Just making a post to save the comm and all its incredibly detailed sporkings. I'd hate to have the comm annihilated for inactivity, and LJ is going to start deleting inactivate accounts soon.

Also, communities are considered inactive if they have only one new post with no comments. So please...comment on this post to let LJ know we're still here.

ETA: I've already said this in a couple of comments, but I'm adding it to the original post. LJ edited their announcement. This is what they initially said:

A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months and has only one post (i.e., the welcome post). A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months.

Now it reads:

A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months and has only one post (i.e., the welcome post). A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months and has only one entry and no comments.

The bolded clause wasn't there when I saw their first announcement. I'm guessing there were objections.

Current Mood: worried

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I don't know how many ex Harry Potter Fans there are in the world caused by the extremely disappointing Deathly Hallows, but it seems clear to me that it is time for a New Product to replace Harry Potter in the Witch and Wizard fantasy genre. I am not an author. I don't read fanfiction, and I'm not making this post to advertize or suggest any particular book or series. I am just curious how many ex Harry Potter fans are still around reading fanfiction and just waiting to go back on the Harry Potter fansites and compare the idiotic Harry Potter plot in Deathly Hallows to a more realistic and reasonable witch and wizard plotline.

erastes.livejournal.com

I consider that, in years to come, this particular phrase will be discussed and dissected by people more educated than I, and will (if Potterfiction stays as popular) be considered to be one of the greatest literary lies ever. For me it ranks along with "All animals are created equal" and will – just as that phrase was shown to be a nonsense –lose any credibility it has.

For this discussion, I'm using the book only. Not chats or filler information about things that Jo knows.

There's so much wrong with the assertion that all is well I hardly know where to start. But start we must.

( Read more... )

So - what do you think? There's a great many more reasons why I think All Isn't Well, but I'd like to hear some of yours.

gehayi.livejournal.com

The post-spork discussion will be up later. In the meantime, this is where you can post recommendations for fic and art that deal with plotholes Rowling never filled, with the Wizarding World at war, with the aftermath of the war, with AUs and dystopias, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth...you get the idea.

Some stories have been suggested already, and are listed here. I've added a few others. As other suggestions are made, I'll add them to the master list. I figure that will be easier to find later; I don't think anyone likes having to scramble through comments for rec links.

MASTER LIST

( Fanfic )

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Fanart

The Comic that

sydpad is TOTALLY NOT DOING.

And, because they kind of go together,

seductivedark's stories based on

sydpad's art. They start here, with Interview.

Current Mood: creative

gehayi.livejournal.com

The Crapilogue was sporked by

enolabloodygay. Happy Valentine's Day, folks!

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Nineteen Years Later...

In which the Famous Five Meet the Secret Seven in Gull Cove...or something. And everything is just Grrrr-eat! And it makes me want to barf.

( And a world without Voldemort is Practically Perfect in Every Way. )

***

Only it's not! Hurrah!

Tomorrow we will be discussing exactly why we think "All was well" should go down as one of the greatest literary lies ever.

Current Mood: annoyed

gehayi.livejournal.com

Tonight's spork is by

bee_in_a_garden.

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Chapter Thirty-Six -- The Flaw In The Plan

( In which Neville is heroic while Harry plays dead, Rowling slows down the plot to a crawl by having Harry deliver the Boring Super-Villain Speech, and the final battle between Harry and Voldemort is the very definition of anticlimax. )

Current Mood: frustrated

gehayi.livejournal.com

In which Harry is mostly dead, Voldemort's soul is ignored for no particular reason, and Albus Dumbledore Lies About It All To You.

Note: This is from the British edition. Readers of the American edition may notice some differences in the text.

Chapter Thirty-Five -- King’s Cross

( The Harrydore's quite strong/ Watch Albie's ego swell/ As Harry thinks all wrong/ Both overact like hell/ For this is the Song That Goes Like This. )

Current Mood: bitchy

gehayi.livejournal.com

This chapter is by

quinby. There will be another spork of this later--her computer, Adams, decided to live up to his name and be obnoxious and disliked. That is, he crashed, taking the whole spork with him. So I started work on it, in case

quinby couldn't redo the spork in time...and when she sent me this, my version was three-quarters done.

So you get two sporks of the same chapter.

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( In which Harry wangsts like Roger Davis from RENT, Neville is unduly optimistic, and Harry finally dies. )

Current Mood: tired

erastes.livejournal.com

This endeavour having caused erastes to have a nervous breakdown, she’s had to take herself off to a remedial writing course where she is being soothed with the cool application of the proper use of colons and gentle repetition of sentence structure until she recovers.

Her spork therefore will be conducted by our old friends The Random Death Eaters (1 and 2) who some of you may not have met before. You know them, though. The ones who joined up because the uniform was cool, (“it was! Leather and pointy hats”) or because they thought they could get girls (“well we did.” “Yeah, if we Stunned them”) The ones that always lurk around at the back (“well, wouldn’t YOU? You saw what happened when they told him about the vault”) and the last ones to volunteer for anything… They are the Nobby Nobbes and the Fred Colon of the Bad Guys. Keeping out of the rain, keeping out of trouble. They may never be famous but they might just make it through this alive.

