J.K. Rowling's new book, The Ink Black Heart, features a storyline about creator who was doxxed by her own fandom over content viewers found transphobic and racist.
there would be think pieces every few years about how fucked up the house elf slavery stuff was, or the anti-semitic goblins or whatever, but i don't imagine any of that would ever stick without the author publicly doing her best to make the world a worse place
Yeah all of that stuff only gets more attention than “Huh yeah that’s iffy” because she keeps throwing vile tantrums all the time. If she had just shut the fuck up I really don’t think any of that would’ve been blown up as much as it (reasonably) has been
eventually someone would have done the shriekcast or something like it, and there would have been plenty of analysis of the shitty stuff, but it would have no penetration into the broader culture. randos on twitter would have no opinion beyond "i liked the books when i was a kid"
they still picked a bank with a star of david mosaic on the ground for the goblin bank set, but apart from that :bruh-moment: they toned down a lot of the racism, slavery apologia, fat shaming, lookism and general meanspiritedness of the books.
there would be think pieces every few years about how fucked up the house elf slavery stuff was, or the anti-semitic goblins or whatever, but i don't imagine any of that would ever stick without the author publicly doing her best to make the world a worse place
Yeah all of that stuff only gets more attention than “Huh yeah that’s iffy” because she keeps throwing vile tantrums all the time. If she had just shut the fuck up I really don’t think any of that would’ve been blown up as much as it (reasonably) has been
eventually someone would have done the shriekcast or something like it, and there would have been plenty of analysis of the shitty stuff, but it would have no penetration into the broader culture. randos on twitter would have no opinion beyond "i liked the books when i was a kid"
Or the movies where the directors were smart enough to disavow the weird stuff or give characters with racist names less screen time.
they still picked a bank with a star of david mosaic on the ground for the goblin bank set, but apart from that :bruh-moment: they toned down a lot of the racism, slavery apologia, fat shaming, lookism and general meanspiritedness of the books.
still have the star of david in the goblin bank, but other than that they improved stuff
edit: had to step away and @AcidSmiley said what i was going to