[ SECRET POST #2822 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2822 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Psycho-Pass]


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[LoadingReadyRun]


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[Ella Masar and Erin McLeod (NWSL)]


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[Hadaka Shitsuji]


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[Richard Armitage]


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[Arrow]


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[Stargate SG-1]


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[Outlander]
















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Comments

Re: Harry Potter written without the ~magic~/witchcraft

[ex_mek82]

I work at a Christian bookstore and you'd be surprised at how many of my co-workers like or love the Harry Potter series in some form or another. And my best friend -and a Catholic convert- *loves* the books and movies as well. The whole witchcraft/wizardry stuff doesn't really bother them at all, probably because the narrative themes of the book and the characters are sound enough for them to look past/reconcile those elements. I guess for some people, a cigar is just a cigar... or a book is just a book, in this case.

Frankly, I'm of a mind that if you're going to pitch a fit about Harry Potter, you might as well throw Narnia and Lord of the Rings out with the bathwater as well, since those have magical elements as well (despite being written by an Anglican and a Catholic, respectively). lmao.

(Disclaimer: I could never get into 'Harry Potter' because fantasy in general was never my cup of tea. I'm more of a science-fiction person, personally, but I digress)

Re: Harry Potter written without the ~magic~/witchcraft

[diet_poison]

I work at a Christian bookstore and you'd be surprised

Why? Is this a way more common phenomenon than I thought? I thought only a few crazy conservative idiots actually were against Harry Potter. The majority of people I know like it, Christian or not.

Re: Harry Potter written without the ~magic~/witchcraft

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That's my experience as well. Even living in Texas, I knew relatively few people who were absolutely against the books aside from a few of my friends' parents. My parents loved them, most of my teachers enjoyed them and they were always made available in the school library

Re: Harry Potter written without the ~magic~/witchcraft

[ex_mek82]

Yeah, pretty much.

It's the whole 'vocal minority' thing, p. much. The people who think "everything is satanic" in some way will always scream the loudest, unfortunately.

Re: Harry Potter written without the ~magic~/witchcraft

[elialshadowpine]

It's mostly just a few crazy loudmouths, yes. They just happen to be really loud. My parents consider themselves conservative Christians (Mom is more moderate-liberal leaning, really, but Dad went through a phase of going through the "spiritual warfare" nutjob fundie books; example: I was listening to Rammstein while doing dishes and didn't hear him come home in time to turn it off, so I got yelled at... not for the lyrics, when my Dad spent 5yrs in Germany and is reasonably proficient, but because it was "in another language and music in other languages is really witches casting spells to sign your soul away to Satan" I CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP).

Anyway. *cough*

My Mom is a HUGE SFF geek. Like, we watched Star Trek and various other SF shows growing up, and she and I would trade SFF books back and forth. I got her hooked on Laurell K. Hamilton (before she went off the deep end) and Anne Bishop. We went to Star Trek conventions and I met a lot of my favorite actors from the different shows. Even my DAD, although he didn't read SFF, would sit down to watch TNG and DS9 and VOY with us (all of us quit ENT in disgust), and movies? Holy fucking shit I had no idea my dad was such a fanboy for LOTR when those movies came out. But we saw... hell, if it was SFF-y at all? We saw it. (Or my parents saw the ones they thought were "too mature" for us and we snuck at later on. I'm still annoyed they wouldn't let me watch Batman Returns with Catwoman, who I was a HUGE fangirl/girlcrush for with watching the animated show, when I was 8 or so even though they let me read the novelization and making of the movie books.)

So... yeah. Not even all crazy fundies hate SFF and think it's witchcraft. (Even if they think music in foreign languages is witchcraft... *shakes head*)

Re: Harry Potter written without the ~magic~/witchcraft

[author_by_night]

I know pretty religious people myself who love Harry Potter. And honestly, if you want to find them you could say there's Christian themes. I feel like a lot of people who think they're not Christian haven't actually read the books, or they have but with "they're evil" visors on.