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- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Comment on When this post is 6 hours old, lemm.ee will undergo database maintenance, which will include a few minutes of downtime 7 months ago:
Thanks !
- Comment on Koalawalla Woods 7 months ago:
Just subscribed, good luck!
- Comment on Spain: Judge orders Telegram to be blocked nationwide 7 months ago:
What the heck. I guess I’ll have to proxy it
- Comment on Let's Talk About Games - A community to talk about video games. 9 months ago:
They usually are drown among the news
- Comment on Let's Talk About Games - A community to talk about video games. 9 months ago:
I am not sure what you mean, there are discussions ongoing in both !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk and !movies@lemm.ee.
- Comment on Let's Talk About Games - A community to talk about video games. 9 months ago:
I really like Kbin, but I noticed that they have a harder time getting traction than on Lemmy. Don’t know why though, on paper there is no reason.
- Comment on Let's Talk About Games - A community to talk about video games. 9 months ago:
Sounds like a nice approach.
- Comment on Let's Talk About Games - A community to talk about video games. 9 months ago:
It seems to me that the other gaming communities have a lot of news content rather than discussions.
A bit like the difference between !moviesandtv@lemm.ee (news focused) and !movies@lemm.ee (discussion focused)
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 9 months ago:
Interesting, what would be the alternative? Technology, culture, religion, military? Taking those options out of Civ
- Comment on Federation is broken again - in a slightly different, more subtle way this time 9 months ago:
Interesting, I’ve seen it on other instances too
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
The core text of Harry potter itself has many ableist (Durdsley), racist (House elves enjoying slavery) , antisemitic (goblins) and transphobic (Rita Skeeter) themes even if it surface level against racism.
That’s the first time I hear the treatment of Rita Skeeter is transphobic. James, Sirius and McGonagall are also able to shapeshift, and they are positive characters in the books.
For the house elves, the whole SPEW plot is designed to both make Ron (and the whole Wizard word as a whole) look stupid and bigoted, and Hermione a bit too self-righteous, as teenagers can be.
Relevant reference: …stackexchange.com/…/why-did-rowling-seemingly-ma…
I’ve seen several times that the fact that the society isn’t changed by the end of the last book as a critic, but do all work of fictions have to uphold their societies? Game of Thrones definitely isn’t becoming a democracy during the books, and Brigderton is as classist as it can be.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
Hello,
You can see some initiatives that take the books away from her, such as this one
A trans artist resells Harry Potter books with new covers that omit Rowling’s name. Canadian printmaker and book artist Laur Flom, who is trans, garnered major attention when they began a project of buying secondhand Harry Potter books and replacing the covers with redesigned versions that don’t have J.K. Rowling’s name. Flom then resells the books for £140, according to Yahoo! News. In a TikTok from February 2022, Flom said, “My aim with this project is to engage critically and give an option to people who do still want to enjoy Harry Potter without supporting J.K. Rowling.”
glamour.com/…/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowl…
A link to the version from this person, they look quite nice: laurflom.format.com/harry-potter-rebind
You mentioned legislation, I think that is an interesting point. If the books (and the HP universe in general) are so detrimental, shouldn’t they be condemned by countries court for xenophobia and transphobia? It seems strange to me that there are still 2 major amusement parks Harry Potter themed in the US, and a third one in London if you count the former shooting set, with thousands of visitors every year. That just seems so strange compared to the accusations the books face.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
I don’t understand how you interpret this to think he approves. Twice now it seems like you are just reaching for “another person said it was okay” without really digesting what they said. Where exactly did they say they were okay with this community? It seems like they very much said the opposite.
I reached out to him in private, I wasn’t going to copy our conversation as it is private.
I was very ready to move that community elsewhere, and I refrained from posting for a week before getting Gabe’s approval.
- Comment on Isekai - ani.social community to discuss stories with characters being transported or reincarnated into another world 9 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Isekai - ani.social community to discuss stories with characters being transported or reincarnated into another world 9 months ago:
Good luck with this community!
- Comment on Actual Discussion - A place to talk like people 9 months ago:
Seems nice!
Would you like to share links in the sidebar with !casualconversation@lemmy.world ?
- Comment on Discussing a more structured movies and tv community on !movies@lemm.ee 9 months ago:
I’m open to discussion, let’s see what their reaction is
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
The admin of the instance we host the community on is a queer Jewish man, who expressed his feeling about having that community on his instance in this comment: discuss.tchncs.de/comment/6746512
He is still okay with us having that community over there.
- Submitted 9 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
That’s an interesting theory. He literally comes out of a closet, after all.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
Hello,
Thank you for your comment. That’s one of our main threads, “On the sensitive topic of being a Harry Potter fan while acknowledging JKR’s transphobia” discuss.tchncs.de/post/9633657, quoting popsugar.co.uk/…/harry-potter-fans-jk-rowling-tra…
Still, there may be a way to enjoy Harry Potter as a trans person or ally. Over the years, many fans have found creative ways to engage with the series’s magic while also acknowledging its creator’s bigotry. In her paper “Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling,” Jennifer Duggan, an associate professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway — says that it’s possible to interpret the text of Harry Potter itself in ways that would certainly horrify its writer. “My central thesis—one which has also been argued by other academics like Thomas Pugh and David Wallace — is that the Harry Potter novels are deeply queer,” she tells POPSUGAR. “I mean this in both senses of the term: they champion nonnormativity through the contrast of the ‘perfectly normal’ Dursleys and Harry, and they are, at their heart, a story about a boy with an ‘abnormality’ (as the Dursleys call his magic) who comes out of his cupboard under the stairs and discovers and finds and affinity for a hidden, colourful, queer world. I take this argument further to argue that the novels are easily read through a trans lens, since there is a focus in many of the books on shapeshifting, including several cross-gendered transformations.”
Fandom, she adds, can provide spaces where Harry Potter fans can explore the series’s queer undercurrents while celebrating their own sexualities. “From what I have observed, I have concluded that for the most part, the Harry Potter fandom continues to offer queer and trans fans a positive space,” she tells POPSUGAR. “The two main trends I have seen in fan works are an ‘answer hate with love’ reaction, in which fans focus on trans positivity, and so-called ‘spitefic,’ which are works that are framed as revenge on Rowling for the hurt she has caused. These works are usually trans-positive, too. That said, I fully understand why some fans feel they can no longer engage with the texts in any way.”
Link to the research paper: link.springer.com/article/…/s10583-021-09446-9
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
Small promotion for !harrypotter@literature.cafe
- Submitted 9 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Update - Crossposted to !leatercraft@lemmy.ca - [SomeoneElseMade] Leather Milk Carton 9 months ago:
Alright, I’ll ask first and see how they answer!
(you are forgiven, we still love you <3)
Thank you <3
- Comment on Update - Crossposted to !leatercraft@lemmy.ca - [SomeoneElseMade] Leather Milk Carton 9 months ago:
Hello!
I know you are the person who made the pinned post in !knitting@lemmy.world, would you have any suggestion on where to post such content?
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- Comment on Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies 10 months ago:
If you ever try to get someone you know off that platform
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