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Some kind of mutant writing raccoon. Resistant to most damage types. Intersex Latina. ✡️《she/hers》 Most blocks are via chain; you may tap a friend to appeal.

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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 3 Oct 2020

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      I want to talk about this for a second because a connection popped into my mind and I want to articulate it before I forget about it There's this SNL short with Emma Stone called "The Actress" that I often I think about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVH_I04ZrM …https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1311763310321250309 …

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      I think a disproportionate amount about this Tumblr post by actual fans of Harry Potter, because these people were legitimately members of the fandom and yet this argument is basically "You know what's so great about the HARRY POTTER series? It is very badly written." pic.twitter.com/r0dpRLuf0g
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      Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 3 Oct 2020

      It might nest better in this tweet Obv, the joke of the video is that plots to porn movies are generally remarkably thin, and because the gay male porn industry doesn't really have crossover with its cishet analogue, women get played by normal actresseshttps://youtu.be/9HVH_I04ZrM 

      11:49 PM - 3 Oct 2020
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      • Factually Fictitious Jane Mayhew Super Corporate Banana Bread Chris Carlton plus arns yarns maxalotl-BLM-YellowstoneMagic✨ Austin (he/they) Gale Watson
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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 3 Oct 2020

          Like, het porn can generally just fill all its roles with porn actors but gay porn usually doesn't tap into that rolodex Hence, the legendary "right in front of my salad?!" actress It's shit work, but you're, y'know, an ARTIST, you want to make your art any way you can

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        3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 3 Oct 2020

          The joke of the short is that Emma Stone comes in there and she's got an entirely different, unique artistic agenda in contrast w/ everyone else working on this project And as a result, she's the only person putting in the work of thinking through the implications of the text

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        4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 3 Oct 2020

          She's trying (hopelessly) to be, in her performance of this shamelessly stock cuckolded woman character, transformative and responsive to the text, she's trying to add verisimilitude and authenticity to something that functionally cannot exist in harmony with those ambitions

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        5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          Of course, the humor in the video comes from the fact that she achieves her goal, she creates a moment of genuine authenticity in this hackneyed project, only for it to be totally ineffectual, the director immediately cuts it out But like... this is kind of what fandom is

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        6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          HARRY POTTER was a book series that was marketed to hell and back and practically shoved down our throats by schools and libraries and so it became a very universal experience of art, one where you could talk about it and a very large number of people would hear what you said

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        7. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          and here's the thing about fandom if you've ever written a fanfic in a very obscure or mostly inactive fandom, you've seen for yourself how agonizing it is You put a lot of heart and soul into something, you put it out there, and there's nobody to read it It's disillusioning

          2 replies 17 retweets 130 likes
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        8. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          So even if you don't like something very much, if something is such a shared cultural experience that there's frequent activity in it, you will almost always be driven to create content in that fandom because that's where the attention is, there's the audience waiting for you

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        9. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          This is literally WHY so many people write fanfiction instead of original fiction Yeah, in certain respects it might be easier but have you ever tried getting somebody to _read_ your original fiction? Good fucking luck even getting your goddamn wife to read it. It's a waste.

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        10. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          Art demands an audience, and fandom is an audience. Universality creates fandom. Therefore, a sufficiently universalized fandom propagates its own art.

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        11. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          HARRY POTTER is very bad. Like gay porn plot bad. Even its edited installments were, effectively, kids' TV screenplays converted to prose, which managed to be sufficiently quintessentially British that Americans couldn't tell the difference between that and intelligent literature

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        12. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          And I think the endearing thing about HARRY POTTER fanfiction, *good* HP fanfiction, was its running undercurrent of discontent about literally every area of the text Rowling cut corners There's a lot of room for accusations, for interrogations, for deconstructions

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        13. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          I really do think that HP fandom needs to take one for the team and just strike the whole set, shut it all down, find a new series, I don't really recommend anyone read even fanfiction again because the presence of this franchise in the cultural consciousness is an embarrassment

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        14. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          But that said I do regard this short one-shot fic, WE WERE THE POTTERS, as an apogee of transformative art at least from this fandom It is deconstructive in a very incisive and confrontational sense https://archiveofourown.org/works/287028 

