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biniiiiiiii:

A list of reasons I’m divorcing J.K. Rowling and no longer acknowledging anything Past Deathly Hallows

  • None of it makes sense or really adds anything to the story except ‘ooh! A twist!’
  • She took the The Boy Who Lived To Idolize His Parents, and made him into a terrible father, who told his son he wishes he wasn’t born.
  • Made lycanthropy an allegory for HIV/AIDS, AFTER Lupin was turned as a child, by an adult. Not only does this tick the box for pedophilia, but painting homosexuals as predatory by nature.
  • Delphi. Everything about her. Including that she exists.
  • During the actual series, wandless magic was incredibly difficult to do, and only harnessed by very dedicated, powerful witches and wizards. Then, when writing about it in reference to Native American witches and wizards, suddenly, they needed Europeans to come along and teach them how to use wands.
  • Dumbledore being gay, whilst having none of his romantic relationships touched on in the series, even when his adolescence is delved into.
  • Taking from other cultures (Indian and Native American, for example) to add things to the series, with no credit due to those cultures, and no mention of even a character from those cultures.
  • Nagini somehow being a human originally, when it was previously never even alluded to, despite J.K. apparently ‘sitting on this for the last 20 years’.
  • Nagini, the literal PET of a white supremacist, was a woman of color.

None of these things she attempts to shoehorn in feel even remotely natural to the story, and it’s painfully fucking obvious they’re last-minute ‘gotcha!’ twists ripped off ff.net or ao3. She’s destroying the series by trying to keep it relevant, when it could maintain relevancy all on it’s own by being passed down through families and the fandom all on it’s own.

batmanisagatewaydrug:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

full offense but John Green has written three entire books about whiny teenage boys realizing that they’ve been over-idealizing the women in their lives and that seeing women as stories or symbols instead of complex and autonomous people is a shitty thing to do so like… when are we going to stop pretending it’s fun and cool to make fun of John Green books

like I see SO MANY people talk about how JG is just writing wish fulfilment about girls be didn’t bang in high school or whatever but if you actually read Alaska or Paper Towns or Katherines you might notice that none of his male leads ever actually /get with/ any of the female leads in any real way

this post is 900% because some girl in my writing workshop, in this the year of 2017, just tried to say all of John Green’s books are “boy gets girl” when 1.) that’s blatantly untrue and 2.) his books can be better described as coming of age ft. contemplations of death/purpose/crushing suburban boredom depending on the book. and you can call him pretentious until you’re blue in the face, I really don’t care if that’s you’re opinion, but sweet Jesus WHY did it become so trendy to hate these books

anyway what I’m getting at here is that like 99% of complaints about John Green books sound like they’re coming from people who have never read an actual John Green book, or at least not with any understanding

roadhonk:

people seem to think that safe spaces and the like are a product of like, “I never want to see or hear anything I disagree with ever and anyone who intrudes on this is EVIL” when in reality it’s more like “can I get 5 seconds in a place where I know people don’t hate me fundamentally as a human being and I can chill”

starsweeperdreamweaver:

You know that feeling when you get settled into your car, set your GPS to this new location, push play on your favorite song, and then your GPS interrupts it every 2 seconds to tell you how to get out of the neighborhood you’ve lived in for the last 15 years? That’s what mansplaining feels like. 

thepoeticandtheprosaic:

Interesting fact:

The BBC series Doctor Who ended in 2010. It was replaced by a show called Doctor Who Cares Now That Steven Moffat’s in Charge. The title of the latter show is often shortened for the sake of brevity. This has caused much confusion amongst viewers with many believing that the two series are one and the same.