>>717427378
NTA
What a non-post. Learn how to argue, you're not making any sense and your sentiment has no substance.
Explain why it's bad to care for the spirit and preservation of TF2.

He's right. I feel everyone who praises Harry Potter is blinded by some degree of nostalgia or childlike wonder attached towards that IP. I have never seen anyone who's read or watched Harry Potter beyond the age 12 carry any emotional baggage (and if they do it's usually bad ones) from interacting with such works. Meanwhile even adults can usually recognise or connect with a well written children's book even if they didn't read it at prime age, take for example how many people write about Alice in Wonderland or how many tropes get copied from Tolkien's body of works every single day. Harry Potter is boring because it's completely impossible to take seriously if you already weren't in the small circle of kids who grew up liking Harry Potter. I struggle to name anything similar to this because it's not Disney adultism and other franchises people praise over nostalgia like Star Wars don't quite fit the criteria im going for...

>>24576468
Sci fi can be literary
Fantasy can't
Tolkien is the only fantasy I have read and interacted with I will ever come close to calling literary and it's a self indugent autism trip, in a good way
Comparing modern fantasy to greek myths or homeric tales is the most absurd comparison I have ever seen on this fucking board. As it turns out most of these YA fantasy books aren't made with archetypes in mind over oral traditional and mythical inspiration because they are in fact made by writers on a very tight schedule, little to no prose styling and constant editorial pressures. The fantasy and sci fi novel is a post mass printing capitalist phenomena for entertainment. Taking that historical context out of the picture in this discussion is just idiocy.