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Welcome, new person. Have a blue orange, it should taste like any other orange.

--Ls

So I heard you guys have a discord. if you dont mind a new guy joining, can I get acess to it?

I’ve been Voyd longer than I’ve been a member of the PPC.

XD

Keeping the branding old friend

[bashes through wall]

FRIEND SPOTTED! HI FRIEND!

Welcome to the—[coughs from all the dust and cobwebs that his Board account has gathered] welcome to the PPC! Have a look around, don’t hit your head, and enjoy the ride!

Um hi? Was recommended by a friend to visit this site. Dont think I have anything much to say then I like writiing and Im hopeful I can grow from here and I can make some friends

I'm Tomash. I don't think we overlapped much, but I've been around to some degree since 2011 and am mainly responsible for the code of this Board

Glad to see you back

To prepare for an upcoming episode, I'd like to adopt 3 mini-Balrogs: Greyham, Ballin, and one from my own mission, Thrranduil.

In which Arare is really distressed about his lost head veil, and we get a bit info on his background. Warning for themes of abuse.

I maaay have forgotten to reply to this for a week or two, oops.

I mean, uh, hello, friend! It's good to hear from you again, even if ypu are busy. I think my three year Boardaversary was about a month ago.

--Ls, remembering Plort RPs

They’re a children’s fantasy series inspired by Welsh mythology.

I recently finished the Dresden Files and I am waiting for the next one to come out.

I would like book recs. My favorite genres are fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction. I also like folktales and mythology and works inspired by them. I’m a big Tolkien fan.

Hello again everyone! I intended to post yesterday, but I was frantically finishing my political science final paper. I am almost done with the semester and am looking forward to summer break, not waking up at 6 AM, and having more time for craft projects.I haven’t been around much because I didn’t have much in the way of writing ideas and I have been too busy with college to read/write/engage with fanfic, though I do still enjoy it. Most of my creative energy has been going into several sewing projects. I am in my local Renaissance Faire and I am only borrowing one skirt because I made the rest of my costume. I’m also working on sewing a crazy patchwork quilt to use up all the small fabric scraps that occupy several large boxes around my house.

I will most likely go back to lurking, but I might poke my head in occasionally if I have time.

• Bookworm

After two arcs in which Sergio, Nikki, Corolla and the rest of the gang got involved in all kind of shenanigans involving the plots of several series continuing in the Unraveled World (and them getting caught in them), it's time to finally give some answers to questions hanging since the first arc: Like how the Unravel happened in the first place.

And so, let's follow the Skystreakers in their current mission, in which a simple search and rescue operation becomes a much bigger mess when the PPC and the Doctor gets involved, the truth about the Unravel is discovered, and the Drifter's identity is revealed.

Hey, you’re back! Congratulations again on the graduate work! I hope everything is going well, and that your workload isn’t TOO stressful!

JUSTICE FOR HERMIONE! Yes! Good for her to get back in her own dorm room. Even better to see Lavender lose her prefect badge; even putting aside her personal problems with Hermione, Lavender is just too dedicated to the Pureblood stuff to serve as an unbiased authority figure. I was lot less excited when I read about Draco being forced to return to the Slytherin dorms, because I didn’t trust Severina to actually do much to dissuade the other students there. But later in the chapter, I saw that Sev has pretty much the same Unbreakable Vow as Severus did, so I guess she actually HAS to do everything in her power to make the other Slytherin students leave Draco alone! Yay!

Boy, the Slug Club social is a whirlwind of interesting details! (Just as Slughorn likes it, I’m sure.) Somebody has Burke tracking down the Deathly Hallows, which certainly won’t ened well, especially since it’s probably Gaunt. The Resurrection Stone doesn’t get mentioned, but Gaunt probably already has it anyway. Nobody, including Harry, realizes his Invisibility Cloak is the one from the legend, and the Elder Wand . . . okay, I’m honestly kind of forgetting the canon shenanigans around the wand. Assuming its history isn’t changed from canon, it should still belong to Dumbledore in this world, right? That leaves both the Hallows Gaunt doesn’t already have in the hands of his primary antagonists; nice. I just have to hope the Elder Wand’s loyalty doesn’t go screwy at the end of this year, like it did in Half-Blood Prince. Oh, and speaking of Borgin and Burke’s, someone with a feminine voice is planning a poisoning, probably to make up for Severina’s failed attempt on Lily, in which case it’s probably Bellatrix. I would love for it to actually be Narcissa getting ready to poison Bellatrix, but I’m not sure she could bring herself to go that far against her own sister. Plus, we’ve already seen Narcissa can’t really go shopping without Bellatrix’s supervision, so . . . alas.

