Comments | pinkpolarity: baaad plotbunny, funny video, and Slytherin House

pinkpolarity

baaad plotbunny, funny video, and Slytherin House

Apr 07, 2005 05:19

This thread on fanficrants has given me a silly shortfic parody bunny, wherein Salazar Slytherin enforces the "no electricity, must use parchment and quills" rule while the others are off distracting themselves. (Rowena Ravenclaw is busy reading the blogosphere. She has to be.) If I can manage to get some work done, I think I'll actually write this. Crackfic ( Read more... )

harry potter, satanism, slytherin, lj meta, linked elsewhere, darthblitzkrieg

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terrylj April 7 2005, 13:24:34 UTC

Where are the people belong who are innately selfish and lazy, but who have been incalculated with morals and work ethics so that they do work hard and sacrifice themselves for others, but only so that they'll feel good at the end of the day?

Not that I know anyone like that...*shifty eyes*

pinkpolarity April 8 2005, 13:04:42 UTC

Hufflepuff. With my husband, who is SO like that.

terrylj April 10 2005, 00:38:33 UTC

But I always got the feeling that Hufflepuffs really were good and caring and hard-working and loyal. They didn't really have to work at it, they're just born that way. And I know people who really are like that. Whereas I...er...know people who are NOT really like that. They've just been taught to behave that way, and they've thought about it and decided that yes, that works and that's a good way to be...but it's still a struggle.

pinkpolarity April 10 2005, 10:23:11 UTC

I don't know about the good and caring-- I think Harry, during the whole "heir of Slytherin" business in CoS, might have something to say about that. :) Hufflepuff (like I just added to my post) strikes me as the most collectivist of houses. At its best it's a kindhearted family, at the worst, it's an angry mob. Earn the loyalty of one and the house will love you for life, piss one off and you earn the enmity of the lot. The word that always comes to me for the Huffles is clannishI also think they sometimes have to work at it. :) The thing that sets a Hufflepuff apart from the other houses is the inability to sit still if there's something needing to be done. There are a lot of times I see Rob piss and moan about having to do something, but once he gets going he works doggedly until it's done. It's that "this needs doing, and *somebody* has to do it!" mentality, where the "somebody" is usually a Hufflepuff. He might resent the heck out of the boss asking him to stay late or the ^*&#$%$ who messed up his work group's server, but *not* ( ... )

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bloodvalkyrie April 7 2005, 15:44:03 UTC

I agree with you fully. Non-cutters really get on my nerves and yes, they tend to take a bit of advice like "Can you please put that behind a cut? It's screwing with my friend page." to mean "What the fuck is your problem? CUT THAT SHIT BITCH." LOL

I don't see why they get upset about it. I try to cut my stuff as much as I can remember to. I don't see why people make it into a big issue and get defensive when someone asks them to cut something. It takes two seconds to write < lj - cut >. *sighs*

*big hugs*

senni April 8 2005, 00:41:02 UTC

morningwind April 8 2005, 22:02:33 UTC

(Rowena Ravenclaw is busy reading the blogosphere. She has to be.)

Bwahahaha! So true! *cackles*

Also came across this video on Andrew Sullivan. Dance, White Boy!

I like the furtive look the guy casts around the room before he breaks out the moves. ;) I'll have to send this video to my Bryn Mawr friends!

And complete, 100% agreement on the damn LJ-cut business. One person recently posted seven graphics-heavy quizzes in post after post after post, followed by some sort of survey, I think. ARGH. Pleeeease put them under a LJ-cuts, or better yet, all of them under ONE cut. Unfortunately, there is the potential for a freak-out if I say something, so I haven't. But next time, I swear to god... *grumbles*

bloodyrose82 April 10 2005, 00:18:20 UTC

Here via daily_snitch, in regards to your Slytherin comment. Just my two pence worth. *grins ( ... )

pinkpolarity April 10 2005, 02:45:48 UTC

However, I don't quite agree with your interpretation of Slytherins always being subtle.

So do I, that was the point of my post. :) The always-subtle thing isn't my opinion, but a quote from the info page of sorting_elite (and echoed by many other Slytherin fans), and it's something I'm trying to take issue with here. Not sure why multiple people assumed the italics were quoting me, but I guess I could stand to write more clearly in the middle of the night. :)

Good points in the rest, though, especially the "all House qualities are present in some way in all people."