Old Thread (was: religion wicca(n)) Plus Fanfic

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1018

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise" <gypsycaine at y...> wrote:
> In the 0-350 postings which I dissected (snip) I ran across a 
> rather delightful discussion on Wiccanism.  The posts are those 
> above:  219-27.  If Simon would be so kind as to post that url for
> the completed archive again, or if the researcher wants to visit
> HP4GU on yahoo, there's the numbers.... 

Saturday, Sunday, and today I have visited our old home on Yahoo. 
The home page is there, and the chat room is there, but any attempt 
to get at the messages, archived or from the latest five on the home 
page, gets an error message about this club not existing. Was there 
some saintly person working on a project to convert our old Yahoo 
message archive to e-groups? Not that I like e-groups, but at least 
it still exists so far!!!

As a person who reads and replies to posts on the website (and I 
never had any problem quoted the part I was replying to when we were 
on Yahoo), in order to combine topics in one post as Penny just 
requested (in another group, someone was sulking about that because 
they wanted their e-mail client to tell them which thread was which), 
I am experimenting with having two browser windows open at the same 
time, one for the REPLY window of one post, the other for viewing 
another post so I can copy & paste the part I want to reply to.

In the post most excellently numbered 969, Sister Mary Lunatic wrote:
> I have a way that I "sniff" out a story on fanfiction.net before
> deciding to invest time reading it.  I just scroll rapidly through
> the file.  If it  looks like nothing but a series of one-sentence
> statements by the characters, it's pretty safe to give it a miss.

In that case, you are not going to like the fic that I am most likely 
to finish (all I need now is a great literary sentence or two of 
foreshadowing the events of the novels, and the tedious mechanics of 
closing it). In fact, I find the 'So-and-so said:' or 'stated' or 
'screeched', etc, to be very boring, and just want to write the 
words I hear them saying. 

Btw, it was someone else in chat who was writing about Sirius as 
Heathcliff: I am merely writing about Sirius as a teen-ager.