J.K. Rowling needs to stop messing with Harry Potter - A general STFU J.K. Rowling MegaThread <3

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> I've ignored porn tweeted at children on a thread about their art

I haven't seen the thread in question, but years ago, I would have thought she was probably overreacting and being a prude.. nevertheless, I've been in this website enough to know that the Ts are so full of degenerates (aka Zinnia Jones) that it's very much possible that this literally happened.

She is absolutely right, though, about overdiagnosis for children: this is not something new and it's been definitely happening much before trans issues were a thing: first, it was ADHD, then autism, now it's "gender dysphoria". Every other lazy mother who can't control her child decides to put them under medication and there are very willing doctors who comply because they are paid to do so. Because it's much easier to pretend that your kid has some illness that can be cured by a few pills than admit you're a bad parent and you're the problem.

And I can see why the "trans community" is so mad atbout this, as we all know they love to take as many drugs they can and pretend they all have anxiety, depression, and a full plethora of diseases that were diagnosed in tumblr.

The thread is beautiful: full of the usual transsuspects (Jones is the first reply) demanding evidence and proof despite she has already posted it. Also, "muh anecdotal case is a norm!"

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All these people have something in common: they all are lefty communist liberals. I think Vee said that you could see there is nothing scientific about this when you realise it's only believed by one specific ideological group. People from all political sides believes in biological sex and gender, but only the far-woke left beliefs it's not a thing.
 
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Tasty Tatty said:
> I've ignored porn tweeted at children on a thread about their art

I haven't seen the thread in question, but years ago, I would have thought she was probably overreacting and being a prude.. nevertheless, I've been in this website enough to know that the Ts are so full of degenerates (aka Zinnia Jones) that it's very much possible that this literally happened.

She is absolutely right, though, about overdiagnosis for children: this is not something new and it's been definitely happening much before trans issues were a thing: first, it was ADHD, then autism, now it's "gender dysphoria". Every other lazy mother who can't control her child decides to put them under medication and there are very willing doctors who comply because they are paid to do so. Because it's much easier to pretend that your kid has some illness that can be cured by a few pills than admit you're a bad parent and you're the problem.

And I can see why the "trans community" is so mad atbout this, as we all know they love to take as many drugs they can and pretend they all have anxiety, depression, and a full plethora of diseases that were diagnosed in tumblr.

The thread is beautiful: full of the usual transsuspects (Jones is the first reply) demanding evidence and proof despite she has already posted it. Also, "muh anecdotal case is a norm!"

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All these people have something in common: they all are lefty communist liberals. I think Vee said that you could see there is nothing scientific about this when you realise it's only believed by one specific ideological group. People from all political sides believes in biological sex and gender, but only the far-woke left beliefs it's not a thing.
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At this point, I think she really has gotten sick of her fame and just wants to rock the boat. Whether it'll be her downfall, she knows that she's poking a hornet's nest. That being said, I am rightly entertained by this turn of events and wish my phone had a built in popcorn dispenser.

Like I've said before, she must have already acknowledged how much of shitshow her more cultish fans are, and has now made moves to trim the fat, if you will.








Or, maybe she really is just being retarded and is drumming up publicity for her new book. There's always that.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
You've got to try to understand for 90s kids what it felt like to grow up in an idyllic seeming time where it really did seem like humanity was getting it's shit together and a bright new future lay ahead of us and then one day, all of a sudden, out of the blue, bam, in an instant you see that bright, happy future literally going down in flames.

I know for me anyway I kind of "froze" in fall of 2001 and I've never fully moved past that, what I did was heavily turn to video games as a way for escapism, I guess for other kids it was Harry Potter or whatever, a lot of us lag behind in maturity, I'm better than some, but I'm still a pretty immature person for a 30 year old man.

But it wasn't just the event itself, it was also the aftermath, there's unresolved tension to it that still lingers on in some way, you compare it to Pearl Harbor, but the difference is we absolutely fucking wrecked Japan in response and unequivocally achieved a victory, a hard won victory, but a victory nevertheless, we won the war and in the long term Japan was fine.

What did we get instead for 9/11? A war in an unrelated country that went poorly, cost a lot of lives and what did it really achieve? It only made things worse in the middle east, it didn't make anything better and a war that still drags on to this day, when they finally killed Bin Laden a decade later it felt like a bit of a Pyrrhic victory after Iraq and Afghanistan.

Americans wanted another WW2 style victory, instead we got another Vietnam.

In a way the whole human race is flash frozen on September 11th 2001, not just one generation, stuck in that day of violence, we're stuck in violence where for a while we dreamed of something better for this new millennium.

The overall psychic residue from that event is hard to estimate in my opinion, one thing I hate is the way the media played those clips of the towers falling over and over and over and over again, we didn't need that, once was enough, what does that do to a person's psyche to see that violence so many times?
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I’m a similar age, and while it didn’t effect me that badly on a personal level, I think it’s a really good point that there was never really a “victory” for it like there was for World War II. Even the Cold War, for how long it went on, had a definite ending with the fall of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The 9/11 era never really ended, it just slowly moved into the background where it lurks to this day.

