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Friday, November 20th, 2009
manticoran	9:42p	Er. Having seen a spoiler for the episode as a comment in a journal where I did not expect to see Supernatural commentary, and having not seen last night's episode yet, I have a really spoilery question for those of you who have seen it: ( Major spoilers for last night's SPN ) For those who may be wondering, I have made it to the hotel for tonight, having survived the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I will probably collapse soon. Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
dreamer_marie	11:16p	Meme time of Doom... From virginia_bell: Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile" and I will respond by asking you five questions that satisfy my curiosity. Update your journal with the answers to the questions, including this in the post. 1. When did you realise definitively that science was what you wanted to study? There was no realisation involved. I was already taking the scientific path in High School, so I figured, what the hell, let's just continue this way. The problem was that I liked everything at school. Science was something I knew would please my parents, so I just went along with it. To this day, I'm still not sure if it was the right decision (or non-decision, really). I like research, I like science and I can get excited about projects, but so far I don't think I've found the place where I would most like to do it. 2. Two Harry Potter characters: one to accompany to you a desert island, the other to push off a cliff. Who are they? I wouldn't mind pushing Draco or Dudley off a cliff. I have a special place in my heart for bullies - the place where I put people I absolutely loathe. Who would I take with me to a desert island? Ron would be a good choice, or Dumbledore. I think both would be fun to be with (maybe they're the same person! Oh, nevermind, J.K.R. nixed that idea ages ago...) 3. What is your favourite flavour of ice cream? If there ever was an important question, this is it. Ice cream is serious business, and of course I've spent a lot of time thinking about my favourite flavour (by the way, Virginia, way to show off that you're in Oxford now. Smooth...). I can therefore assert with absolute confidence that the only way to eat ice cream is with two flavours: mint and chocolate. And if you're ever in Pest, go to Chez Gerbeaud. They make the waffle for the cone in front of you and it's heavenly. 4. I recall that you posted a lot of about U.S. politics for a time, so, at the risk of inspiring a rant or two, do you think that Sarah Palin will run for president in 2012? Right now, I'm a little burnt out on Sarah Palin. I've started cyber stalking Le Monde, lately, so now I reserve all my hatred for Nicolas Sarkozy and his ilk. Sarah Palin? I'm sure she would like to run, but I don't think that she will make it past the primaries. I think the Republican strategy is to have a serious paternalistic figure as the official candidate to reassure moderates, but to allow all kinds of crazies in the primaries in order to attract the crazypants. That way, they can cover the bases from Right Wing crazy to paternalistic and moderate without having to resort to candidates with outright Multiple Personality Disorder. There is no way in hell they will let Sarah Palin run, unless the Democrats promise to nominate Mike Gravel on their side. 5. If you could elope with one fictional character, who would it be? It's not the idea of elopement I have a problem with. I'm all for it. Just the idea of organizing a wedding makes me itch to join a convent. But most fictional characters I have a crush on are madly in love with someone equally fictional and I quite them that way. But there are a number of quite sexy, single characters out there who I wouldn't mind going for a drink with and maybe, if things go well, elope with: Colonel Fitzwilliam, Sirius Black, Wallace Fennel, Weevil, Lord Vetinari, any character ever played by Johnny Depp... Does that cover the question? (Comment on this)
fandom_wank [ bobafeis ]	2:44a	We don't actually know if this is plagiarism wank, unless someone out there is an internets lawyer Here's some Project Runway plagiarism wank to go with the lovely vanity pub and author wank. I hope it goes without saying that there might be a spoiler or two for the finale, but I'll say it anyway: There are spoilers for the finale in this post. Project Runway "villain" and finalist Irina had a shirt in her final Bryant Park collection that has all the reasons she loves New York written on it. Oh, wait. Those aren't the reasons she loves New York, those are the reasons that someone who wrote a famous New York Magazine article loves New York. And this is the same girl who was going to feature Coney Conney Island artwork in the collection until she was told that it would be copyright infringement? And NY Mag says that she didn't ask permission? And I don't even have to tell you that this isn't going to end well, do I? And then ( spoileriffic things happen! And so does wank. ) (76 Comments |Comment on this)
