Ph.D. student Parinita Shetty is the creator of the Marginally Fannish podcast, in which she uses an international lens to examine fan podcasts as sites of public pedagogy. For a delicious break from quarantine life, she invited me onto her show for an hour of talk about how much I love the character of Nagini
Thank you to Becky Mezzanotte for the header photo. To read the show review of Stars on Ice, skip down six paragraphs. What does figure skating have to do with Snape? Nothing in particular. (Although if anyone wants to write a fanfic in which Snape is lead potioneer for a government-sponsored athlete doping scheme
A major theme of Potterverse is that there are worse things than death. Primary among them: remorse. Even if you’ve split your soul through crime, you can reintegrate it through remorse, but remorse is “excruciatingly painful.” You’ve got to really feel what you’ve done, and the pain of it can kill you. Larry Nassar,
[Note: Skip down 10 paragraphs if you just want to get to the stuff about this album, Revol by Sons of an Illustrious Father. -Lorrie Kim] Lin-Manuel Miranda got me through 2016, the year we slipped into the darkest timeline. When the pointless cruelties toward people of color and queer people made me feel more bitter
Lavishly in-depth interview with the three creators of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Addresses several fan questions about that script: Yes, she had veto power over the entire script and production, so anything there is there with her blessing. No, it wasn’t for the money. She has enough money. She was excited and nourished by
Snape: A Definitive Reading, LIVE from Chestnut Hill College’s Harry Potter Conference On Friday, October 21, 2016, the MuggleNet Academia podcast invited Lorrie Kim to join them as a guest to discuss Snape: A Definitive Reading. Deannah Robinson (deannahm03 at gmail) provided the partial transcript below. Hosts: Keith Hawk and John Granger Guests: Lorrie Kim, Prof.
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