if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

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I was never a Harry Potter fan. Brought up on Enid Blyton's Malory Towers, I started in on HP and saw the boarding school trope and set it down thinking "Meh. Been there. Done that." and never picked up another one.
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People are talking about pirating it and I legitimately don’t understand why you would even do that. It’s such a blatant cash grab! Every picture I’ve seen just looks like it’s an exact remake of the original movies.
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no no no, it's fine that i'm showing "triumph of the will" to my kids, it's a pirated copy! also i solemnly shake my head the whole time to show everyone that i disagree with the author
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Cash grab and a "fuck you" to the original movie series's cast that has "betrayed" Rowling by daring to disagree with her.
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I honestly have zero desire to even pirate this stuff.
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studios take the data from pirated downloads into account when determining demand for a show so it actually helps them

best option is to never consume it or to only consume it on secondhand physical media
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It’s cus I’m a mark for every show with magic and fantasy creatures.
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pal keeps touting the harry potter video game and i'm like noooop. i can't make him understand.
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Zero interest. I still have all the books since I bought them before JKR became a mouth foaming bigot. But I won’t go to the Park, I never watch the movies, and I threw away the small amount of merch I had.
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Not even gonna pirate it.
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bsky.app/profile/pandainlingerie.bsky.social/post/3mhujplj2222q
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"I just love it too much cause it was my favorite as a kid!"

Yea, and? I was a kid during that time too. I loved those books. Biggest fan ever growing up. But the writer is evil and uses her fortune to criminalize trans people like me. If you cared enough, you'd get over your nostalgia for HP.
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BLOOD PRESSURE THROUGH THE ROOF
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people love to make a Brand™ their whole identity
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Why is it never a good brand, or at least an interesting one
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I can't fault children when they like something on that level, but it perplexes me sometimes when someone holds onto it all the way into adulthood with that same fervor.
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"it's my comfort series" i don't care "but when i was a kid" i don't care "death of the artist" she's alive
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The two things that really get me about that are

1)If that's true, you still have the books and the movies. You don't need a new thing
2)Not my problem! do not come to me looking for absolution for your selfish bullshit
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"death of the artist" is aspirational actually
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Pirate it if you must! But doing anything that puts money in that monster’s pocket is completely indefensible.
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Also, death of the author/artist means the work's *meaning* isn't necessarily what the author intended it to meaning mean. It doesn't mean "the material consequences of financially supporting the author doesn't matter".

Like... good god, people. Take out a loan & buy a clue.
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I was in library grad school during an HP resurgence (shortly before JKR's transphobia spread like the mold in her castle). Like, the first tweets/comments started as/after I finished the program. Girlies were getting tattoos, etc (most covered now).

It's not difficult to stop supporting JKR.
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“it only costs your soul”
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tell ur followers to read warrior cats instead
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I have a deathly hallows tattoo and typically say that Daniel Radcliffe wrote Harry Potter but I still can’t believe people want to watch this.

The movies weren’t perfect but we don’t need more if it’s gonna enable the queen TERF
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If you need a little comfort throw on Miracle Workers or The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins and get your dose of Daniel Radcliffe in a better way.
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Yep, "death of the artist" requires them to at minimum shut the fuck up.
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also didn't she want the series remade because daniel, emma, and rupert spoke out for trans rights
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If someone chooses the "comfort" of rewatching/reading years-old books & movies they already own, I still disagree with their choice, but I'll concede that they know their own feelings.

But I'm going to have large questions for anyone claiming "comfort series" for a show they've NEVER SEEN YET.
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I’m happy my only involvement w that series is being in Belfast when the 6th book came out, flipping to the end in a bookstore, then threatening my Potter friends back home to spoil it if they pissed me off
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Disney Adults > Harry Potter Adults for the sole fact that Disney Adults put the fear of god into the Mouse after they tried to can Kimmel while Harry Potter adults need their awful wizards and supporting evil is bad but they need the comfort series and that’s more important than not supporting evil
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Frankly she’s also exactly the kind of asshole to put a bunch of transphobic orgs in her will, even if she *was* dead I wouldn’t trust her not to use my money to hurt people.
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I can understand nostalgia for the books and movies, even. But the TV series is a new thing. You can't have nostalgia for it.
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"death of the artist" hopefully soon
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Honestly it seems like it'd be very easy to simply not watch the show?? I have no idea why people find this tricky
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if they REALLY want to use that last argument,
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There are so many good novels about magical and modern world mixing. Not written by crazy people. Such as the October Daye series. As for younger friendly similar television, I'd suggest the Librarians TV series. Quality and queer friendly.
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in this case the death of the artist would be a real celebration for millions the world over

