I’d also include things like playing HP video games, buying merchandise, etc., in that.
Maybe, but only the books and movies were explicitly mentioned. (“I like the books and the movies, and have no problem consuming them”)
I suppose I’ll have to give up on that one, as for some time I’ve been seeing it in the wider sense, in which it seems to mean “purchase or otherwise use, including just looking at.”
I gave up years ago on “fulfillment”; though when I first started seeing “fulfillment center” it really seemed to me that they ought to be offering spiritual and/or emotional satiation, not anything whatsoever including all the way down to miscellaneous tchotchkes destined to be rapidly tossed out.
I missed the Harry Potter boat. I think for the most part you had to have been a certain age at a certain time to gain fanatical devotion to the series. I saw some of the movies. Didn’t blow me away. I’ve heard the books aren’t really that well written.
Any curiosity I might have has been overshadowed by anti-trans rhetoric. I do know a trans guy who begged me to read them because he felt he had to separate the art from the artist, so formative were these books to his life and identity.
Overall it’s just a big meh for me.
Yeah, I have a niece who is currently 29 years old. When she was a child she was a huge Harry Potter fan. I guess that was the age.
There’s a drive-in up near Baltimore. My wife’s gone but I haven’t.
I went to the drive in a few times as a child - best part was a playground at the front right under the screen that we played at before the movie.
Then in college I went to a porno movie theater w my boyfriend. I don’t think we got up to any hijinks because you got sound through the radio. Which drained the battery, so we had to keep starting the car, then stopping it so we didn’t run out of gas. Definitely a mood killer.
Also Houston/summer. You had your choice of windows closed for a sauna, or windows open for a skeeter fest
I vaguely remember seeing Paper Moon at a long-since-closed drive-in west of Pittsburgh when I was a kid. I think my sisters and I might even have been in our PJs so we could sleep in the car on the drive back, and then just be carried to our beds.
There are two drive-ins within about 40 minutes of our house, but I’ve never been to either, and they may even be closed.
I would consider the first gesture sweet, and quite sad - and take the money. I would wish that that unrequited-crush person would have made their feelings known while still alive, so I could have talked to them about it.
In the second instance, it’s somewhat creepy, but I’m still taking the money.
Heh, same here. I’m having trouble thinking of a scenario where I’d decline the cash.
I think it’s somewhere between sweet and creepy.
I’d probably take the money, and probably donate some to the charity if it’s one
of which i approve. Maybe another charity if not.
I do know Potter fans older than that, including a man in his fifties, but I think to get into it it helps if you were paying attention to it at the time, reading the books when they first came out, etc. I dunno, it’s like trying to get into Game of Thrones after everyone is done talking about it. Half of the fun, I presume, is talking about it with other people who are just as excited and full of anticipation as you are.
My niece is a smidge older (31), but the HP books and movies were a big part of her childhood; she and her mother (my sister) were living with her grandparents (my parents) when she was little, and part of the bedtime ritual for her was her mother, or one of her grandparents, reading a chapter of Harry Potter to her.
(FWIW, my niece now wants nothing to do with HP, thanks to Rowling’s anti-trans stance.)
Though i was in my 30s when the books started coming out, I became a big fan, thanks to my wife: at that time, she was an elementary-school teacher, and Scholastic Books (with which her school did book sales for kids) was the publisher of the HP books in the U.S., so she discovered the first book (and introduced me to it) just as the phenomenon began to take off.
I’m too broke to turn the money down.
@Velocity, as usual, I need an “other”, or a “maybe”. I’d need to know how the other person felt about it, first; and also more about the circumstances.
Which is why I’ll never go.
This. I’m also quite willing to reread Marion ZImmer Bradley and listen to Rolf Harris.
I was 44 when I read the first two HP books (which my mother-in-law, who was then working as a librarian, had bought to see what all the fuss was about). I’ve read all seven books but only reread the first four – after the last one came out – to see what I could find in the way of foreshadowing, and have seen all but the next-to-last movie. My daughter owns and has reread all seven books.
You’ve never read Consumer Reports? I don’t think they’ve ever had anything to do with food.
Leaning toward sweetly creepy, or creepily sweet?
Diane Duane.
I’d take the money in both cases, though I can’t imagine either of the background stories to have ever happened.
I’ve been to a drive-in twice – Pinocchio, with my sister and her husband, and Doc Savage, with a male friend (neither of us is gay).
A restaurant I occasionally frequent has two Michelin rosettes, which I believe is basically the level below one star. It’s pretty good apart from their desserts which are decidedly unimpressive.
Yeah, I remember my niece got “Half-Blood Prince” the day it was released to bookstores. I happened to be with them that day.
A dead person wants to give me their money? Sure, I’ll take it.
In the case of the old classmate, I’d find it sweet, but, like @Velocity, I’d be saddened that they never came forward in life.
In the case of the stranger, I voted “creepy,” but that’s maybe not the most accurate word. When I think about what that person’s life must have been like to do such a thing, it’s sad again, but in a different way.
I was thinking just … interesting.
The whole getting married if it was the most practical thing to do… I voted “Yes” which is decidedly the minority option in votes right now (30%) - but I’ve seen in my own life people get married for non-love reasons. I have a now more distant pair of friends that before the whole loosening of the +1 in health insurance got married so that their partner (non-romantic, they were both largely asexual) could have the benfits.
They were good friends, but not romantically interested in each other, or anyone else for that matter. So quickie marriage to make it nice and legal, and they keep interacting exactly as before. Of course, in many ways, they were a better ‘couple’ than many romantic ones - they were considerate of each other, and rarely took the other for granted.