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I do think @Dom Cruise might be onto something with how 9/11 played a major role in the wider collective psyche with American Millennials, and there's also the fact that the old Religious Right was almost entirely an American phenomenon, especially in the late 90's and early 2000's when the books started coming out.
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I think that’s another good point, too, and one that’s especially relevant to the Harry Potter crowd. If you were older or more familiar with culture of prior decades, you knew that the Religious Right/Moral Majority had been around for a while and pretty much existed to denounce anything fun as being satanic. For a lot of the people that were kids when the Harry Potter books first came out, though, they only got to see their books be the target of that religious ire, and catch some of the creationism vs. evolution debate. I think it might be easier for the former to realize that the Religious Right as it once was is dead and gone, while to the latter, it’s a childhood specter they never quite understood that’s still lurking in the shadows.
 
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Tasty Tatty said:
Are those JKR followers? Because I'm sure most of those unfollowing are trans and they would be unfollowing in a few years anyway after they kill themselves.
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I'm imaging one of those black marble memorials that they have for U.S war veterans but instead of names written on it's Picrew avatars
 
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Is JK actually a good writer? The 7th book is rushed and full of contrivances so she could actually end it in 7. Her play, that she has a writing credit on, is widely regarded as a bad continuation of the story and the script she wrote for FB 2 is poorly structured as to not have a second act at all.

Maybe she just got lucky with a magical mystery series for kids that grew beyond her ability. People should let her be.
 
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Getting tard comed said:
Is JK actually a good writer? The 7th book is rushed and full of contrivances so she could actually end it in 7. Her play, that she has a writing credit on, is widely regarded as a bad continuation of the story and the script she wrote for FB 2 is poorly structured as to not have a second act at all.

Maybe she just got lucky with a magical mystery series for kids that grew beyond her ability. People should let her be.
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Harry Potter was first published with book series and franchises like Goosebumps was popular. Books targeted to children are both inexpensive and accessible for parents who would prefer to have their children read than waster their money on junk.
 
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Getting tard comed said:
Is JK actually a good writer? The 7th book is rushed and full of contrivances so she could actually end it in 7. Her play, that she has a writing credit on, is widely regarded as a bad continuation of the story and the script she wrote for FB 2 is poorly structured as to not have a second act at all.
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She's good enough most people under 13 won't be drawn to the glaring flaws in her writing or the plot holes while older audiences can find the world and characters interesting enough to overlook those things although they should probably read a different book. A lot of the appeal of Harry Potter I think is the concept of it rather than the execution. That's why so many adults have always liked Harry Potter.
 
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Tootsie Bear said:
Harry Potter was first published with book series and franchises like Goosebumps was popular. Books targeted to children are both inexpensive and accessible for parents who would prefer to have their children read than waster their money on junk.
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Pretty much this.

Rowling caught lightning in a bottle with Harry Potter mainly because the "YA" genre at the time was mostly stuff like Junie B. Jones, The Babysitters Club, and Goosebumps. Rowling had a decent concept for a world and her books were good for what they were, especially when compared to other children's books at the time.

The only real "Young Adult" series of any literary value before that was Narnia, which was nearly half a century old by the time the first Harry Potter book came out and was very much the exception rather than the rule (and still is)

I liked the first three Harry Potter books as a kid, and then I grew out of them. I'm honestly saddened that so many others in my age group didn't move past it.

I'll admit I am a sucker for A Series of Unfortunate Events but that's because I'm a fan of both dark comedy and surrealism, and it's fairly obvious that Dan Handler knew he was writing YA dreck out of contractual obligation and just decided to have fun with it, especially once he got the go-ahead to have a full-length series and then decided to throw in a bunch of weird conspiracy shit in there as a result, complete with VFD as a Masonic parody/stand-in
 
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Harry Potter was at its best during the first 3 books when they were very clearly meant for little kids in elementary school. It was just simple little adventures with tiny flickers of drama and intrigue. They're mystery books for a really young audience.
Book 4 was when things got more "adult" and my gradeschooler self instantly got bored to pieces. I didn't give two fucks about House Elf politics or Horcruxes. I just wanted a simple comfy mystery story in magic-world. I just wanted to look at fancy magic tricks and weird wizard food. I liked hearing about all the different holidays at Hogwarts and how cozy the trains or wizard hotels were. That shit was fun.

The moment Voldemort and his nazi bullshit started to rear its ugly head, I immediately checked out.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
I'll admit I am a sucker for A Series of Unfortunate Events but that's because I'm a fan of both dark comedy and surrealism, and it's fairly obvious that Dan Handler knew he was writing YA dreck out of contractual obligation and just decided to have fun with it, especially once he got the go-ahead to have a full-length series and then decided to throw in a bunch of weird conspiracy shit in there as a result, complete with VFD as a Masonic parody/stand-in
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I never finished Series of Unfortunate events but what I read was actually good (This was many years ago I might add)

As it went on it was veering dangerously into steampunk territory though...
 
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I never finished Series of Unfortunate events but what I read was actually good (This was many years ago I might add)

As it went on it was veering dangerously into steampunk territory though...
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True, but from what I can tell, the series was always intentionally vague with the when and where it was set.

The steampunk elements kinda make sense considering these books were mainly written in the early 2000's, long before the steampunk genre became the cringe-ridden dead meme it is today and IIRC, Daniel Handler was big into the Goth subculture as a teenager and college kid in the late 80's and early 90's, especially the "Neo-Victorian Gothic" section of it.

Honestly, I think the steampunk and dieselpunk stuff from the later books actually added to the goofy surreal dark comedy vibe the books had.
 
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