Comments | angua9: It's Great Being Back Here ... Is That Picture of the Mad Knight Still Around?

angua9

It's Great Being Back Here ... Is That Picture of the Mad Knight Still Around?

Apr 08, 2018 20:55

It feels really weird to be posting on LJ now. For one thing, I know hardly anybody will read it. Then there's that whole thing with Russia and their anti-gay persecution. I have had to agree to Livejournal's user agreement to keep this journal, which gives them the right to yank my LJ at any time without notice, because obviously I'm not going to ( Read more... )

ship debating, book 7, hp, dh

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lukerya April 9 2018, 03:23:16 UTC

We do read. I missed you. Just so happened that I was re-reading the last two books this weekend. There are so many things to discuss. I, for one, think that JKR made a sad mistake wit the scene at the tower, with the wand. It could be so much more convincing if she thought it through a little better. There was almost no decent discussion of the scenes in Godric Hollow, and they are a treasure trove of controversy.
I also have a weird idea for a fanfic based on the last book, and would like to bounce some ideas around, Come back! you are badly missed.
Ikuko

angua9 April 10 2018, 01:04:38 UTC

Hey, is this Ikuko from the old LT? If so, welcome!!

You think that Draco should have more definitively beaten Dumbledore? Or that Dumbledore with the Elder Wand shouldn't have been defeated so easily or something?

I do have a few more things that I want to blather about, so I'll probably write a bit more before I drift away from HP again.

lukerya April 10 2018, 01:11:09 UTC

Yes, I am!
Well, I think JKR could have saved herself a lot of grief and convoluted explanations of how wands work, if only she did a minor alteration of the scene in the tower. If instead of throwing Dumbeldor's wand out of the window, Draco caught it and held until he started running away, and Harry, hot on his tracks, expelliarmed it, the story would have been much more logical. Shame, really.

connielane April 9 2018, 04:24:29 UTC

Still reading! Actually, I get notifications whenever certain journals (including yours) update. :P

I've felt this way since the wait between 6 and 7. I had *such* good recall of the first five books, thanks to the debates, but HBP -- even though it was at the time my favorite so far, not to mention the most recent -- was not as firmly imprinted on my brain. (Sadly, I *did* debate a bit over at HarmonyForever after HBP, but that was more about Rowling's writing ability and just wasn't the same.)

angua9 April 10 2018, 01:11:51 UTC

Ha, I just figured out how to do the notification thing, so now I'll know if you post as well.

I'm just about to start HBP in my re-read and I'm psyched. I love it too. OotP always gives me a headache because Harry's head hurts all the time.

sarahblack April 9 2018, 16:48:46 UTC

There will never be anything quite like the three year summer, will there?

I didn't argue that much online, but I remember reading and re-reading the books endlessly, scouring them for the tiniest hint of what might be to come, and it just wasn't the same with the last two or three books as it was with the first four.

angua9 April 10 2018, 01:14:26 UTC

Yes, the three year summer was an amazing time. I feel kind of guilty about Books 6 and 7, like a parent who didn't take enough pictures of their youngest child.

sarahblack April 10 2018, 09:54:24 UTC

Haha, that's a perfect way of putting it!

author_by_night April 20 2018, 03:07:55 UTC

This is the most random question ever, but were you friends with someone on ff.n named... I THINK Malena? This would've been eighteen years ago (Holy Guacamole). She wrote a lot of MWPP fic and had a friend named Sarah Black. I realize it's probably not you, but I've always wondered!

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hildigunnur April 10 2018, 15:29:54 UTC

If there are some proper juicy debates about Harry Potter going on somewhere online, I wouldn't know about it. And there's not how fandom (any fandom) seems to operate these days.

Despite the drama, I miss the old days.

angua9 April 15 2018, 07:37:42 UTC

*mutter* Kids these days...

author_by_night April 20 2018, 03:06:25 UTC

Yeah, I miss when fandom got really fun and meta. Now it's just "I like a thing." OMG. Wow. You also like the thing we're talking about. I'm shocked. *Rolls eyes at people*

Although I'm on a subreddit for a show I watch that has a vaguely Sugar Quillish vibe. Not right on the nose at all, but the discussion is pretty detailed, thorough and intelligent. However, there's still not really a sense of community. I KNEW people on Sugar Quill. I don't feel that way about Reddit. But maybe that's how it was with Sugar Quill at first, too. (I have some SQ related regrets too. I... was a teenager/early twenty-something. That's all I'm saying.)

I miss the old days too. I still use the number 87 randomly! It's a great number. The funny thing is that one of my best friends also uses 87 randomly. (She wasn't a Quiller, she just got it from me.)

steampen April 14 2018, 09:54:57 UTC

(Just FYI in case it isn't clear, I'm Clémence aka formerly Celestine ( ... )

angua9 April 14 2018, 22:26:48 UTC

Hey, C, good to see you over here in Not Real Life!

Still writing fanfic, huh? Any in HP? In English?

You're right. I hadn't really thought about it, but being a fan during "the Livejournal age" was almost as special as being a fan during the Harry Potter release years.

steampen May 6 2018, 11:39:46 UTC

I am actually ! Although sadly I have a lot less time for it because I focus mostly on original writing now, but it helps me relax. I have to admit one thing I like better now than during the "good ol' days" is fanfic archives, AO3 blows FF.net et al out of the water. And people still write really good stuff thankfully.