All of you, do yourselves a favour and read the Rivers of London series to get your fix of British Wizards:
- Actually competent world building
- They’ve got a lot of humour
- They’re not written by a bigot
Or give the audiobooks a listen as they’re read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith who’s voice is like butter.
I don’t get this whole drama with Harry Potter. When I was younger, I was a big fan of Ender’s Game. A few years later it came out that the author of the Ender books was a huge bigot and was using his money to promote right-wing causes. I dropped the books, didn’t buy anything else from the author, and every other fan of the series that I talked to did the same. There wasn’t really any debate about it. When the movie came out, none of the fans of the books showed up and so it flopped.
With Harry Potter, though, it’s been years since we found out what kind of person J. K. Rowling is and people are still whinging about it. Why is this still even a debate (outside of right-wing transphobic circles, of course)? Find some other books to be a fan of.
Being a right wing bigot it cool now. There’s literally nothing you can do today to get actually cancelled.
“No ethical, legal consumption.” FTFY
so you pirate it - but why? why would you want to consume something you know was made by someone who is awful?
With this logic, why even turn on the TV?
What if I pirate it, talk to no one about it (not by choice but still) and then destroy all memories of it through aggressive drug use?
Skip the extra steps and go straight to the drug use, that’s what id do.
You just want to do drugs
Why do we even need a remake of the old movies? The movies are still holding up very well in this day and age. Why couldn’t they focus on some other story? Expand the universe a little. Hogwarts is not the only magic school that exists…
Money.
Well… there is one way…
Aye, matey. There be a way, for those who are so inclined.
No. There isn’t.
I’d pirate it but I find the story just not interesting or worth my time.
I read Philosopher’s Stone about 25 years ago as a teenager and wasn’t impressed. Didn’t read any other because that one already felt like wasted time. Went to a movie in 2007 (no clue which one that was) and again forgettable. Not bad, in fact I still remember Die Hard 4 that I also watched back then because it was so bad. That HP movie? No idea about plot or anything. Another one? Thanks, I’m good.
Even if Rowling wasn’t a disgusting person, I feel like what I’ve seen of her work is just not great. It’s not terrible, but I don’t care for it at all.
But also, she can get fucked.
