Out-Posts

[sistermagpie]

> Geoff:
> Well, if you take me as an example (perish the thought), I've been 
posting 
> a lot more on OT because we can cover a wider field - and also 
lighten 
> things up a bit.
> 
> I have to admit that I have been getting increasingly fed up with 
Main. 
> Some of the threads are going on interminably with two or more 
sides 
> going round in circles and repeating their arguments. And everybody 
is 
> getting so serious... this is fiction, chaps! We can't have members 
hitting 
> each other round the head with virtual Bludgers in cyberspace; it's 
just not on.
> 
> I wish some folk would take an 'agree to disagree' line and let go 
of the 
> topic. I'm not saying that any particular view is the norm for the 
group 
> but we are not going to bring people to agree with us by constant 
> repetition.
Geoff:
Well, if you take me as an example (perish the thought), I've been 
posting
a lot more on OT because we can cover a wider field - and also lighten
things up a bit.

Susan:

One of the reasons that I have had a hard time with the main list
recently (and really, with deep respect to those who disagree) is
that everyone has to be perfect.

Harry is now damned because he yearned for Kreacher to bring him a
sandwich (buying into the institution of slavery). Dumbledore is
suspect because he has the glasses of oak-matured mead bouncing on
the Dursleys' head...Moody should NOT have turned Draco Malfoy into a
ferret.... [the last two were scenes I found hilarious..including
Dumbledore saying "But alas, rudeness too often occurs accidentally"
(not exact quote from the HBP)].

Magpie:
Just thought I should give a heads up that pretty much my only 
interest in HP at this point lies in areas like Harry taking his 
place in the slave owner elite, the Gryffindors considering Barty the 
DE a hero and Dumbledore and every other Wizard's weird attitude 
about Muggles--none of which translates into wanting any of them to 
be perfect. Just a warning to some to skip my posts because these 
threads that are allegedly bringing down the list are the only ones I 
find interesting at all.  


Carol:
Carol responds:
"Caveat" is a verb now? How about "slash" (in the sense you're using
it) and "fic." Are people who write these stories slashing, ficcing,
or slash-ficcing?

Magpie:
Slashing is definitely a verb, and ficcing can be. As can slash-
ficcing.

-m