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Lemniscate Blue posted:I dunno, I immediately thought Hetalia and dressing up in a literal Nazi uniform. Which has been a thing. Yeah I was 100% expecting it to be "MY FRIENDS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HETALIA". It being HP was even funnier.
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Rolling up to the convention dressed as Anthony Goldstein, Cho Chang, antisemitic banker goblin and Seamus Finnnegan, basically the only Irish character who happens to be obsessed with explosives
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Aug 11, 2022 16:22
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Seamus Finnnegan, basically the only Irish character who happens to be obsessed with explosives lol
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Aug 11, 2022 16:25
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Biplane posted:The movies get whiter and whiter as they go on. There's like one black kid in the first two, plus Cho Chang. Is the black character named LeBron Washington?
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Aug 11, 2022 16:26
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Scratch Monkey posted:Is the black character named LeBron Washington? The story of Blaise Zabini is even better than that. See, because he was just a named character with literally no description before, a buuuuunch of fangirls assumed he was a female character. So they used the Blaise in their head as basically their "No, she's totally a legit character, not an OC!" OCs. And then he got more 'screen time' in the books, and surprise, he's a black guy.
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Aug 11, 2022 16:32
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Scratch Monkey posted:Is the black character named LeBron Washington? the black kid has a normal name but the one adult black wizard is named Kingsley Shacklebolt
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Aug 11, 2022 16:34
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kazil posted:Can these people read another goddamn book already? Hey pal you don’t eat hot dogs after eating steak
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Aug 11, 2022 16:35
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oldpainless posted:Hey pal you don’t eat hot dogs after eating steak More like oldtasteless.
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Aug 11, 2022 16:37
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e: Pointless post, nm
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LawfulWaffle posted:It’s v funny to me to imagine the Redditor having no Asian characteristics themself but still specifically cosplaying as Cho Chang. “I threw out all my cosplay equipment except for this wizard robe, this wand, and this pot of yellow face paint.” Yeah, I was sort of wondering if their costume involved some sort of yellow face, because otherwise I don't know how a Cho Chang cosplay is different than a Hermione cosplay and I can't imagine anyone actually being upset about Harry Potter cosplay regardless of how toxic JK Rowling herself has become.
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Aug 11, 2022 16:46
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Don’t know a ton about Harry Potter but didn’t they recast some character from black to white when they finally had a couple of lines?
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sexpig by night posted:the black kid has a normal name but the one adult black wizard is named Kingsley Shacklebolt I don't think this one's racist, but there's also the black sportsball commentator, Lee Jordan Ambitious Spider posted:Don’t know a ton about Harry Potter but didn’t they recast some character from black to white when they finally had a couple of lines? Yeah, Lavender Brown had two different black actors for her appearances as a background character, then one white actor for the last few films quote:- Many fans speculate as to why Lavender Brown's actress was changed for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but the reasoning is quite simple. Before Half-Blood Prince, Lavender Brown played no major role, she was portrayed by two separate actresses in the second and third film and was a background character. Background characters have no specific casting, which is why multiple people can portray them. Usually they are given character names just to keep order on a film set. Lavender Brown, as a major character role, was not cast until the sixth film. The filmmakers had no way of knowing she would play such a role when they assigned her name to the background actresses from previous films, which is why her actress changed in the sixth film. Dabir has a new favorite as of 16:51 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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Aug 11, 2022 16:49
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So did they hire an actress with extremely masculine hands?
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Ron fucks.
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sexpig by night posted:the black kid has a normal name but the one adult black wizard is named Kingsley Shacklebolt To be fair, that's a totally unremarkable wizard name when compared with "Draco Malfoy" and "Mad-Eye Moony" and "Remus Lupin. " Because Rowling names her characters the way I name tabletop characters but then expects you to take them seriously I guess.
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Aug 11, 2022 17:27
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Data Graham posted:That was the easiest-to-guess spoiler in quite some time Thought the reveal would be whatever Edit lol my phone keeps autocorrecting Japanimation to animal.
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Aug 11, 2022 17:28
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I enjoyed the harry potter musical (not the one rowling wrote) where cho chang is a white girl from texas. Actually that whole thing was more fun than the books, shame about the association of the subject matter now.
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Aug 11, 2022 17:29
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Kingsley Shackleboat screams british more than anything
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Shackleboat for a Black person is... something when you think about it Edit: Oh wait was bolt not boat. Whatever, probably other ways it was awful
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DaysBefore posted:Shackleboat for a Black person is... something when you think about it I mean he's still basically named Martin Luther Slaveinchains
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CharlestheHammer posted:Kingsley Shackleboat screams british more than anything And something screaming British really shouldn't say anything about their skin colour.
