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| Sunday, March 21st, 2010 | ||
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the_hms_stfu [ farmercuerden ] |
11:01p | Hogwarts set destroyed when battle scene filming goes wrong "The Hogwarts set for the final Harry Potter adventure has been destroyed in a blaze as filming for the final battle scene went disastrously wrong. Explosives set light to scenery at the school of magic as cast and crew shot the Battle of Hogwarts climax for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Fire crews battled for 40 minutes to bring the flames under control but the set was wrecked." I don't watch movies based on books I like, particularly when I hear about some of the shit Warner Brothers pulled with Hermione's character becoming a Sue. But that set was gorgeous, and this really is a disaster. =/ |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
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the_hms_stfu [ farmercuerden ] |
4:44p | Query Do any of you have MSN messenger and want to talk? I could use some people to run some fanfic/filk/etc. stuff past. ( Read more... ) I'll delete this post after a week. |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
7:59a | SIP decided to argue with ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ravenstar84's essay - Lily's Character and Logical Fallacies.ETA: duj made this comment to sailorlum:The chasm I see is that you judge characters by what they *say* and I judge them by what they *do*. You judge a book's teachings by its *slogans* and I judge it by its *text and subtext*. (And you are offended by having this pointed out, which just leaves me baffled.) It is not Harry's ability to love (which is rather limited) that saves the day; it is his blood - his pureblood Potter/Peverell ancestry and Gaunt/Peverell Horcrux-infusion - which befits him to own the Hallows. No one in the Potterverse "loves" the people outside hir own circle. Harry's distant towards even his closest friends. Racism is a subset of prejudice: judging the individual by the group s/he belongs to. JK encourages prejudiced thinking; she merely chooses the targets, eg purebloods. *Everyone* in the Potterverse is racist towards Muggles, whether maliciously or patronisingly, and the effect on Muggles is uniformly deleterious, whether actively (Obliviation, Confunding, altering their home or living conditions without consent) or passively (not letting them know to defend themselves or be wary of a raised wand). The analogy is far from perfect, but neither farmer nor slaughterer have the *hen's* benefit in mind, although the latter houses and feeds and breeds her. Unpleasant people are always on the side of bad unless their broken hearts teach them otherwise - and they shouldn't expect ever to be forgiven or have a moment's happiness. Good people's flaws are forgivable or even praiseworthy, like Harry's "gallant" Crucio for spitting. It's horribly wrong and disloyal to suppose, just because a *good guy* blabs secrets (Sirius, Hagrid), that you can't trust him with yours. Choice is a purely mechanical process whereby you show what sort of person you were born as. Redemption doesn't include forgiveness, recognition or life; just be satisfied they stop blackening your name. |
| Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | ||
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
4:05p | terri_testing wrote a new fanfic - Lessons with Animals: Three Drabbles. Also I have a fic rec - Could You Be A Little Less by the_birdnest (it deals with sexism).Oh, and deadwoodpecker wanks again. |
| Friday, March 19th, 2010 | ||
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the_hms_stfu [ farmercuerden ] |
4:52p | Canon 200, #128, "Spicy" ETA: ...Well, just edited. Added some more jokes, tightened up some of the lines. I'm particularly pleased with the new bit beginning "Though some may see..." in the Snapefen's first chorus. I've been thinking about this for literally months, and when I finally wrote it down, I kept getting or remembering ideas. Should be done now, though. =) Title: All Round Hogwarts Author: Farmer Cuerden Fandom: Harry Potter Fic: The Snapefen edition of Harry Potter Prompt: #128, "Spicy". Like Snape![citation needed] Rating: 15: References Marionros' bizarre ideas. Summary: Fandom Snape tells us about himself. Author’s Notes: The song this is based on is "All Down Picadilly", from Lionel Monckton's The Arcadians one of the huge hits of the early 20th century. It's now (undeservedly) rather obscure, so here's a link to a recording of the original. It's maybe a little faster tempo than is ideal, but that's older recordings for you (they sped things up until they fit the space on the record). I'd provide a MIDI like I have with other filks, but, unfortunately, I don't own the sheet music for this one. 1. FANDOM SNAPE: You've heard of me, of course: I'm fandom's latest whim. I've made a hit, in fact I'm it - Or, rather, I am him. The fangirls chase me round I've not an hour to spare They love the way that I atone And seek me out when I'm alone Within my dungeon lair! SNAPEFEN: Your naughty dungeon lair! FANDOM SNAPE: Detentions they all want to share Within my naughty dungeon lair! FANDOM SNAPE: All round Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and where'er there's Snapey All round the school! You'll see fangirls running after me all gapey - They think I rule! Sometimes, in their fanfic I'll get rapey-rapey Why not? It's me! [*] And though they try to win and woo me; Astral planes use to pursue me They can't catch me! SNAPEFEN: All round Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and where'er there's Snapey All round the school! You'll see all us fangirls chasing you all gapey - We think you rule! Sometimes, in our fanfic he'll get rapey-rapey Wish he'd rape me! Though some may see a mean and sick man, Since he looks like Alan Rickman He's our woobie! 