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2011-09-26 11:20 pm

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2

Well, they certainly packed that half full of action!

I finally went and saw it with the sistren, and naturally B2 grumbled about the changes between the book and the movie. (She always does.) But I'm glad I went and saw it on the big screen and with the sistren. (Even if they have a bad habit of whispering way too loudly in the quiet parts.)

...Okay, and now I have this hankering for Harry Potter: Next Gen fic. *facepalms*
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2008-02-26 12:48 pm

Harry Potter and RPF

Harry Potter: It Makes You Gay (a vid of Daniel Radcliffe accepting an award)

And some thoughts on RPF from a discussion about how Daniel Radcliffe/Emma Watson ≠ Harry/Hermione here.
Personally, shipping real people baffles me. Why celebrities? Why not your postal carrier and your next door neighbor? Because really? It's the same damn thing. Real people with real lives who are absolutely not characters from books, movies, and television and whose real lives have no impact what-so-ever on those books, movies, or shows.

I may lead a dull life, but if it ever gets so bad that rooting for actors to get together in order to validate my shipping preferences, I'll go out and buy a pet.
Amen to that. (Okay, except about the pet. I already have a pet.)
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2007-08-05 07:31 am

HP: DH pics

Alli? Kels? You'll love these (if you haven't already seen them around):

[livejournal.com profile] buttfacemakani's drawings for DH.

plot spoilers beneath the cut )
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2007-07-26 10:55 pm

HP fic recs

All short and sweet, all contain non-major-plot spoilers for Deathly Hallows:

Charmed Waffles And Beyond by [livejournal.com profile] imaginary_iby - Remus/Tonks

We Made It! by [livejournal.com profile] imaginary_iby - Remus/Tonks

Pointless by [livejournal.com profile] fernwithy
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2007-07-22 08:42 pm

actual thoughts on Deathly Hallows

I loved it!

It will never be as loved as my favourite of the books, Prisoner of Azkaban, but it's still a great ending to the series.

spoilers beneath )

I'm not sure how much wank there'll be: part of the wankiness after Half-Blood Prince was that there was still one volume to go - nothing was set in stone. (And even if it was, stone can be broken!)

But now, and with the epilogue, it's a lot more difficult for people to go off their wank about it.

*goes back and reads HBP again*
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2007-07-21 04:12 pm

HP: Deathly Hallows - finished

600 pages, about 5 hours frantic reading for me. :)

I thought it was a good ending to the series. (ie. "Wow...")

On the whole, I enjoyed the story, the storytelling, the way she tied things up. Okay, so maybe the epilogue was a bit much. (Personal opinion.)

JKR's come a long way in ten years as a writer, and obviously that brief stint without an editor during her writing of Order Of The Phoenix has been duly rectified.

If anyone wants to discuss spoilers when they've finished, go for it. I'm all up for being spammitied and hijacked on the discussion front!

ETA: Harry Potter And The Book Disguises: no spoilers, just a bunch of book jackets for those who might be ashamed of being caught reading the HP books in public...
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2007-07-17 10:04 pm

warning of HP:DH spoilers

Someone's photographed every page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from beginning to end and put it up on torrents.

If you want to remain unspoiled, I suggest you be very sure that the people and communities on your reading f-list are thoughtful of spoilers, because sooner or later, someone's going to post spoilers in a public place just to be a wanker.

I'm still hoping to remain unspoilered when I read the book on Saturday (9am handout - for once, timezones rock!) but if I have to take a watergun along to shoot any brat who gets their book and starts yelling out spoilers, I will!
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2006-09-14 09:21 am

Pride And Prejudice...Harry Potter Style!

Found this over on one of the JournalFen comms:

Pride And Prejudice - Harry Potter Style

And The Original Trailer (if you want to watch Knightley and McFadyen go at it).

*giggles madly*
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2006-08-13 09:22 pm

the plagiarism debacle of HP and Cassie Claire

Most of you probably don't have the faintest idea what I'm talking about. That's okay.

If you have time, then the long version is here at Bad Penny.

If you don't have time, then the short version is: the biggest and most well-known BNF of Harry Potter fandom stole whole passages from the books of published authors, as well as dialogue quotations from TV shows, and put them into her own work. Then, when people complimented her on her marvellous writing skills and witty dialogue, she accepted the praise as though it was her due.

She used her fame to gain a writing contract with a publishing house and is presently engaged in publishing a young adult fantasy novel under what is essentially her fandom name, minus an 'I'.

GAH: this gets long - when doesn't it? )

the short version )
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2006-08-06 07:02 pm

various recs

I was checking out the [livejournal.com profile] glockart community (which I tend to go without checking for looooong periods of time, then try to madly catch up on).

