• ayeforscotland

    Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

  • ayeforscotland

    Context.

  • what-are-fish

    This isn't even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. x x

    Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x

    We can presume she's given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.

    Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. x x x

    It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.

    And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.

    This is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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  • i-was-today-years-old-when

    i learned that actor Danny Trejo has the most on-screen deaths of anyone in Hollywood history, with 65. Followed by Christopher Lee (60), Lance Henriksen (51), Vincent Price (41), Dennis Hopper (41), Boris Karloff (41), and John Hurt (39). (x)

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  • splend-42

    Yet poor Sean Bean is stuck with the reputation for dying in every movie. Unfair.

  • deliriumcrow

    Give him time, he still has many years of dying yet to come.

  • cipheramnesia

    Also there’s the question of density vs quantity. If you make a hundred movies and die in 50, and someone else makes 30 movies and dies in 30, the first one has died more, but the second one has died more often per movie.

  • patrickat

    It’s the DPM ratio that really counts, IMO.

  • avron

    65/402 16% Danny Trejo
    60/282 21% Christopher Lee
    51/259 20% Lance Henriksen
    41/211 19% Vincent Price
    41/205 20% Dennis Hopper
    41/204 20% Boris Karloff
    39/209 19% John Hurt
    33/117 28% Sean Bean

  • digitaldiscipline

    I’m so proud of the statistical side of tumblr for coming through on this.

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  • vamplire

    HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

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  • sweetsmalldog

    Mage Origin x Zevran actually goes so hard. Two people who weren’t given any choice in who they were supposed to be finally being free of their gilded cages who get to truly experience the world together.

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  • rage-against-the-dying-of-light

    I have an opinion about the Switch 2 price but y’all aren’t gonna like it bc it’s more nuanced than just Nintendo bad greedy

  • rage-against-the-dying-of-light

    Since someone actually asked

    Like corporations are bad, but there’s a bigger reason that games cost so much. I’m actually okay with mainstream games getting more expensive bc it helps raise the floor on indie game prices (which should all be higher, Stardew Valley being $15 is actually bad for indie devs everywhere bc everyone compares your indie game to SV and is like why can’t you have this much content and be this cheap. SV should be like $40-50.) bc then me an indie dev might get paid more and not be starving.

    The nuance is that twin evils are at work here: 1. video game costs have kept up with inflation (as they should to pay for the higher fidelity gamers demand and to pay the bigger and bigger teams) but wages have not. Ppl should be asking why isn’t our minimum high enough I can afford a game with a few hours of work (the equivalent of less than half an extra shift if you wanted to take it once a month)?

    Essentially: please gain class consciousness, bite every billionaire, demand minimum wage and thus all other wages be raised to keep up with inflation and suddenly you will have money for games and consoles, and game devs will be able to make quality products that allow them to feed their families.

    Evil #2, (this evil is also why AI has gotten so big) is that art has been even further reduced to things that are solely meant to be consumed, spit out and then immediately forgotten for the next item of consumption. This conflating of art (and video games are art!) with products and consumption is the other half of the nuance here. It’s not wrong for people to ask, hell even to demand they get paid well for making good art. They should be getting paid well for it.

    Either that or gamers need to lower their impossible standards.

    Anyways. Corporations are evil and not your friend, that includes Nintendo, but please consider using this anger to gain class consciousness and realize that the real thing to be mad about is not that games and consoles are more expensive, but that you are not getting paid enough, are being exploited, capitalism is a failed system and all billionaires are evil and need to be forcibly divested of their money.

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  • audpaints

    The good feeling when a little cat rests their head against you like you’re a pillow is actually pretty significant

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  • girltony

    girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

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