the scoundrel pirate grumpy cat embarked on her quest -- modding the forums. it was a hard and valiantly fought mission, some backstabbing may have happened, but finally, she triumphed.

this is her story.

on modding: i'm modding and rereading some of the posts i made during battleship and just ,,, i don't remember some of them

on counting: fucking hell i also don't know how to count because i posted in the stranger things fandom topic that i love all four of them while talking about steve/robin/dustin

on modding 2: you have to wonder why i'm even rereading my own posts. that i made. me. who is a mod | not like there are around 10000 more posts made by other people i should be reading

on feeling very confused by the fact people edit their writing: i'm now on to reading about editing and feeling very much ?????? at what's said there | #eternalshame | seriously that thread is willlld

on suspicious past!taylor: and all the thread revivals and taylor's posts with proper capitalisation have me feeling suspicious about who that past taylor even was

on rapscallion: but this word is my favourite word of the day: rapscallion | i've moved on from old taylor | rapscallion | wow | what a word | it's describing a cat which makes it even better | lil black rapscallion

on fucking fantastic fic ideas: ok but this is fucking gold: I have the germ of an idea about Florean Fortescue, magical history buff and Radical Political Activist. He was never actually kidnapped by death-eaters - instead, he's invented a prototype time-turner and travelled back in time to assassinate Salazar Slytherin and stop anti-muggleborn bigotry at the root.

on uhhhhh i was not prepared for this: excuse me: the Slughorn smut?

on questionable writing techniques: oh wow how can one read this i'd go mad: There aren't any quotation marks used in the novel | a published novel!! | normal people apparently

on poop: i have now read more about someone's poop than i ever wanted to | idk it's some kid/parent topic | i closed it quickly

on questionable transfiguration ethics: i'm now imagining roasting and eating a pin cushion with the consciousness of a porcupine who is scared of me and

on aphoride aka laura the person who i see as very scholarly and lawyery for some reason: seeing laura write 'coz' had me questioning everything i thought i knew about her

on kris' stupid non existent logic: i thought the alienist is about aliens and now i feel betrayed

an explanation for confused souls:

there was a...big-ish modding gap so today i modded which means checking/reading all the posts since the last time someone modded. the last time someone modded was before battleship: hogwarts started. when battleship: hogwarts started the forums exploded. i fried my own brain modding tonight. these are the fun things i found out while modding and i felt the need to live react to most of the ones i posted here in a staff chat on discord and then felt the need to share this with the rest of the world.

i might be forgetting someone but people who inspired these were (in order of appearance):
@RogueSlytherin (editing???how?? and normal people????)
@down-in-flames (still suspicious.)
@Hawksquill(i love your cats okay. the rapscallion in particular)
@tinyporcelainehorses (pls write the florean fortescue fic i need that in my life)
@Professor McGonagall (slughorn smut? again, i was not prepared but i laughed loudly)
@prideofprewett (i almost choked on my coffee while reading the things you do as a parent + you crushed my dreams when i read the alienist is not in fact about aliens)
@VaguelyCreativeName (i suffered an existential crisis reading the transfiguration topic)
@Aphoride (cuz?? i don't know why i'm shocked i really don't i'm sorry)

now you all know how much of a dumpster fire i really am