https://nitter.net/jk_rowling/status/1577678346330275842?t=K6K9U5r960-jXrbpgY08mw&s=19
You became part of an authoritarian, mysogynist, homophobic movement and you didn't even notice.
Oh, the delicious irony.
I wonder if she's ever been in the same room as a trans person, much less talked to any outside of twitter.
She's said in the past she "has trans friends", which probably means that a trans woman asked her for an autograph 20 years ago.
She probably just saw a trans woman walking past from atop her literal castle.
Soon we'll get the "Up yours, woke Hufflepuffs" tweet
authoritarian
what part of "you have the personal freedom to make your own decisions about your body and gender" is authoritarian?
Their argument is you don't. They believe these woke parents are brining their kids who are struggling with identity to these wacko left doctors who over prescribe hormone blockers and re-assignment surgery as a kneejerk reaction.
Like.... so detached from reality, I'm not from TERF-island but my friend has been waiting a year for a gender-based psych and will need to wait another 18-months (if approved) for top surgery.
It's authoritarian to ask for consideration of your feelings and to ask people to use pronouns that haven't been historically attributed to a person's preference in white culture.
A massive amount of the HP universe was ripped off from Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, too. Rowling is truly awful by all measures.
Is that true or is it more along the lines of Kimba and Lion King?
To quote Jill Murphy herself when asked about HP:
"It would be nice, I suppose, if people would say thank you. But you have to be gracious."
This blog post covers some of the similarities. That the school in WW was founded by someone called Hermione makes it seem pretty clear to me that there’s an influence there. It’s just extremely JK Rowling that she wouldn’t ever acknowledge that, as presumably it’d be a threat to her brand, etc.
YMS has a really good video about how any similarities are probably coincidences.
I read the shit out of Hardy Potter when I was a kid. If she would have just dissappeared after writing the last book and shut the fuck up, she’d be known as that writer of books that got kids to read and not some horrifying tumblr bigot who retcons her own characters.
The series stopped being good after Book 3 and stopped being enjoyable about halfway through Book 5. Book 7 was an absolute trainwreck.
Its almost as though the richer she got, the worse her writing became. Possibly because she was too busy doing junkets and speaking tours to bother actually turning out good material. Possibly because the allure of endless money turned the story of "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire Wizard Living At An Elite Boarding School" from a Roald Dahl esque coming-of-age story into a Marvel Cinematic Universe trope parade. Possibly because she just turned draft copies of future novels over to a bunch of overworked Disney ghostwriters that smoothed out copy fed into the OpenAI For Authors machine. Who can say?
But its alarming how quickly an otherwise charming children's book author mutated into British Cindy McCain on the View after those first few checks cleared.
My guess is she was allowed more leeway into what material made the final draft as she got more money. She was able to ignore her editor more.
Also she started responding to criticism more, like how people started asking why couldn't the characters simply use the time turners all the time. So in book 5 Harry & friends accidentally bump into a shelf of time turners and break them all.
My guess is she was allowed more leeway into what material made the final draft as she got more money. She was able to ignore her editor more.
See, I was under the opposite impression. Her first book was more-or-less straight from the heart because she just cooked it up in her spare time. This was a hail mary shot with nothing riding on it but one woman's dream of becoming a published author. It got picked up for a limited release, caught fire, and she was catapulted into popularity as a result.
But then subsequent books came with bigger advances, more resources, a stricter release schedule, and a publisher that actually gave a shit about the end product. So she likely got assigned a writing coach and a slew of editors. The writing quality improved notably across 1, 2, and 3. The book probably got sampled by a marketing team. The publisher started talking about merchandising of particular characters. Also, she had to do promo tours and book readings and speaking engagements of her own, which cuts into the time dedicated to actually producing the fiction. So I'm sure by book 3 or 4 she had ghostwriters submitting samples and character arcs and the like. And the size of the books grew accordingly.
Also she started responding to criticism more, like how people started asking why couldn’t the characters simply use the time turners all the time. So in book 5 Harry & friends accidentally bump into a shelf of time turners and break them all.
Book 5 was also the point at which "What Harry Potter character is going to die?!" became a hot topic. And just to tease the reader, the story was choke full of near-death experiences for the B-list cast. It was very obviously written with the expectation that bits of the final draft would leak, a thing you only need to worry about if the book is passing through a bunch of different hands before hitting the shelves.
So in book 5 Harry & friends accidentally bump into a shelf of time turners and break them all.
Apparently HP takes place in the 40K universe, because I guess not only were those all the remaining time turners in the entire world, but also the technology to make more of them has been lost to the ages.
And they approach public approval like an incel approaches dating
Any chance to attack trans people.
" Oh a pedo was outed and faced punishment? Better attack all trans people and allies."
Like how is she still on this chapter. How is it so.... sustainable to hate any group for this long and this openly.
so is this guy actually a pedophile or is it transphobes lying again?
Seems like it's a lie.
As a PHD student he spoke at a conference that was called B4U-ACT which is clearly supposed to be about preventing acts of pedophilia through social and clinical means.
He's written about it since too and it seems to be a case of the argument he's making being an uncomfortable one (it is) and perhaps too sympathetic sounding for most people (it maybe is); basically there are people attracted to minors who don't commit acts of pedophilia, the social stigmas of this stop these people seeking help which exacerbates the problem etc.
Here's a sparse but more nuanced Pink News article on it.
No clue honestly. I'm, stupidly, giving terfs the benefit of the doubt. Even if they're correct, they're still shit.
Capitalism: Concentrates enough resources to give literally millions of people a lifetime of labor free luxury into the hands of one person who proceeds to spend her days having Twitter meltdowns.
Capitalists: This is the system working exactly as intended, isn't it beautiful?
Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
This creature is ontologically evil, I hope I live to see the red-white-green flying over her castle.
If I had Jowling Kowling Rowling's money I would simply enjoy being incredibly rich rather than tweeting out Game of Thrones speeches about how much I hate marginalised people but maybe I'm built different.
I think my favorite part is the comment trying to argue that the Cormoran Strike series is good because it's franchised
It's a trash-grade telling of lazily conceived stories from an already-popular writer. The Cuckoo's Calling is the only book besides Pilgrim's Progress that I've ever regretted wasting my time on
Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won't last.
Screaming this into a mirror for the last 20 years and every day proves me a little more wrong.
