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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. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-03 05:09 am (UTC)My poor dog got skunked hard once-- skunk was living under my MIL's deck, dog did not know any better and thought she might chase the skunk (city dog,ignorant of skunks,) Sunk got her in the face from about a foot away! So, middle of the night bonding experience with my MIL, some dish soap, a hose and a whole lot of V8 juice...
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Date: 2012-09-04 01:18 am (UTC)