I saw this getting upvotes in a conservative comm. Makes me sick.
In this comm it feels like actual news, being notified of things that happen in the world. Upvoting it feels like a “more people should know that this is happening” kinda thing.
But in a comm dedicated to the GQP? There it feels like an upvote is a sign of approval or agreement.
What a miserable person. I can’t imagine having her wealth and using it to try to hurt people.
I can think of quite a few people that I would go out of my way to destroy.
Starting with a few politicians.
But you’d possibly be making life better for people in general, depending on which politicians you chose to destroy (and in what way you destroyed them.)
I think this is the line her convoluted logic follows
Can’t she just take up knitting or photography or racing driving?
No, because she’s still traumatized by the thought that Corbyn could have won, and could have raised her taxes.
“You hurt a community the most by going after their most vulnerable.”
No because we all keep talking about her.
I’d prefer she take up parachuteless BASE diving, personally.
Is that Titanic sub company still in business?
Appreciated, I just don’t get why people choose hate as a hobby when there are much better options.
She’s such a scumbag. Had it all and ruined her name and art for what? To be hateful? Shame on her and shame on HBO for handing her more money and fueling her hate.
I’m glad I never have her a cent. Pirated the moves the only time I’ve watched them. Pirated the books too, but only got through one.
#piratepotter don’t let a dime go to Rowling or those trying to benefit from her.
The world would be fine without Harry Potter, and better without JK Rowling.
Or just read other books, watch other movies, and so on. Like, Harry Potter is genuinely not even that good
If anyone wants a suggestion may I suggest Yojou Senki/The Saga of Tanya the Evil, it’s really good once you get past the fact that the English version devolves into technical documents at times. But the author apparently plays Hoi3, which honestly explains a lot about the books in general.
What?? The only books that exist are:
- Harry Potter
- 1984
- AO3 fanfics
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy *
~* All five of them. Six if you count Mostly Harmless.~
I’d recommend Dresden Files series if you want something with a wizard in it.
I’ll add it to my reading list. Thanks!
While you’re at it, if you haven’t done so check out any of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchet. Very good reads.
Ooh… +1 for this…
Read them some time back and would definitely read again.
Six if you count Mostly Harmless.
I think you mean six if you count 'And Another Thing … ’
‘Mostly Harmless’ was the 5th book.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
- Mostly Harmless
This is according to The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide from 1996. I will certainly be checking out And Another Thing.
~So I guess there are seven books to the trilogy.~
Edit: Ooooh, that explains it. And Another Thing wasn’t written by Adams. No wonder I never heard of it.
‘And Another Thing…’ was fun, and I feel it belongs on the shelf right next to the others. I hope you give it a shot, and also enjoy it.
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is just a short story.
Yeah, that’s the one I wasn’t counting as a book, but from that list I can see why some would count it.
The really good a/o I’ve been following hasn’t been updated in almost two months 😭
Read the A03 Harry Potter fanfics where Harry is a trans egg
There’s also atlas shrugged.
It’s like the sorting hat for terrible people.
Oh good one but that’s a trick question, because nobody has actually read it in full.
Wait! You aren’t supposed to finish Atlas Shrugged?
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family guy made 2 cutscenes about her being problematic.
It’s also a sorting hat for people who are willing to read some of the worst prose ever written in English. Ayn Rand’s turgid rants make Bulwer-Lytton’s efforts look like Shakespeare. She’s an even worse writer than L. Ron Hubbard.
gently pushes Katalepsis by Hazel Young your way
Agreed.
Yeah it’s wild looking at the books with adult eyes at the house elves and goblins and so on.
Btw: The Magicians TV series was fun to watch (haven’t read the source materials yet).
YES!
The books are also good, but very different. The show creators made an excellent adaptation of the world and its energy and feeling, but changed characters and plot to something more suitable for a show. Both are great though.
Got kids? Percy Jackson (and the other Rick Riordan written) series are great. Older kids? Get them reading chuck wendig or Margaret Killjoy.
Introduce yourself to Kafka and Marquez and Butler and Morrison and so many other great great writers who make JK Rowling look like the utter hack she is.
I just finished The Staircase In The Woods by Chuck Wendig. Holy shit, what an epic book. I am going to read more Chuck because I loved it so much.
Honestly, just pick up any other book and give it a go, if that doesn’t work drop it and pick up another one. Nothing depresses me more than those people - adults - who finish reading the last Harry Potter book and then pick up the first one and start over again. I’ve heard nothing but good things about Rick Riordan as far as getting kids into reading, that all happened a little after my time though (and I was already big into reading as a kid)
Margaret Killjoy
Definitely seconding this recommendation. I’ve really liked Margarets Killjoy’s more adult sci-fi/fantasy output, for a long time. The Free Orcs of Cascadia is a personal favorite.
But she recently wrote a YA fantasy novel called The Sapling Cage which is really wonderful.
THE GIRL FROM BEHIND THE BASTARDS?!
(Actually legit the only place I’ve ever heard of her. I will have to look into her writing!)
She’s got a couple of different podcasts. Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, which is a radical history podcast on the same podcast network as BTB, and Live Like The World is Dying which is a show about prepping.
My first exposure to her was actually by listening to an interview she did for the guerilla radio station operated out of The ZAD, which is in France, and is the largest Anarchist autonomous zone in Europe.
