You can see snippets of good worldbuilding in Rowling's work, too bad most of them get retconned after.
Fantastic beasts is a major offender of that...
Heh... Rowling merely existing is the cause of death of at least one troon/week.
Just to know, how many troons wants mother 3 to be released outside of japan (despite the magipsy being clearly a giant middle finger pointed at queer/troons)?
[TW // transphobia]
wtf. look at this transphobic horseshit I found while looking through the files for this bigot-ass game that I did not buy and play. really, R*wling?
Tolkien also made it up as he went along. He started with some random stories that would later (posthumously) be published as the Silmarillion, then wrote the Hobbit which is quite a simple, then LOTR where he built upon the prevoous story.
Plus there is also something to be said for pace in fantasy writing, which is something Tolkien completely sacrificed for the sake of his extremely detailed world.
It's ridiculous to try to rank fantasy literature like this (except Eragon, I do agree Eragon is terrible). They are very different works. In fact, a much more apt comparison to Harry Potter is the Earthsea trilogy by Ursula LeGuin. You can absolutely see Rowling got inspiration from her magic school for Harry Potter and the type of story is quite similar. And both are good, in different ways.
Derailing continues. Saying Tolkien meticulously planned out LOTR is so understated it borderers on insulting.
Derail ends.
Anyways, the game seems to be reasonably friendly to modding. I'm already seeing mods pop up on Nexus Mods. Due to the size of the playerbase, and the rabidity of the HP fandom, I am expecting this game to have a thriving modding scene. I expect we're going to get some real shit shows out of this game once we get mods to make the game more period accurate. I personally will be downloading a mod that gets rid of all the black students/ reskins and revoice casts them.
I wouldn't call it 'Ebonics'. You have some inserting of minorities, but it is, to my surprise, reasonably well justified by the fact that Hogwarts is an internationally famed institution. There is one black girl who I don't like, but she isn't an american nigger. She's Ugandan, and they went out of their way to give her a Ugandan accent. However, while one porch monkey/chink/wetback/acid trench is fine, the racial diversity is a little too high for the period the game is in. They say something about Uganda using 'wandless casting', but I just assume that's because african niggers are primitive and much like trains, don't understand how wands work. The fucking animals.
When Zooey Zephyr’s flight touched down in Missoula, Montana, the results of her race for the 100th district of the Montana House of Representatives dropped. She celebrated on board, surrounded by her constituents, as she found out she was elected Montana’s first transgender state legislator.
There are beloved authors whose books we still read who held views deemed "problematic" today ranging from Enid Blyton to even Tolkien. The likes of famous artists such as Picasso and Van Gogh who were open misogynists and domestic abusers whose works are still celebrated long after their deaths. Yet we don't see book burning or vandalism of their own works and properties to any level that Rowling has to deal with. Probably because they're all dead now, but that's beside the point.
JK Rowling has been incredibly courteous throughout this debate and it's only until now she has started to become fed up and more unapologetic in her attitude. These grown manbabies unable to explain what she has "done" other than simply disagreeing with them whilst soiling their nappies over this woman will never cease to baffle me.
If anything, all the seething and harassment directed towards her proves that troons and TRAs are some of the most obnoxious communities around.
Not to mention by being in those spaces, they make them hostile to women who, for example, cannot disrobe around strange men because of their religion (ie Muslim women […]).
They say something about Uganda using 'wandless casting', but I just assume that's because african niggers are primitive and much like trains, don't understand how wands work.
That's been the lore for long, wands are a European invention that has spread to most of the world but Africans kept to the weaker wandless magic because it's more "sophisticated" or shit, or maybe they really can't establish an industry for those instruments.
Have you ever experienced the misfortune of meeting a Somalian? I'd rather buy the crate of bullets that exterminates the village, than starve it through video game purchases.
I was reading the ResetEra thread and was thinking it would be better to discuss it here, looking back I'm really baffled on why the Wizarding World setting took off so well, when it was so poorly thought out and helmed by an obviously underqualified woman. It's interesting to compare and contrast it to something like Star Wars, where there's more attention to detail, but Wizard stuff took off faster. I didn't think the books were really better than their contemporaries when they were new in YA fiction. Did WB just pick a good foundation and fill it in with iconic tunes(John Williams) and little mascot-like details that were archetypal for infinite sales in our culture?
It's because it's a) targeted at children and b) provides the sort of fantasy that children can easily integrate into imagination play.
