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apropriado · 1 year
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x-authorship-x · 3 months
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ground-zoro · 1 year
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More forms of media need to be treated like books I think. To my understanding, and I'm far from an expert on any of this, authors have more control and ownership of their works than the creators of shows and movies etc produced for or through various large corporations.
If a publisher decides to drop a book series, the author can continue releasing books in the series, they just have to swap publisher or self publish. They still own their work past and present. There might be issues getting the earlier books re-released, but continuing wouldn't be so much a problem.
I just feel this type of dynamic would at least partly solve the pandemic of so many queer universes getting killed of. Disney kills off The Owl House, and there's nothing that can be done about it. But had the series been a book series, and Dana was told Book 2 was the last Disney were willing to publish, Dana could have said, fine I'll publish Book 3 elsewhere.
There's probably to many "moving parts" in a tv series or movie for things to be this "simple", but I still think it'd make life a lot easier for creators and their fans.
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skytr4v3ll3r · 5 months
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Não te importas com o que sinto, somente com minha presença...
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As someone who has been in the Harry Potter fandom since the 2000s, it becomes obvious that what really made the power go to J.K. Rowling's head wasn't her new fame and fortune - but rather, how the Harry Potter fandom practically worshipped her as a god when the books were still coming out. If you look at old interviews with J.K. Rowling and Emerson Spartz of MuggleNet, and Melissa Anelli of "The Leaky Cauldron" website, Rowling and her PR team specifically curated these interviews - much like with "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" - to only see and praise her in a good light. (Spartz was a fanatical JKR supporter in particular, even going as far as to mock and attack Harry/Hermione, or Harmony, shippers "on her behalf". Rowling laughed at it.)
The Harry Potter fandom and their militant support for J.K. Rowling as a deity-like figure in the 2000s, simply because she wrote the Harry Potter books, really went to Rowling's head. It's also probably where she gets this idea of, "I read my most recent royalty cheques, and find the pain goes away pretty quickly." She genuinely still believes that the Harry Potter fandom still supports her, and still has her back, because she still thinks that fans are putting her on a pedestal. However, in the 2000s, most of these fans were teenagers and young adults who didn't know any better, and weren't mature enough to see how this was unhealthy, for both them and Rowling.
However, I've encountered this issue before in the realm of YA authors and the book community in general, and what J.K. Rowling doesn't realize is that the only reason why Harry Potter fans supported her at the time was simply because she wrote the Harry Potter books - and was continuing to write the series at that time. They didn't care about J.K. Rowling, the person - they cared about J.K. Rowling, the content provider, who kept providing them new Harry Potter content. They only cared about her because she was writing new Harry Potter books.
Once Rowling finished the Harry Potter series, and started writing her adult mystery books, readers' interest in Rowling as a content provider dropped off sharply, and they lost interest, to the point where she had to publicly reveal that she was "Robert Galbraith" in order to boost flagging book sales. It became clear that people only cared about her Harry Potter series.
I feel this is also why J.K. Rowling's slide in to TERFdom is not only performative and self-seeking, but that the people who claim to support her only do so solely because she's anti-transgender. Much like with the Harry Potter fandom - which only cared about J.K. Rowling, in the sense that she was providing them new Harry Potter books and content - TERFs only care about J.K. Rowling because she supports being a TERF. Most TERFs don't actually seem to care about her as a person, and as such, I think J.K. Rowling is seeing them as a misplaced source of support.
It's also worth noting that J.K. Rowling seems to have sought out the TERF community to fill in the gap left by Harry Potter fans, and the fandom at-large, increasingly distancing themselves - or growing and maturing beyond - their single-minded support of J.K. Rowling. For years, Rowling had her ego constantly stroked and fed by Harry Potter fans, to the point that she internalized her entire sense of self-worth on "being the author of Harry Potter" and providing content to people. Or, in the mind of J.K. Rowling: "Without Harry Potter, who am I? What is my purpose?"
Unfortunately, Rowling decided that her new "purpose" was fighting "trans rights activists".
When the Fantastic Beasts film franchise - which J.K. Rowling co-wrote the scripts for - crashed and burned, and her attempt to win back Harry Potter fans and the fandom with new Harry Potter-based content failed, she turned to a new echo chamber for self-validation instead: TERFdom. The TERFdom provided easy and lazy source of validation for Rowling, as instead of putting in actual work to create new Harry Potter books and scripts, she can just rest on her laurels, and occasionally post low-effort tweets that she can post instead, and which garner her a lot of attention. Rowling tunes out all of the negative attention, and only focuses on those praising her, or even worshipping her as their own "Personal Jesus" - the same as she did back in the 2000s with her Harry Potter interviews, and then later on, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
The Harry Potter TV show reboot on HBO Max is now Rowling's third attempt - if not fourth, counting the travesty that was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - to either try and win back the Harry Potter fandom, or to create a new Harry Potter fandom by exposing Gen Z and Gen Alpha to the series. However, things have changed a lot since the 2000s, and that includes far more support for LGBT rights, so I feel like this third attempt is going to backfire horribly on her.
quoted (but not formatted as a quote because it's too long for the new tumblr engine) from the comments to the r/Contrapoints thread on her 2023 JK Rowling video, a striking takedown/analysis of why it seems the author of Harry Potter has gone so far and so fast off the deep end away from the core principles that initially made her work so popular with a western millennial and down YA audience
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sisdiss · 1 year
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Until Dawn Breaks memes for chapter 19, by @x-authorship-x on AO3.
