Goodness, it's been a while since I posted. I've still been an active fandom consumer in the past few months, though--just keeping up with tv shows and movies feels like enough of a proud accomplishment these days. Maybe at some point I'll make a "watched all these things" catch-up post ( Read more... )

Didn't forget Harry's birthday! The cake is a bakery slice involving yellow cake, mascarpone filling, blueberries and other fruit. Now, where'd I put the candles?

Deathly Hallows, part 2... ( Spoilers... )

Hey, I sat down with an HP plot bunny and wrote it! Hope you guys think it was worth the wait even if it's not as explicit as my usual. This story wanted things left more to the imagination, go figure.

Title: The Baron of BrackleyAuthor: Amanuensis ( Read more... )

I got an absolutely gorgeous surprise from caladan_dd a little while ago: HP art featuring my favorite characters. One's a clean version and the other has giggle-inducing dedication text on it.

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I think my overall reactions are not particularly spoilery, for a film adapted from a well-known book, so, outside the cut ( Read more... )

Off to see Deathly Hallows today! I haven't kept it secret that I thought book 7 was a mess. Silly capers against a background of DOOM = me snickering. And the lack of a year at Hogwarts stole one of Rowling's major structural strengths. So I've been eager for this film since series' end, ready to see the problems of the last books corrected in ( Read more... )

Last night's dream about shopping in an airport mall and finding Lucius/Harry paper dolls (they were NSFW, omigod! With all sorts of bedroom outfits!) was vivid. It even included the part where I couldn't wait to get back to the laptop and post to LJ about them ( Read more... )

Half-Blood Prince.

Short version: Hooray for the film doing a great job with a book I thought was badly flawed. It came much closer to selling me on its story, and I only felt the absence of perhaps one element from the book. I enjoyed it lots, and a good portion of it felt perfect.

( Longer version behind the cut. Spoilers for the film. )

NRG!

I haven't seen this particular picture or its accompanying discussion anywhere on my flist, and I would have thought it would have polarized folk! Had to wait until I turned the pages of a magazine, what's up with that?

( An image from Half-Blood Prince in Entertainment Weekly featuring Draco. Spoilery for the film. )