- Location
- Upstate NY, USA
- Pronouns
- Rm/Rf
Guessing that should be a word for something larger than a normal tarantula.
Fantastic update as usual!
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Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse
- Thread starter Fencer
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy Superhero
Guessing that should be a word for something larger than a normal tarantula.
Fantastic update as usual!
- Location
- Painting, Peach's Castle
Nah, just big spiders that are roughly equivalent in size to Tarantulas, but not necessarily Tarantulas.
Probably magical.
What's important is that there is a box of undetermined-but-likely-very-large size, filled to the brim with many such spiders that may or may not be poured down Ron's throat in his sleep if he doesn't shut the fuck up.
Taylor is mad.
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Nitramy
Love! Snow! Really Magic
- Location
- Home of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage
Ron: At least I don't have arachnophobia anymore. I have Taylorphobia.
Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
Is this Acromantula silk? You would think it be better than black widow silk, because magic.
that would be a synonym of common sense
- Location
- United States
I do not understand peoples obsessive needs for alerts. I use alerts on forums because finding stories here is a pain, i just scroll through my favorites on ffn to see what has updated.
girador
There are only four circles in this picture
- Location
- behind a screen
Little hard to do that when even the page on FFN doesn't recognize that a story got updated. Yes, that is a thing that FFN has been doing lately.....
DoubleThought
Bad at Communicating
- Location
- The Moon. The? There are so many
On one hand, perhaps. On the other hand, acromantula spiders are very large, and their spinnerets are likely correspondingly larger. Thus, the silk made by acromantulas would likely be much coarser than the silk of smaller spiders.
Kaernetron
Feuergeist
- Location
- Weit, Weit dort Oben
We're talking about a type of hunting spider that grows large enough to consider humans valid prey, with the fangs and venom to actually take us down. Why would its silk be stronger than absolutely necessary to keep its eggs in an easily carried/defended cocoon?
- Location
- Sector 2814
This is going into year 6, right? The train can definitely still be cliff notes'ed, but it does have a relevant scene that would go differently this time around. In canon, Harry uses his cloak to sneak into the car Draco is in, spies on Draco making some vague-but-ominous pronouncements, gets noticed, and then petrificus'ed, kicked in the head, and left on the train under the cloak when everyone else leaves. Presumably Taylor could just do the spying with insects instead, averting the canon complications and maybe getting a little more information.
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Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
Yes, but stab\slash resistance is not dependent on how coarse weave in this case.
Taylor can use largest acromantulas and get result that closer to knitting than silk cloth; but it just means that armor will be more like super-fine chainmail.
Armor quality here depends on strength of the strands - will they be cut through or not, and tightness of the weave - can blade push strands aside. While traditional cloth may be affected by coarser weave, Taylor-made silk can be binded together due to spider secretions, creating one solid panel of silk, without distinct strands.
To hunt bigger prey. They need to hunt things like deers and boars, and lay traps for them. And, to repeat myself - more magic, more better, usually.
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My 2c about ff.net. I've used my favorite story list to keep track of updates. Apprently it had worked well for me as I didn't when know notifications were broken.
Though I have over 500 favorites on my list now. 😳
Though I have over 500 favorites on my list now. 😳
Fencer
Writer
- Location
- 2nd shift
- Pronouns
- He/Him
That's what I've been doing as well, and it's mostly worked for me. But I know some people were missing updates and really if their notifications are falling apart it does beg the question of when the rest of the site will start bugging out. Sometimes I go to check and the system is like you have 260 reviews when I know the day before it said 263 and I know if I log in the next day it'll go back to saying 263. Little stuff. It's not critical but if a simple counter is bugging… I'm just assuming the site isn't going to make it.
Really wish they'd lock it down purge anything below a certain threshold of follows or favorites and turn the site into a repository. There's a lot of great fiction there we're going to lose one day and I'd rather see that saved than the site trundle along till it breaks.
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
Yeah, and thanks to the DDOS blocking Cloudflare implements, it's not even easy to use mirroring programs to image the site for personal copies now. I'm just glad that Calibre still mostly keeps up with the changes that get implemented so I can keep my favorites list topped off. Even there, I'm certain I'm missing some very old stories from way back before I regularly favorites every single story that attracted my interest.
I just got a notification from fanfiction.net from a story that updated yesterday. So, I think the backlog should be cleared soon. I guess we'll see if notifications work going forward, until it breaks again.
What I really don't like is fanfiction.net's draconian measures to prevent copying. Worm Story Search no longer updates the index for stories on the site. You can't even use a mouse to select text in a story. What is the point of blocking that?
What I really don't like is fanfiction.net's draconian measures to prevent copying. Worm Story Search no longer updates the index for stories on the site. You can't even use a mouse to select text in a story. What is the point of blocking that?
