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Lol
Lmao even
I was in Edinburgh early june last year on honeymoon and me and my wife went to a special queer edition of the St Mary's close tour for pride :) . It was so fun and the tour guide was just so lovely!!
Anyway at the end of the tour she told us that where the regular tours basically sell out every day, the they've never sold out a single timeslot for the pride edition in the years that they've been offering it.
She was really happy we (8 visitors on a max group size of 20) were there at all. Definitely made me a little sad to hear.
So yeah I'm happy to see this, the city definitely could use more gay shit
Honestly, as a queer person, I don't know if I'd be excited for a queer tour. There's enough queer oppression day to day. I don't know if I'd be excited to hear about it on vacation too. I'm a firm believer in everything being political, but I think it's ok and probably good to take a vacation from the news every once in a while. I don't tour slave plantations when I go to Disney despite knowing FL was a slave state (I don't go to Disney or FL anymore). I feel like it's ok just to want to be for a bit.
Good on you for going though. Glad to hear it was fun!
I get what you're saying, and definitely to each their own.
In this case I felt like it was people trying to spotlight queer history rather than the regular hetero stories we see all around us every day, and I think that is definitely meaningful.
Same, same, but different. When I was in Cambodia I skipped the killing fields tours my friends went on. I was on holiday, not looking for a grim tour of historical atrocities.
Apparently it's only during Pride Month: [t]he Harry Potter tours are set to resume after June (source: Pink News).
They're still considering starting them back up again after pride month.
Nice!
Haha, face those consequences Joanne.
Heinous loser stays losing
I mean it's just one tour company, but good to see that the winds are blowing in that direction finally.
Sometimes I fucking love my city.
What's a Harry Potter connection in Edinburgh? The quiddich world cup?
TERF Queen wrote the series in Edinburgh and is thought to be inspired by the local architecture in creating Hogwarts.
Does it seem that the more you learn about her and the series, the less creative she becomes? More and more it feels like the series became a hit over others out of pure dumb luck
A lot of people get success through dumb luck.
She also wrote something that felt resonant and in a manner where the flawed logic of her universe doesn't make itself readily apparent, which takes some skill.
Part of the problem in creating a canonical universe over a piece of fiction is that it takes a lot more thought to create the world and few people who can create that world can write compelling stores in said world. She wrote a compelling story. That said, a lot of writers can compelling stores that don't get the kind of press that Harry Potter did.
IMO the architecture stuff seems pretty standard as far as getting inspiration for a book goes.
The real hack writing was calling the Chinese character "Cho Chang".
And boatload of other racist af shit.
What a pity. The first book, and film, were great, mixing dark, fun, and morals. Somewhat in a Grimm Brothers way, somewhat in a magical way. How far has JKR fallen since 🙍
In fairness its quite possible she hasn't fallen since. She could have always been this much of a miserable loser, just didn't have the platform or a vocal opposition
I mean, there are those that thought HP was dishwater from the jump...