No problem.

Subject: No problem.
Author: James Shields
Posted on: 2015-08-27 18:09:00 UTC

Feel free to take me up on that anytime, though I feel like that would be probably best done in the IRC, unless you want to rant to the whole Board, which I am fairly certain no one would have a problem with. Everyone here is so nice and understanding. It really feels like a community around here. Anyway, I have never frequented the IRC myself, but I feel like I probably should sometime anyway.

If I am honest, I would have to say I don't have a chosen denomination. I did grow up in a really nice presbyterian
school, so I probably feel closer to that.

Another of my favorite HP goodfics is Thou Shalt Not Suffer, precisely because it is the best HP involving christiasn that I have seen around. Unlike most of the others that I seen so far, it never devolves into a religious rant about the Wizarding World. Sure, the protagonist's parents still come off as extremely fundametalistic, but that and a few SPaG issues(none severe enough to be really distracting) are probably the worst things I can say about it.

Michelle is simply a really great protagonist. She is duely flawed and extremely likeable. She never gets preachy, but instead mostly just gets really torn apart between staying true to her faith and accepting that she was born a witch, something that very faith deems as inherently evil and sinful, and that she needs to learn to control her gifts. There is also the fact that this story contains one of the most balanced and realistic portrayals of Slytherin that I have seen around.

Die Fo Our Ship is always more than a little bit extreme. Good non-canon shipfics obviously mostly don't fall for it, but it is always a risk with badfic. I would rather the writer gave me a reasonable explanation for why the canon pairing is no longer together and why one or both of them is now attracted to the other half of the preffered ship.

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Reintroduction by James Shields on 2015-08-19 22:16:00 UTC Reply

Hi there guys, I'm finally back! I don't know if you still remember me. probably not, or if you do it is likely as that guy who had someone post a farewell thread for him. Sorry about that. That was really cold and impersonal, but I had no choice. After the thing that caused me to leave happened, I had to leave immediately so I had to do that.

Anyway, since my original introduction post is most certainly long since buried,and for the benefit of those were not around the Board at the time I wrote it, let me do it once again.

I'm James Shields, but you may call me James.

I have read every relevant introductory material, including The Original Series of course, a good deal of spin off series and plenty of the wiki pages.

I am from Brazil and my first language is Portuguese.

My main fandoms ( and those most relevant for PPC purposes, such as for future missions for when I get around to that) are Harry Potter, Nanoha, Sakura, Sailor Moon, Mass Effect and MLP FIM.

It is good to be finally back guys! I hope I am able to stay for good this time, get you all really well (and for those that were around last time, to reconnect with you all) and even get my Permission (thought that will take so time since obviously I have not been very active in the past 10 months or so).

Hello! by Alleb on 2015-08-20 23:30:00 UTC Reply

I just arrived back in May, so we've never met. Have an urple ocarina as a returnbie gift, pull up a chair, and tell me a bit more about yourself! Who's your favorite HP character?

Hi there! by James Shields on 2015-08-21 16:19:00 UTC Reply

Thank you for the returnbie gift.

Let's see: My favorite Harry Potter character is Hermione.
I am actually a softcore Harmonian and my favorite HP goodfic are The Harmony Bond, Tragedy , Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Future’s Past and Marissa and the Wizards

My least favorite HP badfics are Betrayal, Harry Potter and Future's Past, Adopted and Positive

Ooh, thanks for the recs! by Alleb on 2015-08-21 19:40:00 UTC Reply

I read more LotR than Harry Potter, but I do have a really good DW/HP crossover to offer.

Hermione is awesome! I look like her when I braid my hair and then brush it out. She's one of my favorites as well, but they change from time to time. :)

You're welcome by James Shields on 2015-08-21 20:50:00 UTC Reply

A Harry Potter and Doctor Who! crossover? Sounds interesting, though I have to admit that I don't know much about DW.

