Oh hey you remember how the other night how accepting Harry Potter is an irredeemably tainted franchise and it was always fatally flawed made me nonetheless nostalgic for the shared Middle Millenial experience of the early fandom? What's the weirdest bullsht "trivia" you recall?
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Like, something from a fan site that got copied to another fan site and spread like an early meme, but was absolutely false? My favorite was the one that ignored the obvious etymology of "Voldemort" and instead said it came from Arthurian legend, Merlin's nemesis Voldemortist
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
See I've been around warhams long enough to see the wild hypothesising I did with friends as a pre-teen eventually end up being canonised by my cohort who grew up and wrote for the company, and then UNcanonised by the next lot, in a never-ending cycle.
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I mean there's no way the Voldemortist thing could be true even if SWMNBN said it was true, bc it's a matter of historical fact (admittedly she's quite poor on facts these days, but you get what I mean) There was no "Voldemortist" in Arthurian legends
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I would not be surprised to learn that there is some fan fiction of like, the Prince Valiant cartoon or something, and in that there IS a "Voldemortist" which she "borrowed", given her monitoring the fan sites so carefully.
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Replying to @Teknogrot
I don't believe the tent "Voldemort*" to refer to a person existed prior to her, and I think her explanation of using Latin roots to put together "flight from death" is pretty obviously true
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
That explanation has changed a few times, as suits her whims.
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Replying to @Teknogrot
Yeah, but I mean it's obviously true. The "Mort" part at the very least. And I don't believe she ever gave credence to "Arthurian legend"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
See the problem with the Latin explanation is the "volde" part is just not there. The FRENCH explanation rings truer.
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Replying to @Teknogrot
It might have been French when she said it originally. It was a Latinate language. I remember realizing the Voldemortist thing was definitely bullsht from Spanish class
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Yeah it's French, not Latin, this was why there was the fight over whether the final T in his name is silent
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I would not want to take a bet on how Latin actually pronounced anything when it was a language spoken daily in Rome.
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Yeah I'm just saying "vol de mort" is straightforwardly a French phrase, "flight from death" or "theft of death"
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