LJ, femgenficathon and Grindeldore

[miss_morland]

1. I'm not really happy with the new LJ homepage. The old one used to show bits of the recent comments, and I loved that -- I still remember when I logged on after having posted my first fanfic ever back in 2007, hands trembling with nervousness, and the first thing I saw was those snippets of positive reviews. It's a very nice memory.

A question

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[miss_morland]

Yeah, I definitely liked the old homepage better.

[miss_morland]

Not a secret at all! I'm thinking of writing about Ofglen, Offred's "colleague", although I think pretty much everyone in that novel is interesting.

Also, there are some really great fics here.

[miss_morland]

You're very welcome!

[therealsnape]

The new home page may be a temporary thing. I still saw the normal one with my most recent comments when I logged in today (about one hour ago).

Just in case it makes a difference: I'm a non-paying user.
*brief interval in which I mentally correct the nearly-typed 'I'm an unpaid user'.
Short musing over possibilities of being a paid user = able to send invoices ... billable hours ... changes in bank account ... my own convertible ... invitations to sponsored events from bank manager ...
But those things would cut down my LJ time drastically.
No, better remain unpaid user after all.*

And Bathilda Bagshot, as far as I recall, knew there was A problem with Ariana. She had seen Kendra take the child for walks in the garden - one specific walk on a moonlit night. I remember, because I thought at first A. might be a werewolf, but there was that moonlit walk. Although it didn't say 'full moon'.
But Bagshot didn't know exactly what was wrong with her, or what had caused it.

[therealsnape]

Damn, this time I logged in the icons&comments were gone, allright. Just a tab on the right side, giving the names of the three last commenters.

[miss_morland]

My account is as unpaid as it can be, so I don't think that has anything to do with it -- besides, I think the latest LJ news mentioned something about the change. *sigh*

Thanks for the info on Bagshot!

[kellychambliss]

1. I hadn't noticed the new home page; I usually just go straight to the friends page. There aren't any comments on my DW homepage, although maybe it's possible to get them with other setting? Don't know; I just have the default.

2. Handmaid's Tale! Yes, write it, by all means. Not too ambitious at all

[miss_morland]

I don't remember whether the Handmaids were only women who'd already had children (which I agree is very unlikely for Moira) or whether they might be known to be fertile in other ways -- through an undescribed test or something.

I could have sworn the novel says something about women who'd already proved themselves fertile by having children becoming Handmaids, but now I can't find it. :-/ The nearest I got, was the place where Offred says Janine cried about her baby at night, "like the rest of us only more noisily" (p. 135, 1986 edition). Like you, I haven't read the book for a while, although I've borrowed it from the library for fic purposes, so I might have misremembered it all...

[miss_morland]

I remember that quote, although I think it was just as much about Cora's being too old to become a Handmaid? But at any rate, I think it says at some point that Moira, too, had her tubes tied -- apparently, this became really common in the pre-Gilead era, according to Offred in Ch. 19: "Some did it themselves, had themselves tied shut with catgut or scarred with chemicals." (I'm assuming this refers to sterilisation.)

[miss_morland]

I suppose I will (and I also see my comments when clicking on "messages" here on LJ), but I liked the old homepage here where recent comments were the first thing you saw... Oh well.

The Handmaid's Tale really is brilliant!