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receptacleofthesun · 3 months
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When I am high (like now), I think about how J. K. Rowling really did write the BEST selling Young Adults' series of all time and turn it into a billion-dollar film franchise... and then in like a single day she was collectively cancelled & defamed (and honestly defaced too) by her hugest fans, for saying that biological sex is real & the sex-based oppression is a real concept—literally unprovoked too. Joanne spoke her mind not caring about backlash... and she's still correct, a genius, & thriving as she should...
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lorandesore · 9 months
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maxkirin · 11 months
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i cant believe the HBO Harry Potter script already leaked o.o
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cinematic-literature · 3 months
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Saltburn (2023) by Emerald Fennell
Book title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) by J. K. Rowling
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mollyringle · 7 days
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I am perhaps extreme on this, but I don’t think there’s a good excuse to stay in HP fandom, unless one does agree with Rowling's infamous tweets of recent years. Separating art from artist is debatably all right when the artist is dead and no longer collecting royalties, but when the artist is still on Twitter bragging about her royalties, and there’s so much queer-friendly fantasy that could be talked up instead…yep, nope, trans/genderqueer/NB allies should jump ship.
I admit I look askance now at HP cosplayers and anyone still putting their Hogwarts house in their social media bio. I know, I know, a fandom that meant so much to a person for a phase of their life is going to claim a special place in their memories. But you wouldn’t (I hope) continue celebrating the birthday of a toxic ex-friend because you liked them two decades ago, so why stay with the fandom, when by so doing you’re keeping Rowling culturally relevant? We can support the innocent actors from the HP movies by supporting the work they’ve done since the series—I’m sure they’d rather have more focus on those newer projects anyway.
I practice what I preach: I could be continuing to lure in potential readers with my HP parodies, but instead I have taken them all down, all the places I can still reach, because I don’t want to give her any airtime, even obliquely like that.
I think if y'all knew how very, very little the vast majority of us writers make, and how hard we try to reach readers, and how much we'd appreciate a smidgen of success, and how hard some of us are trying to help and protect our fellow queer folks...you would better understand why this is a big deal, to someone who is also a writer of urban fantasy. I’ll stop there. Apparently I could go on and on about this.
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stromuprisahat · 3 months
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I don't know if you've read Harry Potter, but if so, what do you think? Personally, I have a problem with grossophobia in books, as well as the way Lily Evans, Harry's mother, was written. The books completely shattered the visions I had of her in the movies. This female character is awful to me, in her treatment compared to Severus and James. How can you keep from laughing at your best friend, being harassed, head down and underwear out?
I've made myself read HP some sixteen? years ago... mostly so I'll be acquainted with it enough to criticize it, since I hate all those fashionable crazes, and I found them annoying and stupid already as a teen. I didn't particularly like it, with the exception of the third and the fifth book, and I've managed to finish the whole then-published series soon enough to witness the insanity that was publication of the last book (and guess enough of the story to genuinely hate the ending).
I've never re-read them, and I don't really intend to, although I have the series in Slytherin edition, because IT'S FUCKING SYLTHERIN BITCHES! and I have it whole in Czech once they published it with pretty covers, in case mum and my great-uncle decide to read it.
I know the books have plenty of issues, including stuff I wasn't thinking about while reading them, but honestly- the only good thing I took from them is that the Hogwarts Houses are fucking cool, and once I made my family do the official sorting tests, plenty of our relationships suddenly made sense. Oh, and wands! If you need to constantly carry around a phalic item, it better be a magical piece of wood!
As for Lily, I don't remember nearly enough about her, aside from her and Severus' relationship being both-sidedly toxic af, and Marauders being a bunch of assholes to specific students. That said, I also deeply despise Snape, because childhood bullying is no excuse to terrorize children (*cough* Baghra 2.0 *cough*).
Also, me being over thirty put some things into a perspective. Fighting the Dark Lord in teens, early twenties- why not, getting a job after school is no less terrifying-, but why the hell was everyone pregnant immediatelly?!
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syzygy-yzygy · 6 months
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Controversial opinion but Harry Potter doesn't fucking deserve all the hype it gets.
Not because of J. K. Rowling's transphobia, though that is obviously horrible as well.
But also on the simple basis that it's really not that good. I have read children's books more interesting than Harry Potter. I have read fantasy books more interesting than Harry Potter. I have read fantasy children's books set in a magical school that are far, far more interesting than Harry Potter. In all of the books of its genre that I have read, it doesn't even come close to cracking the top ten.
It has obviously affected pop culture, but quite frankly a lot of the tropes people claim Harry Potter invented were in existence a long time before Harry Potter was ever published. People who claim that Harry Potter is just so "wildly original" have simply not read much fantasy other than Harry Potter. It does not deserve the fame it received. Not even close.
And it's supposed to have the most iconic book opening ever? Get the fuck out of here with that. It's mid. The whole series is mid. Rainbow Rowell did Harry Potter better than Harry Potter, and I don't even like Rainbow Rowell.
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eretzyisrael · 5 months
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yullsmb · 11 months
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is it just me who has that weird pleasant feeling when she hears the name James?
like, James Potter and James Farrow are just so lovely, it makes me melt
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Ölülere acıma Harry, yaşayanlara acı, en çok da sevgisiz yaşayanlara.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter ve ölüm yadigarları
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poniatowskaja · 1 year
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From the moment I had heard her say that we were living through the most misogynistic period of her lifetime, I wanted to know what she meant,
“If you'd have shown me when I was 18 what young girls would be dealing with now – what we'd all be dealing with, but particularly young girls – I would have been horrified. Because when you’re 18, you assume this can only get better – like, we've got these rights and we've got all these amazing women doing feminist analysis, and it will change, it really will change. By the time I'm my mother’s age, I thought, my daughters will have it so much easier.  
“But now I think we've gone backwards. I think we're living through a nightmare.” 
Suzanne Moore, An Exclusive Interview with JK Rowling about her New Project
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curtwilde · 9 months
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The thing about Death of the Author is that it was put forward by Barthes as a fresh perspective on literary criticism focusing on elements of the text itself, instead of trying to relate it back to the author's opinions and the rest of their body of work, which had been the going trend in the literary criticism at that time. It was written by a literary academic for other literary academics to use in their academic work - it was never meant to have any practical purpose.
The publishing industry is not affected by Death of the Author. As long as you continue to engage with Harry Potter online, J.K Rowling will make money. Publishers and producers look at social media stats to market, Harry Potter still having an active fandom is why Rowling continues to get book/movie deals. J.K Rowling benefiting financially actively harms trans people in the UK and your believing in Death of the Author does nothing except make you feel better.
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denmark-street · 1 year
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She everything, he's just Ken
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hjellacott · 14 days
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1. The Cuckoo's Calling (2013).
2. The Silkworm (2014).
3. Career of Evil (2015).
4. Lethal White (2018).
5. Troubled Blood (2020).
6. The Ink Black Heart (2022).
7. The Running Grave (2023).
8. The Hallmarked Man (2024/25).
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tuportamiviareturn · 8 months
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Sono le nostre scelte che ci mostrano chi siamo veramente, molto più delle nostre abilità.
Joanne Rowling (Yate, 31 luglio 1965)
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