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New tag ... storyPrompt.
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diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig index ef05b87..66b399f 100644 --- a/.editorconfig +++ b/.editorconfig @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ root = true [*.rst] -spell_language = en_gb +spelling_language = en_gb diff --git a/faith/adamson-and-shakespeare.rst b/faith/adamson-and-shakespeare.rst index 2317603..fe49919 100644 --- a/faith/adamson-and-shakespeare.rst +++ b/faith/adamson-and-shakespeare.rst @@ -75,3 +75,10 @@ There were few points where I would like to comment on: .. _AO3: https://archiveofourown.org + +----- + +See also https://youtu.be/PTBK1M9tBmY … how Shakespeare’s +historical plays are much more important for our understanding +of The Wars of Roses (which are extremely advantageous for the +Tudors’ then in power) than what actually happened. diff --git a/faith/their_finest.rst b/faith/their_finest.rst index 0dff4af..5599066 100644 --- a/faith/their_finest.rst +++ b/faith/their_finest.rst @@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ scriptwriting. … it wasn’t.” The film can follow without any change … angry Catrin leaves and throws away her ring to the dustbin. -* Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay about when reading - a story he has always trouble to decide whether the death in - the film is rising from the internal necessity of the plot, or - whether the author just didn’t know what to do. I am really - afraid that the Tom’s death is from the second category, mortem - ex machina. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just - got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be got - rid off, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than +* Czech writer Karel Čapek once wrote an essay, how he was always + feeling uncertain whether a death in a story is rising from + the internal necessity of the plot, or whether the author just + didn’t know what to do with a character. I am really afraid + that the Tom’s death is from the second category, *mortem ex + machina*. The author wanted tear-jerking finale, so he just + got rid of the main lover. And of course, if Tom should be + eliminated, then a thousand-ponder would work much better, than random stage piece. .. _`Their Finest`: diff --git a/literature/another_on_animagus.rst b/literature/another_on_animagus.rst index 86c9254..b6a7c6d 100644 --- a/literature/another_on_animagus.rst +++ b/literature/another_on_animagus.rst @@ -78,15 +78,16 @@ certainly many war novels in the Muggle world, which are very good, but I am sorry to say (I really liked “The Accidental Animagus” a lot), that neither “Animagus at War“ nor “Divided and Entwined” are one of those. What I can discern from the great war -novels (e.g., “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “All Quiet on the -Western Front” or my beloved “A Bell for Adano”) the key to -writing a war novel is that you don’t write about all those -battles from the bird’s eye view, but you just pick one (or few) -characters and follow them through those battles never letting -your eyes fly too high. Actually, if I understand it correctly (I -have never read the whole book) “All Quiet on the Western Front” -is written as the obvious critique of the top view (how down in -the trenches the reality was very different). +novels (e.g., “`For Whom the Bell Tolls`_”, “`All Quiet on the +Western Front`_”, “`Good soldier Švejk`_” or my beloved “`A Bell +for Adano`_”) the key to writing a war novel is that you don’t +write about all those battles from the bird’s eye view, but you +just pick one (or few) characters and follow them through those +battles never letting your eyes fly too high. Actually, if +I understand it correctly (I have never read the whole book) “All +Quiet on the Western Front” is written as the obvious critique of +the top view (how down in the trenches the reality was very +different). Why then both of these fics let the personal stories (that’s what I meant that I missing more talks about Neville × Hermione @@ -129,3 +130,15 @@ own real story). .. _later: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/iqkufw/did_you_like_the_fanfic_divided_and_entwined_drop/g4st801/ + +.. _`For Whom the Bell Tolls`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls + +.. _`All Quiet on the Western Front`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front + +.. _`Good soldier Švejk`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk + +.. _`A Bell for Adano`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bell_for_Adano_(novel) diff --git a/literature/augurey.rst b/literature/augurey.rst index 44470fe..79088a7 100644 --- a/literature/augurey.rst +++ b/literature/augurey.