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Here you go, invite will work for 12 hours at time of posting: https://discord.gg/XFcJcs2

hi! for those in the server, i mentioned on the discord server that i needed to leave it for a little bit, due to personal stuff (nothing bad or malicious dw! im doing alright :>), this post is me asking for another invite link so i can join back in :D

ik it wasn't for very long, but it was needed so i didn't out myself to my family as lgbtq, among other things

(idk what to tag this post as, so sorry if i tagged it incorrectly :b)

Granted, you might know this already since the piece that was beta'd was also published within the last 24 hours, but yeah - #2 (the DIA piece) is complete! #1 (the Cafeteria crew) and #3 (the tonally weird piece) are still available for beta-ing, if interest is still there.

Been a few months, but here's Time Crash, featuring an formerly up-for-adoption character that might be written into an actual mission in the future. Hope you like it!

(Sorry, didn't notice this got tacked on here until now!)

Short indeed, but it makes sense DoSAT would need to go through the trouble of making special-sized equipment for the fairies! (I know Flickerbright worked in HQ before, but since she was DIS, she may not have used any mission-specific equipment!)

And the shortness of the piece doesn't make it any less funny when Sheen springs the smartphone request on them! I'm sure DoSAT would be justified in refusing that request, since it's not useful for carrying out missions. Now, a KI cell phone, on the other hand . . .

—doctorlit, ready for a nap

—At least, not stated. There was a tent at the QWC with peacocks tied outside, and separately in the 7th book Yaxley and Snape saw peacocks at Malfoy Manor. It was just a bit of occam’s razor here.

It's just been so long since I read the books, I don't remember details like the Malfoys bringing their peafowl to the QWC! Sorry . . .

—doctorlit

Harry spends the rest of the summer at the Burrow.

The QWC really was a great place to remind people that this is not normal--that is, the Purityworld extremism isn't standard amongst mages. And the Aurors are, after all, a police force, which means they must uphold the state regardless of their personal feelings on the matter. I don't think Moody gives a rat's ass (lol) about the rules himself, but he (and Tonks) have to enforce the Ministry's policies.

I was inspired by the recent Qatar World Cup, too, in terms of modesty rules being enforced on people coming into the country. So once again, the Purityworld bullshit has a real-world parallel.

Amos Diggory was honestly already a bit gross in the books, given the way he treated Winky. So there wasn't much to change there for him!

Yeah, Hermione is relaxing her hair for the hair rules! You'll see more about that later in the year ;)

Gosh, yes, what a coincidence that the Pureblood section was unharmed. How convenient. And actually, I think the campsites are owned by the Muggles here--so Mr Roberts really went to all the trouble to let a bunch of people camp on his land and then he and his family get assaulted for just being Muggles. How convenient that they can then be magicked into forgetting that this shit happened to them! It boils my blood just thinking about how the books happily play off Obliviation as a perfectly acceptable, lighthearted solution to experiencing a hate crime!

The Malfoys probably have some sort of charm/ward set up to prevent the peacocks from wandering far, yeah. But this tent with the peacocks was already in the books, so...

Re: Lady Crouch... ;)

It's similar to the actual lore surrounding brownies, where they do household chores for milk and honey, but if you give them clothes it looks like you're making the relationship transactional so they take offence and leave. JKR's the one who messed things up by having Dobby set it up as slavery and then walking it back into "the house-elves like being slaves", so I'm leaning more into a parallel with irl labour exploitation (I mean, like... "the families are our guests" have serious "the customer is always right" vibes, right?).

Thanks for catching that! And yes, hoopoes (as the hudhud) are in the Quran as messenger birds, hence using hoopoes instead of owls in the Middle East.

Delta hosted an impromptu Write-Off (a prompt is posted, everyone participating writes for half an hour, and then we convene to share our writing and give each other feedback) yesterday evening in the Discord.

The prompt was “Someone’s had a little too much coffee.” - thanks to Thunder (our new friend from the thread below) for suggesting it.

The pieces that resulted were

• Undertale: Monarchy by Damian, who noted that it was a snippet of a larger work he's been meaning to get back to
• An untitled piece by GoodModAddict
• "All-Nighter" by Tomash
• An untitled piece by OrangeFox
• An untitled piece by Delta Juliette

None of these are extremely long on account of the time limit, and I encourage those of us who weren't around time to give them a read and leave any feedback they might have.

