, I am not ignorant of the dangers that accompany the use of sarcasm on the internet, and since I feel that explicitly stating which parts of the following ramblings are meant to be sarcastic would completely ruin the desired effect, I will simply inform you in advance thatHPMOR has ruined my day *spoilers* · 6:12pm Feb 9th, 2014
I will try to keep the first several lines relatively mundane so that no one accidentally sees something about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality that they do not wish to. I am, in general, a tremendous fan of HPMOR, since I enjoy stories with intelligent characters acting intelligently, barring occasional emotional outbursts, of course, but recently a line has been crossed. In chapter 100, there exists the following passage, with the emoticons mirroring my expression as I read it:
Another unicorn lay on the ground, surrounded by a slowly widening pool of silver blood, the edge of the blood creeping across the ground like spilled mercury
. Her coat was purple
, like the color of the night sky
, her horn exactly the same twilight color as her skin
, her visible flank marked by a pink star-blotch surrounded by white patches
. The sight tore at Draco's heart, even more than the other unicorn because this one's eyes were staring glassily right at him
...
In other words, *ahem* THAT BASTARD KILLED TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!
and by "that bastard" I mean both Yudkowsky and Quirrell.
Anyway, some personal stuff happened this last week concerning important coronary arteries and grandparents, so while everything is fine at the moment, It has been an interesting week.
And when I first read it yesterday, it hadn't been more than fifteen minutes since the new episode had ended...
I feel precisely the same. I like the story on general principle, but oh man fuck Chapter 100 so hard. With a rake, in a place rakes don't go.
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, and Harry had better have some serious second thoughts about harvesting unicorns for their blood
. Being encased in solid tungsten and hurled into the Sun is too good for Quirrell, although I suspect that Celestia would, if not enjoy, appreciate the opportunity to avenge herself upon the murderer of Twilight Sparkle.
Quirrell is dead to me now