draconic_voices	12:11a	Supernatural 510: Abandon All Hope Why don't I have a Jo icon? ( a slightly tidied up and expanded (although, um, there is swearing) posting of my twitter feed immediately after tonight's episode ) Current Mood: cranky (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
fandom_wank [ jkefka ]	7:54p	Harlequin vanity bodice-ripping wank! (Even more awesome than it sounds) Hang on to your hats, kids, this one's a doozy in several parts. To start off, you might want to catch up on agilebrit's clairvoyantwank writeup. Clairvoyant indeed! To sum up, romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises teamed up with a publisher called ASI solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity press. Romance Writers of America promptly revoked Harlequin's "recognized publisher" status. And now for a wank in several parts, involving a goodly number of awesome people in addition to a wanking Cast of Thousands (tm): ( Part 1: PubRants ) ( Part deux: various forums ) ( Part Three: SBTB, and Nora Fucking Roberts ) ( Part the last: The NEW YORKER?! ) And finally, THIS JUST IN from PubRants. Watch that post for further fappery developments! Notably, Harlequin has decided to dissociate the "Harlequin" name from their vanity publishing rig in response to the RWA slamming them, and the MWA has weighed in. ETA: And the wank has matured nicely! Here's a couple comments of note: Anon #1, Anon #2, "Harlequin, were not stupid" [sic]. And here come the ETAS! #1: SFWA tweets a heads-up, and the glorious katamari of wank rolls on! #2: Coutesy of magnolia_mama, Lee Goldberg drops his two cents from the MWA soapbox. In a shocking turn of events, he seems to be making a cogent, reasonable argument. My world is rocked. #3: annathepiper links us to SFWA's statement, which is possibly the strongest yet! For a snippet: ...Further, SFWA believes that work published with Harlequin Horizons may injure writing careers by associating authors’ names with small sales levels reflected by the imprint’s lack of distribution, as well as its emphasis upon income received from writers and not readers....Until such time as Harlequin changes course, and returns to a model of legitimately working with authors instead of charging authors for publishing services, SFWA has no choice but to be absolutely clear that NO titles from ANY Harlequin imprint will be counted as qualifying for membership in SFWA. Further, Harlequin should be on notice that while the rules of our annual Nebula Award do not expressly prohibit self-published titles from winning, it is highly unlikely that our membership would ever nominate or vote for a work that was published in this manner....SFWA does not believe that changing the name of the imprint, or in some other way attempting to disguise the relationship to Harlequin, changes the intention, and calls on Harlequin to do the right thing by immediately discontinuing this imprint and returning to doing business as an advance and royalty paying publisher. Count on the pew-pew lasers genre to bring the burn! #4: Found by pariforma, someone named Jackie Kessler has an excellent (and amusing) summary of the whole mess on their blog. The pricing breakdown (with reference links to the Harlequin price-sheets themselves) is particularly well-done. #5, which should be like #3 but I missed it the first time: via lady_ganesh, Mr. Scalzi has spoken. Does anyone else smell something...burning? ( Too Hot (and big) For Your Flist ) Mmm, PR barbecue. As a bonus, there's a lovely herd of teal deer in the comments, including some truly lovely wanking by one Diana Peterfreund and a few others. Scroll on through, it's a good time. Blooper reel: We, uh, may have played a part in crashing SBTB for a while there. please don't kill meeeee #6: Zoe Winters continues her wanking in the comments of an article at the Examiner. Thanks dreamworld! (197 Comments |Comment on this)
the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ]	6:59p	Draco is not a bully! terri_testing made those comments 3 months ago, but they were never posted here, so I decided to share them. ( Read more ) (119 Comments |Comment on this)
ajatshatru	2:23p	'I'm so depressed' ... ... The bad part of being depressed - for me, that is - is that when those words - 'I'm so depressed !' - are in my mind, I actually hear them in my head as they are said by Marvin - voiced by Alan Rickman --- which makes me burst out into giggles. There is something hugely wrong with this scenario ... ... Current Mood: I'm so depressed (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
