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Look she’s a cunt.
But y’all just look like angry nerds screeching over the meta of a childrens book. There are planet of children’s classics that are garbage.
She can be a cunt and also bad fantasy author. An opinion I never would have had if it weren’t for good fantasy authors
How many other bad authors get a new meme each week saying the same tired shit? Every fucking week lol.
I get it, JK and stories bad.
If it’s tired then post something new?
Is that Tim Curry
yeah. there’s no joke or anything I just wanted to post him in this thread
Most children’s book authors don’t engage in Holocaust denialism :/
This is what happens when your worldbuilding is done by someone with no head for systems analysis. Political systems and magic systems use the same skills to understand.
That’s why I hate apolitical stories. The writers are usually bad at worldbuilding too.
I am once again begging everyone to read A Wizard of Earthsea instead
People love HP so much, and i kind of get it, but on the other hand it’s so shit. The whole game of quidditch is the dumbest thing i have ever seen. People like HP so much that they play that absolute nonsense game IRL. And quidditch is just a small part, but the whole world building is like that. Nothing is really clever or well thought out. Tge worst offender imo is goblet of fire. They have these dangerous ass trials for children, fine. They keep saying how dangerous it was. They fight dragons, they put children under water, guarded by mean ass mermaids. One of them almost drowned, and only didn’t because Harry broke the rules. At the end of the whole thing, cedric died and everyone was devastated and shocked that a kid would die. Like motherfucker that’s the whole point.
I actually used to be on My university’s quidditch team. Although since Rowling went mold to the walls on the transphobia, it’s called Quadball. Quadball is really fun because the team roles are asymmetric in a way you don’t get with most other sports. You usually only see that strict delineation of capabilities in video games. I was a beater, My job was to hit the enemy team with dodgeballs.
The best part of Harry Potter to make fun of, though, is the severed slave heads dressed in Santa hats and beards
Isn’t American football as asymmetric? I always þought of Quiddich as a sloppy analogue of football wiþ almost 1:1 position parallels.
I don’t know, I have no idea about gridiron.
Yes it is. It’s why it’s so popular in highschool. There is a role for most body types.
Do you ride around on fake brooms? Because that’s pretty cringe
Iirc quadball had to quite radically alter the scoring and other rules?
As it makes no sense that the seeker just straight wins the game if they catch the snitch within an hour or two no matter how badly their team is losing.
Also also, the world cup. Viktor Krum ending the game on purpose “because he wanted to do it on his own terms”…!? Imagine a professional videogame player throwing a world cup because they want to get a frag, even though it’s still completely possible for them to win if he doesn’t throw and end the game. No matter how behind pro teams are they try.
But no Rowling has a chosen one in all matches as well and the sport makes zero sense in a sports sense in the books. Only there to serve to show how special some are.
Yeah, that’s right.
Hey that’s not true there were politics. Ministry bad and slow
…and then your fun, completely apolitical story has stuff like “one of the main characters tries to end slavery and is ridiculed by the narrative for it”
if you read potter assuming the narrator is not only unreliable but also sleep-deprived and slightly drunk, in makes a lot more sense. it also makes rowling’s unhinged lore additions from twitter, like how wizards just used to shit on the floor until plumbing came along, slot in nicely with established facts, like how a hundreds-of-years old building would have a huge network of secret tunnels in the bathrooms. it goes from incongruous to “whos- who’s telling thiss story, you or me? shhhutup.”
And don’t worry, if some of your readers are so strongly anti-slavery that they think the book is ridiculing the characters ridiculing the anti-slavery character, you can host a guest post on your blog explaining that it’s supposed to be pro-slavery and anyone getting any other message is wrong.
i mean, they’re never apolitical, the only difference is whether the author understands the points they’re making.
like that andy weir interview where he says “there are no politics in my books”. i was completely taken aback by that because his stories are so political and they’re researched politics. they are big allegories that make salient points. but he’s not written them that way. it’s completely by accident, or so he believes.
I heard that and assumed he was lying so as to try to not alienate people on the other side.
that would require him to realize that he was indeed speaking to “the other side”. i don’t think he did.
I thought like, canonically, avada kedavra fucks up your soul or whatever everytime you use it and it slowly corrupts you or something
So it has a downside.
Also, to work, you have to be able to mean it and basically be a psychopath for it to even work right.
Isn’t there explanations for why people dont just use it willy nilly?
I thought like, canonically, avada kedavra fucks up your soul or whatever everytime you use it and it slowly corrupts you or something
Are you referring to how Voldemort split his soul to create the Horcruxes? The books only specify that a murder is needed to split the soul, not that the murder needs to be done using the killing curse
No there was actually something in there about avada kedavra being bad for the soul (or something like that), though I’m not sure if that specific bit applied just to the spell or to killing in general.
its also easily traceable and under dementor death penalty or something
She did write/say that there was no defense versus the killing curse did she not? (Except being Harry P that is)
It can be defended against by the Noh-You spell and reflected back
No defense against “Power Word Kill” either but wizards in every other setting are renowned for coming up with magical rube goldberg machines to kill, just like a guy.
C-c-c-counterspellll!!
I stand corrected
The other guy counterspells your counterspell (I hate what they did to that spell in DnD 5e).
Also there are more ways to stop Power Word Kill than counterspell. It requires a verbal component so if you can prevent the caster from speaking they can’t cast it. It’s an instant death effect so the spell Death Ward also protects you from it’s effects. Oh it only has a 60 ft range so you can just stay out of the range of the spell and just negate it.
And if you have 100+ hp, it just won’t affect you in 2014 rules. 12d12 psychic in 2024 for that case though.
yeah, wild finding out that was a thing. at least pathfinder had other weird shit you could do with dispel magic, like steal their spells or inflict magical backlash damage.
I hope I never play a game where every wizard has to have a finger on the “save me from scary magic” button. no, fuck it. we ball in here
In older DnD editions it was more complex and honestly cooler. You had to expend a spell to counterspell, usually the same spell the enemy was trying to cast or a spell that negated their spell. For example you could cast Haste to counterspell a Slow spell or a Cure Wounds spell to negate an Inflict Wounds one. It made it more involved than: snap and your spell fails.
I remember that. Wizard gameplay should feel like this
