Writing and producing a book in 12 months is barely feasible. It's possible for experienced authors who already have everything planned out and have an established deal with their agency maybe. But 6 months? That's impossible. Either you're writing a 20-page book for babies or you're writing utter trash worse than 90% of content on ao3
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Yeah they're a pretty great podcast. I'm listening to their backlog on Harry Potter stuff so it's not super recent but god it's nice to listen to a couple of sensible Marxists talk about culture instead of liberals
I've been listening to the shrieking shack podcast, which is a leftist reread of Harry Potter, and holy shit the amount of awful stuff that goes under the radar. Like the centaurs are a sentient tribe leg by a dark skinned, dark hair centaur, and they're basically barbarians, and in book five they "carry Umbridge off into the woods" (invoking SA imagery). The only centaur who likes humans is the blonde white one.
Giants are also sentient, and Hagrid basically kidnaps the one that is his half-brother and forces it to learn English in a very "civilising the savages" kinda way.
There's an unintentional sexist undertone to everything, where pretty girls are vapid and stupid and ugly girls are also stupid, and the only good girls are the plain ones like Hermione.
There's a race of harpy people who are supposed to be really sexy, and in one scene Fleur (who is part harpy) implies that her 11 year old cousin might seduce the 17 year old Harry, and that would just be okay?
The books also really hate fat people and ugly people, saying someone is fat and ugly and short in the Harry Potter books is the main indicator that they're evil.
Also Dumbledore owned slaves and Harry owns a slave and slavery abolition is treated as a joke.
JK Rowling is like one of the worst people who could have possibly seen her level of success.
When I first met my housemate she called herself a communist and has been doing everything to prove that she is just an awful radlib since then
The evergreen blocked the Suez canal, orcas attacked yachts, the ocean claimed a submarine full of billionaires, and now a ship has destroyed a major bridge in the USA. Comrade Poseidon is waging a one-god-war against capitalism
I really hope this is real because if Donald Trump thinks Israel is seriously damaging its reputation across the world, it means all pro-Palestinian movements and protests are having an effect. They've managed to spook the upper class
who said that. wasn't me no sir
Also like... Increasing people's living conditions observable reduces the birth rate. Giving people better lives will prevent overpopulation from ever actually becoming a real problem. But that's never the solution these dudes offer
I'd fuck a mermaid. tbh
No, that's weird and fucked up and the most obvious indoctrination ever. But I went to a Catholic primary school and a Protestant secondary school and in both of them we had to do different prayers. Also the Protestant school explicitly favoured Protestants, it was a private school and gave priority to Protestant children to get in. Idk how they got away with that because that is so fucking illegal
I don't like how wide my shoulders and neck are and I don't really like the shape of my face.
I never used that subreddit because I was under the impression that all the people there thought Eren was epic for being a fascist.
The ending of attack on titan is awful though, because it tries to make Eren into a victim when he was committing genocide and it tries to crowbar the message of love being the thing that saves the world when that was never at all set up or a theme of the story and the ending is about how war is inevitable because of "human nature".