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And that makes me think about something: Last movie pointed out the problem with fantastic beasts and wizarding secrecy...

Seems like the problem entirely vanished here, with the dragon, the banners and the likes. Oh, and the fact there was this giant heck of a fire in one Paris' biggest and well-known graveyards.

Your developper posted in October that his schedule for your next game could have been a bit more ambitious than he thought, so no meeting him for the moment.

PS: Could you tell how much of the speculation about your future is right here? While the game itself spooks me, I'll admit its future makes me curious.

I can only assume this has to do with a canon I know nothing about. I have no clue what Amber is talking about at all. But I wish I did, because you sound like you know what you're talking about, and what you're talking about sounds like cool sci-fi. I've always considered a mark of good fanfiction to be that it makes me want to know more about the canon it's based on. {= )

~Neshomeh

I don't know one way or the other, but when I read Rick Riordan's "Memories from my TV/Movie Experience" blog post, Rowling is who I thought of at the line "Even the most powerful authors (yes, the ones you are thinking of right now) have WAY less influence and control than you think they do."

Also, she may not want much say. As I recall, Rowling stated that she was done with the Harry Potter universe once the seven books were finished. Maybe she changed her mind for Fantastic Beasts, if the ideas came to her and she was excited about them... but I wonder if it's more likely that people (fans and/or movie people who own some of the rights) have just been putting so much pressure on her for more Wizarding World content that she gave in and agreed to sign off on whatever.

Again, I don't KNOW anything. These are just the thoughts that are rattling around in my brain as I see the films and read the commentary.

Does anyone have any actual information that might illuminate us?

Also, has anyone read any of her more recent, non-HP work? That would be a good place to look and see what her writing quality is like these days.

~Neshomeh

Disclaimer: Phobos had no trouble with it, so it might just be me.

However, I was occasionally very confused about which side of the statue-lady's skirt we were on. We saw people go in, but rarely how they went out again, or exactly where the transition happened. French!Diagon Alley isn't clearly walled off like the one in London. Who could see what, when? Could wizards encounter cars? Could Muggles see Grindelwald's banners everywhere? I don't know. And the wizards in the movies don't wear robes all the time, which would have helped. {= (

~Neshomeh suffers from low brain-bandwidth and can't always take everything in fast enough in one go.

Um... I think he said he was going to Australia? Maybe you could go visit him there?

With the biggest rubber band ever devised by Mankind. Alas, considering how annoying his type of character is, he's most likely to return some day.

Yeah, it's the second one that's correct. Em fixing the stopped clock was something that caused Cass to snap in the kind of completely unjustified and nuclear way common to people with trauma.

To write a fic that is something like "The Rise, Fall, and Reformation of MACUSA"

Something that reads like a History of Magic textbook from the perspective of an outsider, perhaps one of the Southern Witches/Wizards you mentioned in your excellent commentary. If I do write that do you mind if I use your commentary as a starting point/incorporate it into the piece?

A fanfiction fictional non-fiction textbook could actually be an interesting idea.

"...that was Wing. And that sounds like Zechs, all right. The whole Lust Object thing with him is kinda weird considering there's already a canonical love interest of sorts for him..."

"Since when has that stopped the...shipping?" Leonidas interjected, the word shipping sounding out of place from a massive super-soldier currently dressed as a rather imposing Zeon admiral.

"Good point," Sammy sighed. "Anyhow, yeah. Wing is awesome. It's where I started, and even though I've watched a lot of others since then, it's still my favorite and I keep coming back to it. If you ever wanna meet up and binge-watch it, let me know. That goes for all of you lot," he added, including the dragon/knight couple as well as the boys in his invitation. "Or binge-watch anything, really. With some exceptions." He coughed twice suddenly, and it sounded strangely as if the word "Twilight" was sandwiched between the two coughs.

So I guess it is going downhill a little bit. *sigh* I had feared that...

-Twistey

I ended up spiralling far into Weird Fiction, with Lovecraft (specifically his Dream Cycle stuff, which read more like bizarre fantasy stories) and China Mieville and John Langan and all.

Ahhh, and is it fantastic! It really did define my favourite stuff. Like you said--an absolutely ridiculous concepts, played totally straight, just all being cool and fun.

I recall, I think, weren't a few aircraft more sci-fiey hovery things? Alongside a few blimp fellas?

