Yeah a big part of JK Rowling going off the rails was how the Fantastic Beasts movies are her trying to be taken seriously doing gritty adult material -- making the Harry Potter universe deal with sex, politics, the Holocaust, etc. -- and people generally not buying ithttps://twitter.com/ErrantNerd/status/1313010045789982720 …
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But like, when I supposedly went off on an "obsessive" rant about the origin of "Alohomora" etc. -- Some people might think caring a lot about not misusing a word from another culture is "taking yourself too seriously" What I meant by what I said is the opposite
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Like, to me, the kind of "taking yourself too seriously" I mean is getting really pissed off that other people questioned your research and angrily blustering that, as the bestselling famous author here, you have the right to define what words mean in your universe
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That's fair. You probably do need better words though :)
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LOL, well speaking of what she's lacking, I've felt it as well. I think that, first, she's desperately trying to hold on to what she had. What made the original series of books "good" in the first place. When the original series of books ended, she should have just stopped.
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