Spot on.
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Oh, does Christopher Tolkien have a new book out?
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The Midnight Pals account on Twitter is already addressing this one…
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Banishment into the Forbidden Forest?
It’s too bad Rowling lacks the self-awareness to realize she has become Dolores Umbridge.
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Rowling is a nasty piece of shit, a purveyor of tired schlock, and is entirely underserving of both fans and wealth.
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Now that was one weirdly rapey resolution for a children’s book.
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She is saying that trans women should not have that right. That is completely wrong.
(The quote can, out of context, be read in a way that is not wrong, but that’s not the same thing.)
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Sarcasm with the not completely wrong. Trans woman - that me!
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Arthur Conan Doyle was a believer in spiritualism, yet he wrote Sherlock Holmes as an ultra rationalist.
Harry Houdini the famous illusionist was a lifelong skeptic and spent time debunking fake psychics and fortune tellers. They were friends.
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She’s a fucking asshole. I can honestly say that I haven’t read any of her books or watched any Harry Potter movies, and now I feel good that I haven’t contributed a dime to her stupid royalty checks.
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Consider it, though, the world of Harry Potter. It’s intensely hierarchichal, factional, tolerant in conception but exclusional by design, speaking out is valorized yet pain comes from things exposed, laws protect the human yet restrain the sentient. Slave elves. Hook-nosed goblin bankers. None of it is intentionally malign or bigoted but the world drawn is a nightmare of Britishy cultural runoff compressed into a glittering diamond.
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Absolutely; this is a world where an entire race literally lives in slavery and the only person who seems bothered by the idea is Hermione, whose elf liberation campaign is treated as a joke.
During the course of the series the Wizarding World undergoes its most revolutionary social upheaval in generations and yet when everything is said and done it all just reverts to the status quo.
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Back when Rowling was known only as the author of Harry Potter, and not as a thoroughly malign influence, there were any number of would be imitators alleging that she had stolen the name “Muggle”, or otherwise plagiarized their works. (It could also be that harry potter was not very original in the British children’s publishing context, but scholastic’s role in pushing it on a naive market was the key to its success).
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Not surprising, given the history of Italian fascists’ fascination with Tolkien.
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That’s what I came here to say and also what a strange hill for her to die on. Like why even voice her opinion on the subject let alone go all scorched earth on anyone who disagrees with her?
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Keeping this piece of shit culturally relevant actually does do harm. Chuck that shit, don’t buy or stream any more of it, and replace her in your library and your mind with the countless other much more talented authors who aren’t actively endangering vulnerable kids.
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And the one Irish guy (Seamus Finnigan) who always is blowing shit up…
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JK is short for Jurassic Karen.
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I said it once and I’ll say it again,
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