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Absolutely! My email is clickable, should you want to check it out! (nm) by
on 2024-04-03 21:35:42 UTC
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Maybe we should see about doing that MST. (nm) by
on 2024-04-03 21:31:36 UTC
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*rubs hands* by
on 2024-04-03 21:28:43 UTC
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April of last year, it appears.
--Ls is good at remembering time, it would seem
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BOOKWORM! *Glomps* by
on 2024-04-03 21:17:33 UTC
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So good to see you again, it's been what, almost a year? I've missed you. I think I still have the doc for that one badfic you submitted for MST'ing somewhere. Remember Plort? I sure do, that was so much fun.
--Ls doesn’t have mych to say about the fics, sadly
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Very late, opting in. by
on 2024-04-03 21:10:10 UTC
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Desctiption: bespectacled Hobbit girl wearing big glasses, jeans, and various nerdy t-shirts. I'm a bookworm, as the name suggests.
Restrictions: none
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Interesting question. I think I have an anwer. by
on 2024-04-03 20:55:00 UTC
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Deirdre's favorite holiday is probably Burns Night because she's Irish. She's from a world I invented, but she's still Irish somehow. I'm not sure what holidays Rebecca likes.
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Hello! I'm back. I don't suppose anyone remembers me? by
on 2024-04-03 20:48:50 UTC
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Bookworm at your service! takes off Dwarven hood and bows I have been tremendously busy with calculus and other things. I am now back for a little bit. I present you with two little bits of Silmarillion fanfic. Feel free to poke holes in them and give advice.
Still they are shining
Now in their sundered dwellings
Untouched by evilIt was after supper one evening. Maglor was sitting outside the house with his foster sons, Elros and Elrond watching the stars come out.
“Well, my boys, I think tomorrow morning would be a good time to go fishing,” said Maglor.
“Can we, Atar?” asked Elros, jumping up from the bench where he sat.
“Yes, we will,” said Maglor. “And now, if you will kindly refrain from jumping off the walls, it is time for bed. Look, I will go myself.” He walked back into the house. The twins followed him, laughing.
The next morning, well before the sun was up, he was awakened by the sounds of Elrond and Elros racing each other to see who could get ready the quickest.
“Can you not let an old elf sleep until a decent hour of the morning?” This was not the first time the twins woke him up absurdly early.
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re: chapter 17 by
on 2024-04-03 12:36:08 UTC
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I don’t entirely follow the conversation with the [two] {voices}. I think you’re implying they’re a pair of characters who were planned to appear in canon, but got edited out before airing? It explains why they would be free of Naomi’s influence, since they’re intangible, and how they were able to observe the PPC agents. I like that they were able to tug on Naomi’s sense of morality enough to get her to let go of her control, but it seems she only did so on the assumption that she would still get what she wants. Once she realized her demanded romance would have to be worked for, she couldn’t resist taking control again . . . as the {one voice} said, giving up control is hard! I think, in the long run, she’s going to have to accept that leaving Ned, and the Simpsons universe, are the only way to truly give up her bad behavior. But I’m curious to see whether she’ll be able to do so on her own . . .
I like that canon didn't "snap back" upon Naomi turning off the "machinery," since it wasn't actually off/gone for good, which caused Ned to remember everything that had happened. It makes for another consequence for Naomi to confront!
—doctorlit could do with a few more strings in his life . . .
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re: 5.12 Harry Potter and the Vicious Mockery by
on 2024-04-03 02:50:45 UTC
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What a shock, Umbridge was harping on Draco for his hair and gender performance last chapter, and now McLaggen and a bunch of other students are calling him a girl. Almost like modeling bad behavior to young people makes them internalize that it’s an acceptable thing to do or something, what a shock, who could have foreseen this? McLaggen is being vile in this chapter, and frankly, I’m glad he got socked. It may not have been the right thing to do on Harry’s end, but bullies need to learn they can’t just torment other with impunity. (Frankly, any and all nearby Hogwarts staff should have intervened after the singing started and forced the students to stop, in the name of respectful sportsmanship.)
