Like if I knew and liked and agreed with someone who was only about *as* smart and good at expressing themselves as JKR I would wish them well but seek to gradually distance myself from them Because I'd know they were bound to say something ridiculous sooner or later
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(This has actually happened on Twitter, with my prediction said person would obviously milkshake duck being accurate, and I'm not naming names for the sake of protecting the feelings of people who are still at least more morally decent than JK Rowling)
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I say this in all sincerity and seriousness Like, specific bad opinions aside, JKR's Boomer energy (despite being technically Gen X) is incandescent, this boundless confidence to just fucking say shit without any preliminary research or second-pass revision
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Like if JKR weren't a TERF she'd still be the person constantly stepping on rakes with all the "Lol wizards shit on the floor" "Lol the snake was a Korean lady" "Lol I made up some offensive shit about Native wizards" "Lol I popped 'magic place' into Google Translate" shit
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Like it's not like I haven't made tons of mistakes and said a ton of bad dumb shit in the past but I would at least like to think it wasn't this flavor of totally oblivious incurious self-satisfied old millionaire shit
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@Nymphomachy's thread on the "Rowline" remains immortal and definitive, of course And one of the many reasons I wish I'd written it is so I could ethically dare JKR to sue me over ithttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1150892128328925187?s=20 …Show this thread
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I *know* I'm a better writer than JKR, and I'm shit.
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(Mainly because I've thought about my setting for more than five minutes).
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Easily the most tiresome aspect of this whole thing is the tsunami of people who stupid enough to think JKRowling is smart, and so bad at writing they think she is good at writing, who have joined her peasants crusade.
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