not_IOhad this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️
jagermoI have the same one talk over and over with my wife. No other author gets that much slack from their fanbase.
“But its such great storytelling”
its not. Its mediocre and needs time travel to work.
It’s like the inverse of Liking Something Before It Was Cool. I never liked this problematic thing even when it was cool.
TheTechnician27Its mediocre and needs time travel to work.
My Immortal, a masterpiece in coherent plot, needs time travel to work too. I fail to see the alleged problem here.
Time travel is mostly used as a deus ex machina to solve a problem a weiter has written themselves in. Like in HP, Therme ia time travel bit only for students or to learn more, not to erase attacks by Voldemort, because reasons. In other words, they could have stopped the death if Harrys parents, but did not want to, because reasons.
I get rhat if used well and as a consistent plot device, it can work. But in HP, its simply a one oft drama device. Its boring and lazy writing.
Its boring and lazy writing.
STOP FLEMIN DA STORY, PREPZ
This comment rivals My Immortal on grammar and spelling.
There is also a cameo by a gothic Marty McFly, who gives Ebony a black DeLorean time machine able to transform into an iPod, allowing her to travel forward in time.
I kinda want to read it now.
SpookyBogMonsterMy Immortal is an internet classic, and a bizarre time capsule of what youth subculture was like ~20 years ago.
rudyharrelsonits not. Its mediocre and needs time travel to work.
This mentality misses the point, IMO. If the Harry Potter books were written in a way that made even the staunchest critic go, “Damn, these books rival the works of of J.R.R. Tolkien and Shakespeare”, that should have zero bearing on whether or not any given individual makes the decision to boycott an author’s work on idealistic grounds.
I like plenty of art that could be classified as schlock; not everything we enjoy has to be masterpiece theatre. I’ve boycotted all HP content ever since Rowling became a professional asshole, but I won’t pretend I didn’t enjoy the books or the films as a teenager.
Here’s a hard pill to swallow: shitty people can make good art. We can condemn bad people unequivocally without simultaneously needing their art to be bad. Michael Jackson was my favorite musician for many years, but hearing his music in 2026 always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But I won’t pretend that it wasn’t my jam and I certainly won’t suggest that the music was mediocre.
bufalo1973Orson Scott Card.
I bought Ender’s books before knowing what kind of shit is OSC. Now I wouldn’t download a free pdf of anything from him.