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-Ls can edit too. =)

It is canon between a friend of mine and me that my agents have been known to hide in her world when they think they’ve earned a vacation. Her world isn’t published yet, therefore I haven’t given details, other then that the characters of her world are fluffy animals (like Redwall).

Perhaps I'll even use this as a reason to write an interlude about a vacation.

-Ls

I'm pretty sure more than two vacation stories exist, but it's a sort of granular data that we've historically been lax at capturing on the wiki, cuz capturing data isn't really a priority for most people. {= )

~Neshomeh

--a Hobbit fanfic that I wrote back in 2015. They showed up as elvish extras in Rivendell. So it's been done, absolutely.

(Granted, not presuming that said fanfic is "goodfic", of course, but I should hope it's not badfic, either :'D)

I know agents who have gone on vacation have gone to OFUs (as Jay and Acacia did), or to visit a given continuum. As far as I can tell, vacation is pretty rare (note the four references) and doesn't seem to have occurred at all recently, that we know of.

-Ls

It’s a simple as this: on the off chance agents get vacations they also take them to goodfic. Just makes, too much sense.

I think I will have to adopt Madhros, if he doesn't belong to someone already.

I definitely didn't forget this. Nope. No sirree.

No lilacs; most of the ones here already came and went, too.

My towel is hanging on its hook at home, and the one my clients have loaned me for my current house-sit is on a towel rack. ^_^

And since I think we all collectively forgot May 4, a belated May the Fourth be with you all!

~Neshomeh

I hadn't encountered the original version of this meme before; it's quite absurd! Unfortunately, a lot of the absurdity gets lost in the transition to the PPC, since I'm already used to agents having unusual/inferior weapons. But it's still a fun reference. I can't say whether the Founding Fathers or the Flowers are being worse represented by what the stories claim they "intended," but I bet Building Maintenance is more displeased than either! Oh, and excellent substitution with that Roomba!

—doctorlit owns a toy Cerberus for home defense, and he's sure it will be very effective if anyone ever crosses the threshold

A cute little story! I like that Mitsuki was willing to shift her potential career to something new to support her family, but didn’t have to give up her interests, either. And indeed, let boys be beautiful, too!

A couple grammar notes:
Hazama Mitsuki was an unmatched beauty, a fact she was very aware.
“very aware of.”

Our baby has received blessing from the moon,
Either “received a blessing from” or “received blessings from”

—doctorlit received a blessing from an ant yesterday, and it's still itching this morning

ad to an Acceptable and Fine Amount of Consequences

Okay, I know ultimately Hermione is the one who chose to publicly reveal the situations with Regulus, but boy, did the adults in the Order not do themselves any favors, giving her the Office Space treatment. (“The Office Space treatment” is my nickname for when multiple authority figures all come down on someone to repeat the same criticism about a single mistake the someone made, based on the scene in Office Space where three supervisors lecture their employee for a harmless paperwork error in quick succession, where once would have sufficed.) They all know how strong-willed and defiant Hermione is; they should have known ragging on her about her potential decision was going to set her mind more strongly, and maybe make her do it sooner, too. Grown-ups just don’t understand! And I’m right there with Hermione, being a young person wanting to fix problems, and it feels like all the adults in the campaign are focusing everywhere except on the actual problems! It makes it all the easier for me to sympathize with her, and understand her decision . . . and all the more horrified at the absolute pile of train wrecks she’s inflicted onto her society as a result! With Gaunt influencing the Dementors to “strike” to bust his Knights out of Azkaban, and to provide a pretense for Thicknesse dropping out (under the Imperius again?), this is easily going to shift the polling data in a way Hermione didn’t foresee, at the worst possible time for Regulus to see a decline in support. Additionally, she’s completely demolished the ties between her own friend group, and outed herself to Umbridge, and potentially sent Umbridge on the trail of other students who haven’t actually done anything involved with the gossip pamphlets. Still, I stand by her anger and her desire to improve the world; they are good, and justified! Plus, the silver lining here is that it looks like the Order’s main focus is discovering the cause of all the missing Muggles at Silveryholt, which likely hasn’t been affected by Hermione at all; if anything, her interference in the political aims of Regulus is going to serve as a distraction for Gaunt to pay less attention to Silveryholt. I don’t know if the Slytherin basilisk is public knowledge in this timeline, but I hope the Order can discover it (safely) either way, and make Gaunt face consequences for, you know. Feeding people to it!

