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Top three reasons why I like Metafic:
1. People here aren't stupid.
2. People here don't assume that I'm stupid.
3. When I post a comment like this, a reasonable portion of people who read it will know what I mean. Which is not quite the same as #1.

Ahh. I feel better now.

I bought a new fan for one of our PCs. It has the wonderful 'Intel approved board push pins' for fitting rather than the screws the old one had. I can't get it to fit and no one will tell me whether they are supposed to fit in ye olde screw holes. I've linked the fan below. Any one able to help?

Thanks

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Most of you know I'm on medication for depression. It’s helpful, after all, I haven't thought about harming myself for a while now. But it has its downsides. Some of them are the medical side-effects, the worst of which is feeling sick. The others are harder to define, but essentially they narrow the range of my emotions, great for stopping you falling into a deep dark pit, but the highs go as well. In short, life is grey, a dull monotonous grey.

Poor Mrs Potter, or, in my nightmares Mrs Weasley Potter.

I can cope with endless descriptions of that 'flowery scent'. I can, with a few perscitpion drugs, accept the 'hex first, ask questions later' temper. What I find unacceptable is the 'if I can't have Harry, I'm going to hook up with A New Dark Lord/someone who treats me like dirt because I'm so desperate/etc.

Ginny is a smart woman, after all, its why Harry loves her, right? So why does she lack any common sense in chosing partners? /rant.

I just saw a news snippet that Lucy Vodden died yesterday (Monday) at the age of 46. Just an ordinary person who unfortunately suffered from Lupus and didn't live an ordinary life. Those of us at this site, of a certain age, will be interested to know she was that "Lucy"; the friend Julian Lennon drew a picture of some fourty-odd years ago. John asked him what the picture was and he replied "it's Lucy, in the sky with diamonds."

I like using flashbacks. I find that they are a useful way of giving back story that helps the narrative move along. However, as a reader I'm not so big a fan. I've tried to analyse why this is so as it strikes me as a tad hypocritical to say one thing and do another.

Not a Brit phrase, I know, but in the sense of when you want to sit down and have a good read of a fic you like who do you pick. Mine is currently _kb_ , who is yours?

I've been wading through That Terrifying Momentum by Caleb Nova and to be honest I found it hard going. There are huge swathes (sometimes whole chapters) that could be edited out and not affect the story. That is if the author wanted it to be a HP story, which I'm guessing he doesn't care one way or another.

It made me think about how far can a fic go without it being actually part of the universe it claims to inhabit. A fic does't have to be Harry centric but making the main character an OC, I think, takes the whole thing too far.

This made the whole family giggle...

Harry watched her pile mashed potatoes, roast beef, chicken legs, peas, sweet potatoes and mint humbugs, among many other things.

10 points to the house of your choice if you can spot the error.

Here's what I'm debating. I have a two-sided coin right now in the form of a non-sequitur memory of Deasil's that is followed by the scene that follows the end of the last chapter, and then a small cliffhanger that follows those two.