• Tomash

A low-key zap let Jay ken the Law was a pal to the two. It hid any of the PPC who did go to aid it.

Jay did tip her paw at a see-out. In the hut was a low yak.

Top-gal the Elf was in the hut. She did yak to two-and-one Men not at all of the Law. “I mon go and get set for the big sup to-eve. I mon aid you to get set, too, Dam Win-bay. The sew-gal mon get you thy rig in the arn.”

One of the Men, the one gal, did not get it. “Rig?”

The lip of Top-gal did tip up, but her eye was wan. “Yes, you may not go in thy rag. A rig is the way. Col and Jef mon don a gi, you bet. So, til to-eve.”

Jay got a sip of air. “It... it is not the way... it is not the way of Top-gal to act so... why put the tit in a rig?”

“And why gi for the men?” Acy did add. “No elf-man did don a gi in the fic I saw. Yet, it is a nil sum if Top-gal did not act so; we’d not be on the job if the Law was not wry.”

Jay had ow in her eye, and got Acy to be not by the see-out. “By any say to get in a lit rig...” Her eye did tic as she saw how it was to be. “Oh, by the Dam God... Top-gal mon fix up her mop in a bit!” Jay got her CAD, and (tho sad) did go aft to the see-out. The CAD lit as if sad, and did say:

[Jef. Man of Men. Not of the Law. A bit.] Jay put it to Man Two:

[Col. Man of Men. Not of the Law. A bit.]

And... to the gal. She was set to see the CAD lit red and mad.

[Win-bay. Gal of Men. Not of the Law. A Sue!]

Acy let out air. “My yen is to get the gal to die and go. To get all the OCs is no fun.” She got by the see-out and did tip her own CAD—not as the CAD of Jay—at Top-gal.

[Top-gal El of the Eve. Elf Gal. Of the Law. Out of the Law by 49.72%.]

The two hid in the dim.

On a few pen-bits:

• see-out - It is not so rad. Got a wit on it?
• Dam - As "Sir" for a gal.
• Win-bay - Way One was Win-hat, but I wot of "bay," and it is ace! "Bay" and not "Win-" is OK, too, yet I dig Win-bay the max. See why!
• arn - To say "six-by-ten min." I got it of the TV pic Far-Go-See. A fab cop? >.>
• "rig" and "gi" - Eh. I try.
• El of the Eve - The din of it is not too bad, at min?

~Neshomeh

“They can suck my wand, I’ll do what I like!”

“Blow me,” she taunted, before sending him a very rude hand gesture.

Ah, yes, music to my ears! Well, to my eyes . . . To my mind’s ear. It feels so good hearing all these visitors from other countries dunking on the “modesty rules,” as Moody puts it so vomitoriously. It’s extremely gross that Moody and the other aurors are being used to try to force non-British citizens to conform to these meaningless social practices . . . Cripes, the audacity of telling a stranger how they’re allowed to wear their own hair! And equally audacious is arresting someone for “insubordination and general antisocial behaviour.” Dang people, just criminalize having a personality, why don’t you? I am absolutely livid on Miss Fischer’s behalf. She is absolute peak wholesome valley girl, and I love her. I hope she goes back to the States and beats up some skinheads or something, that should take her mind off the British suck. But yeah, you made Moody gross now, and you also made Amos Diggory gross, and this whole timeline just contains so much gross!

Man, I totally forgot Hermione is uncurling her hair to create her updo . . . I hope she gets to return to her natural hair by adulthood! Either way, rude of those other witches to get all judgmental over it . . . there is far too much hair policing in this chapter!

Okay, wow. Everyone is literally camping in a field together, like, on dirt, natural dirt, public British land that no one owns, but the Pureblood community still thinks they have the right to exclude Muggleborns!?!? Like, “Oh, the dirt our tents are sitting in is so very special and clean, we can’t have the wRoNg KiNd Of FeEt In OuR dIrT.” I can’t stand it, aaaaaargh! Oh, and what a funny coincidence that section of the campground was charmed against both panicked mobs and Fiendfyre, how lucky that the Purebloods have such incredible foresight. :|

Man, I would not have risked bringing any number of peafowl to an outdoor location they weren’t already familiar with. I am 100% certain that every single peafowl in my zoo would get lost and disappear forever in this scenario, down to the last bird, especially with all the human foot traffic. But maybe the Malfoys charmed them not to wander far or something?