Anyway, back to the Slug Club: I’m legitimately glad Lady Avery is having a good time now that her Bond brainwashing has faded. I like to think she and her daughter are having a grand old time with the house all to themselves! (I must say, though, Lady Avery saying, “She tells me I’d be better suited to the job, but I’d much rather just host parties and chat . . .” sounds an awful lot like the “lol I’m just a girl, I can’t do math” jokes that have been on the rise in the last few years . . .) Next, um. Professor Babbling is Nicholas Flamel’s daughter?! Is that what you’re telling me?!??! So I’m guessing the reason for the cloak, and the dark classroom, is that she looks rather withered and old, like Flamel was portrayed in that one movie I haven’t seen?

Lastly, I don’t know Tarot at all, but am I reading it right to think that Trelawney misread the Fool? Her explanation feels like it would be a reading of a proper, right-side up Fool, rather than the reversed version Harry got? I also can’t help but notice that the illustration of the Fool sounds an awful lot like Draco pre-haircut. Hopefully, this isn’t foreshadowing that he’s going to try something Foolish to rescue his family . . . Then again, it’s a REVERSED Fool, so maybe Draco will do something wise instead!

—doctorlit, glad Lily (the author) is doing well in life, and is still finding the time to write!

Why not :)

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“And that’s a wrap!” Dawn said cheerfully, and stepped through the portal, grinning. She’d been trying out CSI-show style one-liners recently, and was having a great time with them when they worked out.

Her grin immediately faded to make way for wide-eyed staring as she registered the state of her response center.

Couch overturned. Minis holding some kind of council, with the mini-Balrogs Kelaborn and Gladladriel, ordinarily on the calmer side, waving their little fiery whips in clear agitation. The golden fire lizard Gwilithiel had been sulking on the closest shelf to the council of minis; the moment she noticed Dawn’s return she took flight with an inelegant scrabble, landing seconds later on Dawn’s shoulders and demanding to be soothed with every bit of mental and physical ability she had to get the point across.

In the kitchen, a Chinese teenager with shoulder-length hair held up in a ponytail looked up from an entire counter full of mechanical wreckage and followed Gwilithiel’s flight path to meet Dawn’s stare. His eyes went even wider than hers.

“Uh,” he said. There was an immediate guilty undertone, quickly subsumed by a sunny smile. “Dawn-jie! Hi! You, uh, you’re back! How was the mission?”

Dawn, petting a clingy fire lizard and making distracted soothing noises at her, somehow still managed to look from the teenager to the wreckage of…what was that? What was missing? She was a little afraid to look around the kitchen.

At least he already sounded a little sheepish.

“It was kind of fun,” she said. The Council of Minis was still going, bar a quick turn and wave in her direction when her name had been said. “Not too annoying.” She took a tentative step forward, then gave herself a mental shake and detoured around the couch to head for the counter. “I see you’ve been doing some kind of project while I was out! Want to walk me through it, Zohar?”

Zohar winced, but stood his ground. “It looks bad, doesn’t it?”

Dawn took a closer look at the pieces.

Dawn took an even closer look at the pieces and turned one over.

Dawn recognized—oh sweet nibblets, that was her toaster oven. That was very much the door and two dials from her toaster oven. And next to it—definitely food processor pieces. She was afraid to figure out what else was there, but she had a feeling it was at least one more kitchen item.

Dawn looked up. Zohar looked back, apprehensive in a way that made Dawn think…well, several things.

First: he should be. That was her toaster oven! He’d taken apart her toaster oven! Could he put it back together? She used it almost every day!

Second: hadn’t he just about stopped looking at her like that? She used to catch him doing it at least once per hour.

Zohar was a badfic rescue who had been living with her, fostered by her, for nearly a year now. He was brilliantly clever, witty, and inventive. He was cuttingly hilarious and terrible at self-preservation. He was a sixteen-year-old former Wei Wuxian replacement with all the memories of the horrific events his older self had endured and the abuses he’d suffered in his home Legendary Badfic on top of them.

