harry potter discussion

RussStevens,
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vantablack,
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vantablack,
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i have less than zero respect for harry potter fans. like a negative amount. if you're not even willing to give up some shitty shoddy bigotry-riddled children's story for the very real trans people suffering in this world, why should we expect anything even remotely good from you?

Sh4d0w_H34rt,
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@vantablack getting my nephew started on Percy Jackson books instead. 😼

homelessjun,

whenever i hear the theme it reminds me of

and vice-versa.

both were composed by john williams.

no coincidences here.

vwbusguy,
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@homelessjun Home Alone and Harry Potter are the ones I always get mixed up. Also John Williams.

cassidy,
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@homelessjun both are extraordinarily inspired by Gustav Holst’s The Planets! Listen to the album and you will spot influences on Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Superman, and basically every John Williams score. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lpLT5sA2wXyhEw-qBvhxsKRsE6--OMQOI&si=-CQWRudm1D05m9yr

gyokusai,
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I really wish Bluesky would federate.

vantablack,
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harry potter is cringe and you should feel bad for liking it

vantablack,
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yes i'm still sliiiiightly pissed at the harry potter-loving transphobe at that rave the other day lol

vantablack,
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lol somebody replied to this post trying to talk about how amazing harry potter is

https://fosstodon.org/@RemeJuan/112211577529349784

osiris_0x7A4, Dutch
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Laten we maar eens een van alle Harry Potter boeken doen. Dreuzels en heksen.
J.K. Rowling voert felle strijd tegen wet voor bescherming trans personen.
https://www.trouw.nl/buitenland/j-k-rowling-voert-felle-strijd-tegen-wet-voor-bescherming-trans-personen~b52b39dd7/

Wen,
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@osiris_0x7A4

Deze podcast is in het Engels, maar geeft een zeer eerlijke kritiek op haar schrijven en fobieën.

https://angryscotland.com/2023/09/26/jk-rowling-angry-scotland-podcast-52/

alexanderhay,
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Why does this read like someone's embittered ex is writing the headlines?

#HarryPotter #JKRowling #TERFs #Transphobia #Fandom #News #UK

Raccoon,
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@alexanderhay
I was a massive fan of Dilbert: I still have some of the old strips as references from older presentations. Same for Chapelle: my friend group used to copy him and his jokes about racism and government.

Scott Adams and Dave Chapelle's bigoted tirades shattered me. I didn't "get over" anything, but the authors ruined their own work for me, and I find it a bit telling about a person who can just "get over" the author suddenly turning on what you thought they stood for.

alexanderhay, (edited )
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@Raccoon @WetFish No malice is directed towards you or others like you. Rather, the point is that the headline is funnier than intended. (As opposed to that time VH1 played a Cannibal Corpse video, and someone subtly retitled it "Divorced By Vermin".)

Anyway, here's the link to the story for context:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68552815

For what it's worth, Margoyles was accusing adult HP fans of not acting their age, rather than moaning about that arsehole with the big castle and her hate preaching.

matt,
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I know this is "old" to a bunch of you, but 3 months ago the YouTube account demonflyingfox, who experiments with AI tools, uploaded this HARRY POTTER BUT IN BERLIN video, and now I want to see a full feature-length movie of this.

video/mp4

roofuskit,
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@matt as long as Rowling doesn't get a dime I'm in.

tomgwynplaine, Polish
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cyris, German
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Hey, liebe Leute, die zocken, weiter Merch kaufen und finden, wenn sie dazu einen pro-Transrechte-Toot absetzen, hätten sie genug getan (zumindest für ihr Gewissen): Das hier macht mit dem Geld, das sie an euch verdient.

J. K. Rowling spendet 82.000 Euro an transfeindliche Kampagne.

Das Geld geht in einen Gerichtsprozess, der das Gleichbehandlungsgesetz für trans Frauen abschaffen soll.

https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=48536

Jamie,
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I met up with a friend at a bubble tea place chosen for its location halfway between our homes.

It turned out that the shop had a special theme going on. It was elaborate - on-theme drinks, a potion mixing station, well crafted decorations everywhere you looked, etc. As someone who read all the books, I could appreciate it, but as a person, I was horrified. We were supposed to cancel that billionaire. We went elsewhere.

glynmoody,
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Firearms officers raid hotel after #HarryPotter fan’s #wand mistaken for a #knife - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/12/firearm-officers-hotel-leicester-harry-potter-fan-wand-mistaken-for-knife-police "Police called to large hotel near Leicester after report of man carrying large blade" got to be a metaphor for something...

fair_wind,

The flight of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley in a Ford in pursuit of the Hogwarts Express. Real wizards don't look for easy ways!

vantablack,
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harry potter is so fucking cringe. like imagine actually being a fan of the transphobic racist fatphobic antisemitic wizard franchise

even after all the shit that's gone down with rowling

(and i'm sure there's some other sort of bigotry in there i'm forgetting too)

protocol7,
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@vantablack I was a huge fan (yes, it's mid as fantasy goes but still). I dropped that shit the second I learned who JK really was. Fuck giving her one more cent.

kitoconnell,
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Cis people will never stop making JK Rowling richer for constant retellings of her mediocre, antisemitic and racist wizard story. There's a 1000 fantasy authors more deserving of a Max series and open world video games for fuck's sake.

philip_cardella,
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@kitoconnell no lies detected.

Even if someone liked to books it's high time to move on. She's awful and doesn't deserve a dime.

In other opinions I have I like Percy Jackson and the author of those books, Rick Riordan. Better books by a better human being.

kitoconnell, (edited )
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@mentallyalex @philip_cardella it's not new but I just enjoyed Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor, it has kids learning magic and everything!

(edit: per the replies below, Okorafor doesn't like having this series compared with Harry Potter but it is still a example one of the many better choices of novel)

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