2. But all the Hogwarts crowd Could not see that I'm great And Lily Evans, mudblood, Wouldn't have me for her mate! How dare she like that James? Reject me - how absurd! And then their son dares me abuse Because, in response, I did choose Lord Voldemort to serve! SNAPEFEN: Ooh! What a shocking swerve! FANDOM SNAPE: And all you know mudbloods deserve What happened, and so he's some nerve! FANDOM SNAPE: All round Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and where'er there's Snapey All round the school! You'll see fangirls running after me all gapey - They think I rule! Remus with me tried to get all rapey-rapey - Why can't you see!? If Sirius sent me to Remus It was for some werewolf penis Monstrous is he! [**] SNAPEFEN: All round Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and where'er there's Snapey All round the school! You'll see all us fangirls chasing you all gapey - We think you rule! Remus with him tried to get all rapey-rapey We clearly see! When Sirius sent him to Remus It was for some werewolf penis Monsters they be! [*] And, as every fangirl knows, rape is love when the man's hot. [**] Poor people are never hot. Anyone worthwhile in a story will be rich and powerful. |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
12:56p | Lupin was bribing people with food Snapefen on The Harry Potter Network are also wanking about Remus (I guess it's topic du jour or something). Excerpts: Silver Ink Pot I totally agree that Lupin wallows in self-pity. If JKR was trying to show someone who is stoical about a chronic illness, then she missed it by a mile. To me, Lupin is a quitter who takes the easy way out of things. Case in point - he only reluctantly teaches Harry how to make a Patronus, and even then he encourages Harry not to push himself too hard, and feeds him chocolate by the ton. Perhaps bribing people with food/gum/candy was the way Lupin learned to make friends in the first place? On Harry's sixteenth Birthday in HBP, Lupin comes in talking about how they found some dead bodies, and he even brings up Sirius and Regulus! It's crass and thoughtless of him. No wonder he is described as "gaunt and grim." Maybe Lupin has become the "new grim" of the story? This is the man Tonks is weeping over? To Mrs. Weasley’s displeasure, Harry's sixteenth birthday celebrations were marred by grisly tidings brought to the party by Remus Lupin, who was looking gaunt and grim, his brown hair streaked liberally with gray, his clothes more ragged and patched than ever. "There have been another couple of dementor attacks," he announced, as Mrs. Weasley passed him a large slice of birthday cake. "And they've found Igor Karkaroff's body in a shack up north. The Dark Mark had been set over it — well, frankly, I'm surprised he stayed alive for even a year after deserting the Death Eaters; Sirius's brother, Regulus, only managed a few days as far as I can remember." "Yes, well," said Mrs. Weasley, frowning, "perhaps we should talk about something diff—" Nyctalus I really think Sirius and Lupin must have been two of the most reluctant Order fighters Dumbledore had, even if they’re supposed to appear something else. In fact, I believe the only one who beats them to it is Dung (who, by the way, wakes up to simply “agree with Sirius” in the Order meeting we see in OotP, even though the meeting is over and he’s still asleep …) I can’t remember ever seeing these guys contributing with some creative or positive input regarding how to win the war against Voldemort; they’re much too occupied whining and wallowing in self pity… Indeed, I think “Bad News Lupin’s” appearance at Harry’s first ever birthday party was just… well, how shall I put it… heartless? Inconsiderate? Immensely clumsy? He doesn’t even take Molly’s hint… Do these guys lack every fragment of subtlety and tact? I remember feeling very disappointed on Harry’s behalf when I read that part; couldn’t the poor guy at least be given a break for once? And I think you're quite right,SIP; both Lupin and Sirius seem characterized by being in some way bad omens; if Sirius is the Grim, Lupin is actually the same species… And then there’s Tonks – a character I still had good hope for in OotP, since she seemed pretty lively. But then in HBP, there’s Lupin’s doom & gloom taking over her as well… Come to think of it, I believe Dumbledore’s most admirable trait was actually not wisdom nor tolerance – it was patience… SIP also found ravenstar84's essay about Lily and misogyny. See also Misogyny is the New Godwin. |
| Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 | ||
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
8:25p | Remus-gate is now on fandom_wank. There is also new insanity from duj (posted by oryx_leucoryx for her):The HIV analogy might be what JK intended, but it's up to the reader to decide whether to accept her intentions. And I don't. The main problem with smallpotato's pedophile analogy is that wereLupin doesn't specifically target *children*. But the HIV analogy only works if you're specifying those who knowingly wilfully or recklessly infect others with HIV. One might say that that's just a different type of sexual offence/crime. Lupin is not *only* a victim; he is an offender. In his teens, he repeatedly risks infecting others - as a teen, he even "plans" his potentially-infective outings between full moons, even after "many" near-misses, and as an adult, he continues to take risks with other people's lives and humanity. Lupin is a serial offender. It is *luck* (authorial contrivance), not care, that has kept him from infecting others. According to Muggle law, he acts with criminal intent; *pretending* not to know the likely result of one's actions is not a mitigating factor in a crime. (And to add insult to injury, he scoffs at his victim for being traumatised. And follows this by negligently - at best - endangering the victim when he is unconscious: failing to treat or even examine him, failing to revive him, lifting him without supporting neck and spine, leaving his transport to someone who's previously tried to kill him.) Snape believes that Lupin was in on the trick, BTW - and James and Peter too - and there's a strong case for that. There is no indication the Marauders *ever* split over Sirius's apparent betrayal of a friend, and James's trust in Sirius's secret-keeping ability remained absolute, despite a supposedly blabbed secret. While we supposed it was *Lupin's* secret under threat from Snape's nosiness, his collusion seemed unlikely, but it's now clear that it was the *other* Marauders' secret: their illegal Animagus transformations. *They* were at risk; Lupin was not. His motive for colluding to protect it is *very* strong; he says those outings were "the best times of my life" ... about a page before his revealing admission "every time we sat down to plan our next month's adventure." What is the evidence that Lupin was *not* involved? None. Lupin is adept at suggestio falsi - witness his confiscation of the Map chapters earlier. His elliptic account - "Sirius thought it would be - er - amusing ....your father, who'd heard what Sirius had done, went after Snape..." so cleverly diffuses suspicion that no one ever *asks* if he or James were complicit. His innocence is assumed. The corollary is that it is never stated either. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snaped Neville had a particular reason to put Snape at the top of his fear list in the Boggart lesson: it was the first DADA lesson after the incident in Potions where Snape had warned him that "at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens..." and immediately before dosing the toad, added, "If, as I don't doubt, he has done it wrong, his toad is likely to be poisoned." Chaos and others assume that Snape was *enduringly* Neville's worst fear, when perhaps he was only *transiently* in that position. |
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fandom_wank [ snacky ] |
12:12p | MOD POST: Email problems and an interruption in the wank Dear people of the wank communities, Please allow us a moment for wank business. Your mods are not receiving any emails from JF letting us know that there are posts in the mod queues, awaiting approval. This leads to wank back up, something none of us want. Until JF's email issue is resolved, if you submit a post, please also submit an email to the Modsquad (mods @ thefannish.org), so we will know it's waiting for approval. Thank you kindly, Your loving Modsquad |
| Monday, March 15th, 2010 | ||
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fandom_wank [ tetradecimal ] |
9:55a | I'M THE GODDAMN ADMIN Direct from the pages of wank report: "Sheezyart's (http://sheezyart.com) admins troll members who use Adblock by forcing a flashing red and yellow background and music to appear for anyone who uses Adblock on their site." "Comments with a star are Sheezyart staff/admins, who have been the epitome of class throughout... The flashing background and music have since been removed and replaced with a text banner, but not before someone actually had a seizure from it." 720+ comments, including an appearance on page two by the Goddamn Batman. Yes, that one. |
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fandom_wank [ kaen ] |
