Just like Hillary's book where she just included stupid Facebook and Twitter memes lmao
Plot twist the book is just her publishing hexbear completely unchanged
Is this book a cry for help? Seriously JKR sucks but this does show pretty clearly how social media breaks your brain.
Also, a lot of the negative reviews aren’t even from people pissed about it being too TERFy. They’re from people who can’t even read the tweet threads, because she formatted the threads wrong, and they’re illegible on regular kindles lol :D
This is just sad. How do you go from beloved children's book author to writing a 1200 page book about being canceled by the evil transes?
i really don't think so. she is a billionaire, she could have a much better return on investment doing a bunch of other things, she could even get a ghostwriter to expand the Harry Potter universe and grift that way. she wrote this because she genuinely believes it's socially and politically important, which is arguably worse.
oh, my bad. 100% agreed. this is why i personally believe that capitalism is harmful to the bourgeoisie as well, at least for "new money" people. the feudal wealth ghouls generally only hang out with other feudal wealth ghouls so they don't feel as alienated. they also hide their wealth from other people and generally aren't public figures unless they want to be, so they can still do normal shit like go to the supermarket or pick their kids up from school if they want to. for those who used to be regular people it probably sucks quite a bit in some ways.
just checked and she's not actually a billionaire, "just" on the cusp of being one. a 2021 estimate puts her at £820 million, which is just shy of a billion us dollars.
she is a billionaire, she could have a much better return on investment
Why do you need an ROI when you're already a billionaire? What could she even do with one more billion than she can do right now?
No. She got rich and famous, developed a sense of imperious entitlement, found herself sucked into the Swamp of Sorrow that is Twitter, and then dedicated the remainder of her life to feuding with a collection of chuds, tweens, channers, and bot accounts that troll her online.
This is Monkey's Paw level of cursed. She wished to become the most successful children's author of a generation and this is what she got out of it. She could fuck off to Epstein Island, surround herself with Yes-People, do coke, swim with the dolphins, eat babies, and never think about any of this again.
But she's so deeply ego-tripped that she literally can't do anything other than write a 1200 page long twitter rebuttal to the internet.
she could even get a ghostwriter to expand the Harry Potter universe and grift that way
She couldn't even do that right - look at those Fantastic Beasts movies.
It's 1200 pages long? Good Christ. Someone's very not angry.
not unlikely she regularly goes all :hasan-smash: on her computer and just pulls one of the spare laptops out of her desk drawer after its broken.
I love the Harry Potter books. They're not good, but after working in a public school for a decade I have learned that they teach kids two important things: to read books for fun and to despise JK Rowling. They are by far the most common thing to find a 10-year-old reading for fun, and if you wait 5 years one of the most commonly held opinions among the now 15-year-olds who read them is that JK Rowling is a traitor to the human condition.
the now 15-year-olds who read them is that JK Rowling is a traitor to the human condition.
The kids are alright
I haven't flipped through them in forever, but it really was cool when they were coming out and everyone was reading them. Maybe it is the memories of them coming out that sticks with me more than the books? It is still a genuine shame that Rowling had to become transphobic and ruin it for basically everyone. Also when it comes to how kids react to it now, they either seem to enjoy it and hate JKR or don't care about HP and hate JKR.
JKR being awful shouldn't ruin it at all. If the kids all agree that she's awful, they really should be able to enjoy her works without worrying about what we think. My fantasy authour of choice as a kid was David Eddings, and he was much worse of a monster than JKR is. I think taking the journey of learning to hate your darling childhood authour is healthy, and so I support kids reading Harry Potter (or anything else, but seriously it's mostly Harry Potter).
The Belgariad is very deliberately cheesy and trope-y, and it just has fun with it instead of trying to take itself too seriously.
I am greatly relieved that I found the Belgariad Cycle in a library instead of buying it.
Stephen King might have become a hack in his old age cranking out passionless novels and loudly braying his pointless political opinions, but the man has never done anything this embarrassing.
Though the way Twitter has clearly broken the mind of Rowling like she’s the protagonist of a cosmic horror story might be more terrifying than anything he’s ever written.
"to be fair" he has apologized profusely and said that was wild and fucking crazy and regrets it immensely. he hates talking about it but anytime it is forced (that i've seen) he is basically on his hands and knees begging for forgiveness
hey yo. absolutely. i think i got lost in my response since i'm such an insufferable stan. plz don't gulag me
Also doesn't he say he doesn't remember writing books around that time because of all the cocaine or am I thinking of someone else
No, that's him. IT was either the last or one of the last novels that he wrote while coked out of his gourd:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/stephen-king-the-rolling-stone-interview-191529/Tommyknockers was another one from that period where he has little to no memory of writing it.
Actually it was to find the exit of the tunnels and "form a bond". So not even something that important.
I love how these mean tweets are supposed to be outrage in response to transphobia, yet they read like something 4channers would write
The whole book sounds like something a 4channer would write.
Like the Turner Diaries collided with a Harry Dresden novel.
It's longer than Atlas Shrugged, and think about how awful that incoherent mess is...
imagine being so rich and famous you can convince a publisher to sell your tantruming vent post in a bookstore
her fellow billionaire terfs who have been viciously abused by the evil transes on twitter dot com
this is literally an ao3 fic. the fandom is transphobia. It is that one fic on page 17 on sort by kudos that somehow has an extremely high word count and wacky, outside the norm formatting despite relative lack of engagement.
