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| Dumbledore's gay.; Best non-spoiler since... erm... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 20 2007, 01:08 PM (1,140 Views) | |
| HunteRS | Oct 22 2007, 04:57 PM Post #26 |
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Power is all that is needed.
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It does sound very much like a real life trolling attempt doesn't it? Personally I couldn't care less-just now it'll give those slash fic writers heart palpitations. |
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| RedFox742 | Oct 22 2007, 07:45 PM Post #27 |
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Obama's got a gun...
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So maybe she's having a little fun with the idiot brigade. What's so wrong with that? We do it all the time. And I think this has probably been in her head for a while, not something she just spontaneously decided on throwing out there. I haven't had a chance to read over the seventh book again (or at least, the key parts), but I bet there are hyper-subtle clues in the way Dumbledore talks about Gillert (sp?). (And then again, I could just end up manufacturing those in my mind.) EDIT: By the way, if the world worked the way I wish it did, this wouldn't have any more effect than some revelation about the length of his beard. |
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| Pixellated | Oct 24 2007, 02:23 PM Post #28 |
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Being responsible
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And so it begins. And probably ends there. |
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| Taneis | Oct 24 2007, 06:30 PM Post #29 |
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I can do more than talk! I can pontificate!
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Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that comic... doesn't really make me want to start reading it again. |
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| LGHunter | Oct 25 2007, 12:43 AM Post #30 |
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Lost and tired...
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Here's how I see it: I don't care that Dumbledore is gay. Here is what the potential logic is (as I'm not J.K. Rowling, and don't know what goes on in her head): Ok, she wrote 7 books that were enormously popular. As each book came out, they were denounced for promoting witchcraft, causing bannings and whatnot. The seventh and final book has been out for three months, causing the frenzy that is Harry Potter to die down. She announces that Dumbledore is gay at this time to start another wave of interest for the books. As we know, when a book is banned and/or denounced, the interest in it increases, which makes some people think "Oh wow! The grown-ups/this-that-and-the other group hate this book! It must be good! I'm going to get it!", which in turn brings in a lot more money. It's all about the thrill of the "forbidden", or, "what's bad has to be good". Not that I'm cynical or anything... |
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| Dark Comet | Oct 25 2007, 10:39 AM Post #31 |
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Hoo am I
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To be honest, I don't think she was really intending on creating an uproar or she has any particular agenda to keep the book in the public eye. In fact, had the question not been asked of her, I doubt she would have even bought it up. |
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| RedFox742 | Oct 25 2007, 06:45 PM Post #32 |
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Obama's got a gun...
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Exactly. How do you explain what she said... "if I'd known you'd be so happy, I would have told you years ago"? She doesn't have any reason to lie. |
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| Sabre_Justice | Oct 25 2007, 09:23 PM Post #33 |
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Ask me about very angry cats
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You forget, this is the Internet. Context is irrelevant. (not to me, just to the moronic masses) |
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| The Virus | Oct 25 2007, 11:42 PM Post #34 |
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Keepin it odd like a motherfucking gastropod
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Agreed with RedFox. Hell, I do this sort of thing all the time with the comic. In the followup thread I'm always tossing out might-have-beens, incidental trivia that failed to get shown in-comic, and making-of anecdotes. As a creator of fiction, you always think of peripheral stuff that might never make it into the finished work, but are interesting to share with your readers as bonus factoids. Like that time I revealed the shocking truth that Virus is, in fact, ...a wearer of contact lenses. Utterly irrelevant, never came up anywhere in the comic, never had reason to, but it's something I thought of, and one time decided to share as useless trivia. |
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| Jeffk38uk | Oct 25 2007, 11:51 PM Post #35 |
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Everything's great at your Junes.
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public class virusOutrage{ System.out.println("What? He wears contact lenses? I am utterly appalled, this completely ruins the character and story as concequence.") //end sarcasm } |
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| Pixellated | Oct 26 2007, 12:03 AM Post #36 |
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Being responsible
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10 BEGIN 20 PRINT 'Contact lenses? I'm sure I remember that.' 30 END |
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| Jeffk38uk | Oct 26 2007, 12:57 AM Post #37 |
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Everything's great at your Junes.
