Authors who are asked about their influences and go back hundreds of years to Shakespeare and Chaucer and the Iliad are cowards beneath contempt Authors who openly admit that they're influenced by big pop culture franchises (that might sue them) meet the bare minimum of decency
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I always really appreciated the line in Deep Wizardry where Nita kind of rolls her eyes at Dairine's obsession with Star Wars and being a Jedi and corrects herself thinking "No one should be ashamed of seeking wizardry in their own way"
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(snicker) Yeah, you’d be right about that. And also having characters caught ingesting mass media in (for example)
#YoungWizards canonical text would be kinda difficult to explain away.
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I mean FWIW Young Wizards seems to me to be as undeniably influenced by mythology and religion as any popular culture, and I still feel like it might have seeded certain ideas in other writers' heads
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