Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture.

[theriac@plasmatrap.com]

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
I know this point has been made before but Harry is her.

Aside from that one time he bought Ron a chocolate frog, despite having unlimited wealth and despite practically adopted and living with Ron's family, despite being written as feeling awkward when confronted by the comparative poverty, Harry does absolutely nothing to help Ron or his family. Their lot is to be poor, his is to be wealthy.

[pynoh@mamot.fr]

@Yog_Krakthulhu it stays a "hot take" considering millions of people continue to buy her books / films / video games / toys. It's not because you agree to a hot take that it makes it less hot

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@Theriac Sooo... Through the books, she fantasised about being a male person with money..?

Quite remarkable

@inthehands

[mythlfrythtyg@mastodon.social]

@bigblen @inthehands She sold her soul - If she ever had one - to the noseless one a long time ago.

[theriac@plasmatrap.com]

@ElBeeToots@mastodon.nl @inthehands@hachyderm.io
she chose Robert Galbraith as her nom-de-plume when she tried to prove she could be a successful adult writer.

So perhaps?

[cambria@hachyderm.io]

@jillL
I don't know, I think I'd make a great billionaire. I'd buy a castle in Scotland and donate to wildcat rescues. And have a herd of house cats. And not have a social media. And leave trans people alone. Maybe even use some of that billions to give money to an org that's helpful to trans people.

This is the alternative universe JKR I wish we'd gotten.
@inthehands

[epistomai@mastodon.social]

@canleaf @inthehands The other way around. The world needs no bigots, for whatever reason. If there were no bigotry, no support may be needed, not only for LGBTQ. Women could study in shahira countries, no hunger in North Korea and dictatorships, no harassment and racism in usa, and the list goes on and on

[vreer@todon.nl]

@inthehands Maybrewe could make massive pro-trans fanfic for and with the non-hatng fans ...

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@vreer
Fanfic in which major characters are trans is one of the few forms of public engagement with Harry Potter I can wholeheartedly condone — especially if it’s over the enraged objections of whatsherface.

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@cambria @jillL @inthehands unless money really does rot the brain and you only think you'd do those things because you're not a billionaire.

[itsmeholland@mastodon.social]

@fnord99 @arazil @inthehands even when I was a literal child I came to the same conclusion tbh. And anyway childrens media should not be shielded from legitimate artistic criticism just because people think children are too brain-dead to tell the difference between good & bad media. It turns out the "masses" of all ages are, which is why criticism can be useful & help consumers make better & more fulfilling choices about media instead of chugging down whatever slop is currently being pedaled.

[maya_b@hachyderm.io]

@inthehands

has she mentioned anything about the Epstein files? or as silent about that as I think she's been.

she's not about protecting anyone, just hating on a few

[itsmeholland@mastodon.social]

@epistomai @canleaf @inthehands so your solution is to pretend you live in an imaginary world where ineqyality never happened?

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@epistomai @inthehands Bigots are people who are spewing bigotry. They deserve boycotts.

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."

So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands and all that is probably much better for your soul or humanity or whatever you want to call it, than a billion $ in your portfolio

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@inthehands Rowling can't help it. She knows she's a shitty hack fanfic writer who plagiarized 'The Worst Witch' series of books, literally just turning the protagonist, Mildred, into a Harry Boy.

She's terribly afraid someone is going to realize she gender-flipped the protagonist, so the best smokescreen is to hate on trans people so no one could ever accuse her of being such a lazy cheap anti-women hack.

IIRC she also faked a rags to riches story about herself that wasn't entirely true.

[cambria@hachyderm.io]

@rasmus91
Or worse, think you _are doing_ those things. "I am helping people" * donates 0.000001% of wealth to money laundering scheme and brags about it.
@jillL @inthehands

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands

Money, to me, is a means to an end - that end being security and happiness. Depending on the person and the society, security and happiness isn't all that expensive. Anything left over should be used to help other people into security and happiness, thus creating a world that's even more secure and happy.

Wanting more and more money is just an illness - a failure to understand when you have "enough". That's how money perverts and rots a person.

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@inthehands I mean, stop me if you've heard this one before. In the Worst Witch, ordinary girl Mildred gets told she's a witch and taken to the magic world. She hops a steam loco to a bit castle/school with twisting magical corridors. There's a wealthy blond girl antagonist that looks down on non-witches and lower=caste witches. a cheery old dean who plays favorites for Mildred, the potions teacher doesn't like her. She has two friends and a familiar...

Speaking of, sounding familiar yet?