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1. Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:27:08 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

   • mushroom soup
   @mushroom_soup JK Rowling's only real purpose in life is to make trannies seethe with rage. Her retarded tryhard books are incidental to this.
   • AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:27:10 JST AmonMaritza

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     • Judge Dread
     I think they are what they are: decent children’s fantasy. Gaiman never had such broad reach. Her sourcing from all of mythology is something final fantasy started doing in the 80s.
   • Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:27:11 JST Judge Dread

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     @TrevorGoodchild Rowling makes use of the female superpower - instinctive understanding of personality - to engineer a plot twist very similar to what Rand pulls off in Atlas Shrugged.
     
     When she finally explains Snape's backstory it all snaps into focus like the end of a Mamet play. Of course it's all in service of an incredibly vapid postwar morality play, with Voldemort the hypocritical mongrel wizardist and his corrupt aristocratic followers plotting normie genocide.
   • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:27:11 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Judge Dread
     @judgedread She really does hit the normie sweet spot, with the pseudo-Latin wizard incantations and the clever kitchen-sink appropriation of worldwide mythologic creatures into an amalgam. The latter made me suspect a long time ago that Rowling had taken inspiration from if not completely ripped off Neil Gaiman, as he also loves to pull that trick in his fantasy worlds ('American Gods', 'The Sandman')
     
     Turns out I was right
     
     theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-other-harry-potter-that-never-was/387364/