The early books are essentially in the tradition of British children's literature like Just William, Swallows and Amazons or The Famous Five - a kid just like you* going on adventures. It's familiar enough to kids that they can understand it readily - Harry goes to school and lives in contemporary Britain - but different enough that its fun - it's a magic school! (It's amusing to me that some Americans apparently though school houses and prefects were also made up).
It also has a point of entry - Harry is a normal boy in normal everyday suburban England, except then a magical letter comes and changes his life. Compare that to something like Star Wars, where it's an entirely invented setting on an alien planet with different cultures.
The books then had the benefit of maturing with the target audience - the kids who read the first book were teenagers when Harry was a teenager, and the books become noticeably darker as they progress. The films also captured kids who were slightly out of that age bracket, so you have a bunch of Millenials who essentially grew up with Harry.
It was a perfect storm of things that appeal to children. There's also lots of worldbuilding that exists exclusively to appeal to children - there's magic jelly beans, but some of them taste like BOGIES and SNOT, ewww, gross! The Weasley twins make a bunch of silly pranks and upset the MEAN BORING TEACHER, hahaha! You have to use a special cool secret password to get into your clubhouse common room and there's secret rooms that parents teachers can't find - cool kidz only!
*just like you, if you are from a wealthy family
Basically - it didn't need to have a Tolkeinesque level of developed, consistent worldbuilding - it's just designed to be engaging for children and achieved that effectively.
Andrew Cunanan was a homosexual man that IIRC coveted the life of Gianni Versace (famous, openly gay fashion designer).
Cunanan waited until Versace appeared out the front of his mansion and gunned him down.
One important thing to remember is JK Rowling lives on TERF Island.
It's possible to get a gun here, but it's deliberately difficult. You need a "regular, legitimate basis for work, sport or leisure" - so in effect, "I am a farmer and I need a shotgun" or "I am a part of a shooting club and need a rifle" ("I want a gun so I can shoot stuff in my spare time as a hobby" doesn't count, you need to be in a shooting club, which will require you to pass probation).
You also need to pass regular background checks and be vetted for mental health conditions, plus you need a police approved gun safe that is bolted to a solid concrete or brick wall or floor (basically no-go if you live in a rental). So it's pretty unlikely that a would be Andrew Troonanan would be able to get his mitts on a shotgun or rifle (and even if he did, he'd not be able to conceal the weapon because it's big). It's theoretically possible to get a license for a handgun, but they're even more restricted (in the same category as rocket launchers), you basically need to be a firearms museum or shooting club company, and it'll probably come with caveats about having them decommissioned.
Alternatively TERF-finder General could try getting his hands on an illegal firearm. You need to be known to criminals already, because unsurprisingly illegal firearms are hard to get your hands on. You typically don't get to buy a gun, you pay someone so they'll let you use the gun (the same firearms are used in a variety of unconnected crimes). Criminals are not likely to let someone use their gun if they know the person is probably going to get caught straight away and lose them their gun, and also they're not going to entertain strangers (much less one who's in a dress and wants to shoot a very famous woman for wrongthink). That's academic though, because nobody who's screeching on Twitter about JK Rowling would know how to find these criminals short of walking into a dodgy flat roof pub and flashing a wad of cash while telling people they want a gun (best case scenario: they're immediately ejected without getting robbed).
They could try sending her booby trapped mail, but I imagine JK Rowling already screens her post and I doubt any of this lot would be able to make a postal bomb (the only reason they spam exerpts of the anarchist cookbook is to try and shut down discords/subreddits they dislike "for hosting terrorist content", just like how they spam CP).
So anyone seeking to attack JK Rowling would need to get close to her and physically assault her, attack her with a bladed weapon or throw a caustic agent on her. But this would presumably be in public, and they wouldn't have a gun to wave in people's faces and so would instantly be attacked by bystanders (and we know this type are massive cowards). As long as JK Rowling takes sensible precautions, I don't think she has anything to worry about.
Two teenagers stabbed another teenager to death in a teenage drinking spot, and the police have not found evidence that the attack was "hate motivated".
Tolkein basically wrote Lord of The Rings as a way to indulge his love for linguistics and history. Most authors do not create a detailed legendarium of 60,000 years of pre-history that is largely irrelevant to the stories they're telling.
JK Rowling did have some lore documents, but mostly about Harry's classmates and their families. She wanted to write a children's book about a boy wizard and that's what she did. There's some glaring plot holes as a consequence, but they only really impact the wider setting and don't really impact the main story, so kids don't tend to notice them. (Also she keeps adding on batshit additions to the plot, but that's because JK Rowling just wants to tell narratives rather than create a completely consistent alternate universe)
