TBAY/Other Sources peevishness/Done with batch

[annemehr]

The door of the broom cupboard opens, and a figure emerges with a
machete dangling from her limp hand.  The atmosphere resembles nothing
so much as a book she once jumped into for a while (_The Eyre Affair_;
pleasant to read, yet once put down never seemed to insist on being
picked up again; after being got halfway through and the library fine
mounting to $11.21, it was duly returned).  That trail of blood, now
-- puts her right in mind of a man(?) called "Hades"...

Except she recognises those bloody footprints to belong to Talisman.
With a slight shudder, Anne realises how fortunate she is that
Talisman never turned her weapon on *her*, even though she used to
like to argue with Talisman every chance she could get - after all,
it's much more fun to wrestle with someone stronger than yourself, and
much more fun to cross keyboards with a nimble mind than be patiently
reminding new young theorists that it is not at all surprising and
certainly not a FLINT that the MoM looked to be deserted when Harry &
co. arrived...

Carolyn's office also appears deserted, so Anne leaves a note:
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Re: coding up small mentions of the Big Bang, George, Stoned!Harry and
the like in TBAYs -- isn't it just like coding passing mentions of
other people and things in regular posts?  It's often a difficult
decision to make.  I try to look at it as one of our users might, and
think if the post in question would be worth wading through for the
mention of George, or whatever, in it.  Not that a very short comment
may not be quite thought provoking, or a long on merely an "Adds
nothing new"...

You just have to suck it up and use your best judgement.  Here, have a
cup of tea, dear.  

Re: Other Sources and Influences -- all right, I accept your vision of
the category.  You *might* just want to rename it "Literary Sources
and Influences" then. I just coded up a post (by Dicentra, IIRC)
speculating on how the Weasleys may in part be based on the Mitford
family (you know, Jessica Mitford's family), and it had nothing to do
with the books any of them wrote except to mention Jo giving Jessica's
to Jessica.  I was *so* itching to code it there, but I restrained
myself.  I feel all virtuous now; fitting, since it's Sunday.

Re: my batch -- I'm done.

~Anne
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Anne leaves the office to check on the delivery of a package; she's
expecting the arrival of a Salvador Dali to grace the largest wall of
her broom cupboard in lieu of a window.