the_hms_stfu [ quantumreality ]	8:02p	More on Horcruxes The Harrycrux! (I'm totally imagining a little "Ta-DA!" sound after that. :P ) The part that brought massive lulz was lilithisbitter being all "I know Latin better than JKR, and I will now show it off": Maybe because it's an imperfect Horcrux versus the deliberate Horcruces (Rowling fails at latin, Horcruces is the proper way to render the plural versus Horcruxes that she wrote it as) that Voldemort put in other objects. It's badly put together and probably borderline falling apart with accidently leaks versus the seeming deliberate evil of the others. LISTEN UP, LADY. The vast majority of people who read the books will never give a flying hoot about Latin conjugations or Latin pluralizations in the first friggin' place. Also, IMO, "Horcruxes" is a little more euphonious in the HBP and DH than "Horcruces". How do you even say that? "Hor-kroo-ses" and "Hor-kroo-kes" both sound... uh, not so great. I mean, is there really no end to the number of idiotic little nits these people will pick to try and make themselves look good at the expense of the author who went to all the trouble of creating the fandom they insist on wanking in? Uh, sorry. *mops up* Lil too much tl;dr there, folks. :) ETA: OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL DOING THE STUPID HORCRUCES THING NOW. This is at once headdesk-worthy and at the same time a rather revealing insight into just how bad the groupthink is over there. (39 Comments |Comment on this)
researchgrrrl	10:47p	tomorrow's forecast: hopeful but exhausting Kelly Services called to let me know that the potential gig has been made manifest. It's in C'ville -- long-ass drive, but an 80-mile daily commute still beats 130-mile daily commute -- and it would likely be 20-30 hours a week working for one of the local government's non-profits. Specifically, I'd be grant-writing and grant-tracking, with research and general winged monkey duties thrown in. That 20-30 hours a week has the possibility to going to a permanent, full-time job...if a) the new boss and I click and b) she decides she even wants to create this position. It pays more and, even if it goes full-time, will still be 250 miles less to drive each week. (That's basically equivalent knocking two full days' drives off my current gig.) It's that "...if" in there about whether she's going to make this an official position or not that gave me pause when Kelly Services told me this woman wanted me to work tomorrow, then again on Monday and Tuesday of next week. I asked for a bit to think about it and, after looking at numbers and talking to a close friend, a new acquaintance, and my therapist, I decided to call back with my counter-offer: I'll meet with her and work for her for a half-day tomorrow (8 to noon) then shag ass to my current gig, and we'll all assess on Friday about what everyone thinks. I explained that as much as I loathe the HelpDeskThisIsKimberley gig, I can't just up and quit it for a job which may or may not pan out. I can, however, drive 40 miles to C'ville to be there at 8, work four hours, then drive 105 miles the other direction to HelpDeskThisIsKimberley, work eight hours, and finally crawl that 65 miles back home at 11. I can do this once, maybe twice, but I cannot and will not do that to myself daily. It's either going to be that job or the HelpDeskThisIsKimberley job until something better comes along. (I write this out for my sake because, despite the seemingly inherent no-shit factor here, I do have an urge to try to do this while still working at the tea shop and also volunteering at the museum. I feel obligated to, in fact, because of my debts and other financial concerns. I can't do it, though. I can't and I won't. I don't have to punish myself that way for having been unemployed so long during a recession.) I would love it if this works out. This will half my current gas expenses, drop my current food bill, and allow me not just improved quality of life but an actual life again. It would also HUGELY reduce my stress. Dear christ. Even if HelpDeskThisIsKimberley didn't have such an epic commute, being screamed at daily for most of eight hours is killing me. To go from such a demoralizing job to a gig where I can bring my passions (even if the job itself isn't what I'm personally passionate about) and do grant stuff, research, and winged monkey work for someone would be just marvelous. Tomorrow will be exhausting and getting through Friday will probably be its own kind of hell, but I'm off from all jobs on both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is my dad's birthday. It's his first since he died and I'm struggling a lot right now. I go into the grocery store, see pecans, and instantly I'm crying because pecans were Dad's favorite treat and he'll never enjoy them again. That sort of thing. So, I'll be out of touch all day Saturday because I need to be and I want to be. Sunday, I'll be seeing some friends in a play and possibly even socialize beyond that. Come Monday? I dunno. Maybe I'm at the new job. Maybe I'm at the tea shop. I just don't know yet, but at least it's not a stress-making unknown. Just have to make it through the next two days and then I'll have the downtime I need. (Comment on this)
