verb To become unfocused or distracted; to cease participating in a meaningful way.
Well, he’s still blabbing away, but I couldn’t tell you what he’s talking about now—I checked out a while ago.
I know Jim is retiring at the end of June, but he’s already checked out if you ask me.
The kids are already checked out and in summer vacation mode.
Because J.K. Rowling is a massive loon we’re not liking Harry Potter anymore. If you feel otherwise about the books you stand with all her viewpoints, and thus your opinions are invalid. That’s what I’m getting from it anyways.
Whether an author should be given such power over their works as to be able to sully them retroactively is a whole box of frogs I’m not going to attempt to untangle, but I know I wasn’t even aware who the person was when I read the books in primary school, and to me those joyful memories of a magical world had nothing to do with a hateful old woman shouting crazy things from her castle.
And if anyone reading this thinks I’m implying she should be able to spew hatred and crazy without consequences, you’re wrong. I just don’t think pretending there was never anything magical about the books themselves is the way to go about it.
I don’t think she’ll feel any consequences from what I think about her books, one way or the other.
Now if I was spending money on merch, events, watching the movies on streaming services, buying the games, promoting her content or what have you, that’s a whole other matter.
But to have a reaction of displeasure whenever I see anything inspired by those works, I’d be mightily surprised if it affects anything. Unless she’s hanging out in my yard looking in the window, and if she tried to do that she’d most assuredly be told exactly what I feel about her antics.
While I do have fond memories of the books in the past, it’s hard not to feel gross when I see anything about them now. I just finished watching the Carmilla webseries and it has some HP references because the last season was released before JK went cuckoo and they were hard.
Also, this comic was released two days ago, for what it’s worth. Hard not to see that as tacit support, given they could have just as easily done any sort of witch.
I can separate the art from the artist. if you can’t, that’s understandable. but to expect others to follow that same logic or be labeled as irrelevant is not really fair to them.
you can’t scrub the internet of stuff you personally don’t like. trust me. ive tried.
Can’t really say anything about the Camilla series, as I have no idea what it is, but you absolutely have a point with your second paragraph.
There is no reason to make new Harry Potter stuff, or work actively to keep it in the Zeitgeist as far as I’m concerned. I can’t however speak to the motivation of the creator and am gonna go with assuming it’s not out of malice.
you’re checked out
what does that mean. like a library book?
Source.
in relation to what exactly? and why do you think that applies to me?
Because J.K. Rowling is a massive loon we’re not liking Harry Potter anymore. If you feel otherwise about the books you stand with all her viewpoints, and thus your opinions are invalid. That’s what I’m getting from it anyways.
Whether an author should be given such power over their works as to be able to sully them retroactively is a whole box of frogs I’m not going to attempt to untangle, but I know I wasn’t even aware who the person was when I read the books in primary school, and to me those joyful memories of a magical world had nothing to do with a hateful old woman shouting crazy things from her castle.
And if anyone reading this thinks I’m implying she should be able to spew hatred and crazy without consequences, you’re wrong. I just don’t think pretending there was never anything magical about the books themselves is the way to go about it.
and how does she face any consequences at all if not from us?
i do have good memories of her art. that i leave in the past where they belong.
I don’t think she’ll feel any consequences from what I think about her books, one way or the other.
Now if I was spending money on merch, events, watching the movies on streaming services, buying the games, promoting her content or what have you, that’s a whole other matter.
But to have a reaction of displeasure whenever I see anything inspired by those works, I’d be mightily surprised if it affects anything. Unless she’s hanging out in my yard looking in the window, and if she tried to do that she’d most assuredly be told exactly what I feel about her antics.
While I do have fond memories of the books in the past, it’s hard not to feel gross when I see anything about them now. I just finished watching the Carmilla webseries and it has some HP references because the last season was released before JK went cuckoo and they were hard.
Also, this comic was released two days ago, for what it’s worth. Hard not to see that as tacit support, given they could have just as easily done any sort of witch.
I can separate the art from the artist. if you can’t, that’s understandable. but to expect others to follow that same logic or be labeled as irrelevant is not really fair to them.
you can’t scrub the internet of stuff you personally don’t like. trust me. ive tried.
Can’t really say anything about the Camilla series, as I have no idea what it is, but you absolutely have a point with your second paragraph.
There is no reason to make new Harry Potter stuff, or work actively to keep it in the Zeitgeist as far as I’m concerned. I can’t however speak to the motivation of the creator and am gonna go with assuming it’s not out of malice.