J. K. Rowling goes to Writer Hell and sits around a table drinking with Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl

The TV is constantly blaring in the background with, like, Steven Universe or something. It's a racially diverse, queer- and fat-positive show by a Jewish creator. The TV would piss off Dahl in particular on top of everything else.

Rowling would be trying to get Fleming and Dahl to respect her as One Of The Lads. Fleming would see her as, like, on the same level as some of the more educated Bond girls, but still fundamentally think of her as A Girl (and a not too bad looking one, especially if we go with the Return of the Jedi Special Edition rule that the afterlife de-ages you) and treat her accordingly. Fleming and Dahl were both womanizers themselves, not to mention spy buddies during World War II, so they'd probably end up fighting over Rowling.

They'd also get into an argument about

  1. Israel (Dahl is anti Israel and uses that as an excuse to bash Jews, Rowling is pro Israel and also hates Jews)

  2. who can come up with the most offensive character name

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u/PablomentFanquedelic — 15 hours ago

Not sure if I should tag this as Meme, Discussion, or Pop Culture portrayals, since these actors are both dead:

But if I had a time machine, among other things I would absolutely go back to the early 1960s and make an epic 18th Dynasty period film starring Lena Horne as Hatshepsut and Omar Sharif as Senenmut.

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u/PablomentFanquedelic — 4 days ago

In the competition of which Problematic Children's Author materially contributed the most to concrete, societal-scale harm against marginalized populations (as opposed to Problematic Children's Authors who abused individuals, like Gaiman and possibly also Barrie and/or Carroll)

J. K. Rowling would have stiff competition in the form of Rudyard Kipling

But on the other hand my impression is that Kipling, even as an active colonizer in a bloodsoaked empire, bore a lot less obsessive personal malice toward Asian and African colonial subjects than Rowling bears toward trans people (and has the added benefit of having been dead for 90 orientalist, orientalist years)

If you asked Kipling his opinions on trans people in particular, I get the feeling he'd find the whole concept delightfully quaint and write some twee poem exoticizing Eastern "ladyboys" and "eunuchs" or hailing the heroic exploits of "women who dressed up as men"

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u/PablomentFanquedelic — 6 days ago

Cardinal rule of the fantasy noir subgenre: If your name is Jessica, the villain is probably played by someone previously known as a time-traveling doctor

u/PablomentFanquedelic — 2 months ago

Does "block all accounts" affect new accounts created on a separate device on which the person previously logged in but didn't create the account you're blocking?

For example, if

  • Alice creates an IG account on her phone

  • Alice logs onto the account on her laptop

  • Betty blocks that account and all accounts created by the same person

  • Alice creates a new IG account on her laptop

will Betty's block cover that new account?

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u/PablomentFanquedelic — 2 months ago

Does "block all accounts" affect new accounts created on a separate device on which the person previously logged in but didn't create the account you're blocking?

For example, if

  1. Alice creates an IG account on her phone

  2. Alice logs onto the account on her laptop

  3. Betty blocks that account and all accounts created by the same person

  4. Alice creates a new IG account on her laptop

will Betty's block cover that new account?

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u/PablomentFanquedelic — 2 months ago