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A debrief with Dumbledore, and going home.

Next up is year two: Lord Harry Potter and the Pureblood Panopticon! Stay tuned :)

AW was totally being a God-pusher in that article.

(See, that's what comparing AW to a drug-dealer looks like. And it's a joke. It has been made with zero ill will toward religion generally or AW personally. Chill.)

~Neshomeh believes the dose makes the poison, really.

It's not like the rural Germans have been laying down new villages on the regular, so somewhere like Eimelrod, Diesfeld, Hemmighausen, or Schweinsbühl would have been there, likely with the same name, at the time you're writing about. And it's not like anyone's going to recognise them, right?

(All four of those are on the same two mile stretch of road on Google Maps; I have fond memories of Fort Fun a few miles west from 30-odd years ago.)

hS

No one is forcing you to participate in this thread. You're welcome to present a dissenting opinion, but if you can't treat your fellow PPCers with respect while doing so, then don't bother.

~Neshomeh

No to meet you! I’m Mina! Aren’t these snow golems cute?

(—Ls would like to see more of Agent Glam)

And you seem to have left out a sentence.

And capitalism bad. Of course. Hooray.

—Ls

You can easily find my account under the reviews page. And, as Nesh said, we do have some history with TVT. (Though I, personally, was not around then.)

I’ll try to help out!

—Ls agrees with Nesh’s sentinment

I'm afraid I can't suggest any resources. My knowledge in this area is purely incidental to other things. >.>;

Best of luck on the project!

~Neshomeh

Akrinor was kind enough to help me out on Discord when I told them about the region and the worldbuilding, and I'm doing my best to research the time period enough to not make any potential readers squint very hard or facedesk later on. However, I do still need resources for my research because most websites are only so-so when it comes to reliability. So any pointers on articles or even books I could read on the relevant bits of the Black Forest region's history would be appreciated. :) Like I said, historical accuracy isn't really a selling point in an alternate history universe, but I want to keep things at least plausible. This is a novella-length project, but I know the feeling of being taken out of the story by a wildly historically inaccurate detail (hello canned food in the Golden Age of Piracy - no, I'm not making that up), so I do what I can.

The last time a group of PPCers tried to update our TVT presence and make it more broadly representative (as opposed to being based mainly on the edits of a couple people citing their own works), we got accused of whitewashing, and some people even got banned. That might have something to do with why we haven't touched it since. I hope your attempt is looked on more kindly by the TVT admins.

~Neshomeh isn't a Troper.

There are some important dialect divisions between different parts of Germany that might have a strong impact on how a small village is named. (Not to mention that "Germany" as we think of it today wasn't quite a thing yet in the 1600s, but I'm sure you knew that already!)

~Neshomeh

Elon is a loose cannon and your concerns are reasonable.

Why are you making a Breaking Bad reference? With Jesse Jackson? It just...WHAT?

--Ls

I am working on a story again, yay! Less yay is that it takes place yet again in a region I'm only barely familiar with, namely 17th century Germany. It's an alternate-history world (I'd rather not divulge the premise beyond that), but it takes place partly in a small village that desperately needs a name. I'm writing in English and I can wing it with the characters' names, but I'd rather not name my village something ungrammatical I got from a name generator (name generators are my salvation when I write fantasy, not so much with IRL settings). Do any German speakers frequent the Board who can give me some advice on how to name a village?

but I've refrained from troping any of my content in order to avoid revenge-flames and such.

I've been editing their page on us lately in an effort to get examples of more recent content the community has made on there, and the current state of said page is... not ideal. Lots of examples just saying a character is some trope without explaining what about them makes the trope, or not providing quite enough context for somebody unfamiliar with our writings to understand why they are an example of the trope. I've been fixing and improving what I can, but it's a large effort for just one person.

Really, many of the issues with the page seem to stem from most of its development taking place over a decade ago. Much of the page as it currently stands was created in 2011 or prior, when TV Tropes' standards for what makes for a good example were much lower than they are now. There's been additional development on the page since, but it's been several years since the last time anyone really focused on sprucing it up.

It would be nice to have additional input and insight on making our page on there the best it can be.

You're late to your calligraphy class.

Asking for a friend, haha...

Edit: oh! Haha, that says I'm Dawn-jie! No wonder I couldn't find anything good in the emoji packs. This is Zohar!

And happy belated Boardiversary to boot!

/Ekwy

Strange.

There's supposed to be four images, right? Because that's how many I'm seeing.

Oh, so these are snow golems, not Abominable Snowballs. I was wondering why they didn't have twig arms. Or hats and scarves, for that matter.

They're cute and all, but I don't think we could keep them from melting in the long run. And they're weirding my partner out.