Okay, I can’t put this off any longer: I was right the first time about Hermione being Polixenes?! I should have stuck to my guns! I forget now whatever it was that made me dismiss Hermione, but I remember being so sure it couldn’t be her any more . . . whatever act she put up, it was convincing! Man, blast it, I was so close and then veered off . . . I really convinced myself Fred and George were spending their off time doing extra writing work? What is wrong with me!?

Oh, I really enjoyed the scene where Jenni went full FicPsych on Sirius! Nice to see her dipping into her AU self’s talent pool, and it looks like the man really needed it, too. Good for her! And good for him!

—doctorlit feels like Hermione’s dad reminding her to study is like another parent reminding their child to breathe air

Just wanted to let y’all know that despite leaving the discord server, I will still be involved in the community on here!! I will do by best to participate in events and now that I’m on summer break, my goal is to write something! (not PPC related, rather my own story)

see y’all around :>

-HC

She is quite a charming woman.

They rise heads up, heads up high!

(And don't forget your towels!)

Hermione Granger deals with the fallout of the latest issue of Lady Polixenes. This is another two-parter of someone else's POV, and Hermione's POV this year is particularly fraught, so read at your own discretion!

Warning: Hermione exhibits some signs of complex post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from Umbridge's abusive vendetta against her, and lashes out at the people around her as a result. She also experiences flashbacks to traumatic incidents, including Astoria attacking her in 2nd year, and Umbridge's detentions. Also, Dowager Lady Black calls her the m-word.

The detail of Lily being sponsored by the Princes was first brought up in either year 1 or 2. James had wanted to sponsor her, too, but Lily chose Severina because they were childhood friends, and that formed the basis of James' hatred of Severina. The Mary Macdonald incident was alluded to in year 4, too, when they were listing out crimes committed by the Knights of Camelot. I think in this instance it was probably a sort of initiation rite for the Knights given how Severina appeared to have been traumatised by it (standing back and doing nothing, something she also did back when she was young and her grandfather--well, that's a story for another time).

Severina's allowing her anxieties over what would happen if Harry's shields are too weak affect her ability to teach him, plus I don't even think she knows how to go about teaching a complete novice how to do this thing. Nesh and I worked out Occlumency to be sort of done in layers:

• The basic level is building a wall between your thoughts and the thoughts of family members on your familial bond. That’s something most mages learn as kids. Harry doesn’t know this because he was raised Muggle.
• Then you have to learn to clear your mind at will when someone tries to barge in on your thoughts.
• Then you learn to construct a false set of memories, expanding it into an entire different “self” or backstory if needed.
• And then finally more advanced trickery like false memories on top of false memories, etc

And advanced Legilimens learn to spot telltales of tampered-with memories, or false memory palaces.

But essentially the whole thing comes down to effective compartmentalisation and being able to modify your memories in order to lie under Veritaserum/memory-pulling. Things that this Harry in particular isn't really good at because he's open-hearted and not very interested in duplicity, because he wasn't raised in an abusive household. That being said, Severina was definitely the wrong person to teach him because she's invested in him enough to freak out about him not immediately grasping the basics, like how SOME parents freak out every time they're in a car with their kid so the kid has to get a driving tutor instead! Ask me how I know :P

Hermione was overdue for an activism L that doesn't imply that wizards think slavery is fun and cool and that house-elves enjoy being slaves. :P That's all I really have to say about what she's doing. Alex Hirsch put it best when he said that the inability of the left to distinguish between an imperfect ally and an enemy would lead to our downfall!