Hermione has always been my all-time favorite. She is indeed awesome :D

Which is why I dislike those badfics I listed so much. I mean, I love Hermione and I ship HHR, but those stories force her, Harry and sometimes Ron and even Dumbledore to be very different than what they should be. You will notice that all four are actually HHR fics. This is not a coincidence.

This is a case of Don't shoot the message. It is always worse when someone who is supposed to be on your side ends up making a bad case for it. I would love for Harry and Hermione to be together, even if I understand why they wouldn't work as a couple in canon, but it is not helping my case when someone has to assassinate Ron's character to get them together. Or create a Sparkly Sue that causes highly illogical adoptions or pregnancies to get the same result. Or invent a Love Goddess that was trying to hook them up since they were GLAURUNGING 11 year olds. You get the idea.

* Sighs * Sorry about the ranting.

You're fine! by Alleb on 2015-08-22 03:47:00 UTC Reply

I'm always ready to listen to a rant; it's cathartic for me when I rant, but I don't have many people to rant to.

I know what you mean, too. I get some of that IRL with political/religious stuff-- people make a bad case and bring the rest of us down with them. I'm a Christian, y'see, so I often bang my head into a wall because one of us said something silly.

I don't read much shipfic (outside of canon relationships) so I'm not familiar with how they work out. I... may have read some Dramione and some Druna a while back. Maybe.

Thank for being so understanding by James Shields on 2015-08-22 05:19:00 UTC Reply

You're right, it does feel good to get that sort of thing out of your chest. So if you evet need to rant, and especially if it is badfic related, I'm always ready to listen to it too.

I' m a Christian too, so I get what you're saying as well.

Non-canon shipfic can be a rather messy business if done wrong. Ever heard of Die For Our Ship ? If one plays their cards right with character development, then they shouldn't have to derail or even kill off one half of a pairing in order to make way for their preferred ship, but unfortunately with badfics Die For Our Ship is almost exactly how it goes.

I have read some Dramione, but I have never read Druna. I mostly read either Harmony or canon pairings.

Thanks! by Alleb on 2015-08-26 22:25:00 UTC Reply

I might take you up on it.

Awesome! It's great to have another Christian around. What denomination are you in, if you don't mind my asking?

Yeesh. I'm fond of some non-canon pairings, but Die For Our Ship is a wee bit extreme. I wonder, what's the weirdest pairing someone has pulled off, and pulled off well? That'd be interesting to know.

I'd say I ship Druna more than Dramione, but when I read fics of either my standards were low; I couldn't say if any were well done. I'll have to look over the archives and see if there are any good 'uns among them.

-Alleb

No problem. by James Shields on 2015-08-27 18:09:00 UTC Reply

Feel free to take me up on that anytime, though I feel like that would be probably best done in the IRC, unless you want to rant to the whole Board, which I am fairly certain no one would have a problem with. Everyone here is so nice and understanding. It really feels like a community around here. Anyway, I have never frequented the IRC myself, but I feel like I probably should sometime anyway.

If I am honest, I would have to say I don't have a chosen denomination. I did grow up in a really nice presbyterian
school, so I probably feel closer to that.

Another of my favorite HP goodfics is Thou Shalt Not Suffer, precisely because it is the best HP involving christiasn that I have seen around. Unlike most of the others that I seen so far, it never devolves into a religious rant about the Wizarding World. Sure, the protagonist's parents still come off as extremely fundametalistic, but that and a few SPaG issues(none severe enough to be really distracting) are probably the worst things I can say about it.

Michelle is simply a really great protagonist. She is duely flawed and extremely likeable. She never gets preachy, but instead mostly just gets really torn apart between staying true to her faith and accepting that she was born a witch, something that very faith deems as inherently evil and sinful, and that she needs to learn to control her gifts. There is also the fact that this story contains one of the most balanced and realistic portrayals of Slytherin that I have seen around.