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Augurey or loosing of sanity :date: 2019-08-28T16:51:33 :modified: 2020-04-13T11:18:25 :category: literature -:tags: review, HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit +:tags: review, storyPrompt, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit (my comments on “`The Augurey`_” by La Matrona, originally published on Reddit_) diff --git a/literature/broken_dumbledore.rst b/literature/broken_dumbledore.rst index c1c27de..ed3a818 100644 --- a/literature/broken_dumbledore.rst +++ b/literature/broken_dumbledore.rst @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ sharing of life most of all. I don’t know if I have ever read it somewhere, but the unit of love for measurement of it is one bit, unit of information. And yes, I understand operational security, but absolute isolation from everybody else, and complete secrecy -about his thoughts is not only ludicrous (because a bus factor of -the Order of Phoenix was essentially one) but it also testifies -to quite a dysfunctional personality. So, yes, for all his talks +about his thoughts is not only ludicrous (because `bus factor`_ +of the Order of Phoenix was essentially one) but it also +testifies to quite a dysfunctional personality. For all his talks about love being the biggest magic in the world, he was saying it as somebody who knows love only from afar, not from his personal experience. @@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ psychologically. .. _`Anger and Albus Dumbledore`: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/wbpd47/comment/ii8f6ec/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 + +.. _`bus factor`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor diff --git a/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst b/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst index 0224db5..71aa069 100644 --- a/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst +++ b/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Geeky Mary Bennet :date: 2023-06-25T18:03:43 :category: literature -:tags: review, austeniana, blogComment +:tags: review, austeniana, blogComment, storyPrompt I have originally commented on “`Mr. Collins, a male lead??? Is this possible?`_” by u/JenniferRAKim on That Site, but now I @@ -92,16 +92,16 @@ already written couple of times: Fortunately, whole issue of entail is made moot by three sisters marrying and two of them very well (Jane and Elisabeth) as in the canon. In the end, nobody knows what to do with Mary - (and her parents are getting too old and sick to take care - for her), so she moves to live with Elisabeth and Mr Darcy at - Pemberley. There she meets some distant cousin (or some random - man) of Mr Darcy who is a theology student, and Amy Farrah + (and her parents are getting too old and sick to take care for + her), so she moves to live with Elisabeth and Mr Darcy at + Pemberley. There she meets some distant cousin of Mr Darcy (or + some random man) who is a theology student, and Amy Farrah Fowler meets her Sheldon Cooper with geekiness abounding. With “a little” help of Mr Darcy, the guy (now all done pastor) gets a position of the pastor for the church in Lambton and they get - their HEA perhaps combined with happily observing the ruin of Mr - Collins, bankruptcy of completely incompetent Lady Catherine de - Bourgh etc. + their HEA perhaps combined with happily observing the ruin of + Mr Collins, bankruptcy of completely incompetent Lady Catherine + de Bourgh etc. And of course, the Regency Era was also time of `William Wilberforce`_, `Clapham Sect`_, or for the more social work @@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ already written couple of times: The End +**{update 2023-10-05}** + +`@Basic_Bichette@reddit.com`_ reminded me also that this was the +time of `weird relationships between the Victorian England and +Roman Catholicism`_. + ---- .. _`Far Above Rubies`: @@ -141,3 +147,9 @@ The End .. _`Sunday School Society`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_School_Society + +.. _`@Basic_Bichette@reddit.com`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/Basic_Bichette/ + +.. _`weird relationships between the Victorian England and Roman Catholicism`: + https://www.victorianweb.org/religion/cath1.html diff --git a/literature/hinny_siblings.rst b/literature/hinny_siblings.rst index 1530fcf..9ae1dca 100644 --- a/literature/hinny_siblings.rst +++ b/literature/hinny_siblings.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Harry and Ginny as siblings :date: 2019-07-15T23:07:27 :category: literature -:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit +:tags: storyPrompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit Originally published as “`Harry & Ginny are brother and sister`_” on Reddit. diff --git a/literature/hp_redemption.rst b/literature/hp_redemption.rst index adc4f65..e22df2f 100644 --- a/literature/hp_redemption.rst +++ b/literature/hp_redemption.rst @@ -8,15 +8,16 @@ How redeemable is canon Draco Malfoy? (originally posted_ on Reddit) Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of -some former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration -camps, etc. Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term -“conversion” or “penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse -previous deeds. It requires true acknowledgement that these deeds -happened, to own them, and to admit that they were evil. It -requires honest asking for forgiveness. I don’t want to get any -political, but it requires at least on the personal level, -something like what Germany did after the Second World War (see -for example recent visit of `Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_). +some former SSmen (and SSwomen_), guards in the Nazi +concentration camps, etc. Redemption (or let’s use the +old-fashioned term “conversion” or “penance”) however doesn’t +mean to somehow excuse previous deeds. It requires true +acknowledgement that these deeds happened, to own them, and to +admit that they were evil. It requires honest asking for +forgiveness. I don’t want to get any political, but it requires +at least on the personal level, something like what Germany did +after the Second World War (see for example recent visit of +`Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`_). What do we see in most so-called redemption stories of Draco Malfoy (or Severus Snape, or Petunia Dursley)? Excuses that those @@ -66,3 +67,6 @@ behaviour (BTW, I **love** Molly Weasley in this story). .. _posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/e7hp1z/how_redeemable_is_canon_draco_malfoy/fa3isp1/ + +.. _SSwomen: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_guards_in_Nazi_concentration_camps diff --git a/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst b/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst index 3be899b..4f3daa4 100644 --- a/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst +++ b/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst @@ -77,33 +77,82 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories: interesting pairing of Harry/Susan Bones, but again further the development, weirder it becomes. -**{update 2022-03-05}** +**{update 2023-09-06}** + +(as `the response to the inquiry on Reddit`_) + +It is strange, I really dislike Indian!Harry and I have never found +black!Hermione, where the difference would make any meaningful difference, but +I can accept fem!Harry quite easily. + +I have written a bit about why I think this happens here, and I have meanwhile +found even some (few) stories which I actually enjoyed: + +* I really liked “[The Three + Sisters](https://archiveofourown.org/works/29799375)” by mumuinc for a great + building of characters of all three sisters, and +* I have actually enjoyed “[High Heels and + Hippogriffs](https://archiveofourown.org/works/38488393)” by + NinjaPandaScholar, which is a boy-turned-girl story, but written well. + +Two things I really deeply dislike, no, the things I hate, in fem!Harry stories +are: + +* any Harry/Voldemort pairing, especially when fem!Harry because of getting it + from Voldemort turns into complete pureblood supremacist killing Muggles; + ugh! (I would add very tentative thumb up to “[This Body is My + Prison](https://archiveofourown.org/works/10665114)” by JBankai89, although + BEWARE, it is a story about multiple instances of rape, degradation, multiple + infanticides, and other unmentionable horrors, followed by attempts of + recovery, so if you have ANY triggers, you should really stand away), + +* why oh why, almost all fem!Harry stories turn into femslash? If you want + Harry/Paravati pairing (I look at you “[With A Little Help From My + Friends](https://archiveofourown.org/works/27992832)” by Asami_T), there is + much easier way than turning Harry into a girl and make them both lesbians. I + have absolutely nothing against homosexuality IRL, but I don’t enjoy reading + about it (being a straight guy, I just don’t get it, aside from possible + sexual titillation), and I would very much prefer if fem!Harry finds some + bloke (I could suffer even Drarry, although I don’t like it generally). There are some more stories with fem!Harry which deserve -recognition: - -.. A Change in Circumstances-ao3_1844407.epub - A Skirt's Not So Bad-ao3_32212609.epub - Back again-ao3_27089722.epub - Feminea Inextensi-ao3_34390174.epub - Gryffindor's Girl-ffnet_11483591.epub - Harriet Potter Is-ao3_6109822.epub - Harriet Potter_ What it is like to be a witch-ao3_4699043.epub - Harry is a She_-ffnet_13914661.epub - Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining-ffnet_13185192.epub - Harry Potter and the Gang of Giggling Girls-ffnet_11268925.epub - Harry Potter Witch-ffnet_7706345.epub - Harry & the Mysterious Curse of the Girl-Who-Lived-ffnet_6343543.epub - High Heels and Hippogriffs-ffnet_13952417.epub - Jamie Evans and Fate's Fool-ffnet_8175132.epub - Magical Metamorphosis-ao3_11063298.epub - Not a Girl-ffnet_5883303.epub - Past an Hour the Prospect's Black-ffnet_13437829.epub - Skirt-ao3_20188459.epub - The Daisy Chain-ffnet_13106883.epub - The Pureblood Pretense-ffnet_7613196.epub - The Traitor's Daughter-ao3_33974866.epub - To Walk A Mile In someone else's Shoes-ffnet_7452425.epub +recognition. Let me get through the list at least briefly: + + * “[Feminea Inextensi](https://archiveofourown.org/works/34390174)” — + + * “[Gryffindor's Girl](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11483591)” — + + * “[Harriet Potter Is](https://archiveofourown.org/works/6109822)” — + + * “[Harriet Potter: What it is like to be a witch](https://archiveofourown.org/works/4699043)” — + + * “[Harry Potter and the Cloud with the Silver Lining](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13185192)” — + + * “[Harry Potter and the Gang of Giggling Girls](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11268925)” — + + * “[Harry Potter Witch](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7706345)” — + + * “[Harry & the Mysterious Curse of the Girl-Who-Lived](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6343543)” — + + * “[High Heels and Hippogriffs](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13952417)” — + + * “[Jamie Evans and Fate's Fool](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8175132)” — + + * “[Magical Metamorphosis](https://archiveofourown.org/works/11063298)” — + + * “[Not a Girl](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5883303)” — + + * “[Past an Hour the Prospect’s Black](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13437829)” — + + * “[Skirt](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20188459)” — + + * “[The Daisy Chain](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13106883)” — + + * “[The Pureblood Pretense](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7613196)” — + + * “[The Traitor's Daughter](https://archiveofourown.org/works/33974866)” — + + * “[To Walk A Mile In someone else’s Shoes](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7452425)” — ---- @@ -142,3 +191,6 @@ recognition: .. _`To Reach Without by inwardtransience`: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11862560/1/To-Reach-Without + +.. _`the response to the inquiry on Reddit`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/16b4x19/female_harry_potter/ diff --git a/literature/loving-vincent.rst b/literature/loving-vincent.rst index 79700d2..45285d6 100644 --- a/literature/loving-vincent.rst +++ b/literature/loving-vincent.rst @@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ here, but yes the end comes rather flat. The visual side has been however troubling as well. It is truly beautiful, there is no question about that, but this film showed -me the great difference between pictures (especially ones in the -tradition of post-van Gogh painting, what a irony!) and films. -The great pictures (in all traditions, it applies -perfectly well even to Rembrandt’s “Return of the prodigal son”) -are best when they don’t tell the whole story, but when they are -more a catalyst to make a viewer sit down and think her own -story. From this point of view, van Gogh was (with a bit of -artistic license) the first painter who stressed this role of -pictures even more by omitting a lot of realism and leaving just -those catalyst parts of the image. +me the great difference between pictures (especially ones in the +tradition of post-van Gogh painting, what an irony!) and films. +The great pictures (in all traditions, it applies perfectly well +even to Rembrandt’s “Return of the prodigal son”) are best when +they don’t tell the whole story, but when they are more +a catalyst to make a viewer sit down and think her own story. +From this point of view, van Gogh was (with a bit of artistic +license) the first painter who stressed this role of pictures +even more by omitting a lot of realism and leaving just those +catalyst parts of the image. On the other hand, the biggest beauty of every film is *a story*. Some films are beautiful, have pretty pictures, but what makes or diff --git a/literature/no_superheroes.rst b/literature/no_superheroes.rst index b91c04d..0b74f51 100644 --- a/literature/no_superheroes.rst +++ b/literature/no_superheroes.