The politics poster your mom warned you about. Impeach, exhume, try, and convict Richard M. Nixon. Occasional earnest lib posting, but sorry about it. Press secretary for The Prophetess of Discourse. Brainworms taxonomist. he/him
My position is that Joe Biden is clearly lucid, and was as the debate was airing. Man did really well on content, I'd actually like to know some of his memory tricks for my students
So I have been getting this recommended at me for years and the thumbnail reduces down to "Because the UK hasn't abolished it's class system"
...does it deal with that, at all?
It works best when she is embracing that a magical world is chaotic and not internally consistent and a contrast to our drabber world, which she maintains *reasonably* well through the septology. her attempts to clean it up have been unconvincing
I don't think it holds up to the Tolkien-style analysis people want, but it's remarkable how well it handles the tone shift overall, how the changing relationship to magic comes to be a fairly deliberate metaphor for growing up, and how actually reading the books gives the *appearance* of cohesion
Me, unprompted: I'm so burned out on Rowling I can't imagine re-reading HP anytime soon and I'm totally out of the fandom
Me, when I see people taking potshots at Harry Potter in place of criticizing Rowling: Listen here, Jack
This is such a pervasive style choice on her part that I cannot imagine engaging with it as being "bad" at coming up with names
Like, you can fairly say it's not your bag, but the layers of on-the-nose, punny names are a feature, not a bug, of her creative process
Now, if you want to just talk about how you can't stand the books books anymore because the creative behind them is a major driver of bigotry and human rights rollbacks in the UK, well, don't let me slow you down
"She named the werewolf after wolves from Roman legend!"
I, yes? The whole classical and medieval reference game is a whole layer of the text? She was not going for absolute realism in her whimsical wizarding world?
I think she's one step ahead of us on that! She has picked the obviously correct person and there will be overwhelming because of the obviousness. I mean, have you heard her accent!
I haven't been able to find any polling on her national standing the last few days, but that could well reflect how much 2024 was a foregone conclusion a year ago (ahem!) or my lazy Googling
I've been in enough conversations where a position being attacked is just so wildly off base in terms of what adherents would agree is fair that it felt necessary to defend positions I didn't agree with for intellectual honesty
My go-to example is all sorts conspiracy theorizing about how anti-choice groups have some secret, overarching plot to saddle every woman with kids to help oligarchs and, like, no, guys, they just think it's murder, a position preposterous enough we don't have to invent a fan fiction to attack
