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From this, I think we can say that the general consensus is that we should move off Fandom, at some point, to TideWiki.

-Ls

Oh no, Prince . . . she’s getting sent on a double agent mission, just like Snape was, isn’t she? I hope she makes it through okay. She’s a lot more likeable than Snape, and I like the idea of her being part of Harry’s family—I mean, I guess she has been all along, huh? And it’s nice to see Lily returning Prince’s affection at last. It’s been clear that Prince loved Lily, and I kept seeing that “Lily Potter/Severus Snape” tag in the . . . tags . . . but I wasn’t sure if Lily loved her back until now. I’m fumbling for words, but I guess it just feels nice for them to be there for each other, knowing that a fascist crapstorm is brewing?

Oh hey, Marlene McKinnon is alive! For now! Nice to see an entire family not blotted from the earth! It’s the little victories.

I love our golden . . . quadruple? linking hands and swearing to work against Gaunt; felt very Stephen Kingish (in a good way). As always and everywhere, getting the youth to vote will be deeply critical, and that’s an angle the students are better equipped for than Dumbledore and the other older folks. Oh, the in-school Order meetings are about to turn even more divisive, aren’t they?

Why, Hermione, what is that you found upon the windowsill, Hermione? What have you got in your hand? Could it possibly maybe perhaps be, I don’t know . . . some variety of . . . BEETLE?! IS THAT A BEETLE HERMIONE HAVE YOU FIND A BEETLE HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH AHJMAHSGSDHWDUGYWEDIGHWE8OFUG

—doctorlit, normal and fine

A.K.A

"Whoa, we're half way there,

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer"

OK, I technically hit 25,000 words in the early hours of this morning after falling just shy of doing it one day early but "Whoa, we're fifty-three percent of the way there" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

I've been finding (like last year) the hour-long mixes from Blue Turtle on Youtube have been helping me massively with focusing on my writing (and breaking my writing down into hour long chunks so I don't get too tired from doing it). Who knows, it might help someone else as well.

Nova

Former members of the Order of the Phoenix reconvene in preparation for an election year, and Harry and his friends make their own vow to stop Gaunt.

We're one chapter away from the end of year 4, and I'm still in the middle of writing year 5, so there's going to be a brief hiatus while I finish up year 5! A bit like the hiatus before OotP's release, whoops

There are just a couple pages on it right now, and they're not even complete. It will take at least until the end of this week to make it reach the point where it has a meaningful amount of stuff on it.

Rest assured that sharing a link here once it is something worth mentioning was already in the plans! It just needs some time.

Like, at least 50%of recent edits are yours.

-Ls

[I wrote this before opening the spreadsheet]

Just because something was one way in the books doesn't necessarily make it the same in this setting! -cackles- And to be clear, the only reason he didn't kidnap Jacques for the entire year was because he's blood purist. And it would be easier for him to fake being his dad rather than a complete stranger who's sort of the diametric opposite of him. At least with Moody in the books he could act entirely unhinged and no one would notice...

There is no Trelawney prophecy, but the Centaurs did note of a "strife between the houses of the snake and the stag, of a battle for the soul of magical society itself", so there was a prophecy of sorts made, just not necessarily about Harry. I wanted to lean into how the "Chosen One" narrative was a burden even book Harry didn't enjoy having, hence this Harry going out of his way to hate on anything that might suggest that he's an archetypal specialest boy. He's not an orphan in a cupboard with nothing to lose; he's got his Mum and his friends and he'll do what is right because of them, not because some old dude centuries ago predicted something that might vaguely be about him.

(And also I'm just hating on the classical "Great Man" sort of leadership that leads to shit like dictators!)

I'm tickled that you liked the Dumbledore scene. I personally felt like he sounded like an Aaron Sorkin character, hahaha. But I guess Dumbledore is sort of in that mold as the Wise Good Leader who tells you the moral of the story :P

Yes, definitely, we're going into ~election year~ in this series and in IRL! Still in the middle of writing 5th year, so there may be a delay before I start posting it (just like how there was a delay in releasing OotP, whoops) because I like to have fics complete or nearly almost complete before I start posting. I will say that the Trump-Gaunt parallels will continue to hit, though!

(Neville is fine, omg, he was taking his exams!!!)

I'll make sure to pay a visit if I need help, but so far I think I'm managing well enough. Now I just have a lot of pages to make...

Mother's Day in the US grew out of a women's peace movement in response to the American Civil War, recognizing the destruction of families on both sides and encouraging reconciliation. (See particularly: Mother's Day Proclamation.) It failed to gain traction until it was pitched as a day for each family to honor their mother, instead.

Not that we shouldn't do that. But the anti-war thing is also important.

~Neshomeh

Hello! I meant to update y'all on this sooner, but this weekend I was sitting for an adolescent labradoodle that demanded pretty much all of me, so here we are.

As of today, the survey has responses from 27 people (myself included). There are still a few folks I know are more or less around, but haven't answered, so I'm not closing it yet.

