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   Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:49:37 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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   @mushroom_soup JK Rowling's only real purpose in life is to make trannies seethe with rage. Her retarded tryhard books are incidental to this.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:49:35 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Judge Dread
     @judgedread I find Gaiman a very unique case: he is a leftoid that has found a way to actually write heroic, tragic, flawed characters well. And his storytelling skills are excellent, unlike China Mieville or Neal Stephenson he has no problem with crafting masterful endings
     
     I think all this has resulted from being forced to cut his teeth as a comic book writer when his career first started out. He was under enormous time constraints and did not have the luxury of missing deadlines. It forces a writer to learn basic craftsmanship.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:49:36 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Judge Dread
     @judgedread She really does hit the normie sweet spot, with the pseudo-Latin wizard incantations and the clever kitchen-sink appropriation of worldwide mythologic creatures into an amalgam. The latter made me suspect a long time ago that Rowling had taken inspiration from if not completely ripped off Neil Gaiman, as he also loves to pull that trick in his fantasy worlds ('American Gods', 'The Sandman')
     
     Turns out I was right
     
     theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-other-harry-potter-that-never-was/387364/
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:49:36 JST Judge Dread

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     @TrevorGoodchild Gaiman is to the left of Rowling, so she has an advantage in lower memetic delta.
     
     Gaiman is clearly smarter and considerably funnier.
     
     But of course women aren't funny.
     
     I mean not intentionally.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:49:37 JST Judge Dread

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     @TrevorGoodchild Rowling makes use of the female superpower - instinctive understanding of personality - to engineer a plot twist very similar to what Rand pulls off in Atlas Shrugged.
     
     When she finally explains Snape's backstory it all snaps into focus like the end of a Mamet play. Of course it's all in service of an incredibly vapid postwar morality play, with Voldemort the hypocritical mongrel wizardist and his corrupt aristocratic followers plotting normie genocide.
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     AmonMaritza (amonmaritza@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:57:18 JST AmonMaritza

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     • Judge Dread
     I think they are what they are: decent children’s fantasy. Gaiman never had such broad reach. Her sourcing from all of mythology is something final fantasy started doing in the 80s.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:57:28 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • AmonMaritza
     @AmonMaritza Final Fantasy did it for the cool visuals and opponents. Gaiman does it (well) because it gives his worlds a true 'multiverse' type feel, where all possible myths are real and the characters interact freely.
     
     The mark of a true fantasy master, however, is the ability to design your own mythological creatures while appropriating at most a name from history, and make them both believeable and extremely frightening/dangerous in-world. Examples:
     
     >Jack Vance (deodands, pelgranes)
     >HP Lovecraft (nightgaunts, shoggoths, mi-go)
     >China Mieville (cactacae, inchmen, slake moths)
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:57:51 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • AmonMaritza
     @TrevorGoodchild @AmonMaritza not everyone can be jrr tolkein, though.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:01:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • AmonMaritza
     @TrevorGoodchild @AmonMaritza yes, this is an iron law.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:01:19 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • AmonMaritza
     @sickburnbro @AmonMaritza Nope, but shitting on Tolkein is the clearest mark of a hack
     
     (See: George Rape Rape Martin)
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     Felix Krull (felix_krull@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:37:06 JST Felix Krull

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     • AmonMaritza
     @sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild @AmonMaritza It's not even a matter of whether Tolkien is good - because taste cannot be disputed - but it is undeniable that Tolkien wrote a unique work of art that stands alone in a category created by itself.
     
     No other book can claim that. In 300 years, LOTR will likely be the only 20th C. novel that's widely read.
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