I generally try not to use vernacular not of my generation, but...
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Better than cromulent
Embiggen your horizons.
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
I want to throw food at y'all
You seen grocery prices lately?! I want in on this!
Cromulent
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You're ALLOWED to say NO?
-The Actors in this NEW Harry Potter series!
To be fair, they're probably not already established, and they're starving for work.
Yeah, John Lithgow and Nick Frost were really hoping for that breakout role
The child actors get a pass for now, everyone else, I've lost absolutely any respect for
Sigh.. I liked Lithgow. He really shouldn't need this with what he's already got. Yet here we are :(
And, he’s a terrible choice for that character, anyway. Not that I’d ever watch it.
I would've thought that about him playing a serial killer too.
I've seen at least one article where the actor states they're doing it out of love for the series even though they actually do despise JKs views.
Idk. Maybe find a different series to fall in love with.
Fucking spineless ass take
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also because it's a shit idea and rowling is a holocaust denying piece of nazi shit
I'd like a source on this. Not because I doubt it but because I want to compile a list that I can show people who thinks her shittyness isn't so bad.
Edit: Fuck it, post proof of all the awful shit she's said. Let's make a hate thread.
It generally agrees with my views of Rowling, but is there anything beyond that single tweet to further flesh it out?
She could easily back out of that statement by saying “the fever dream” she’s referring to is the assertion she backs Nazi gender theories / policy instead of that they don’t do that.
I’m more apt to believe she’d deny it, but … skeptics and all.
I don't know about Rowling specifically, but an unsurprising number of TERFs are real buddy buddies with far right groups, and this definitely includes people in Rowling's orbit.
Forgot the names, sorry, because this is one of the sad reality things you don't want to dwell too much on or you'll just get permanently sad. These people are miserable.
Oh fuck, I didn't know THAT was on her list of insane takes.
Pick a random insane take, and she probably believes it. She really is a rubbish person. I say this as someone who LOVED HP.
No, I get it. I used to cosplay with a troupe. We did literary events at elementary schools in character to encourage kids to read.
I was so proud of that, until I found out the truth.
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Should have accepted it, and then used only trans people for the entire cast. Not a single cisgender person on screen for the entire runtime.
Except JK Rowling is an executive producer on the show and would probably use her vast resources to destroy their lives and force HBO to reshoot with a new cast.
But don't tell anyone until it's released and is a huge success. Being sure to highlight all of JK's comments complimenting the cast.
Directors of a tv show usually don’t cast roles. That’s what the casting director and producers do. They were probably asked to direct a single episode.
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jk rowling would probably raise hell and prevent the show/movie from being aired.
Okay. You still get paid, and now the terf's whole project is getting cancelled. Win/win!
Down with terf JK Rowling trash!
What a shitty way to end a great run, John Lithgow...
The reason? Rowling’s views on trans persons’ rights, which many have alleged are transphobic.
Is this variety being shit or are they scared that sex pest rowling will sue them? Why the fence sitting?
Is this variety being shit or are they scared that sex pest rowling will sue them?
Both of those things can be true
It's not even about her views anymore, it's her actions
She does sue everyone
I assume that question wasn't meant to be quoted?
It's probably just because I've got the brightness all the way down and a red light filter going, but that picture of Rowling looks to have a 5 o'clock shadow.
Eh, she's a bigot and a nazi-adjacent sympathizer, no need to attack her appearance or gender presentation. We can do better than that. Like she's an evil piece of shit billionaire who uses her power for evil, attacking normal individuals, spreading hate and intellectual and ethical negligence under the guise of helping women, is a hack of a writer who stole all of her work and then inserted noxious bigotry and awful stereotypes of all kinds, racist, sexist, xenophobic, antisemitic, homophobic, fatphobic, fascist, and abilist rhetoric into children's novels, used that to become a billionaire, and then turned her heart even darker and betrayed everybody.
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And an adam's apple.
Plenty of cis women have those too though.
The bare minimum but good for them I suppose.
"Yeah we did!" - own a small fib for clout
"no we didn't!" - risk ticking off the trans community FOREVER(it never washes off)
I know what I would've gone with.
I would love it if JK Rowling had a change of heart, just a real coming to God moment, where she realizes that marginalizing people is wrong regardless of how badly she wanted to be her father's son.
Since that will never happen because she's a cold unfeeling creature incapable of empathy, I hope she drops dead.
Why can I enjoy Call of Cthulhu but not Harry Potter? HP Lovecraft isn't getting paid every time "Cthulhu" shows up in pop culture. Remember, you cannot separate art from the artist as long as the artist is still getting paid.
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