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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      Anyway nowadays the actual light novel genre that actually is called "isekai" has taken "isekai tropes" up to the point of obvious self-parody and it's become a whole self-aware meme that the wish fulfillment fantasy of an isekai is immature and fucked up

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      Which means maybe we can talk a bit more openly about the "guilt" side of Harry Potter being a "guilty pleasure"

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020

      (Quidditch seriously almost is to the point of self-parody already though I mean she couldn't just make Harry really good at scoring goals in a game where you win by scoring goals It's set up so Harry does ONE HUGE DRAMATIC THING every match, which ALWAYS ENDS THE GAME)

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    4. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Feels weird defending JKR right now, but I feel like a lot of criticisms of the series come from the misguided placing of HP in the YA genre, and not recognising its context as British Children's literature that gradually formed a newer YA genre as the characters grew.

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    5. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @arthur_affect

      And so people read them expecting a sort of proto-Twilight but the lineage for the first few books is much more a sort of mix between Tom Brown's Schooldays and Captain Underpants.

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    6. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @arthur_affect

      Which is not to say "they're for kids, they're not supposed to be good" but that they're for younger kids, and based on younger kids books, than most people think.

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    7. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @arthur_affect

      Yeah! I mean, the clear precedent here would be Roald Dahl, who shares a sense of whimsy and also some of the same problematic backgrounds.

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    8. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

      Right, HP is like if you took a Roald Dahl magical world, and then bonded it to a Mallory Towers school romp, so you get the absurdism and the grounding. This is why the criticisms that the magical world has no rules sort of misunderstand the idea, I think.

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    9. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

      Which is that the magic is mad, and silly, and dreamlike, and absurd, but before you benefit from it, you have to actually go earn it at a boarding school.

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @mssilverstein

      Right, if the magic were actually explained, or had known consistent rules -- if we actually got to see the content of the lessons and the textbook -- it would probably in fact have ruined it The initial appeal was that to the reader magic seems like it can just do anything

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein

      You get the fantasy of transitioning from the real world and its limitations to this childlike fantasy of being able to wave a wand and do whatever you want, that feels more real because there's a process of being educated and initiated into it (but not one you can actually show)

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          And it's STILL the world of a child or young adolescent. The stakes change and the subjects are wild, but it's still middle school. And really recognizably middle school.

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        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

          It was a smart choice to not make Harry popular, but in a kind of weird mix of famous and resented. And he keeps getting bullied, so he's got a solid underdog vibe. She can't write evil worth a damn, but she can write mean and cruel.

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        1. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein

          And this is why the more things like the Ministry are fleshed out, the concept becomes more chaotic and unravels. Books like Deathly Hallows depend on quite a bit of grounded worldbuilding that just isn't cohesive with the world prior to, say, Order of the Phoenix.

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