Nangijala @ Nangijala @feddit.dk

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I had a black cat once. She was the smartest, funniest little thing and her farts were deadly.

Personally, I don't think GoT was good past season 4. The drop in quality writingwise was staggering and characters like Jaime were being progressively treated like a joke because they cut out significant parts of the plot from the books and flat out skipped a whole book because they got bored. Jaime's arc in the show stopped being good after season 4. Just like everyone else's. His arc in the books was way more interesting. He didn't go back to cersei and go get Myrcella. He was put there leading sieges and shit while leaving cersei behind to her own devices.

It's sad we will never get the rest of the books, but I'm sure George would have thought up something way better for Jaime than what they did to him in the show for the last four seasons.

Meanwhile, Zuko's arc worked because they knew what they were doing with him from start to finish.

Him talking to a frog is one of the best things in the show.

I love that once he lost his anger, he's just a massive dork.

Zuko is tenthousand times better than Jaime.

As a Dane, I had myself a dad-joke chuckle since the word mis is our word for pussycat.

Yeah, I see what you mean! In that sense, I don't think we disagree all that much, actually :D

What things in the books have you noticed? I only read the first 4 and got stuck in the 5th - twice. My latest read was ten to twelve years ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. I just remember being incredibly unimpressed with the writing and story during my last read while still enjoying the world and atmosphere. Didn't pick up on any weird views and beliefs back then, I think.

Oh, Vance was like that? Haha explains a lot, lol. How sad for him. That man was never on my radar until he start insulting my country and passing on Zelenskyj on international TV. The vibe I got from him is that he's the type of guy who will suck up to everyone and stab everyone in the back the minute he sees the benefit to himself. Makes sense if he used to be super liberal.

As for Rowling, I honestly think most of her strange behavior has less to do about personal beliefs and more to do with wanting admiration and being incapable of admitting fault. I wrote a longer comment to someone else about how I see Rowling and while it's all speculation, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be how she functions.

With people who behave like that, it is rarely about the cause itself and more about something deeper. I believe Rowling is addicted to attention and is terrified of being wrong. Those two are a very bad combo. Especially when you have spent 20 years being praised as the queen of children's literature and has been beloved and idolized like a god where people take everything you say and turn them into inspirational quotes on their social medias and tell you how you ARE their childhoods etc. Suddenly being confronted with pushback when you have been riding a high for years must be kind of startling. Especially when all you have in your tool box is doubling down and making strong statements on social issues, lol.

If I had infinite time, I would genuinely love to dissect what the hell her psychology is, why she is the way that she is and how we got here because I only have the cliffnotes version and my vantage point and I just see a pattern of behavior that goes way, way deeper than political issues and activism.

Giving someone the benefit of the doubt isn't the same as being an apologist.

I think that there are aspects of her personality that sadly lends itself to her ending up in situations like this, but I see the trans stuff more so as a symptom and not a belief she's held strongly and evily her whole life.

The things I have noticed about Rowling's character is that she seems to love being praised like a hero or an icon. I think she wants to be a role model because she kinda became one when she wrote her books. I think it gave her a high she hasn't been able to feel since.

I have also noticed that Rowling tends to double down on things she say. When she started retconing Harry Potter and making everyone retroactively black and gay, she became very aggressive toward anyone who disagreed or questioned this depiction of hers. Back then, people didn't care as much because she was PC so while she was obnoxious, she was still perceived to be somewhat well-meaning, if in a performative way.

I think she is a massive perfectionist who's terrified of being wrong or less perfect. I think she retconed her characters because she wanted the credit of being ahead of her time. It wasn't enough to have written the most popular book series for kids and teens, that changed the landscape of children's literature. No. She also needed the credit of being PC before it was cool. Even if that wasn't the case.

She also started calling people fascist on Twitter, pewdiepie being one of them and she never backed down from that statement despite being entirely misinformed and ignorant about the situation with him. I vaguely remember similar instances where she would barge in to discussions on Twitter and make statements that were foolish and uninformed and never apologizing for anything or taking the L.

When the trans stuff happened, it just makes sense to me that she would double down on that too because she cannot be wrong. Personally I don't think her initial comments on the subject were all that wild, but the things I have heard her say and do since sounds pretty extreme and to me is in line with her pattern of doubling down and going to the extremes to be right before ever admitting fault or backing down.

In that sense, I agree that the pattern of behavior probably was a reoccurring thing for many years, but I don't believe she hated trans people always. I also don't believe she cared about PC stuff until it became popular. All those things are mere symptoms of a deeper character flaw of someone who yearns for validation and to be right. But this is just me armchair diagnosing here and I don't know enough about her past nor about how she is as a person, but based on the things I have casually observed her do for almost two decades, I do believe that this current behavior of hers was cultivated and nurtured rather than being how she was day one. I think she gave in to her negative traits and the fact that she ended up clinging to trans issues, to me, is more down to chance than the core motivation for her. It could have been anything else, honestly, but it became trans stuff.

And no, I am not apologizing for her because I have always found her behavior fucking cringe and misguided. I just don't believe she has always been a trans hater. At the end of the day, I do kind of feel sorry for her in the same way I feel sorry for Musk and Trump and all his lickspittles.

What hole must you have inside to feel such an urge to self-destruct and actively hurt other people when you feel the smallest bit of pushback or rejection? That must be a very sad existence.

I don't think you read my comment.

I don't know what happened to her, but all this bs began after she finished the books. For years she was desperate to not fade into obscurity and first tried to cater to the pc crowd and then it slowly turned to hate and harassment against people who weren't pc enough. Then the trans bs started and while I have not kept up with her since she called pewdiepie a fascist, I can tell that she's sticking to her MO of doubling down on something even when people try and tell her to let it go. I don't think she started out as a bad person, but I think all the wealth and attention kinda fucked her up. It's almost like witnessing an addict going from recreational usage of drugs, to becoming a meth addict on a street corner who is willing to do anything to remain relevant in any way.