sepiamagpie	8:24p	As I set up my google calendar, I realize google owns just a little bit more of my soul than before. I got new toys. There's jawas and storm troopers and... girl troopers. Exciting. (Comment on this)
ridicully	8:04p	I can't really tell if what I'm talking about are spoilers or not. I don't know if short and superficial posts are better than no posts at all, but since they're the best I can manage, the question really is irrelevant. Anyway, even though I live in a cave and didn't realize it was time for another episode of Doctor Who already, I really liked Waters of Mars once I noticed (because my circle started raving) and downloaded it. I always like the Doctor's exuberance, even when it has a more than manic note in it. And the drama was good drama. Talking about it without a cut isn't going so well, but I'm too tired busy lazy to look up if I remember the code correctly, so 'I liked it. I *really* liked it' will have to do. And now that I've posted the entry before I meant to, I'll wander off and search for new icons, because I've been feeling like it. See http://ridicully.dreamwidth.org/245874.html to comment. Current Mood: indecisive
fandom_wank [ damien ]	2:18p	Get your Satanic wank out of my distro! Background: Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux. Think of it as a version of Linux like you have Windows XP, Vista, Me, 95, etc. Some people created Ubuntun Christian Edition, which annoyed some members of the Ubuntu community who didn't see why a special religious-based distribution was needed but it was mostly a polite argument. Then, in retaliation, Ubuntu Satanic Edition was created. Cue wank. Not from the Christians, though! The wank was all provided by a Satanist called HHS and another Satanist who called himself 'friend of HHS', both of whom popped up in the comments box and kept a running argument going with several different people until he randomly disppeared. Most of it is under the cut, because it's long and takes place over years, but here are a few highlights to whet your appetite, both from him and people who were arguing with him. HHS starts off with saying "This is very insulting to my religion. I really don’t think you should misuse the Lord’s name like that. Richard M. Stallman, who is responsible for GNU and Linux, is a jewish psychopath who does not deserve to come near Hell. We do not want to be associated with him or anything made by this communist who never bathes and eats his own hair." People get confused and think he's a Christian who's objecting to Linux SE. Cue HHS exploding and warning them "It’s very unclever to go against the Lord and dishonour Him and His people. When you die and meet Satan, just try calling Him “jesus boy” too and you’ll know what I’m talking about. I assume that you two are Jews because they call everyone Christian who aren’t Jews or Muslims." ( All hail LINUX -- I mean, Satan/Cthulhu/Flying Spaghetti Monster/God/Allah/[insert deity or pantheon of choice here!] ) Current Mood: Mystified (94 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
fandom_wank [ tetradecimal ]	9:01p	Back off, man, I'm a scientist! From wank_report: Genevieve Koski, writing for the A.V. Club, offers her opinion on a recent screening of Ghostbusters for Better Late Than Never, the feature in which authors who never experienced some element of the pop culture of the past go back and review it with the jaded eyes of the present. Her opinion, of course, is negative. ( Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. ) ...I don't have to warn for Ghostbusters spoilers, do I? (378 Comments |Comment on this)
manticoran	6:38p	Squeeee! I have a Star Trek DVD and a Kris Allen CD in my hot little hands! YAY!!! Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
emiweebee	6:19p	God I love the new Scary Go Round spin off so much. http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20091117 (Comment on this)
kaesa	4:05p	So, long time no post! I posted the sixth chapter of my novel-length Founders story on LiveJournal, Skyhawke, FF.N, and the Archive of Our Own, which is now in Open Beta, and which, strictly as a user and not getting into fannish politics or whatever? I fucking love how it's set up. There are a few flaws, but overall it's a really nice way to upload. ( Firstly, the features I like. ) ( Things I think other people would like but that I haven't used. ) ( Issues I've had. ) Anyway, my stories uploaded there are all at this link. And in honor of the actual chapter posted, ( some music from YouTube, with accompanying blather. ) Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
