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Remember family guys skits of jk Rowling, they kinda predicted her current behavior, one of them was Peter "reminiscing "now problematic jk Rowling writing, and the other
I love Pedro Pascal.
So many queers grew up on Harry Potter. If you still cherish the series from before the author apparently had a stroke, and can't give it up, you can at least do society a favour by sailing the high seas (pirate it).
I wasn't gonna watch it anyways but if Pedro says don't, I sure as heck ain't!
I'm gonna not watch it even harder!
more like Bae-dro Pascal amirite
daddy pascal
Papi Pascal
Joanne’s really milking this cash cow for all it’s worth, and then some. Guess that’s your only option when you’re a one-hit wonder, though. Must not have stumbled across any new content she’s interested in plagiarizing.
HBO previously did a adaption of The Casually Vacancy. I never watched it but I read the book which is terrible.
Oh, what did you find terrible about the book? I thought it was sad but written with a lot of empathy. I liked the gray characters. It was even worse for me to realize what JKR was like after reading this book that seemed so right to me. But maybe I overlooked something.
I mean, you could tell the point in book 4 where they said "Fuck it, bring in the ghost writers".
I doubt she's probably written anything in 30 years that wasn't drunkenly pounded out on Twitter
You say that like anyone else wouldn't. If life gives you a golden cow, milk the shit out of it. Lol
Let's focus on her being a terrible person instead of making up nonsense reasons to further dislike her. There's no need.
No, I think most people wouldn't. Most people would be happy with literally becoming a fucking billionaire, and would be satisfied at that point.
I don't know any billionaires myself, but judging from what I read and see online that is not what people do when they literally become a billionaire.
Yeah I guess it's one of those things, where most people would be satisfied with becoming a billionaire, but generally, the type of people able to become a billionaire, are terrible people that wouldn't be satisfied with becoming a billionaire.
TIL People who would be satisfied with being a billionaire feel satisfied long before they actually become a billionaire.
CouLd you point me to what original she plagiarized? I need some light reading material and this sounds promising.
Here is a pretty decent list: https://elftor.medium.com/harry-potter-and-the-possible-plagiarism-of-one-j-rowling-c19f1b05595c
I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, and don't like Rowling, but I read that whole damn essay and was not at all convinced. Half the examples could be said to be plagiarising each other by the standard they're using. They say at the start the coincidences are too strong to be attributed to tropes, but I really disagree with that. Almost everything they list are common tropes, many even outside magical wizard settings. Mean adoptive family? Did she also plagiarise Cinderella?
Sure, her books generally aren't original themes, but to say they're so similar that they are direct plagiarism is a real stretch in my opinion. Especially when you have to list like 30 books that have one or two things in common each, and mostly in a general sense.
Exactly. It shouldn't be considered a crime to use and build on eternal tropes. That's what culture is about. The terrible things about JKR lie elsewhere.
I never thought she was a plagiarist, just a hack.
The first two or three books felt far more like a Roald Dahl novel than any standard issue YA novel.
She's clearly been influenced by other children's books. But yeah, so much of the "Rowling plagiarized!" critique boils down to how bland and generic the story was.
I think they're referring to A Wizard of Earthsea? It's been on my reading list for a few years now, but I still haven't gotten around to it.
I mean… all her bullshit aside anyway; It’s too soon for a Harry Potter remake.
I still can't wrap my head around who this is meant to be for. Fans that are old enough to have grown up with the original series are never going to like this and fans that are younger will still have seen the old series. It's not like it's so old it's unwatchable.
I don't understand how anybody in an executive position thought this was a good idea, especially because there is loads of stuff you could make a show about in the wizarding world universe (cough marauders cough).
It’s meant for the people hoping to make money off of it. Just like the LOTR series.
i've been a harry potter fan since 2000. i went to multiple leakycons and pottercast tapings. i posted on leaky. i went to midnight shows. i discovered starkid bc of it. i used to pay international shippings for the uk books. hp saved my life before i was out of the closet.
i would have been so excited for this if it happened 15 years ago. now? i just don't care. i want it to go away. i'm much more interested in the twilight anniversary. hp is just go away heat now.
also anyone who is looking for an alternative; chris colfer's land of stories series is AMAZING.
i’m much more interested in the twilight anniversary.
Since we got Life and Death on the 10th anniversary I hope we get Edythe's Midnight Sun this year. We won't but it would be nice.
Edit: Better yet give us the sapphic vampires we deserve with a retelling of Twilight with Edythe and Bella. Do it, Steph, you coward.
id love an extended universe of rosalies history tbh (in the style of the vampire chronicles)
also im so sad that young kim had health issues that kept them from finishing the rest of them :(
An even better anniversary thats happening rn is the 20th anniversary of Revenge Of The Sith. Hard to believe that episode 3 is 20 years old.
Pascal has been a vocal ally of the transgender community, frequently using his platform to advocate for trans rights. At the UK premiere of “Thunderbolts,” he wore a shirt reading "Protect the Dolls," a term of endearment for transgenderism.
I wonder if the author of the article realizes "transgenderism" is a right-wing, anti-trans term?
EDIT: ah, it looks like the author of that blog is probably anti-trans and holds other right-wing views: https://old.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/rcczql/can_someone_give_me_context_for_the_film_blog/