[livejournal.com profile] gwemegil, you might like this pic of Batgirl.

R/Hr and H/G fen might like the fic "Believe That Magic Works by [livejournal.com profile] schocolate (10 chapters, the author's version of "the Horcrux Hunt")

I strongly recommend The Drawbles Meme, in particular the Harry Potter/Les Miserables, Firefly/archery, Supernatural/X-Files, Red Dwarf/Beatles, Naruto/Calvin&Hobbes, Phedre no Delaunay, and Draco/Drusilla bondage...

And [livejournal.com profile] pixiesio and [livejournal.com profile] madjm wrote me SGA fic! Choices (Sio) and Just A Guy (Jamie).

*SMOOCHES*

Love you guys.
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2005-09-16 11:20 pm

first paragraph meme VI

Name a pairing or character (that I'm familiar with, in a fandom I'm familiar with) and I will write the first paragraph or segment of a story for it.

Nearly done them all. The writing helps. The feedback helps more.

For [livejournal.com profile] gate_girl and also [livejournal.com profile] alliesings two stories in one:
HP: Harry/Ginny, Luna/anyone )
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2005-08-25 02:01 am

meme reply III

Name a pairing or character (that I'm familiar with, in a fandom I'm familiar with) and I will write the first paragraph or segment of a story for it.

For [livejournal.com profile] coltsbane (II): Mini!WW/Mini!Bats )

For [livejournal.com profile] elaran and [livejournal.com profile] ssmith_12: Sam/Jack )

For [livejournal.com profile] elaran (II): Hermione and Blaise )

Still going!
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2005-08-24 10:39 am

meme reply II

Name a pairing or character (that I'm familiar with, in a fandom I'm familiar with) and I will write the first paragraph or segment of a story for it.

For [livejournal.com profile] coltsbane: X-Men: Scott Summers/Jean Grey )


For [livejournal.com profile] arabel: HP: Remus/Tonks )


For [livejournal.com profile] dannylurks: SGA: McKay/Weir )

Still working on the others!
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2005-07-20 05:55 pm

update from Hitchin

A few quiet days, mostly spent netsurfing and making some icons. Nothing special.

In case you've been under a rock, the HP fandom has gone batshit insane over Half-Blood Prince. Observe the attendant iconage.

I'm not kidding here, this insanity comes complete with abuse, letter-writing campaigns, and wails, moans, rants, and gnashes of despair. Think 'Meridian' times one hundred. Yes. That bad.

I also have two HP icons that I made while I was thinking on other things.

not actually spoilery )

Artwork in the second one is by [livejournal.com profile] caladan_dd.

Otherwise, I am finding it very difficult to write right now. Depression and lethargy for starters. And the fact that I'm no longer surrounded by people from a specific fandom, which tends to egg me on.

I'm worried about posting too much and boring the pants off people. And considering that several of you keep up with my writing journal, I really don't want to spam the living daylights out of you. The downside of an LJ: being considerate of others' feelings.

Right now, I am in desperate need of someone to prod my muse - particularly with the original fic. I have people who can prod with SG-1, and people who can prod with SGA. Nobody's yet managed to really inspire me to BSG, Dr. Who, or House, and I haven't touched HP or JL in a while and don't really plan to either.

Yanno, more than anything else, I miss the feeling of having a story grip me by the throat and refuse to let go until it's done. It would be nice to have that again.

At the start of the year, one of my year's writing goals was to have a novel written by Christmas and we're into the second half of the year, so I'd better get a move on. I have the story ideas, I'm just feeling bleh.

Is there a pill you can take to 'un-bleh' yourself?
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2005-07-18 11:51 am

Review: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

Written for the Sugar Quill forums, contains spoilers and my own person opinion on the book and the events within. Comments welcome.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Spoilers )
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2005-07-16 03:10 pm

Half-Blood Prince post

Interesting. Very interesting.

I sauntered out and bought a copy this morning, then read it in about five hours. Yes, I read way too fast for my own good.

Unspoiler: I prefer this story to OotP, which just seemed way too over-dramatic. And JKR definitely overused the capslock.

spoilers for Half-Blood Prince )

Definitely interesting.

Am up for discussion on HBP by all and sundry.
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2005-02-09 10:00 pm

KUNG HEY FAAT CHOY!

(a.k.a. "Happy Chinese New Year!")

And, for Chinese New Year, a fanfic that's even related to things Chinese!

FANDOM: Harry Potter
TITLE: Red String
AUTHOR: Sel
SUMMARY: They'd never been 'ordinary'.
RATING: PG-13
PAIRING: Harry/Luna

I'm tempted to dedicate this to [livejournal.com profile] unanon, but I think she might have been looking for badfic. I'm kinda hoping that this does not apply.

Red String )