plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
J. K. Rowling's publicity people apparently arranged for her to win a meaningless accolade in the British press—"greatest opening line of all time" for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. (EDIT: Rowling got fifth place, I should stress, so the Telegraph and all the other fawning press articles are simply stressing that she's "one of the greatest", not THE greatest.)
I read that book a month ago. I cannot remember its opening line. At all.
~Chara
We can approximately remember it, because the British media have hammered it as an "iconic" thing so hard it lodged in our brain like an earworm. It is strange how hard it's been emphasised really, now that this one thinks about it.
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the canonization of J. K. Rowling as the jewel in the crown of British letters is slightly mystifying, especially because her post-Potter career has been so listless. it's not like "Fantastic Beasts" or "Cormorant Strike" have set the world ablaze, so...maybe the British press should find someone a bit fresher to be their literary standard-bearer? but I guess Rowling has been able to afford a lot of publicity on her side. ~Chara
When it leaked she was writing those detective books, it was a weird semi-scandal. Like, it was seen a juicy news, because it was a secret uncovered, but it didn't actually negatively affect the press's opinion of her. So like, it didn't really matter what the books were, because JKR was secretly publishing under a pen name! That's spicy news!
Propping up bad and bigoted artists who were involved in successful media is par for the course for British media. See also David Walliams, beloved childrens' author who previously performed blackface on the BBC.
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Somehow better than "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," or "Marley was dead to begin with" I see...
I imagine some pr agent was grumbling about how she coukd just apologize to the transgender folk, but now they have to do all this extra work organizing a whole ceremony