Die Fo Our Ship is always more than a little bit extreme. Good non-canon shipfics obviously mostly don't fall for it, but it is always a risk with badfic. I would rather the writer gave me a reasonable explanation for why the canon pairing is no longer together and why one or both of them is now attracted to the other half of the preffered ship.
SOMEONE SAY DRUNA AND DRAMIONE? by Iximaz on 2015-08-27 03:15:00 UTC Reply

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c1/4c/ac/c14cac9064e742cf09eb295c0912f9f2.jpg

^^^Literally the only time I ship them. Both pairs. Have a bonus!

^^^Again, the only way in forever that it could work. But it does. Splendiferously.

I DID by Alleb on 2015-08-27 14:46:00 UTC Reply

Y'know, I haven't watched all the way through the HP Musical. It curses to much for me. :/ I did like what I watched though.

DRUNA

DRAMIONE

YUS

Why yes, I do remember you. by JulyFlame on 2015-08-20 21:55:00 UTC Reply

Welcome back. :P

How's it been?

Glad you remember me too! by James Shields on 2015-08-21 15:53:00 UTC Reply

I am great, thank you. I just recently got into law school.
That's part of the reason why had to vanish, because of my entrance exams. Those were HARD. Things are better now and got some time to come down here again.

How are you?

Hi! by OrangeYoshi99 on 2015-08-20 17:33:00 UTC Reply

Err... Welcome back! I don't really know who you are but welcome!

Thank you! NIce to meet you! by James Shields on 2015-08-20 18:14:00 UTC Reply

You wouldn't, since I am sure you weren't around back then, but I hope we can get to know each other.

Hey! Hi! I remember you! by eatpraylove on 2015-08-20 14:40:00 UTC Reply

*high-fives* Here's a cupcake from Sugar Cube Corner and a Hufflepuff scarf because Hufflepuffs are awesome :)

I am glad you remember me! by James Shields on 2015-08-20 17:01:00 UTC Reply

*High-five!* Thank you for the delicious cupcake and for the Hufflepuff scarf! Hufflepuffs are indeed awesome :)
If I could go to Hogwarts I am sure I would be sorted into that house myself. Go Puffs!

Hello again! by the Irish Samurai on 2015-08-20 12:29:00 UTC Reply

I think I do recognise your name, so welcome back.

Have this Karaoke Knight - it's capable of singing out-of-tune versions of almost any song you care to name.

- Irish

Hello! by James Shields on 2015-08-20 16:56:00 UTC Reply

Thank you. And thank you for the Karaoke Knight, though I am also sort of tone-deaf and I would be inclined to join the singing and then we would have a veritable cacophany. Can't have that now, can we?

Hello! by Dorano on 2015-08-20 03:44:00 UTC Reply

Well, I just got here a little while ago so I don't remember you, but hello James!

Hello there! by James Shields on 2015-08-20 16:51:00 UTC Reply

Nice to meet you Dorano. And since you are a newbie, I guess I could say "Welcome aBoard!", even thought I am also technically new here again.

Welcome back! by SkarmorySilver on 2015-08-20 00:36:00 UTC Reply

Did I give you one of my feathers? If I did already, have another anyway! Also a Lyra plushie, now 100% free of suspicious holes. XD

Hello there by James Shields on 2015-08-20 03:30:00 UTC Reply

I don't know. I mean, I remember seeing you around back then, but I don't remember if you were around for my introductory thread. Anyway, thank you very much for the presents!

Welcome back to the PPC! by Scapegrace on 2015-08-20 00:20:00 UTC Reply

Here's your starter Pokémon:

Iiiiiiiiit's Blissey!

And your starting item is:

Fire Shield from Risk Of Rain!

Now, Fire Shield is broken when you stick it on a Pink Blob - there's even people who select it over Eviolite for Chansey, and that almost NEVER happens. See, the way it works is that it deals back 33% of the damage the holder takes if they're hit by a super-effective move. Given how much HP a Pink Blob has? That damage really starts to add up. It makes them extraordinarily hard to take down, especially if your opponent's using more fragile wallbreakers. Enjoy! And by that I of course mean "drink deep from the well of your enemies' tears". =]

Thank you by James Shields on 2015-08-20 03:25:00 UTC Reply

Nice to meet you, kind sir or madam. That is one very awesome and useful gift. I shall you use it well.

