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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
JK Rowling, then, behaves invidiously by posturing as somebody genuinely literate and committed to the quality of their work when on closer inspection all her prose reads like homework hammered out hours before a due date She does pretty much everything by the seat of her pants
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
"Cho Chang" as a name serves as a blatant example of this It's been pointed out as not merely a culturally inauthentic name but as seemingly an offensive supposition of what such names sound like She retconned "Philosopher's Stone", but declined to address this criticism at all
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
This behavior simply isn't consistent with the mentality of somebody completely dedicated to self-education or the quality of their art It's behavior consistent with somebody who half-asses things, who looks at something and goes "good enough", and takes any criticism personally
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It bears pointing out that the shitstorm (so to speak) over her saying wizards poop on the floor almost certainly wasn't due to some perverse master plan of hers In hindsight it wasn't intentional at all, she just fucked up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
For the purpose of a Pottermore article about the Chamber of Secrets she acknowledged that indoor plumbing wasn't invented until the 1700s and then in a throwaway line just says "Oh wizards used to poop on the floor and then vanish it" to explain what they did beforehand
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
She clearly knows what a chamber pot is, because she had the incident with Dumbledore finding the Room of Requirement filled with chamber pots in Goblet of Fire She just fucked up (or some intern working for her fucked up) and then rather than fix it, doubled down on it
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