btw to everyone saying the accusations were revealed as false, a statement was released by Depp&Amber Heard said that neither party made false accusations. He was abusive, he should not have been cast & he is part of the reason why I decided not to see the Crimes of Grindlewald(JK was the other part of the reason, and reading the spoilers I’m very happy I decided not to go).
“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“
Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style
UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
The racist stereotypes littered throughout the Harry Potter franchise including the grotesquely anti-semitic goblin’s foreshadowed JK. Rowling’s later bigotry on twitter
Hi there space mom, can you be my new mom? So a while ago i saw an anon who says theyll tell everyone about their mom hitting them if they didn't stop. I wish i could do the same thing, but in a country who uses abuse to descipline their kids physically or emotionally. Almost all of the family here(or in my place)beats their children up, i can hear them cry and i cant do anything about it, even if i do i wont escape my family's awful words, they used to beat me when i was a kid,(1/2)🍅
im a teenager now but they still say awful things and threaten to hit me if i dont fix myself up. 🍅(2/2)
Im coming to your country and I’m going to suplex your parents into the shadow realm and after that I’m adopting every single child. I’m sorry you have to put up with that.
This absolute slapper of a banger of a song iscalled Serbetico and it’s by Goran Bregovic, who makes a lot of cool Balkan semi-orchestral folk-ish waltz type stuff. He’s even made music with Iggy Pop and Johnny Depp.
