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

[orientalartsrl@mastodon.uno]

@inthehands disgusting person

[passenger@kolektiva.social]

@hellomiakoda @inthehands

It is extremely funny to me that Steam is offering it at 85% off. Given how big its launch was and how expensive it was to produce, seeing it degraded to shovelware prices so quickly is deeply hilarious.

(I haven't bought it and I won't, for the reasons you've outlined.)

[srfirehorseart@ohai.social]

@bigblen

This.

I don't think JKR understands the community that they helped create.

I enjoyed reading the books at the time, as I like the SF&F genre. I would re-read them but I am also pro and the two don't equate to me wanting to buy more from this franchise.

@inthehands

[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@inthehands

people like her and musk and their ilk could be living the most spectacular lives, but instead they wallow in hate and apply endless time energy and money making the lives of other people miserable in different ways

they are dangerous and pathetic

despicable

[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