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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below

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[–] 126 points 3 months ago (23 children)

This is fucking pathetic

At least no actual harm was done to a site of archaeological significance to placate a bunch of fucking nerds

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    a bunch of fucking nerds

    Lol Harry Potter readers being nerdy kids may have been true in the late 90s or early 00s. Most fans of the movies are normies.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    It wasn’t even true then. Harry Potter was the flagship of the Scholastic book fair at the time along with books like Animorphs.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Have you read Animorphs? Those books were bought entirely by people judging them based on their cover. They have kids on them turning into a different animal on each. That just looked cool. If I had had the money for it, I too would have collected them, entirely based on the animals on the cover (I'll take the dog, the hawk, and the dolphin, thanks). 99% of kids who bought them would have done so for the exact same reason.

    The actual story is some of the least kid-friendly I've ever heard. It's filled with body horror, cosmic horror, guerilla warfare and espionage with child soldiers, children losing their bodies, children losing their minds through torture, kids having existential crises after witnessing and participating horrific acts of war, countless murders of loved ones, planet scale genocide, etc. It's not for normies. I don't know anyone personally that has actually read the whole series, including myself. I have watched a guy on YouTube go over the plot in summary and... holy fuck. Those books are darker than anything I've read as an adult.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know anyone personally that has actually read the whole series, including myself.

    I think I have? There might be a side book or two I missed, I think I only read one of the choose your own adventure ones. But I read the main series all the way to the end and the ‘main’ side stories (Hork-Bajir Chronicles, etc). I enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid, it definitely influenced a lot of my anti-war feelings.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    You can get the ebooks for free with the author's blessing. I started reading them as a kid when they were new but couldn't find the books readily enough. Found them again as an adult and read the whole series. It's far better written than anything Rowling has ever penned and has the added benefit of Applegate being an actual decent human being.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I was a kid back then so I definitely read some of them. Though I have no memory of them having a related story or a contiguous plot line, or really of any of the plot lines anyway. I vaguely remember that there were more books later on, I’m pretty sure the ones I read were like the first few published.

    I definitely remember there being Animorphs posters in our school library and shit and the software used to make the cover was very popular, at the time it was also used in several TV shows and such.

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  • [–] 103 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Tasteless transphobic nerds.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    This is so frustrating. My sister loves HP and refuses to discuss Rowling. While still buying merch that directly supports her.

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  • [+] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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  • [+] -12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The Bronze Age burial site is nerdy, to bury the dead in the first place and to study it a thousand years later is nerdy, that is to say the product of a complex mind. Perhaps over-complex but that is beyond the scope of this post, enough to say its all a bit nerdy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    If burying one's dead is nerdy, we might throw the concept out entirely lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It is nerdy in the sense it is the product of complex thought, same as fiction, same as prehistoric burial sites which came about because someone dreamt the sun god said that appeases him and honours the dead. It is all the same box of tricks.

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