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Recent content by CountvonBarnOwl

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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    I still think RWBY is better in our hands than in the hands of any studio. I do not think that any studio could do a good enough job with RWBY to justify watching it because the expectations that VIZ will invariably set for RWBY will, by their very nature involve a continuation of the pandering...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    It wasn't meant to be a storyline, it was meant to be a running gag. It ties into the story by demonstrating that Jaune is useless, pathetic, and ineffectual. He hears just enough of Weiss' sarcasm to mistake it for real affection and acts like every middle/high school teenager who has only...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    You just gave me a brainwave. Forging documents to get into Beacon specifically is probably pretty easy (comparatively speaking). Recall that spending a good chunk of your life outside of the kingdoms is considered by Beacon's standards equal qualification to graduating PCS - and presumably...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Count on the clock again. It has been a week or two of nonstop Malfoid and while I do intend to continue writing those stories at least for a while, I figured a visit to the threads was long overdue. I wholly agree with the second conclusion here. Velvet is in a trade school for mercenaries...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    This is true, and probably sources more than a few of what I would call Rowling's incongruities (both expressed and implied) with what her readers took away from her story. Moreover, Harry trying to accommodate his highborn GF and her trappings of wealth does a great deal to make them both more...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    Yeah, a total wizard/witch population more than 20,000 in a country the size of the UK would be practically impossible to hide and would render the statute of secrecy a moot point and dead letter. If you want to bulk up the population of the magical world, you cannot really exceed 20,000...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    The first two thirds of this post made me think that Salazar Slytherin was trying to make the Kwisatz Haderach. Slytherin: "No, Godric, we don't need to have anything to do with the mud people who want to burn us for being witches. What we need is the spawn of the one shifty mage knight who is...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    That a real doll of his mother exists at all, and that Snape of all people has one; I imagine Harry's reaction is going to be very green. It is likely for this same reason that Lucius, Narcissa, and Malfoid will all be pestering Harry to let a couple of the kids take the surnames of Malfoy and...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    Wow, I really am starting to fall apart. You have my sincere apologies. As does everyone else here, for this and any other instances of error, mistake of fact, cantankerousness & irritability, or any other demonstration of lapsed judgment I have otherwise here displayed resulting in...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    Village looks beautiful. I definitely like it. Also I found Malfoid fanart that I am trying to work inspiration for into my Malfoid vs. Umbrage series. There are so many little things about this piece that I like. One, those excessive, extravagant earrings. I am definitely including those...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories
    Threadmarks: Defense Against the Dumb Antics; The Tired Joke Extravaganza

    Count back. Moving swiftly along, let's get to the good shit. Warning: The following fic contains out-of-character moments, in character moments, deliberate mischaracterization of dramatis personae, spelling, grammar, and syntax that look slightly better than what was typed up over the course...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    I know Lily Potter isn't Rowling's own self image in the universe. I don't think... But yes, using Lily as the measuring stick is a violation of Rule 3 given the way that it shakes out in-universe (I knew I wouldn't be able to help myself avoid bringing up the rules of writing sooner or later)...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    Voyeurmort The other upshot/big draw is that she'll outlive him by 20-30 years. Spousal inheritance is the reason why all of those big age gap marriages happened (and probably still do) and are/were a massive vector for upward social mobility. So, combined with the fact that Sirius is the...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories

    Please read the following line in the most disappointed Alan Rickman tone that you can muster: "That is how you know it is a work of fiction, Mr. Talon." 1 and 3 I wholly agree with - I will take your word on 3, but 1 is readily apparent. 2, and your assessment of Malfoid at the end, are...
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    [Harry Potter] Malfoid Stories
    Threadmarks: Harry Potter and the Clearly Not Okay -dere

    I won't even bother including a warning because you should know by now about my penchant for nonsense. The Payback War Begins, or; Grizzly Murders in the House of Dursley February 1995 - The Hogwarts grounds, a few hours after the second Triwizard Task "Potter? What exactly am I looking at."...
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