For the first time ever, bad people will hold power in America.
Harry Potter is the epitome of liberal politics. Throughout the series you learn how fucked up the wizard world is, magic hitler starts to rise to power because of it, and in the end they beat hitler and Harry becomes a cop. But nothing changes. House elves are still enslaved, and magic races are continued to be discriminated against.
Hitler beats himself, he literally gets killed by not correctly interpreting RULES.
Lmao, didn’t even think of that aspect of it
Nothing Fundamentally Will Change
This is basically the main rule for every western fiction, even in fantasy and sci-fi where you would expect authors have the most leeway to ride on their wild imagination. Problem is, they don’t have wild imagination or even the one required of imagining something other than capitalism (even their visions of previous systems like feudalism or slavery is still basically capitalism with historical costumes).
Its a little more free in literature, and since 2020 some good(ish) stuff is getting made.
‘Lovecraft country’ (one absolutely fire season, tied up and concluded) if Malcolm x was a riff on 20th century fiction, primarily the Lovecraft mythos. Not if he did one; if he was one. It says and does more in its first episode than most shows do in a decade of long seasons. Has a beautiful sex scene that’s ambiguously gay or trans and so gory it might not make it onto a theater screen, and thats not even the most interesting thing going on in that scene.
‘Andor’ (final planned season in production) is a prequel to the one good star wars movie. Its extremely lefty, extremely well made at every level, and tense with zero sword wizards.
‘Severance’ (second season delayed by strikes, in production) is an ontological mystery that explores cognitive dissonance corpo infantilization and the exploitation of labor, how it interacts with self, the theft of time, relationships, self-knowledge, all kinds of shit. Funny, surreal, dramatic when it needs to be, excellent visual direction.
Does watching the movie count as reading the books for americans?
I kind of empathize because Animorphs, Star Trek, Simpsons and Beast Wars permanently imprinted on my brain in a similar way. The difference is that I know to compartmentalize my child-brain and not trivialize adult issues by publicly saying things like Steve Miller is the Skorponok to Trump’s Megatron, regardless of how true that statement is.
Beast Wars
I see you have truly impeccable taste
The Animorphs To Antifascist pipeline is real
Animorph voter guide:
Rachel: Trump
Cassie: Jill Stein
Marco: No vote
Jake: Kamala
Ax: RFK
Jake is both Trump and RFK. A bullet grazed his head leading to him getting a worm in his brain. Marco is Anthony Scaramucci.
I feel the urge to disagree with you because I expected issues that concern adults in power to be morally gray and complicated but these people are cartoonishly evil. So is it even less correct to compare them to Swiper the Fox or the Hamburgler?
Steve Miller is the Skorponok to Trump’s Megatron
I can’t wait for him to unceremoniously fall into a lava pit.
edit: wow, how is that guy 39?
Miller falling into proverbial lava and a more aggressive, delusional lickspittle like Inferno replacing him actually sounds more likely than him just keeping his job for four years.
Alternatively, he’s waspinator and he never fucking goes away, he just continually becomes a third tier right hand man to those in power but is so ineffective at any job he’s given he probably should have been killed off immediately, if he wasn’t just a walking punchline and scapegoat for those in power.
Waspinator was funny and refused to massacre innocent Neanderthals, though.
I don’t remember much about Animorphs, but I do remember reading it. I can recall brainworms being the enemy, and there was one guy who got stuck as a bird because he remained in that form for too long. I also remember a girl turned into a fly and was getting pretty close to that limit, too.
Oh, also sexy blue centaur people
Same but without animorphs. I gotta get my bins of childhood beastwarstoys from my folks to photograph and brag post. It’s like a solid 40 or so and I kept the box cards for em too
I’m so fucking jealous. My parents sold all my cool shit when I was visiting family for a summer, then had to gall to ask me where it all was when they found out some of it was worth money.
Umm actually real lib theory hours is that:
trump = ulfric
empire = dems
thalmor = ruZZZia
who’s the dragonborn?
wait trump is on the skyrim side, ulfric is on the irl side??? SKYRIIM CONFIRMED???
Hasan piker (he rigged all the votes cuz he listened to that one trump song)
Black Lives Matter! (Except in the one book series I have read and based my ideology on which has one black person in 7 novels)
JKR never actually said Hermione wasn’t blackIf she was, then Harry and Ron laughed at a black person for opposing slavery.
Ummm sweaty did you forget about kingsly shacklebolt
It’s either some of the bible, or Harry Potter, which is treated as the bible.
If only you knew how bad US politics really is
Shits so fucked, any comparison to fiction feels out of touch
Except for Parable of the Sower.
Somewhere between a third and half of Americans read at or below a sixth grade level so these books are at the reading level of the median American.
It’s the wrong aesthetic. It’s a bunch of grifters, not emos.
I spent so long trying to get chatgpt to write “harry potter and the philosphers stone” in MSE and it kept just slapping in umlauts and ø. Unrelated but it deleted my question when I asked it if it was not allowed to critique the us
