The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”
the hunger games is a really good example bc on the base textual level of stuff like what happens and the order of events they got it mostly right but they also
whitewashed half or more of the cast
removed multiple canonical disabilities in main characters
marketed it as a love triangle
basically did literally everything the villains of the book did which made it super fucking obvious
Good Backwards World Building: In the Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery mobile game, your player character must learn the charm Silencio, which causes the target to temporarily be unable to make any sound,during their fifth year at Hogwarts. During the class, it is revealed that one of the side effects of a failed Silencio charm is for the target of the spell to begin to swell uncontrollably. For players who are clever and remember the books, this will ring a bell- it was never explained why Aunt Marge in The Prisoner of Azkaban started swelling up when Harry got angry, only that he accidentally did magic. This reveal shows that in anger, his subconscious was likely trying to “shut her up”, causing a mis-cast Silencio charm, and therefore the side-effect of swelling. The reveal doesn’t change anything about the characters or their motivations, or add anything in particular to the plot. It’s just a neat bit of trivia.
Bad Backwards World Building: JKR tweets that [x] was part of [x minority group], even though there was no indication of such in the text, simply because it adds representation in hindsight.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is the greatest thing to happen to the HP canon since Deathly Hallows
Friendly note: if you have issues with reality or dissociation, don’t watch the new Black Mirror. Or if you do, have someone you trust on hand to keep an eye on you. It plays with the concepts of time, experience, memory and free will— if any of those are triggers, keep yourself safe.
financial goals: bathtub that’s deep enough for me to be 100% fully submerged; preferably one of those triangle corner ones. Also maybe being debt free but the tub comes first
me, 8 years old, sitting in the largest bathtub that they have on display in the Home Depot:
In 1952, Christine Jorgensen appeared in The New York Daily News after her return to her native United States from Denmark, where she underwent sex reassignment surgery. The paper incorrectly stated that Christine was the first recipient of this surgery (two other trans women had undergone the procedure two decades previously). She was, however, the first trans person to undergo hormone replacement therapy. After her first surgery Christine wrote to a friend: “Remember the shy, miserable person who left America? Well, that person is no more and, as you can see, I’m in marvelous spirits.”
Christine was a sensation in her home state of New York. She used her newfound fame as a platform on which to advocate for transgender people. Complications in her personal life arose when Christine was blocked from marriage to a man because her 1926 birth certificate listed her sex as male. This prompted her later influence on other trans people’s decisions to change their assigned sex and names on birth certificates. As an advocate and spokesperson, Christine spoke publicly about her experiences. She was also not one to take offensive comments lightly, once walking off The Dick Cavett Show live.
Throughout the 70′s and 80′s Christine also performed as an actress and entertainer. In one act she sang a song entitled “I Enjoy Being a Girl” at the end of which she changed into a Wonder Woman costume. She was also known for her direct nature and great wit. Christine died in 1989 at the age of 62. Just before her death she said she had given the sexual revolution “a good swift kick in the pants.” She was inducted into the Legacy Walk in 2012.
[IDs: First image is a full body photo of Christine Jorgensen, a fair skinned blonde woman, sitting on a stairway railing. She is wearing a knee length black dress, black pumps, a white fur coat, and red lipstick. She is sitting with her legs crossed and smiling at the camera.
Second image is a scan of a newspaper headline that reads “Ex-gi becomes blonde beauty. Operations transform Bronx youth.”
Third image is another photo of Christine. She is wearing a black hat, brown fur coat, colorful scarf brown gloves, and red lipstick. She is surrounded by many microphones and has a cigarette in her hand. She is smiling and looking to the right of the camera. End IDs.]
