I've joked about it before and I will say it again, it is only a matter of time before Harry Potter is retold with Voldemort being a good guy that mentors Harry with Draco as Harry's best friend and then they annihilate all muggle-borns in one book and then they live forever as a trio of gods, the end.
In that, Harry tries to redeem Malfoy and builds a friendship with him by treating science as a dark art. He then gets Malfoy to use science to prove racism is bullshit. After struggling with his core belief being proven wrong, Malfoy eventually reaches out to save Hermiione after she falls off a roof even though he knows she would be fine because magic. He's deeply ashamed of doing so because he still hasn't completely overcome the prejudices he was raised with, but he's making tangible progress towards doing so.
The Methods of Rationality Sorcerer's Stone is capable of infinitely healing people and restoring them to the prime of their youth. Instead of defending the status quo, Harry denounces the previous holders of the stone as more evil than Voldemort for hoarding magical healthcare, opens a free hospital, and sends his allies out to bring back the sick and elderly for free healing.
It's a low bar and I might be memory holing something problematic, but Methods of Rationality is better than the source material.
Hermione is turned into a mindless obedient waifu while technically dead
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which is a big part of Big Yud’s fetish for mind control, as he often does in real life with drugging and “you only exist as a figment of my imagination” mantras whispered to drugged guests in his cult compounds.
btw :my-hero: said that to Grimes almost verbatim while they were still dating. He just added that his imagination made up the perfect woman so she somehow deluded herself into believing that creepy sexpest shit was a compliment
That would be about 75% of the fanfiction on AO3. Dark Harry is a tag for a reason, as is Tomarry and Drarry.
Even if JK Rowling was the coolest person out there who was really pro trans and was a surfing dog who wore sunglasses, Harry Potter would still just be shitty anyway.
I submit that if JKR was cool, she would have made the book about HP doing cool shit, which would have been a marked improvement over reality where he just restores the status quo.
Harry Potter: The Cool Dude
He goes to a normal school and brings pizza every day
Harry Potter and the Dank Nooner
He pops a wheelie in the parking lot, then rides off to escape campus police.
it is fun that r/gamingCircleJerk seems to be able to have a more insightful and empathetic discussion on this than i would actually expect from r/gaming or Capital G G*mers in general
That’s because the main admin is a communist who’s also a user on hexbear. Most of the moderators are :grillman: who just want to be left alone
Just don't look up their takes during the Hong Kong riots.
"Good" crackers are still crackers.
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I wanted :sicko-gamer: but that isn’t a thing that exists so
r/gaming has always been the bottom of the barrel for gaming forums. there's r/games which at least bans memes as top level posts but it's honestly been getting worse over time.
more than 1,000 transphobes have been banned from the subreddit since their post last week
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