You can view all the results in spreadsheet form here. To sum up the mandatory responses, in descending order:

I consider myself a...
* Discordian - 20 (74.1%)
* Boarder - 15 (55.6%)
* Wiki editor - 8 (29.6%)
* Lurker - 7 (25.9%)
* Non-PPCer with PPC friends - 2 (7.4%)

Should PPC Wiki leave FANDOM?
* Yes, at some point. - 13 (48.1%)
* Yes, as soon as possible. - 10 (37%)
* No, the problems don't outweigh the risks/headache of leaving. - 2 (7.4%)
* I need more time to think about it. - 2 (7.4%)
* No, FANDOM is fine. - 0

For those who want the math, that's 23 (85.1%) for a general Yes, and I'll note that hS hasn't done the survey, so for accuracy we should really count 3 for a general No.

If we had to move, where do you think would be best?
* I don't know - 16 (59.3%)
* WikiTide - 8 (29.6%)
* Miraheze - 3 (11.1%)
* Other - 0

Since some of you felt it should be left up to people who are active on the wiki, and I'm curious how the results from that contingent break down, too, here are the answers from just the 8 people who consider themselves wiki editors (myself included):

Should PPC Wiki leave FANDOM?
* Yes, as soon as possible. - 4 (50%)
* Yes, at some point. - 2 (25%)
* No, the problems don't outweigh the risks/headache of leaving. - 2 (25%)
* No, FANDOM is fine. - 0
* I need more time to think about it. - 0

That's 6 (75%) for a general Yes.

If we had to move, where do you think would be best?
* WikiTide - 5 (62.5%)
* I don't know - 2 (25%)
* Miraheze - 1 (12.5%)
* Other - 0

I'll note that of these 8, one didn't give a name, but doesn't appear to be a duplicate (ETA: and isn't Linstar, who tested the survey for me before I added the name question). One I'm quite unfamiliar with (Sogga aka VestaServal), but they're relatively new. One is not Yuki, despite how active you've been on the wiki lately and the fact that you started this thread. Are you sure you're not a wiki editor? {; P

~Neshomeh

Congratulations! Do let us know if you have any questions on initial setup, our discord sever is full of helpful folks for most onboarding questions you might have.

. . . the Flower version's mood could change over time? HQ doesn't have days in the traditional sense, of course, so just . . . over time? >.>

—doctorlit travels twenty-four hours forward in time, each and every day.

In Britain, at least, and I think most of Europe, that's Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day, which started as a way to remember how gut-wrenchingly horrific the First World War was, and how we never wanted to see its like again.

The UK government is currently declaring it's about British Values instead.

hS

Perhaps I misunderstood.

Perhaps they were never memorials to futile deaths
But monuments to glorious warriors.

Perhaps I was naïve.

Perhaps war is justified
And death is justified
And killing and killing and killing is justified.

Perhaps I am a romantic.

But when we said 'never again'
I thought we meant it.

hS

I'm Good Mod Addict here because I forgot people actually refer to each other by usernames on forums. On Discord, that gets abbreviated to GMA or Geema. I'm looking forward to seeing you around!

I had a game wiki I wanted to migrate off fandom that had several image-heavy sections and was afraid the storage usage might be a problem... turns out the whole thing only totaled up to around 200MB. Sounds like you're well within bounds then.

Given their distinct biological quality, how would one work as a Flower in HQ?

Spoilers: she doesn't go to NRC. Which is a new one, I guess.

Heh. I like how this story arc is shaping up, it’s pretty entertaining!

As the Cotton Roses Bloom part 2
I love how you’ve characterized Oshimo; she feels so alien, the way she recognizes that she created a problem, but doesn’t seem to feel any remorse or sympathy over it, just expects the agents to get out and deal with it on their own. She even comes off as a little spooky! I like it. The pill’s effect playing with the Japanese double meaning on “color” is hilarious, as well!

Of Seaside Castles and Red Breams part 1
You definitely found a fic with some stellar typos, there! I especially love “King Trident.” It made me picture the trident itself just sitting on Triton’s throne, with his crown hanging off one of the tines. But much funnier than the fic is your ingredient list! I was expecting things like plants and minerals and animal hair, so when Urato finally read out all that abstract stuff, I was grinning. The agents certainly are in for a struggle, aren’t they? I’m racking my brains on how to “solve” some of them . . . Let’s see, one of the jack-o’-lanterns from the Halloween Tree could qualify as a “seed of time,” since they only “bloom” around Halloween, and the story that’s named for it involves time travel. For “a fragment of the night,” the Kingdom Hearts games have a set of synthesis items named ”writhing” and ”twilight” that contain “darkness” and “twilight” respectively; they could be said to be physical fragments of night! And then, “cloth of fleetingness” could be all kinds of equipment from different fantasy settings or mythologies . . . or just Cross Trekkers. And I’ve got nothing for “perfume of daylight.” I guess just open a jar while the sun is up, then close the jar?

Oh, and you taught me a new word, bream! Which is a little embarrassing, but hey, I don’t work on the aquarium side!

—doctorlit wonders if it would be funny or traumatic for Akira to be sorted into Octavinelle dorm

For the record, on Wordpress I am currently using only 5% of the alotted 3Gb I have (so around 150mb) - and on Wordpress I had been much more liberal with image usage than I intend to be on the wiki. It helps that I tend to use PNGs at reasonable resolutions, I guess.