I’m thinking about Hermione’s rather random detention with Bonnefoy, and wondering . . . did she produce that cursed rune, rather than Draco? (Don’t answer that.)
I . . . wow. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by Umbridge being racist/anti-immigrant against Liu, but it kind of did catch me off guard? I guess I assumed his status as coming from the equivalent of a Noble and Most Ancient House would ingratiate him to Umbridge well enough, but clearly that isn’t enough to bypass her level of prejudice . . . And on a more general note, with the enmity between school houses going on, and Harry’s argument with Ron at the end, it feels like Umbridge is having the opposite effect that she did in canon; instead of most of the school uniting against her strict rules, she’s successfully dividing the students from each other. The ruling class does love to dismantle solidarity . . .
Oh dear, I spy a Vanishing Cabinet, hopefully not filled with foreshadowing for year six in this timeline . . .
I have major respect for Draco here. Even with all the drama and insult that happened in this chapter, he’s still able to articulate clearly to Harry why his responsibilities to his family still matter to him, despite his lack of faith in Mother Magic, and how Harry’s inability to respect that is hurting Draco. I still don’t want him to marry Astoria, of course, but he’s keeping his head above water and making his priorities clear in the midst of all the turmoil going on around them. He's quite a kid, has a good head on his shoulders!
—doctorlit has never felt so much solidarity with Peeves as when hearing him refer to Quidditch as “sportsball”
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EDIT: I think we might be able to consider moving. by
on 2024-04-02 11:50:47 UTC
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I think it came out perfectly! by
on 2024-04-02 02:30:32 UTC
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It's balanced between characters' natural action and dialogue, and . . . "world-building" sound a bit trivializing, but you know, communicating the "rules," both in terms of the physical magic functioning, and the cultural hang-ups and social mores.
—doctorlit
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This was a difficult chapter to write, too! by
on 2024-04-02 01:15:39 UTC
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The reason I went there was because the original worldbuilding claimed to be trans-inclusive, but was still incredibly, deeply gender essentialist. In the original worldbuilding, witches store magic in their hair. Wizards and Wixes (fanon-popular term for nonbinary magic-users, first started in 2013) literally cannot store magic in their hair according to the og worldbuilder. They've doubled down on that recently. I think they justify it by suggesting that if you change your gender, magic automatically recognises it and you suddenly get magic hair, or your magic migrates into a ring or a cuff? But to me, honestly, it feels like too many extra steps when the more inclusive idea that still fits within the broad strokes of the setting is that anyone can put magic anywhere they like, and you're only able to wield the magic in your hair if it's past your shoulders.
Also, the ways in which the og worldbuilder approached nonbinary mages felt like they were just creating a third gender with third gender roles (which is, in a nutshell, to be in the exact middle between Witch and Wizard rather than anything that would take them outside binary gender). They also said, in a comment on their lexicon, that "Mother Magic just knows" whether or not you're trans, which... if Mother Magic is all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful, then why would She not bother to make your bits match your gender before you were born? Why would She choose to make someone uncomfortable in their own skin? The worldbuilder also refuses to engage with the implications of the gender essentialist structure of "only witches can keep magic in their hair" which is like... so then what happens if an AFAB mage can't store magic in their hair? Is that how they know early on that they're not a witch? But what if they did want magic hair because they don't like rings or cuff bracelets? What would their family say?
And, ofc, the worldbuilder says that trans mages would just take a permanent gender-change potion (which, I suppose, would make their hair magic, or take the magic out of their hair depending on the destination) which speaks to this overall push to be nice-smiling-people-at-the-church-ice-cream-social normal and to conform to prescribed gender roles and etiquette based on the ability of one's body to store magic. It's respectability politics gone wild. It's "oh, it's okay to be LGBTQIA because magic exists to remove the barriers between your queerness and being normal." (As Luna is going to say in a couple chapters, Merlin forbid a girl swap out her broomstick and Bludgers for a nice pair of cat ears or something!)
