Wilde_Guess

41536 [Jamboree, KY]

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41526, ‘cause why the hell not?

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Not all is doom and gloom. My validation and password reset email came in a few minutes ago. The validation link already had “password” stripped out, and worked on the first try. Likewise, the password reset link, which I used after the validation link, also worked on the first attempt. Thanks.

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Of course, @Dagian. Your teenagers are real, and thus vulnerable to loss-of privileges, loss of income, or other coercion if they don’t toe the line. Mine are imaginary fictional characters, riding their plot-jackelopes with lances and skewering me at every turn, or so it seems. Cheers!

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Hello, Desiderius Price, and all. That’s the beauty of being “back-benchers” and pseudo-pornographers—we can fix that! I decided not to post an example here. Once the “unlock kerfuffle” has ended far enough, I might post a one-shot on why Hugo Weasley was born in February of 1994 with black hair and green eyes, and why James Arthur Potter was born at the same time with blue eyes to go with his mum’s red hair. Cheers!

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Hi, Daglan and all. Of course, and I apologize if you thought I was implying anything undesired about your attitude, which has honestly been nicer than mine! _I_ am being impatient! But, since I’ve been on the other side of the console more than a time or two, I’m not expressing that impatience. Frankly, if the paid tech support at [fill in the blanks of your tech service provider of choice] were as attentive or as good as the tech support we receive here for free, we’d have an extra ten percent or so more GDP. Really. And even relatively “small” sites like this one aren’t even close to being small. AFF has more “significant named users” than I had of users grand total when I ran a BBS in the 1990s. We’ll get there, Daglan. Hopefully, before my teen-age band stuffs even more songs down my throat for a wedding reception. Cheers!

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Hi, Guest-MudbloodMalfoy and all. Not a admin or moderator here, but I might be able to help. If your account reports a successful validation, but the password reset link in the email has expired, have you tried generating a password reset link yourself? If your account actually validated, you should be able to reset your password. Thanks, and good luck.

Hi, @Dagian and all. Look at manta2g’s post above, quoting a processing rate of ten accounts per minute, or six hundred per hour. Remember that there are multiple thousands of user accounts on the system. Watch carefully, but patiently. Thanks.

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Hello, Guests and all. @manta2g and @BronxWench are now tagged, just in case they didn’t otherwise see this. Since you only posted as guests, you’ll have to watch this space carefully for any suggestions they might have. Thanks, and good luck.

I’m not an admin, but I might be able to help. You won’t be able to reset your password unless and until @manta2g unlocks your account and causes the system to send you a “reset password link.” So, if you were trying to “jump the line,” it won’t work. If you got a “invalid password reset link” error message from the link manta2g caused to be sent to you, one or two other users have had the same problem. Either way, can you be a little more clear on exactly what you did and what happened, especially including any error messages? @BronxWench or @WillowDarkling might have some insights on what you can try. Thanks in advance, and good luck.

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Hi, Desiderius Price and all. Definitely so. More than a few “Harry/Hermione shippers” believe that JKR had laid the groundwork out for that ship in canon. I didn’t see it in the books, and the movie actually hinted at the Ron/Hermione dating relationship that ultimately took place. And, like you said, we the reader never really saw that much of Ginny building a relationship with Harry until it showed up mostly formed. JKR gave us all a brilliant sandbox to play in, but she did leave a splinter or two in the edge boards. And, don’t get me started about Hermione being white growing up and having kids, then suddenly turning Black because JKR liked Norma Dumezweni’s acting. JKR never said what race Hermione was in the books. But in the movies, which are also canon, and where JKR had veto power over all casting decisions, she chose the decidedly anglo Emma Watson to play Hermione. I have a “two or three shot” I might post about Hermione turning herself Black a-la John Howard Griffin for semi-political purposes with a combination of potions and ritual without telling or asking anyone first, only to accidentally turn her children and parents Black too, and also get thoroughly lambasted by her sister-in-law Angelina, who actually was born Black before she sets things back to right with a lot of help from Ron. It’s JKR’s sandbox, and she can do what she wants with it. I, in turn, can politely express the opinion that she made a silly and needless blunder. As for people speculating in error where the seven-book series was going to go, that was actually more or less good mystery writing, since part of the overall story type for the seven-book series was mystery. She left the clues where she needed to leave them, and once you got to the point where “new revelations” happened, you could see her laying the groundwork. And Alan Rickman deserves more than a little credit for not ‘blabbing’ where the story was going. Remember, he insisted on knowing the entire series, “spoilers” and all, before agreeing to play Severus Snape. Cheers!

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I’m guessing that it’s alphabetical after using fellow Admins and Mods as test subjects. Is that alphabetical by email or screen name? Or something else completely? Thanks in advance.

Episode TV, or episodic fiction in general, is actually one of the few places where a fanfic author isn’t automatically writing “alternative universe.” Before the Harry Potter series got big, and made fanfiction bigger, the two “biggies” were the Star Wars and Star Trek series. With all the “extra” stories Lucas licensed pre-Disney, and with Star Trek being episode TV, you couldn’t tell a lot of the best “fanfiction” from authorized and truly canon stories.