I have recently been rereading Royal Ward by Catstaff, a Harry Potter fanfiction where a 9-year-old Harry comes to the attention of the Crown by defending the young Princes Harry and William from Dudley on a playground without knowing who they were.  The last few chapters of the story as of this date have been set during the period where Charles and Diana's marriage falls apart, and as a side effect of Harry being the titular Royal Ward, Princess Diana and Sirius Black know and are very clearly starting to gravitate toward each other. 

Now Diana/Sirius has to be one of the most unusual pairings I've ever come across in fanfiction, and probably unique to this particular story.  Thinking about it, I got to wondering -- what other really different/unique pairings are there out there in the various fandoms?  I don't mean crack pairings (even though I've put Sirius/Diana on that page at ATT).  I'm wondering about singularly unexpected pairs which still make sense in context.  Tell me what you've come across!

(Technically this belongs in the "Forums" forum, but I'm betting more of you will see it here.)

If you've ever posted a story (or anything else of reasonable size) to the forums while they were still on ezBoard/Yuku, you may want to find your post(s) and replace them with a clean archive copy of the work.  One of the most annoying things that Crapatalk did when it converted the boards to its own system was it mangled big stories.  And not consistently, either -- as I think I've mentioned before, it seemed to have about four or five different mangle modes.  For instance -- Rev Dark?  All the Thibor  stuff I've come across in the last week or so has had all its quote marks removed.  Why?  Who knows?  Maybe they were bad for Crapatalk's business model.

Line wrap issues seem to be the most common symptom of Crapatalk conversion, but lots of other things can and have happened to big posts.  I've been cleaning things up as much as I can through SQL, but at some point I have to throw my hands up and turn the problem back over to you guys.  This is that point.

Sorry to foist this on you.

A simple Google search to get a bit more background on Tapatalk led me to their Facebook page. And boy, are people not happy with them about Yuku.  We're far from the only community who felt like they got savaged by Crapatalk's handling of the changeover.  This is a fairly typical post:

Quote:Max Beeson  Hey tapatwat, you useless bunch of moronic flogs, when are you going to fix that monumental fuck up you made of the yuku forums??? What you lot of brain dead fuckwits have done to those forums is bordering on criminal.
July 24 at 6:44am

A week from today, for a week -- September 22 through 29, 2017.  And we're going to Florida.  (Orlando area, which is in back in working order already.)  I'll be bringing my tablet, so I'll be able to check in at least once in a while.

The announcement made just in case you haven't checked out the Calendar feature (which is up there in the upper right corner under the search box).

I just imported the last six posts (including one new thread) that had slipped into the old forums at the last minute.  

We're really and truly done.

Much as I'd like to stay with Netcarrier, who's been my host for years, I'm going to need to change hosts if I'm to get SSL support.  (I have to see what I can do to keep my and Peggy's email addresses, which are through Netcarrier.  Too many people know us at the Eclipse.net addresses to change them.)

Anyway, my research has recently led me to phpwebhosting.com, which seems to be just about ideal in many ways for my needs and yours.  I wanted to know if anyone here knew anything about them and/or had opinions about them.

MySQL said:

I thought I'd seen this issue mentioned before (lost in the transfer when you reset the thread index Bob?) but I can't find it at the moment.

Anyway, I was playing with the Theme selection while NOT logged in and selected the Simple theme.  Then I found that the theme selector wasn't there any more.

I got to the previous theme by hitting back.  However I then backed to the Main page then came back in, but the theme was still Simple.  I'm assuming it is because it was the last theme I had selected.

Logging in to report this, my logged in theme is the default (SanFelix?).

So, I guess the problem is the Simple theme doesn't have the theme selector available.

Also, selecting the SanFelix theme to make sure reset the theme when I logged out.

Found You.

Anywho,

I used to be manytales00. I still tend to post as unspeakable Eldrich Horror, that likes play as a Limbless Blue Kitty, with telekinetic abilities, act as a Ship's Cat, and part time Gunner.

Once I figure out how to edit my avatar to proper size, I'll put it in.

This past Saturday morning, my Dad had severe abdominal pains, and whenever he tried to urinate, it was quite painful and there was blood in the urine. He was sent to the hospital, and scans found that one of his kidneys has a cancerous lump the size of a fist in it. His urinary troubles were caused by a blood clot that had come loose, and after several attempts to flush it out at home he went back into the hospital, where it was successfully flushed out.

The cancer is apparently at least at Stage 2; however, the scans also picked up a spot on one of his lungs. This isn't actually an uncommon occurrence where I live due to allergies (and so it may be simply unrelated), but it's also possible that the cancer may have metastasized there, indicating it's at Stage 3. We're hoping it's the former, but we won't know for sure until we get back and subsequent test results related to it.

This came as quite a shock to all of us (Dad most especially), even more so since this mess started only a few days before his 58th birthday.

However, since (as mentioned) the cancer doesn't seem to be terminal, there's still plenty of hope for him. The current plan is to have the affected kidney removed within a week or so (give or take, depending on any subsequent changes in his condition); depending on the state of the cancer, it may be possible that he'll be completely done with it after the operation and thus might not have to have any subsequent treatments done (knock on wood!).

Of course, Dad is a hard-driven man, which is how he's become quite successful (he currently runs his own financial planning business); given this, it's rather fortunate that his work has been in a slow period that is likely to continue for some time, as he'll basically be forced to not move much for the next several weeks.

We've been trying to convince him (quite well, thankfully) that he can make it, as some people have survived worse cancers, and he--we--can make it too.

I ask of you to keep him in your thoughts. If you're of a religious persuasion, please say a prayer for him. And regardless of your religious/non-religious leanings, please offer some kind messages for him. I intend to post this not only here, but also several other forums of which I am a member, and I also want to show him these threads so as to let him know that, if even complete strangers (to him, anyway) can offer moral support, then he can certainly make it.

Thank you all.