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[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Well buying used book does not give jkr one penny, watching dvd does not give and algorithm engagement, amd any old offline game will not either.

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think all the attention y’all give to her is what’s keeping this in the cultural spotlight. I basically never think about her, or the books, until I see posts like these on the internet. We gotta separate the art from the artist.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Normally I’d agree, but Harry Potter is already huge.

And while I think this whole response is a bit extreme, it is a case of her source of wealth being way more famous than herself.

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can get behind being in spite of her & other wealthy elites but I can’t abandon what my time with those books meant to me despite of her spite. So, y’all can guillotine her, I’ll still keep the books. But it really is the case that when I hear about her it’s because of these kinds of posts nowadays.

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

STOP writing Harry Potter fanfic.

START writing 2 Rats fanfic.

Origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDvKuxAIXMg

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I feel the same way. I don't understand why someone cant talk about Harry potter and still show support for pride month. I understand not buying things as cancel culture is logical if you are into that.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Why are Harry Potter fans so uniquely unable to let go and find a better franchise to support? I know TRANS people that Joanne could apparently deadname them and spit in their face and they'd still spend every disposable dollar they have to buy HP games, merch, and go to the amusement park again.

Keep taking those tests to affirm you're still a Hufflepuff, I guess.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

i don't consume any of it but mostly because they're bad and she's a bad writer, but being a transphobe certainly didn't help her case either

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 4 points 1 month ago

what are some fun trans-inclusive universes? doesn't have to be fantasy

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Discworld explores gender a few times in a way that I like.

Monstrous Regiment is about a bunch of women who pretend to be men to join their military. For the most part - these aren’t trans characters, they identify as female. The funny is the characters slowly discovering that everyone else in their group is doing the same thing. One character though, explicitly identifies as male after the “reveal” and has male pronouns used for them.

Discworld as a series tends to be irreverent without punching down. Comedy is a weapon in Pratchett’s hands, but his targets are capitalism and oppressive systems.

LeGuin has a lot of interesting takes on gender. The Hainnish cycle is about a race of humans who had previously colonized a bunch of planets and did lots of experimentation on those populations - kinda Vault Tec vibes. The civilization collapses/gets better, and the POV character is usually some type of researcher/anthropologist looking at how those planets develop The Left Hand of Darkness is a sci fi classic: a planet where people stay sexless until they go into “heat” and will develop the opposite genitals of the person who they are attracted to. There’s lots of switching back and forth. It’s a big deal when the king gets pregnant, because only children the king carries can inherit the throne.

Anne Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy is also more gender bending sci fi. Everyone is “she.” The first book was part of the Sad Puppies drama, because it won Hugo’s and absolutely pissed a bunch of a bunch of chuds.

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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I stopped the moment she showed herself to be a terf.

Never looked back.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mid ass books anyway. It was literally so easy to not engage with them and I fucking loved them as a kid.

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[-] undefinedValue@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago
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