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

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

      If you buy an edition of Goblet of Fire or Half-Blood Prince published after 2004, you will find that the word "Enervate" for the Reviving Spell has been replaced by "Rennervate"

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

      Which, of course, isn't a word at all, but that's obviously better than just using a regular-ass English word to mean the opposite of what it actually means in the dictionary

      1 reply 3 retweets 28 likes
    3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

      Yeah, I mean - it's actually not even a particularly unique error. "Enervate" is one of those words that English speakers regularly misuse, for whatever set of reasons. People make mistakes, and she actually fixed this one. It doesn't mean that she's secretly right.

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      I do think the "Enervate" error is extremely embarrassing for her and her proofreaders but that's mainly because Goblet of Fire was a fucking record-breaking bestseller that she got paid a seven-figure advance for that had the kids lining up at midnight at bookstores etc etc

      2 replies 2 retweets 33 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      Like I think the worst thing for JK Rowling was buying into her own hype Nobody "fact-checks" her about the folklore and mythology etc, if she gets edited at all anymore it's just for spelling and grammar (and not even that, when she's doing her horrendous eye-dialect)

      2 replies 3 retweets 34 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      She says that she's an extremely erudite and scholarly person with all this knowledge from all these different cultures, and she isn't, but everyone she works with just accepts that she is and lets her do whatever she wants Hence all these preventable blowups happening

      3 replies 3 retweets 36 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      Saying that skinwalkers were just oppressed Animagi or casting an East Asian woman to play a naghini from Hindu mythology Stuff that would have raised an eyebrow at the studio, maybe, if someone other than the Great JK Rowling had said it

      1 reply 2 retweets 28 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      I feel like the Sorcerer's Stone debacle was a really unfortunate well-poisoning here It established in everyone's minds that JK Rowing was a Very Smart and Educated Person and anyone who disagreed with her about something was an Idiot American Executive in a Suit

      3 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
    9. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      It's probably tied to how she used just...a weird hodgepodge of vaguely archaic mystical terms. Like in some respects Rowling's pointedly positioning herself outside genre fantasy made her use of various strange arcane esoterica come off as Fresh and New.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

      Yeah. It's just that the Philosopher's Stone isn't even really that obscure, so it was a surprising choice all around. It's probably good, on the balance, that the Sorcerer's Stone is a HP-created item, since it no longer needs to reference anything.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent @canpacinobox

      The "Philosopher's Stone"/"Sorcerer's Stone" spat is interesting because it seems to just be a generational thing, people misjudging how much more mainstream fantasy and science fiction tropes are for Millennials than they were for Boomers

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          Like, say, in 1985 the final game in Infocom's "Enchanter trilogy" of text adventure games, the sequel to Enchanter and Sorcerer, was going to be named "Mage" But the suits forced them to change it to "Spellbreaker" because "No one knows what a 'mage' is"

          3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          Nowadays that would be an absurd thing to say, when marketing *anything*, much less specifically marketing a work of fantasy to an audience of video game players We don't realize how much things have changed and how relatively quickly they have

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

          Oh yeah, absolutely. But like, the key thing is that I think a big part of Rowling's initial success, ironically, is that she just sort of looted the clichés of old fairy tales and esoterica *without even trying to build anything like a world that made internal sense*.

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        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

          Worldbuilding was & remains a huge focus in a lot of genre fantasy, and part of that was the dogma that your world has to be both original & make sense - it led to both a lot of works where there was a strong pressure to come up with weirdo random beasts & avoid "out there" stuff

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