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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @BoardGameLawyer @Cluelesscreatu2 and

      JKR's use of folklore is so haphazard and sloppy It's not just that it's "inaccurate", it's that the new shit she made up isn't particularly interesting or good, it's all seat-of-the-pants

      3 replies 4 retweets 54 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and

      Like how the various species of fairies just have nothing to do with each other in JKR's world House-elves and boggarts have nothing to do with each other, even though the original DEFINITION of a boggart was a "house-elf" (a brownie) that turned to mischief due to mistreatment

      2 replies 2 retweets 53 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and

      That's an idea with HUGE potential if Rowling wants to turn the idea of brownies into some kind of commentary on slavery -- do humans keep house-elves enslaved out of fear, because their only experience with "free" house-elves is as dangerous and terrifying boggarts?

      4 replies 2 retweets 47 likes
    4. JAC‏ @JamieCullum5 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and

      Not great for a children's book about wizards and witches tho is it. She isn't writting a social studies essay.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @JamieCullum5 @Cluelesscreatu2 and

      I'm not saying the books are bad because they're inaccurate, I'm saying they're bad *and* they're inaccurate If what she made up to replace the folklore she cribs from were actually creative and interesting it'd be all good, but it's not

      1 reply 1 retweet 29 likes
    6. JAC‏ @JamieCullum5 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and

      I don't care whether you think they are inaccurate or not. Accuracy is not a key component of fiction

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @JamieCullum5 @arthur_affect and

      It’s being used to demonstrate her weaknesses as an author- that she does not have follow through with her ideas, and does not appear to research as well as people in this very conversation have claimed

      1 reply 0 retweets 16 likes
    8. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @Cybren @JamieCullum5 and

      We tend to applaud authors who "show their work", i.e., demonstrate actual time and effort put into grasping the implications of things they write about (science fiction authors demonstrating literacy in physics, etc), as indicative of a commitment/dedication to their art

      2 replies 2 retweets 32 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and

      Someone like John Bellairs and JKR are like night and day It's really hard to fake authenticity, and the easiest way (which is actually a pretty hard way) is to "cheat" and use real folklore and take it seriously

      2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      The sense that *people in the real world really believed this stuff* and therefore there's just the tiniest possibility *maybe it's all real* oozes from all over Bellairs' work It's why The House With A Clock In Its Walls can still be really creepy as an adult years later

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      Whereas the worldbuilding in Harry Potter is paper thin, even as a child you can punch holes in it without even trying

      5:57 AM - 12 Jun 2020
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      4 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
        1. Hailey‏ @HaileySayHello 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          LIKE, WHERE ARE HIS PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS OR ANY OF HIS PATERNAL FAMILY?!?! Like not even a handwavey, "They all in a wizard asylum because Voldemort fries their brains" or "The genocide wizard did a genocide on them" NOPE, NOTHING

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        1. Sam Crane, now with added mRNA‏ @Samanticka 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          Frankly though this is why HP was so fruitful to fanfic. You don't have to worry too much about the worldview mechanics because they're not there. If you want to write a fic about your theory about boggarts and house elves you can

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        1. The Blah The‏ @thebobthe 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          Even though I liked the HP books fine, a thing that bugged me from the beginning was how she clearly knew the names of folklore but little else. Goblins are a great example: “Hey, y’know those cowardly feral idiots? They’re all bankers now!”

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        1. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          No one, not even Hermione, gets into even the slightest discussion of magical theory when even noncommittal statements (“We don’t know why spells work” “Spell discovery can be different for every spell”) would have shown that some wizards were at LEAST curious about it

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