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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Honestly Harry Potter fans and JK Rowling on twitter have destroyed all my nostalgia for it. They've actually ruined it for me. It’s like the Bible. Some good things in it, but the fandom makes it gross. Also, read another book sometimes!
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chitoryu12 posted:The fake part is that a woman would be pro-vaccine but work in a homeopathic store. No the fake part is an anti-vaxxer's kid living to 11.
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What annoys me about this is people don't realise that the houses are just based on observable personality types which already exist. They think 'oh my god the magic of my fantasy world is coming true!' it's like when people mention they are INFJ or whatever one is the super special introverted creative type. Mountaineer posted:
I'm imagining this but in library form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3v5hmS6tvk
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TheMostFrench posted:What annoys me about this is people don't realise that the houses are just based on observable personality types which already exist. They think 'oh my god the magic of my fantasy world is coming true!' it's like when people mention they are INFJ or whatever one is the super special introverted creative type. https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/762038953721597953?s=20 I assume/hope most of these people do in fact read other books, and just talk about Harry Potter because it’s universally recognized. But Rowling’s weird-rear end Twitter poo poo is killing what affection I still had for the series.
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Jurgan posted:https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/762038953721597953?s=20 "Being gay isn't a choice, it's something that happens to you when JK Rowling decides it's your time."
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TheMostFrench posted:What annoys me about this is people don't realise that the houses are just based on observable personality types which already exist. They think 'oh my god the magic of my fantasy world is coming true!' it's like when people mention they are INFJ or whatever one is the super special introverted creative type. I was driving behind a someone with a "1 INFJ" license plate the other day. Googling literally that phrase also brings up something called an enneagram type which I've never heard of and refuse to read about.
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some edgy redditor said posted:Ok so first things first this started in Kindergarten. I was always the shy one and literally only talked to the teachers! If one of my teachers told me to go play with the little group of kids outside I would always say "That's useless". Yes I got experienced to life from an early start on. Anyways, one day a boy came up to me and it was valentines day. He asked me "Will you be my Valentine (my name)!" I got really REALLY scared because I did not believe in love and I thought (Still do) it was useless and gets you hurt, so I turned really red and I grabbed one of the chocolates that was opened as he was handing them to me and plopped it in my mouth and said "No sorry I don't believe in love so please go away or I will go away" He was about to cry but asked me "Why dont you believe in love?" I simply said "Because you always get hurt, also can I take the chocolates?" He gave them to me and said "You should start". As I was walking away from him I laughed and said "Not happening buddy"... No goddamn 5 year old talks like this, idgaf how many "animes" you'd watch
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dovetaile posted:No goddamn 5 year old talks like this, idgaf how many "animes" you'd watch Any good comments calling them out?
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Apr 13, 2019 06:00
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I also got experienced to life from an early start on.
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Apr 13, 2019 06:29
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Can anyone actually remember a single thing they said at 5? Like, I have a decent memory. I can remember a lot of stuff that afaik is corroborated by photos and by my family and friends’ memories. I know I was talking at age 5. I can’t tell you a single sentence I uttered. I can guarantee that none of it was worthwhile, though.
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Apr 13, 2019 06:38
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Can anyone actually remember a single thing they said at 5? I remember stuff from my preschool days though some of that is blurry. I distinctly remember a few conversations from kindergarten and then after that it's pretty filled in for memories. That's when I was 4 and 5 so it certainly isn't very worthwhile to remember.
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Apr 13, 2019 06:51
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Are we already back around to early life memories again?
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Len posted:Any good comments calling them out? No. This was a year ago in a basically dead subreddit.
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Apr 13, 2019 20:18
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I'm going t leave this here in case anyone needs to deal with stdh in their personal life. https://twitter.com/softsynthbear/status/1116843758945878017?s=19
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Garrand posted:I was driving behind a someone with a "1 INFJ" license plate the other day. Googling literally that phrase also brings up something called an enneagram type which I've never heard of and refuse to read about.  Good choice. The enneagram is even stupider and more annoying than the Myers-Briggs NotATest.
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Apr 13, 2019 23:49
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Skwirl posted:"Being gay isn't a choice, it's something that happens to you when JK Rowling decides it's your time." https://mobile.twitter.com/Skoogeth/status/1107635835103531008
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I cannot imagine what a “dank Star Trek meme” would even be. I’m fairly sure that a good antonym for “dank” would be “Star Trek,” and I say that as a fan.
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OK, so I googled “dank star trek memes” and this was one of the results: Oh man, guys.
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Apr 14, 2019 09:40
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What the hell did Rowling do?
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Furia posted:What the hell did Rowling do? didn't know when to stop
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Furia posted:What the hell did Rowling do? Wrote some fairy tales for kids without realizing horrible manchildren can read too, made a bunch of money off them, and now spends her days loving with them on Twitter? (I mean that's for all I know)
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Apr 14, 2019 15:41
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Furia posted:What the hell did Rowling do? She keeps revealing facts no one needed to hear. Like that wizards didn't use toilets until recently and used to just magic the poop out of their bodies. Or that Dumbledore and Wizard Hitler used to gently caress like cats in heat.
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Apr 14, 2019 15:43
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Furia posted:What the hell did Rowling do?