Voldemort once said that he was often defeated by Luck and Chance, so lets give these boys names for once.. I introduce Chuck, and Lance, the Random Death Eaters.

Chapter Thirty-Three
The Prince's Tale

In which we are supposed to believe six impossible things before Breakfast.

( 1. That a potions expert who worked as double agent with a psycho with a big snake wouldn't be filled with antidote.... )

Current Mood: bored

gehayi.livejournal.com

Today's spork is by

quinby.

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Chapter Thirty-Two -- The Elder Wand

( In which the world ends for Harry AGAIN, Rowling fails Insect Studies, Luna and her friends pwn the Trio, and Voldemort is suffering from performance issues. )

Current Mood: bitchy

gehayi.livejournal.com

anitaray went off on vacation without sending us Chapter 31. Consequently,

erastes sporked it.

***

In which everyone forgets they are wizards from time to time, Hagrid turns into someone else completely and hundreds of children are marched to their death.

Chapter Thirty-One -- The Battle of Hogwarts

( Henry V it AIN'T )

Current Mood: bitchy

gehayi.livejournal.com

Today's sporking is by

anitaray. She's on vacation until February 20th.

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Chapter 30: The Sacking of Severus Snape

In which Harry runs about hither and tither watching other people do stuff, and Voldemort chills for a bit. A LONG bit.

( Also, Ginny, that supposedly powerful witch, is considered too young to fight, and we learn that torturing people is noble...if your name is Harry Potter. )

Current Mood: annoyed

gehayi.livejournal.com

Today's chapter was team-sporked by

quinby and

minkhollow.

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In which JKR crams the book we all wanted to be reading into half a chapter, the DA's remnants have out-thought the Trio, and Ravenclaw has the best common room ever.

Chapter Twenty-Nine -- The Lost Diadem

( Also, the Trio are on a mission from Glod, Harry is full of Dumb, and there's actually something resembling a cliffhanger. )

Current Mood: frustrated

gehayi.livejournal.com

In which the Trio has a run-in with Dementors, Death Eaters can't tell stags from goats, Aberforth reveals some unpleasant truths about his brother, and the other Prophecy Boy finally makes an appearance.

Note: This is from the British edition. Readers of the American edition may notice some differences in the text.

Chapter Twenty-Eight -- The Missing Mirror

( Also, portraits do things that they really shouldn't do, and Harry Potter lies like a Persian rug. )

Current Mood: annoyed

erastes.livejournal.com

In which JKR proves that she can even make dragon riding dull, Voldemort kills more than the messenger and Harry makes (yet) another stupid decision

Chapter Twenty-Seven
The Final Hiding Place

( Please welcome the Dragon Riders of Yawn.... )

gehayi.livejournal.com

Today's spork is by

minkhollow.

***

In which Gringotts appears to have taken advantage of security testing, the Trio did not plan for ~~a bank full of nuns~~ what would happen if they were suspected/caught, and a few of the plot points were cooler the first time people used them.

Chapter Twenty-Six -- Gringotts

( Also, Griphook is a sneaky little bastard. )

Current Mood: annoyed

erastes.livejournal.com

In which nothing much happens Remus is spectactularly stupid and the cottage is a TARDIS and I spend most of it obsessing about who and how many are in each bedroom.

( But first... Description! )

Current Mood: aggravated

gehayi.livejournal.com

Today's spork is by

asphodeline.

***

In which we have character death, plot assassination and grammarcide and we learn that a wizard's wand follows the wizard or sometimes doesn't or maybe it does. Who knows? Ollivander doesn't. Oh and everything suddenly makes sense to Harry.

Lucky Harry...

Chapter Twenty-Four -- The Wandmaker

( Also, Harry turns gravedigger, Voldemort turns grave robber, and Snape has a cameo. )

Current Mood: annoyed

gehayi.livejournal.com

In which Harry suffers a frontal lobe migraine for most of the chapter, the Random Death Eaters show common sense, Rowling completely ignores her own set-up for a character arc, all the wizards forget that they're wizards and Dobby is a deus ex machina.

Chapter Twenty-Three -- Malfoy Manor

( Also, Fenrir is creepily stalkerish, and everyone gets CAPSLOCKY. )

Current Mood: aggravated

gehayi.livejournal.com

Once again, we have

smurasaki as today's sporker.

***

In which I wonder once again why the series isn’t “Hermione Granger and the…,” Harry turns into Gollum, and the Trio is captured in the stupidest way imaginable.

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Deathly Hallows

( Also, wizards prove to have no concept of homicide investigation, and we learn the worst code names in the history of espionage. )

Current Mood: annoyed

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