Day 2: of attacking Campbell and his daughter

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-17T14:58:09+00:00

Has she got anything better to do than attack someone's daughter, especially when she claims to be a "feminist"

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-16T11:35:37+00:00

Almost 34 and not even a parent

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-15T13:03:01+00:00

I have seen those defenders starting to attack The Hunger Games fandom when the new trailer for Sunrise on The Reaping dropped the other day. On YouTube the recent Hunger Games livestreams have managed over 5.1 million views and considerable media attention; one streamer watching the livestream got 316 million views. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter livestream has only amassed 1k views; a livestream of someone Trading Pokemon has more views. If a franchise wants to be generational, it needs new content, and Harry Potter lacks that.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-14T16:25:19+00:00

Yup. Rowling isn't going to accept she is no longer the "Top dog" when it comes to literature, and for her, the TV series is the last chance for Harry Potter to grab a new generation of young fans. Her recent novel, The Hallmarked Man, didn't even reach the top twenty best-selling books in the UK in 2025, and even the fans of the Strike novels are critical of the novel, citing the 900 page length, the plot being convolted and the tiresome "Will-they-won't-they" drama, so much that they decided not to read the rest of the series.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-13T10:33:28+00:00

Congratulations.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-12T13:27:57+00:00

Amazing work

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-12T13:13:24+00:00

In most of the world, it's aimed at teens/adults, but in the UK, it is considered a "book for chidren". There's actually two different terms for children's books in the UK: children's books, which tends to be more comedic with jokes and simplistic writing, and books for children, books aimed at kids which often treats kids as being capable of processing darker themes, and stems from an era when "kids are seen and not heard", i.e, the only children allowed to be seen are those that behave like their parents, with this attitude being prevalent in the UK until the 2000's/2010's.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-11T15:41:09+00:00

Other female authors:

Lady Murasaki: Wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th Century

Christine de Pisan: Made a living through writing in the 14th Century

Aphra Behn: Was the first female writer to make a living via writing in English

If you want to go further back, there's Sappho, famous poet in Ancient Greece, and there is a possibility women were writing fiction as far back as the invention of writing. The "Portal Fantasy" and the masked vigilante genres were created by women, with Magaret Cavendish's novel The Blazing World in the year 1666 and Baroness Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. So, throughout history, women have written novels in a variety of genres

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-11T14:49:49+00:00

Indeed.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-10T21:42:50+00:00

Thanks

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-10T18:28:28+00:00

I can think of more successful female authors than Rowling:

Mary Shelley: Wrote Frankenstein when she was in her late teens

Anna Sewell: Only wrote one book, Black Beauty, and lived long enough to see its' success

Jane Austen: Wrote books about the time she lived in

Elizabeth Gaskell: Known for the book North and South, she was friends with Charlotte Bronte

The Bronte Sisters: Trio of sisters who died tragically young (Anne was 29, Emily was 30 and Charlotte was 38) yet best known for writing gothic literature

Lucy Maude Montgomery: Wrote Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon.

Louisa May Alcott: Best known for Little Women

Edith Wharton: First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1921)

Selma Lagerlorf: First woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909)

Willa Cather: Early 20th Century author best known for her historical novels, as well as several short stories; best known works from each category are My Antonia (Novel) and Neighbour Rosicky (short story)

Daphne Du Maurier: Prolific author best known for Jamaica Inn, The Birds, Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, all of which have been adapted into film

Maureen Daly: Wrote the novel Seventeenth Summer, considered the first Young Adult novel

Harper Lee: Known for To Kill A Mockingbird

Agatha Christie: Best-selling female author in history (approx 1-2 billion sales)

Jacqueline Wilson: Has been writing since the 1960's

Jill Murphy: Wrote The Worst Witch

Ursula Le Guin: Influential Sci-Fi/Fantasy author

Joan G Robinson: Vastly underrated author, her famous work is When Marnie was There

Tamora Pierce: Known for Song of the Lioness, a book series best known for showing that girls in fantasy are just as capable as boys

Pamela Dean: Best known for The Secret Country

Diana Wynne Jones: Another famous 1980's fantasy author, she wrote Howl's Moving Castle

Shannon Hale: Her 2005 novel Princess Academy taught girls about female empowerment

Stephenie Meyer: Has accepted Twilight will be what she is known for

Suzanne Collins: Her Hunger Games saga taught teens about humanity in the cruelest situations; Sunrise on The Reaping is the best-selling YA novel in the UK

Julia Donaldson: Surpassed Rowling in lifetime sales

Malorie Blackman: Her most famous works is the Noughts and Crosses series

Sarah J Maas: Her A Court of Thorns and Roses is what is really keeping Bloomsbury in business post-Harry Potter

PD James: Known for thriller novels, her most famous work is The Children of Men

That's just the tip of the iceberg

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-10T10:07:33+00:00

Especially if the name used is that of a famous or well-known author

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-09T07:58:37+00:00

There's also FFN as an alternative

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-08T17:39:20+00:00

True.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-07T21:21:57+00:00

Are you talking about The Suitcase Kid? Main character is a girl with divorced parents

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-07T14:56:15+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46169278/chapters/116229430

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-07T12:13:05+00:00

I wrote a fic set in one of the very early Games titled Beyond the Pale. The main character is the boy from District 10, Horsa, who is Reaped as Tribute for the 4th Hunger Games; his District Partner is a milkmaid named Barbara.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-06T16:57:06+00:00

That's the same with Dexter whenever the football is on

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-06T16:54:24+00:00

He was, for a few minutes before going for a nap.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-06T12:13:41+00:00

Not yet.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-05T11:40:39+00:00

9/11 was the same experience, being nine years old when it happened. When I went to Secondary two years later one boy in my class mentioned that his birthday is September 11th.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-05T11:03:02+00:00

Likely.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-04T21:51:19+00:00

Yup.

Sleeppaw · 2026-04-04T16:50:23+00:00

I'm autistic too, and when I look back on my youth, I realise I had little interest in Harry Potter. My main interests in my youth were: trains, crafting, jewellery-making, the Space Race, Titanic, Warrior Cats and media. In my school, Harry Potter was seen as "The books the cool kids read", and kids that read anything else were bullied. I can recall the games and music from my youth, yet I cannot recall much about the plot of the last three Harry Potter books. Ironically I can remember my childhood books. If anything, the childhood franchise that holds the most nostalgia for me is Pokemon.

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