dreamer_marie	9:55p	Veronica Mars fic: Impressions Title: Impressions Fandom: Veronica Mars Summary: Two missing scenes from episode 2.22 "Not Pictured." Characters: Logan, Keith, Backup, asleep!Veronica Words: 2500. Rating: PG-13 Spoilers: Season 1 and 2. Disclaimer: The characters were created by Rob Thomas and remain the property of Thomas, the CW, and Warner Bros. Television. No infringement is intended, no profit is made. All characters in this story are fictional. Any mention of real persons is entirely fictional. None of their quotes or actions in this story have any basis in reality in any way. Author's Note: This fic was written for challenge number 5 (DVD Extras) of Round 3 of vmfic_gameon. Many thanks to the lovely love_is_epic for beta-reading. ( Deep into the night, Logan awoke, either from the nightmare or because his legs were numb, he wasn't sure. ) (Comment on this)
the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ]	8:53p	Terri_testing's insanity reached new level Horcrux Side Effects. Apparently, Harry as a Horcrux caused moral degradation of his friends and enemies. Comments are golden, too: marionros I don't think you'd have to be magical to be affected by the proximity of a horcrux. Think of the Dursleys. Their fear of Harry, their revulsion of Harry and their wish to try to live as if he wasn't there takes on new dimensions when you realise that Harry is a horcrux and as such draws out negative feelings and responses in people. oryx_leucoryx You do realize this makes it harder to figure out whether Hogwarts in general or Hogwarts under Albus causes moral degeneration among its students over time? We have to remove from our considerations all those who were emotionally close to Harry (whether the emotion was positive or negative) and those are the students we know most about. Maybe Luna and Neville retained their moral compasses because they weren't as close to Harry, not because they resisted Hogwarts' (or Albus') influence? condviramurs/00sevvie Oh d*mn. You did it again. How could we have missed that for so long? Look at the effect it had on Severus too. lilithisbitter Most schools nowadays aren't here to educate, they're here to brainwash. And it's not like they learned magic that was of any use. Pretty magic mostly or watered down, like Potions being an extremely light version of alchemy. And transfiguration, unless they're teaching me how to toss a feather in the air and when it drifts over my opponent, I transfigure it into an one ton weight that crushes him flat, I don't see how it really helps me. Then again, unlike Miss Granger, I'm an actual genius and like most geniuses (unlike how TV and books and movie portray them) I get bored easily and tend to do badly a result. The magic that actually had an impact is locked up or forbidden, meaning if you actually want to become a powerful wizard ala Snape, you generally have to be an autodidact. All of the spells that Harry learned that actually had an impact, he didn't learn in class. There's something oddly funny about the dark lord wanting to put part of his soul in a bejeweled headband. He just wanted to be a pretty princess, that's all. He was just so much more interesting in the earlier books when he chose to be evil versus the he was doomed to be evil. Evil that has a reason is much more interesting than evil for evil's sake. (121 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
the_hms_stfu [ quantumreality ]	4:56p	The Simplest Riposte Possible To Snapefen Re Lily I just realized something so obvious it's amazing I missed it before. The Snapefen over on Snapedom (you all will remember the teal deer that came from 00sevvie regarding this) insist that Snape really honestly meant to save Harry and James too. It would be a lot more plausible if it wasn't for the clever structuring of what Snape says when JK Rowling wrote the book: “Everything – everything I heard!” said Snape. “That is why – it is for that reason – he thinks it means Lily Evans!” Either the Potters were not married by 1980, or Snape couldn't bring himself to let Lily go, by mentally refusing to refer to her married last name. I vote the latter, and rest my case about who Snape really cared about keeping around at that time. Snapefen who attempt to claim Harry Potter is an illegitimate child will be met with massive lulz. (18 Comments |Comment on this)
