One of the movie/TV reaction channels I've been watching is making their way through The West Wing and, as we've gotten further into the fourth season, the reactors are starting to realize that Josh and Donna are probably going to be a Thing. I'll leave aside the fact that they're a bit late to the party (Joey Lucas is shipping them way back in ( Read more... )

This started as a comment to mrs_bombadil's last post, regarding Mark of "Mark Reads HP" and his response to Horcruxes and H/G, but it got so long I figured I'd post it here instead ( Read more... )

I suddenly have the urge to write a Billy Elliot fanfic where grown-up Billy and grown-up Debbie meet years later and fall desperately in love. I know it's probably more fashionable to ship Billy with Michael, and I've always kind of loved that in the movie (and the musical) Billy's orientation is a non-issue. But I'm hetero-centric like that, ( Read more... )

Sclumphxterned from ladyvorkosigan:

( Cut to spare your flist )

...because I do. ( Is this really a spoiler? Ah well, I'll cut it just in case. )

* I was absolutely boggling at the story (which has cropped up several times now) of printers being required to do their work IN THE DARK so as be unable to sneak peeks at the text of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I mean, I know they're operating under the most stringent secrecy, but that sounded positively medieval. It reminds me of the ( Read more... )

There's a great new article on the OotP movie here (courtesy of TLC, dr.com, and dr.co.uk). Lots more about filming, especially Teh Kiss. And this comment from David Yates made me absolutely melt:

Most of the crew working on these films has been working with Daniel (Harry Potter) since he was little and the day we shot the kiss, they gathered ( Read more... )

This may be wanky, but I don't really care. This is something that has been at the back of my mind for quite a while now and I've seen it come up a lot since the release of HBP ( Read more... )

TLC has pictures of the HBP standups that will be going up in bookstores pretty soon. The top is what we've already seen, but there's a bit more artwork at the bottom.

I'm not quite sure how to classify this for people who are trying to avoid spoilers. It's officially released cover art, so it's not officially a spoiler, but it's the kind of ( Read more... )

Well, I finished Northanger Abbey this morning, and I loved it. I believe my favorite bit was Henry teasing Catherine about the Abbey by playing on all the things he knew she had read about in novels.

Anyway, next on my list is Lord of the Rings. Yes, I know I should have read it long ago, but I never got around to it. And I figure I'd better ( Read more... )