I think a lot of it has to do with the very modern trend of crowning a given director after they’ve directed 1 film of note. A lot of them just turn out to be mediocre to average storytellers who used up all of their best ideas on their first film. I am not saying that Chloe Zhao is one of them, but the director of A…

We need a piss-take movie of his life where he’s played by Christopher McDonald NOW. 

Cool concept, looks good!

“Hey, baby, you know Papa John, the franchise, but what about Papa Boner, the owner?”

and telling conservative news outlet OANN that he’ll spend 20 months trying “to get rid of this N-word in my vocabulary and dictionary and everything else.”

Of course, John Schnatter’s greatest crime was creating the worst fast-food pizza in recorded history.

The most frustrating thing about America is that you have this shadowy cabal of powerful progressive elite leftists, and they spend so much of their unlimited resources cancelling loudmouth pizza executives that they never get around to practical policy stuff like firing all the cops or burning down the suburbs.

I ate a Papa John’s pizza and Schnattered all over myself. 

Yeah, Sir Terry definitely had a lot of stuff to talk about starting around the third Discworld book, where Rowling’s messages and themes seem to be largely incidental (she sort of understands she’s talking about racism, unless your name is Cho Chang) or a muddied mess (everything with the house elves).

Ha, I know the US is having a rough time with this right now, but I feel like you can always count on the Brits for some good old-fashioned anti-Semitism.

Discworld is amazing and its a great loss that Terry isn't around anymore.  I'd trade him for Rowling in a heartbeat. 

Do you read Sutter Cane?

Based on his work, it seems he was at the very least tolerant of trans people if not an outright ally. Plus there’s the fact that both his daughter and Neil Gaiman both attest he was not a TERF.

Not to mention the fact that the wizarding world is, as a whole, totally ok with using slave labor, and Hermione’s attempts to reform are consistently used as a source of humor.  

what was the point of this?

For me, it depends on how separable the artists’ issues/faults are from their art.  Like, it seems impossible to separate Woody Allen from the dozens of movies he’s made about neurotic older men and the attractive younger women who fall for them, but tons of LGBTQ+ kids saw a message of acceptance in the HP books, so…

Discworld is mostly a bit much for children though, no? I mean aside from the handful of entries specifically aimed at younger readers. Otherwise, I think even though they’re lighthearted to a grownup reader, they’re chock full of complex cultural references and otherwise heady concepts. But yeah, Discworld is…

As someone who grew up with the series it’s fascinating how much damage Rowling did to it even before opening her mouth about people of colour and transpeople. The continued forcing of new addons that take away from the original novels, the incessant retconning to deal with plotholes (having the Hogwarts Express in…

Yeah, the Discworld books had a really humane, inquisitive, tolerant perspective that took on all kinds of issues. Small Gods was always my favourite, but Hogfather was a regular seasonal read for me for a good few years. Maybe it’s time to dig out a copy again.

Also Sir Terry seemed to have a much more complex message than TERF Wizard Writer. Like Going Postal is a clear condemnation of companies holding monopolies over utilities because they can basically charge outrageous prices for poor services and Hogfather is an exploration in why kids believing in Santa can be a good…