Digital Overtone

The bits hit the virtual fan yesterday when the omgwtf-machine was whipped into a frenzy over the announcement, straight (no pun intended) from the mouth of our dear and glorious leader J.K. Rowling, that Dumbledore, beloved imaginary wizard of the Harry Potter-verse, was, to the author's mind, gay. Fans go wild; the religious right goes, well, apeshit.

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No Comments » Posted by Kyle / criticism and culture and fantasy and fiction and literature and religion

I believe that the fantasy and science-fiction genres are two of the most relevant genres to contemporary society. Science fiction/fantasy literature functions because it is, ostensibly, not about the real world.

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Some things that should be seen: Wicked, Avenue Q, The Last Five Years; and some things that should not be seen: my first experience with public capital punishment in the twenty-first century.

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