712th Friday Blog Roundup

There is a long history of bad guys with pets.  The Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak had Captain Cackle (who was like… head Berry Bird) and Skeletor had Panthor.  So I never gave a lot of thought to Voldemort and Nagini.  They were just two evil beings who loved hanging out with each other as well as killing Muggles and wizards.  But then everything changed with the new Fantastic Beasts movie…

Nagini, it turns out, is actually an Asian woman trapped in the body of a snake.  JK Rowling tweeted that she’s really a maledictus and posted Entertainment Weekly’s big reveal about this.  So… Voldemort kept an Asian woman… as a pet?  How would we feel if we found out the Berry Birds were really former boys who transformed due to a condition?  Would we feel differently about the Purple Pieman if we knew he was keeping all those transformed boys up on Porcupine Peak?

I’m withholding total judgement until I see the finished product and the way it’s presented in the film.  But on social media?  It looks awful.

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Stop procrastinating.  Go make your backups.  Don’t have regrets.

Seriously.  Stop what you’re doing for a moment.  It will take you fifteen minutes, tops.  But you will have peace of mind for days and days.  It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

South City Sadie is back with a new post that will resonate with a lot of people about why she stopped blogging after infertility.  Yes, yes, yes to all of it, AND I love this reason for why she has returned: “My blogging was raw, and it was honest, and it was the best writing I have ever done. I don’t want it to be the best that I will ever do.”  Here’s to always having the best yet to come.

Old Lady and No Baby has a none IF-related post that cracked me up because we also had a mouse incident with our twins.  Though mine did not help me go mouse hunting.  Her kids are really funny as well as the retelling of it.

Lastly, Searching for Our Silver Lining has multiple posts this week about an unfolding story at her son’s school.  Another child bit him, and it required a trip to the emergency room.  She writes about parenting after infertility: “One unforeseen side effect of infertility and multiple miscarriages is that I still don’t consider myself a true parent. I adore my kids and would do anything for them, but it doesn’t take much to make me feel like I’m over-reacting or that I don’t have as much authority as someone who could conceive without years of treatment.”  It’s about owning it and feeling like you’re the expert and all of the ways we communicate and make decisions stemming from that feeling.  It’s a thought-provoking post about changing the way you think.

The roundup to the Roundup: Not feeling comfortable with the new Fantastic Beasts movie.  Your weekly backup nudge.  And lots of great posts to read.  So what did you find this week?  Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between September 21st and September 28th) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week?  Read the original open thread post here.