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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 …

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      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. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      a good friend of mine skipped the potter books entirely when they came out, and only cranked through them when very bored on a summer break from college he said it was like reading tv, which is still about the most apt descriptor i've ever come across

      3 replies 5 retweets 139 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @perdricof

      That reviewer who panned Troubled Blood who said the reason Rowling avoids describing any other fantasy authors as her "literary influences" because her biggest influence is obviously having spent hours watching daytime soaps was on point

      3 replies 8 retweets 141 likes
    4. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      There's even a couple genuinely decent passages in Potter (as there would be in anything of that size); the woman has *conceptual* potential. I'd say one of her biggest problems creatively is precisely that she doesn't embrace her influences openly, but hides them?

      2 replies 0 retweets 55 likes
    5. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Like it's not that Rowling doesn't have any talent whatsoever; I don't think anyone is wholly without ability to tell a story. But there are passages where she gets genuinely into her material, and there's transparent filler cruft where this sort of thing occurs.

      1 reply 1 retweet 52 likes
    6. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect @perdricof

      I find it very telling that the only line I actually remember from her work is when she describes Petunia Dursley as being very thin, but having "nearly twice the usual amount of neck." because it's a *savage* burn and that's clearly where her talents lie.

      2 replies 2 retweets 95 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Teknogrot @loudpenitent @perdricof

      I don't get how people don't get just from reading the way the narrator in Harry Potter talks that JK Rowling is a really mean person in real life who was obviously one of the girls with a talent for cruel bullying taunts when she was in school She seriously can't help herself

      6 replies 28 retweets 184 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      Like part of the reason the Harry Potter books are "tight third-person narration" rather than actual first person is so that the narrator can be hilariously viciously cuttingly insulting about the people Harry interacts with without making Harry himself seem like an asshole

      4 replies 11 retweets 172 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      That's kind of the whole point of the Cormoran Strike books, like the "Robert Galbraith" persona and Cormoran Strike himself as a narrator are JKR putting on this mask of a tough working-class war veteran badass macho dude so she can just go ham on being a huge asshole

      2 replies 5 retweets 128 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      Both Cormoran himself and "Robert Galbraith" can just fucking roast people constantly like an insult comic at an open mic And it comes off as likable brutal honesty when it's this weathered masculine dad saying it, preserving Jo's own image as this warm cuddly maternal librarian

      1 reply 6 retweets 114 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      It seriously sends me how part of JKR's public persona is being "nice", like she's seriously one of the least nice people in the world She used to dish *constantly* about how all the hateable characters in Harry Potter were her getting back at someone in real life

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          It was petty as fuck Like the person who inspired Dolores Umbridge didn't even actually do anything wrong She just goes on for pages about how she had this teacher who talked all cutesy and girly and had a little ribbon in her hair and it filled her with contempt and disgust

          2 replies 10 retweets 76 likes
        3. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @perdricof

          There's some degree of irony to that.

          1 reply 0 retweets 22 likes
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        2. Hal Duncan‏ @Hal_Duncan 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          That makes a lot of sense of her complete inability to let characters develop in accordance with the narrative dynamics. Like, the narrative desperately wants Petunia's backstory to make her sympathetic, as any decent writer would click and make Harry see it, but Rowling won't.

          2 replies 1 retweet 112 likes
        3. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and

          The narrative genuinely manages to make her sympathetic, but then Rowling puts them on a bus and sort of gives Dudley a half-assed redemption moment via "basic politeness".

          1 reply 1 retweet 71 likes
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        2. Felicia DesJardins‏ @chibikonatsu 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          More than anything else this was what drove me nuts about her work. Like, there's never any question how she feels about a character. If she doesn't like someone you'll hear about it. At length.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        3. selwyn‏ @FleurDeElise 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @chibikonatsu @arthur_affect and

          The thing about it, is she inadvertently makes all those characters way more interesting by doing it. Because instead of the "oh this character is a good gryffindor" you start to wonder what their story is. So all the interesting characters are supposed to be bad

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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        2. inside the event horizon, there is no way out‏ @eigenvectrix 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          She kept giving out little tidbits about Lockhart, the kind that were clearly designed to identify his real-life counterpart to anyone who actually cared about him

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @eigenvectrix @arthur_affect and

          I am morbidly curious.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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