Glad I found you sensible people.
I honestly expected this thread to be the opposite because that is basically all I've seen on the internet lately... but I just don't understand the bashing and cancelling and deliberate misquoting stuff. The responses were truly hilarious lol.
I'm a big fan of Strike and love the foil of Robin for his character. The show is great, though the details in the books really make it more interesting for me. I recommend the audiobooks as well!
Truthfully I've just been so down because of all the negativity... I can't even mention that I like HP because people want to argue about it and think they know the situation, but have only read tweets by others calling JKR a terf... so they call her a terf too. A few pages back someone mentioned people leaving a conversation without explaining their POV because they felt unsafe and attacked. I have witnessed this multiple times. The strangest place this happened for me was on the goodreads page for Troubled Blood before the book was even released where a trans person claimed that people were attacking them because they were offended and other people don't get to decide what's offensive to a trans person... meanwhile there were other trans people in the comments saying the original comment had nothing to do with being trans... it was bizarre and nonsensical.
*SPOILERS FOR TROUBLED BLOOD: I read multiple reviews and articles (stemming from and quoting one other review published in the days before it came out) that said the serial killer in the book was trans and JKR was intentionally implying that trans people were dangerous... when that is not the case at all. If they had read the book, they would realize that the character is very much a straight man who abducts, rapes, and kills women, but pretends to be a comforting friendly face... possibly less threatening because of his small stature, to attract said women. I believe it's mentioned that he may have worn or borrowed a woman's coat which is used to link several possibilities within the story together. END SPOILER*
Thanks for letting me rant about it. Feel free to agree or disagree or give your opinion if you've also read Troubled Blood.
Oh no, I've just figured out you can mark spoilers with an actual tab in the drop down menu, but it's too late to edit! Sorry all! Very new here!