esclaramonde	4:25p	Raptor D Rapticon, Sr After some N.E.W.T. Orientation, they started transfiguring an apple to a mango which was hard since you must change the color of the red apple to a yellow one. Ron had so much difficulty he changed his apple to a red mango that made Harry sick. It looked like someone pour blood on it. Hermione had no difficulty, like always, she perfectly changed her apple to a yellow mango earning her ten points to Gryffindor. “How did you do that?” said Ron as they went down to the Greenhouses for Herbology. “I learn Ron, not ask” said Hermione as they stopped at the entrance of the greenhouse since it was occupied by second years. How many times have I read Quaffles, Anyone? and why am I reading it again? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
the_hms_stfu [ esclaramonde ]	10:22a	Fanfiction Hell: Double Feature! Feature One: Thanks to the Malfoys, by Broomstick Flyer. So you already have some idea how this goes. Basically, Lucius and Narcissa Polyjuiced themselves into Harry and Hermione, got married in a Muggle ceremony, took pictures, and somehow got Harry and Hermione, naked and knocked out, into the Shrieking Shack. After they wake up, they discover that oh my god they are actually attracted to one another! ( Excerpt ) Molly and Ginny are, of course, completely hacked off and all of the Weasleys get involved in a huge fight. Still, you have to give a couple of bonus points for the lack of carnage, right? The last ~900 words of the fic consist of an expository epilogue detailing how perfect the rest of their lives are, how fantastic their son (Godric Neville Potter, no really) is, and how "[t]hey spent a happy 140 years as man and wife, both of them dying within two weeks of each other. They had their ups and downs just like everyone else but in all the time they were together they never went to bed angry, one of them would always compromise on what ever the problem was. They as well as the Grangers never once felt the need or desire to ever return to Britain, living their bigot and racist free lives enjoying their children and grandchildren as well as a large number of great grandchildren being around them." For our second feature, we have Grace au Malfoys, by Romulus Lupin. It is explicitly inspired by our first feature, but "rabid, zealous and somewhat violent" as well as much, much longer. Instead of the Malfoys dicking around with Harry and Hermione, this time it's Hermione and Ron, and Hermione is super pissed. (NB: the descriptions of naked Hermione are even CREEPIER in this fic.) ( Excerpt ) Ron then Apparates into the Great Hall somehow and everyone starts throwing hexes, while Hermione stays behind in their suite and flips her shit ("romance and Ronald Weasley were mutually exclusive") and starts doing accidental magic, including sending an accidental Patronus to Harry. Dumbledore goes on about how good it is that now Harry and Hermione will be married to Purebloods, who will keep them from changing the world (since Dumbledore, of course, is all about conservative politics). There's some sort of madness with Molly and Ginny and Arthur and love potions, of course, but Ginny also has a soul-bond with Susan Bones, who acts as Harmonian and Love Potion Theorist Mouthpiece. The Ministry can't do anything about the marriage because of one bizarre, archaic law (also of course), but then there's another bizarre, archaic law (regarding a book that registers soulmates - when it shows Harry and Hermione that Grindledore was canon, they actually jump back and say ew) that fixes it all. But then! What very few people knew - and of those, Harry was the only one in the wizarding world - was that the Grangers, including their daughter, were practicing naturists. I MISSED YOU, CRAZY NUDISM FICS. There are blatant hits at anvils and the books ("her life to this point often sounded like fiction - badly written fiction, at that") and he even says things like "Molly had never been shy about her ideas for One Big Happy Weasley Family" and "Ron's pitiful attempt at parseltongue was not only pathetic, it was laughable". One of the things that annoys me the most, though, due to sheer being-wrongness, is: ( Probably not what you're thinking ) Anyway. Color me shocked, and that generally doesn't happen when Weasleys don't get disembowelled or sexually assaulted. (97 Comments |Comment on this)
the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ]	5:29p	Ron the dumbest red head of any age Broomstick flyer is doing what seems obligatory for every batshit Harmonian - she is rewriting HBP. The title of the story is stunningly original - Not The Half Blood Prince (7 chapters so far). Author's Note: A/Note: Here we go, I’m off on yet another circular rant about the last two books, you can save getting bored by skipping down to the actual story without missing a darn thing, except me Merlinsaprentice once again getting in a tizzy over the way the series rapidly went downhill after GoF leading to it being nigh on impossible to believe it was the same story in the sixth and seventh books and the very strange pairings in the epilogue, placing Hermione the brightest witch of the age with Ron the dumbest red head of any age, and Harry with super