4:57p | Yesterday over at rvb_slash (a community for Red vs. Blue slash) one of the mods makes a post saying, basically, I know I don't do much active modding, so are there any suggestions you all have for improving the community? It should have been clear this wasn't going to go well when the first comment is from somebody saying how they've left the community because it's gotten so awful, and then snarking at the next commenter when she says she's happy with it. Other people show up agreeing that it's gone downhill and there's a decent amount of wank in the first post, but it really takes off when the mod makes a second post addressing some of the concerns that came up. So, what's made the community become so awful that it's apparently driven off a bunch of old-timers and made one of the biggest wanker in the posts "[decide] the fandom needed saving" and feel like he's been holding the fort until things improve? Have oodles of trolls shown up while the mod wasn't paying attention? Has the community been flooded with off-topic posts? No, it's because everyone who's joined since October '08's fanfiction is bad and they should feel bad. They don't say exactly why October '08 (mid-October '08 to get even more specific) is so clearly the start of it's downfall, but they're very certain that's it. While there's wank scattered all over the place in the two posts, my personal favorite part would have to be lvsinsanity insisting that fanwork about Freelancers shouldn't be allowed in the community unless those Freelancers have been seen interacting with the Red or Blue team, because clearly "Red vs. Blue Slash" refers to the teams instead of the name of the series. When people point out that it is named after the series, and any character that appears in it is fair game, lvsinsanity's response is that Another thing to keep an eye out for is primalreligion insisting all over the place that a certain character (York) should never be in slash fic because even though it never came up in canon there was an interview somewhere, he can not remember where, that says he was married. |
| Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 | ||
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fandom_wank [ mariem_1 ] |
1:42p | The terrifying story of Remus Lupin, cannibal and pedophile, and matricidal werewolf fetus Snapefen at Snapedom are engaging in their favorite pastime - abusing everybody who isn't Snape or at least a Slytherin. This time their designated target is Remus Lupin. Note that this wank started 21 day ago and is still going on. It all began when terri_testing posted an essay Remus (and other Lycanthropes) as Parents, where she depicts Remus as bad and irresponsible teacher, husband and father. Some excerpts:( Read more ) The essay ends with a horror-novel scenario: But if my reasoning is correct, human mothers, in general, can only carry a human child to term. So Remus should have been angsting over the possibility that Tonks would miscarry her much-wanted child, not that it would be born a lycanthrope. But he wasn’t. Unless the only precedents Remus knew of involved werewolf mothers, who must always produce werewolf children if any. In which case Remus got Tonks pregnant while believing that any child he fathered MUST be born a lycanthrope. * But there’s a wrinkle thrown into all this by the fact that Tonks is a Metamorphmagus. She can alter her body—including, we have seen, taking on superficial bestial characteristics (a pig’s snout). Can she alter other organs to be bestial? Specifically, can she alter her uterus and the mother’s portion of the placenta, perhaps subconsciously, to be more lupine to save her changing child? If she can, that opens a truly chilling possibility. The metamorphmagus alters her uterus at the first full moon after conception, and manages to carry her lycanthrope fetus past the first full moon. And past the second, and the third…. Over time her fetus’s nervous system develops, and with it its normal instincts. Human, for almost all of the month. Except for those few hours when the full moon is above the horizon. Her fetus will have no teeth, not before birth, unless that might be another point in which werewolves are unlike other canids, but it will eventually grow claws. And then will come another full moon, the last one, and the werewolf-fetus’s instincts will urge it overwhelmingly to rend, to tear, the nearest human. The one surrounding it. terri_testing also posted a drabble Teddy’s Sister to go with her essay. I guess the name of Teddy's sister is Renesmee Lupin.sailorlum, a sane Snape fan and Lupin fan, decided to argue, that Remus didn't completely suck. That caused a huge wankfest, where terri_testing, oryx_leucoryx, 00sevvie, duj and oneadthetruth argued that Remus was a bad guy, that it was cruel of him to make Snape!boggart look funny and not to drink Wolfsbane Snape brought immediately ("HOW ON EARTH is that scene supposed to be FUNNY to anyone in a way that does not deny the validity of Severus' pain? HOW?", wondered terri_testing), that Remus was hunting human prey with his friends the animals, that terri_testing is Lizzie Bennett and Lupin is Wickham, that Remus was only kind to Molly because she cooked for the Order and that werewolf!Lupin was probably more aggressive than werewolf!Greyback. Several Snapefen were also pretty rude to sailorlum. My favorite exchange is this one:( Read more ) After all that 00sevvie made a new Snapedom post, where she bemoaned supposed whitewashing of Lupin's flaws and lack of validation of Snape's pain and trauma from other HP characters, JKR and sailorlum. marionros/smallpotato appeared in the comments to this post and proved how logical and reasonable she is by claiming that lycanthropy symbolizes pedophilia and that Remus metaphorically almost raped Snape while at school:( Read more ) ETA: Harry has no ability to love and Ginny reminds him of Bellatrix. ETA 2: farmercuerden summarized the Snapewank in a song. |
