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@gimlilithegreat
Me reading a fic that hasn’t been updated in 1 year plus: huh, what a shame, looks like it’s abandoned.
Someone commenting on my fic that hasn’t been updated in 2 years: such a shame this is abandoned.
Me: IT’S NOT ABANDONED IF IM STILL THINKING ABOUT IT. HOW DARE—
I’ve been thinking about the Boggart lesson in the third Harry Potter book, and how a lot of fics when they get to that part of the narrative emphasise how invasive it is to put someone’s fears on display.
And I think that’s a really fun interpretation, it gives stories a lot of space to explore trauma etc. etc. I’ve loved it every time I’ve read it.
However, I’ve been thinking about it and I actually think it’s the right time and the right way to teach it. Obviously the timing is a bit opportunistic because they had to wait for a Boggart to turn up — but third year seems about right.
Because if we accept that every witch or wizard should know how to deal with a Boggart as they seem to show up with some level of frequency (could be Hogwarts and Grimmauld bias but they’re talked about like they’re inconvenient household pests), then it has to be taught.
The first thing we’re told is they are best tackled in groups so the group/public format makes sense. And they are dangerous enough that you shouldn’t be teaching them in 1st and 2nd year but ideally you want to teach it before kids start to get more complicated fears.
It’s easy to turn a spider into something funny, how the fuck do you turn crippling existential doubt into something funny? How does Molly turn her dead kids into something funny?
There’s of course ways that class could have been improved, a classroom session before hand where they go over the theory would give kids with a particular reason to believe that their fear is about to be traumatic space to approach the teacher. Generally, treating facing fear like a pop quiz and springing it on people feels like a bad call.
And some form of pastoral care afterwards, because there’s no way Snape in a dress didn’t traumatise everyone.
But yeah, my fear as a 13 year old was probably sharks, as opposed to my current biggest fear which is probably global societal collapse? My whole family dying? The looming outline in the dark that is late stage capitalism?
Try to put rollerskates on that.
NEW UPDATE: Harry Potter and the Hunt for Happiness [20/?]
Harry experiences his first ever welcome home with a functional family unit, and a surprise visitor may bring the answer to some of their problems. Or bring an entire set of new ones.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
This one took a whiiile, sorry guys!
What I learned seeing My Chemical Romance last night:
Everyone in that band is almost startlingly normal except Gerard Way, who is, of course, himself.
God, do those guitar licks still hit different.
Every concert should come with its own cypher, lore and theatrical assassinations.
With enough pizzazz, you can make even a firing squad feel jolly.
It's been at least ten years, and I still know most of the words and almost none of the song titles.
I am too old to schlepp myself to Wembley without my body seriously protesting the next day.
People who vape at concerts deserve the aforementioned firing squad (which, to be clear, was some cardboard cutouts and strategically placed fireworks. It's difficult to blow bubblegum scented vapour at me if you're dodging fireworks.)
No but like before I watched Project Hail Mary I’d occasionally see fanart and it made me wonder when the dude with long black hair was going to show up and why were people shipping him with Grace but he didn’t show up and I was very confused and yesterday it finally dawned on me it was Markiplier all along you fucks!?
Pitching Leverage to a socialist friend: "The heist team gets hired by people who have been victimized by these corporate baddies, so there is always a scene at the beginning where some lady is telling the team 'my dad died because he couldn't afford his diabetes medication after the new factory owner Joshua Dirtbag the Third cut his hours' and the team is like 'say no more. we will put on elaborate disguises and convince him to bet on a fake racehorse, and somehow at the end of it you will have all his money and he will go to jail'."
I am back to a mindset where I can write again without it feeling like punishment, only to realise I have no memory of my own fics.
So here’s to a Harry Potter and the Hunt for Happiness reread! I’m about discover annoying things about my own writing and so many plot lines that I have completely forgotten.
Pet peeve of the day:
You can’t take a bite of soup. If you can bite your soup it’s not soup.
*voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,
This is the whole of my most recent job. If y’all were wondering where all my regular updates went, they got swallowed by the yawning black hole of ineptitude that follows shitty startups around.
the sewing machine is a delicate breed of horse
update: i’ve made it through the user manual and have sewn myself a cravat. the sewing machine is a delicate breed of horse with anger in its motion and spite in its heart.
I’m reading Star Wars fanfic for the first time (and loving it) but I’m 5 chapters in and I already have 90 tabs open because I have no idea what half these words mean.
Week 1 of my unwitting descent into my latest fandom obsession.
I’ve read 5 100k+ fics so far and all of them have been brilliant.
I’ve now read several hundred wookiepedia pages.
And are the prawn looking people seriously called mon calamari or am I being stitched up?
I have made the next logical step and written my first Star Wars fanfic. I'm not letting my basic confusion about the source material stop me.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/84213961/chapters/222084861
what is it in me that makes me stressed out and paralysed by my growing inbox of wonderfully positive and fulfilling comments I haven’t replied to…
but when someone jumps in with criticism, I’m here in seconds with sass and no second thoughts.
A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.
"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."
I’m still stuck on the idea that anyone thinks the phrase “he gives me a knowing look” could some how be protected by copyright
When I first met my husband, he was probably the least foodie human being in the world. Our first dinner date was the first time he'd been out to dinner with just one other person; he was convinced that he didn't like any fish, he was suspicious of anything fancy, and he'd never explored beyond Chinese and Indian food for a takeaway.
He's still not exactly a foodie (I'm not either), but he's certainly food adventurous now, and I just want to spend a moment appreciating how much he has tried over the last 11 years.
When we go down to Cornwall, he eats seafood with me, our Christmas meal this year was scallops, monkfish and mussels, and he regularly cooks salmon.
His favourite takeaway places are Lebanese and Vietnamese.
He uses the reverse sear method to cook steak, and no, I have no idea what that is either.
He loves the Fallow YouTube channel, and we're going to visit on his birthday next month as a treat.
He does something masterful to broccoli in an air fryer that makes it taste heavenly, and the last time I tried to replicate it, I set off the fire alarms.
All this to say, I really love that he tries things, and his attitude to food in general is pretty wonderful.
He also managed to make spicy banana bread this week, so peaks and troughs.
greatest dynamic in the world IS strange, eccentric asshole and their normal and polite friend who on closer inspection is actually worse in deeply weird and unexpected ways
It fits so many of my favourite OTPs. So many.
You can pry em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
Ive been on a marvel x hp kick for a week or so now and i just found choosing stragers and i am OBSESSED. I cant stop thinking about it. Ive read all your other hp (except the twilight two, no hate just not my cup of tea) and im still thinking about choosing strangers. Its that good.
I hope you write more marvel x hp, cause what you have currently is fantastic. Im also excited by you getting into star wars. sw is the fandom i always come back to. If you ever feel like writing something sw i am sat!
Aw thanks! I appreciate that :) I am hoping to continue both my hp x marvel fics at some points, I have some outlines but struggling to write at the moment.
That being said I do have an outline and a couple of thousand words written for an Obi-Wan centric fix it but it will be a while before I make any progress there. I have too many WIPs XD