Oooooh yeah Lady Crouch is definitely Barty Jr., not much change there! Funny, didn’t the original canon have him hiding under an invisibility cloak or something? Your way is a bit more realistic, and better foreshadowing. Looks like Regulus recognizes Barty Jr.’s speech pattern, but can’t quite place it with the face!

The idea that house-elves see the families they serve as guests is interesting, and goes a long way towards explaining their mindset. Doesn’t justify the situation any further, but it’s honestly the best explanation I’ve heard for the self-imposed servility, and why receiving clothing from the family breaks the relationship the way it does.

Draco’s scowl shone seven times as big within the scope of the Ominoculars.
Oh my, this little mini-Aragog has so very many eyes!

—doctorlit hasn’t thought about hoopoes in years, and thanks you for reminding him they exist! hoo-hoo-hoo

Hello! This link will be active for roughly 12 hours after posting: https://discord.gg/yqpQYX8

It IS fun. I dig it! It is of the new way in my eye, but the old way in my ear, if you get me. {= )

It's too big for me to say on it all, but:

• sun-hue - Yes, it's how I'd say it. It is why I wot of "rue-hue" to be the dim one. See too: "tin-hue" vs "ash-hue."
• On sun I add - How do we pen of the two not-sun in the sky of eve? May it be one dim sun, a lot of wee sun? Wax-hue orb (but oft it is not an O, but a D or a C, soo...) and, IDK, lit dot? Meh! The two vex me—at max as I go to pen of the Elf I say is Dam Top-gal (the get of Sir El as are Wee El 1 and 2, you ken). "Top-gal aka Wee-Sun-of-the-Eve" is bad bad bad. {X D Eve-dot? El-of-the-Eve? Bah! I let it go for now.
• dun - It is new to me! How rad! So: a fam may get a den in a hut in a dun, and an inn may be in a big dun, but an inn is not the den of any but the inn-man, yes?
• Mr Bug of Bag - It got a yuk (as in "ha-ha") of me. ^_^ (For the other yuk, can it be "ick"?)
• Nog - Fab!

I did add to "Din-Mob," by the way, but I sit on it for now, to see if I dig it as of sun-up.

~Neshomeh

PS: If to-day may be, so too aft-day and fro-day? And to-eve, aft-eve, fro-eve?

PPS: I hum on Cob-lot (a rad cob vs a bad nag, you see?) and Bee-ale Hut or Sun-hue Hut, den of Den the Rex, Mer, Wyn, and Gri Asp-lip. I got a big yuk to wit of Wyn, her aka "Sad-hat." It is not apt, but... Sad-hat. ^_^ To be apt, it may be... Hid-pal?

Oh, and I see "fax" is a rad old pen-bit for the mop of a cob (or a Man); I say use it for the fab cob of Elf-rod: Ash-fax. Yes? {= ) Or Tin-fax, Dim-fax... but meh, I dig the din of Ash-fax.

Smernathan’s post seemed like a weird place to ask, so I decided to make a new post. I’m usually more active on Discord than on forums like these, and I’d love to be on the PPC’s Discord. It’s weird that I’ve waited this long to ask…

Bit late to the party, whoops. Have a dragon plushie, I have a lot of those. Have fun and welcome to the PPC!

-Thunder (still kicking around and still working on their first PPC mission in the background)

In a pit in the sod was a Hob. Not a wet pit of mud and yuk and oft a bug or ten; nor yet a dry ash pit you may not sit or eat in. It was a Hob-pit, and so had low-key joy.

You get in by an O, of oak in fir-hue; you tug on the sun-hue orb in the mid. In it is a den, as an O too: an ace den to sit and yak, no ash or mud, oak by the way and a big rug on the sod. It has a lot to sit on, and a peg or two to put a hat on - the Hob has joy if any go to see him.

The den is big, a way in the tor - The Tor, as all say it in the Hob-Dun - and it has oft a way to a wee den. May the Hob go up? No! It is all on one way - a den for bed or to sit, to eat or for a hat (or ten). On one paw all is ace, for you can see out to the lea and sky, and the wet way far off.

