

you're constantly being told how brave and righteous and important you are while being initiated into this ideological bubble within which every question always comes back to this, you get to feel like an underground resistance fighter for inciting violence against a minority group, all this must be intoxicating and once you're in so deep entertaining any reservations would shatter your entire identity so any doubts others may share become deeply threatening attacks on you personally and by extension women in general (even if you're a man) - and if you ever change your mind about all this (generic "you" since she's not doing this) you'll end up on the receiving end of everything you and your friends have been dishing out which isn't an attractive prospect

I don't have any sympathy because you have to indulge some really shitty parts of yourself to start down this path in the first place but once you're on it it's like a runaway train which very few people seem to get off

xp and yet, afaict she has yet to acknowledge his existence in any way

Glinner says the quiet part out loud too much.

Oh totally, he’s going to get himself banned again and probably sued and I can’t wait. Read some old tweets from his ex brother in law who said they’d tried to reach him for two years or something.

you get to feel like an underground resistance fighter for inciting violence against a minority group,

This is the magic ingredient, I feel

Rowling's feed is pretty similar to Brietbart or any other White Supremacist site that just highlights crimes committed by immigrants or minorities or whatever.

Ridiculous and bad way to conduct politics.

The SNP leadership candidates were asked if JK Rowling is a national treasure in live Sky News debate

Read more: https://t.co/WUnquWwffN pic.twitter.com/uWuKW5BAcw

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 13, 2023

Pathetic and enraging.

So, within a week of an American conservative radio host calling for the elimination of "transgenderism," JKR is likening trans activists to Death Eaters?

https://www.cnet.com/health/screen-time-is-rising-and-its-ruining-us-here-are-11-ways-to-cut-back/

????

was this a mispost

I took it as friendly advice for JK who has screentimed herself into embracing Holocaust denial

holocaust denial seems to be inevitable for the obsessive transphobes, hopefully rowling manages to get herself into legal trouble somewhere from it

A tweet thread explainer on a couple of Rowling’s anti-trans holocaust denial exchanges in the last day or so.