#AND THEN THERE WERE THREE

[scarlettwriter91]

Chapter 13 has taken an unexpected turn and I need your guy's help to figure out what to do.

I can post early, probably this afternoon or in the morning at the latest, and you'll get a chapter that is quite a bit of fluff with the added bonus of "Snape has the flu and Harry helps take care of him." And the next chapter, likely next Wednesday, will get us back to our regularly scheduled drama, but won't involve the Draco plot.

Or, I can make this chapter incredibly long, post it on Friday, and then next week we will get back to Draco.

What do you think???

Also, have a sneak peak in which Harry threatens to sic McGonagall on Snape lol

"I do not need my thirteen-year-old son to play nurse maid, thank you very much." Harry glared. "I could always get Grandma." Snape narrowed his eyes. "You wouldn't dare." "Try me."

[cosmonautroger]

Genesis, And Then There Were Three, 1978

[cozycraftzbl]

And then there were three

[jt1674]

[frostbeees]

[mrwilliewonka]

Not that theres anything wrong with more commercial/pop music, but when I see Genesis snobs condemn And Then There Were Three as commercial "pop" garbage I genuinely wonder if we listened to the same album. Apart from Follow You Follow Me (which is a good song btw) I seriously don't understand how someone could come to that conclusion. I think it's just as proggy and ethereal as it's predecessor Wind & Wuthering.

[dustedmagazine]

Michael Chapman — And Then There Were Three (Lantern Heights)

Michael Chapman got framed as a folk musician, and if you relate culpability to association, it’s not hard to see why. He got his start performing in a folk club, and for most of his career he played solo guitar. He had plenty of blues licks in his bag, and told stories about weird nights with John Fahey. But in his own mind, he was not a folk musician at all, and records like And Then There Were Three, which has just been issued on two pieces of black vinyl after first being issued on CD in 2010, show how he realized his ambitions for a time, even when the resources he had to do so were starting to dwindle.

And Then There Were Three is a recording of a gig that Chapman played in Nottingham in 1977. At the time, he maintained a band, but the grind of steady touring in a depressed economy had shrunk its size to the number in the title. Chapman sang and played electric guitar, backed by Rod Clements (Lindisfarne, Jack The Lad) on electric bass and Keef Hartley (John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes) on drums. It represents, one suspects, a typical gig. The set comprises songs from Chapman’s albums up to that point, including “Dogs Got More Sense” from his then-current LP, The Man Who Hated Mornings, and several gems from the albums he made for Harvest in the late 1960s and early 1970s — “It Didn’t Work Out” from Rainmaker, “Among The Trees” and “In The Valley” from Window, and “Kodak Ghosts” from Fully Qualified Survivor. 

But while those Harvest albums set Chapman’s gruff confessionals within sometimes-epic settings by a team of contributors who were working out the ideas they would subsequently take to Elton John and the Spiders From Mars, the sound of this trio applies a chemistry honed by relentless gigging to meeting the demands of crowds who wanted this night to be their crazy Saturday, no matter what the calendar said. So, they turned it up and, in idiosyncratic but business-accomplishing fashion, rocked out. Flanging and echo effects enable Chapman’s guitar to occupy plenty of space without resorting to show-off note-spraying. Clements on the other hand, is busily assertive, flexing an ambition to let you now that he can carry the tune as well as the groove. Hartley’s drumming is unflinching in the face of open-ended forays, unfailingly crisp and business-like, and persuasively funky on an up-tempo “Sea Of Wine.” Chapman and company are a jam band, if jam bands had to play sets to purposeful pub crowds instead of people who had already cued up a choice year of the Dead that they were going to play in the car on the ride home. And the folk moves are limited to a high-octane jig-boogie, a joke at Steeleye Span’s expense, and a cover of Alfred Reed’s “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?” that has been retrofitted with a rubbery groove. 

This is a record of its time, which was on its way out. With disco leaning in on one side and punk on the other, the audience for idiosyncratic but effective boogie was shrinking. Chapman would soon scale back to solo performance, leaving recordings like this as reminders of days gone by.

Bill Meyer

[mrkoppa]

27 October 2022; 10:02pm | Hotel Room Desk Collage Laboratory: Sauk City; Sauk County, Wisconsin

Thought about starting with the Poplars in the Thames Valley by Alfred Parsons, but it was too big for the tiny format intended to do, so figured maybe go with one of three 6x9 boards pre-cut, but then heck why not all three? Paged through World Famous Paintings by Rockwell Kent and then there were three.

[andyprhatchett]

[scarlettwriter91]

New favorite line from chapter 8:

Harry exchanged looks with Ron before they both took seats at the end of the table, facing the adults. He wasn’t sure he liked how calm they all were. Normally, Snape would have already been standing and pacing in front of them by now.

“To be clear,” Snape said after a moment, “I wanted to ground you both on the spot and be done with it.”

“Me too,” said Molly.

And also:

Ron, clearly deciding that one of them should show some form of self preservation, said, “We’re sorry. It won’t happen again.”

Harry snapped his gaze to him. “I’m not sorry.”

[spitblaze]

I guess Chilchuck has brought us right back to 'adults who are short are child-coded and if you like them you're a pedophile' discourse huh

[valeriapryanikova]

This season, on Hermitcraft...

(speedpaint)

[cozycraftzbl]

And then there were three

[cairafea]

my favourite genre of seventeen is when they're straight up lying

ref:

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

[pongzters]