Our Hob had a lot of yen, and he was a Hob of Bag. The Bag-Hob had a den by The Tor ere Men dug ore; all saw a Bag-Hob as low-key, for he had the yen, but he did not go far on a job or do any odd bit. How a Bag-Hob may see a day, you can see ere you ask him.

Our fic is of a Hob of Bag who had a big job, far far off, and did a lot he did not ken ere he did it. The Hob by The Tor may not see him as low-key, but he got... ah, you may see if he got owt at all in the end.

The mum of our Hob... who are the Hob? I can say for you, as the Hob are now shy of Big Men (us, you see). A Hob is (or was) a wee Man, too wee for a Nog of lip-fur. A Hob has no lip-fur. He has no hex, but can run far in a sec if a Big Man is on the way; we low as an ox to the ear of a Hob. He is oft fat; he has on hue of fir and of sun, a lot of hue; his toe has fur and is fit to run on; his arm is fit to rig or jig, he has an air of joy o'er him and joy in his eye (a big joy if he can eat, for a Hob may eat as oft as he can). So now you get it.

As I did say, the mom of our Hob - of Bil of Bag, esq. - was Bel Tuk, a top kid of the Old Tuk, who ran the Hob-kin o'er The Wet. Oft a Hob (not a Tuk) may say a Tuk of a far day had wed an Elf. Mad, yes, but the Tuk are too odd to say it was not so. Oft may one or two go far off on a big job, and the Hob saw her not at all. The Tuk may say she did die, or wed a far Hob, but all saw the Tuk are not low-key as the Bag are (but had a lot of yen).

In her eld Bel Tuk did not go off, for she wed Mr. Bug of Bag. Bug, he was the dad of Bil, dug a big rad Hob-pit for her (and did use her yen). You may not see one as it in The Tor or on The Tor or o'er The Wet, and she sat in it to the day she did die. But it may be that Bil, her son, who was to eye and ear as his dad, got an odd bit of Tuk off his mum, hid in his eye. It was a shy bit if so, and did not get out til Bil of Bag was a man, and the rad Hob-pit his dad had dug was all his, and all may see he was set in his way and not to go at all.

It is fun to use the New Way, for you can do it by eye; no big set of pen-bit to use, no law to say "do it so!". You sum the bit, and see if it is too big, and... it is all! Rad fun; not as to pen it as an Elf may, not at all.

Nog - the Wee Men who get lip-fur. So an elf may say it; one dun of the Wee Men was "Nog-rod", or Wee Man-den, in Elf.

hS

Thank you very much.

At least in the view of my aforementioned trans friends, yes. The word itself is rarely used except as a slur now, but more importantly in the context of the mission it is being used to describe a character who, at least how the writer(s?) put it, is ostensibly transgender.

Really asking; I know these things change. But as of this post, I haven't heard that "transvestite" is automatically an offensive word. (E.g., Rocky Horror hasn't been canceled as far as I know.) I am aware that it's fallen out of favor, and "cross-dresser" is generally preferred—but maybe that serves as a useful warning that someone may not care to read that story?

~Neshomeh

here is the invite link.

Apologies, we've had a troll problem in the past, so the link is set to expire fairly quickly. Let us know if it's too fast to expire for you.

I still think there's a difference between potentially offensive content in the body of a mission, and plainly offensive titles. But you're the archivist. :)

A few months back I added something of the sort to my PPC page, focussing more on the fact that my older stories are a lot grumpier about writing errors, so I do get the concept. (Given that they're my own stories, I also cheerfully go back and edit them sometimes; but again, I see the difference.) I'm still not happy with that page/site design tbh, but I don't have any great ideas for fixing it.

hS

As I go, I oft pen it big for Way One, and for Way Two see how to get it wee, and as if it was in the new way of old. Aid is OK! I may not see how by my own eye (or not yet, and it may be a hot min). To add an eye is rad!

It is rad for all who pen to add an eye ere the end of the job, is it not? {= )

I may do a bit to-day (ha, it was so of old, so I say I can use it now!), or not. I am a bit low, but it mon go, an it be in a wee "tik" or a big "tok".

~Neshomeh