The Roodeness Shenanigans

I was doing some reading on banned books this morning and learned that Harry Potter has been banned due to the characters "using nefarious means to attain goals"
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What kinda boring books are you reading, Karen? Don't you enjoy a bit of nefariousness once and a while?

I think that might pertain to the magic, since it could be likened to witchcraft and some certain extremists don't like that, even in books

No, the witchcraft was a separate ban. I think this one was meant to be about the kids disobeying teachers and sneaking around or something.

huh. that's dumb

huh. that's dumb

I was doing some reading on banned books this morning and learned that Harry Potter has been banned due to the characters "using nefarious means to attain goals"
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What kinda boring books are you reading, Karen? Don't you enjoy a bit of nefariousness once and a while?

Ayy I was reading about banned books on ALA yesterday. Of course, most of the banned and challenged books were queer related.

Eight of the top ten books banned in 2019 were queer, all except for Harry Potter (wItChCrAfT!!!) and The Handmaid's Tale.

I love that you can just hear the sheer done-ness in the ALA's tone in their reasons for banning, especially in the top 10 of 2017.

Let's be real, people banning The Hate U Give for "profanity and drug use" have a much, much different reason for actually wanting to ban it. Same with the people who want to ban Anne Frank's diary for being "sexually explicit" or whatever they're trying to ban it for.

Apparently Fun Home was challenged for violence? I literally finished reading it 10 minutes ago and there really wasn't any violence shown. I get the "graphic images" part but it never felt like it was supposed to be, like, erotic or anything. Maybe I'm too ace to get it lol.

crazy how people just coincidentally want to ban books that shed light upon important social issues for reasons completely unrelated to the social issues. obviously they just don't like their children having access to sexually explicit material, and they are not at all trying to suppress dissenting voices in order to better indoctrinate them

Do you ever just subscribe to a random YouTuber then realize 5 videos later that he loves One Piece

my mom is trying to get me to go with my school district's online school to keep the money with them, but looking at the fucked up list of courses that make no sense to me isn't really selling me on the idea

I saw Captain Underpants getting challenged and the reason was that it "encourages disruptive behavior" or something like that, until I noticed that the REAL reason was because there was a same-sex couple. Like, wow. It's a kids comic. Get over it.

Especially since the context is that the final book does a little epilogue and it shows that one of the two leads (I don't remember their names lol) ends up marrying a guy. It's not even like there's a central gay couple or anything, like one panel of the kid all grown up and next to his husband is ban-worthy to these clowns.

crazy how people just coincidentally want to ban books that shed light upon important social issues for reasons completely unrelated to the social issues. obviously they just don't like their children having access to sexually explicit material, and they are not at all trying to suppress dissenting voices in order to better indoctrinate them

Gotta love how a teenage girl who died in the Holocaust writing a few diary entries about feelings she has for people is apparently ban-worthy.

Since jkr sucks, I move we accept AVPM as canon and the books as fanfic

I still can't believe they got Evanna Lynch to actually be in the third one-

I want to do all the things but the only thing I'm able to sit down and do is scroll through pinterest and watch the trail to oregon for the fiftieth time

Oops now it's time for Good Idea or Bad Idea: I Actually Have No Clue

I just remembered Wayside Stories from Wayside School and now I can't stop thinking about the one where the teacher made ice cream that tasted like what each of her students tasted all the time and named it after them so they all thought the others' were great and their own was flavorless

oh my gold how dare you make me remember that fever dream pickles

Oops now it's time for Good Idea or Bad Idea: I Actually Have No Clue

Update: I'm sort of rolling with it and I named the main character after Eva because Evelyn is a pretty name