[ SECRET POST #3896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3896 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Me Before You (film/novel)]


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[Star Trek TOS]


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[Persona 5]


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[Andy Brennan and Lucy Moran from Twin Peaks]


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[David Bowie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth"]


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[Broadchurch]













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Comments

Re: Book club - August discussion post - So You Want to Be a Wizard

[(Anonymous)]

Anon from below & I think most of this is pretty fair. I mean, at the end of the day, it is a kid's book. I did want to respond to one thing though

It bothered me that the two most powerful objects in the universe (apparently) were just SO EASY for two kids to find and sneak in and get. Like there’s no way. Whatever their system of wizardry is, I didn’t love that two pre-teens were able to figure out as much as they did within a month or a week of starting.
though I still think it was silly that they faced down the Big Bad themselves, two kids, in the first short book

The sense that I always got - and I might have been making this up, or it might be literally wrong, or I might be hazily remembering something from later books in the series - was that a lot of this stuff is just how magic works, and how the world of magic works, in the universe of the story. When you become a wizard, you are immediately a wizard, and wizards are enormously smart and powerful. When you become a wizard, you are immediately committed to fighting entropy, and you're just as committed and just as important in that fight as any other wizard. Every wizard is important in stopping the lone power.

And that's not just in the fiction - I think it's also directly connected to the message of the book, and what made the book so powerful to me as a kid, and what's so deeply life-affirming about it. Each of us has as much to do, in regards to helping life grow and fighting empathy and loving and caring, as any other. Allowing the kids to go right into real-deal stuff that way makes that message really strong. It's really about these characters, as kids, who you can relate to as a kid, being put directly into contact with the extent of human possibility and the big moral choices of human existence. And that's really powerful and really good to me.

I dunno that's just how I thought about it.

Re: Book club - August discussion post - So You Want to Be a Wizard

[diet_poison]

I guess I can see that! It's not that I think they're unimportant to me, but I wasn't expecting them to be suddenly super competent wizards with zero training or experience. They even confirmed Nita's status as a novice in the directory at the beginning.

Also I guess I enjoy stories about training and learning new arts, and it was weird to have them just suddenly be amazing.

Re: Book club - August discussion post - So You Want to Be a Wizard

[(Anonymous)]

No, I totally get that! I can definitely see why someone would expect it to be about magical training and learning new arts, and it's definitely not really an expectation the book fulfills.