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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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That story isn't worth thinking about in any shower.
True... What actually inspired that thought, indirectly, was thinking about how the anime I was watching (seven spellblades) felt like a more interesting wizarding universe than HP. Also fuck JKR.
You should check out Mashle, it's basically a parody of your typical "magic school" anime where the main character can't use magic and literally just out muscles everyone.
Has season 2 been dubbed already?
Looks like it - https://animesuperhero.com/mashle-magic-and-muscles-season-2-dub-finally-released-on-crunchyroll/
You’re my favorite person today
Its also gloriously hilarious, plus....
Is just pure poetry
Mashle is very distinctly a Harry Potter parody, yep. All the way to the "chosen one" scar. Even the magic school headmaster looks 1 to 1 like anime Dumbledore.
You should delete this post.
Meanwhile Hogwarts Legacy sold like 40mln copies? Most people don't care about dumb politics
I doubt you would call it “dumb politics” if she was relentlessly campaigning against your right to exist in society as a person.
I have them tagged as "right wing PoS" so I'm not sure youre getting anywhere with them.
I honestly wouldn't care
People also still use Meta products, Apple products, Amazon and their products, and so on, even though all of these companies directly support the budding fascist empire in the USA.
Likely, you too buy/use products by a corporation that supports the pumpkin dictator, and that has much more real-world effect (on trans people and on all other minorities too) than the ramblings of a mad old TERF.
At least Rowling isn't directly stoking the genocide in Gaza or rounding up and deporting people to prison camps in other countries.
(I'm not defending Rowling. I'm just saying at a certain point most people, likely including you, value the convenience of next-day-shipping over the life of some people we don't know.)
Rowling has spent tons of money petitioning the UK Supreme Court to basically make existing as a trans person in public illegal. She’s got more money than some cities do.
Like, legally, there is no where a trans man can piss in the UK. Not allowed in the women’s, not allowed in the men’s. Just got piss yourself.
Do you think Trump is better for Trans rights than Rowling? I don't think so.
Yes, Rowling spends money petitioning the government and courts, but Trump is the government and controls the courts.
Don't lose sight of the bigger enemy just because a smaller enemy is a woman.
I mean I think theres room to criticize both of them, no?
I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy to shame people for collecting a Harry Potter game for free, while happily shopping for a Microsoft laptop on Amazon that you use to watch youtube, facebook and read reddit.
Rowling is literally directly funding the erosion of trans rights in the UK. She IS directly responsible for attempted genocide.
Rowling funds petitions to the government. Trump is the government.
Don't lose sight of the bigger evil.
Loudly privileged complaint post
Well I own it and I do, and most of my friends do as well (some of whom are trans)
But yeah, fuck JKR.
I mean I was conflicted about buying a copy and did not until (a) my wife wanted one and (b) I saw our trans sister had a copy.
Maybe you should ask your sister if she actually cares about JKR drama?
she does, but she's also one of those "no ethical consumption under capitalism" folk
I got the first and the second book from my mom when they came out. While i didn't love them per se, i liked them enough that they peaked my interest in becoming a reader, and i started to read more books, and i'm thankful for that.
Since then i had a few girlfriends who were super into HP and they made me watch the movies, and i have to say, these stories are not thought out at all, and are often dumb as hell. I don't really remember much, but just the fact that quidditch doesn't make a lick of sense is really telling. Or goblet of fire, they were okay to let them play with dragons. Everyone shrugged and told HP that well, he might die. Someone would've drowned if he didn't break the rules and people were pretty upset about the rule breaking. And at the end, Cedric died and everyone was absolutely shocked and devastated that someone died at the murder tournament.