https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1cbkstf/may_the_terf_wizards_die_unmourned/
I argued here that the whole HP shit was worth it because it was going to imprint in the consciousness and brew beneath the surface. Libs see it as tainted and that shit isn’t going away. There are real moral concerns bothering them deep down.
The long term effect is good.
Libs are only turning on it because it sucks now (more so than before). I pirated Fantastic Beasts 3 and it fucking blew. Seriously everything about FB1 that ws good is gone now.
you have to separate art from the artist
Meanwhile the art: the main character owns a slave who actually likes it because it’s in his DNA and Harry is a good slave owner unlike those bad, mean slave owners. Also freeing slaves is silly because they like it (ignore the one, happily freed slave.)
The content will never be good because the only people willing to work on the content are JK’s ideological supporters. This causes works derived from it to be tainted by their agenda with no internal pushback. And the people that buy into this hate are soulless creative hacks.
I want them to keep going because they’re so fucking bad
I need to see how they follow up on “we voted Wizard Hitler out of power in the marketplace of ideas!” because there’s no way to actually do that without acknowledging that that doesn’t fucking work, which is anathema to lib worldview
Rowling would absolutely make a magic creature that magically votes Grindelwald out of the power to use magic or some similar thing. And then they prosecute him with his anti-muggle laws to show bigotry is bad. I want to see how bad the Credence plotline gets, why is he still here? Why is he a character that doesn’t act? Free my boy from this series by having him do a sacrifice or something.
Rowling would absolutely make a magic creature that magically votes Grindelwald out of the power to use magic or some similar thing
This is quite literally the plot of Fantastic Beasts 3
The election for Wizard President is decided by a qilin - a cute deer looking creature that can see the True Heart of a wizard and is used to decide on which of the candidates is the best leader because of how pure of heart they are
So Grindelwald captures a qilin, kills it, revives it through dark magic, and replaces the real voting machine with his rigged one to declare himself the winner, until the heroes show up with the real voting machine which declares someone else the winner so Grindelwald gets mad and just accepts the results and leaves
We know at some point later he duels Dumbledore and dies there but that’s it, as of right now he got voted out of power
Seriously everything about FB1 that ws good is gone now.
FB1 was mid at best lol
The plot beats were nothing special, but the actors were funny and had chemistry. The main guy got to be an animal geek, and the sad cop realized cops sucked and that this animal guy was more her level.
The baker and the mindreader were a typical sadsack and MPDG but they had good comedic sense.
So of course, the sequels immediately contrived stupif reasons to split the party and doubled down on the grimdark stuff that just barely held together in the first one
everything about FB1 that ws good
I cannot believe that they took a great premise like “quirky British guy does conservation for cryptids” and ruined it.
Disney or whoever is really leaving money in the table not coming up with their own Harry Potter ripoff IP. Just steal the vibes and aesthetic really and you’re golden.
Idk how you cannot view HP as being profoundly tainted by the author’s neolib rightwing bullshit, like not even transphobic stuff, all the other yeesh that’s present. Not sure why anyone would want that back, I see people write femslash in this universe sometimes.
There’s no way the whole “I’m going to buy Hogwarts Legacy, I don’t care that Jowling Kowling is a transphobe!” online thing wasn’t an astroturf.
Some of it was pushed but a good large quantity of people joined in on it.
Then the game was mid, and those actions remain a permanent memory in their psyche. At some point or another a liberal is confronted with a trans person and they put up a pro trans front, but deep down that memory remains. It is a little black seed of guilt that grows roots and sprouts.
Do they all do the same next time? Much less likely. Many of them will pass, or consume with a negative attitude, leading to a pass later. That seed can not be removed.
They really just want Harry Potter to be in the public consciousness at all times forever, huh?
The series ended over 15 years ago already. But we must have Permanent Regression!
