the magicians - welcome to the twitter tire fire

Syfywire just pulled the article they put up a few hours ago, "Queerness and Death in the Magicians" and deleted the tweet that announced it. That's super not at all questionable and really normal.

Here is a tweet with screenshots of the article: Queerness and Death in the Magicians. It also looks like a PDF is up at the discord: https://twitter.com/coldwaughtersq/status/1121193198523756544

Note: this will definitely help settle the drama, by the way. That'll work.

ETA (7:30 PM CST): so that thread was deleted and so was my RT of it. Here's another one: https://twitter.com/thelaynierizer/status/1121206952028192768

ETA (7:59 PM CST): Full article now available on tumblr: https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/184422544953/queerness-and-death-in-the-magicians

Comments

[seperis]

I have to admit this entire dumpster fire on the TPTB's side of the equation fascinates me. It's like they're Charlie Brown with the football; they react in the exact same way to controversy every time even though historically, it has never, ever worked and also generally makes things about a thousand times worse.

So I have to assume that yes, they did think it would help; sure, it's never ever worked before, but that doesn't mean it won't this time.

This is where being a fanfic writer and in fandom for years comes in handy. In general, very few people in fandom for more than three years don't know how to evaluate and de-escalate when it comes to heated critique. So when someone in fandom acts like TPTB in response to critique, it's generally because they're being an asshole, stupid, or just want to watch the world burn.

There is nothing not ridiculous in the fact that TPTB's A-Game of "How to Fix This" is functionally identical to a fan deliberately trying to start a flame war because they're mad about being critiqued.

[toujours_nigel]

I want to say maybe it works with the General Audience? But then you've gotta wonder how many non SF/F and/or fandom-adjacent folk watch a show like this.

Plus, I mean. we tend to be vocal, tenacious and grudge-holding, but we're much nicer to TPTB than each other, which makes these reactions even more inexplicable to me. Just let us bitch and grouch and analyse things!

Deletions. I just don't know. It's like they think we don't screenshot and save receipts. Which. Gamble at least should know better, one'd think.