... Apologize for Our Temporary Absence from the Airwaves
First, I must thank the kind anonymous person who recently gifted me with 6 months of paid LiveJournal time. My icons came back!!
I suspect the generous giver was responding to my role in l'affaire Msscribe, which recently received renewed attention thanks to this hour-long YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DZd78WLQY
But, contrary orc that I am, I find myself prompted to return to a different facet of my time in the Harry Potter fandom. After all, Msscribe and all her shenanigans were merely minor and unpleasant distractions from the "heart of it all," which was my deep love for the Harry Potter books and the super-wonderful, brilliant, and hilarious group of friends that I made, most unfairly, while indulging myself in wanky debating, lascivious shipping of fictional teenagers, and mean-spirited snickering at the foolishness of my fellow fans. Which just goes to show that the world is an unjust place and while no good deed goes unpunished, apparently every bad deed is richly rewarded.
So, if my LJ is going to come back to life for a while, what I'd most like to do is finish up some of the unfinished business that still nags at me--the multi-part essays and fanfics where I wrote and posted the first parts but not the planned and in some cases promised sequels. And first among those is the seven part symbolism essay I posted on April Fools Day of 2005, before the sixth and seventh books came out. Many people have asked me about the promised Part 7, the Epilogue, and I was repeatedly forced to admit to them that I never got around to writing it--and to admit to myself that I didn't really know what I wanted to say in it. But now it seems to me that the proper time to write an "Epilogue" is, of course, after the end. Now, surely, with the final two books released and long-digested, I can find more to say!
So ... don't be surprised if sometime during the next few days, this ceases to be an empty link and begins to contain one of my typically pompous and prolix symbolism essays (for, alas, my writing style has not changed one bit in the intervening fifteen years, and I continue to have the same ambivalent attitude toward symbolic analysis that leads me to make fun of it while simultaneously being fascinated by it and irresistibly attracted to performing it).
I just hope I can finish and post this one before April 1, 2021!
I suspect the generous giver was responding to my role in l'affaire Msscribe, which recently received renewed attention thanks to this hour-long YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DZd78WLQY
But, contrary orc that I am, I find myself prompted to return to a different facet of my time in the Harry Potter fandom. After all, Msscribe and all her shenanigans were merely minor and unpleasant distractions from the "heart of it all," which was my deep love for the Harry Potter books and the super-wonderful, brilliant, and hilarious group of friends that I made, most unfairly, while indulging myself in wanky debating, lascivious shipping of fictional teenagers, and mean-spirited snickering at the foolishness of my fellow fans. Which just goes to show that the world is an unjust place and while no good deed goes unpunished, apparently every bad deed is richly rewarded.
So, if my LJ is going to come back to life for a while, what I'd most like to do is finish up some of the unfinished business that still nags at me--the multi-part essays and fanfics where I wrote and posted the first parts but not the planned and in some cases promised sequels. And first among those is the seven part symbolism essay I posted on April Fools Day of 2005, before the sixth and seventh books came out. Many people have asked me about the promised Part 7, the Epilogue, and I was repeatedly forced to admit to them that I never got around to writing it--and to admit to myself that I didn't really know what I wanted to say in it. But now it seems to me that the proper time to write an "Epilogue" is, of course, after the end. Now, surely, with the final two books released and long-digested, I can find more to say!
So ... don't be surprised if sometime during the next few days, this ceases to be an empty link and begins to contain one of my typically pompous and prolix symbolism essays (for, alas, my writing style has not changed one bit in the intervening fifteen years, and I continue to have the same ambivalent attitude toward symbolic analysis that leads me to make fun of it while simultaneously being fascinated by it and irresistibly attracted to performing it).
I just hope I can finish and post this one before April 1, 2021!