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edenfalling425 words tonight, for a new total of 5,275. Got through the Ginny-and-Daphne conversation, and Ginny has headed off along the train to find her brothers. Yay progress!
This scene is annoying because I need to lay groundwork for Ginny and Daphne to resolve their enmity sometime in the next couple years, but I also don't want to make either of them back down or suddenly become friends. They dislike each other for perfectly valid reasons -- the start of their fight was stupid on both sides, but they were both complicit in escalating it, and even Ginny's attempt to apologize and call a truce earlier in this chapter was pretty antagonistic -- and they are both proud and stubborn as hell. But Daphne's not a bad person, and they have a mutual connection via Apple, and recapitulating Harry's petty rivalry with Draco Malfoy would be narratively boring... and also the importance of interpersonal connections is a theme I've been harping on all through this story, so I'm trying to strike a balance between potential for future friendship (which would probably always be a little prickly and based on one-upping each other) and current animosity and need to save face.
Bleh, people. Why so complicated?
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As I walked home from work tonight, I thought I smelled skunk in the air and figured some dog had had an unfortunate encounter. These things happen!
Half a block later, a skunk -- presumably the same skunk in question -- scurried across the street in front of me and vanished into some shrubbery beside the sidewalk. I waited a couple seconds, then made sure to make a sort of half-circle around the place it had disappeared so as to avoid startling it.
Making a skunk feel threatened is a BAD IDEA. Just saying. :-)
This scene is annoying because I need to lay groundwork for Ginny and Daphne to resolve their enmity sometime in the next couple years, but I also don't want to make either of them back down or suddenly become friends. They dislike each other for perfectly valid reasons -- the start of their fight was stupid on both sides, but they were both complicit in escalating it, and even Ginny's attempt to apologize and call a truce earlier in this chapter was pretty antagonistic -- and they are both proud and stubborn as hell. But Daphne's not a bad person, and they have a mutual connection via Apple, and recapitulating Harry's petty rivalry with Draco Malfoy would be narratively boring... and also the importance of interpersonal connections is a theme I've been harping on all through this story, so I'm trying to strike a balance between potential for future friendship (which would probably always be a little prickly and based on one-upping each other) and current animosity and need to save face.
Bleh, people. Why so complicated?
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As I walked home from work tonight, I thought I smelled skunk in the air and figured some dog had had an unfortunate encounter. These things happen!
Half a block later, a skunk -- presumably the same skunk in question -- scurried across the street in front of me and vanished into some shrubbery beside the sidewalk. I waited a couple seconds, then made sure to make a sort of half-circle around the place it had disappeared so as to avoid startling it.
Making a skunk feel threatened is a BAD IDEA. Just saying. :-)