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otf_wank [ theelusiven ] |
7:08p | In France they call it a Royale with Wank.... An afternoon snack in miniwank form from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} customers_suck, courtesy of a mousie from wank_report , from whom the writeup is copypasta'd because journalfen ate the writeup I was working on. There's pedantry here to rival the Buttercream wank from awhile back. Thanks, mousie!Over at Customers_Suck, haine_otomiya86 posts about a particularly irate customer who - among other things - was unclear about whether he needed a "McDouble," which costs $1.00, and a "Double Cheese Burger," which costs $1.19. The story goes on to describe how the poster had to double check which one the customer actually wanted, as well as a quick mention as to what the difference between these two sandwiches are. Answer: the $1.00 one contains two patties and one slice of cheese, and the $1.19 contains two patties and two slices of cheese.However, for one magickcat, bothering a customer for clarification is apparently unacceptable. Okay, seriously? As the thread unfolds, the reason for such an outburst is soon explained... magickcat is in fact a Cheeseburger Master! I understand the math of the cheese, I really do. "I understand the math of the cheese" may be my new favorite phrase. Cue rabid dogpiling and unsuccessful attempts to reason with Earth Logic and first grade math. Unfortunately it is all for naught as even magickcat does not seem to know what exactly the point of the argument is. Depending on which thread you visit, it waffles from "they're both cheeseburgers; it's all the same" "Oh, you misunderstood: I wasn't talking about this customer at all, only a theoretical situation where everything was described perfectly," to the cost difference is all a conspiracy by McDonalds":NO, it costs more because McDonalds saw a way to make more money by adding another burger. They are all "meat"burgers, if you can legally call whatever they put in those things "meat"... I know damn well what is in each one because it was in the news and whatnot about what the change would be. My case is correct, and it stands. And the arguments just keep coming... Current Mood: *sporfle!* |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
11:14a | Remus is a pedophile and rapist 00sevvie continues to tl;dr about Remus in the new post. marionros appears and proves how logical and reasonable she is by claiming that lycanthropy is a metaphor for pedophilia and that Lupin metaphorically almost raped Snape while at school:( Read more ) ETA: mary_j_59 and oryx_leucoryx whine how immoral and evil HP books are. |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
6:39a | ravenstar84 posted the first part of her essay Why Blaming Lily is Rooted in Misogyny. |
| Saturday, March 13th, 2010 | ||
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fandom_wank [ darth_buttocks ] |
8:15p | Twicon Final Fail! Awww, the Twihards had their first total failcon... Not that it is that surprising, but Twicon has canceled both it's shows. With a big announcement on it's website: In hind sight, it was pretty obvious things were going downhill for these guys. In February, they had to move their Toronto show to Ottawa due to the G20 Conference happening that weekend. This set off a flurry of cancellations and some grumblings on the message board about the Partners dragging their feet on refunds The announcement is only a few hours old, and right now there is lots of confusion on the forum, especially about how they get refunds since the announcement didn't bother to mention how you go about this. ETA: Becky Scoggins has posted a personal apology that specifically states it's not an official statement from Twicon. It's obvious she's distancing herself from the Twicon partners, trying to shift blame. ETA 2: Noneya calls bullshit on Becky's apology pointing out the discrepancies in her statements At first, TwiCon 09 was premised on the idea of a charitable donation to Autism research but that apparently went to the wayside without any explanation to ticket holders either. Then you threw a TERRIBLE convention and had your spokesperson saying that "you did your best" and "I still think it went pretty well..." Lies. And it looks like the post has been deleted! Thankfully I have screencaps! (the offending post will be at the bottom :) ETA 3.5: And the thread about refunds has now disappeared! You think the forum will last the week? But Becky is claiming the threads were deleted by the users! ETA 4: Now we have other Twicon Partner Bailey Gauthier responding. And she's saying she doesn't know what's happened either! ETA 5: Becky will be closing the Ning site in a few days. Thankfully I have screen caps and will be re-editing the page once the site goes down. |
