Love the response to our Malfoid fiction! Thank you guys so much for all the kind words, and really thank you for the new paid subscribers who joined to read. I’m going to try to get chapter 2 up tomorrow and if it remains a hit, we will keep it going as an additional boon for Fandom Pulse.
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PlayStation’s $149.99 God of War Laufey Collector Box Ships Without the Game, and Fans Call It Another GTA VI Scam
PlayStation is selling the God of War Laufey Collector Box for $149.99 with the game sold separately, and fans are lining it up beside Rockstar’s $399.99 GTA VI Collector’s Edition, which also ships without the game.
Fantasy Fiction: The Silver-Haired Heiress Hates Me (But She Keeps Saving My Life) Chapter 1
With the Malfoid memes being so out of control and viral, I’ve decided to try my hand at a little cozy fantasy slice-of-life tsundere magic academy. That’s quite a mouthful, but overnight I came up wth a pretty good story, and I’m going to try putting it up here and on Subscribe Star for paid subscribers to see how it goes.
Mary Stewart Wrote the Merlin Novel Her Publishers Didn’t Want, And Is Getting A Collector’s Edition
By the end of the 1960s, Mary Stewart had settled into a rhythm that suited her publishers. Every year or two she delivered a romantic suspense novel, sending an ordinary person to the Greek islands or to Damascus and dropping them into a car chase or a locked room. Disney had filmed one of them. When she began a novel about the wizard Merlin, her publi…
Royal Road Deletes GuardBro’s Malfoid Harry Potter Rewrite, and His Google Doc Now Draws 100+ Readers at Once
Royal Road has deleted Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Tsundere, the Malfoid rewrite by the X writer known as GuardBro (@GuardTm), and the site’s own rules back the removal. Most of the fiction is J.K. Rowling’s text, and Royal Road requires authors to hold the rights to what they post.
BBC Commissions a Two-Part J.K. Rowling Documentary, and the Author Won’t Be Interviewed
The BBC has commissioned a two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling, and its second episode will examine her views on gender identity, “which place her at the heart of increasingly bitter online exchanges.” Rowling will not be interviewed.
Polygon Uses Davies’s Memoir to Blame Star Wars Fans, and Davies Gives Five Reasons Doctor Who Struggled
Polygon ran an opinion column on Oct. 12 headlined “Doctor Who’s showrunner is right: Hate is ruining Star Wars,” built on one line from Russell T. Davies’s new memoir: “Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, they’re all being brought down by contempt.” Writer Aimee Hart uses it to blame an “industrialized online hate economy” and cites fans attacking cast members as the proof.