I've been critical of the way the @verge has been covering the development of HBO's upcoming Harry Potter reboot.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@nileane @verge

I will always hate finding out that the authors of beloved books or songs are absolutely horrendous. People whose moral sentiments completely abhorrent.

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@nileane

Just saw an announcement earlier today.

Enjoyed HP back in the day.

Before JKR revealed herself to be a TERF.

Hard pass....

[sar@social.elderlogs.net]

@BenjaminKlein @nileane

Not really. She wants to erase the performances of the 3 film leads because they're not supporting her TERF politics, and actively speaking up against her because of them.

To me though they'll always be the best.

[alahmnat@woof.tech]

@ret @nileane because she’s mad that all three main child actors from the movies have since called her out for her transphobia and distanced themselves from her and the franchise. She needs fresh puppets.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@nileane @verge Honestly, bitch could be slated to not make a dime off this show and I still wouldn't watch it. I left for the transphobia, I stayed gone fir the realisation of her apparent inability to not name a minority character something not obviously fucked up.

bUt sHE haD a tRaNs cHaRaCteR!1!

Named SIRona, for fuck sake!

[violetmadder@kolektiva.social]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Marion Zimmer Bradley was a nasty shock for me.

[dean_r_t@mastodon.social]

Man I’m cis and I don’t even think I’m gonna *watch* it

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@violetmadder @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

Neil Gaiman broke my heart. Thank god at least he wasn't one of my seminal authors....

[violetmadder@kolektiva.social]

@cavyherd @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nileane @verge

I missed most of Gaiman's stuff until relatively recently, so I wasn't heavily invested but it still blew me away what an incredible asshole he is.

MZB's Darkover series was really formative to me growing up, though. I was beyond stunned to find out that the author had NONE of the empathy described in her characters... the cognitive dissonance there is just breathtaking. I can't even.

People smart enough to know better. People who understand emotions and morals well enough to describe them in great detail, and yet... somehow, they're still monsters anyway and they don't even feel bad. How does that WORK??

[robotdiver@starlite.rodeo]

@nileane

I actually really wanna know so I know who to cut social ties with forever. So chat away about it. Please.

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@geolaw @sar @BenjaminKlein @nileane Well, they're kids. And like with the previous lot, JKR has been hovering over the set sometimes personally.

[rychaz@mastodon.nz]

@nileane @verge I wouldn't use that exact phrasing. It can be read as endorsing her funding for her hate. Too ambiguous.

"...to fund her disproportionate paranoid hate towards a minority..." would be more effective.

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@nileane @BenjaminKlein @sar

I’ve been really impressed by the way they’ve charted their courses since HP, the choices they’ve made and things they’ve said must stick so in her craw

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@nileane

pirating will make free copies available for more people to watch the shitty thing. let it be unavailable.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@nileane @verge Harry Potter and the “holy fuck why is this still a thing”

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@nileane @verge

I haven't given any money to the HP franchise since I learned she was a TERF, and stopped engaging with the fandom about the same time. With the damage she's doing to people, she's worse than her own villains.

[oscarfalcon@mastodon.social]

@nileane @verge

I don't get it: the books have already been adapted to feature films, why make a tv show (wasting money probably to launder money for someone), I don't really get it...

[franceskamann@freeradical.zone]

@nileane

I'll boycott it. It's a big world & there are other things to watch/read.

[hiisikoloart@writing.exchange]

@nileane
I wish I had like a friend who could burn shows and such for me on dvd and send them to me because I am not good with tech.

(Also not likely gonna watch that. I used to be HP fan, and loved the books as a kid who literally lived in a cupboard under the stairs for a while...but I am also a trans person so, yeah. Queen Terf really abandoned a big portion of her own fandom with this hate campaign.)

[sar@social.elderlogs.net]

@geolaw @BenjaminKlein @nileane

I would LAUGH my ass off if they took exactly the same stances as the OGs in a few years when they're a bit older. That would be hilarious