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Is jk getting money from this release?
EDIT yes she do https://n4g.com/articles/is-jk-rowling-involved-in-harry-potter-quidditch-champions/
Likely yes, and I recommend you to let HP die and instead look for some better media.
Yeah I've been avoiding it since The Change became apparent, but I feel like posting screenshots kind of keeps it alive. Like people think they're got one over on the bigot billionaire
or pirate it
I cannot recommend the fan fiction book Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkoesky highly enough. If you’re looking for a HP fix but struggle with ‘death of the author’ issues. There’s even a free audiobook podcast!
https://hpmor.com/
MoR was the most excruciatingly self-congratulatory thing I have ever had the misfortune to read. I understand that some people like it, and more power to them, I guess, but I found it to be painfully bad.
I overall enjoyed reading it but you're absolutely correct that it was very self-indulgent and smug for waaaaay too much of it.
I can recommend Dimension 20's Misfits and Magic (season 2 just got announced yesterday!) as a much better critique that still brings the joy that people felt with the source material to the table. The cast all says fuck terfs too!
I love the people that are involved with Dimension 20, but I haven't really been able to get into any AP shows in a while. I think I'm just busier than I used to be. I listened to most of Fantasy High S1 and enjoyed a lot of it, but just couldn't really get into the rest of it. I like seeing clips of the different seasons, I'd love it if they could release some kind of edited or abridged version of each of the seasons or something.
Obligatory: Eliezer Yud is a loser hack grifter.
Wait, fuck, really?
In theory that depends on the legal details. In practice it's safe to assume she does.
The best thing would be that she doesn’t get any money. The second best is that her money depends on being trans-friendly.