Interesting theory on Babbling! You'll see in several more chapters if that's correct.

Haha, Draco can't help it, he was being too nice, he had to insult something soon and it might as well be grilled cheese. :P

And re: your speculation... well, you'll know in the next chapter!

This is the first year I haven't seen a single flowering lilac today. They came earlier in the month and have blown away like the ashes of the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road.

"... and a hard-boiled egg!"

hS

Happy 25th of May to all who celebrate!

*distributes sprigs of lilac*

In lieu of their originally planned mission, or the new non-Sue-killing photographic mission I'm currently writing for them, I have for some reason decided that the first thing published for Tolin and Finola (besides being in my Permission request two whole years ago) will be their version of the home defense musket copypasta.

Warnings for destructive fire/explosives, aka blacklist item 9 (censored) and general violence (not censored).

Tolin owns a musket for home defense, since that’s what the Flowers intended.

Four Sues break into his response center.

“What in the blazes?” he says, grabbing his Brodie helmet and Baker rifle.

Tolin blows a golf ball-sized hole through the first Sue, and she’s dead on the spot. He draws his pistol on the second Sue, but misses her entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbors’ Roomba instead.

He has to resort to poking Finola, who is sleeping on the top bunk.

“Shpxva’ Sues,” she says, "> BL 9

Tolin affixes his bayonet and charges the last glittery rapscallion. She bleeds out waiting on the DIA to arrive, since HQ is impossible to navigate.

Just as the Flowers intended.

(Definitely not canon)

I did say they needed to take the pen away from Uncle Rusty... this was a Steven Moffat episode, and it kind of showed.

(As an aside, I didn't realise until yesterday that Moffat was also responsible for Sherlock. Kind of makes more sense of why people went off him so hard - they weren't just looking at his Doctor Who run.)

I actually find it quite funny that the philosophy of the series is now very clearly "this thing is controversial in America right now, here's a Time Lord to tell you which side is dumb and/or evil". I'm not overly surprised, mind you - Russell T. Davies has always done this (for example, Torchwood went out of its way repeatedly to explain that there is no afterlife) - but it's funny that they've done it just after going live on Disney+. (I will note that as far as I can tell, the production is still 100% BBC - Disney are only distributing.)

(Of course the show has always been "moralistic", so to speak: the second ever story was about Space Fascists and their nuclear weapons. THEY TALK LIKE THIS AND LOVE TO EX-TER-MIN-ATE.)

hS

On that count, he really does just like to be beautiful 🤭 he's been beauty-conscious since a young age, and is subsequently taught beauty care by his mother. You're spot-on however on the fact he has a strong sense of honor and responsibility, especially towards his loved ones. The lad is a yamato nadeshiko to the bone, you see.

I find this both funny and rather cute: Kaguya appears vain on the outside, because of how he grooms and comports himself all the time, but his speech in this chapter made me realize that he isn’t really doing it for his own sake. He’s done it to maintain his school’s social order, to preserve the image of his parents’ hotel, and to protect Momoka’s reputation. And even now, when Kaguya is dangerously ill, he’s still only thinking about Momoka, not himself. He’s actually a very complex character, and I think Inasuke has finally noticed that as well, since he appealed to Kaguya using Momoka’s feelings, instead of his own. I hope this is the start of a much healthier relationship between the two!

I’m not too sure that the nursing staff of Medical would lock patients in like that? Feels a little weird, although I suppose if Kaguya has been consistently trying to escape, they might have resorted to locking the door to keep him safe. Just so long as it’s a special case, and not the standard operating procedure!

I very much love the exorcism scene! I love the idea that, because the shrine was the closest thing to canon featured in the fic, that the ground around it basically became canon source material, and was able to defeat the character replacements on contact. Very unique and fun!

A new word you taught me today: UV mapping!

—doctorlit is selfless like Kaguya. More selfless than Kaguya actually, because he doesn’t waste time on all that pointless self-care. Remember, it takes fewer muscles to slouch!