Quite a lot of them are based on the A/N at the end of the chapter since the characters were going through it in the chapter itself.
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conundrumoftime · 7 months
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Currently reading a book of essays in memory of Christopher Tolkien, and it has this excerpt from a 2012 interview with Le Monde where he talked about his work on the Silmarillion:
‘Right away I thought that the book was good, but a little false, in the sense that I had had to invent some passages,’ he explains. At the time, he even had a worrying dream.
'I was in my father's study at Oxford. He came in and started looking for something with great anxiety. Then I realized in horror that it was The Silmarillion, and I was terrified at the thought that he would discover what I had done’
(the book is The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien and the essay is Vincent Ferré’s ‘The son behind the father: Christopher Tolkien as a writer’)
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quakeroc · 6 months
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shakespearenews · 9 months
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Recent developments include a public “mock trial” of Shakespeare at, of all places, Middle Temple. Though the judges came down on Shakespeare’s side, the very notion that his authorship is a matter of debate serves the denialists’ cause. When I queried this with the Middle Temple press office, the event’s organiser angrily revealed himself as a believer that the real Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford (such people call themselves Oxfordians).
Simon & Schuster has issued a book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler, an American journalist. Its genesis is an article Winkler wrote for The Atlantic in 2019 on reasons for doubting the attribution of authorship to Shakespeare from Stratford. Her misconceptions were patiently dismantled by the Columbia scholar James Shapiro in the next issue. Winkler’s book is a farrago of wounded pride, sly insinuation of mystery where there is none, and a feeble grasp of sources, dates and facts...
...This is no time for genteel dialogue. The riot at the US Capitol underlines that baseless conspiracy theories have costs. If, through cynicism or soft-headedness, periodicals and publishers act as accessories, they shame themselves.
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fanhackers · 8 months
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Fandom, Paratext, Authorship
Though we have long reserved the title of “author” for a single nominated figure associated with the film, television show, book, videogame, or other media product, authorship is multiple, and when paratexts can change meanings, at times profoundly, then we must acknowledge how trailer editors, poster designers, book cover artists, fan producers, DVD producers, and so forth are all authors in their own right. And to acknowledge them fairly as authors is to acknowledge that authorship is a fractured process, spread out over time, not simply preceding the work or product in question. Anything authored can be re-authored, and paratexts will be the primary means of re-authoring.  From this observation about authorship follow a series of other observations about textual power. Authorship, after all, is about power, about determining who has the ability and the right to speak for the text, and who gets to speak with the text. Authorship is authority, a position of power over a text, meaning, and culture. Hence, paratextual re-authoring assures that this power to speak is shared among many, and it disallows any text the ability to speak in one way continuously, unabated. Hopefully, we might note the degree to which this situation denies any text too much power, for with smart and careful paratextual engagement, we can always re-author texts, negating past meanings and uses. Practically, though, this situation should invite us to realize how content producers have regularly aimed to control the paratextual field precisely to shut down alternate readings and to maintain authorship, authority, and power. Indeed, if following Umberto Eco, all texts are “open,” paratexts are key tools for managing what any given text is at a specific moment in time, and it is through paratexts that various stakeholders may work to limit how open a text can truly be at specific moments. 
GRAY, J. (2016) ‘THE POLITICS OF PARATEXTUAL EPHEMERALIA’. THE POLITICS OF EPHEMERAL DIGITAL MEDIA: PERMANENCE AND OBSOLESCENCE IN PARATEXTS. NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE. 
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amcarterwrites · 3 months
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I'm so excited to share my first blog post on Practical Advice on Literary Device for Beginner Writers! I'll post every other Wednesday and hope it helps you drop the shame on your creative writing journey.
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apropriado · 1 year
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random-xpressions · 11 months
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It is so hard to precisely attribute the authorship of words to a writer - these wouldn't have been born at all were it not for the eyes of the reader to fall upon them. Who would ever praise a pen and not the hand that holds it...
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yes-lukewinter · 4 months
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"You think an artist's job is to speak the truth. An artist's job is to captivate you, for however long we've asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth we get lucky."
The West Wing from a fictional US poet laureate played by Laura Derne Why It's Never Been Harder to Make a Living as a Writer
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skytr4v3ll3r · 1 month
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Sei que estou sendo idiota...
Sei que estou fazendo demais e recebendo nada em troca...
Sei que não é recíproco...
Eu não consigo evitar!
Quando amo, eu me dedico de corpo e alma...
Não sei ignorar meus amores...
Mas às vezes,
ao lembrar desses detalhes,
ao pensar que o amor só vai mas não volta,
eu fico triste...
E isso eu também não consigo evitar...
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kakita-shisumo · 9 months
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Just realized "I have written two novels" is a completely accurate statement for me to make. It feels ludicrously untrue, but it's not at all.
Man, being a fanfic author is weird.
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