Fan History organizational tree: Harry Potter [11/10/2009 @ 4:23pm] hogwarts [partly_bouncy] I am crossposting this here because we'd love additional feedback from the Harry Potter community regarding our organizational patterns and because we thought that people might find the patterns themselves interesting in terms of what they say about how people inside and outside the fandom conceptualize the community. During the past few days, we’ve been working on trying to visualize our organizational patterns on Fan History in order to understand our own patterns, how we conceptualize fandom, to check for organizational consistency, create tools to help users understand our organizational patterns, to identify areas where we lack stub content. This one is about Harry Potter. Click on the image to view it full size. ( Mind map and some commentary ) Our character and pairing structure was taken apart at one point, with articles removed from them. There is the whole question of if we should restore that and put the articles back into the subcategories and restore that. Some like Draco/Hermione have a lot of content that could go in them including stories around the ship, etc. Having that structure existing just makes it easier to navigate and conceptualize in my opinion. If you specifically find that Snape/Harry LiveJournal community, than it helps to have that sorted if we don't have an article list of Snape/Harry LiveJournal communities. The Harry Potter fandom also seems to be structured around pairings, characters and houses. The community doesn't necessarily have the emphasis on a coherent community identity. Thus, it seems logical to me to structure the fandom more around these articles and rebuild them that way as a history of the fandom would be much more accurate if told from that perspective. ( More discussion on organization ) Any Regrets I’ve Missed?

NPCing [11/08/2009 @ 5:27pm] br_ooc [izunami] [ mood | blah ] So I'm now running two for two on not finishing an OC round.  I'm dropping Kana.  I've been debating doing this for quite some time now but hoped I'd be able to push through it with my next post.  The problem being for me is that every time I open that post, I hate what I've written and I don't want to finish it because in all honesty...this round just isn't fun for me anymore.   I'm still going to be reading and voting so kick some butt guys.  Give her a good death for me. (10 ) Any Regrets I’ve Missed?

[11/08/2009 @ 4:25pm] katiroth ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (1 ) Any Regrets I’ve Missed?

[11/08/2009 @ 1:00am] hogwarts [amazingtime] I'm assuming everyone in this community has read HP like 4 or 5 times at least, like I have, lol. So, I have a question. In Order of the Phoenix, when Dumbledore and Voldemort are dueling, I remember Dumbledore casting a spell so strong Voldemort had to protect himself with something (can't remember what it was) and when the spell hit the object it made a weird sound. Does anyone know what this spell was? I've been looking for info on that but I've never found anything ): (2 ) Any Regrets I’ve Missed?

HARRY POTTER HOODIES [11/07/2009 @ 1:29am] hogwarts [livezihuatanejo] Hi everyone! Hope I'm permitted to post this here... if not, I'll remove it and I'm sorry! I've gotten into making HP-inspired hoodies like this one, first for family, and then through commission, and I was wondering if anyone here might be interested. (I've done the other 3 houses in addition to Ravenclaw, and a general Hogwarts one. Working on a Beauxbatons one currently.) http://www.fictionfashion.net =) (7 ) Any Regrets I’ve Missed?

NPC [11/02/2009 @ 5:22pm] br_ooc [guitarfoz] As I'm sure people have noticed, I haven't been around much. Senior design, NSF stuff, and other things of a collegy nature have been consuming all my time voraciously. Regrettably, I must NPC Akimitchi Tsurikan. Now y'all take good care of him, ya hear? :-)  Any Regrets I’ve Missed?

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