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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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
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
the real question is, why didn't they vanish it *before* they pooped it out makes you think
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy and
Too high risk of taking out some of your intestine with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Can they apparate everything except their poop
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No, they can't even Disapparate without the Death Eater who's holding onto them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Okay but wasn’t accidentally leaving limbs behind one of the hazards they mentioned for novice apparators
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Replying to @Cybren @perdricof and
Yeah I think that's the idea, if you don't concentrate on taking along everything in your personal phase boundary or whatever it becomes very hard to control what does or doesn't get left behind
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