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I'm open to discussion, let's see what their reaction is

Then you should find more than enough content

What are you interested in?

The admin of the instance we host the community on is a queer Jewish man, who expressed his feeling about having that community on his instance in this comment: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/6746512

He is still okay with us having that community over there.

Going to the Maldives next week. Never been. Curious what it’s going to be like. Open ideas. Still need to book a hotel even just cheap tickets made it irresistible to go

Hope you'll enjoy it!

That's an interesting theory. He literally comes out of a closet, after all.

Hello,

Thank you for your comment. That's one of our main threads, "On the sensitive topic of being a Harry Potter fan while acknowledging JKR's transphobia" https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/9633657, quoting https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/harry-potter-fans-jk-rowling-transphobia-essay-49214964

Still, there may be a way to enjoy Harry Potter as a trans person or ally. Over the years, many fans have found creative ways to engage with the series's magic while also acknowledging its creator's bigotry. In her paper "Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling," Jennifer Duggan, an associate professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway — says that it's possible to interpret the text of Harry Potter itself in ways that would certainly horrify its writer. "My central thesis—one which has also been argued by other academics like Thomas Pugh and David Wallace — is that the Harry Potter novels are deeply queer," she tells POPSUGAR. "I mean this in both senses of the term: they champion nonnormativity through the contrast of the 'perfectly normal' Dursleys and Harry, and they are, at their heart, a story about a boy with an 'abnormality' (as the Dursleys call his magic) who comes out of his cupboard under the stairs and discovers and finds and affinity for a hidden, colourful, queer world. I take this argument further to argue that the novels are easily read through a trans lens, since there is a focus in many of the books on shapeshifting, including several cross-gendered transformations."

Fandom, she adds, can provide spaces where Harry Potter fans can explore the series's queer undercurrents while celebrating their own sexualities. "From what I have observed, I have concluded that for the most part, the Harry Potter fandom continues to offer queer and trans fans a positive space," she tells POPSUGAR. "The two main trends I have seen in fan works are an 'answer hate with love' reaction, in which fans focus on trans positivity, and so-called 'spitefic,' which are works that are framed as revenge on Rowling for the hurt she has caused. These works are usually trans-positive, too. That said, I fully understand why some fans feel they can no longer engage with the texts in any way."

Link to the research paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9

Small promotion for !harrypotter@literature.cafe

We are now at 43k, so definitely not maximizing

No worries, I should have done it when I posted, but I thought the 6 years ago was a part of the title.

It happened 6 years ago day-to-day, just guessed it could remind some people about their HTC memories

Great recommendations from everyone! Just a small add to !parenting@lemmy.world for people interested in a parenting community

A few of my friends had HTC in 2008, those were cool devices

Well, to be fair this community is much more active than !tolkien@lemmy.world.

Thank you for your contributions, by the way!

Nice meme.

However, couldn't also Eärendil be considered?

Edit: found another possibility:

Legolas is the geographically-closest “elf-prince” to Erebor, where the coat was found. But it’s made of mithril, and that can’t be found in Erebor.

So it was probably forged in Moria. The mithril was definitely mined there. We don’t know exactly when, but we know Moria bordered not one, but two elf-kingdoms (Lorien and Eregion).

Elrond was Gil-galad’s right hand elf, and probably could have claimed the title of high king after the Last Alliance, although he didn’t. He also lived in Eregion for a while, and met his wife in Lorien. He had two sons, both born well before Moria fell to the balrog.

Conclusion: it was forged either for Elladan or Elrohir. They wore it, outgrew it, and gave it back to Durin’s folk, who then brought it with them into exile.

It says "run a Finn" no?

Sorry for your loss

I remember this from years ago, that was nice

Interesting,thanks for sharing

Certain users, I would say, and I kind of agree that most of the people were probably annoyed by the difficulty to discover content, the DDoS on the large instances, broken federation, etc.

On the other hand, how could it have been otherwise? Lemmy is a benevolent open source project, out of the 40k monthly active users there seems to be around 50 willing to contribute to the code (I'm counting the mobile apps, Mbin, Sublinks in there).

We can only be happy with what we have now, and think how to address the issues we have progressively.