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Nilryna posted:And "Books of Magic" from Neil Gaiman. Tim Hunter is an English boy with glasses and a lovely life finds out he's a wizard/the chosen one. Apparently the cultural detritus of the UK causes this kind of character to just show up fairly often. At least, Neil says he doesn't think he was ripped off.
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Beachcomber posted:Apparently the cultural detritus of the UK causes this kind of character to just show up fairly often. At least, Neil says he doesn't think he was ripped off. My granddad actually was raised/abused by his grandparents and kept in a cupboard under the stairs. He escaped by taking some proficiency test that awarded him the chance to go to public school (I think I have that right, I always get those mixed up with the US stuff I'm more familiar with). So either it happened enough in life that it became a standard motif in stories or we're owed royalties.
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May 1, 2023 21:25
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cupboards under stairs are a house feature thats more common in the uk than anywhere else and are also a very small space that a person could theoretically live in so its a pretty common trope in abused orphan stories from british authors in general
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May 1, 2023 21:27
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My great grandma's house had a craw space that was pretty loving big behind the stairs like had to get on all 4s and crawl in a little square door like Willy Wonka but after a few feet you could stand. I remember it huge but my parents say it was like a 10ft cube basically. It's where the board games were. She had a sealed copy of wheel of fortune home edition we weren't allowed to play, I bet it got tossed still unopened. I always imagined that for stair cupboards.
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May 1, 2023 21:30
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Roko's Basilisk sabotaged the landing.
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May 1, 2023 21:33
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lol twitter is extremely broken right now
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May 1, 2023 21:33
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Burning_Monk posted:Same, but I got back in eventually. Why
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Bruceski posted:My granddad actually was raised/abused by his grandparents and kept in a cupboard under the stairs. He escaped by taking some proficiency test that awarded him the chance to go to public school (I think I have that right, I always get those mixed up with the US stuff I'm more familiar with). So either it happened enough in life that it became a standard motif in stories or we're owed royalties. In the UK, Public School is what private schools are in the UK. Where the rich send their son's and/or failsons. They're Public, in that they're open to anyone willing to pay them enough money. Edit: presumably the school your grandad went to wanted the rich failsons to at least have smart friends.
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May 1, 2023 21:36
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I don't have to explain my fetishes to you.
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pixaal posted:I remember it huge but my parents say it was like a 10ft cube basically. Kid memories are like that. I lived in the same house for ~20 years, most of it 5 feet or taller, but whenever I try to remember the counters and furniture they tower over me.
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May 1, 2023 21:48
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Beachcomber posted:In the UK, Public School is what private schools are in the UK. Where the rich send their son's and/or failsons. Plus, you have to have classmates you can look down on for not being landed.
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May 1, 2023 21:56
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kazil posted:lol twitter is extremely broken right now at least seeing the unlogged in timeline has led to me seeing the most shocking news of our time 
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May 1, 2023 21:57
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Beachcomber posted:Edit: presumably the school your grandad went to wanted the rich failsons to at least have smart friends.
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May 1, 2023 22:02
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Burning_Monk posted:I don't have to explain my fetishes to you. k fair enough, pls continue
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May 1, 2023 22:04
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Beachcomber posted:Apparently the cultural detritus of the UK causes this kind of character to just show up fairly often. At least, Neil says he doesn't think he was ripped off. Yeah, there's a whole world of classic British children's books that the Harry Potter series was drawing on. Roald Dahl, The Famous Five, Jennings's School Days, The Worst Witch to name a few. Any direct similarities to other works will likely be due to common tropes of the genres being used.
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May 1, 2023 22:07
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Beachcomber posted:Apparently the cultural detritus of the UK causes this kind of character to just show up fairly often. At least, Neil says he doesn't think he was ripped off. Yeah, when asked Gaiman said you could go to any mall in England in the 90s and see 15-20 kids that look exactly like Tim/Potter when asked about it.
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May 1, 2023 22:11
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DaveWoo posted:Twitter just logged me out and I can't log back in, great job Elom lol I got back in by going back to the Twitter home page first. Something logged us out and then when you log in it takes you back to the page you were looking at, which has the logout prompt in it.
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May 1, 2023 22:11
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any of the asides on the whimsical wizard candy on the train etc was straight up charlie and the chocolate factory ripoff Surprised the candy wasn't made by Ficklegruber and Slugworth
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May 1, 2023 22:12
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I can't log in either. I think the real magic of the Harry Potter series was in the marketing and movie casting. Right place at the right time.
