@In_Bloom30 @olympicbean @SwipaCam Uh… the author said it was. Are you saying you know more about her thoughts than she does? Do you think that Animal Farm is just a story about some animals in a farm?
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Mark Bisson
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@bisson_mark @olympicbean @SwipaCam Because it's not? It's a fantasy world about wizards? It's just wizards hating on other wizards... You need to calm down my guy 😂 it's really not that deep.
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White people will take on roles to play Moses/Noah and you lot won’t bat an eye.
But Snape (a fictional character) is played by a Black man and you whine and complain.
It’s the same reason why John Boyega’s character was destroyed.
It’s a book.
Variety@Variety
The first look at Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape in HBO’s upcoming #HarryPotter series. Season 1 will release on Christmas 2026. variety.com/2026/tv/news/h…
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@In_Bloom30 @olympicbean @SwipaCam No—“In other words” it isn’t an analogy for a specific racist group. She has explicitly said that they are an analogy for racist groups, just not one in particular. How are you not getting this? Why do you want it to not be a reference to racism?
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@bisson_mark @olympicbean @SwipaCam It says Inspired by and not exclusive. So in other words not racially motivated. Their whole stance is on whether you're a full wizard or not which in HP world has nothing to do with race.
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@TheUBSoldiers Omg thank you. I’ve been wondering this for over a decade 😂
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For those about to Rock. Fire. Then the big Boom of the Blue Jackets Cannon happens.
It is an AC DC song.
Mark Bisson@bisson_mark
@sarah____kent @TheUBSoldiers What are the actual words that are said before the cannon goes off? It sounds like “I’m abouta rock! Agh!”
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@MiaMBloom @jewishmemequeen You’re kinda right, but also the whole theme of the books is that Nazis are bad. But they really didn’t need to make all the goblins Rabbi Shmuley in the movies…
Daniel Radcliffe is Jewish. I really don’t think JK Rowling is an antisemite.
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@jewishmemequeen The Gringotts goblins are awful antisemitic tropes
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Am I the only Jew who doesn’t like Harry Potter?
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@sarah____kent @TheUBSoldiers What are the actual words that are said before the cannon goes off?
It sounds like “I’m abouta rock! Agh!”
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@In_Bloom30 @olympicbean @SwipaCam Grok actually, but I’d be happy to show you what she actually said if you really don’t believe me
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@In_Bloom30 @olympicbean @SwipaCam Wait you seriously don’t realize that the death eaters are analogous to white supremacists?
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@Auditormadness9 @BolicClipz Yeah I hate antifa too. None of that explains why a grown man would descend into madness and wear clown paint.
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@bisson_mark @BolicClipz Antifa is very known to call random people they disagree with a nazi to give themselves a valid excuse to attack people they disagree with. Terrorists
Called racist? Try getting beaten up, doxxed, threatened, harassed and imprisoned then we'll see what your opinions will be.
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@Green_Friar @TheJazzyOtaku @CultureCrave No he doesn’t. He hangs him upside down with magic. There’s no tree involved. And technically he only did it because Sirius said he was bored and he thought that would be entertaining
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@bisson_mark @TheJazzyOtaku @CultureCrave James potter hangs snaps from a tree in high school because Snape was being a creepy simp towards Lily.
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First look at Paapa Essiedu as Snape in the 'Harry Potter' series
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@dinaa_ahmadd @bing_bong_banjo @pega_tc @georgegalloway @normfinkelstein “I only hate black people who listen to rap music and like basketball”
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@bing_bong_banjo @pega_tc @georgegalloway @normfinkelstein But you think all Jews have to be alike 😂
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NOBODY hates you because you’re Jewish. That is just a lie. Do you think any of us hate @normfinkelstein ?
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@bren45000 @BadQualityMemes Apparently she didn’t grow up watching vice news.
Gang members are mostly idiots who are eager to show off what they do.
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Candace Owens attacks Nick Shirley.
She calls his reporting:
• Stupid
• Dumb
• Made up
She also mocks him for being a “white boy.”
You know what I think is actually going on?
Candace harbors jealousy toward Nick’s success.
Aware that her coverage of Charlie Kirk depends heavily on unsubstantiated tips supplied by her supporters, she becomes envious whenever she observes Nick cultivating authentic relationships with legitimate, high-level sources.
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@jribas @samiramohans Ok well I saw the first film when I was 9 years old. I’m so stoked for this because the later movies leave out so much brilliant shit from the books.
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@samiramohans it’s too recent so it feels like an SNL skit or spoof. If the original series had been made decades earlier I think it would work. But the last movie came out in 2011! And it’s never left the cultural landscape- my kids all born after 2011 have read the books/watched the movies.
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the uncanny valley of the aesthetics remaining largely the same with minor changes and then having mostly actors who look, again, very similar to the predecessors makes this feel like ai. like i know it's not ai but it feels like it. does this make sense to anyone else
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series. Releasing this Christmas on HBO.
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@fuzzyyarns The first two Harry Potter movies are easily the best work of his career imo. I didn’t realize how great of a composer he was until I tried to play these pieces on piano.
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That John Williams wrote such an overly elaborate, densely orchestrated score, with dozens of themes & motifs, layered on top of each other in complex harmonies, for ostensibly a "children's" film is astounding.
He RESPECTED the audience. You'd likely get cutesy doodling today.
Ankit Jhunjhunwala@fuzzyyarns
Just for comparison's sake, this is what was released 25 years ago as the first ever teaser for Harry Potter.
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Both of the previous actors who played Dumbledore, Richard Harris and Michael Gambon, were Irish.
I know there are more significant casting changes that people are focused on, but Dumbledore won’t be the same to me without a soft Irish accent. Even when I reread the books now I hear Dumbledore with an Irish lilt.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First look at John Lithgow as Dumbledore in the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series.
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@A_taylor1995 @MRJbloodmage @HogLegNews Good point. He could have been cast as a dog or a 6 year old.
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@MRJbloodmage @HogLegNews Snape isn’t a real person, so he can look how the producers want. They literally have creative rights to the IP currently.
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Paapa looks great as Snape. Can’t wait to see his performance.
Wizarding World Direct@WW_Direct
FIRST LOOK at Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape in the HARRY POTTER TV series! 🤩
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@In_Bloom30 @olympicbean @SwipaCam The whole book is basically about Nazis. The death eaters dress like the kkk in the fourth movie. The whole thing is about racism
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@olympicbean @SwipaCam There is no racism in HP world, you guys need to stop.
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@sarahmhawkinson Chimps are terrifying, but you really thought this was one of the scariest movies you’ve seen…?
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Genuinely one of the scariest movies I’ve seen btw chimps are horrifying.
The Horror Calendar@HorrorCalendar
Killer chimpanzee slasher movie PRIMATE is now streaming exclusively on Paramount+. Lucy's pet chimp Ben contracts rabies during a pool party and turns aggressive. Lucy & friends fight to survive the vicious chimp.
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@KevinButterhof @robbysoave You’re seriously not gonna watch the show just because they made Snape black?
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@robbysoave Black Snape? I’ll pass on the woke slop.
But other than that it does look good!
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I mean, it looks perfectly good. But it also looks a lot like a thing that already exists, and is already quite good...
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series. Releasing this Christmas on HBO.
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