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All is dungbombs and ashes, Linus.
Dungbombs and ashes.
Dungbombs and ashes.
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Comfortable shoes!
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
The nitpicker in me loooooved this line, a little further down that chain:
"You know, Perce, when Professor McGonagall told you not to capitalise, she probably mean not using italicisation either."
"You know, Perce, when Professor McGonagall told you not to capitalise, she probably mean not using italicisation either."
Edited (because i have the perfect icon) 2015-09-03 00:54 (UTC)
"Hypatia's thrice-cursed sextant and all the lines of latitude!" wins for favourite Alternity curse, I think. Oh, Siz.
D made me up my swearing bar quite a lot. (I'm also rather proud of "Urania's mercy on the seven unsatisfactory suitors of the Pleiades and their worst excuses and excesses", which I think D helped me come up with.)
My favourite swear is Tosha's "Mordred's Mercy" because oh, the layers of implication there.
My favourite swear is Tosha's "Mordred's Mercy" because oh, the layers of implication there.
Edited 2015-09-03 01:02 (UTC)
Here's the comment: http://alt-antonin.dreamwidth.org/44865.html?thread=234049#cmt234049
It's even worse than I remembered.
It's even worse than I remembered.
I had this idea, when I started doing the wiki, that people would at least vaguely remember the stuff they did with their own characters.
First lesson for anyone taking on this kind of project: they won't.
I think every single person, we had more than one example of "Wait, where was this?" and then discovering it was one of their posts. (I mostly remembered my own stuff, but I had the advantage of reading it a couple of extra times in the indexing process, and a brain that holds on to random trivia like a steel trap, especially if it's something I've read.)
First lesson for anyone taking on this kind of project: they won't.
I think every single person, we had more than one example of "Wait, where was this?" and then discovering it was one of their posts. (I mostly remembered my own stuff, but I had the advantage of reading it a couple of extra times in the indexing process, and a brain that holds on to random trivia like a steel trap, especially if it's something I've read.)
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE, WHAT THE BLOODY HELL.
And in fact, all of Remus and Sally-Anne's minutes for their delightful sly commentary.
And in fact, all of Remus and Sally-Anne's minutes for their delightful sly commentary.
OH yes. I think I decided early on that Tosha almost never swears by his gods because you don't call Their attention unless you really, really want it, and he doesn't swear by Merlin because he actually doesn't give a fuck about Merlin, so from there I had to go really afield.
I lost the habit of coming up with really good ones when the drugs started eating my brain, but "Mordred's mercy" was definitely one of my favorites, too. Because yes, oh, the implications. And I liked the Urania's mercy one, but Hypatia's sextant wins for my favorite of Siz's. :)
I lost the habit of coming up with really good ones when the drugs started eating my brain, but "Mordred's mercy" was definitely one of my favorites, too. Because yes, oh, the implications. And I liked the Urania's mercy one, but Hypatia's sextant wins for my favorite of Siz's. :)
I liked the "may whatever sins she could have possibly sinned" in there. (It's actually "may whatever sins she has sinned" in the original.)
I should pull out a list of all Tosha's prayers; I had fun with them. (I had to dissect the rules to give Deb for when she was writing Barty's version -- he wasn't going to get all of it, because he didn't care for himself and he'd always just put it in the "Tosha's quirks" category, but by the Gods, Tosha believed, and that meant Barty was going to do his fucking best.)
(I don't know how clearly it came across, but: the names of the familial dead are written on a stele in the temple/chapel in the basement, because the belief is that as long as your name is still written, your souls will not die. Tosha woke up to find that Barty had carved his name in GIANT FUCKING LETTERS.)
Anyway, yeah. My favorite part of that whole interaction was Daph's last comment, to Tosha telling her he was coming to fetch her: "Is it time, then? Good. I'm ready."
I should pull out a list of all Tosha's prayers; I had fun with them. (I had to dissect the rules to give Deb for when she was writing Barty's version -- he wasn't going to get all of it, because he didn't care for himself and he'd always just put it in the "Tosha's quirks" category, but by the Gods, Tosha believed, and that meant Barty was going to do his fucking best.)
(I don't know how clearly it came across, but: the names of the familial dead are written on a stele in the temple/chapel in the basement, because the belief is that as long as your name is still written, your souls will not die. Tosha woke up to find that Barty had carved his name in GIANT FUCKING LETTERS.)
Anyway, yeah. My favorite part of that whole interaction was Daph's last comment, to Tosha telling her he was coming to fetch her: "Is it time, then? Good. I'm ready."
I don't remember the exact line, or where it was, but there was a thread between Hermione and Hydra wherein they discuss Draco's being in love with her, and Hermione can't believe it's really true. Hydra says something like, "If his mind were a house, your picture would be in almost every room." I just loved that because it says so much about all three characters. And the nature of love itself, for that matter.
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