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21 people killed is an "epidemic"? Based on what? How many normal people have been killed
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Jedward are now calling for book burning. Fucking Jedward!
Talk about the banality of evil.
BTK Dennis Rader
Hadden Clark
Ed Gein
To be clear, the issue isn't 900 pages on it's own. I seriously, seriously doubt the story idea has enough to be 900 pages without being full of filler and a masturbatory exercise on the author's part.
For contrast consider Devil in the White City. A novel about a serial killer in Chicago during the world fair who transformed a hotel into a murder funhouse and lured unsuspecting women to it. It bounces between that and the goings on of the 1893 World Fair that unveiled the world's first Ferris Wheel in Chicago. That book is 390 pages. She's writing a book close to the size of War and Peace about a less complicated plot than that. No way it isnt full of fluff.
Edit: Correct WF date.
“—yeah, so… Dad wasn’t bothered about books, but ’e used to bring the paper ’ome, and that’s ’ow I learned to read. I used to cut out the best stories. ’Uman interest, I s’pose you’d call them. I’ve never been that interested in fiction. I can’t see the point, things somebody’s made up.”
“Oh, I love a good novel,” breathed Irene, still rubbing her stomach.
“Anyway… I dunno… when you read an obituary, you find out ’oo people’ve really been, don’t you? If it’s someone I know, or I nursed, I keep ’em because, I dunno, I felt like somebody should. You get your life written up in the paper—it’s an achievement, isn’t it?”
“Not if you’re Dennis Creed, it isn’t,” said Irene. Looking as though she’d said something very clever she reached forwards to take another biscuit, and a deafening fart ripped through the room.
Irene turned scarlet. Robin thought for one horrible moment that Strike was going to laugh, so she said loudly to Janice, “Did you keep Dr. Brenner’s obituary?”
“Oh, yeah,” said Janice, who seemed completely unperturbed by the loud noise that had just emanated from Irene. Perhaps she was used to far worse, as a nurse. “An’ it explained a lot.”
“In what way?” asked Robin, determinedly not looking at either Strike or Irene.
“’E’d been into Bergen-Belsen, one of the first medical men in there.”
“God,” said Robin, shocked.
“I know,” said Janice. “’E never talked about it. I’d never ’ave known, if I ’adn’t read it in the paper. What ’e must have seen… mounds of bodies, dead kids… I read a library book about it. Dreadful. Maybe that’s why ’e was the way ’e was, I dunno. I felt sorry, when I read it. I ’adn’t seen ’im in years by the time ’e died. Someone showed me the obituary, knowing I’d been at St. John’s, and I kept it as a record of him. You could forgive Brenner a lot, once you saw what ’e’d witnessed, what ’e’d been through… but that’s true of everyone, really, innit? Once you know, ev’rything’s explained. It’s a shame you often don’t know until it’s too late to—you all right, love?” she said to Irene.
In the wake of the fart, Robin suspected that Irene had decided the only dignified cover-up was to emphasize that she was unwell.
“D’you know, I think it’s stress,” she said, her hand down the waist band of her trousers. “It always flares up when I’m… sorry,” she said with dignity to Strike and Robin, “but I’m afraid I don’t think I…”
“Of course,” said Strike, closing his notebook. “I think we’ve asked everything we came for, anyway. Unless there’s anything else,” he asked the two women, “that you’ve remembered that seems odd, in retrospect, or out of place?”
“We’ve fort, ’aven’t we?” Janice asked Irene. “All these years… we’ve talked about it, obviously.”
“It must’ve been Creed, mustn’t it?” said Irene, with finality. “What other explanation is there? Where else could she have gone? Do you think they’ll let you in to see him?” she asked Strike again, with a last flicker of curiosity.
“No idea,” he said, getting to his feet. “Thanks very much for your hospitality, anyway, and for answering our questions…”
Janice saw them out. Irene waved wordlessly as they left the room. Robin could tell that the interview had fallen short of her expectation of enjoyment. Awkward and uncomfortable admissions had been forced from her; the picture she’d painted of her young self had not been, perhaps, everything she would have wished—and nobody, Robin thought, shaking hands with Janice at the door, would particularly enjoy farting loudly in front of strangers.
I agree with JKR on this particular issue, but as other posters have noted, she's down with almost all other items on the progressive checklist. I'm not giving her money so she can donate it to some forced diversity cause.
But hey, while JKR's on the front page, here's some fuel for the mob. From the "Let's shit on Hermione" shitpost thread on DLP:
If I recall correctly, Hermione set up Umbridge to getrapedculturally enriched by the centaurs at the end of that book.
Hermione was always JKR's self-insert pet, but she had her moments in the books. Also kind of funny in light of Radcliffe's horse movie. Was that actually a bestiality flick or what? I never had any desire to watch it.
This is your friendly reminder that the murder rate for trans-identified people is lower than just about any other marginalized group you'd care to mention. Also virtually zero of them are killed for being trans - at best some are the victims of homophobic hate crimes, but usually just for the same reasons a whole lot of other people are murdered, like a drug deal gone bad.
But seriously, the "but 21 trans are dead!" meme is hilariously over the top. Oh really? 21 trans people are dead in the whole year to date? Wow, that sure sounds like a lot. I mean, sure, about 2000 women are murdered in the US per year by their male intimate partners alone but psssh. We all know women don't matter!
21 people killed is an "epidemic"? Based on what? How many normal people have been killed
Doil Lane.
Henry Lee Lucas.
Daryll Rasmussen who went by Ms Puppy.
All three were active crossdressers as adults or forcibly dressed up as little girls by their Mothers as children and went on to snap as adults. Surely not a correlation, right Twitter?
As for Rowling, I've never found her writing particularly engaging and she looks like a melting waxwork, but she knew she would get this reaction, and for that I say well played.
If said character is identified as cis then surely it isn't transphobic?
What is next, claiming calling Jon Yaniv a nonce is transphobic since he acts the same way (lacking the murdering as far as we know)
What ever happened to literature anyway? How did bookworms become the most insufferable people on the planet when reading a book was considered a thing that was intellectually stimulating?
EDIT: and when I say the most insufferable I really do mean the worst.