she's gone where the goblins go beLOW
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"death of the artist" your lips to god's ears 🙏
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she's literally funneling the cash from all her various media ventures into a money gun and pointing it directly at whichever institution promises to hurt trans people the most. she's not even lying about it. she's just telling you that's what she's going to do if you give her more money
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I also feel it’s important to mention that the ending of Harry Potter wasn’t very good.
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Alive and using the money to Imisurate millions
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I'm against Death of the Artist and have been since I first heard white supremacists argue that star trek is theirs
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Death of the artist [aspirational]
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Lmao "she's alive"
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I know so many people who enjoyed Harry Potter when they were younger, myself included, and that shit was so easy to drop once we realized how hateful and horrible Rowling is, the comfort and livelihood of my trans family & friends matters more than any series ever could
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silver lining:

I'm excited for 5-10 years from now when the new generation of child HP actors hate JKR's guts because her disgusting personality and views are so at odds with the morality in this dumb world she pulled out of her ass
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She let the former prince who’s being convicted of sex crimes visit the set, I’d be pretty pissed too
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That post is well on its way to hitting the Ratio feed.
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I refuse to give that bitter hag any more of my money while she uses her money to hurt trans people.
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This one’s cut and dry. It gives actual money to an active bigot influencing actual policy and law with the money
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It’s so easy to not watch some shit that sucks ass
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“I just read Mein Kampf for the literary value”
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“i just really like seeing a crazy person spiral out!”
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As someone who read the books and watched the movies growing up, just move on to another series. There’s a ton of great stuff out there that can fill the space of HP that wasn’t made by a bigoted terf.

I ended up getting rid of the books I had as a kid to make room for Berserk manga.
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Just like my unplayed backlog of games in Steam, I have enough content to watch for the rest of my life without touching this shit.
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Misread this as you getting rid of a kid to make room for Berserk manga and it felt a little too Berserk
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not even gonna hate watch it
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There are so many more interesting things and movies that could be made without the huge cost as well. Like, so many YA novels waiting for a chance while we redo fuckin HP and Avatar and shit
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Not arguing and I don’t have the means currently. What if I stole it?
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just watch something good instead
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pirate numbers are tracked and considered because a pretty consistent percentage of pirates actually buy it later when it comes to physical media
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Just let it go pal, pirate something else that would actually be worth watching 🙃
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The originals : this new shite :: early model Teslas : cybertrucks

You get some grace for liking the former but can fuck off into the sun for having anything to do with the latter.
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Yep they're definitely giving "bought this before we knew Elon was crazy" sticker on a goddamn cybertruck vibes at this point
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I don't even have it in me to hate the media! It was incredibly important to me as a kid who didn't know he had ADHD and depression and used it as escapism from an abusive house! But my best friend is a trans man and he means more to me than a piece of fiction, so it goes in a locked box with no key
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Seriously this. I raised my now adult daughter on these books, she was pretty much the exact age to grow up with Potter.
Fuck JK Rowling for being a bigot’s bigot and not just shitting all over millions of kids’ happy memories but mostly for doing everything she can to hurt vulnerable people.
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Harry potter is not good enough to still be relevant today, they won't let it die and i dont get it
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"But I don't support JK--" No. You're still bad
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I mean this literally is supporting her

More money into her pocket so she can fund more trans hate campaigns
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Yeah it's like the actor that said he ALMOST turned down the role considering her hateful takes... John dude, did you think we would forgive you because you were ALMOST a decent person for a second ?
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"but I'm going to pirate it"
not good enough
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Why do dudes who had a TV show like 20 years ago always lose their minds in your mentions
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as far as i can tell, the entire purpose of this new series is to erase the work of the original cast who she says "betrayed" her by standing up for human rights

if the original series means so much to you, rewatch the dvds i know you still have
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pervert shit for perverts (derogatory)
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It's also just a lame setting. I was a kid reading the books as they were still coming out, I played every game I could get my hand on (and obv watched movies), and still I grew the fuck out of it before the series was even completed in the books.
Harry Potter adults are a lot like Disney Adults.
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Hp was such a massive part of not just my childhood but also a major factor in my sister, mum and i bonding. My sister skipped a red carpet for the final movie so we could all watch together. And it was still pretty easy to slice out of my life and not give money to once the facts were laid out.
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Also im sorry but like, they have effectively made a setup where the stars of this show are having core parts of their childhood (education, living etc;) run by people who's pay checks are determined by how much/long they work. There's no way that isn't going to be a massive safety problem
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Oh, c’mon, Cait, it’s not as if Rowley is planning to funnel any of the money she makes from this to promote the bigoted stances she has held and promoted for a very very long time or anything like that.

