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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[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? ;)