But wtf do I know. All I can say is that it's kinda nice to finally be able to say that the writing in the Harry Potter books was mid af. Ten years ago ppl told me to kill myself, lol. I still think it's a fun world and the worldbuilding is great as long as you don't start asking questions, but the actual writing and storytelling? Pretty amateur in my humble opinion. I have felt this way since I lost interest in the series around 2006 and I still feel this way. Still haven't managed to finish the books because I hate the fifth one with a passion. The editor was on vacation when she wrote that drivel.

Tbf when I was 8-9 years old I thought that 14 year olds were fully grown adults.

Regrettably no. I would imagine myself unhinge my jaw and eat all the trees and brushes we would pass. For whatever reason, kindergarten-me strongly believed that everything without a heartbeat looked very delicious and edible. Trees, clouds, snow, sand, windmills, brick buildings, flags, other cars, busses and the sun itself.

Grew out of that phase when I began school, but yeah. In a way I kinda miss being so young and new to living that you're still figuring out what is and isn't possible. The world seemed a lot more fun when you didn't yet know the rules, lol.

Vegans: I'm vegan

Society: OK.

Greeks: that's okay. I make lamb.

My boyfriend of a decade and a half told me he had been suspecting I had it for awhile. He had been suspecting it for years. Just never said anything because we were managing pretty well and he didn't want to throw a bomb into my life unless it was necessary.

When he told me, I was in the middle of having a mental breakdown over my inability to focus at work. He told me he felt I deserved to know because he hated how hard I was on myself and he wanted me to understand that I couldn't help it.

It changed a lot for me when he said it. In a way it felt like something clicked into place, sort of. I have since spent a little over a year learning about ADHD and understanding what my symptoms are and where I am similar or different to the listed symptoms.

I have tried to get a referral twice. First time the doctor I saw refused to give me one and instead acted very inappropriately with me. The other time I got my referral from another doctor, who was more professional and then I just kinda stopped the process from there. I tried to find a psychiatrist, but it was very overwhelming and the system was very disorganized and confusing to use so I couldn't. I also found out that apparently this whe thing is extremely sensitive to me and the few times I managed to find phone numbers to call, I would start crying uncontrollably and being unable to call anyone because I was so embarrassed about my emotional outbursts.

I decided I would look into it later when I was in a better place mentally, but everytime I have even tried to take a step into getting diagnosed since then, I become very emotional. I don't know how to describe it. It's very embarrassing. I am also extremely terrified of being humiliated. I dont have the best experiences seeking help for mental health stuff so I'm very scared of going through something like that again. And to put myself in a situation where someone is literally there to question my life experiences and determine if they are valid or not. That just fucks with me in ways I can't describe, so while I would really love to be officially diagnosed, I am just too scared of the emotional toll the process would take on me. My boyfriend feels the same way. It was one of the reasons he didn't tell me about his suspicions at first.

So for now I'm living my life with the knowledge that I probably have some form of ADHD and I try to be a bit more forgiving of myself when I mess up and I try to embrace the parts pf me I tried to erase my whole life. In that sense, it has helped me a lot. Even if it isn't ADHD, it does help to keep in mind that I have always done my best and that my best just isn't as good as most people's average.

Or be Danish:

American: I have been to Denmark! I love Denmark.

Visits Copenhagen only 🤡

Especially offensive if you are a Jut like moi. You motherfuckers come here and think Copenhagen is Denmark, yet entirely ignore the rest of the country and especially Jutland where the vikings lived, Amleth's grave is, where the king's used to be crowned, the earliest Danish law that predates your frigging country by several centuries AND it is the place that Tolkien based Middle Earth and characters like Eowyn on. You could literally go visit the real Helms Deep, Isengard, Aros and Esgaroth and you could go visit the place of the legendary shieldmaiden Hervør who inspired Eowyn and in some ways Aragorn too.

But no no. cOpEnHaGen is Denmark. The one city in Denmark where no one speaks Danish, lol.

Same. It satisfies my craving for popping bubble plast. More environmentally friendly too. Win/win.

How is its CMYK profiles in your opinion?

Twitter. Have hated it since it launched and stayed the fuck away from using it until I had a teacher who demanded I make a Twitter profile for a specific workshop. I still regret all these years later that I caved and did as she said. I should have just kept telling her no. Other than that, I have stayed away from that platform and when Felon Muskrat bought it I had no opinions on it because at the time I just saw him as a goofy edge lord and why wouldn't he want to buy the goofiest platform on the internet?

But well, at least he has made most of the rest of the world realize how terrible Twitter is as a social media platform. It always was and it always will be. Fuck that place. I genuinely hope he runs it into the ground completely and that it dies.

Too bad new alternatives have sprung up in the meantime.

I still think it is utterly embarrassing that politicians around the world use these types of crappy as fuck platforms to communicate with the public. I cannot take any of them seriously. It is pathetic and embarrassing.

You know what? You're right. Let's cancel medicine because it is eugenics. Let nature take care of those who are too weak to live. Fuck em.

Fuck vaccines, fuck lifesaving surgery, fick meds, fuck gene-editing that can save a baby from a life of suffering due to severe genetic disorders.

Fuck them all. We wouldn't want to change anything for anyone because that might make some ignorant Karen think that medicine is eugenics.

I assumed they did. Maybe not all, to be fair, but I am pretty sure they have produced audio recordings of books in the past(?)

Maybe I'm just tripping, I dunno.