I despise the "JK Rowling was rejected by twelve publishers before publishing Harry Potter" factoid because it's characterized as some kind of triumphant upending of the clueless literary establishment and not multiple professionals recognizing it was completely derivative work
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It's like people being miffed at George Lucas for pretending he was the first person to do a sword-and-sorcery-style epic in space, like space opera wasn't a thing for *decades* before Star Wars came out and like he didn't make it after losing the Flash Gordon license
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