Hello again, my good ladies and gentlemen. I hope to find you well on this pleasant spring evening.

I'm aware that many of my followers are fans of Harry Potter. For them, I got a cool song. Poor Unfortunate Souls, by way of Dolores Umbridge.

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Good afternoon, my good ladies and gentlemen.

Just a quick reminder, for the benefit of anybody who might be interested: the first contest has five days left to run.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen. I hope to find you well.

This is a follow up to my previous blog, and, owing to the interest expressed by a good number of people, I have decided to go through with the both the contest and the prompt.

As such, I am proud to launch the Rare Story Prompts Group.

Needless to say, members are welcome.

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Good evening to all my lovely readers on this passable spring evening. Hope to find you full of vim and vigor.

I'm not sure I have the follower count to pull this off, but I would like to propose a short contest series, if there is enough interest, specifically concerning story types which are both difficult to pull off and rare in the fandom.

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Hello to you all, my good ladies and gentlemen. I hope to find you all in fine fighting shape.

I should tell you, my dear ladies and gentlemen, that I have been reading fanfiction, and fiction in general, for quite a long time. In that time, I've seen quite a few trends come and go; and some of these, needless to say, really needed to have their throats crushed at birth.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen on this fine Spring afternoon.

Today I present a lesson to would-be reviewers, journalists and commentators courtesy of The Sun newspaper. Specifically, a lesson on what not to do.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen. I hope to find you in a most awesome and splendid state of being.

I've just been going through my group threads and some thoughts occurred to me:

Can a group with three thousand five hundred members be considered as a failure? When and why might a group be deemed to have failed? What, when it comes down to it, do we want our groups to be?

Let us discuss the matter together.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen. I the evening finds you well.

My local area leaves a little to be desired in many respects. Manchester, for all it's strong suits, it not noted for its fine weather. And that's when Siberia isn't in the mood for a week long stay in old Blighty.

Still, we aren't completely without cool things. Within a ten minute drive from my house is the largest and greatest retro arcade in Europe, and one of the largest in the world.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen, on this thoroughly miserable and rainy Thursday evening.

Presented with little additional commentary, a fine rebuttal to anyone who believes science to be joyless and without soul.

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It's been quite a while since I last posted one of these, but here we are again. I might have been tempted to review this fic, rather than recommend, but it's early days yet. For now though, I have a recommendation, my good ladies and gentlemen.

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