Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    37·
    10 hours ago

    a bunch of fucking nerds

    Lol Harry Potter readers being nerdy kids may have been true in the late 90s or early 00s. Most fans of the movies are normies.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      9 hours ago

      It wasn’t even true then. Harry Potter was the flagship of the Scholastic book fair at the time along with books like Animorphs.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        7 hours ago

        Have you read Animorphs? Those books were bought entirely by people judging them based on their cover. They have kids on them turning into a different animal on each. That just looked cool. If I had had the money for it, I too would have collected them, entirely based on the animals on the cover (I’ll take the dog, the hawk, and the dolphin, thanks). 99% of kids who bought them would have done so for the exact same reason.

        The actual story is some of the least kid-friendly I’ve ever heard. It’s filled with body horror, cosmic horror, guerilla warfare and espionage with child soldiers, children losing their bodies, children losing their minds through torture, kids having existential crises after witnessing and participating horrific acts of war, countless murders of loved ones, planet scale genocide, etc. It’s not for normies. I don’t know anyone personally that has actually read the whole series, including myself. I have watched a guy on YouTube go over the plot in summary and… holy fuck. Those books are darker than anything I’ve read as an adult.

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          7 hours ago

          I don’t know anyone personally that has actually read the whole series, including myself.

          I think I have? There might be a side book or two I missed, I think I only read one of the choose your own adventure ones. But I read the main series all the way to the end and the ‘main’ side stories (Hork-Bajir Chronicles, etc). I enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid, it definitely influenced a lot of my anti-war feelings.

          • ninjabard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            6 hours ago

            You can get the ebooks for free with the author’s blessing. I started reading them as a kid when they were new but couldn’t find the books readily enough. Found them again as an adult and read the whole series. It’s far better written than anything Rowling has ever penned and has the added benefit of Applegate being an actual decent human being.

        • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          I loved that shit as a kid.

          I also watch the news and learn about the genocide in Palestine every morning. The biggest difference is that Animorphs was much more fun and had a better ending.

        • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          I was a kid back then so I definitely read some of them. Though I have no memory of them having a related story or a contiguous plot line, or really of any of the plot lines anyway. I vaguely remember that there were more books later on, I’m pretty sure the ones I read were like the first few published.

          I definitely remember there being Animorphs posters in our school library and shit and the software used to make the cover was very popular, at the time it was also used in several TV shows and such.