I've been critical of the way the @verge has been covering the development of HBO's upcoming Harry Potter reboot.

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@violetmadder @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Neil Gaiman broke my heart. Thank god at least he wasn't one of my seminal authors....

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@violetmadder @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Right? Yeah, there has to be some sort of weird dissociative thing going on.

Or maybe it's just—they can do compassion hypothetically in principle, but IRL is just a bridge too far?

I'm lucky that so far none of the authors I've had deep emotional investment in have turned out to be predators.

That I know of....

[robotdiver@starlite.rodeo]

@nileane

I actually really wanna know so I know who to cut social ties with forever. So chat away about it. Please.

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@geolaw @sar @BenjaminKlein @nileane Well, they're kids. And like with the previous lot, JKR has been hovering over the set sometimes personally.

[rychaz@mastodon.nz]

@nileane @verge I wouldn't use that exact phrasing. It can be read as endorsing her funding for her hate. Too ambiguous.

"...to fund her disproportionate paranoid hate towards a minority..." would be more effective.

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@nileane @BenjaminKlein @sar

I’ve been really impressed by the way they’ve charted their courses since HP, the choices they’ve made and things they’ve said must stick so in her craw

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@nileane

pirating will make free copies available for more people to watch the shitty thing. let it be unavailable.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@nileane @verge Harry Potter and the “holy fuck why is this still a thing”

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@nileane @verge

I haven't given any money to the HP franchise since I learned she was a TERF, and stopped engaging with the fandom about the same time. With the damage she's doing to people, she's worse than her own villains.

[oscarfalcon@mastodon.social]

@nileane @verge

I don't get it: the books have already been adapted to feature films, why make a tv show (wasting money probably to launder money for someone), I don't really get it...

[franceskamann@freeradical.zone]

@nileane

I'll boycott it. It's a big world & there are other things to watch/read.

[hiisikoloart@writing.exchange]

@nileane
I wish I had like a friend who could burn shows and such for me on dvd and send them to me because I am not good with tech.

(Also not likely gonna watch that. I used to be HP fan, and loved the books as a kid who literally lived in a cupboard under the stairs for a while...but I am also a trans person so, yeah. Queen Terf really abandoned a big portion of her own fandom with this hate campaign.)

[sar@social.elderlogs.net]

@geolaw @BenjaminKlein @nileane

I would LAUGH my ass off if they took exactly the same stances as the OGs in a few years when they're a bit older. That would be hilarious

[bookspiegel@mastodon.social]

@nileane @verge My faith in news outlets gets restored a little bit every time I see good, contextual coverage like this

[etienne_obriot@bsd.network]

@nileane I second the pirating thing.

[mespique@mastodon.social]

@nileane

About point number 2:

Welcome

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

(fmhy.net)

[annecanary@piaille.fr]

@zbrown @nileane Exactly, even if you pirate the tv series, you still give time to a deeply problemactic content. The all have better things to do.

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@Ember @nileane

The idea of seeding it, was to help sabotage the profits by keeping it available for longer (not that I think my protest matters that much anyway, considering how popular HP already is).

If more people are pirating it, then less people are paying for it.

I don't even plan to view the stuff...

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@Ember @nileane

Technically, more people will not be tempted to pirate/view it based on my action. That's not how this works.

But those who already wish to pirate it, have a better chance of succeeding.

If they succeed, they won't have to pay a subscription to view it.

[enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems]

@nileane or… don’t. There’s so much more stuff you could watch that isn’t this problematic. I’m usually not the kind of person who berates people for enjoying art made by bad people (any more), but in this case i have zero patience. I get it, i also read those books as a kid and really liked them, but that was when i didn’t have the knowledge, critical thinking and english skills necessary to notice all the problematic shit, all the racism in the books themselves. And as a trans person, it hurts to see cis people still excitedly talking about this franchise as if nothing happened, after such a long time of her hate campaign which has a direct impact on me and people like me.