I had someone recommend Rivers of London as an alternative magic learning protag series, and I’m enjoying it, but it’s more noir detective than Harry Potter. Which works in its favor IMO.
As someone who doesn’t have the nostalgia goggles for HP, it’s always insane to me how many adults still love that shit. They’re YA novels… Like read a grown-up book, and maybe you’ll realize how mediocre they were.
It’s like Disney Adults…
Not even a grown-up book! Read a different magical fantasy book aimed at children or teenagers. And see how good those are, too. Many of them were written before Harry Potter.
I do think HP is good at the pacing and mystery aspect of it. The magical world isn’t really that alluring, unless you are a 12 year old kid in 2001 who never read another book until now.
The pacing goes down the toilet in the last three books.
i used to read mtg books.
Don’t even pirate it. She doesn’t deserve your mindshare.
There are many better authors out there who are also better humans.
Y’er a pirate, Harry
Well, let’s just be happy that Rowling is jy low pretty old and that we’ll all likely outlive her.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Imagine getting all that wealth just to use it to hurt people
You are describing most of the billionaires.
There is a difference between abusing people to generate money and spending money to hurt people
Most of the Billionaires do both.
My intuition says you’re right, but I’ve learned to question it from time to time. I don’t know any billionaires myself, nor have I read much about them, so I don’t really have any facts either way. Got any sources I should look into?
The 1st thing always come to my mind is Nestlè. But there are many others, doing worse. Like Chevron, Elon Musk and others.
Again??
It’s this actually new? Wasn’t it already known that she did that?
I mean to be fair, if she’s going to make hating LGBT people her whole personality, we might as well make sure to keep mentioning how ACTIVE she is in her hate.
It would be one thing if she had just said some nasty shit a decade ago, but this goofy lady wakes up and chooses violence every god damned day.
Her twitter is mostly about trans people instead of HP too. She could have just kept quiet and kept having her PR team sweep all the transphobic tweets she was liking under the rug like they did early on before she went full mask off. But no, she wants to get rid of all the queer people and is actively working to try to make that happen.
Last time she talked about Harry Potter on Twitter, she told everyone that wizards just used to shit themselves until someone invented the toilet.
That’s the thing. I basically already assumed she more or less financed multiple terf organizations all by herself
What an ugly human being
It amazes me how some people just refuse to put their money to anything actually useful.
If I had money, I promise I’d do something useful with it. Like putting up a shed in my garden.
In addition to the shed you already have? If so, I must ask: Are you, in fact, Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson?
I am not, but can you lend me a bob until next Thursday to mend the shed? I am expecting a postal order and can pay you back as soon as it comes. Love, Ewan.
I’d love to, but unfortunately have recently committed all my available funds to a business venture in Nigeria, and I’m currently awaiting the results. Once that is resolved, I’m expecting to have significant financial flexibility, and at that point, I would be in a much better position to lend.
Take care, Ken Shabby (deceased)
The story so far: Rosamund’s father has become ensnared by Mr. Shabby’s extraordinary personal magnetism. Bob and Janet have eaten Mr. Farquar’s goldfish during an Oxfam lunch, and Mrs. Elsmore’s marriage is threatened by Doug’s insistence that he is on a different level of consciousness. Louise’s hernia has been confirmed, and Jim, Bob’s brother, has run over the editor of the ‘Lancet’ on his way to see Jenny, a freelance Pagoda designer. On the other side of the continent Napoleon still broods over the smoldering remains of a city he had crossed half the earth to conquer…
Piece of shit author continues being a piece of shit. More news at 11.
It’s good to publicly remember every now and then. Plenty of people don’t know that she’s a raging transphobe, and if even one of them recently joined lemmy and sees this post and is convinced to no longer buy her work, then that makes this post worth it, imo.
Yeah, good point
So what is it that motivates her to spend her vast wealth persecuting trans people, instead of doing something useful?
Trauma via a cis man if I remember correctly. She fears men in general and fervently believes, despite the statistics, that trans women will put cis women at risk.
Edit: Probably also attention and money if other right wing grifters are anything to go by.
That and hatred fed to her by people she aligns with.
This is why the new tv series will be hated by all. They had a chance to remake and sanitize the series away from the grimy hands of JK and instead they doubled down. So if anything this remake might be even more offensive.
The wild thing is that growing up I had all the conservatives and bible people trying to stop us kids from reading the demonic Harry Potter novels. Now that they realize the author is one of them, they suddenly love the books about witchcraft!
Just like the best selling game of the year, Hogwarts Legacy.
I don’t think Hogwarts: Legacy doubled down, though? It’s definitely sad that she made money off that game being sold, but she didn’t have any hand in the writing. The game has trans characters and allows the player to be trans as well.
My comment was only to point out that the mainstream does not care about JKR’s take on trans people and that anything Harry Potter will print money, which is the opposite of OP’s take on things.
she does profit from the IP being sold. and people were like defending the game and her transphobia.
Unfortunately, they won’t be hated. A lot of people don’t actually care all that much about trans people :(
Or anyone else for that matter
They had a chance to remake and sanitize the series away from the grimy hands of JK
Did they really? My impression was that she used her copyright control
They will cast Snape as black and the audience will wonder why Harry immediately hates him.
That’s the confusing thing to me, clearly the left audience is done with JK, but the show is also pissing off the right with “woke casting”
Are you not aware that Snape literally has been cast as black? Because if not that’s hilarious coincidence.
The potters being violently racist is cannon.
