Genuinely fuck HBO for not only re-booting the entire Harry Potter series but refusing to distance themselves from JK Rowling when she's going this off the rails daily
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It's not that surprising from HBO, they also air Bill Maher and GoT.
It there is better fantasy out there. Explore new authors.
Even putting aside all the baked-in bigotry, the worldbuilding is lazy and our heroes do nothing to actually fix the core problems of society.
Children of Blood and Bone has better world-building and is amazingly compelling.
And of course there’s always Terry Pratchett if you want a classic.
This is very recent:
https://bsky.app/profile/antifaoperative.bsky.social/post/3lcyda35gtc2y
Pullman and His Dark Materials is way better.
They rarely show this kind of stuff that's indistinguishable from the most vile 4chan troll
https://bsky.app/profile/xma1e.bsky.social/post/3lbi6lblwbs24
"A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire." - Nelson Mandela
the people you described? they're transphobes.
Corporations never did and never will have values, they have calculations.
Culture war nonsense
Funny how there has been an explosion of Harry Potter media everywhere lately, especially after Fantastic Beasts bombed hard AF, eh?
Also, the "separate the art from the artist" people sure don't like when you tell them to do that with Taylor Swift & others who are politically different