Comment on Harry Potter and the Live Laugh Love Sign in the Basement

  1. blackenedsky on Chapter 1 Wed 21 Oct 2020 10:14AM UTC

    And the winner for best fic title in existence goes to you!!! This had me cracking up. (Also I love it when authors start their fic with a good ole ‘FU JKR!’ and you have even managed to work that attitude into your story which I very much enjoyed)

    “Professors aren't even supposed to exist out of school” ~~ lol, we all feel you, Harry. It’s the worst!

    In fact Harry’s train of thoughts had me laughing out loud several times e.g.:

    “Professor Lupin looked quite alright for a person without a job, Harry thought. He had had a haircut, as his hair was shorter and looked less like Snape's excuse for a hairdo, and his face had gotten a bit of colour. He looked better even than when he taught at Hogwarts, which was probably the reason he looked so dreadful all the time, Hogwarts was a terrible place for Defense Against the Dark Arts professors.” ~~ like what the hell, Harry?! You did an awesome job characterising Harry’s oblivious close to ridiculous nature.

    I live for Dumbledore bashing and I love it even more when Remus is the one serving it!! I just wish Harry didn’t have to go through the pain of being betrayed like that by his ‘mentor’ ...and it’s even worse that jk’s Harry never actually realises it.

    “He kissed her cheek. He kissed her cheek. He kissed her cheek. Harry was getting a brain aneurysm,...” ~~ SAME, HARRY, SAME!!!!!

    It really isn’t important but if the fic is set in the early 90s you might want to change the CD player in the old car to a cassette player :)

    “The boy who lived nodded and turned back to his pan.” ~~ lol!!!

    Also liked the idea of ‘Sirius’ magical core’ being exhausted and that you included Andromeda and Tonks and her childhood crush on Remus cjebcunwixbej

    I had a lot of fun reading this story. Thank you for writing and sharing it!!

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    1. onlydance on Chapter 1 Wed 21 Oct 2020 03:02PM UTC

      Omg thanks for commenting!

      I was originally going to pick a different title because this title (harry potter and the live laugh love sign in the basement) was just my google doc name for miscellaneous things but then i was 17 k into this one story and i was like, you know what, it's a great name.

      Professors aren't even supposed to exist out of school is the truest thing ive ever written. there's nothing like seeing your latin teacher in a mcdonald's during your holiday break.

      Harry's thinking is just like 'what would 13 year old me say if this happened?' and just writing it down.

      Dumbledore is kind of an asshole, but like most headmasters kind of suck, it's a given that you have to be a dickhead to run a school apparently.

      Also thank u so much, i tried to keep it as 90s as possible and I just completely forgot cassette tapes, peak dumb bitch energy is just me being like 'cd's have been around for ages right?' and leaving it at that.

      I HAD to put in the fact that Tonks had a childhood crush on Remus, because it is just hilarious material, but also to keep it tied to the canon a bit better, I'm just so uncomfortable thinking about the age difference in Tonks and Remus' relationship, because she was barely 23 and Remus was 36 and that age difference just ain't right at that point. I just feel like, cause theyre in very different stages in their lives, it just doesn't feel right to have them together, not that that is important in a wolfstar work, but still, ya gotta vent.

      Thank you so much for reading and for the comment, I love it when people give their opinion on my works!

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      1. blackenedsky on Chapter 1 Wed 21 Oct 2020 09:49PM UTC

        It fit very well indeed haha

        And we all know she only put them together to end fandom canon. Ugh!!! Remus used to be my favourite character while reading the books and tonks became one of my favourites as well and then SHEEEE forced them together and I hated it sm...and I hadn’t even thought about the marauders back then and Remus’ and Sirius’ past. But I’ve always hated the age difference. Though I can’t imagine Remus matured a lot during those 12 years either...how could you after so much trauma without anyone to help him really???? And then he is supposed to be able to be with young Tonks??? I think not...like this woman has no clue about the characters she created. Have you ever read the shut she had said about Ron? It started years ago but back then I lost all respect for her and stopped considering her opinion and work as canon. She no longer holds any authority over the characters. (Obviously what she is saying these days, attacking the transcommunity is so much worse!!! But like you said, sometimes you gotta vent.)

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        1. onlydance on Chapter 1 Wed 21 Oct 2020 11:44PM UTC

          precisely when you gotta vent you gotta vent.

          i absolutely love this world, the characters the story, but jk rowling really screwed the pooch on this one. ever since everyone found out she was absolutely batshit crazy, the thing is, i love the harry potter series, have done since i was 9 years old, and some old lady and her twitter account aren't going to take that from me. my love is between me, my first edition copies of the books i bought for barely 2 bucks each at a yardsale and the fanfiction tabs open on my computer.

          because no, wizards did not shit themselves before toilets were invented, because means of sanitation had already existed in the roman empire. native american witches and wizards were not naive people that needed to be taught by some colonialist prick, and snape's years of bullying children is not to be excused just because he felt entitled to Harry's mum.

          trans lives matter yknow, and the woman is spouting harmful untruths about transgender people. She spouts an unusual amount of crap out of her mouth, for what gain i don't know, but it's certainly not to add to the story of Harry Potter itself.

          And her attacking her own characters, going back on her own story to say dumb shit, that's the most terrivle fhing you can do as a professional author and role model and i m honestly disappointed.

          Okay moral of the story is, jk rowling sucks, trans lives are important and should not be messed with as that suburban posh rich shit for brains woman is trying to do. I will fight her and I will win, because I for one did not translate my spells directly from latin and do it terribly as well. Joanne, please for the love of all that is holy, buy a latin textbook if you're planning on fucking with a historically dead language.

          alright, im going to stop venting now. thanks for ur comment!

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