Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

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Candidate No 7 said:
I am remembering the multiple Smurfs and Scooby Doo clones of my childhood. Including Jabberjaw which instead of a Great Dane starred a shark that was also a rock drummer.
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In fairness on the Scooby Doo clones, weren’t a lot of those actually just Hanna-Barbera wanting to see just how much they could cash in on Scooby’s success and trying to replicate their own formula?
 
Well, if we’re all going to sperg about who Rowling stole from or not: why not mention Diana Wynne Jones, and her Chrestomanci series in particular?

(I made this post solely to plug Wynne Jones. She wrote so much more than just the books about Howl and anyone with kids that are a bit older should give them a try. Over and out.)
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
Let's not pretend that Harry Potter isn't a knockoff.

Rowling didn't even invent the boy with glasses and magical powers who has a pet owl character - Neil Gaimann did that with Timothy Hunter in the Books of Magic DC comics. And neither did she invent magical schools (the Worst Witch, Wizards Hall, Earthsea, Unseen University...). Hell, the name Harry Potter apeared in a Monty Python sketch long before the HP books were written.

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Without these works Harry Potter wouldn't exist.
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i don't really care about neil rapeman i just wanted to defend digimon and say you should all play time stranger
 
Candidate No 7 said:
This is genius. Destroying second-hand copies so people discovering the franchise now are... forced to buy the books new.
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And it's going to make fuck all difference anyway. There are some books, Harry Potter being one, that the charity shops get so many copies donated that they send loads off to be pulped anyway.
Izdaja Slika said:
Rowling could have had all the plastic surgery in the world, and it would not make a bit of difference to her arguments and it would not make her a hypocrite. She could specifically have said to the surgeon "I want to look more feminine, make my face more feminine" and she still would not be a hypocrite. Because Rowling never once said "trans people should not be able to have cosmetic surgery".
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She could have her nose cut off and the remnants rammed into a little pouch on her face, Voldemort style, and it would still be a fucking nose.
RonRiot said:
Visit London, try to book a time slot to visit the Harry Potter studio tour
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Let's just make clear to visitors that Watford isn't London, and is otherwise an absolute shithole. Although it also gives those visitors a good idea of what a Genuine British High Street looks like. Lots of places to fence stolen phones and trade them for vapes.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
Rowling didn't even invent the boy with glasses and magical powers who has a pet owl character - Neil Gaimann did that with Timothy Hunter in the Books of Magic DC comics
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Gaiman himself called that untrue.

Linda Richards: There's been a lot of muttering in the UK press about J.K. Rowling "borrowing" ideas for her Harry Potter books from you. Would you care to comment on that?

Neil Gaiman: Last year, initially The Scotsman newspaper -- being Scottish and J.K. Rowling being Scottish -- and because of the English tendency to try and tear down their idols, they kept trying to build stories which said J.K. Rowling ripped off Neil Gaiman. They kept getting in touch with me and I kept declining to play because I thought it was silly. And then The Daily Mirror in England ran an article about that mad woman who was trying to sue J.K. Rowling over having stolen muggles from her. And they finished off with a line saying [something like]: And Neil Gaiman has accused her of stealing.

Luckily I found this online and I found it the night it came out by pure coincidence and the reporter's e-mail address was at the bottom of the thing so I fired off an e-mail saying: This is not true, I never said this. You are making this up. I got an apologetic e-mail back, but by the time I'd gotten the apologetic e-mail back it was already in The Daily Mail the following morning and it was very obvious that The Daily Mail's research [had] consisted of reading The Daily Mirror. And you're going: journalists are so lazy.

What was it of yours they were accusing her of stealing from you?

My character Tim Hunter from Books of Magic who came out in 1990 was a small dark-haired boy with big round spectacles -- a 12-year-old English boy -- who has the potential to be the most powerful wizard in the world and has a little barn owl.

So there were commonalties, for sure.

Well, yes and as I finally, pissed off, pointed out to an English reviewer who tried to start this again, I said: Look, all of the things that they actually have in common are such incredibly obvious, surface things that, had she actually been stealing, they were the things that would be first to be changed. Change hair color from brown to fair, you lose the glasses, you know: that kind of thing.

Change the owl to a gecko.

