Please don’t support the terrible Rowling
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The Books of Abarat is a young adult fantasy series by Clive Barker, set in a magical archipelago of 25 islands, each representing an hour of the day, with a planned five books, of which three have been published: Abarat (2002), Days of Magic, Nights of War (2004), and Absolute Midnight (2011).
The series follows a girl named Candy Quackenbush as she navigates this world, battling darkness and discovering her connection to it, all brought to life with Barker's own surreal illustrations.
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Please don’t support the terrible Rowling
@stux As expected, this thread brought out some bigot JKR fans for my blocklist.
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@anthrazit @stux I have some follow-up questions.
- do you think I deserve healthcare?
- do you support my right to call my wife a woman?
- do you think people should be allowed to choose what we do with our bodies?
- do you think racism or anti-Semitism are bad?
- do you think women are harmed by a system that enforces strict gender roles and places their value on how well they meet an arbitrary aesthetic standard?If you answered "yes" to any of these, you might want to rethink your support.
If I would solemnly swear to just have social contact with people I totally agree with I would be the loneliest person in the world.
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The series follows a girl named Candy Quackenbush as she navigates this world, battling darkness and discovering her connection to it, all brought to life with Barker's own surreal illustrations.
I always kinda identtified with Candy
not sure why
It might remain a mysterie forever
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I don't agree.The Harry Potter books were definitively the best reading experience I've ever had in my life.
I've read all of the books to my kids as well, and I wouldn't miss a minute of that wonderful time.
There is some much magic and wisdom in those books, and the prophecies of the hard times we are in at the moment.
I am here to protect her and willing to cast every spell I know with the exception of one of the forbidden ones.
Might as well cast the forbidden ones too, since that's what Rowling is doing to trans people anyway. Commit to the bit, y'know?
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@stux As expected, this thread brought out some bigot JKR fans for my blocklist.
@veronica Handy but unfortunate there still here!
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Streaming services now use paid services to track how often torrents are downloaded, effectively treating piracy as another viewer metric. Just by torrenting it you're helping boost JKR's numbers. And alas, using a VPN won't change that.
There are many services, but one such tool is Piracymeter.
https://piracymeter.com/@ralfmaximus True that but it won't contribute direct cash at least
Gotta start somewhere
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If I would solemnly swear to just have social contact with people I totally agree with I would be the loneliest person in the world.
@anthrazit @stux so instead you choose to align yourself with fascists. Personally, I'd rather be lonely* than a fascist, but YMMV
*I've actually discovered that trying to take away human rights from entire groups of people is a pretty easy line to draw and still find plenty of friends, especially when those groups are >half the planet. I associate with people who disagree with me on all sorts of things--whether certain people deserve the right to exist doesn't have to be on the list
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@CStamp @jakebrake @stux one of my main gripes is
"There is no magic strong enough to raise the dead...oh wait there is, we just lied. Lied so the only intresting (to me) part is negated and leads to dull by the books resolution.
@Noortjevee That didn't bother me so much because the cost of coming back was one that cost a lot and corrupted the person throughout the process. And he didn't really come back from the dead because he never totally died. He was just mostly dead.
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@Noortjevee @jakebrake @stux I think he got his magic rules a lot more consistent. JKR had so many inconsistencies. They can do a reparo, for instance, to fix broken glasses, but poor witches/wizards have patched or ratty robes? They all seem to take the train, in a muggle train station, to Hogwarts, but there are magic folk who don't know what muggles dress like?
the whole
"...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives."(had to google the words)
Was kinda intresting to me.
but the cop out of the deathly hallows, and then the goddamn expeliarmus deflect bullshit, so they could go "no no...HArry never killed him, voldemort kinda killed himself"
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@Noortjevee That didn't bother me so much because the cost of coming back was one that cost a lot and corrupted the person throughout the process. And he didn't really come back from the dead because he never totally died. He was just mostly dead.
@jakebrake @stux@CStamp i did not mean the Horcruxes. but the deathly hallows thing.
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the whole
"...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives."(had to google the words)
Was kinda intresting to me.
but the cop out of the deathly hallows, and then the goddamn expeliarmus deflect bullshit, so they could go "no no...HArry never killed him, voldemort kinda killed himself"
@Noortjevee @CStamp @jakebrake @stux
They could just have said "predicting the future doesn't work, suck it up". Unfortunately fantasy on magic is rarely courageous enough to handle the "prophesy of the one who will be our salvation" properly (ie. this way).
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@Noortjevee @CStamp @jakebrake @stux
They could just have said "predicting the future doesn't work, suck it up". Unfortunately fantasy on magic is rarely courageous enough to handle the "prophesy of the one who will be our salvation" properly (ie. this way).
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Please don’t support the terrible Rowling
@stux this is funny because nobody asked for a spider man remake either
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Please don’t support the terrible Rowling
Does she plan to teach a new generation of kids that only a 'man' and a 'woman' can have a child that they recklessly leave-behind while fighting the specters of their own creation, to be raised by child-slavers and sneaky serpents, who are the only ones that child can trust? And that kid's name is definitely not Jesus?
I admit, I quit watching after the werewolf one and never read them. Did I get it wrong?
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Please don’t support the terrible Rowling
@stux 'Not a single soul,' except for shareholders maybe. -
@stux Please don't spread nonsense. You are right about the fact that noone asked for this, but at least Rowling still knows what common sense is.
@destranis @stux Wow, you are an easy block. Bye bye transphobe
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If I would solemnly swear to just have social contact with people I totally agree with I would be the loneliest person in the world.
@anthrazit This is not about agreeing if eggs are good or not. This is about agreeing if trans people have rights.
If you don't think they do, then no. I absolutely cannot "have social contact" with someone like you. @raphaelmorgan @stux
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@CStamp i did not mean the Horcruxes. but the deathly hallows thing.
@Noortjevee Ah...well, with that there were only 3, and a person would have to possess all 3.
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