Hello... No, in that case - Welcome back! by Matt Cipher on 2015-08-19 23:09:00 UTC Reply

Nice to meet you, hope to see more of you in the future! :D

Here, have a Head that's Always Screaming!

Nice to meet you too. by James Shields on 2015-08-20 03:22:00 UTC Reply

Though it is a bit hard to hear you since this Head that's Always Screaming is, well, Always Freaking Screaming!

Oh, hello there! by Desdendelle on 2015-08-19 22:59:00 UTC Reply

I don't recall you, but w/e — have this cup of confused Lapsang Souchong tea. It's not quite sure whether it smells like a campfire or not, and no, it's not going to eat you.

Hi there! by James Shields on 2015-08-20 03:18:00 UTC Reply

Yeah, I guess it figures that you wouldn't remember me , I mean, I wasn't here that long before I disappered. But just to refresh your memory, I was that guy who in his introduction post butchered the name of your mission and thus created the first Culture Offensive Unit mini.

But anyway, thanks for the tea, I guess. I take it you are done with handing out Stygian Tea then? Though I wonder... this new tea, it's not going to eat me, but this being PPC and all... It's going to taste horrible, isn't?

After some Googling... by Desdendelle on 2015-08-20 18:16:00 UTC Reply

I remember you.

Also, well, people were complaining about missing limbs, I was running out of Stygian Tea to hand out, and I was becoming rather bored saying the same thing over and over again.
As to this cup's taste, well, Lapsang Souchong is a smoked tea, so it's very much an acquired taste. I like it, but I know people who don't.
*shrugs*

Glad you remember me now by James Shields on 2015-08-20 20:08:00 UTC Reply

Yeah, I can see why you stopped handing it out. Predatory tea is kinda hard (and dangerous) to drink. Though I don't experience with it myself see your welcome gift to was a Fried plushie.

Still, smoked tea. That at least sounds... interested. That article says people either extremely love it or hate it, so lets not be subtle about it this...

* Drinks tea * You know, I am rather confused. One slip, it tastes horrible, second slip it takes goods, and then cycling throught both tastes continuously after that. I guess we can chalk it up for it being a Confused Lapsang Souchung tea, I guess? * Also shrugs *

Welcome (back) to Creation, here's your shovel. by Voyd on 2015-08-19 22:56:00 UTC Reply

Have a shovel enchanted to dig up baby moles! You have to care for them.

Uh... Thank you? by James Shields on 2015-08-20 03:07:00 UTC Reply

I am pleased to meet you, since I don't remember seeing your username back when I was here. So, does that shovel force me to keep digging themeven when I don't want to? Cause I don't taking care of cute baby moles, but if I have to spend the rest of eternity digging them... * cue Ironic Overpower * Great. I will get back to you guys when I have figured out a way to stop digging!

No. by Voyd on 2015-08-21 00:11:00 UTC Reply

It means that baby moles are the only things you dig up with it.

Okay then by James Shields on 2015-08-21 15:48:00 UTC Reply

Sorry, sometimes it seems I just try too hard with my PPC humor.

Returnbie! *glomp* *poke* by Iximaz on 2015-08-19 22:33:00 UTC Reply

I do recognize your name, as a matter of fact! Have a plate of SPaGhetti!

Wasn't poking for newbies thought? by James Shields on 2015-08-20 03:00:00 UTC Reply

Hello Iximaz, glad to see you again. Oh, good punny name there! See, this is why I missed you guys so much. Delicious!

Welcome back! by Edhelistar on 2015-08-19 22:25:00 UTC Reply

I don't have any idea of who you are, and neither you would know who I am. But that won't be stopping me of giving ya this welcome back gift!

Is a replica of the One Ring, that works as an Unison Device.

It is a pleasure to meet you by James Shields on 2015-08-20 02:50:00 UTC Reply

I hope we can get to know each other now that I am here. My very own Unison Device! Thank you!