Hold up [touches finger to earpiece], this just in….
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* Rowling, goddammit!
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Not his that, but there’s so many better written fantasy series than HP!! There’s so many to choose from to adapt that have huge fan bases. Done well they’d be a winner!
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*just. FFS autocorrect lol
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Is this the tv show?? It looks exactly like the movies?? What’s the point??
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For people who didn’t like the cuts from the books into the movies (also probably so it doesn’t have the original actors that have spoken out against her)
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the logo is exactly the same lmao
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it looks like they had leftover got sets and were like okay just paint over it a bit
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again
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Its made for the same people who watch the office on repeat, just entirely afraid to engage with new media
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Look I love my own personal bullshit reheated and served to me again but it should at least feel like someone cared about it enough to do something cool with it
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the erasure of the original cast whom she believes "betrayed" her by not agreeing with her extremist views
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$$$
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Fueling Rowling's trans-people-murdering-machine and help the upkeep of her mold-ridden castle.
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💰💰💰
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Because Rowling hates her original stars now.
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She's friends with Epstein.
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cheaper to make something if they just do exactly the same thing they did last time, plus the little potter piggies will riot if anything gets changed in any meaningful way
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The unfunny man from the vh1 show saw his shadow (this) and now we're gonna have six weeks of him bitching about art and artists in between dming Meghan McCain for feet pics
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His Dark Materials. Narnia for atheists.
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Daniel Radcliffe sure seems the better for moving on, let’s follow his lead
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And Emma Watson! She’s been very vocal criticizing JK
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It's like voluntarily funding the Death Eaters
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I watched the first one before we knew she was a bad person. But, I did read the first four books. I am pretty sure that was before we knew she was a bad person too.
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It was all there right in the books.
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irrationally annoyed that the letterman cape has the name vertically for some stupid reason
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i fucking hate that a story and world i once greatly enjoyed was ruined by its creator because she's a hateful twat and transphobic bigot. fuck jk rowling, i cannot wait to never think of her again. i'm rooting for the mold.
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Cait, just out of curiosity, do you have any pic of Donnie in hats? Or...a scarf? Necktie? Would you be willing to argue over which tie or hat was most flattering to your guy???😸😸😸
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JK is still alive?
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The thing of it is that you CAN still read your HP books without funneling money at her! Use the books you already have! Buy second hand!

(Tho I question the judgement of those who can read her stuff without considering what a jackass she’s become)
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honestly the ip needs to die completely. no hate watching. no buying second hand, no reviving old copies. no one else should ever care about these stories
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Yup, she got the $ from the books I read with my son back in the day but not another dime.
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You can get the DVDs for the original movies at goodwill, they're always there
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I struggle with this, actually. Would Alfonso Cuarón’s THE CHILDREN OF MEN be what it was had he not made the HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN movie?
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This is ironic, considering the author’s lack of….
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I wonder if there is some way to really negative-watch it. I guess canceling the entire subscription by calling directly and saying that it's because of this might do.
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It's what I did
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I might subscribe just so I can unsubscribe.
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FACTS.

I’m still deeply embarrassed that I didn’t pick up on all of the racist, transphobic bullshit in the books when they first came out. If people are still supporting the franchise NOW? Fucking dead to me.
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"you're overthinking it"

words i've been told by actual fans... about a BOOK
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I used to be obsessed with the books. It helped me survive my teenage years. When JK turned out to be a monster, I gave away my books. I knew people were still going to read it so at least if they read my old copies, they weren't funding JKs transphobia further
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Imagine being so up your own ass that you’re excited for anything new from this IP.

Like still? After everything? I beg you to read another book!

But then I’m biased because I thought it was dumb baby shit when the movies were starting to come out.
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There were wizard stories that weren't by transphobic fascists before Joanne and there are now, and there will be after her, it is the most mid story of our generation and people have no excuse
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One day I will actually type out the entire 10 year old forum post takedown of everything that sucks about Harry Potter (besides the stupid fucking names) *before* you even start talking about the evil campaign of brutal terror she's gleefully persecuted against trans people.
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I've been thinking of making a big thread entitled "lessons I learned from Harry Potter" with stuff like: "From Harry, I learned that the best people alive are rich jocks"
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Earthsea would kill some of these people
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I will never stop feeling vindicated that I clocked Potter as bullshit back in the day and never engaged with any of it
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I wish that I could have had your insight back then. Sigh.

My closest comparison were the Dan Brown series of novels that started with The Da Vinci Code. Not that he is problematic in some way, but that they were simply bad novels. I clocked the first one.
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You’re such a real one Cait 💖
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Fuck JKR and the broom she rode in on
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There's only one valid Harry Potter, as portrayed by @hbomberguy.bsky.social:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwXJcQkvRa4
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I kinda wish I worked for one of the publishing companies and could subtly sabotage the project somehow.
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