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Tea and Spite
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The melodrama of much of the dialogue in this series fits with the particular genre it's going for but my god is it fucking cringe sometimes
— Sep 19, 2024 01:16PM
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Tea and Spite
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God damnit. I want to read the next story but that means putting together the ebook first and I am not nearly awake enough for that
— Sep 20, 2024 08:59PM
Tea and Spite
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Fascinating how close LotW came to the concept of obscurials here, given that it was years before Fantastic Beasts was even a thought in anyone's mind
— Sep 20, 2024 08:12PM
Tea and Spite
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Not being able to remember what I thought the first time I read this series is annoying. I want to murder Lily, but I can't remember if I did the first time too or if I was just confused as to what the fuck was going on
— Sep 20, 2024 06:16PM
Tea and Spite
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Seriously, melodramatic twin brother who would fit perfectly in this AU...and slightly more realistic, over everything Harry who is constantly just staring at him and going "We're not on Coronation Street. Why are you like this?"
— Sep 20, 2024 09:43AM
Tea and Spite
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Oh ffs you little prick, it's just a fucking quidditch match. One of you was always going to lose.
— Sep 19, 2024 08:51PM
Tea and Spite
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Accidentally neglected, completely over everything Harry and a twin brother who's just as embarrassingly earnest as Connor. "You're going to catch me and stop me? Are you Batman? Go to bed, idiot."
— Sep 19, 2024 06:49PM
Tea and Spite
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For someone who goes on about how Gryffindor is full of saints, Connor really is a manipulative little fuck. He could use a solid smack to teach him not to use people's kindness and loyalty against them
— Sep 19, 2024 06:40PM
Tea and Spite
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I keep having to put this down because I can see the cringe coming. Can't wait until somewhere around book 4 when Harry stops being quite so idiotic
— Sep 19, 2024 03:40PM
Tea and Spite
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I can't wait until I'm far enough into the series that Gryffindor is slightly less full of self righteous pricks. Connor is annoying, but he's 12 years old. There's really no excuse for Sirius and James
— Sep 19, 2024 01:11PM
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Sep 19, 2024 02:23PM
I’m starting to just headcanon this wizarding society is inherently melodramatic: the dialogue, teenagers hugging their parents in public, 12 y/o boys hugging each other—the characters in this fic act on emotion in ways that do not compute for me
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I seem to remember LotW being a lesbian which...would explain a lot, actually. I dislike a lot about canon, but JKR did manage to portray the emotional constipation of the average teenage boy fairly well.(From a writing perspective, it's almost certainly to do with the entire thing being written basically a chapter a day for over a year. That is an *insane* pace, especially when you consider how long the chapters are. It's basically a sprinted-seat-of-your-pants rough draft. At that pace, you don't have a *choice* but to accept emotional shorthands like constant hugging that would normally be taken out in subsequent revisions.)
Like. I just did out the math and it's 478 days between the first chapter of Saving Connor and the last chapter of I Am Also Thy Brother. The entire series has 549 chapters (if you include the Maze of Light one-shot).That's...I can't even imagine writing that much that quickly. Especially when you get into word count, the average WPD being over *6000*. I'm happy if I get in 6000 words a week, let alone every fucking day.
