the whole premise of HP is “what if an orphan living in an abusive household could become a spoiled nepobaby” so i’m not sure JK even thinks of those things as bad
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Harry names one of his kids after Draco because Draco does one decent thing at the end of book 7 and that is enough to make him no longer be a reprehensible, racist fuckwad in the eyes of J.K. and a lot of her audience
why do they call it oven
Nah, her hate speech isn’t even good.
ratsnake@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
4·2 days agoEh, I think it’s a bit of both? The first books just generally where fairly whimsy and light-hearted and you don’t really need your demographics and societal structures to make sense when you are writing a whimsical, light-hearted story for kids.
The later books become darker and more serious so the artifacts of those earlier worldbuilding decisions become more and more obvious over time.
ratsnake@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
4·3 days agoJKR is allowed to learn and grow! She just refuses to and her takes keep getting worse.
ratsnake@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
20·3 days agoThey tried expanding the world, it sucked and nobody liked it (also, the worldbuilding is so weak that it falls apart if you consider wider society outside of Hogwarts for five minutes, because the series started as books for grade schoolers)
ratsnake@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
23·3 days agoShe was already a TERF way before Covid.
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Travel@crazypeople.online•Japan has 14,125 islands. I've been to two so far.English
2·3 days agoI mean, there were people on Hokkaido before the Japanese colonized it.
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Fahrrad@feddit.org•Ist E‑Bike‑Fahren gesund – oder nur bequem?
5·4 days agoAuch für die Zielgruppe wäre “Studie zeigt: E-Rad macht fit” eine bessere Headline, glaube ich.
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Fahrrad@feddit.org•Ist E‑Bike‑Fahren gesund – oder nur bequem?
11·4 days ago“X-te Studie zeigt, was alle schon ewig wissen. Wir stellen trotzdem ne dumme Frage in der Headline, um Klicks zu kriegen.”
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Travel@crazypeople.online•Japan has 14,125 islands. I've been to two so far.English
2·4 days agoI fully intend to go to some of the smaller islands the next time I can afford to go to Japan. I’ve been to Tokyo and Osaka so far, so the next trip will have a week either in Sapporo or on Kyushu.
she didn’t say it tho
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Travel@crazypeople.online•Japan has 14,125 islands. I've been to two so far.English
2·4 days agoIf we’re counting Odaiba and that bit of Hiroshima that has the Peace Park on it, three.
“I’ve never heard of this woman” is perhaps the most scathing thing ever said about a former UK Prime Minister
I’m gonna be real, my ability to detect satire has been thoroughly eroded over the last decade
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Heidelberg@feddit.org•ÖPNV | Warum finde ich die Straßenbahnen der E-Linie nicht in der VRN-App?Deutsch
3·5 days agoHöchstens in den Echtzeitinfos, weil Einsatzwagen per Definition keinen festen Fahrplan haben.
… because surely nobody would check.




Are we talking fertility here, or sexual function? If it’s the former: consider opening an account at the sperm bank. (Their interest rates kinda suck, though.) That way, you won’t have to really worry about becoming infertile.