Anyway, all of this had to be condensed into plotlines and dialogue, so it was a struggle to get right to the point of what I wanted to say without pontificating on how restrictive/gender essentialist this piece of worldbuilding was. I hope it did come out but not like... too heavy-handed? I'm glad you enjoyed the shoutout to the Frog Choir and Harry's burning urge to Throw Hands for his friends :D Thanks for reading!
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Chapter Twelve! by
on 2024-04-02 00:31:58 UTC
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A continuing warning for bigotry related to gender nonconformity, sexism, and verbal harassment. Please read at your own discretion!
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Seconding. by
on 2024-04-02 00:30:05 UTC
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The only way I get through the Hairkink Purityworld fics is figuring out how it would actually work in the Deconstruction. :D
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Carlisle: Mina, this is definitely a scam. by
on 2024-04-01 22:25:50 UTC
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Mina: Come on, think about it! I could send my parents on a nice vacation at Tier Five! I'm sure the Tulip wouldn't mind--or even think of it, really. You know how she is.
Carlisle: Yes, she's almost as easily fooled as you are.
Mina: Stop being a worrywart and help me with this "fund-gathering" thing. Apparently, we need to get 20,000 of these--what is that symbol? Kinda looks like an S.--anyway, twenty thousand of these, and 'a significant amount of herbicide'. Maybe that's Suicide's cousin or something?
Carlisle: Mina, let me sleep.
Mina: Too late! I will find some way to send my parents on vacation.
Carlisle: Can you include me in that? Please?
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(I decided to include my agents' reaction to this news. Hopefully, the expansion works enough. --Ls)
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Looking for the humor in it, mainly. by
on 2024-04-01 20:22:13 UTC
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Especially if I'm reading to see if it would be good for a mission. I look at the typos, dodgy logic, and questionable word choices, and I think to myself, "What would this really look like if taken as written? What do these words in this order actually say?" My mission "Ring Child" has a lot of good examples of this (especially since I had help from Tungsten Monk, who is naturally funny).
But some fics are so ridiculous you don't have to try very hard, too. "Kitty Fever" was one of those. "Blood Raining Night," too, except when it veers into "so bad it's horrible."
If the fic's mistakes don't tickle your funnybone at all, chances are it won't make for a good mission.
~Neshomeh
(Edit: link fix.)
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So, you're asking how we can get the mental strength to read badfic in general? by
on 2024-04-01 20:18:49 UTC
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Simple: we don't.Well, I personally like reading a lot of badfic--sometimes its typos are funny, and dumb plots can be enjoyable. So-Bad-It's-Good is a thing!Other fics are just bad, and I tend to read those fics more out of spite.
--Ls
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Welcome aBoard! by
on 2024-04-01 17:06:17 UTC
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Glad you found us! As you probably know, we're mostly a fanfiction group, but plenty of people here have written original stories too. What kinds of stories have you been into lately?
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On spitefic and criticism by
on 2024-04-01 16:44:18 UTC
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I definitely understand where you're coming from about spitefic/critique of past authors, but I'm personally in favor of it. Since the PPC is all about humorous criticism, I think it'd be a shame if we exempted ourselves from criticism. The ethos of the PPC has changed over the years, after all- there are even some terms from the Original Series that we don't use anymore.
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I really enjoyed this! by
on 2024-04-01 16:41:39 UTC
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I found the character interactions really fun, and I really liked the meta ideas.
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Power Rangers Badfic i’ve claimed (nm) by
on 2024-04-01 16:34:32 UTC
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These are utterly amazing (nm) by
on 2024-04-01 16:25:26 UTC
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Uh, could you perhaps explain what "Scanranger" is? (nm) by
on 2024-04-01 16:19:46 UTC
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