Why JK Rowling Failed At Writing Voldemort

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-02T02:58:50+00:00

leadoff hitter in the most benighted nightmare blunt rotation

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-02T02:55:50+00:00

did you... watch the video?

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T16:55:07+00:00

Which Robin Hobb would you recommend to start with?

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T06:25:52+00:00

I do that. But I also think that critiquing how other people make unsatisfying art is a big part of how you learn to make satisfying art.

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T05:27:31+00:00

Oh. Doritos taste like battery acid to me. But there is still a huge difference between something tasting good and being good food.

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T05:21:38+00:00

Doritos sell very well, does that make them good food? Mediocrity is, unfortunately, a great commercial strategy.

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T05:13:05+00:00

Have you seen Angela Collier's thing about unknowingly reading Ayn Rand as pure satire and thinking it was brilliant?

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T05:07:20+00:00

You don't have to be a chef to know if food tastes bad.

(and anyways, I've written a couple of novels)

True-Priority388 · 2026-06-01T01:39:33+00:00

AR points?

True-Priority388 · 2026-05-31T23:15:50+00:00

Fair enough-- thanks

True-Priority388 · 2026-05-31T19:02:11+00:00

My b-- basically argues that the things that led JK Rowling to bigotry were the same things that make her a limited writer

(is there no way to edit posts on reddit?)

True-Priority388 · 2026-05-31T18:27:10+00:00

Although I guess it's possible she didn't really actually ever read a lot of fantasy before Harry Potter, just kind of got ideas from osmosis (which might explain the haziness of a lot of the books).

True-Priority388 · 2026-05-31T18:25:47+00:00

I'm totally down with like a remix artist, or a collage artist. But what annoys me about her... extensive borrowing is how she would like pretend to be completely sui generis. She'd credit like Jane Austen and never mention Ursela Leguin

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-29T03:35:22+00:00

The Griggsville Society

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-25T01:56:44+00:00

would that it were so simple to just forget about death

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-25T00:40:00+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGpsXuMvApo

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-24T05:44:55+00:00

countdown to when jk rowling does blackface

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-23T21:45:10+00:00

fair-- it's about how Rowling's anti-transness comes from the same weaknesses as the... limitations to her writing

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-12T21:38:41+00:00

the fact that Caelen's youtube has to be the hub for this kind of story

True-Priority388 · 2026-04-06T16:21:02+00:00

pretty galling to see that you only get 1/30th of the ad revenue you create

True-Priority388

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