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the_hms_stfu [ quantumreality ] |
7:41p | Because I couldn't resist the sophomoric humor... Too Much Time On My Hands is a rather odd time-travel fic that spirals off in weird directions. However, in fundamentals, it neatly excoriates all the rationalizing the Slyther- and Snape-fen engage in to justify his behavior towards students. ( Lolariousness under the cut ) I just killed myself laughing at that chapter. XD |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
4:22p | This is the wank that never ends The Remus wank still keeps on giving. oneandthetruth (of "Harry is like a suicide bomber and Dumbledore is like Osama bin Laden", "British Wizarding World is a cult" and "Snape has PTSD like a Vietnam veteran" fame) arrived:This is a brilliant and concise assessment of the situation. It's also very funny. I hadn't thought about it until you put it in such stark terms, but the conclusion of PoA definitely falls into the category of "and after this, we'll take a look at the nice bridges I have for sale." IOW, it's both preposterous and preposterously contrived, what movie critic Roger Ebert calls an "idiot plot." That is, it only works as long as everybody involved acts like an idiot. You've also indirectly hit on some major reasons Severus stands out in these books, is so popular with some people, and so hated by others.: He's the only character who consistently displays logic and common sense. He sees subtleties in people's words and actions that other characters miss. He's also more mentally, if not emotionally, independent than most of the other characters. IOW, he's not an idiot. I'd noticed before this that Snape fans tend to be very logical and analytical in interpreting the books. They read a lot between the lines of the text and care little or nothing about what the author says the reader should think or believe. By contrast, Snape haters are more inclined to act like other Potterverse characters, particularly Harry himself: They skim the surface of character words, actions, and interactions, missing clues to unspoken subtleties. They believe the author knows more about her universe than anyone else, so if she says something, it must be the truth, no matter what the textual evidence says to the contrary. Their attitudes are like the one expressed on a bumper sticker I've seen: "The Bible says it./God said it. I believe it. That settles it." IOW, "don't confuse me with the facts. My mind is already made up." That's not to say there isn't some tortured logic among Snape fans sometimes. There is. But it seems to be more prevalent among the Snape haters. That's not surprising, given their liking for unrepentant violent criminals (MWPP, Dumbledore). For example, it takes mental gymnastics of Olympic gold medal-winning quality to convince yourself that someone who could unapologetically send other people into suicidal situations without their knowledge or consent is still a good guy anyway (Sirius, Dumbledore). ( Read more ) |
| Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | ||
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
11:48a | 00sevvie continues to baww about Snape's PAIN and TRAUMA and duj is still spewing venom at Remus here and here. |
| Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | ||
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the_hms_stfu [ farmercuerden ] |
9:37a | Canon200 #137: Hard. Title: Rosemary, that's for Rememberance, Part 1 of about 4. Fandom: Harry Potter Fanfic: Written in response to the God-awful Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness Prompt: #137, "Hard". Summary: A series of vignettes about characters who are not Mary-Sues, and a relationship that is not about attempting to murder your true love. God, DAYD sucks. 1. "Look, Neville, you can deal with some students," the young professor thought to himself. It was his first day on the Hogwart's Faculty - or, at least, the first day when there were students to teach. He glanced over at the Potions Master's chair, remembering his childhood terror, and vowing no student would ever feel that way about him. Slughorn, not Snape, looked back at him. He almost liked Slughorn. He was pretty self-serving, of course, but in fairly harmless ways. His childhood traumas were a thing of the past. He could do this. Deep breaths. The students began arriving. Neville scanned the crowds. They... didn't seem that bad. Even the Slytherins seemed friendlier and... many of them were talking with people in the other houses as they entered. Slytherin House was beginning to get over the bad reputation created during the war by the children of Death Eaters. Slughorn was helping, actively encouraging house unity. He could do this. After all, what was so bad about talking about a subject you loved, and getting paid for it? Slughorn leaned over to him. Neville tried to ignore him, knowing what this was about, but Slughorn caught his eye, and he couldn't ignore him without being rude. "Well! So, professor, have you reconsidered my offer?" "Er, sorry, Profess-" "No, no, not 'Professor', you're not a student any more, my boy, you're a professor yourself. 