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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 1 Oct 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Vapor Weyve

      You don't even have to get into the weeds analyzing the big stuff like plot and character and setting to criticize Harry Potter Just in terms of writing technique, JKR is addicted to bad writing choices that are so commonly criticized they're clicheshttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1310845770933972993?s=20 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Vapor Weyve @Nymphomachy
      Found this op-ed about the quality of Rowling's writing from 2007 and it owns https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/jul/17/harrypottersbigconisthep … pic.twitter.com/D6YaWtVe9X
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020

      The Harry Potter books are full of: - Tom Swifties (so named because of people dunking on the cheesy old Tom Swift adventure stories), where every "he said/she said" line has a colorful verb + adverb "I have PTSD and everyone treats it as a joke," Neville whined nebbishly

      2 replies 9 retweets 120 likes
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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020

      - "Eye-dialect", where you conve that someone speaks English in an accent different from your own by mangling the spelling of their words like an asshole "Ach, jus' becau' a Scots dialec' is charact'riz'd bah glo'al stops don' mean yer hafta cover m'dialogue w'apostrophes"

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020

      "Emotional punctuation", where you grossly overuse and/or misuse punctuation marks, italics, capitalization, etc. "Harry was... so upset... he couldn't even... get through a whole sentence... even when... he wasn't talking... and it was just... the third-person narration"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020

      And look Lengthy monologuing isn't inherently a bad thing, there are writers who build their whole style around making that concept work But the *massive* character filibusters she has people break into as soon as she's allowed are the kind of thing editors mock all the time

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020

      Fuck's sake her new book Troubled Blood ends with the murderer giving a THIRTY-PAGE-LONG CONFESSION of all their crimes Just sitting there answering all the detective's questions in exhaustive detail to make sure all the plot holes are patched up

      9 replies 5 retweets 110 likes
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    7. the 99 people in a room that don't believe in you‏ @turpywurpy 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I mean if you watched Crimes of Grindelwal, Leta Lestrange literally spends like 15 minutes at the end of the film telling us the plot of the film and all the extra bits they couldn't fit in...

      3 replies 1 retweet 28 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @turpywurpy

      Lol yes this kind of thing makes for a bad book but it makes for an *absolutely unacceptable* screenplay This is exactly what they meant when they said it was a shockingly bold decision to let someone with no screenwriting experience write a multimillion-dollar movie by herself

      3 replies 1 retweet 34 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @turpywurpy

      JK Rowling's been Dunning-Krugering her way through... almost half her lifetime at this point She has absolutely lost all sense of perspective and is in the same bubble Trump is where anyone who brings up obvious emperor-has-no-clothes critiques of her work is a "liar and hater"

      3 replies 9 retweets 46 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @turpywurpy

      Like shit sometimes the voice of the impostor syndrome in your head is *correct*, Jo The idea that writing a movie is no big deal and something anyone can do with no training or experience is a *ridiculous thing to think*, even if you're the famous Harry Potter lady

      4 replies 2 retweets 40 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @turpywurpy

      Almost like there's a bridge between that kind of professional overconfidence and the confidence that makes you an expert on the lives of trans people because you spent THREE WHOLE YEARS -- three years, you hear me?! Enough time to get a Master's degree! -- reading Mumsnet posts

      1:29 PM - 1 Oct 2020
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        2. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @turpywurpy

          It takes three years to get a Masters over there?

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        3. Gay Potato‏ @MintPossum 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect @turpywurpy

          I believe she had a bachelor's already, so it would take two to three years to get the Masters including the likely remedial classes.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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