Ginny who only ever said about five or six lines in the first five books was in my opinion a total cop out, proving that JKR either only ever intended on writing the one book and ran out of ideas half way through the fifth one, or the publisher used a cheap ghost writer who just happened to forget to read the originals. A few nights ago I was once again checking out some of the huge plot holes and enormous flaws in continuity in the last two books (6 HBP, 7 DH) there are so many, I noticed one that surprised me when I realised that I had previously over looked a really obvious one, how? I don’t know because they now seem such glaringly obvious mistakes. Ron and Hermione promised at the end of HBP to stay at Privet Drive with Harry. Harry also said he was only going to stay at Privet Drive for a short visit this time. He mentioned nothing about staying until his birthday which would have been a long visit, roughly one and a half - two months. Being as the school closed before the normal end of term it was not a short time at all. Nor did he or the order mention they would be picking him up. In DH it seems Ron and Hermione not only broke that promise and did not stay at Privet Drive with Harry, they only arrived along with the rest of the order shortly before his birthday. But Harry had also seemingly changed his mind about how long he would stay there and who he would leave with. What happened to beginning the hunt with just the three of them and not telling anyone they were leaving or when? All this happened without having a reason given for the huge change of plan or did JKR make another huge continuity error and forgot how HBP ended. (oh and going to Bills wedding being the reason Harry would stay longer than necessary at his prison at his aunts house doesn’t work for me.) Or did some other poor quality ghost writer of the last book forget to check? Which would be no big surprise to me as I personally am still not convinced that HBP/DH and the first four books are from the same writer because the settings, characters, and their attitudes are so vastly different from the first four books. I’m not too sure about OoTP. That and the extremely odd change of middle name for one of the two main characters. (Although I am almost certain that Jean as Hermione’s new middle name was a typo error). I mean what kind of author would decide to change a main characters name because they wished to use the same name for a small part player like Umbitch. Anyway as I read and wrote these thoughts out I was infected by another plot bunny, so with a new idea in my head I started this little story just to see where it leads me too, as of yet I have no complete plot just some vague ideas and just one firm aim, bring Harry and Hermione together without Ron tagging along as things should have been for the last three books. Why would Harry or anyone else for that matter forgive a supposed best friend who treated him the way Ron did in Goblet of Fire. I have asked several young teenage people and none said they would forgive being treated as a liar and cheat, some even admitted they would still be disinclined to forgive even if they were guilty. So I have some drabbles and ideas that I have not explored yet and I intend to meld them together if I can and see what we end up with. Merlin… Another A/Note, I highly doubt there will be any Horcrux like things in this tale because I don’t see how a soul or part there of can be split from the body that it is housed in without causing death, as in the AK curse. (75 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
manticoran	10:28p	Oh, dear... ( Vaguest of spoilers for the Doctor Who Christmas special; more of a tone thing than anything ) Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
manticoran	9:18p	Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars Reaction Post ( Spoilers for DW: The Waters of Mars ) Now I'm going to put in a bit of spoiler space to talk about the promo. ( Cut for spoilers for the Christmas special ) (Comment on this)
the_hms_stfu [ mariem_1 ]	5:12a	The Darkest Creatures are Anti-Gryffindor! In the comments to the last post by terri_testing lynn_waterfall argues that the Darkest Creatures are classified as such because they are anti-Gryffindor. My favorite comment is the one made by oryx_leucoryx: Bringing my fascinated disgust to new levels. But how did Gryffindors get to make the rules? Was there a time when they controlled the Wizengamot or the Wizards' Council (predecessor to the Ministry)? Or did everyone else go along with them because they didn't want unhappy Gryffindors whining and complaining? Or is it that other Houses don't care about the Dark/non-Dark designation but other things such as whether something is legal, harmful in general, detectable etc? (121 Comments |Comment on this)

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