Diseased Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

Miriam Margoyles said:
I know these people think you can just say any old shit on Twitter, consequences be damned, but if I was one of the goblins on J.K.'s legal team, I'd be licking my lips and rubbing my little hands with glee right about now.
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Law firms would actually lose money trying to get anything out of these Twitter loony troons.
 
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MichałDrzymała said:
Was the NPC's name Ominis Gaunt? If that's the case, he won't look at you directly because the dude is blind.
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Oh God, that reminds me of this guy I used to work with who was deaf. A guy from his trade outside his crew kept trying to talk to him and getting annoyed he was being ignored. Apparently this went on for a month until he complained about it to someone in the deaf guy's crew who then promptly told him "you know he's deaf, right?" Hilarious.
 
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gmax alcremie said:
There's a big difference between someone like Tolkien who meticulously planned out his world and Rowling.
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Lol so Tolkien (who is in a complete league of his own) is the standard now? There’s not a work of fantasy even half the length of HP that doesn’t have minor plotholes. It’s as hollow of a critique as saying the eagles at the end of LotR is lazy/bad writing. At this point it’s just something people seem to repeat because they heard it somewhere. The idea that HP reads as if it had no planning or nothing mapped out is just not reality. All in all, it’s a very impressive and highly original piece of world building.

No one’s talent can actually be equivalent to creating a multibillion dollar industry. No one can “deserve” that level of accolade. But she’s not some dopey hack writer who lucked into having a career. She’s ventured into adult mystery novels now and they’re perfectly passable and fun. I’d call them outright good even if they’re not future classics.
 
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Table Country said:
The fact that in spite of this, her books are still mostly mediocre actually makes this less impressive.
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I can personally forgive some mediocrity in light of it being specifically targeted at children.

But yeah, there are clearly better fantasy books out there like the fucking Malazan series. I have yet to meet someone to talk about it with.
 
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It's kind of funny how trannies and the LGBTIQF alphabet fuckers are all about acceptance and understanding but the way they talk and act, you wouldn't be able to distinguish them from ayatollahs and muslim-maniacs aside from flag colours and pronouncs posted on their profiles. The shitstorms I'm looking at on tumblr are especially hilarious, they are so angry over a video game. Nazi this! Antisematic that! I don't even have a PS5 but I'd buy one and this fucking game because it would be funny to piss them off further.
 
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Procrastinhater said:
I know it's hard for private citizens to own firearms in Bongland but can celebrities likely to be targets hire licensed private security with CCW's? I'm pretty sure Salman Rushdie used to have armed bodyguards back during the height of his notoriety, just after the crazy Persian Ayatollah issued that Fatwa over the Satanic Verses ?
Even if they aren't armed it wouldn't surprise me if she had private security especially out in public, and being that its often ex SAS/SBS or Marines that do that shit, I don't think they'd have much trouble from an hysterical AGP monstrosity with a grudge, even if those freaks weren't all cowards.
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You can't legally hire armed private security. Someone like Salman Rushdie would have had plain clothes protection officers. Rowling got in touch with police after those protestors turned up, but no further action was taken (also the protestors claimed that she was committing an act of violence by retweeting the photo they'd posted on twitter) although if she has since been assigned protection officers, they might be keeping quiet.
 
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We have had public figures assassinated in the UK in recent years. Both were constituency MPs (one Conservative, one Labour) and both were stabbed to death by nutters who got close to them either in the constituency offices or whilst doing door-to-door campaigning. In the case of Labour MP Jo Cox, she was also shot by the shut in Neo-Nazi who killed her with a modified .22 rifle at very close range. No idea where this guy got the gun.

Both of these MPs were not Cabinet ministers and had minimal security, if any. I don’t know if they even get a budget for security. In the UK anyone can make an appointment to see their local MP. I’ve done it and there was no security present, just the MP and two of his assistants. It makes them very vulnerable to being attacked by loonies of all types.

So whilst it is possible, there isn’t much chance of opportunity for Troon Franz Ferdinand to do something like this to a mega rich, cautious woman who doesn’t need to make any public appearances to publicise her work.
 
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Haramburger said:
The "underqualified" part comes from her frequent retcons of worldbuilding elements, and sloppy plot points(many, MANY problems are solved with tactical use of polyjuice potions or the literal time machine "time-turner" which is conveniently lost right after it's revealed and used by Harry from Hermoine, but they're an uncommon item that every wizarding government branch has MULTIPLES of!). It's very clear it was all made up as the books went along, and elements that should've been closed up or abandoned were instead built upon with even more rickety bullshit.
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I mean these "devices" are used in almost every story, you have got the ghosts saving the day in lord of the rings, bronn saving tyrion in game of thrones. Just look close enough and they're in every situation, they just need to be justified enough to feel natural.

