i have a new comic strip page but i will need to sleep and then buy groceries before i can sort out the website part

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i make incessant complainy remarks and usually, as previously mentioned, which i seem to previously mention quite a lot these days, only succeed in annoying people who are looking for a particular sort of drawn imagery rather than my annoyed irrelevant opinions but this one seemed to go over better for some reason, but then I insisted on talking anyway.

backstory already provided in the context i initially posted that image: In 2018, long after his first conviction, amidst what he was doing before his second, to not much surprise: every billionaire who persecutes queer people while citing utterly unfounded morality and “safety” concerns is in on it together. Claiming to want to “protect kids” while doing whatever necessary to stay in contact with the world’s best known child predator, and so it happened that the credited writer and chief beneficiary of Harry Potter books is shown amidst some of the “epstein files” our government deigned to release because they didn’t mention the president, seemingly quite interested in inviting Mr. Epstein to several such events as the altered image above refers to. Another file shows a mystery crony who has reason to assume Epstein knows Rowling begging Epstein to arrange an introduction with Rowling.
Also in that sludge is the megasleaze who started 4chan but i have thankfully been spared any pictures of him sucking a cigar while gloating about anti-trans-rights legislation, and his name isn’t at the pinnacle of an obnoxious fan/media mediocrity collusion cult I have had to endure for nearly three decades. Or at least not one that operates in public and is marketed directly to children though has equal popularity with child adults. fiddledeediddledorbin. Although i did see ONE picture of him WITHOUT a cigar just smirking creepily

oh i guess that is gone now. well i certainly don’t want to go out from my way to see it again. Look how long this already is, i don’t need to start reminiscing about the channy people-like-organisms who have tried to poison my life over the years in addition to that.

as someone who lived with fans of the books for 20 years, I don’t mind if you like them, or even the movies based on them. My problem is when you let the fandom and brandom consume your life. You become annoying and boring and it chips away at your ability to have good judgement outside the brand, a la mylittleponies.
i would prefer if you DIDN’T like that stuff but if it became part of your upbringing, just based on how ubiquitous it was ages before Rowling’s agenda was apparent and you weren’t cursed with aversion to products that seemed too popular too fast like i was, I will still share a planet with you.

Continuing to promote helly pothuh toward kids now, that i take issue with. In my past years I read all the Tintin books, which are peppered with questionable racism, and are rightly no longer considered children’s media. Of course the [primary credited] author Herge didn’t persecute queerness and advertise the fact that he persecutes queerness but he also got dead in 1983 when it was still mainstream to simply not acknowledge gay people existed UNLESS you were mocking them, and trans people didn’t achieve even that until the 1990s, mostly via to daytime talk shows that were dismissed as “trash tv” and “fake.” Meepwhile Tintin was so detached from reality that heterosexuality didn’t even exist within it. The most common form of mockery directed at tintin itself was to imply that the main characters were gay for each other. But in a different reality yes i absolutely believe an undead centenarian+ Herge might hate queers just as much as Rowling does.

The people i foremost NOW have a problem with are the ones paying big bucks to put harry potter all over boxes of oreos and goldfish crackers at the grocery store while michael jackson songs are passed through the sound system. Have that in your home if it has meaning to you but don’t perpetuate it further.

I thought about this after my mother told me “i feel so bad” about having harry potter stuff around for so many years, after i made similarly themed gripes on insta gram, the one page of mine she actually sees the contents of. She is not the person I want to feel bad about this!
and so i have a number of problems with a number of different creeps but on some level a lot of them who aren’t necessarily creeps didn’t have a choice about being exposed to Big Pot for years and years. I had catholicism pounded into my mind from a young age. I don’t believe in it and probably got kicked into special school foremost BECAUSE I couldn’t believe in it or peacefully coexist with people who did for 6 hours at a time. But it is always going to be THERE and influencing my thoughts. But at least that is substantially older made up garbage that can only be indirectly monetized.

but on a similar note i am not impressed now if they suddenly (in this decade, at least; that screenshot is from 2021) want to say “ACTUALLY harry potter is TERRIBLE” unless they have been saying that all along rather than tailoring their judgement to the blood in the water. I said it for 20 years but it was considered a fringe “you just hate it cuz it’s POPULAR” viewpoint when I said it. No i only MENTION hating it because it is popular, and it always seemed like it was FORCED to be popular. Maybe I just didn’t say it in long enough form. Because i don’t actually WANT to talk about it! I only DO because it enters my personal business without permission.

since I post things mostly to put them out from my mind -however ineffectively i choose an audience– and did something that screwed up my mastodon interface last week, i couldn’t remember what this comment was replying to and thought it might have been from me complaining about Chrono Cross in 2024
Really the whole idea of rigid standardized magic “school” with arbitrary 19th century british societal norms is fundamentally non-magic. But that isn’t NEWS; that aspect of the product has ALWAYS been front and center and stupid. The POINT is that the AUTHOR is a creep, and continually revealed as a creep in additional ways. There are innumerable terrible products from authors who are not necessarily creeps. Dissecting the books shouldn’t be necessary since there is an pacific garbage patch of uninspired market-driven illogic floating right at the surface.

