Whether it’s published or not is irrelevant. My point is a fanfiction is essentially someone making a sandcastle in a sandpit - the author made the sandpit. While the fanfic writer may be able to make a great sandcastle and even extend the sandpit, they didn’t make the original.
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Sure. But to say that "being a better worldbuilder is paradoxical" is to suggest the following: - Whoever made the sandpit is also by definition the best at building sandcastles - The fan building sandcastles, by definition, is has never and cannot ever build a sandpit themselves
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It’s not - the sandcastle isn’t world building, the sandpit is. A fanfic writer, purely as a writer of fanon cannot make a sandpit. Their castles may be 100x better than the sandpit maker, but the sand they’re building on isn’t theirs. That’s what I’m getting at.
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You're suggesting that, because I am playing in someone else's sandpit, it is impossible that I could have built sandpits before myself, or that I ever will, and that I have no capacity to study to, and therefore could never hope to understand what it takes to make a good sandpit
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No I’m not, I didn’t say that anywhere. Any fanfic writer could write brilliant stories themselves - no one is denying that. But in this particular case, if you choose to build a castle in someone else’s sandpit, in this case, you can’t be better at building THIS specific sandpit
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lol That's a bold claim, given that JKR is famously still building the sandpit "One school for the entirety of North America, LOL" In order to tell coherent sandcastles in her sandpit, you're forced to build around her arbitrary crap
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And? Her sandpit isn’t finite - that’s the joy of being the author. You do realise that the whole of North America isn’t wizards. It’s a tiny minority from people aged 11-17. People love to say it’s crazy that it’s only 1 school but due to the tiny minority of people who are...
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...actually magic, and the small age group, it’s probably manageable. Ilvermorny would be a BIG school, but it’s not inconceivable.
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If it serves all of North America then it serves a huge number of people from Mexico who speak only Spanish and a huge number of people from the US and Canada who speak only English, how do they deal with the language barrier
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It’s the same with Beauxbatons - they take French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Luxembourgian and Belgian students. The language barrier is just slowly taken down - I imagine at Ilvermorny the Mexican and American students learn to speak each other’s language and classes are...
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You can imagine all kinds of things, it doesn't make the original good
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