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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 24 Sep 2020

      Vapor Weyve Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

      Harlan Ellison would say Star Wars is "Sci-Fi", but not "Science Fiction".https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1309147923964407808 …

      Vapor Weyve added,

      Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
      I was annoying people by referencing this essay, so figured I'd re up. yes, star wars is science fiction. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/star-wars-last-jedi-science-fiction-it-s-time-settle-ncna830281 …
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    2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 24 Sep 2020

      Vapor Weyve Retweeted Emma Mac (she/her)  🏳️‍⚧️

      I feel like "Science Fiction" and "Fantasy" are both tentpole terms, each comprising a suite of not only themes but aesthetics The Star Wars films (excepting SOLO and ROGUE ONE) have almost no science fiction themes but lots of science fiction aesthetichttps://twitter.com/scots_dragon/status/1309213539429646338 …

      Vapor Weyve added,

      Emma Mac (she/her)  🏳️‍⚧️ @scots_dragon
      Replying to @Nymphomachy
      I would add only this: Star Wars being science fiction does not preclude it from also being fantasy.
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    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 24 Sep 2020

      This is pertinent to me right now since I've been writing a lot about how J.K. Rowling is SCARED of science fiction themes in her fantasy; the idea of meaningfully transforming society or exploring the idea of what it means to be "alive", "dead", "woman", or "human" frightens her

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    4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 24 Sep 2020

      Modern Fantasy usually avoids becoming sci-fi by having its fantastical elements tempered by rarity and accessibility; e.g., the existence of wizards in THE DRESDEN FILES doesn't matter because such things are niche and too divorced from normality to change things macroscopically

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    5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 24 Sep 2020

      the POTTER books can't take this exit; wizardry is not merely an entire institutionalized world of the elite but it *explicitly undergirds all of human society*, including that of muggles It requires the idiom of science fiction to explain how this changes things, yet absconds

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    6. ModeView  💉1/2‏ @Demodeview 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      Her inability to world build really shows in that Wizards are just ass backwards on everything Muggle related despite a good percentage of them having either been muggles or having at least one muggle parent.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    7. ModeView  💉1/2‏ @Demodeview 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy

      So much energy is spent by wizard society keeping itself a secret yet it's always in these dumb ass backwards ways that have a huge chance to expose them.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. ModeView  💉1/2‏ @Demodeview 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy

      Like, Platform 9 and 3/4 is a neat little silly joke, but the question of why they have a secret wizard tran station that you have to run through a wall in a public place to get to makes no sense. Why would you do that if you want to keep secret?

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    9. ModeView  💉1/2‏ @Demodeview 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy

      And, I mean you could think of an explanation. I can shit out at least two right now. But it all underpins JKs lack of a desire to actually sell us on any part of the world outside of magic school castle.

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy

      Well it's because the first book was supposed to be a silly children's book and the goofiness of it all was part of the sense of wonder

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Platform 9 3/4 is the whimsical version of the sense of dread a creepypasta tries to instill in you by saying you can find a magic portal by saying a few special words to the front desk clerk of "any mental hospital or psychiatric institution"

      3:37 PM - 24 Sep 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          I don't think that's bad in and of itself A lot of the stuff in Philosopher's Stone can be taken as straight up satire if you look at it the right way, like the rules of Quidditch

          2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          Nathan Robinson's retrospective points out things like the Hogwarts shopping list are supposed to be a joke, the sheer incongruity of describing the accoutrements of a fairy tale witch in dry bureaucratic terms "Cauldron, 2.5 gallons, 12 inches in diameter", etc

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