Subject: Oh! Also I fixed the chatroom
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Posted on: 2016-06-12 12:16:00 UTC
I made sure it was registered and had a bot and ops before I left. Admittedly the bot is mildly useless because I don't know how to make it work like the old one did, but I suppose I can fiddle with it.
I figured three months was probably enough. Though I may have miscounted, oh well. Anyway in the interim, we've ended up with another PPC couple- Me and Delta Juliette are dating now. Don't ask me when that started, I'm awful with dates. Also, I've discovered a nugget that might be of interest to peeps, just deciding whether or not it needs its own thread. I may just make another post on this one to keep from bumping something else off the front page.
On a mildly related note, I was referred to this method of using Hogwarts Houses as personality indicators, and honestly I think it works better than the Meyers-Briggs test. For the curious, I am apparently burned Hufflepuff primary/Ravenclaw secondary. Which, when you read over the personality types, probably explains a lot about my behavior. Certainly goes a way to explain my worldview.
If somehow the plot leakage is just something to keep fans from finding out about the real plot... Then congrats to the writers. It is a possibility, you know. The leakage could be fake.
(broette? I'm not sure what the correct way to address you is)
As they say in the Daily Beast article, most of the major plot points have been leaked for a while now. This is just a summary of the play itself.
Rowling would have responded to such a leak as this, cos she is desperate to #KeepTheSecrets. So since she's NOT panicking over this leakage...
As one person on Tumblr put it:
"Dudes. People. This is still messed up if they’re messing with us. Like, really messed up.
"We’re a pretty loyal fanbase. We’ve stuck with her through character assassinations in the movies, through the Epilogue that we seem to be pretty well divided on, through the weird Pottermore updates and post-Potter interviews (we all remember the surprisingly pro-Harmony interview). There’s no reason why we should be punished this harshly.
"I don’t know if this is just the people I know, but spoilers are a no-go in the fandom. I remember how utterly pissed off people were about those posted pages for the last book. I wouldn’t have looked at the spoilers if I hadn’t heard from a good friend about how much the play sucked, and I’m sure there are a lot of other fans with me on that.
"The script doesn’t come out for over a month. That is a freaking long time to prank someone. It wouldn’t be nearly as messed up if it was a week or something, but a month is a long time. (Let’s be real; it’s almost two months.)
"I know people who are selling their tickets because of this. If it turns out to be a prank, think about how angry and betrayed you’d feel if you’d sold your tickets. And why? Because we’re supposed to believe that they’re all lying to us? What the hell?
"I’ve had the play pre-ordered for a while, which I’m sure is the same for a lot of hardcore fans, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is as obsessive. I’d be pretty annoyed if I didn’t buy the book because of the spoilers and it turned out the be fake.
"As much as I hate the spoilers and the plot as we’ve seen it, I think I’d feel worse if it turns out to be a massive joke."
I really, really hope it turns out to be a massive joke, but s/he does make some pretty good points. :( In the meantime, I'll just keep pinching myself and waiting to wake up from this nightmare where the eighth Potter "book" sounds like My Immortal 2.
I made sure it was registered and had a bot and ops before I left. Admittedly the bot is mildly useless because I don't know how to make it work like the old one did, but I suppose I can fiddle with it.
I apparently can't fiddle with the bot. That'll fall on Tomash I guess, since technically he's the only op.
I actually don't remember what it did other than autogreet.
I got "access denied" on /msg botserv info #ppc
Does anyone know who's running the bot?
But for some reason the bot takes away the ops I should have as channel owner, so idk.
What typo, though?
This is definitely the correct ship name. Congratulations Mattman on potentially calling it before it happened.
I always supported that typo.
So the Daily Beast has leaked the entire story of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and honestly it is hilariously bad. Like... they brought Snape back to life briefly, as well as bringing Umbridge back (why? both of those characters can rot in my opinion) Voldemort and Bellatrix had a daughter that was never mentioned before and Draco's son may have actually been fathered by Voldemort using a time turner (which is really gross because he's like 40 years older than Draco's wife). Rose, Ron and Hermione's daughter, is a complete jerk to Albus just because he gets sorted into Slytherin, which isn't exactly his fault. Albus openly advocates murdering Voldemort's daughter towards the end.