But, honestly, I think the cities are perfect. London is brilliant looking. Fits how I saw it perfectly. What a goddamn brilliant image, hey, the sort of, recognisable buildings atop all that industrial crunching mess?

I think, even if the movie is sort of, written as a mess, the visuals, at least, will ensure it's a grand old viewing experience.

Remember the time Deadpool came to visit? He could enter the Board because he could break the fourth wall. I can too, and I have used it to my advantage many times in my home continuum. You won't get the pleasure of killing me.

Monika

1. Yeah, I just now reread and inferred that that was the case.
   2. Hmph. I wouldn't consider myself warlike. Wild, yes. Untamed, definitely. But not warlike... on purpose, that is.
   3. Windowpane jokes all around :P
   4. Yeah, land is definitely better here, and now that I think about it, it'd be a really complex game if every Boarder had their own nation, so it'd be better to just group friends together. Does it still seem like something interesting?
   
   -Twistey
   P.S. Can you update my Plort heraldry? I want to use the Elvish ones as the symbols for the nations in the game, since they're round like the symbols in the original game series.

I wrote a story for a small-scale writing competition run by a local publishing outlet called Whirling Chair. The brief was a horror story, so I tried to mess with expectations and do one from the point of view of a much younger person. I was one of the winners and got to read the piece at their "Tea, Toast, and Ghosts" evening, as well as receiving a promise that it would be published. A year has passed, and they seem to have all but disappeared off the face of the Earth, which... well, I feel somewhat irked. Oh well.

This said, here's my entry: Nana. I hope you all enjoy it.

CW: violence, scariness, Comic Sans. =]

Might I instead recommend looking for a qualified psychiatrist?

And it might just be the consequence of the fact that France was just next door to England compared to America's novelty, and so it was assumed that things were similar, and some things were already written, like Beauxbatons, and totally not a 'burn' reaction from Rowlings, but...

Now I'm thinking and searching about it, I can't help but notice that French Wizardry World didn't seemingly get near the amount of world-building which got into the US one before the movie got out...

And on that same vein, the fact the action just happens to move away from the wonderfully nice Friend MACUSA and his mandatory happiness...

Yeah, I have 13 pages of MACUSA commentary.

hS

Not stopping after just one! That was much too good to stop there, and I've got a long holiday weekend to read in.

I do like the weirder fantasy settings like this - I think when I discovered them I'd been reading a lot more 'grown up' fantasy where things like politics, economics and logistics were a heavy part of the setting, so these books were a real breath of fresh air.

My other go-to series for 'fantastical fantasy' is the Edge Chronicles; are you familiar with those? They're intended for younger readers again, and feature skypirates and all manner of weird and wonderful creatures - and the artwork in the books is just stunning!

Yeah, the designs of the cities they show off in the trailer look incredible. One thing that didn't match my expectations is the designs of the aircraft. I'm pretty sure that in the books they always refer to them as 'airships', so I've always pictured them as being sort of zeppelin/blimp-like, but these seem to be more sci-fi winged/hover (anti-grav?) designs - which I actually think looks far cooler than what I was picturing before.

Yeah, I think Hester was always the main character in the sense that the story is about what happened to her, but was often told from the point of view of the people around her.

-Irish

There's actually 4 books in the series (plus apparently a prequel trilogy that I've only just found out about).

It's been a while since I've read them, so I'm not completely sure, but I've got a feeling that of the original books the first 3 are a trilogy, and then the 4th one is a little bit separated - after a time skip, or focusing on a wider set of characters or something? But still following on the world and events from the previous stories.

So yeah, if you enjoyed the first book I definitely recommend the others. I'm just hoping that this first film does well enough for them to do the whole set. It should do - the trailer looks brilliant, but as evidenced by the Rick Riordan discussion further down the page, adaptations can be a bit hit and miss.

-Irish

Did you catch the furore over her Wizarding in North America stuff? It was probably a couple of years back now. It wasn't... spectacular worldbuilding.

It could have been. I played around with a few ideas suggested by it: Wands Are Not Ethical, Ilvermorny houses (Part 2), American wandmaking, President Pickles, a sympathetic view of MACUSA. But Rowling didn't go into it nearly as deeply. She preeeeeetty much copied the British model exactly. Which is a real shame.

Hmm... I might repurpose some of those links into The True Story Of MACUSA or somesuch...

hS