Or at least that should be the point but when I was trying to find old posts i made on this topic i realized last time was in 2019 at which juncture the movies were already not new and inexplicable to suddenly devote an issue to of Time Magazine, a national publication that isn’t explicitly about Harry Potter and that undoubtedly has covered the topic before. But i am CERTAIN i saw ANOTHER national magazine with a cover story and picture from the exact same photoshoot several years after THAT. hey now i have a chance to check if the twitter archive i downloaded in 2024 in anticipation of deleting my account actually worked. I deleted my account because the only other users of twitter had become brands, bots, and misanthropes who will claim to like harry potter exclusively out of spite –generally the dumbest and weakest reason to like something– BECAUSE its author hates transgendereals.
obviously reaching almost nobody with my words is not a factor with me
gosh there were TWO of them right next to each other.

it does work, sort of, even though i need to fiddle with the pictures to make them legible here. but it IS funny how FAST twitter is when it isn’t trying to run the full spectrum of obnoxious background tracking processes or preload additional pages I am not trying to look at.

this is from 2020, and not my twitter page. i seem to not have bothered to include what magazine this IS but has an entire issue devoted to the birthday of a non-existent person. And that doesn’t mean the franchise is 40, just literally the character –but still uses a picture from when the kid was 10 for some reason– as if he is real and continuing to age despite the series now being exclusively spinoffs and retreads focusing on different characters or decidedly NON-aged versions of the same characters and also a central premise being that non-magic users are NOT aware magic exists. This is the ULTIMATE guide that isn’t sure about its own rules to an “enchanted life” that did not occur. What’s his secret? That he is fictional and therefore can have fictional exploits and traits. Do people who write these magazines think rowling literally invented magic or do the people who buy them just like to pretend that?
I wonder how many of these “magical” retrospectives don’t care about any of the books or any of the movies after the first one. But JK Rowling “magically” gets millions of dollars in royalties to spend on cigars, luxury cruises and lobbying to have me sent to a gulag for not liking what my urine comes out of every day regardless!
I came up with that “what my urine comes out of” line when trying to explain to my mother that i did not want her to feel bad and she either couldn’t tell what sequence of words i was saying or just wished she souldn’t.

worth noting that nine whole years BEFORE that issue, while the movies were still getting made, i saw this on the poster rack at a store that was probably walmart because I still couldn’t drive yet then and could only go shopping when someone else felt like it and would very likely end up there

did he forget to shave? can he not magically sear all that off or drink a potion to prevent it growing? He probably can, but i suspect he was prevented from doing so to make him seem more mature and “manly.” More like HAIRY Potter ha ha uh. I guess that life IS pretty magical if he grew up into haggard harold but then aged back down to max weinberg junior to be photogenic on terrible magazines a decade later. It is like he can travel through time to keep selling the same dumb stuff to the same customers at different points in their lives that they barely have by manifesting at different points in his own life that he never had at all. Hey he’s a kid like you! ugh GROWNUPS, right? Gee he’s a YOUNG ADULT just like you! Isn’t he a dreamboat? Oops you’re old but remember when HE wasn’t? Wow so cute buy this magazine full of stuff you’ve already seen please!

mcgrubin gorbo and those GAUNTLETS! FLYING out of a giant dumb thoroughly non-magic mobile phone. i am supposed to take this SERIOUSLY.

look i almost said something POSITIVE about big bucks forced-trendy media, and couldn’t get even one person to like it. although knowing twitter, by 2023, it is just possible nobody SAW this since I didn’t put a bit coin in the slot before speaking.

