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evil wizards stopping the holocaust
The evil wizards went woke!
White people co-opting spirit animals with a pretentious Latin sounding name
I'd advance at least the possibility that Harry's patronus being a white stag is related to the white stag as a persistent symbol in European mythology.
It's not. The concept is more broadly called a tutelary deity, and it emerged independently in many unconnected cultures throughout the world.
Patronuses are just dumb and poorly written, they're literally useless except against those grim reaper knockoff dudes
an incredibly difficult spell literally only useful against one thing, lmao
Which, when it first shows up, is the point. Most adult wizards can’t even make one, and why would they need to? How often does your average person come up against the soul sucking demon monsters? And even if you can make one, it’s probably just the shield, the animal projection is super super rare and hard to do.
But then she retcons them into being something everyone fucking knows by 16 and can also now be used to send messages? Somehow? And for some reason the animal forms represent some part of their personality apparently? Like, for Harry it appeared that way because that was his dead father whose best friend’s life he was saving, but sure, they’re another personality quiz now.
Edit: More because I’m still mad. If you can send messages through your patrons spirits instantly why the hell would you ever send mail via natures slowest bird?
god, every time I hear something new about the Harry Potter universe it just becomes blander and blander.
I have nothing but contempt for the knowledge I have because of being a huge fan for like, over a decade. They’re not good books, and the universe sucks.
haha! i'm building counterhegemonic power to facilitate the creation of an organic, working-class culture, i say to myself as i slyly mis-describe a computer game wherein you transport about by magical floo powder and try to snatch a quaffle lest you catch a bonk by the nasty bludgers.
If we wanted a leftist game, Tonight we Riot is still cheap on Steam.
Or Disco Elysium with Harry maxxed out in Interfacing, Inland Empire, and Shivers.
If you want to fight space imperialism as a union immigrant forced by circumstance in to a protracted people's war where terrorism against the state is explicitly good try out Red Faction: Guerilla. It's one of the most "I'm not sure how this got made" games.
Mason is the most redneck protagonist I can think of, even more than the main character of the PC game literally called Redneck Rampage.
Nah everyone's just trying to harm potter and by extension rowling and the liberal bible she wrote.
The sheer quantity of trans people that have ended up in my inbox with comments like this suggests to me that it's been worthwhile. We have shown them enormous solidarity and support and that is a good thing that they like.
It’s so easy to not support the transphobic blood libel game
i doubt anybody doing this thinks that's what they're accomplishing.
Harry game
Harry game ooooooooooo
It's Harry game about wizard Harry
Harry game ooooooooooo
:soypoint-1: :lt-dbyf-dubois: :lt-kitsuragi: :soypoint-2:
Of course it's not even about Harry, apparently it takes place 150 years ago so there's not even Dumbledore. It's a shame because "19th Century wizard game" is a great concept but I'd rather it take place in literally any world except Harry Potter, even without the Grand-TERF of England being involved. (Lovecraft's Deeamworld, for instance, would be awesome with some light editing/deconstruction of the racism)
Read a novel set in the Dreamlands where the POV character at least felt some pity for the less fortunate races, but it felt appropriate for an opium addict from the 1920s
I recently read a Sherlock Holmes set in the dreamworld with a woman sorceress Sherlock and a trans-man Watson and it really hit the spot. Also leaned heavily on the Opium addiction.
:only-good-gamer: except clearly there's way more than just one
