Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - meh. It felt like a series of disjointed illustrations. Good ones, mind you, but there was absolutely no plot to it. ( Details )

I finished this one in three hours (took me four for HBP). Overall verdict is approving, with certain reservations.

( Spoilers within, brief )

Just a note - the movie's hitting the cinemas here in two weeks, so I won't be reading anyone's posts about it till then. The book premieres normally, so I won't be around that morning on account of being ensconced in a cafe and reading it in one go ;)

In other news, work = busy like hell. No time to even think.

The Boy Was A Puppet, a Harry Potter vid by wistful_fever.

That's what my interpretation of Harry is all about. And her vidding skills... :D

Fic later. Now, recs for the people who are making me write it.

First of all, I've mentioned guede_mazaka's The Black Road before. Now she wrote an extra not-quite-epilogue that shorted out my brain rather neatly.

(In return, I owe her Van Helsing angelic party fic.)

And second, the usual suspect. In the Name of, the story that'll make you see just why ( Read more... )

Frst of all, I spent 3 hours at the hairdresser's yesterday, getting new highlights done. Way more mocha, with a hint of titian, and here's hoping the darker colour holds this time. Before, I had the hair in the icon - cinnamon/copper depending on lighting.

( Now it looks like this )

Look! fyrie drew brilliant fanart for my Krolock and Lestat fic! Go and marvel and tell her how good she is!

And since I'm almost finished with the fake-title meme (and the two bits that are yet to be written will get their own post), here are the best bits from that and the blather-about-characters meme, the ones I want to put on my site sometime:

( The Dark River: Obi-Wan and Dooku )

Undercurrent by sionnain

ciciaye just threw this at me, and I've melted, because this fic does everything right. A delightfully distraught and disturbed young Lucius, fresh from his first kill and for the first time aware of his dark power, watches Narcissa sleep. Characterisation, imagery, emotions - everything matches, and creates a piece that's an erotic ( Read more... )

Eurgh. Hence, meme, ganked from selenak: 10 of my favourite characters and what kind of relationship I'd be likely to have with them.

( Current and past favourites )

The second batch of St Nick’s request not-really-drabbles. 480 words about Hob Gadling for xwingace, 658 words about Sirius Black’s mother of all people for amamiyarin. Next up: vampires and more vampires, because I still have to polish up arabwel’s vignette.

( Sandman’s Hob Gadling gets a little Christmas spirit )