thebibliosphere:

ragnaratheblack-blog:

ayeforscotland:

First of all, what in the fuck does this tweet even mean?

Second, why on earth is this tweet promoted?

Third, why are we relying on a woman who quite literally made a race of secretive banking goblins to finally erase anti-Semitism?

Fuck jk Rowling, fuck her terrible writing and fuck her again. Harry Potter sucks anyway, read Tolkien you cowards

I’d like to defer the Tolkien rec in favor of saying: read Terry Pratchett, an author who didn’t so much dabble with social concepts of inequality and injustice as plunge headlong in with a megaphone and a taser, and was always progressively doing more to better his work and characters the more he learned and grew as a person.

He was a writer set ablaze with fury and indignation because he loved the world and knew we could do better, and wanted to help us face some hard truths about ourselves (including himself), and often did so with profound wit and humor through the medium of 41 books and then some.

There’s a reason there’s a saying among the fans, “be more Terry”. And that reason is everything Rowling is not.