'Horace', please." "Er, well, Horace, I'm... just not comfortable with -" "Oh, come, my boy, you're a legend! One of the three leaders of Dumbledore's Army in the dark year, and the killer of Nagini! we all know that, without you, the defeat of Voldemort would have been impossible!" Neville's voice raised from quiet to, if not loud, at least passionate. "It wasn't just me! It was Ginny's idea to restart the DA, she did half the recruiting, and Luna handled all the misinformation and planning. I just... took over when the two of them left." "Oh, of course, and it wouldn't downplay their deeds in the least. Never crossed my mind, my boy! All I want from you is to give a few interviews to Mr Belby, and I'll personally make sure that he also talks to Mrs Potter and Mrs Scamander, if they are at all willing, so their experiences can be included. And if you'd send them a letter as well, to smooth over the negotiations..." "But I'm just..." "My boy, don't think of this as for yourself. Think of it as a chance to make sure that the stories of Dumbledore's Army survive. The focus doesn't have to be on you. It could be more general, but you were the leader at the time Voldemort invaded, and without your input, it'd be hard to tell the story..." "You promise that it'll deal with all of the DA? It'll be a memorial to all those who died or who suffered through that year, not just about me?" "I give you my word." "Fine. For them." Slughorn preened. Neville fell into quiet thought. His fellow students... Well, he wouldn't mind talking about them... "And, of course, your grandmother will be happy. She's been pressuring me to get you to agree to this for months. If you had held off any longer... Well, you don't upset Augusta Longbottom when she's out to protect her grandson's interests. Oh, don't get me wrong, my boy, we'll make sure everyone's focused on, but... have you ever gotten her upset? It's a prospect not worth considering..." Neville wasn't sure whether to hug his Gran, or scream at her. He'd probably end up doing both, then, well, doing the interview, because Slughorn was right: the story of his fellow students deserved to be told, and, anyway, he wouldn't have to talk about himself much at all. His Gran would do that for him. At far greater length than he'd really like, but who could stop her? And, well, after having yet another reminder of how proud she was of him... he could face some mere students. No problem. He looked out into the crowd, just as the doors opened and Hagrid brought in the first years. |
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fandom_wank [ ari_o ] |
4:01a | Welcome to the Wank Parade nicked from the very long comment at wank_report, with thanks to the mouse. Bandom darlings My Chemical Romance broke up according to their website. Their drummer Bob Bryar has left the band. People leave bands all the time, but that never stops people from pouring dirt on their heads, or beating their breasts, or making long bitchy comments on livejournal. There is a post in chemicalromance. It's mostly variations of SADFACE and OMG HOW WILL I STUDY FOR MIDTERMS NOW? Peppered by the occasional WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ASSHOLES? THEY OWE YOU NOTHING. Rinse. Blather. Repeat. Until inkandchaos goes a little dipsydoodle:( CUT FOR STRONG LANGUASE AND YOUR RETINAS ) |
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the_hms_stfu [ nevermore ] |
12:06a | DAYD Chapter 8 Sporking- Dreams and Realities Neville: *is slumped and despairing* Ginny: *is alarmed and rushes over* Neville! What’s wrong? Neville: Hannah found out about the sporking and fic and what it… did to her. Ginny: My God! How? You didn’t TELL her? Neville: *miserably* I’ve been having nightmares, and I apparently screamed out quotes from the story in my sleep. Ginny :How’s she taking it? Neville: She wants to spork. Ginny: Why the HELL would she want to do that? Neville: For revenge. Ginny: Well, she does have every right… Neville: Oh god, Ginny, I can’t expose someone I love to this rubbish! I can’t be responsible! The guilt will be too hard to bear! She doesn’t know! She can’t know! I won’t watch her suffer! *is in spasms of agony* Ginny: *slaps him* Get a hold of yourself, man! You’re ace Herbology Teacher and Decapitator of Horcruxes! I won’t have you lose it over a badfic! Neville: You’re right. I’m sorry. Ow. Ginny: And you call me and Harry melodramatic! Now listen, Hannah can handle herself. Just give her fair warning, and let her at it. If she has more brains than the rest of us, she’ll be out of here two sentences in. If she doesn’t, well, you guys can shag or something afterwards. It helps numb the pain. Neville: Ginny! Ginny: Good, you’re back to normal! So, is Hannah going to be in for this sporking? Neville: No, I told her to wait for the chapter where where she bashes Harry for my benefit and I compare her to you and a bunch of other girls…Hopefully we can put that off so long that she’ll forget all about the sporking and never have to- Hannah: *comes in* Hi all! I heard I am in this chapter, so I decided to get a head start Neville: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Hannah and Ginny *both slap Neville* Neville: Sorry. Let’s get on with it, shall we? *So we’ve got Hannah, Neville, Ginny and later on Luna covering this sporking*
