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Kevin RussellAnother bookstore pulls JK Rowling's books and returns them, after Rowling promised to.use the profits from .sales of Harry Potter books to harass and attack trans people.
Throw them out, build the boycott of Rowling products, books movies.
SufferForMe đI hope someone is writing a new children's book about teenagers fighting the evil witch
JK Rowling in statement today, "And your little dog too."
#LittleDog #Rowling #lgbt #Trans #lgbtq2s #rights #kindness #House
so, a group of teenage wizards and their trusty dog fight the evil witch
Mistake not ...
Michael Vilain@kevinrns @sufferforme Diane Duane wrote 9 Wizard novels. Book 3 came out the same year as HP and the Philosopher's Stone. They work in a universe where Magic has a price instead of violating the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
https://ebooks.direct/products/so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-new-millennium-edition
Ha ha cool
atlovatoGet it at the library, just don't add to her war chest by buying one.
Nicola@kevinrns @atlovato Sadly burning a lib. book would a) result in you getting fined, but importantly, b) result in the lib. replacing the book with a new copy.
If anything ppl that feel they must read HP for w/e reason, should be supported reading it via the lib., beyond that if you must violate HP books at the lib, just scribble a note about jojo being a transphobic swine in the space above chapter headings - so the lib *prob* won't consider it damaged enough to replace, but it'll send a msg.
Yes, surprisingly, this was my point as well.
Urizen@kevinrns @CryogenicIce9 @atlovato remember that borrowing from library will most likely also pay for the author
Chris@Villepirkola @kevinrns @CryogenicIce9 @atlovato go into the library, find the book, leave an insulting post it note inside. saw a Nigel Farage book at the library last week but sadly had no post its to hand.
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Tock@atlovato @kevinrns I wouldn't read the Mein Kampf, but I wouldn't burn it, either.
Knowing what is in the heart of someone who is hateful doesn't spawn new Fascists, but what does is the senseless choice to put it into practice. Fascists burn books, bud.
Libraries should keep it. And used Bookstores. Because (in the US anyway) JK Rowling doesn't make a dime off of rentals or second hand sales. If someone doesn't want her to profit but grew up reading Harry Potter and misses them, they can get a copy that way.
Callista Graves@atlovato absolutely not! Book burning is the province of idiots, sheep and tyrants, so no thank you.
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trainguyrom@kevinrns I was at a kitchy merch store at the mall recently and saw big signs saying all Harry Potter merch was marked way down. It did not appear any had been touched still. We all understood the assignment it seems
@kevinrns Let's hope the network TV release of the Harry Potter stuff falls flatter on it's face that the recently flopped Marvel/Pixar got "ow." sort like Loki after the Hulk bats him around.
Hulk vs Loki - "Puny God"- Hulk Smashing Loki - The Avengers | Movie CLIP HD
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edgeworth@kevinrns For anyone who doesn't want to click through, it's The Booksmith in San Francisco who have ceased sales of JK Rowling books: https://www.booksmith.com/NotHP
Jhooper@kevinrns if I write a book, I'll pledge to use some of the proceeds to harass JK Rowling.
Eowyn
Hot Dog Water MoccasinToo bad 'Transformers' is already taken. Great name for a school of blue-haired scientists that kick the shit out of dork-ass wizard kids.
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@kevinrns We are now into the "find out" stage
obscurestar@kevinrns She's going so hard against trans people because she doesn't want anyone to realize the truth is she's just a shitty fanfic writer who took 'The Worst Witch', Mildred and literally genderswapped her to a Harry boy.
McWabbit đđťđ@kevinrns This is the way.
So say we all.
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@kevinrns if you must read them, pirating the books is now a moral imperative.
Thanks.
WarmasterPalakWhen I publish my books, I promise to use the profits to help LGBTQ+individuals, especially children, get the help they need.
"I solemnly swear I'm out to do good."
"Socialism managed."
Ember 
â@kevinrns ok, that is good
But also why is a bookshop getting free publicity for finally dropping HP in mid 2025 FFS, what about promoting cool queer bookstores that have never stocked this hate instead
But also why is a bookshop getting free publicity for finally dropping HP in mid 2025 FFS, what about promoting cool queer bookstores that have never stocked this hate instead
@Ember If they have never stocked it, they must be young bookshops. I was a queer kid in the 90's and felt represented when I read HP when it first came out. I bonded with friends over reading the same book, which was an absolute novelty back then. There was a time before JKR fell from grace when queer folks loved the books. And I'm still kinda aching for the author to have become such an awful hating terf. I will never enjoy reading HP to my own kids. That's really a loss. đ
vim exiter@kevinrns calling the move a "book ban" is really something.
BenjaminKlein@kevinrns there are lots of copies sitting on peoples shelves, just borrow or buy 2nd hand. Lev Grossman's books "The Magicians" are much better books. The fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Less Wrong is a lot of fun and points out many of the silly things in the books: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Methods-of-Rationality