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Eponine posted:Not enough to put it on the cover of a book or a movie, but enough to make herself relevant on Twitter from time to time. Snape is trans! Neville is asexual! What else?! The books neversaid that Hermione wasn't black. 
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TinTower posted:The books neversaid that Hermione wasn't black. No, but they had drawings and she was white in them. Still a dumb thing to be mad about, obviously.
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Dec 21, 2015 17:51
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She's talking about a specific casting.
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RareAcumen posted:Well y'see one is a fictional character who can cause you, an existing person, about as much harm as the Boogeyman or Bloody Mary, while the other is a Fascist who will more than not open up hunting season on blacks, gays, Muslims, transgender people- whoever the scary Other of the day is. You're obviously right, but that wasn't the point that people were making with the comparison. Rowling said of Trump's call to ban Muslims that "Voldemort wasn't this bad", which is less "hey stop worrying about fictional characters when real fascists are out there" and more a dramatic "hey this guy is more evil than the character I wrote to be evil". And people accordingly latched onto it as a criticism. Rather than the fascist tones of Trump's campaign, people rallied around the fact that if Voldemort was real, Trump would still be a bigger meanie. That's what I'm referring to when I say that there are people who have formed entire identities around Harry Potter and weigh things in Potter universe terms and cannot possibly grasp anything Rowling does being even slightly wrong.
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I view most articles by sites like Mary Sue and Slate and such as just a new form of trolling. They are just lovely pop culture thought pieces without much behind them, designed to either get people who already agree with the content to share it on social media saying "see, I told you gay pansexual genderqueer pandas are misrepresented in media therefore I'm better than you" and to get people who already think that PC is killing the world to say "see, I told you these idiots want to make gay pandas take the place of my pop culture icon". Either way, the site gets its clicks.
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twistedmentat posted:"I want to leave my wife for that" I have my doubts about that. 
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who cares about the race of gay wizards, jesus christ.
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Dec 21, 2015 19:14
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Dumbledore was gay, there were Jewish wizards at hogwarts. She keeps mentioning ten years after the books came out how progressive and inclusive they are, but she forgot to put it in the loving books. I like her, she's a good person and the books are good reads for kids, but I really hate how she keeps trying to get credit for being inclusive by making poo poo up after the fact.
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TinTower posted:The books neversaid that Hermione wasn't black. 
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Eponine posted:Not enough to put it on the cover of a book or a movie, but enough to make herself relevant on Twitter from time to time. Snape is trans! Neville is asexual! What else?! You realize Rowling doesn't do any of the casting, right? She's not even saying Hermoine is black in the books, just that it's a fair view and that she supports the casting of the actress in this instance. Edit: Fashionable Jorts posted:Dumbledore was gay, there were Jewish wizards at hogwarts. She keeps mentioning ten years after the books came out how progressive and inclusive they are, but she forgot to put it in the loving books. I see it less as trying to get credit and more trying to shut down bigots who shout down other fans who like to imagine the setting as more inclusive, but I don't know her actual motives either so who knows.
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Dec 21, 2015 19:37
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But she did the same thing awhile back with Dumbledore. Uh, yeah! He's gay. The only people who care about it are adults, when the story was written for children. It makes her look progressive 20 years after she wrote the book.
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Leavemywife posted:I have my doubts about that. Funny, I thought this was the AUG thread for a second when I posted it.
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Eponine posted:But she did the same thing awhile back with Dumbledore. Uh, yeah! He's gay. The only people who care about it are adults, when the story was written for children. It makes her look progressive 20 years after she wrote the book. and everyone stood up and clapped
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Eponine posted:But she did the same thing awhile back with Dumbledore. Uh, yeah! He's gay. The only people who care about it are adults, when the story was written for children. It makes her look progressive 20 years after she wrote the book. If I remember right, she did this because the film makers were going to have a subplot about Dumbledore's past relationship with a woman, and Rowling mentioned he was gay in the script notes.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:The worst part of image macros and reaction images are people who are repurposing them in incomprehensible ways. you're right. It's more annoying that they completely ignored the tone of the original comic in order to ham-handedly smash in their own dumb message.
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Dec 21, 2015 20:09
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Isn't the point of that image supposed to be someone yelling and sperging about something completely unimportant and the angel comes down with a note that says "okay" because yes we know you're mad, but you're mad over something dumb.
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Dec 21, 2015 20:31
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Maybe she has vitiligo, just on her face?
