haha its a bit late for that now hoos
― deej, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hermione = posh Ron = common as dog muck
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Harry = wtf is this the 1940s?
Yes, yes, definitely a step back in time. There is more than a touch of Enid Blyton.
― moley, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Hermione pretty much seemed like Theo in a cloak to me.
― Abbott, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
OOOOPS maybe I meant Rudy (meaning I entirely meant Rudy, I wasn't THAT, um, unclear on Hermione.)
― Abbott, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I just canceled an 8-paragraph post about Theo's late-diagnosed learning disabilities
― nabisco, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
There IS that one scene where she keeps calling Ron BUUUUD
HAHAHA sorry to make you abort what was surely a hilarious frolic.
― Abbott, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Saturday, 20 October 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
wait you guys don't know anyone named harry? i have THREE friends named harry.
― the table is the table, Sunday, 21 October 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I have never known a person named Harry that was younger than 60.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 02:49 (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.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 21 October 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
prince harry
― Heave Ho, Sunday, 21 October 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Now this raises all kinds of interesting questions.1) Does what Rowling think matters?
1) Does what Rowling think matters?
lol subject-verb agreement
― stephen, Sunday, 21 October 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
my little dog is called harry, he is like a tiny old-fashioned travelling salesman who breezes into town and makes hearts flutter.
― estela, Sunday, 21 October 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
in the remaining films, dumbledore will now be played by ian mckellen
― abanana, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
because he's gay!!
― s1ocki, Sunday, 21 October 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
it would be funny if michael gambon took a cue from this and just really queened it up in the next couple movies.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 21 October 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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
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
Extraordinary, scarcely-believable stuff here. Would love to see her defend herself on these points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_xvXJJk7k
― piscesx, Friday, 14 October 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
these english feminists are fucking weird
― akm, Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
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)
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 15 October 2022 09:51 (one year ago) link
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
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 15 October 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
yeah this is mainly an english thing afaict. for instance check out this booming answer:https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMF6cD2U5/
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 15 October 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
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.
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 15 October 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
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.
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 15 October 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
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
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 15 October 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
I am watching the trash truck take away my complete set of harry potter books - so long!
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
feels good man!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
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."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
The Rise and Fall of The Writer Who Stole the Ideas From "The Worst Witch"
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
first time seeing the term “terves,” excellent work
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
she's approaching Glinner-level brainworms at this point, seems to tweet about nothing else.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 12:11 (one year ago) link
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
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 12:59 (one year ago) link
xp and yet, afaict she has yet to acknowledge his existence in any way
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link
Glinner says the quiet part out loud too much.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 13:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
you get to feel like an underground resistance fighter for inciting violence against a minority group,This is the magic ingredient, I feel
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
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.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 15:49 (one year 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 (one month ago) link
????
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:48 (one month ago) link
was this a mispost
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:49 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link