And not to "akshuly" you, but the time-turner was not lost, Hermione gives it back in the end of the 3rd year, and it appears again in the cursed child. The rest of them were smashed during the ministry fight (she knew the problems that such device can create in a story and just "deleted" them, and she even talked about it on her website).
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Contemporary series off the top of my head were
  • Artemis Fowl
  • Eragon series
  • the Mortal Instruments series
  • the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
  • Guardians of Gahoole
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Most of these are far shiter books than harry potter though; Artemis Fowl is embarrassing, Eragon is a copy pasted lotr setting and star wars plot (not that bad in comparison), The mortal instruments is even more embarrassing, Percy Jackson is the closest in quality though it feels much less mature.
 
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gmax alcremie said:
There's a big difference between someone like Tolkien who meticulously planned out his world and Rowling.
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There’s actually a quote about this.

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I don’t know where Rowling comes in, but I know she’s not an idiot.
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It's an apt comparison. Rowling has gone in a number different directions than she planned. The most obvious one to see is Snape.

Where originally he is just a terrible and menacing teacher, over time she turns him into an anti-hero with tragic past.

And the quote is by George R R Martin. Lol. Not an architect or a gardener. He's more like a fat man at a banquet. Who fills his plate with more food than he can possibly finish, first entertaining the other guests with the spectacle but soon becoming a boorish stain on the evening as other people fail to carry him off as he pukes and farts at the end.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
I mean, if J.K. Rowling came out tomorrow and said, "You know what, ladies, I was wrong, trans women are women. I am sorry I have sinned against you, how could I have ever been so blind?", do you think for one second these people would forgive her? Or even believe her?

Because I don't. Not for a fucking second.
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Nah, they wouldn't. They've fully integrated the "scorched earth" mentality pioneered by the SJWs a decade ago.

It reminds me of that blue-collar worker (who had no online presence because he was too busy working to provide for his family to bother with the internet) who encountered two teenaged nogs who decided to taunt him and fuck with him as he walked home from work, and he finally called them niggers to shut them up and make them leave him alone. Naturally, they recorded the encounter and the clip went viral.

The online mob engaged immediately, doxed him, pressured his employer (successfully) to fire him, harassed the company (even after they fired him, the mob still rode their asses demanding internal documents about their hiring policies, etc.), and threatened his family.

They also did their best to render him totally unemployable, but ultimately failed because this happened in a small-ish midwestern town (that I suspect barely tolerated blacks to begin with). As far as I know, another local company quietly hired him (he was a skilled tradesman) and the whole thing petered out once his former employer finally told the mob to fuck off after they got sick of their endless demands.

I had the chance to ask a few of the mob drones some pointed questions. The answers were very enlightening. What act of contrition -- if any -- could this man perform to earn forgiveness (or at least a ceasefire) from the mob? What kind of punishment (and how much of it) was appropriate for his transgression? Is it enough to fire him? Must he be rendered permanently unemployable, essentially condemning him to homelessness, the loss of his wife and children, and ultimately an untimely death?

What about his wife? "Well, she married a racist, so she deserves to suffer too!" The most eye-opening answers came when I asked "and his children?" "They're born from racist parents, so they don't deserve pity either, fuck 'em!" Then I followed up "and the business who hired him, then fired him when this happened?" "They hired a racist, so those bigots deserve to go under!" "And the hundreds of employees and *their* families?" "Well maybe that whole town needs to learn how to be decent human beings."

They became increasingly angry as they realized where things were going -- that because of a single utterance of the word "nigger," they were openly screaming for the total destruction (up to and including death) of not only one man, his wife and their children, but also of at least one major manufacturing business in a town whose economy would suffer greatly without it along with the hundreds of employees and their families who would be impacted directly and indirectly. Literally punishing thousands of people for the transgressions of one.

This knock-on effect is something people like this never consider. Most never even develop their thoughts about a cancelation beyond "destroy target then select next target." When you deliberately walk them through the consequences of what they're demanding, they start getting angry as they realize what they're really rooting for and that delicious cognitive dissonance starts to wash over them. A truly-gone NPC will just get angry at you, shut down the conversation and resume the march. Anyone who's redeemable tends to have a "come to Jesus" moment as they realize "oh shit, punishing this racist as hard as possible could fuck with hundreds of families and ruin a local economy ... am I the monster here?"

Unfortunately, most people willing to support scorched earth ideology fall into the "truly-gone NPC" category. But it's still really funny to make them seethe. Doing it public (online or in person) also has the added benefit of revealing how fucking psychopathic they are to bystanders.
 
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Manat said:
Most of these are far shiter books than harry potter though; Artemis Fowl is embarrassing, Eragon is a copy pasted lotr setting and star wars plot (not that bad in comparison), The mortal instruments is even more embarrassing, Percy Jackson is the closest in quality though it feels much less mature.
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Why can't we all just agree that the YA genre is by and large bottom of the barrel garbage barely fit to occupy the same shelves as trashy romance novels with shirtless fabios on the front?
The only YA series I look back on reading without cringing uncontrollably or rolling my eyes is the Alex Rider series, and even that's pretty underwhelming.
 
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