What are the literary origins of the boy wizard and the wizard school? Well...you can probably figure that out from the thumbnail. Nevertheless, I shall, if ...

Huh turns out JK is even less creative than we thought and maybe/prolly cribbed off some (A LOT) of the concepts from Ursula K Leguin's works.

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Plagiarized? Nah, however I hate how JK is attributed as the "creator" of the wizard school concept in fiction when she clearly was not, and has not even offered resistance to that idea (i.e. liberals when they don't want to accept fiction like any field is built on the efforts and labor of multitudes).

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      I hate how JK is attributed as the “creator” of the wizard school concept in fiction when she clearly was not

      Yeah, that shit is annoying, but more because of the way people incredulously buy into it.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly goes to show how major corporate book and media entities were able to so effectively shove that shit into us as kids that we always have that subconscious thought on JK as "creator of wizard school"

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          I predated HP by a decade or two, so I must have missed that. LotR was always the benchmark for fantasy for me.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah it's more for the millennials cuss that shit was everywhere (the author of this vid also has another great vid on the corporate media blitz on HP which she goes into detail on).