It's just... Really bad. You can read it for yourself here if you want.
There's a total of three or so people in the world who can make a decent story involving time travel, and I somehow doubt they were involved in this production.
I do find some joy in the irony of them destroying the canon that the fans were fans of in order to create fanservice for the fans who are now (very reasonably) upset because the canon has been ruined in their attempts to create fanservice.
It's a bit like improving the efficiency of your racehorse by breaking all of its legs and then strapping the creature to a large truck that's constantly driving in the opposite direction of the racetrack.
This has to be a joke. There is no way that this can be serious. It's either some form of joke or a very clever conspiracy, because there's no way that something that makes me want to drown myself in Bleepfee without even getting through the entire thing can come from the same person who wrote the Harry Potter books. They're obviously pulling some kind of joke to shock everybody into not speculating and ruining the plot of the play. That must be it.
"Every conversation in this alternate reality ends by people crossing their wrists and saying: For Voldemort and valor.
Every girl at Hogwarts is hoping Scorpius - known as the Scorpion King - will ask them to the Blood Ball. The other kids do his homework."
I'm pretty sure this was taken from the My Immortal version of the epilogue.
Remember Pottermore? That lovely little website containing backstory and why X didn't do Y or what have you?
As our investigations currently stand, the longest period that may be relived without the possibility of serious harm to the traveller or to time itself is around five hours. We have been able to encase single Hour-Reversal Charms, which are unstable and benefit from containment, in small, enchanted hour-glasses that may be worn around a witch or wizard’s neck and revolved according to the number of hours the user wishes to relive.
All attempts to travel back further than a few hours have resulted in catastrophic harm to the witch or wizard involved. It was not realised for many years why time travellers over great distances never survived their journeys. All such experiments have been abandoned since 1899, when Eloise Mintumble became trapped, for a period of five days, in the year 1402. Now we understand that her body had aged five centuries in its return to the present and, irreparably damaged, she died in St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries shortly after we managed to retrieve her. What is more, her five days in the distant past caused great disturbance to the life paths of all those she met, changing the course of their lives so dramatically that no fewer than twenty-five of their descendants vanished in the present, having been “un-born”.
Finally, there were alarming signs, during the days following Madam Mintumble’s recovery, that time itself had been disturbed by such a serious breach of its laws. Tuesday following her reappearance lasted two and a half full days, whereas Thursday shot by in the space of four hours. The Ministry of Magic had a great deal of trouble in covering this up and since that time, the most stringent laws and penalties have been placed around those studying time travel.
Claiming that it was a "prototype" Time-Turner that didn't have the five-hour limit is exactly the sort of thing a Suethor would claim. The fact that time was pretty much fine after Albus and Scorpius' wild hijinks is exactly the sort of hand-waving a Sue would do. A girl claiming to be Voldemort's and Bellatrix' daughter is exactly something a Sue would do.
Conclusion: Jack Thorne is a Suethor.
Because he's the one who actually wrote the play; JK Rowling helped him and considers it canon (!!!), but she wasn't the main writer.
All I can say, if she considers this canon:
If she acknowledges this thing as canon, odds of the MACUSA's story hiding something more subtle plummets...
High hopes for Fantastic Beasts slowly spiraling down the drain...
Fantastic Beasts is also the movie set in 1920s Harlem that includes no black or hispanic people on the cast, unless they're uncredited extras, but we haven't seen anyone who wasn't white in the background of any of the promotional material.
Not that it's JKR's fault as I doubt she had much to do with the casting, but it is pretty rediculous, considering that Harlem was/is one of the areas where white people are a significant minority.
If her 1920 America is really the best she can do, and if she acknowledge this canon, her reputation will be shot out of the sky.
Yeah that is. Definitely something.