[ SECRET POST #7014 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7014 ⌋

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01. [SPOILERS for Big Mouth (kdrama)]




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02. [SPOILERS for Call the Midwife, series 15 finale]




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03. [SPOILERS for Call the Midwife]




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04. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of ableism]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia, racism]



























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Comments

+infinity

[(Anonymous)]

Oz books? hella racist and sexist (because 1909). Marguerite Henry? yeah there's some questionable content between the parts about horses. Classic scif-fi? Wow yeah so much you should side-eye. I still long for the quiet calm of my life when those books were my comfort, the worlds I wanted to live in.

HP for better or worse hits a lot of notes people look for in comfort reads: another world that seems better than the one you're in, an easy read for an easy ride with high and low stakes both, characters your age (when you first read as a child), quippy jokes, and marketable aesthetics. I totally get it, it's not hard to understand the appeal.

Re: +infinity

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I never even read the HP books myself but even from the outside it's not at all hard to see why people enjoyed them and still have warm and fuzzy feelings about them. If I had been the right age to be reading them when they came out, I very likely would have loved them too.

Re: +infinity

[(Anonymous)]

NA - Strongly seconding this, and also wanting to add that I think there's an additional type of attachment some of us have to the HP books that has to do with it being a shared pop-cultural experience, and not even just that, but a shared pop-cultural experience that was extremely widespread, sustained itself for a long time, and was at the time overwhelmingly positive. People just loved the series. It lit up the zeitgeist in a way few things ever have, while also being really uncontroversial (apart from inciting the ire of some religious zealots).

I was 12 when The Goblet Of Fire came out, and it felt like everyone was talking about it. Before that, the closest to being involved in pop culture I'd gotten was like...asking for the Spice World CD for my birthday, sharing teen magazines with my friends, and being excited when the McDonald's Happy Meal toys were particularly covetable that month. The HP series was the first time I can remember feeling like I was actually part of a shared pop-cultural experience.

Re: +infinity

[(Anonymous)]

Your second paragraph is absolutely correct. I don't really see anybody who is still a fan of the books argue that they're great literature. They're fun, they hit the right spot. Sometimes that's all it takes. Stuff doesn't have to be really deep or complex or have lots of layered meaning to be enjoyable.

Re: +infinity

[(Anonymous)]

I think anyone asking in earnest why anyone could like Harry Potter has reverse nostalgia goggles. Even if you weren't a big fan yourself at the height of its popularity, asking how anyone would like that trash was rightly considered blatant snobbery by the rest of the world.