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Stoatbringer posted:Maybe she has vitiligo, just on her face? Or maybe she's seeing poo poo that turned her white? I mean, that's a pretty common description for someone who is terrified out of their mind, "She went white as a sheet when she caught her brother having sex with the dog"
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Madkal posted:I view most articles by sites like Mary Sue and Slate and such as just a new form of trolling. They are just lovely pop culture thought pieces without much behind them, designed to either get people who already agree with the content to share it on social media saying "see, I told you gay pansexual genderqueer pandas are misrepresented in media therefore I'm better than you" and to get people who already think that PC is killing the world to say "see, I told you these idiots want to make gay pandas take the place of my pop culture icon". Either way, the site gets its clicks. Thank you for this now I might finally have a way to make people in my feed shut up
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twistedmentat posted:Or maybe she's seeing poo poo that turned her white? I mean, that's a pretty common description for someone who is terrified out of their mind, "She went white as a sheet when she caught her brother having sex with the dog" I don't care that she is black in this play, I just find the people getting mad at her being black in the play are as dumb as the people falling over themselves to say she wasn't white in the books  I want Hermione to be played by Idris Elba 
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Dec 21, 2015 20:57
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Fluo posted:I want Hermione to be played by Idris Elba I want everyone to be played by Idris Elba
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Dec 21, 2015 21:17
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When did it become a rule that adaptations must match the original work exactly anyway? Who cares if she wasn't the black in the books or the movies, take the opportunity to do something different imo.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:18
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I want everyone to be played by Idris Elba This
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Fluo posted:I don't care that she is black in this play, I just find the people getting mad at her being black in the play are as dumb as the people falling over themselves to say she wasn't white in the books Winner of the 1999 Whitebread Children's Book of the Year
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Clochette posted:Winner of the 1999 Whitebread Children's Book of the Year I am so glad I'm not the only person who read it that way first.
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Dec 21, 2015 21:34
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Hell, was Harry's skin color ever mentioned? Can we get Idris Elba for the inevitable reboot series? Just picture Hagrid saying "You're a wizard, Harry" and Idris Elba says "I'm a what?" and you can see this will make all the money in the world.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Hell, was Harry's skin color ever mentioned? Can we get Idris Elba for the inevitable reboot series? Read this and immediately imagined Luther looking tired and vaguely bored, taking a long breath in and then sighing "Imma wha'?"
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Dumbledore was gay, there were Jewish wizards at hogwarts. She keeps mentioning ten years after the books came out how progressive and inclusive they are, but she forgot to put it in the loving books. To be fair, it's heavily implied that Dumbledore was in love with Grindlewald.
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I've seen people arguing (albeit not in a serious "authorial intent" way) for interpreting Harry as being subcontinental Indian or something based on his descriptions in the books. Mostly it's just fooling around with the assumptions made with minimal descriptions.
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Sharing facebook images is equivalent to making a police report. The more you know!
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Why is it that so many people put spaces before their punctuation ?
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Dec 21, 2015 23:24
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Wanamingo posted:Why is it that so many people put spaces before their punctuation ? Chances are they're posting from a mobile phone and most apps tend to automatically insert a space after a word.
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Transmogrifier posted:Chances are they're posting from a mobile phone and most apps tend to automatically insert a space after a word. I double checked this now just to be sure, but on the iphone at least it automatically removes the space when you finish the sentence.
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Wanamingo posted:I double checked this now just to be sure, but on the iphone at least it automatically removes the space when you finish the sentence. I just know, at least for Twitter, I have to sometimes back space depending on what I've written (like inserting a username) to add in the punctuation. It's far more likely though they're idiots who don't remember basic grammar.
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Fluo posted:I don't care that she is black in this play, I just find the people getting mad at her being black in the play are as dumb as the people falling over themselves to say she wasn't white in the books Yes, people who are dipshit racists are as bad as people calling out racism. Even if the books did say she was white, who gives a poo poo? The books say she can use magic and mix potions, something as far as I know Emma Watson can't do but she seemed to handle the role just fine.
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This is why I wrote letters to Disney asking to make Han solo Chinese in the new Star Wars movie. It already sounds Chinese already.
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Idris Elba is rumored to play Roland Deschain in the upcoming Dark Tower series and I'm looking forward to the potential racist nerd tears
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Parasol Prophet posted:Hell, was Harry's skin color ever mentioned? Can we get Idris Elba for the inevitable reboot series? 
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Idris Elba as Moneypenny
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subpar anachronism posted:Sharing facebook images is equivalent to making a police report. The more you know! 
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