Death_Sheep
Cat Owned
- Location
- Wisconsin
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You used to be able to get around the "no text selection" issue by running the NoScript plugin in Firefox, but that was years ago. No idea if it would still work; I hardly use FFN anymore.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
You know, I could've sworn that it was said in canon that she made the potion, managed to dose Arthur, and he then fell in love with the statue in front of Dumbledore's office. After it wore off after an hour, he realized who dosed him, which meant that she liked him, and since he liked her as well but was too shy beforehand, he got the courage to ask her out. So that the morale of the story was basically "love potions only really work if the other likes you anyway, so you can skip them because they have a good chance of embarrassing you/the other/both".
And the only thing I can find about that is my own comment in the Pet Peeves thread. So, now I've no idea where I got that idea from. Probably a fanfic, but I'd be damned of I could remember which one 😅
I'm a bit more hopeful about the future of ff.net to be honest. Sure it's annoying that the email alerts were down (and that I only got the alert message that I got a review reply early July today), but with them working through the backlog, they might start working as intended. And the app is surprisingly useful.
Though given their problems, it's definitely a good idea to cross post to other sites. Sure, they apparently managed to repair something now, but who knows what will happen to it in the future.
- Location
- New England
My friend's fic on there had something like 5-7 thousand reviews before it ended. Nowadays like the first 5 pages of reviews are "Are you a pedophile like me? Click below for free child porn!" So I'm not holding my breath.
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Kinsfire
Verified {Redacted}
- Location
- New Jersey
Something they DIDN'T block on ff.net for selecting text? Once you're at a story, go to m.fanfiction.net, rather than the usual www.fanfiction.net. They didn't block it on the mobile side of things.
- Location
- Russia
Honestly, removing the selecting-text-block is as easy as changing a single flag in the page's code. Whether via one of the browser addons that lets you dynamically change the code of the page when it loads or by just going into Right Click => Inspect and then removing user-select: none; and nocopy; from everywhere.
- Pronouns
- he/him/his
I'd like to point out that at the time Taylor turned herself in to the PRT (the jump-off point for this story), Taylor's kill list was as follows:
- Attempted, but did not succeed, to kill members of the S9
- Coil, who had just taken over the city and tried to kill her repeatedly
- The Echidna fight, where everyone was going lethal on the evil clones and Taylor gave Sundancer the ok to put Noelle down despite a few hostages remaining
- Assisted in dumping Butcher XIV in Cherish's suicide zone
That's it. Highly alarming for a 16-year-old, but not piles of bodies by any means.
Yes, I do see the word 'equivalents' in your post.
- Attempted, but did not succeed, to kill members of the S9
- Coil, who had just taken over the city and tried to kill her repeatedly
- The Echidna fight, where everyone was going lethal on the evil clones and Taylor gave Sundancer the ok to put Noelle down despite a few hostages remaining
- Assisted in dumping Butcher XIV in Cherish's suicide zone
That's it. Highly alarming for a 16-year-old, but not piles of bodies by any means.
Alas, she couldn't import Darwin's Bark spiders if she wanted to; they were first documented in 2008.
Yes, I do see the word 'equivalents' in your post.
Mrs. Weasley is really starting to wear thin given her actions, always a pleasure to see Taylor take her down a peg. It's not paranoia if enemies really are out to get you and your allies are doing the bare minimum. Just because Taylor can't use a wand, doesn't mean she can more than make up for it with magically-enhanced items/weapons. Already looking forward to the outfits Taylor will make for herself and Harry, as well as Taylor talking to Moody again.
Typos/Suggestions: Ch. 13
Typos/Suggestions: Ch. 13
What did you mean here?
in Diagon Alley
to the Prophet (2 fixes)
semi-convincing
home, you obnoxious harridan
Side-Along
tether
dead-eyed
half-hearted
Weasley
Dark Tosser
dragon-hide
run-in with
mark schoolchildren
paused, obviously
Lich (2 fixes)
Malfoy's
look that Hermione
Knockturn Alley
decrepit-looking
Draco himself isn't that great a loss for the Death Eaters, but the Malfoy Fortune probably composes a significant percentage of the Death Eater war chest and political influence.
If Lucius and Draco are killed, who gets the Malfoy fortune? If Narcissa is still alive it goes to her, but otherwise does Belatrix get it? She's a convicted felon escaped from life imprisonment.
The Malfoy fortune is the real value of Draco.
Considering the lengths some adults are willing to go to to get teenagers to "stop arguing and do what they are told", I wouldn't be surprised if some wizards considered it.
Kinsfire
Verified {Redacted}
- Location
- New Jersey
I love the idea of Draco being killed in a manner that Snape has zero control over - like someone tripping him at the top of the stairs and he falls and breaks his neck. Somehow I think the reaction of the students in his class would be something like, "Never seen the curse be THAT active in taking out a teacher before..." (For the one or two who might have forgotten, Snape is under an Unbreakable Vow to protect Draco's life at the cost of his own if he fails.)
FullNothingness
Mostly DHMO.
It is worth considering that we are talking about a more old school aristocratic system here... Narcissa is not a Malfoy by birth, she just married into the family. It wouldn't be unexpected for her to be ineligible to inherit the Malfoy fortune let alone Bellatrix. I'd expect any siblings or cousins of Lucius would be first in line. Narcissa would probably just be entitled to a (fairly substantial) chunk of cash to live on for the rest of her life.
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