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King Dedede once again the misunderstood hero (thelemmy.club)
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There was an episode of the Kirby anime that's a spoof of Harry Potter, complete with a visit by the author "Rowlin". It was part of the trend of praise for it making children like to read.

Wikirby: "In the Japanese version, King Dedede burns allofthe copies of Pappy Pottey that he steals from Cappy Town in a massive bonfire as the crowd watches in horror. This scene is not present nor mentioned in the international versions."
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[–] 10 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

I was spared the HP mind virus by this mind virus

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

    I was a hater as a kid just cause I'd read the first book when I was like 8 or so and thought it kinda sucked. At the time my thoughts were along the lines of 'i already have to go to school every day, why would I read about going to school in my free time?'. Then a couple years later Fellowship of the Ring became a movie and there were lines drawn between LOTR kids and Harry Potter kids in my school for a bit. I was the LOTR kid who immediately got the books from the library after seeing the first movie and struggled through em cause, while I was damn good at reading for my age, Tolkien's archaic word choices were difficult.

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  • [–] 3 points 44 minutes ago (3 children)

    My (at the time) favorite cousin was a huge HP nerd when we were young and tried getting me into them. I talked to my mom about getting the books and she gave me LotR and Stephen King's Dark Tower books instead. Later on she gave me Dune because she liked the movie (1984.) I've told her many times how much trouble she saved me by doing that, even though it was kind of accidental.

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  • [–] 3 points 38 minutes ago (2 children)

    My cousin who is a year older than me has 3 kids and is a Harry Potter fan, she showed me a tattoo she got expecting me to recognize it one time assuming I was familiar with Harry Potter. Her oldest kid and I have a good rapport, she liked my cool punk style from a young age and now she's 18 and has green hair and is into Italian Disco. I was handing her down books her whole childhood cause I didn't want her Disney adult mom fucking things up.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    See, I was in a similar situation

    I was reading actual fantasy novels (oddly enough, I didn't touch LOTR until college) since elementary school and thought Harry Potter was "baby shit"

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago

    I was never a big fantasy guy aside from Tolkien and Pratchett. I have made minor contributions to Tolken academia regarding some low hanging fruit that somehow got missed. I got into Pratchett as an adult and am just getting back in now. But i've always been a sci fi dork and was reading star wars novels and Asimov when Harry Potter got big. I had tried a decent amount of fantasy by that time, enough to start to realize it maybe wasn't my favorite type of book and for sure enough to realize how boring and derivative Harry Potter was. There was nothing interesting at all being done with this fantasy. They go to school and the chosen one turns out to be a hero by the end of the year and he's the best at everything all the time.

    My English teachers loved me. Im 3rd grade we all had to do a half hour of free form writing every couple of days. Most people did half assed journal entries. I wrote an absolutely bonkers stream of consciousness serial novel over the course of the year! surrounding the adventures of Frank Miser, private eye later turned secret agent. I dont remember much but I know for my Christmas story assignment he was sent to the north pole to bust up an elf strike. My dad was on strike at the time and helped me with terminology and explained a lot of labor issues to me. I did write it myself but he gave it a go over and helped make my second draft more informed. Full writer's room situation. My parents rock. My dad and I can fucking riff. My parents still accidentally call me Louie cause when I was a toddler my dad felt like this walking around, me as a toddler being the short boss gangster:

    And misrembered the boss's name mixing it up with a Flintstones episode where there was also a mob boss named 88 Fingers Louie and the nickname Louie just kinda stuck. This kinda stuff in my reallt early childhood has made me a hilarious adult and also really boosted my literacy cause by us making fun of early childhood books together before I could read, I learned to analyze text before I could interpret it.

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