"Dumbledore is Gay" sez Rowling

yeah, that's bad bookseller practice imo. sell 'em something that influenced Rowling but is very good, like Dianna Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series and Archer The Goon, or is popular fantasy but excellent, like Pratchett, especially the witches and young-protagonist novels. stepping-stone them in towards literature.

treeship. at 1:19 23 Dec 20
The illogical and dumb rules of Quidditch was intentional I think. The wizarding world felt very small and sclerotic, with their political, media and education system rooted so firmly in tradition. (The slytherin house was still allowed to exist even after it was shown that its founder installed a monster in the school to kill minority students). In this world, there is no space for innovation and progress. The wizards know it which is why they seek “rejuvenation” through the Nazi-esque politics of Voldemort, who gains the support of the majority of the government, I think, almost immediately after regaining his bodily form. Theirs is a dying world, and its vulnerability lies precisely in its resistance to change.
I’ll take the fps.

yeah hermione/ron was where i was finally like oh wow - she doesn’t understand her own characters! very odd.

Lads I stg if this revival gets diverted into discussing one of the the internet’s most prolonged shipper grudges I’ll fp ye all, I don’t care if it’s Christmas.

Didnt you just divert it there

lol i had never seen any of that but i guess i did always assume there was a great seething mass of it out there just beyond the fringes of my vision

Have had a brief look at that, and yeah, once again her fans have spent 1000x more time thinking about this than she did.

none of those people read the Ballard. you just sold them paper

― plax (ico), Wednesday, December 23, 2020 2:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, that's bad bookseller practice imo. sell 'em something that influenced Rowling but is very good, like Dianna Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series and Archer The Goon, or is popular fantasy but excellent, like Pratchett, especially the witches and young-protagonist novels. stepping-stone them in towards literature.

― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Eh, who cares? It was 20 years ago.

We sold books, I felt morally cleansed, and the customer felt flattered by the attention. Win-win for everyone, as Trump might say.

xp I mean, you did post that whole “and then everyone clapped” story without prompt, so you I guess?

War stories are occasionally fun.

tell us one

Our call centre (200 employees) was sent one copy of the books so far to enjoy and to make us feel included

They sat beside other such client offerings in the staff room: fat-reducing belt, micro-gym 3000 chair, epil spray (the burns calls here were numerous), three plates with the queen, the queen mum and a world war ii bomber on em, and a box of sex toy returns

returns

That's a great New York mag piece; especially the bit about that fantastically stupid 'Wimpund..' tweet. What a silly arse.

ffs theres totally a market for those returns ppl

shy market tbs

also george lucas is fine with names by comparison get a grip

tell us one

― plax (ico), Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Dip daily into the U.S. politics thread.

Now that evil Trump is gone all will be peace

https://media3.giphy.com/media/4fGVV61rsPT0s/200.gif

Vera Spinabifida

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, December 22, 2020 6:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks for making me nearly choke to death on my breakfast, there.

Incredible content, this

Later on, they explained to the author that Harry Potter’s scar looks like the “Z”, the symbol used by the Russian on their military vehicles, and ask her to change it to the Ukrainian trident. Rowling took notes and said “I will look at that. It might be good for me to do something with that myself on social media, because I think that will get into the newspapers.”

ah, vanity plus stupidity, the magic combination

I'm assuming her next book will lean heavily on a subplot about people on the internet being VERY mean to Cormoran Strike

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:02 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

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/