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otf_wank [ sarracenia ] |
7:03p | A tiny old wank, but one that's a microcosm of why I love programming wank. Background information for non-computer people: PHP is an older web programming language, that's widely supported by everyone on the planet and thus decidedly uncool. IBM supports it, for chrissakes. Do you get more stodgy than that? Ruby on Rails is a new, hip web programming language and framework that is way cooler than PHP. And supposedly it's easier to program with, but mostly it is way cool. Twitter uses it! Frameworks are software to make it easier to program. They're kinda boring, except that Ruby on Rails has theirs automatically included while PHP people have to find or make their own, thus making Rails infinitely more cool. When writing an article about your new PHP framework, never, ever make an unflattering side comment about Rails. Else its creator will jump in immediately with: “Rails also suffers because it is hard to decouple Rails code from page display code.”. WTF? Have you actually tried Rails? What part of MVC escaped your observant eye? When you talk about “Rails code”, what would you be referring to? Business logic? Controller logic? Hand-waving logic? Not only does Rails go to greater lengths than most to separate concerns, but it also ships with a host of solutions to better organize “page display code” (I assume you’re referring to view logic). From partials to helpers to layouts. Hell must certainly have frozen over with pigs flying across the skies. There’s no other day of the week that a PHP framework could be slinging accusations of poorly separated concerns. CLEARLY THIS IS OFF TO A FRIENDLY START. Why, next I expect them to be sitting in a circle singing Kumbaya. Or slinging accusations of slander, hyperbole, cult membership, and of course fascism in less than thirty comments. One of the two. |
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the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ] |
5:21p | Terri_testing is Lizzie Bennett, apparently I'm making a separate post for this. During recent Remus wank terri_testing made this comment:"Remus's Freudian Slip Disagreeing with you about a character, Sailorlum, always reminds me of Lizzie Bennett disagreeing with her sister Jane: one must admit and indeed admire the greater charity of the other's interpretation, yet somehow one is not willing to abandon one's more cynical reading. Of course, in this case I feel I'm Lizzie denigrating Wickham, not Lizzie dissing Darcy, since my current reading of Remus is a revision of my original, more forgiving take on the character. "Remus hates losing his mind and being a monster, and he hates the thought of killing, maiming, or infecting anyone." Thanks for reminding me of this argument, because you remind me that that was my first reading of Remus, and by extension you remind me of what (two years ago) changed that reading. Which definitely affects my less-charitable interpretation of Remus now. My reading now is that Remus knows he OUGHT to loathe losing his mind and becoming a bloodthirsty monster, claims to loathe it, and perhaps refuses to admit to himself that he harbors any other feelings about his lycanthropy. But he does. So what changed my reading of Remus's feelings about his transformation? The text. Remember that touching scene where Remus explains how at Hogwarts, despite his terrible and painful transformations, he was happier than he'd ever been before because for the first time he had friends? And how terrified he was that they would desert him if they ever discovered his secret, and how instead his first and bestest friends stuck by him? How those days with his friends who knew and accepted him were the best of his life? Except... it wasn't the DAYS that were the best times of Remus's life. "Instead, they did something for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi.... highly exciting possibilities were open to us now that we could all transform. Soon we were leaving the Shrieking Shack and roaming the school grounds and the village by night." (emphasis mine) Remus may say he is "haunted" by the memory of his "many" near misses, but "the best times of his life" were spent running as a monster, unconfined, hunting human prey with his friends the animals. He says so. I'm reminded of John Ford's ethical vampire, Gregory, preparing for his suicide: "There had never been any thought in his mind of writing an explanatory letter. There was no explaining to them the taste of their blood in his mouth." (The Dragon Waiting) Gregory has (at that time) never killed, infected, or harmed a human in taking their blood. He has been completely responsible in managing his condition. But he admits to his desires. Remus is the opposite; he is irresponsible about his condition, and he doesn't admit to craving human prey. Which may be correlated; if he admitted to lusting after human flesh, his protestations that he, oops, just forgot or just weakly went along with his friends would lose conviction." When will crazy fans leave Jane Austen alone? |
