• chilburn06@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Why? I have a HP tattoo and don’t regret it. The fandom has gone past the author at this point. She’s a hateful removed but that doesn’t mean that we can’t still love the world and characters she created. We’ve made it our own.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      You mean the world where slaves like to be slaves and trying to release them is wrong, apartheid is right because the other sentient people look different, the bankers are antisemitic stereotypes and the main character becomes a literal cop enforcing all this?

      It’s really a magical world /s

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        6 months ago

        If they’re a reader of fanfiction that is typically one of the major changes to the story that’s done. Fanfiction has effectively rewritten the entire series to be more palatable at this point. Bonus points that you can read it without giving Rowling any money too.

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          6 months ago

          If the fanbase needs to rewrite the entire series to be “more palatable” that might indicate something about the series itself.

          Might be time for people to just move on to a different series.

          • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            That’s a tall order with how most people act. Disney vibes anyone? There were few things that could capture a whole generation’s imagination so strongly, and people want to bond over it. My stance is taking what you like and making new things is how we get new series’s, and fanfic has it’s place in that.

      • tegs_terry@feddit.uk
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        6 months ago

        None of that is correct.

        • The slave thing was about brainwashing and exploitation, and how it’s wrong.
        • I don’t know what you’re referring to with the apartheid thing.
        • The goblins are antisemitic because they have big noses? That’s been a staple of goblin anatomy since they were created.
        • The main character becomes an anti dark sorcerer guy, like counterterrorism, so nothing to do with enforcing all that gubbins anyway.

        Oh, and thanks for the ‘/s’. You know, otherwise I really would’ve thought you were giving it a compliment after a full paragraph of invective.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        apartheid is right because the other sentient people look different

        This is what the fucking bad guys believe, it’s not like the books are advocating for apartheid. What the hell kind of criticism is this.

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      6 months ago

      At my last job, the only who was in his 50s or older and was nice to the trans employee had HP tattoos. He saw JK being a terf (we taught him the word) as her (referring to Rowling) own problem to solve.