(my Reddit post “LF: Petunia is a witch afterall”)
I know about these:
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment
Read More(my contribution on the thread “Using your character as a mouth piece” by Snoo)
If you are interested in the theory of writing, then I have to suggest to you two very obscure and old books (yes, old books are quite often better than the new ones): “The Mind of …
Category: faith Tagged: harryPotter blogComment
Read More(my comments on “The Light and the Dark” by Uncommonality)
One of the many issues with the universe of the Harry Potter books, which has never been fully resolved in the books by Ms Rowling is the true nature of the Dark Magic. It is really not explained. Dark Magic …
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Read More(my comment regarding vampires on AO3)
Technical question of the day. Would the Homonum Revelius spell reveal a hiding vampire? I figure it will reveal a hiding werewolf but they’re still sort of human. Aren’t vampires supposed to be “dead” and so would such a spell reveal them …
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Read More(my comments on “The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage” by Katherine Stewart in The New York Times, 2021-01-11; letter to a friend who raged against Senator Josh Hawley right after The Storming of US Capitol)
OK, let me start by quoting Alan Cox, Welsh (he would killed me, if …
Category: faith Tagged: review culture sociology politics Christianity
Read More(my comments on “Doesn't it make sense for wizards to be Christian? A Historical Perspective” by u/PhantomKeeperQazs)
Of course, all Europeans almost without an exceptions were Christians well into the 19th century. It was traditionally unacceptable (or perhaps only unfashionable) not to be Christian in Europe well into the …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment HPreligion
Read More(my entry on “What are you reading? Weekly Post for 2021-01-06”)
After the discussion on other thread, I was given reference to three Harmony+werewolves stories (Lupin bites somebody in the end of the third year). I found them surprisingly good:
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment
Read More(thoughts after listening to the episode “Victorian Realism” of the BBC’s In Our Time, originally developed as a review of “Strangers at Drakeshaugh” by Northumbrian and also a possible commentary on “Everything Wrong With HARRY POTTER Fanfictions” by Purplemist14, which is HIGHLY recommended reading for any hopeful fanfiction writer …
Category: faith Tagged: HarryPotter review blogComment realism
Read More(my reaction to the published review of “Grow Young with Me” by Taliesin19)
Except the quality of this review is on par with those on the DVD box. This is not a review, it is a promotion by a fan. There is not one weakness found, and although I like …
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Read More(my comments during the thread “Stories where Ginny is actually nice to Harry’s girlfriend?” by /u/AcerbicOrb)
Let me add here a dump of my “muggles” folder (for later reference):
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment
Read More(my comments on the review of “Their Finest” by Susan Wloszczyna)
I really wanted to like this film, it started nicely, and generally I like it, but then there are points which just don’t make sense at all. It is even worse when whole film is about scriptwriting.
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Read More(this sermon was in seriously modified version preached at the Prague Christian Fellowship on Sunday, August 30, 2020).
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
—Romans 10,17 ESV
This is one of the famous verses in the New Testament, and if you were among …
Category: faith Tagged: sermon english listening Bible
Read More(my comments on the thread “why does almost everyone hate the Harry/Hermione ship?” by patriot_man69420)
I don’t hate the ship, although I generally prefer Hinny, I could admit that Ginny is extremely poorly written by JKR, and fanfiction has to add a lot of her personality to make …
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Read More(kázání, silně krácené pronesené ve sboru ČCE Praha-Braník, 26. července 2020)
Druhé helvétské vyznání, které Českobratrská církev evangelická přijímá i za svoje vyznání víry, celé začíná ustanovením našeho postoje k Písmu svatému:
Věříme a vyznáváme, že kanonická Písma svatých proroků a apoštolů obojího Zákona jsou pravé slovo Boží samo a …
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Read More(my comments on “the thread on reddit”)
First of all, you should avoid the dark trap of all adventure/fantasy stories: my story must be more dramatic than the previous one, my heroes and my antagonist must be more significant than the previous one. It is not enough to save …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment fromReddit
Read More(my comments on “Breakfast in New York” by Radaslab)
Finished reading the story and there are two overwhelming thoughts in my head. The first is obvious and rather normal for most of the fanfiction stories (and especially so-called romantic ones): it should be cut to like one quarter or so …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment HPreligion
Read More(my comments on “My theory on Christianity in the Wizarding World” by LordMacragge)
I prefer the explanation in chapter 16 of Thou Shalt Not Suffer by TheWizardsHarry: there are horrible problems with our translations of the verse, because all Bible translators were Muggles, and they just couldn’t grasp the …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment HPreligion
Read MoreBashing and similar are not the cause of poor quality of their stories, but they are just a symptom of the author being lead by the poor design of his story into areas, which would be impossible to resolve or it would be too difficult, so bashing is then just …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment fromReddit
Read More(my comments on the thread “Overused tropes” by u/Aa11yah)
OK, I will suggest a very weird book for reading. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers (yes, the author of detective stories with Lord Peter Wimsey) is one of the best books on the art of writing …
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Read More(my comments on the thread “What are your thoughts on the direction taken by 'Animagus at War' by White Squirrel?” by u/SnobbishWizard)
I have already (many chapters ago) wrote a review, which included my comments on this story, and so far I stand behind it.
On top of that …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment fromReddit
Read More(my comments on the thread “Best Luna fics” by u/jasoneill23)
I like Luna in the Northumbrian’s stories, but there she is not very central to the story (perhaps, aside from Yggdrasil by Northumbrian, but it is not his best story). Actually, the chapter 3 of Tales of the …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment fromReddit
Read More(my comments on “LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by u/frostking104” Reddit thread)
There are two types of fem!Harry stories:
Where Harry (with a different name, of course) is naturally a girl, always was and always will be. Usually, I guess, the motivation is that the …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment fromReddit
Read More(meant as an extended comment on neovim’s bug #8457: “Support sam/vim Structured Regular Expressions?”)
This is not a comprehensive review of vis or even just its comparison with vim. I would like to just describe my small moment of epiphany when working on some document with vis.
There …
Category: computer Tagged: neovim regexp plan9 vis
Read More(Major spoilers follow, I am sorry, but I cannot explain my opinion on the story without revealing most of the plot; if you haven’t read the story, finish it first.)
I have followed To All the Wizards I’ve Considered Before by FullofWrackspurts first with excitement. It seemed like …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter
Read More(originally posted on Reddit)
Yes, everybody is redeemable. I believe redemption stories of some former SSmen (and SSwomen), guards in the Nazi concentration camps, etc. Redemption (or let’s use the old-fashioned term “conversion” or “penance”) however doesn’t mean to somehow excuse previous deeds. It requires true acknowledgement that …
Category: faith Tagged: review harryPotter blogComment fromReddit
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