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I think technically I'm not allowed to just post an a/n, but
while (name ERIN)
attitude ratherLazy;
and therefore I choose to abandon the rules. FFnet is actually very mean to me, as I have realized from all your kind reviews.
Part of it is just me being lazy, because I tend not to preview the chapters which could possibly get rid of all my dumb problems.
Part of it is that I, managing to be a newbie to this site (even though I joined, what, two years ago), still do not understand how their HTML works.
Feel free to come to my house and check out 'my documents', because I promise you I put translations in those little parentheses things that are kind of curvy... the buttons next to 'P'. Those. They're cute. But alas, they do not show up on FFnet because FFnet hates me.
SOOOOOO I will start using regular old boring parentheses and hopefully all will be well.
Any other helpful hints as to ffnet html? What can and can't be done? I've always had trouble with it.
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Julia - PSSSSSHHHHH! No one needs Elijah Woods, and that's where Mark Wahlberg would come in. He's way too cute to be a gardener. Oh, and yes, Spark notes, cliff notes, same thing. I think I might as well get them for LOTR as well, because I admit that while reading, I tended to skip the first paragraph of every chapter because 9 times out of 10 it was describing the scenery in a bunch of words I didn't understand or feel like looking up. I think that's also why I thought Helm's Deep was a valley that they all stood in and fired up at the orcs. In hindsight, I realized I'm kind of stupid.
TOTC was fine once you get past all the symbolism. When it referred to England it was interesting, but I never understood the difference between Monseigneur and Marquis, but I did cry at the end. Sigh.
RS - So now does FFnet not only like to delete my funky parentheses (I'm sure there's a real name for them somewhere), it likes to delete the extra spaces I put around the flashback to divide it. Stupid website. Reeeeeally stupid website. I'm sorry. God, I need to be more diligent. I really hate reading my own stuff. I don't know why, I just do. I'll skim through it before I upload it, but I sometimes miss stuff, such as not elaborating on Elladan and Elrohir's reactions more. But they're not gone from the story... I dunno, maybe one will be left behind. Poor him.
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My 'inspiration' is really interesting thus far. We're on page 45, 665 replies... tons of characters, and yet no romance still. It saddens me. But if there had been, I probably wouldn't have writing this, so that's some consolation.
So now it is time for me to sign off, partially because I have run out of things to say and don't have enough time to begin chapter 5, and partially because I'm going to a sleepover.. thing and a horse show tomorrow. I'll probably get started tomorrow night, but horse show mornings equal getting up at 4 am... we'll see.