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Aug 11, 2022 17:40
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There are guys in HP named Cornelius Fudge and Mundungus Fletcher.
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Henchman of Santa posted:There are guys in HP named Cornelius Fudge and Mundungus Fletcher.
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Aug 11, 2022 17:42
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When I was a teen and lived in Japan I read the first few books and thought hey it would be cool if there was a school of magic in Japan and then later jkr was like there's totally a school in Japan and all the kids from all of Asia go there and its name translates as "magic place" in Japanese, lol. Insanely low effort
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Henchman of Santa posted:There are guys in HP named Cornelius Fudge and Mundungus Fletcher. There are a shitload of people in Harry Potter named in order to tell you how Rowling wants you to feel about them, or to tell you the most important thing about them. The most important black character (ie the only black character who does literally anything that isn't a background extra) is named Kingsley Shacklebolt.
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When she was asked if Americans have quidditch she was said we have a version of it where the balls explode constantly and I think that was meant as a dig but it sounded cool as hell imo
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hallo spacedog posted:When I was a teen and lived in Japan I read the first few books and thought hey it would be cool if there was a school of magic in Japan and then later jkr was like there's totally a school in Japan and all the kids from all of Asia go there and its name translates as "magic place" in Japanese, lol. Insanely low effort Not only is its name shite, but it has fewer students than Hogwarts despite Japan having a way bigger population than the UK. So her zero effort approach did another racism by accidentally making the Japanese racially less magical or something
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hallo spacedog posted:When I was a teen and lived in Japan I read the first few books and thought hey it would be cool if there was a school of magic in Japan and then later jkr was like there's totally a school in Japan and all the kids from all of Asia go there and its name translates as "magic place" in Japanese, lol. Insanely low effort I love that England, France and Germany all get their own magic school, but all of Asia only gets one and it's somehow not in either China or India.
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Aug 11, 2022 18:41
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The entirety of Africa, North America, and South America each have one school, as well.
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My favorite is the evil russian magic school that everyone hates for being evil. E: pr was it german? Durmstrang or some poo poo. Nebulously eastern european.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:The story of Blaise Zabini is even better than that. See, because he was just a named character with literally no description before, a buuuuunch of fangirls assumed he was a female character. So they used the Blaise in their head as basically their "No, she's totally a legit character, not an OC!" OCs. And then he got more 'screen time' in the books, and surprise, he's a black guy. Adopting my cat was ultimately extra good for me because I got to change his name from whatever cat foster had named him Blaise Zabini. His litter mates were named Pomona Sprout and Azkaban, hopefully they were also freed of such a burden.
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tbh i don't think the reddit person wanting to cosplay cho chang because it's one of the few things she still has attachments to after all these years is a big sin. growing up as a asian girl with the harry potter series, cho chang was actually a big deal because uhhh there wasn't a lot of asian characters, let alone asian girls, in western pop culture! as for fandom, it can mean more than 'thing i like' and i think that's what she meant; it can be used interchangeably with community, as people are seeking out others who hold similar interest and tastes. fanfic, fanart, cosplay, etc - i know people have asked why she doesn't didn't do another low effort cosplay, also lol, i guarantee you that there was at least one person upset that the op didn't go, and so spent the rest of the con probably being huffy. online people will loving hold grudges over the dumbest poo poo.
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Splash Attack posted:online people will loving hold grudges over the dumbest poo poo. https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2003
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I will echo others in saying I guessed Hetalia and I'm glad it wasn't that
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Tarezax posted:I will echo others in saying I guessed Hetalia and I'm glad it wasn't that I didn't, only because I've seen so much dumb cosplay drama that breaks down into hilariously broken bullshit that it wouldn't surprise me if it was any fandom.
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Aug 11, 2022 19:08
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"Hetalia" sounds like a disease
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Scratch Monkey posted:"Hetalia" sounds like a disease It's an untranslatable japanese pun, so you're not far off.
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Splash Attack posted:tbh i don't think the reddit person wanting to cosplay cho chang because it's one of the few things she still has attachments to after all these years is a big sin. growing up as a asian girl with the harry potter series, cho chang was actually a big deal because uhhh there wasn't a lot of asian characters, let alone asian girls, in western pop culture! Agreed about the representation but at least we made some major progress with the 2017 film version of Ghost in the Shell
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oldpainless posted:Agreed about the representation but at least we made some major progress with the 2017 film version of Ghost in the Shell i'm suddenly remembering that movie which made a big deal of how it had both jet li AND jackie chan but the main character was this white teenage boy from new york who really loved kung fu movies.
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Posting Scott Adams almost feels like cheating by now: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1557710512787320835 https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1557717116001742849 Idiots on Social Media: Stick your fingers in his rear end without permission.
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