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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I blame millenials buying her crap for giving her such an outsized voice. Launch her into the fucking sun.

and everyone who bought her books, for good measure.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Help I was a child and it was my mom's money 😭

[–] RedCat@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry but there are no exceptions 😒🫑

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess I'm being :wesley-snipes-crying: 'd

Hey don’t look at me I was a goosebumps/Animorphs kid.

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Never read one of her books or saw any of the movies, thankfully. Her stuff always just seemed like dollar store Tolkien to me, plus I guess I was slightly older than the intended age range.

My most regretted purchase ever, by the way, was a Kid Rock CD and I am deeply ashamed of it to this day.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was like 13 I bought a T-Shirt off of Sonic sprite comic artist "Psyguy" (well, had my mom buy it, but yaknow). Years later he turned out to be one of the internet's biggest sex pests.

I also bought a ProJared tshirt at one point. His case is more complex I guess but its still a bad track record lol.

Daaamn, Psyguy. I thought I dreamed that

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

i'm gen z but i also read her books growing up. i'm really glad i started reevaluating them before she went fully mask off, or i'd have probably been really hurt by it, given that she's about a hairs breadth from calling for my torture and execution on the national news

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In (some of) our defence the first few books appeared to be setting up for some good criticisms - they weren't resolved in the books they first appeared in, but they were highlighted in such a way it seemed to be drawing attention to real life injustices through the lens of a magical society.

But then they weren't resolved at all. The Weasley's poverty, the literal slavery, the systemic legal problems like a fucking soul eating prison - they wasn't going to be a real commentary, it was just showing off the features of the setting. And by that time we'd wasted our money on 4 or 5 books.

Launch anyone who bought the movies into the sun though.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No more half measures, Walter.

Everyone. Sun. No exceptions.

hesitation-2

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Launch anyone ~~who bought the movies~~ into the sun