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

[dean_r_t@mastodon.social]

Man I’m cis and I don’t even think I’m gonna *watch* it

[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.