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.

  • 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).