Nearly Harry Potter day

[black_eyedgirl]

- It's weird, nearly being at the end of what was a really big fandom for me. I'm not gonna get the book until tomorrow mid-morning, which is sad, and I had wanted to go and do the midnight thing, but my friend who would have done it with me can't go. So instead I'm going to reread Half Blood Prince and peek at the internet through my fingers for a

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[black_eyedgirl]

See, I know they're not the best written books ever, but the Guardian ran this incredibly snooty opinion piece on the pedestrian prose and the dialogue tags and modifiers of said and I just wanted to say: yeah? You're not the arbiters of writing, and there are no absolute rules. I've never read a HP book and went "oh, she used six said alternatives on that page". *sighs* I know this is probably because I do it too, but they're so smug about it.

If I can figure out LJ Archive I'll use it because then I can move the pages around, but LJBook looks good as well. I'd like a record of my fic entries at least. And I'm gonna follow you, so I guess we can both follow the majority when the great migration happens!

I can't help caring about award shows, it's my embarassing love. But mostly I end up shouting at the screen and having to let Mum explain over the phone "no, it's Laura, she's shouting at the Emmy nominations again"... Some of them are good, or even really really good but they're not the best and FNL and BSG are and it's just depressing. Plus it's not just that they nominate the good-not-best shows (like House), it's that they just repeatedly nominate the same ones!

I didn't see that, no. *weirdlypleased*

I am indeed going to combust. And January is so far away :(

[raedbard]

*nods* I saw that. See, my thing is: okay, she's not the world's best manipulator of language and really I think it'd be great if kids could read people like Alan Garner *as well*, so that they could be exposed to people who are BUT, she's an amazing storyteller, say what you like. And it's not 2D stuff, as people want to make out, it *is* layered and interesting. (I do try to find nice things to say as well as criticisms.) But the Guardian feeds on smug. (Today it was 'Bloggers Can't Write', yes? Which I didn't read because it would have made me mash the keyboard.)

*sigh* I keep thinking of all the negative stuff. (But also thought to myself: hmm, this could help with the whole 'let's put slash back into The West Wing!' thing. Apathy = not so much with the migration. Possibly. *g*)

*laughs* But yeah, I know. I do that with the Channel 4 Best Of programmes! (Our house would be a strange scary place to people not us ... *g*) *isghs* Like the Oscars, only more so.

*high-fives you* :D

:( I know! And I'm going to hate waiting for new episodes week after week. But, I'm taking the fact that I've watched every episode at least twice (I think 'Countrycide' four times now ... ) as a good sign! Time to flood the fic landscape? ;)