I hate how libs ALWAYS try to compare real politics to popular media.

Maybe it says something about their ability to comprehend complex situations without needing to compare it to something made to be easily understandable. Or maybe it’s a testament to their belief that there are somehow objective good and evil sides in the world, or think real politics should play out like a movie.

  • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
    9·
    3 years ago

    Yeah people recently have been saying that Rowling “became” a TERF, or a bigot, or whatever.

    Hell no, she always was one, and it showed through in her writing.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind
        91·
        3 years ago

        “the intricate detail and study of Latin she did to name spells and world build” which is crap because she very much subscribes to the stick two words together to make a new word school of world building

        Wait what? Rowling has the worst naming sense in entire known to me literature bar none. I literally stopped in the half of first book because everything was named so absolutely cringy and immersion breaking.

        Compare to Glen Cook “Black Company” where most people are also named weirdly but it somehow fits totally, so it can be done, but she just completely botched it.

      • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
        7·
        3 years ago

        the intricate detail and study of Latin

        Why do I suspect that involved Google Translate at some point lol

          • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
            7·
            3 years ago

            Also, being Chinese, I very often find myself saying this whenever an English speaker uses the native name of an East Asian person: “you know the last name goes in front right?”

              • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
                7·
                3 years ago

                I’ve heard “well I’m speaking English aren’t I? And English puts the last name behind the first!”

                Also, as much as I generally like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, this always irked me as an Asian: there’s an alien character called Kira Nerys, whose name format is the same as the East Asian one, so her last name is Kira and first name is Nerys. Which, I’ve always wondered: She’s an alien, so they did they pick that as a quirk to show just how “out of this world” her culture is? Bruh there are well over a billion people on Earth whose names are formatted like that!

                  • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
                    7·
                    3 years ago

                    Also, it’s really silly when English speakers try to talk down about people like Xi JinPing by calling him “Xi”. They think it’s informal like calling Biden “Joe” or something. Lol that’s his last name, the one you’d use when referring to him formally (in English that is, you generally use the entire full name in Chinese, unless you’re stating their position or honorific (Chairman, Doctor, Mister/Miss/Mrs, etc). So you wouldn’t call him just Xi in Chinese the way you often say just “Biden”, you’d say Xi JinPing when using just the name, or you can call him Chairman Xi, though Chairman Xi JinPing is also grammatically correct. You would only just use someone’s first name if you’re very close to them like a significant other or close friend, or a younger family member, not older though because that’s considered disrespectful.)

                • PolandIsAStateOfMind
                  51·
                  3 years ago

                  Bruh there are well over a billion people on Earth whose names are formatted like that!

                  Lol even in Europe Hungarians have this convention, and Slavs also did in the past, which is often still used in formal situations. It’s kinda funny here in Poland, because when someone corrects that usage, you can be 100% sure it’s either mindless grammar nazi or a real active anticommunist.

                  • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
                    4·
                    3 years ago

                    It just makes more logical sense, too. The less specific term (your family name) goes before the more specific term (your name). It’s the same reason I like the YYYY-MM-DD date format instead of what they use in Europe or North America.

          • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
            6·
            3 years ago

            Seriously? We’re still worked up about the portrayal of “magic” in media?

            Brings me back to when Evangelical Christians in the US were screeching about the name “Sorcerer’s Stone” for the first HP book, beause sorcerer is unholy and demonic ooOOOOOOooooo👻! But the official name was actually Philosopher’s Stone, they changed it for the US for some reason.

            Or when Christians were saying Pokemon Go let you catch literal demons which could possess you. Because there were Pokemon based on ghosts and Japanese Yokai. Oh, and don’t forget the fact that they evolve! We can’t let children hear that word!

      • Rafael_Luisi
        5·
        3 years ago

        Every non bri’ish thing in the universe is some fucking stereotype. The magic school on brasil is on the fucking amazon florest, because thats literally the only thing that anglos know about south america. Its so superficial and obvious that someone asked her on twitter and she made that up in like one minute because she could not give a fuck into actual world building