because nuanced appreciation is not enough. you MUST be a dumb shill for something new that really isn’t any different than old dumb stuff and may even be a dumber remake. the same sort of people who would gloat like this would have shown harry potter gloating about beating batman or twilight or whomever 12 years ago. i have no expectation that anybody involved in sonic or “bad guys” movies aren’t worse guys, they are just better at not making piece-of-trashitude outwardly their core personality trait SO FAR. presumably this was shared at me and crossed several thousand miles of existing shares before i saw it. curiously the official mass shared version lacks the dig at the harry potter franchise, but the omission was an apparently an accident, hence that mention of “the w.” “the w” being sleazespeak for “the win” even though it takes two extra syllables to speak and saves negligible space to abbreviate. You don’t do it for a reason, you just do it because other people did it, the same absence of reason that you watch shoddy movies and read shoddy books and wear shoddier hats

but nobody who needs to tell you that they “won” is ever good even IF they bother to spell out the full word. this is the same one from last week. He WANTED me to go to his page and argue at his ugly hat on a dirty carpet collection. I don’t have time for that! I barely have time to argue with myself.

late 2021: the only time reading was “cool” was when the harry potter books were forced into that role, and the conservatiest then wanted to ban THOSE and probably went right on thinking that until they heard that the author was also a bigot fake-christian too.
i consider a “real” christian to be someone who believes in compassion and forgiveness, what jesus –whom i know stuff about without having chosen to– actually preached, rather than arbitrary adherence to inane, harmful rituals, which if anything was what jesus preached against since not one of those rituals persists for any reason but to keep wealth and power in fixed, steep heirarchies. But they are so BORING that they only have fun by getting and regetting into fights that they supposedly already “won.” big T is the closest this country has had to an emperor and he still wastes state resources trying to prove he “won” the 2020 election even though he didn’t and it would be irrelevant by this point either way because his method of expressing this involved criminal acts. I continue to fight because i DON’T win but i believe in the principles of what i fight for. which is to say that i DO have SOME principles.
oh nubs now i have to talk about this. just to get it out of the way
What are gods? Beings of unlimited power and influence, who were granted that the instant of their creation. They are the most spiteful, petty beings in the universe. They constantly demand tributes to their greatness and offer paltry rewards to mortals in exchange for entertainment that may cost the mortals their lives. While gods are occasionally abusive toward each other, their limitless power and influence ensures they never die from it and inevitably they prefer the company of other nasty unkillables. And the ancient Greeks who made these stories, they meant the gods as representations of the inescapable ills and cruelties of humanity and nature that cannot be totally fixed. Stories of gods satirize powerful elites, and there are even mythical beings for that which “satirize” is named after. So eventually what the wealthy elite did was… did they consider criticism and try to be better people? No they did what they always do: they rebranded religion. No more complex pantheon, now there is just ONE god who isn’t bad, YOU’RE bad for not APPRECIATING god enough. God shouldn’t give YOU money, YOU should give god money. God is all powerful but YOU should fight wars in HIS man men name. Criticizing God is illegal! Or by gumbi it SHOULD be. In fact even criticizing prophets who deliver god’s message to you oughtta be illegal. What? In The Middle East it IS? That’s tyranny, let’s bomb them, God said we should. You also are not allowed to check god’s message to see if it really says what the prophet says it says. God knows what’s best for you even if it destroys your life and the lives of everyone important to you. Monotheism is a capitalist scam. Just like “money can’t buy happiness” and “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it” and “the sword of damocles.” propaganda with a fib-agenda from the billionaires to keep you from trying to be a hundred-thousand-aire until you are vetted as principle-less enough to accept it gratefully. Gratitude is only a princple when it is aimed above you. Be grateful to the brands, be grateful to the owners of those brands who claim to be grateful to “god” who will send their “thoughts and prayers” in lieu of adequate funding for medical coverage if someone shoots you because a brand owner said god doesn’t like you.

i raaaaaaaaaage!

(don’t watch that whole thing, it is four minutes and i can’t find the version where the singer has antlers. although if you actually read up to this point freep glark hnierp)
oh no ANOTHER scandal just TODAY I can’t handle this. this website wasn’t built for this; it wasn’t built at all. I’ll just do it now. I DO have other things i want to put here.

alright the president legally qualifies as a “staffer,” sure.
but “erroneously” means it was posted by ACCIDENT. The president-i mean the person that his senior staff vetted and hired to pretend to be the president on websites accidentally looked up this post on the platform that he OWNS and shared it and left it there for twelve hours and the press secretary accidentally defended it and insulted you for complaining. instead of quietly leaving the post there and not banning every account that shared it before the staffer saw it since the other sharers might have also done so erroneously and the one who stole and reuploaded it from twitter in the first place might have done that by accident even and these are also accidentally the only people the president who the staffer isn’t likes
I am going to die for a few hours and maybe if I live again I will click the “publish” button