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A serious fanfiction requires some level of effort… heck I consult the above even in my originals too.
For instance, lots of canon characters are very underdeveloped, so you gotta flesh them out into fullness that’s in line with canon (or in line with your premise).  Original characters… I actually have those developed better in my story than some of the canon!
However, if it’s a short fluff bit...well, you don’t have to work too hard if you’ve got something of Fred’s & George’s backfiring to fill all of Hogwarts up with daffodils.

See, this is why writing fanfic is not easier than writing original stuff. You can’t play with someone else’s toys without playing by their rules. Or you can, but then they’ll take their ball and go home, or...Where was I going with this?

Okay…  So, with the headlines, I’m guessing the little twerps got involved in the “River to the Sea” Blood-Libel, and someone in management really didn’t want to go there.  Oh, well…
Good luck getting and training the replacements.

Thanks for the link.  I did find a different site that also works fine, once I remembered to actually check moon phases.  Unlike JKR herself, I’m trying to use real life calendars instead of the “Rowling Calendar.”  So, my student band would have been out late, plus the first Hogsmeade Weekend on Saturday, with Sunday being a full moon. 
Once I remembered to check that too, I got it fixed.  And though the dates are only background ephemera otherwise, I also moved one or two other Hogsmeade Weekends.  I also inserted a statement that even seventh year students were restricted to the castle on full moon nights, and that “student werewolves” never rode the Hogwarts Express out or in on a day with a full moon night.  In “expanded canon,” there were actually two students (Chiara Lobasco and Remus Lupin) who attended and took their NEWTs after having been infected with Lycanthropy as young children.
The real pain is finding stuff like when O and A Level results should come in, and minimum ages for drivers licenses, which did change over the years.

I find it useful when… you know, a character’s outside at night, to know about where the moon is (ie before/after moonrise/moonset).  Another tool I’ve used is Stellarium (open source program), good for figuring the constellations/stars in the sky.

Very useful, TBH… is something like.  https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/usa/portland-or  (change location & date/time for needs.  Glasgow UK should be close enough for Hogwarts.)

Welcome back to the show, @pittwitch.

Welcome back to the show, @pittwitch.

I work in an industry where the college life hasn’t been rubbed off by the real world yet.

The youngings did something?  Or management trying to send a message?

Thank you! It was nicely uneventful, which I appreciate no ends!  

Happy birthday to you!  I hope it was a good one. 🙂

Thank you!  

Happy birthday, @BronxWench!

Happy birthday, @BronxWench!

Ages ago when I started my main potter fanfic, I did write up a spreadsheet.  And when I came back to it after a decade hiatus – it’s been a godsend for trying to remember how things were setup, what to elaborate more on, etc.

The dream I was having was a bit weirder, so I came up with that instead.

Hey now, that’s a little extreme doncha think?

“What my phone hears” sounds like a brilliant story prompt.  “Amir was an ordinary beat cop, doing his job and living his life.  Until, that is, his posterior became sapient and started loudly expressing its own diverging opinions.”
Cheers!

“What my phone hears” sounds like a brilliant story prompt.  “Amir was an ordinary beat cop, doing his job and living his life.  Until, that is, his posterior became sapient and started loudly expressing its own diverging opinions.”
Cheers!

“What my phone hears” sounds like a brilliant story prompt.  “Amir was an ordinary beat cop, doing his job and living his life.  Until, that is, his posterior became sapient and started loudly expressing its own diverging opinions.”
Cheers!

Butt hurt? 

My potter fanfic is similarly plot driven.   That’s why even the “cleaner” version is substantial at 631k right now.  However, the “explicit” version stands at 1765k, with sex, incest, slash, nudism themes mixed into it.  Something like “Jefferey” would have some parts that could work in a sexless “T” rating, the nudist aspect was part of why I wrote/developed the character, as Jeff’s needed for the main protagonist’s swim instructor.

Of course, that depends on the story itself.  “Yankee” is plot-driven, and sex isn’t necessarily needed.  The original story where I ‘borrowed’ the Dvoraks from, though, is a different story altogether in more ways than one.  It won’t be appearing on the originals side of St. Elsewhere.  Ever.
Cheers!

I’d think a “T” rating would cause some of my stories to implode into clouds of nothingness, or at least lose a lot of their impact.