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May 1, 2023 22:14
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Yeah I'm logged out too. There were three or four days last week where it just wouldn't load, so I'm getting like 50% uptime at the moment. Maybe worse.
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May 1, 2023 22:14
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I wonder what dumb feature they were trying to launch that broke everything
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May 1, 2023 22:20
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Jake Tapper just said "skeet" on CNN, big news for Bluesky
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May 1, 2023 22:24
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Extra Large Marge posted:I can't log in either. It was BIG when it was just the few books out. Marketing, yes, but...my grasp of theory is rudimentary, but... could there be something about being escapist fantasy for the End of History era? Gen X/millennial malaise about steady work and a life in the suburbs being the most you can hope for? What if you're actually special but no one's got around to telling you yet? Also, the US didn't have all the boarding school stuff, it was all brand new.
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smoobles posted:Jake Tapper just said "skeet" on CNN, big news for Bluesky Let me just alt-tab to the window. Or to the wall.
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May 1, 2023 22:27
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Those books were huge when I was growing up, long before there was any movie. I remember my mother having A Thing against them because it was witches and wizards and she's that kind of Catholic, but Harry Potter was everywhere by the end of the 90s, and if you were born in that late 80s/early 90s cohort, you were aware of it whether or not you'd read them. I don't remember any "marketing" beyond them being sold at the scholastic book fair and literally every kid talking about it and borrowing the library's only copy. EDIT: it's just a really basic story, there's nothing groundbreaking in it, it just struck the right chord at the right time, doesn't have to be any bigger than that. JKR got lucky.
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May 1, 2023 22:28
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fyi this is working for me: if twitter logs you out, hit log in, then do NOT enter anything, just x out of the login screen. you should now be logged back in on the same page. i think twitter is incorrectly telling you you're logged out, and when you try to log in it logs you back out first and then gets confused.
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May 1, 2023 22:34
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Watch Elon say something about the website being in a quantum state of interdependent pre-incalculabilty leading to login coefficients being temporarily in flux I swear to God his technical word salad he gets when he's high sets my teeth grinding
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May 1, 2023 22:36
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Endorph posted:fyi this is working for me: if twitter logs you out, then do NOT enter anything
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May 1, 2023 22:38
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DaveWoo posted:Twitter just logged me out and I can't log back in Sounds like you're better off
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May 1, 2023 22:38
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Incredible addictive behavior on this page.
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May 1, 2023 22:41
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May 1, 2023 22:41
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I feel like everyone I know still super into Harry Potter is female, a minority, or queer and was at exactly the right formative age where Harry Potter became the perfect teenage allegory for escaping an oppressive society and finding a new place of acceptance. Which is why it extra sucks that JKR is a racist terf.
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May 1, 2023 22:41
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Discworld had the better nerd wizard anyway.
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Soylent Pudding posted:I feel like everyone I know still super into Harry Potter is female, a minority, or queer and was at exactly the right formative age where Harry Potter became the perfect teenage allegory for escaping an oppressive society and finding a new place of acceptance. For what it's worth, I know a bunch of white male nerds who are quite into it. It's mostly just the age range, where I'm from. But I guess unlike my sister, those guys didn't spent years on fan fiction sites. She was just the worst with regards to that. I couldn't even bother to start the final book, because that felt to exhausting.
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May 1, 2023 22:45
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So much for the pink pound. We'll buy your poo poo regardless!
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May 1, 2023 22:46
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Why did they let the kids play Quidditch, I feel like there would be a minimum of two deaths during every game
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May 1, 2023 22:47
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People are so desperate to just have a fun place to shitpost about lunch and cute animals with their friends, but without Elon and the Bluecheck Nazi Patrol, that invites for Bluesky are being sold for hundreds on eBay. Especially hilarious considering the embarrassment of the $8.- thing that nobody wants to pay. Not to mention that Bluesky is still a bit of a mess because they were entirely not prepared for the ridiculous demand for it apparently.
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May 1, 2023 22:56
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Paying $100 for a bluesky in the back alley just to be able to skeet.
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haljordan posted:Why did they let the kids play Quidditch, I feel like there would be a minimum of two deaths during every game The lack of protective equipment makes the game safer. Kinda like how American football is insanely dangerous meanwhile on the other side of the pond no one has ever been injured playing rugby
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smoobles posted:Jake Tapper just said "skeet" on CNN, big news for Bluesky https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1653144577161801734
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