Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture.
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@inthehands Rowling can't help it. She knows she's a shitty hack fanfic writer who plagiarized 'The Worst Witch' series of books, literally just turning the protagonist, Mildred, into a Harry Boy.
She's terribly afraid someone is going to realize she gender-flipped the protagonist, so the best smokescreen is to hate on trans people so no one could ever accuse her of being such a lazy cheap anti-women hack.
IIRC she also faked a rags to riches story about herself that wasn't entirely true.
@inthehands I mean, stop me if you've heard this one before. In the Worst Witch, ordinary girl Mildred gets told she's a witch and taken to the magic world. She hops a steam loco to a bit castle/school with twisting magical corridors. There's a wealthy blond girl antagonist that looks down on non-witches and lower=caste witches. a cheery old dean who plays favorites for Mildred, the potions teacher doesn't like her. She has two friends and a familiar...
Speaking of, sounding familiar yet?
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@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
Money, to me, is a means to an end - that end being security and happiness. Depending on the person and the society, security and happiness isn't all that expensive. Anything left over should be used to help other people into security and happiness, thus creating a world that's even more secure and happy.
Wanting more and more money is just an illness - a failure to understand when you have "enough". That's how money perverts and rots a person.
@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands oh i agree.
If you have a house/home, means of transportation, food, some leisure time and enough air in the budget for the occasional family trip, why should you want more?
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Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.
J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
Harry Potter profits are going directly to anti-transgender legal cases.
Advocate.com (www.advocate.com)
@inthehands Her position is Trans Women are still men. No they aren't. I'd wager if you put 10 women up, Rowling would be unable to tell which are cis women and which are Trans.
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@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands oh i agree.
If you have a house/home, means of transportation, food, some leisure time and enough air in the budget for the occasional family trip, why should you want more?
@rasmus91 @realtegan @cambria @jillL
The novelist Joseph Heller was at a party hosted by some…Rockefeller or whatever, let’s just say Rockefeller.GUEST: Mr. Heller, doesn’t bother you that •you• wrote all these great novels but •he’s• the one who got all this money?
HELLER: No, I have something he’ll never have.
GUEST: What’s that??
HELLER: Enough.
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@rasmus91 @realtegan @cambria @jillL
The novelist Joseph Heller was at a party hosted by some…Rockefeller or whatever, let’s just say Rockefeller.GUEST: Mr. Heller, doesn’t bother you that •you• wrote all these great novels but •he’s• the one who got all this money?
HELLER: No, I have something he’ll never have.
GUEST: What’s that??
HELLER: Enough.
@inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.
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@inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.
@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
It’s one of my all-time favorite stories. And it’s about money, but it’s not •just• about money. -
Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.
J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
Harry Potter profits are going directly to anti-transgender legal cases.
Advocate.com (www.advocate.com)
@inthehands The money eventually becomes so large in a pile that it's power is timeless. It's like a lich's phylactery. If they gathered enough souls in the first place, of course they'll have it forever.
The systems in place are built to remove limits to the Epstein classes wealth.
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@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.
@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands Exactly. It's not that money rots the brains of billionaires. It's that, to become a billionaire in the first place, you had to be extraordinarily evil and shallow in your choices of what to do with money.
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Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.
J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
Harry Potter profits are going directly to anti-transgender legal cases.
Advocate.com (www.advocate.com)
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
I know this point has been made before but Harry is her.
Aside from that one time he bought Ron a chocolate frog, despite having unlimited wealth and despite practically adopted and living with Ron's family, despite being written as feeling awkward when confronted by the comparative poverty, Harry does absolutely nothing to help Ron or his family. Their lot is to be poor, his is to be wealthy.
@Theriac @inthehands Honestly this part has always bothered me so much. it was kind of supposed to be "don't make friends for their money" or sth but as someone who was helped by friends who were better off during hard times and who has helped friends when they were on hard times and I could... I can't imagine NOT doing that in some way seeing a friend in need.
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Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.
J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
Harry Potter profits are going directly to anti-transgender legal cases.
Advocate.com (www.advocate.com)
Just to clarify:
I’m less interested in shaming individuals for liking or not liking Harry Potter (or whatever their kink may be) than I am in the practical, concrete work of keeping money out of JK Rowling’s hands.
Less policing each other, more pitchforks pointed at billionaires.
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Just to clarify:
I’m less interested in shaming individuals for liking or not liking Harry Potter (or whatever their kink may be) than I am in the practical, concrete work of keeping money out of JK Rowling’s hands.
Less policing each other, more pitchforks pointed at billionaires.
@inthehands Good because irrespective of who wrote it, those are pretty good stories and I'm particularly fond of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. -
@fnord99 @arazil @inthehands even when I was a literal child I came to the same conclusion tbh. And anyway childrens media should not be shielded from legitimate artistic criticism just because people think children are too brain-dead to tell the difference between good & bad media. It turns out the "masses" of all ages are, which is why criticism can be useful & help consumers make better & more fulfilling choices about media instead of chugging down whatever slop is currently being pedaled.
@itsmeholland @arazil @inthehands this of course, but i mean the content as seen by a child will focus more on the magic and interactions between friends rather than deeper analysis relevant for adults
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@inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.
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@Theriac @inthehands Honestly this part has always bothered me so much. it was kind of supposed to be "don't make friends for their money" or sth but as someone who was helped by friends who were better off during hard times and who has helped friends when they were on hard times and I could... I can't imagine NOT doing that in some way seeing a friend in need.
(also I can't imagine being friends with someone for their money, but that's another thing).@p_the_wanderer@mastodon.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io
initially yes I think it was intended to show how thoughtful Harry was, but as the series moves along Ron's poverty just becomes another character quirk like Hermione being smart:
Oh Ron comes from a large family so he's always getting miss-sized or worn-out hand me downs because the parents can't afford new stuff. But of course they always give Harry Christmas and Birthday gifts because he's Harry, which Harry accepts without a thought to the cost.
A lot's implied about Ron's family and it's all judgemental. -
@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.
@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
This. I didn’t bother to fact check, so take it with a grain of salt - but I’ve often seen it said that Dolly Parton could be a billionaire based on her earnings, but the reason she’s “only” a millionaire is because she gives a lot through charities and her reading foundation and so on. Which seems like what reasonable people would do, because hoarded billions are useless.
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@p_the_wanderer@mastodon.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io
initially yes I think it was intended to show how thoughtful Harry was, but as the series moves along Ron's poverty just becomes another character quirk like Hermione being smart:
Oh Ron comes from a large family so he's always getting miss-sized or worn-out hand me downs because the parents can't afford new stuff. But of course they always give Harry Christmas and Birthday gifts because he's Harry, which Harry accepts without a thought to the cost.
A lot's implied about Ron's family and it's all judgemental.@Theriac @inthehands There's something to be mentioned here about how Hermione spending her time to help the boys do homework si Good Actually while Harry helping his best friend when he can afford it is... not?
Especially that he himself lived before on hand-me-downs (tho quality ones, unlike Ron).
There's something to unpak here but I already threw out the whole luggage some years ago XD. -
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