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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 18 Sep 2020

      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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    2. Quid‏ @quidohmi_prsnl 18 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      Derivative? What's the original? I'm trying to build up my novel backlog.

      10 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    3. Jacob K‏ @bojac6 18 Sep 2020
      Replying to @quidohmi_prsnl @Nymphomachy

      Gaiman's Books of Magic are about a boy with a lightning scar, glasses, and an owl familiar that discovers he's a magical chosen one and how he learns magic.

      3 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
    4. Pooh Bear‏ @PoohBearCorner 18 Sep 2020
      Replying to @bojac6 @quidohmi_prsnl @Nymphomachy

      #Gaiman says he does not believe #Rowling took the idea from him (or even that she read his works), but that people writing within a certain genre are always going to overlap with ideas -- some of which they glean from others & some of which they come up themselves

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    5. Oyyo‏ @oyyolum 19 Sep 2020
      Replying to @PoohBearCorner @bojac6 and

      Apparently there were multiple people who came up with a very similar idea around the same time, re: HP. Maybe something inspired certain people in the UK and JK got lucky? Or time travelers went back when they found out Rowling's a jerk but it never changed anything

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020
      Replying to @oyyolum @bojac6 and

      It's not "around the same time", Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman started 1990, So You Want to Be A Wizard by Diane Duane was 1982, Charmed Life by Dianna Wyne Jones was 1977, The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy was 1974, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin was 1968

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @oyyolum and

      The whole "wizard school" concept was an ongoing genre for a long time, and it's very hard to believe that JK Rowling had never read, say, The Worst Witch, which is extremely reminiscent of Harry Potter and was very popular in the UK when she was a girl in the 1970s/80s

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 19 Sep 2020
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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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