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        15. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          The narrative of this story seems to be one of the only ones with a sophisticated awareness of how ugly Jo Rowling is as a person, and how much of that ugliness just leaches, completely unfiltered, into the body of the work, into her characters, narration and world-building

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        16. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          Ginny is absolutely monstrous in this story, but the way she's written, she feels like a completely authentic and believable destination of the character Rowling created, because the hideous, unjust politics implied by this story are Rowling's own politics, her world-building

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        17. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          I don't think that the author of this fic, "celestineangel", necessarily consciously understood how much of an excoriation of the author's own politics this was when they wrote it It's one of those things that's only progressively come into focus in the years since Book Seven

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        18. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          The power of this fic lies in its ability to depict the ugly side of the characters Rowling's narrative voice extols as wholesome, warm and virtuous, the characters that are, frankly, coded as Good and Noble Christians To show how readily they would make loved ones into pariahs

          1 reply 4 retweets 104 likes
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        19. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          After all, the Weasley family's alienation of their disabled cousin was textual from the very first book But Rowling, of course, is not particularly concerned with the voice of the kind of people her beloved Weasleys would alienate, so it's left as a sinister implication

          1 reply 3 retweets 112 likes
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        20. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          This is an old fanfic, I've returned to it frequently over the years But with the hindsight of Rowling's aggression towards trans people I can't help but notice all the chilling ways this entirely believable narrative parallels the experience of an actual transgender child

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        21. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          The perspective of Harry as an outsider to a large family, who's just trying to be supportive of his daughter The feeling of his entire life unraveling beneath his feet as the people he's always loved and depended on, for the first time in his life, become utterly cold to him

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        22. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          For the first time in his life, he fully understands the extent to which the kindness of his found family has limits, the haste to which his daughter has become completely dead to them, the eagerness with which they urge him to completely abandon her It is painfully authentic

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        23. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          The way the story ends with Harry's family shattered over the stupidest, most senseless fucking thing His wife having completely abandoned her daughter, his best friend having ghosted him over the family honor, his daughter traumatized and suicidal from her abuse and oppression

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        24. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          Some people might be inclined to call this a darkfic, and in 2011 you might have been able to sell that argument, that this story exaggerated the injustice of the setting to an extreme But I don't think you can say that anymore This IS Jo Rowling, this is her worldview manifest

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        25. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          Rowling is someone whose supposed compassion has always been conditional, always been visibly unjustly denied to certain people An innocent child ostracized by everyone she loves for being too different, for being inconvenient, a stain on normality and their venerable reputation

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        26. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          That is the ESSENCE of Rowling. That's the inevitable conclusion of her articulated values. And the thing is, these values can be felt on every fucking page of her oeuvre. The people in her fandom have always detected it, and largely, they've never, ever, liked it.

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        27. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          There were a confluence of factors that created the HP fandom as we see it today Part of it was that the franchise's rise was contemporaneous with the advent of the internet; part of it was Rowling's seldom precedented, laissez-faire attitude towards fan works (cf. Anne Rice)

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        28. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          But honestly? This may be one of the few times I ever give the POTTER fandom credit for anything, but I don't think this community could have gotten as big as it did if there wasn't so much about Rowling and her books to find fault with, so many implications to think through

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        29. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          Every fanfic author who ever made anything worth looking at in POTTER fandom, inevitably, saw something they really, really didn't like in the books. Sometimes they took an aside to articulate their feelings outright. That's not uncommon in any fandom but it's UBIQUITOUS here

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        30. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          These books are fun to drag. It's rare for something or someone to be so awful that you can never run out of criticisms to make of them. People have always relished poking holes in them. So, I don't actually believe most of the HARRY POTTER fandom are fans of HARRY POTTER

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        31. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 4 Oct 2020

          That's why I find it such a pathetic sight when transphobic devoteés of this series pop into my mentions to tell me that, actually, the HARRY POTTER books are very smart and well-written It's neither of those things It's a powerful meme, an insulting, overgrown writing prompt

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