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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is fucking pathetic
At least no actual harm was done to a site of archaeological significance to placate a bunch of fucking nerds
Tasteless transphobic nerds.
This is so frustrating. My sister loves HP and refuses to discuss Rowling. While still buying merch that directly supports her.
If there was ever a reason to buy unlicensed knock-offs...
I love Harry Potter. I pirated every book and seed every movie.
You can still enjoy something without supporting her.
Talk to your sister about the economics of pirating. You can make your own merch.
True, but on a personal level I also just really can't enjoy it anymore knowing who's behind it regardless of how I obtain it.
(I also just grew out of it, that too)
No. No I this k when its doing ecological damage you need to knock it the fuck off.
For books and merch, second hand also avoids supporting Rowling
I wish I was talented and safe from prosecution. I would sell every Harry Potter thing I could, and donate the profits to a trans-positive cause...
Trust me, many (former) Harry Potter fans are incredibly disappointed and do not support the queen TERF.
Lol Harry Potter readers being nerdy kids may have been true in the late 90s or early 00s. Most fans of the movies are normies.
It wasn’t even true then. Harry Potter was the flagship of the Scholastic book fair at the time along with books like Animorphs.
Have you read Animorphs? Those books were bought entirely by people judging them based on their cover. They have kids on them turning into a different animal on each. That just looked cool. If I had had the money for it, I too would have collected them, entirelu based on the animals on the cover (I'll take the dog, the hawk, and the dolphin, thanks). 99% of kids who bought them would have done so for the exact same reason.
The actual story is some of the least kid-friendly I've ever heard. It's filled with body horror, cosmic horror, guerilla warfare and espionage with child soldiers, children losing their bodies, children losing their minds through torture, kids having existential crises after witnessing and participating horrific acts of war, countless murders of loved ones, planet scale genocide, etc. It's not for normies. I don't know anyone personally that has actually read the whole series, including myself. I have watched a guy on YouTube go over the plot in summary and... holy fuck. Those books are darker than anything I've read as an adult.
I think I have? There might be a side book or two I missed, I think I only read one of the choose your own adventure ones. But I read the main series all the way to the end and the ‘main’ side stories (Hork-Bajir Chronicles, etc). I enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid, it definitely influenced a lot of my anti-war feelings.
You can get the ebooks for free with the author's blessing. I started reading them as a kid when they were new but couldn't find the books readily enough. Found them again as an adult and read the whole series. It's far better written than anything Rowling has ever penned and has the added benefit of Applegate being an actual decent human being.
You're both wrong. All books are for nerds. Now hand over your lunch money.
I loved that shit as a kid.
I also watch the news and learn about the genocide in Palestine every morning. The biggest difference is that Animorphs was much more fun and had a better ending.
I was a kid back then so I definitely read some of them. Though I have no memory of them having a related story or a contiguous plot line, or really of any of the plot lines anyway. I vaguely remember that there were more books later on, I’m pretty sure the ones I read were like the first few published.
I definitely remember there being Animorphs posters in our school library and shit and the software used to make the cover was very popular, at the time it was also used in several TV shows and such.
I mean yeah but animorphs was definitely some nerd shit. I say that as a proud nerd, but it absolutely was.
Stop the nerd on nerd hate - if you're posting on Lemmy the chance that you are also a nerd is pretty damn high.
The Bronze Age burial site is nerdy, to bury the dead in the first place and to study it a thousand years later is nerdy, that is to say the product of a complex mind. Perhaps over-complex but that is beyond the scope of this post, enough to say its all a bit nerdy.
If you think the two are remotely equivalent in historical significance, then you can suck the farts directly out of my arsehole
I don't want to do that.
If burying one's dead is nerdy, we might throw the concept out entirely lol.
It is nerdy in the sense it is the product of complex thought, same as fiction, same as prehistoric burial sites which came about because someone dreamt the sun god said that appeases him and honours the dead. It is all the same box of tricks.