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| -rw-r--r-- | literature/JAFF_resources.rst | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/elsewhere-fics.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/hp_redemption.rst | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst | 95 |
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diff --git a/literature/JAFF_resources.rst b/literature/JAFF_resources.rst index 9d9d539..fdd4982 100644 --- a/literature/JAFF_resources.rst +++ b/literature/JAFF_resources.rst @@ -71,6 +71,14 @@ See these posts on the Regency Era on Reddit by /u/Basic_Bichette: * “`Field Sports`_” +* “`Marriage`_” + +* “`Non-Alcoholic Drinks`_” + +* “`Engagement, Marriage, Divorce, etc.`_” + +* “`Professions for Younger Sons`_” + .. _`of the same name`: https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/1630m30/jaff_resources/ @@ -137,3 +145,15 @@ See these posts on the Regency Era on Reddit by /u/Basic_Bichette: .. _`Field Sports`: https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/17uo2a2/history_notes_field_sports/ + +.. _`Marriage`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/18370mp/history_notes_marriage/ + +.. _`Non-Alcoholic Drinks`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/188al4g/history_notes_nonalcoholic_drinks/ + +.. _`Engagement, Marriage, Divorce, etc.`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/18hlhan/history_notes_engagement_marriage_divorce_etc/ + +.. _`Professions for Younger Sons`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/18ixtzt/history_notes_professions_for_younger_sons/ diff --git a/literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst b/literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst index dd1532d..d171b6f 100644 --- a/literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst +++ b/literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ The Strange Disappearance of Lizzy Bennet :category: literature :tags: review, austeniana, blogComment, fromReddit -(my comments on “`The Strange Disappearance of Lizzy Bennet`_” by HelenaMira, originally -published on Reddit_) +(my comments on “`The Strange Disappearance of Lizzy Bennet`_” by +HelenaMira, originally published on Reddit_) I really wanted to like this story. The beginning of the story promised a good plot and I like neglectful!Mr Bennet and evil!Mrs diff --git a/literature/elsewhere-fics.rst b/literature/elsewhere-fics.rst index dedfff6..31452e9 100644 --- a/literature/elsewhere-fics.rst +++ b/literature/elsewhere-fics.rst @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ later reference): - “`Lessons`_” - “`Lessons With Hagrid`_” - “`Letters on Yellow Parchment`_” -- “[Lightness-violet-hpff-322079 +- “Lightness” by teh tarik (used to be on http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewstory.php?psid=322079) - “`Lightskirt`_” - “`Lip Locker Curse`_” - “`Louder Than a Howler`_” diff --git a/literature/hp_redemption.rst b/literature/hp_redemption.rst index e22df2f..83365e2 100644 --- a/literature/hp_redemption.rst +++ b/literature/hp_redemption.rst @@ -50,6 +50,45 @@ much of the path-to-hell-pavement with the redemption and it sometimes balances quite close to making excuses for his behaviour (BTW, I **love** Molly Weasley in this story). +**{update 2023-12-03}*** + +As a comment on thread “`Malfoy redemption`_” by `/u/Kaennal/`_: + +The word “redemption” is rather complicated, let’s distinguish +two versions of it: + +1. Draco returns among normal decent people, says “I am sorry”, + turns the right way, and that’s it, no heavy punishment + required, and anything he did could be waived away with “if + you don’t regret your decisions when you were sixteen, then + you are no more than seventeen”. + +2. He did things which just require punishment, and then + redemption must include it. As G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown + reminded us, it is does not contradict each other, “Save your + soul and admit to murder” (which then always included capital + punishment). Perhaps that punishment could be lessened given + his age and other circumstances, but some punishment must be + included nevertheless. + +I think the link between these two situations lies somewhere +around Christmas of their sixth year. When two attempted murders +are committed, there is just no other way for a decent human +being than to work against the plan (i.e., in this situation, +start to talk with the Headmaster). Let’s hope that they will be +able to develop some clandestine way how to protect both Malfoys +(or at least Draco and Narcissa, Lucius is in my opinion gone too +far) and students of Hogwarts. + +And actually nothing changes much if those attempted murders +were committed by Draco or not (one strange characteristic +of both attempts is that they could be committed from the +outside of Hogwarts, so there is an explanation that it was +actually desperate Narcissa who in her fear for her son cursed +Madam Rosmerta). When you see that all your schoolmates are in +danger, you just have to do something effective to protect them, +otherwise you are an accomplice. + .. _`Angela Merkel in Auschwitz`: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-50690669/auschwitz-visit-responsibility-for-nazi-crimes-part-of-german-identity-says-merkel @@ -70,3 +109,9 @@ behaviour (BTW, I **love** Molly Weasley in this story). .. _SSwomen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_guards_in_Nazi_concentration_camps + +.. _`Malfoy redemption`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/189ck92/malfoy_redemption/ + +.. _`/u/Kaennal/`: + https://www.reddit.com/user/Kaennal/ diff --git a/literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst b/literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst index 816dfb4..8d641a7 100644 --- a/literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst +++ b/literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst @@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ is something very similar to what’s the current situation in UK: people are perhaps nominally CoE, but there are just few of take it seriously. +---- + +**(update 2024-01-06)** + +Somebody_ noticed that most of the so called pagan religion is +a product of the Romantic/Victorian raving and the so called +The Old Wizarding ways (spread all over the fandom) could be +very well `created by Dumbledore and Grindelwald as a tool for +subjugating masses`_. An absolutely awesome assumption. + .. _`Doesn't it make sense for wizards to be Christian? A Historical Perspective`: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/kup6f6/doesnt_it_make_sense_for_wizards_to_be_christian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 @@ -52,3 +62,9 @@ it seriously. .. _Wicca: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca + +.. _Somebody: + https://reddit.com/u/bramblefellburrow + +.. _`created by Dumbledore and Grindelwald as a tool for subjugating masses`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/1901p8v/dumbledore_bans_paganism_because_he_and/ diff --git a/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst b/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3436240 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/sexy_lamp_test.rst @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +Kind of sexy lamp test +###################### + +:date: 2023-12-06 +:category: literature +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit + +(another `discussion on the nature of bashing`_ by `/u/Chocokuki1993`_) + +It is not about bashing, it is always (as with everywhere in +writing) about the plot. I would suggest something like `the +sexy lamp test`_: “What would happen to the plot if you remove +this particular paragraph, chapter negatively portraying that +character?” I see three possible outcomes, where only one is +acceptable: + +* Plot breaks, because this character *behaves exactly as the + plot and their character development demands them to* (see + also `Dorothy Sayers on the Trinity and art of writing`_, but + it is a difficult book to read). That is the only acceptable + outcome. I don’t like much story “`Yule Ball Drama`_” by + FurySerenity for other reasons, and I really `don’t like the + trope of Molly Weasley, the evil Potioneer`_, but if Molly, + Ron, and Ginny Weasley don’t behave as they do in this story, + its whole plot collapses and nothing remains. + +* *Nothing happens.* See for example “`Thank You Ms Bones`_” by + old-crow and these two paragraphs in the end of the story + (which I find frankly unbelievable, that anybody can write + anything like this; to get a context: Ron was captured by Death + Eaters and then as a consequence of other events in the story + left locked in his prison, where he starved to death): + + McGonagall persisted, “What about young Mr. Weasley?” She couldn’t + imagine a worse fate than slow starvation for the young man. + + […] ‘If he’d ever bothered to learn anything from his brothers, + rather than his endless obsession with chess, he would have picked + the lock the first night that he was there and escaped. Instead he + sat there playing with his pieces as he slowly starved to death.’ + Personally, Crow couldn’t envision a more ironic fate for the + always-hungry lad. He supposed that it was unfortunate that + Weasley’s remains were never found. + + This is completely unnecessary, it brings absolutely nothing to the + story, it is just kicking him while he is down. Perhaps the author + compensated for his shame that he completely forgot about Ron and + didn’t know how to finish the story. + + I won’t be listing another examples, there are too many of them, but + every other non-Harmony and non-canonical story, where Ron & Hermione + are part of the large paranoia-induced whole-world conspiracy against + Harry (they usually pretend to be his friends for many years just for + money and fame). Every other Harmony story, where there is absolutely + nothing good in Ron Weasley, who ends up regularly unemployed, + abusing poor Lavender (usually) and their children, or where he + marries post-War Hermione and then physically (and otherwise) abuses + her. There are so many of them. + +* *Nothing happens, because there is no plot.* See “`A + Different Halloween`_” by RobSt. It is a nice little + ultra-super-teeth-rottening-sweet story of two and half + chapters, which concludes rather surprisingly but otherwise + organically in the middle of the third chapter. Then for the + next seventeen-and-half chapters there is absolutely no plot + going on, but fluff and shiny vacuum. Because the author + heard somewhere that the easiest plot can be achieved with an + antagonist he covered up a piece of vacuum and pretended it is + Albus Dumbledore who is such an antagonist. If you remove him + from the story, nothing changes, because there is nothing to be + changed. + +.. _`discussion on the nature of bashing`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/18btl8l/for_you_whats_bashing/ + +.. _`/u/Chocokuki1993`: + https://www.reddit.com/u/Chocokuki1993 + +.. _`the sexy lamp test`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test#Tests_about_gender_and_fiction + +.. _`Dorothy Sayers on the Trinity and art of writing`: + https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140909 + +.. _`Yule Ball Drama`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/18502153 + +.. _`don’t like the trope of Molly Weasley, the evil Potioneer`: + https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/molly-weasley-the-potion-mistress.html + +.. _`Thank You Ms Bones`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3230439 + +.. _`A Different Halloween`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6439871 |