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ No superheroes! :date: 2020-07-12T21:18:49 :category: literature -:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit, storyPrompt (my comments on “`the thread on reddit`_”) diff --git a/literature/note_on_luna.rst b/literature/note_on_luna.rst index 60e93fe..9a42bc2 100644 --- a/literature/note_on_luna.rst +++ b/literature/note_on_luna.rst @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ see Luna frightened, sad, disappointed or in love, because she always keeps her perfect crazy poker face. Once we are writing about Huna (or any situation where she needs to be true and personal), the author must step up into the unknown: who is the -true Luna behind that facade? +true Luna behind that façade? .. _`Northumbrian’s stories`: https://archiveofourown.org/series/103340 diff --git a/literature/on_technology_horcrux.rst b/literature/on_technology_horcrux.rst index ee5c71c..dc11ef6 100644 --- a/literature/on_technology_horcrux.rst +++ b/literature/on_technology_horcrux.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ On Technology of Horcrux creation :date: 2022-01-09T08:50:43 :category: literature -:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten (my comments on “`Diary Horcrux Murder`_” by berkeleyjake) diff --git a/literature/post-war.rst b/literature/post-war.rst index 5aafdab..4d779c5 100644 --- a/literature/post-war.rst +++ b/literature/post-war.rst @@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ I would highly disagree with your assessment of the First World War. me, so you should know the state of the Germany after the First World War, and I think it is correct to say that both Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy were completely destroyed - (Austria-Hungary literally, the other two were mostly - non-functional for years, and especially in Italy there could - be evidenced a clear link between the collapse of the - government and rise of Fascism). + (Austria-Hungary literally, the other two were mostly + non-functional for years, and especially in Italy one could + find an evidenced of the clear link between the collapse of + the government and rise of Fascism). 3. I believe a way more important than the level of smashing was exact opposite: after the First World War destroyed countries diff --git a/literature/problem-of-wands.rst b/literature/problem-of-wands.rst index 9c34509..1a82f25 100644 --- a/literature/problem-of-wands.rst +++ b/literature/problem-of-wands.rst @@ -64,12 +64,12 @@ its end and to the defeat of Tom Riddle, IS **NOT** a superhero DH, he is probably a way more battered and more experienced but still distinctively seventeen-year old teenager, not even a graduate of Hogwarts, who overcomes the evil mostly just by -using weird semi-legal tricks and technicalities. There is -no doubt in my mind that if he had to meet Voldemort in the -fair head-to-head battle á la the duel between Voldemort and -Dumbledore in the Department of Mysteries, he would end up -(as somebody called it) like Sackville-Baggins of Hardbottle -facing a barlog. +persistence, dogged effort, and using weird semi-legal tricks and +technicalities. There is no doubt in my mind that if he had to +meet Voldemort in the fair head-to-head battle á la the duel +between Voldemort and Dumbledore in the Department of Mysteries, +he would end up (as somebody called it) like Sackville-Baggins of +Hardbottle facing a barlog. Now technically (using only arguments from the inside of HP universe) to the problem of wands. Obviously, any disarming diff --git a/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst b/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst index a4f2c42..2f38c72 100644 --- a/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst +++ b/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ anywhere. Obviously, from person who writes fanfiction around the classical literature (namely “Pride and Prejudice”), I expect better literary quality than your average fifteen-year inserting herself as the fourth member of The Golden Trio on the run for -horcruxes. Unfortunately, with the contiuation of both stories, +horcruxes. Unfortunately, with the continuation of both stories, it seems to me that the author lapsed more and more into some of the worst stereotypes in the genre. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ the trait, but it goes downhill pretty fast, and in the end Mrs Weasley, Arthur, and of course Ron are sworn enemies of the good guys and gals. And it is happily overlooked that many relational troubles which blow to their face in the end are caused by the -unexplicable relational idiocy of Harry & Hermione. Why in the +inexplicable relational idiocy of Harry & Hermione. Why in the world, they haven’t contacted Ron, their supposedly best friend, immediately after they got means of communications (mirrors) from the Weasley twins? I like the Weasley twins in the story, but why @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ course, the only reason seems to be that the author may indulge more in the Ron-bashing (there is no way the Ron from books was not fed up with Lavender after few weeks of snogging; and actually, he broke up with her because he looked for more in -books, not necessarily because of Hermione; that is more the -movie Ron