Yes. Or to a peregrine falcon. And I said to her that I thought we were both just stealing from T.H. White: very straightforward. But then I saw an online interview with the mad muggles lady where they were asking her about me and they said: what about Neil Gaiman? And she said: Well, he's been gotten to. [Laughs]

By the Harry Potter conspiracy? [Laughs]

I guess, yes.
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In line with the inspirations chatter by he himself admits that material was inspired by T.H. White who was in turn likely influenced by Thomas Mallory. So the main source is about 500 years old before JK got to it.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
Let's not pretend that Harry Potter isn't a knockoff.
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When I was in high school I was shocked--shocked, I tell you--to learn that the plot for Romeo and Juliet came from a Roman story. I thought: how dare he steal that plot! Then I learned how literature works. Read Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces.

And what's the old joke? There are only seven plots in all fiction, plus Being John Malkovich.
Or there's also that great line about "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." We're all just borrowing from each other.
 
LateNightMuffin said:
When I was in high school I was shocked--shocked, I tell you--to learn that the plot for Romeo and Juliet came from a Roman story. I thought: how dare he steal that plot! Then I learned how literature works. Read Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces.

And what's the old joke? There are only seven plots in all fiction, plus Being John Malkovich.
Or there's also that great line about "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." We're all just borrowing from each other.
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Gorillion others said:
It's Vancouver. What the hell did you expect from Canadians? Unless they're holding a hockey stick, they're the most cucked race in the face of the Earth. It's genetic for them to be apologetic for everything.
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The cuckoldry pales in comparison to how abjectly evil the country is in every metric imaginable, and sometimes unimaginable.
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GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
Keira Knightley has decided to do a Harry Potter audiobook thing for JK R, which of course angered the tranny menace
"i didnt know that sorry, but we all have to learn to live together anyway" is basically what she says in response
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This is the most British way to say “Fuck off”, that’s not an apology. Good on you lad.

Harry Potter is interesting in that JKR clearly borrowed ideas from lots of sources, but still created something undeniably original. If it wasn’t original, it wouldn’t have this kind of staying power. You could look at anything, music, cinema, art, and find the influences behind it, there’s even a book, Steal Like An Artist, that shows you how it’s done. Most people just do a mashup of Thing A with Thing B and make it too obvious.
 
GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
Keira Knightley has decided to do a Harry Potter audiobook thing for JK R, which of course angered the tranny menace
"i didnt know that sorry, but we all have to learn to live together anyway" is basically what she says in response
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Her statement says nothing but it's inoffensive. She 100% knows what's going on but she can't be open about it because she can get cancelled. Hollywood has lots of tranny cult members and some of them have tranny kids or family members. Speaking out is sadly still going to kill your career.
 
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Sinner's Sandwich said:
Why did she apologize?
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She didn't. The exact sentence she used in the interview was "I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry." It's a britishism. When presented with the existence of something you weren't aware of, you say "I'm sorry" as a way to indicate you didn't know it existed. It may also incorporate "I'm sorry that people feel they have to act that way" as an implicit meaning. She didn't apologise for taking the work, though the media has decided to try and spin it that way.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
English (british and american) isn't my first language so I stand corrected.
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'Sorry' is one of the most powerful words of aggression we have. If your missus begins a sentence with 'Sorry, but I just think that...' then you are fucked. It's essentially a signifier meaning 'what I'm about to say is going to upset you, but I don't actually care.'

This is because us here on TERF Island hate confrontation, conversation, people being physically present etc., so we constantly use icy politeness to tell people how much we hate them without actually inviting a conversation about why.

It's awful.
 
More important names doing this new HP audiobook project:

Mark Addy (Hagrid)
Hugh Laurie (Dumbledore)
Michelle Gomez (McGonagall)
Matthew MacFayden (Voldemort)
Riz Ahmed (Snape)
Kit Harington (Gilderoy Lockhart)
Simon Pegg (Arthur Weasley)
Alex Hassell (Lucius Malfoy)
Iwan Rheon (Lupin)
James McAvoy (Moody)
Ruth Wilson (Bellatrix)

None of the kids reading Hermione are white though, lmao.
 
Another social justice activist complaining ab out HP and JKR. The video is about how HP is "ableist" because it's not about disabled rights. Children don't want to read about this crap! Imagine how fucking boring a book like that would be. Also her voice is annoying and condescending.

This is the second video about JKR's supposed "ableism". Here is the first:
 
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