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Apr 14, 2019 15:48
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Yeah basically Woke George Lucas Syndrome and it kinda comes off as insincere, since she’s very rich don’t-rock-the-boat-liberal. She certainly didn’t have a problem with Warner Brothers recasting that black girl with a white one when she become Ron’s love interest, for example. Also I think she’s said some TERFy poo poo? Dumbledore being gay at least fits in the text. I assume that’s not reflected in the new movies of course. It’s better than her going fash to be fair. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 16:12 on Apr 14, 2019 |
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Apr 14, 2019 16:09
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I'll give Rowling a pass on Dumbledore being gay, because yeah, I've definitely written stories where I'm like, this character is very gay, they just feel gay to me, but also they're in more of a supporting role and that's not going to come up in the story without me forcing it, so I'll just not explore that because I have a plot to focus on. That said, that's basically the only thing I'll give her a pass on at this point. She's ladder-pulling scum and in love with her own ideas at this point.
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Apr 14, 2019 16:22
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Apparently she told the actor playing Dumbledore that he was gay years ago, and in the 7th book we're introduced to a guy who is clearly his long-term partner. And the stupid toilet thing has been cannon for years, it only became widespread recently because some twitter account highlighted it. There's plenty of goofy absurdist jokes in the series, since they're children books. What really matters is that she's a TERF, and has a highly visible platform in which to talk about this poo poo.
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Apr 14, 2019 16:36
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Honestly Harry Potter fans and JK Rowling on twitter have destroyed all my nostalgia for it. They've actually ruined it for me. Any time I meet someone that tells me they're into Harry Potter I feel like I have to actively keep from grimacing. However I did take the House test many, many years ago when the thing came out and now when people irl need to tell me they're a Hufflepuff (I hate those people) I can tell them I'm a Gryffindor and watch them internally grimace back
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RoboRodent posted:I'll give Rowling a pass on Dumbledore being gay, because yeah, I've definitely written stories where I'm like, this character is very gay, they just feel gay to me, but also they're in more of a supporting role and that's not going to come up in the story without me forcing it, so I'll just not explore that because I have a plot to focus on. Yeah I'm not sure where in the books people think Dumbledores sexuality should have come up because I went through the books a couple years ago and I couldn't name one place it would fit
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Len posted:Yeah I'm not sure where in the books people think Dumbledores sexuality should have come up because I went through the books a couple years ago and I couldn't name one place it would fit Inside Grindlewald of course!
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Apr 14, 2019 18:13
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Harry Potter fans are the worst, because they are overwhelmingly adults and not children I have yet to meet a kid who actually likes those books. Tweet: Hagrid is actually gender binary. No, I didn't write shmim that way, but trust me, that's how it is because I need the social capital
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ElGroucho posted:Harry Potter fans are the worst, because they are overwhelmingly adults and not children The first book came out in 1997. An 8 year old at the time of publishing is now 30. This isn't to detract from the fact the fans are insufferable but it is quite possible for them to have been in the target demographic for the books when they were released.
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jobson groeth posted:The first book came out in 1997. An 8 year old at the time of publishing is now 30. This isn't to detract from the fact the fans are insufferable but it is quite possible for them to have been in the target demographic for the books when they were released. Yeah, and the books were intentionally written to grow up with the audience. The people who were in elementary school when they first encountered the series would be teenagers when it ended, with the series going from a whimsical tale of magic to a war against a fascist dictatorship that kills off tons of characters and has Ron’s mom kill someone while calling her a bitch.
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ElGroucho posted:Harry Potter fans are the worst, because they are overwhelmingly adults and not children I have two nieces aged 9 and 13 who are both crazy about the books. The 13-year-old has started to feel they're too childish though. Lots of kids love the books. It's just that the adults who like them too much are hugely obnoxious. Like how little girls really do love My Little Pony but gently caress if you'd know it hanging around on the internet.
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Len posted:Yeah I'm not sure where in the books people think Dumbledores sexuality should have come up because I went through the books a couple years ago and I couldn't name one place it would fit It’s definitely hinted at in the passages about Dumbledore and Grindelwald from the 1920s/1930s whatever it was Daily Prophet. I don’t know how apparent it would be to people who weren’t students of English literature or history, but those use a lot of the same language as real-world English journalese for gay celebrities of that era. Also maybe in the quoted letters from that time period. I read the books when they came out and not since, but I definitely got the “Bloomsbury Group but with magic” sense from all that stuff.
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HopperUK posted:I have two nieces aged 9 and 13 who are both crazy about the books. The 13-year-old has started to feel they're too childish though. Lots of kids love the books. It's just that the adults who like them too much are hugely obnoxious. Like how little girls really do love My Little Pony but gently caress if you'd know it hanging around on the internet. If I still had a bunch of TMNT shirts and posters and stickers and poo poo at age 35, I'd kindly ask one of you to throw me off a cliff.
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ElGroucho posted:Harry Potter fans are the worst, because they are overwhelmingly adults and not children I'm a teacher and I can tell you the books are very popular with kids, still.
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ElGroucho posted:If I still had a bunch of TMNT shirts and posters and stickers and poo poo at age 35, I'd kindly ask one of you to throw me off a cliff. I sometimes wonder what this girl is up to now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz3m_7ozhNo She's gotta be in her early 40s by now. Air Skwirl has a new favorite as of 19:48 on Apr 14, 2019 |
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Apr 14, 2019 19:46
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I really liked Susan Cooper's and Ursula LeGuin's fairy tale books as a kid but I'm about 100% certain that had Twitter existed back then, I would have had zero interest in reading the authors' twits about who the main characters want to stick their penises in. Then LeGuin published Tehanu which was that twit but I was a bit older so I was cool with that.
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Skwirl posted:LeGuin at least probably wouldn't be retweeting TERFs. Oh. Well I'm not a brand, literal Nazi or a confused politician so I don't read or use Twitter at all 
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