He'd taken apart her toaster oven. He seemed at least halfway at ease. Nine months ago he wouldn’t have dared to try the former without being confident he could put it back together before she got back. Only six months ago he was still occasionally looking at her in ways that made Dawn think very strongly (and sadly) that he was still waiting for some other shoe to drop.

Dawn looked down at the wreckage covering her counter and smoothed her fingers along Gwilithiel’s tail.

“I see the human gift for invention remains intact in you,” she said, pulling on the shred of amusement present in all her reactions until it came forward a little more. Like hell was she going to snap at him and prove whatever apprehensions her foster son still had about the truth of her character right. “Want to walk me through what you’re doing here?”

Something almost indiscernible in Zohar’s body language relaxed. “Dawn-jie, you’re too nice. Aren’t you mad?”

Dawn raised her eyebrows at him. “I mean, I definitely hope you have a plan for getting our kitchen appliances back in working order, but I’m the one who left you here to amuse yourself, right? So it’s partly my fault. Next time I’ll…I’ll tell you more clearly what I don’t want you to take apart in here, and maybe we can find some unused appliances that you can do whatever you like with.” She paused, and was immediately struck by an urgent thought. “Whatever you like that isn’t explosive. Or toxic. Those are lines. Okay?”

Zohar nodded quickly. “Yes, Dawn-jie. I’ll keep it in mind.”

The Council of Minis, gone quiet for this exchange, became audible again.

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[very out of time, over in fact, so: Zohar is a bit sheepish and still wondering a little bit whether that’s really it but continuing to be more relaxed; the Council of Minis are excitedly debating [probably about whether or not those lines will actually hold]; Gwilithiel is slowly mollified by attention; Zohar really wanted to know how the toaster oven worked and then he wanted to make an improved version but needed more parts and then looked a bunch of stuff up but wasn’t quite sure yet how to make it all happen without explosions; Dawn is both impressed and dismayed; Zohar promises to put the appliances back together as they were and have someone [maybe from DoSAT?] check them over for safety purposes; Dawn might restrict him from tinkering with appliances for a couple weeks to a month after that’s done, and once that period lapses she gives him some unused/broken appliances gathered from other agents with a reminder to be careful about what he makes with them; and, lastly in this summary but early on chronologically…Dawn does find a way to heat up their next meal :P it just probably either takes longer or is less crispy, and might involve Zohar cheekily suggesting they could build a fire and then offering heating talismans. Whatever it is, another thread is added to the slowly spun yarn of trust.]

[set in the first quarter of 2022!]

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Zohar’s previous appearances on the Board:

In a thread asking questions of a snow golem (using Dawn's account)

Off-screen, having made a cake for Muriel’s birthday party (written by Lily Winterwood)

It's a speed-writing get-together. There's not a rule to be found bar the time limit and the existing community rules. Write what you want. =]

The Slug Club Yuletide Party presents a watershed moment for Harry and Draco's courtship.

BL 10/11 warnings once again for the ongoing references to age-imbalanced relationships, plus mentions of disordered eating. Check the notes at the start of the chapter for more details!

I can't quite put my finger on it; did we interact on the old Board back in the day? Though admittedly I wasn't on the Board until 2008-ish...

~Lily, excited to see an ancientbie

Thank you! It's a bit of a wild juggle right now but I'm trying to get my ducks lined up with a job and a roommate and all that stuff. Helps that what I will be studying (public diplomacy, online radicalisation) is very much in line with what I've been writing in this fic already, so it's stuff I'm really excited to get more deep into.

I was also a bit of a Mom friend, which is weird since I tended to be the youngest in my friend groups (not so much anymore, but still). We do mellow out from my experience, too...

The hymn is pulled from "I Vow to Thee, My Country" which is an actual hymn that was used to spur nationalism during the WW1 era, so, uh. the murder was in the soil of the culture that I built the text from!

Draco's consecration thing was more because of his specific circumstances; Lavender's experience of Cygnet Lodge was radically different because she was only a day pupil. It's not super clear from Harry's POV but that can't really be helped...

Yes, little Tommy is a bit different from his canon counterpart--like how Harry is, too, by virtue of having a parent look after him!

More mentions of Agatha next chapter!

I feel you on the "work and stress" front; I've slowed down online quite a bit as well. But at least we're still surviving. eh?

—doctorlit packing up for work right now!

I'm one of the newer ones. Nice to see an ancient-bie 😆