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Pretty sure you'd get a syntax error if you wrote that. I think I left out defining variables as well.... |
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| RedFox742 | Oct 26 2007, 05:07 AM Post #38 |
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Obama's got a gun...
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Man, if I had known that, I totally would have worked it into Dire Peril. Pixel, I'm looking at you. |
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| Sabre_Justice | Oct 26 2007, 07:13 AM Post #39 |
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Ask me about very angry cats
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Where'd you reveal that? And how bad is his eyesight without them? Please fill this thread with random useless facts about the EN crew/universe. |
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| The Virus | Oct 27 2007, 11:25 AM Post #40 |
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Keepin it odd like a motherfucking gastropod
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This thread. |
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| Pixellated | Oct 27 2007, 12:14 PM Post #41 |
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I bet you don't even know if I've worked it into this new segment I've sent you. =P ...I haven't. Just read it anyway, I need a bit of feedback :P |
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| kalvaza | Oct 29 2007, 02:25 PM Post #42 |
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Runs on witchcraft.
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Pre-dict-a-bul! A big group of people who have obviously never read the books are now trying to get them banned because they promote homosexuality along with the old bollocks about witchcraft. Apparently J.K. Rowling is the spawn of the devil and she should "go back to hell where she belongs". If J.K. Rowling is the spawn of the devil, God sure doesn't have anything to worry about. |
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| Jeffk38uk | Oct 29 2007, 02:43 PM Post #43 |
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Everything's great at your Junes.
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I wouldn't worry too much about it being banned tbh. The only place where it causes such an outcry is mainly in america anyway, and even then I doubt they can get it banned without treading on some licencing of freedom of speech laws. |
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| Dynamus | Oct 29 2007, 02:44 PM Post #44 |
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Do the warptime.
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J.K. Rowling's to-do list: 1) Write award winning series of books -check- 2) Sell award winning series of books and become filthy rich -check- 3) Piss off Christians -check- |
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| Pixellated | Oct 29 2007, 04:36 PM Post #45 |
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Being responsible
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I don't see why others object about the Harry Potter books. It was written as a fiction book, get over it. Kids can grow up on a lot worse. |
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| Taneis | Oct 29 2007, 07:17 PM Post #46 |
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I can do more than talk! I can pontificate!
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The worst part is that they all get on the bandwagon without actually knowing what they're talking about. Like when my brothers and I were watching one of the Lord of the Ring movies, my stepdad got after us for watching something as evil as Harry Potter. We told him it wasn't, and he said, "Doesn't Harry Potter have to throw a ring in a fire or something?" :huh: Not that Lord of the Rings doesn't have wizards and magic and all that other satanic stuff... |
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| Sabre_Justice | Oct 29 2007, 08:23 PM Post #47 |
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Ask me about very angry cats
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But if they actually knew anything about Harry Potter, they wouldn't have a reason to rage would they? Wilful ignorance is the key strength of obnoxious soccer mums and firebrand preachers hell-bent on keeping their dwindling attendance up. Meanwhile their kids are playing Manhunt and having sex at 12, if you believe the statistics. BELATED WARNING: Massive jadedness above. |
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| RedFox742 | Oct 29 2007, 08:42 PM Post #48 |
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Obama's got a gun...
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See, the funny thing is, Rowling's been preaching about tolerance ever since the second book, the first time Malfoy spat "Mudblood" at Hermione. Why does this surprise anyone, particularly fundies? |
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| Sabre_Justice | Oct 30 2007, 12:43 PM Post #49 |
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Ask me about very angry cats
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Of course fundies can't stand anything that preaches tolerance. It goes against everything they do. Jeez, I'm so glad at least that my Lutheran school only preaches barely veiled messages of 'PLEASE BE CHRISTIAN KIDS! PRETTY PLEASE?' and loves all that tolerance stuff as much as I do. ...man am I jaded. |
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