Went to see Crazy, Stupid, Love last night, which was definitely as good as it looked from the trailer, possibly even better. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though sadly I don't think my life will ever provide good opportunities for using lines like, "I don't want your slutty money." I was impressed with its subtlety of elements - a prime example being ( Read more... )

Finally went to see HP7.1 last night.

( Harry Potter and the inexplicable evacuation )

We finally saw it, because we had half-price tickets we wanted to use and therefore had to wait until it got out of No Free Tickets range. (Dear Village, I hate you and will screw every last cent I can out of you. Cheers! Dee.)

( In short: oh DRACO )

JK Rowling has been sharing more extra-curricula details about the books. (It's hardly her fault, I suppose, if people keep asking.)

Amusing to note/confirm that Tonks was a Hufflepuff, but my favourite, obviously, is ( Who does Draco marry? )

This morning I woke up with the idea that it would be awesome - awesome! - to create a Harry Potter role-playing game where everyone was playing county cricket. There would be sledging! And padding up! And dressing-room antics! And lots of beer! The county sides would have to become co-ed, because Pansy is obviously the sort of opening bats(wo)man ( Read more... )

I am still here. And, y'know, around-ish. What have I been doing? Well...
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So, I'm done.

And that was good. That was very good, well done, quite satisfying.

( However... (big ole spoilers, duh) )

My primary motivation in posting about this is that I didn't know a thing about the business until I read this account. I'd heard people waving about the term "plagiarist" applied to Cassie Claire, but I'd assumed it was just people getting hot and bothered about her quote-usage (which, when I read the fics in 2005, I thought was a little excessive ( Read more... )

While chatting with the nice American girl in Gloria Jean's about how the unions were fucking up the entire city (no, literally - they took over the city grid and basically stopped traffic for at least two hours), I read about the HP7 spoiler in the Herald Sun. My reaction? "Well, DUH." ( uh, spoiler cut? just my speculation on it, but if you care... )

Did I miss anyonething?

I think I'm broken. I've been reading the Australian fantasy that I got for Christmas. (Sidenote: ladymoonray? Trudi Canavan has a new one out and once again, your cover is so much better than ours.) Anyway, usually reading semi-decent fantasy fills me with righteous zeal of the "I can do better than this!" variety. But this time, I'm ( Read more... )