(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):
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Read More(my comment on the discussion under “Summer Vacation” by Forrest_of_Holly)
I have rather complicated history with the Deathly Hallows. I have bought the book six hours after it was published (no I couldn’t bother myself to get up at midnight) while on the work-related conference in Birmingham (I am …
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Read More(my comments on “The Augurey” by La Matrona, originally published on Reddit)
What is my pet-peeve is when the characters behave like idiots just to keep the plot together. Let’s see. I have just deleted “The Augurey” from my computer.
First of all, just let me state, I have …
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Read More(my comments on “The Character Development of Ginny Weasley” by u/goodlife23)
For me the main idea of everything written (originally, I have this from an excellent book by Walter Kerr “How Not to Write a Play”) is that the plot (and character development and many other things in any …
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Read MoreOriginally published as “Harry & Ginny are brother and sister” on Reddit.
I see it like this. Lily was already pregnant with her second child (it is slightly over a year between Harry and Ginny so it is biologically possible), when they found out about the Prophecy and need to hide …
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Read More(my comments on “the thread on reddit”)
I have been thinking about this thread for the last couple of days, and I am sorry I let myself to be side-tracked into a stupid argument about the Christianity and religion and stuff. Right now I read “Harry Potter and the Knight …
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Read More(my comments on “What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?” by angua9)
As I wrote elsewhere, I am not a big fan of Harmony stories (stories, where the main pairing is Harry/Hermione), but when they happen, I usually don’t discount them automatically, and some of them are …
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Read MoreWhen John wrote about himself he didn’t see himself us an evangelist, a gospel-writer, an apostle, he identified himself as the one whom Jesus loved.
The situation where John leaned on the Jesus’ chest: we cannot just read it, we have to have the experience it ourselves. Living like …
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Read MoreNěkde v nějaké diskusi jsem zmínil, že přece každé malé dítě ví, co je Geiger a tak jsem neodolal a přepíšu sem příslušnou úvahu Karla Čapka (ze sbírky novinových sloupků „V zajetí slov“, Svoboda, Praha, 1969, str. 135):
To přece ví každé malé dítě. To mi řekl jeden automobilista, když …
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Read More(my comments on “Canon and the Moral Dimensions of Killing in War” thread on reddit)
This is no question of agreeing and disagreeing with me. What I wrote was not exactly my opinion (which I specifically emphasized), but what I consider the prevalent notion among Europeans. Discussion here is very …
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