again). +books, not necessarily because of Hermione; that is more the film +Ron again). Harry and Hermione spent five years (or at least summers) in the Weasley household. And suddenly the Weasley parents don’t deserve @@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ books would slam the door in their face, I would immediately ship her to St. Mungo, because some serious disease must be affecting her brain. That is not Molly we know from the books. And I just cannot make myself believe that Weasleys’ would be that -prejudiced against Muggles. Ignorant, of course, but not -unwilling to be explained. +prejudiced against Muggles. Ignorant, of course, but not +unwilling to hear an explanation. When they are repeatedly accused they gave up on the wizarding world and went Muggle all the way, Harry & Hermione never face -these accussations by explaining what’s going on, by explaining +these accusations by explaining what’s going on, by explaining that they actually finished their magical education already, they don’t even boast how many N.E.W.T.s they got, they just blow up. They behave like rebellious stupid teenagers, who they actually @@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ and wise Grangers. We’ll get to this more later. Because next we have to deal with the persona of Albus Dumbledore as described in the stories. I am the last one to declare Professor Dumbledore to be perfect. There are obvious problems in -his behavior. Some of them mentioned by JKR in the books -themselves (excessive secrecty, insufficient information and +his behaviour. Some of them mentioned by JKR in the books +themselves (excessive secrecy, insufficient information and training), some are not. For example, there is a situation where absolutely everything depends on Harry learning Occlumency properly, and his teacher is not adult enough to get over Harry’s @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ results of such teaching. What does Dumbledore do to remedy the situation? Nothing, just waits until somebody gets killed and Harry can blame himself for it. What’s wrong with him? [#]_ I believe that both Professors Dumbledore and Snape are -reponsible for the death of Sirius Black (perhaps they should be +responsible for the death of Sirius Black (perhaps they should be even criminally responsible for neglect) more than anybody else on The Light Side (the biggest share of guilt goes to Mrs Lestrange, of course). diff --git a/literature/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst b/literature/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst index 2f055cd..fd0c159 100644 --- a/literature/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst +++ b/literature/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Soul bonds and arranged marriages :date: 2022-06-16 :category: literature -:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, storyPrompt Comment on the Reddit thread “`Soul bonding fics with depth?`_” by ZappyFence discussing “`Error of Soul`_” by Materia-Blade) diff --git a/literature/terms_of_matrimony.rst b/literature/terms_of_matrimony.rst index 8db8577..67c5145 100644 --- a/literature/terms_of_matrimony.rst +++ b/literature/terms_of_matrimony.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Having said that, the setup of the story is really nice. It is one of the most persuasive stories of Petunia-Snape relationship. It is dramatic (not like crazily talkative and generally absurd “`A magical love affair`_”) and generally persuasive: one Death -Eater (Macnair) uses Imperium Curse on Vernon Dursley to try to +Eater (Macnair) uses Imperius Curse on Vernon Dursley to try to get to Harry (who is then six) and kill him. However, Vernon is stopped in the attempt by the magical protection by Harry’s mother and he kills himself (still under the influence of the diff --git a/literature/unhappy_dark_lord.rst b/literature/unhappy_dark_lord.rst index 22cb3bb..52d9116 100644 --- a/literature/unhappy_dark_lord.rst +++ b/literature/unhappy_dark_lord.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Horcruxes and Unhappy Dark Lord :date: 2021-04-29T23:15:46 :category: literature -:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment, plotBunny +:tags: storyPrompt, harryPotter, blogComment, plotBunny Originally published as “`Quest for Immortality by the Unhappy Dark Lord`_” on Reddit. diff --git a/literature/working-class-snape.rst b/literature/working-class-snape.rst index 1684560..e3a4f3a 100644 --- a/literature/working-class-snape.rst +++ b/literature/working-class-snape.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Working class Snape? :date: 2021-02-28T19:16:02 :category: literature -:tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment +:tags: storyPrompt, harryPotter, blogComment (my post “`All Our Kin: Snape and Evanses flight from the urban poverty of early 1980s`_”) |