Harry Potter and the Jesus Christ You're Still Into That, What the Fuck

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

Spend so long waiting for a letter from Hogwarts an AARP card shows up first

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@jalefkowit
"Yea're a geezer, Harry!"

[labspokane@mas.to]

@frogglin @jalefkowit Harry Potter and that time they lit JK Rowling’s yacht on fire.

[gusseting@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit two tastes that taste great together re: HP. Yours, and Verge:
https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116291641538524981 c/o @nileane

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@frogglin @jalefkowit Harry Potter and the my dude if Hogwarts were real there would be a court order banning you from residing within 500 feet of it

[sounddrill@infosec.exchange]

@jalefkowit I get what you're saying, I really do. Despite this being a big part of my childhood, I have boycotted her works.

However... I cannot bring myself to hate my friends for not boycotting the things I dislike. A weakness of mine

[criffer@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit Harry Potter and the Adults Who Need To Read Another Fucking Book

[kirakira@furry.engineer]

@jalefkowit Harry Potter and the Trans Genocide Financier

[martinschlegel@mastodon.online]

@jalefkowit was never into Harry Potter, to many internal inconsistencies in the world building. Which to me is a big thing when it's strong enough to brake my immersion, which it did.

[xyhhx@438punk.house]

@sounddrill but they recognize rowling being a transphobe is awful at least, right?

@jalefkowit

[janvenetor@mastodontti.fi]

@jalefkowit makes one wish death of the artist was a thing

HP Sauce - Wikipedia

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[cy@fedicy.us.to]

I feel like I get blocked so much for saying stupid shit that seems like such a great idea at the time, and if someone's like "Hey that's stupid, and shit," I'm like "Oh shit man you're right."

CC: @sounddrill@infosec.exchange @jalefkowit@vmst.io

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@jalefkowit Actually, trim some words off and that is the perfect Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. fodder to pander to their intended suckers.

Harry Potter & the Jesus Christ.

No further pitch needed.

[sounddrill@infosec.exchange]

@xyhhx @jalefkowit oh yeah they do.

I don't have any friends that love JK Rowling after that, I think. It was a general statement after some self introspection

[mandrake@chitter.xyz]

@jalefkowit To quote Stewart Lee: "I haven't read [Harry Potter], but I have read the complete works of the Romantic poet and visionary William Blake, so fuck off!"

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@jalefkowit
Harry Potter and the Ashes of our Former Friendship You Absolute Bigot-Licking Chud.

[suetanvil@freeradical.zone]

@sounddrill @xyhhx @jalefkowit

The artist is not the art is not the fandom. You can like horrible peoples' work without condoning the author. (Or, as someone on here put, Rowling is a horrible person who did one good thing.)

In any case, I don't think it's a moral failing to like HP, as long as you're not *paying* for it.

[suetanvil@freeradical.zone]

@jalefkowit

So my theory about HP (and also The Da Vinci Code) is that it's not so much the books its fans have discovered but the joy of reading, but they've learned the wrong lesson and attribute it to that specific mediocre book instead of written fiction as a whole.

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@licho @sounddrill @jalefkowit I understand where you are coming from. But this is a strawman. This is an edge case to the edge case. To the point that your argument seems very centrist, big tentish.

I used to grant people I know quite huge benefit of doubts. For sake of keeping a relationship. For sake of not making the drama, especially if those were my ex friends. And let me tell you, it doesn't end on them loving H.P. It doesn't bother them that JKR is hurting trans people. When told it, they double down. They do not even have will to change anything. So I can hardly call such asymmetric relationship a friendship. And, at the very end, it's their choice to either change their views, or to radicalise further.

Yeah, of course, this is a case by case basis. But if someone is repeatably and knowingly acting in a way hurting me, that relationship is toxic, and it's time to quit.

And look, here is the field I grow my benefits of doubts. It's barren.

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@suetanvil @sounddrill @xyhhx @jalefkowit Nope. Here is a good explanation: https://disabled.social/@Aaidanbird/116294513543754105