What are the five most heartbreaking things that have ever happened in your fandom(s)?

~ from fannish_5In no particular order, and right off the top of my head ( Read more... )

Oldest Child is working on his last project of the year, which is a paper bag speech. Each kid takes a paper grocery bag and labels/decorates each of its sides with "an important aspect of yourself." The examples were things like family and friends and education.

Oldest's four sides are as follows:

SIDE ONE
Label: Family
Decor: photos of ( Read more... )

I’m a little concerned about those select few persons who call themselves "shocked" that Dumbledore was gay all along.  This brings me great concern for the literacy and ability to read for content of the general public.  Let's go through some of the text:

Nothing like this man had ever been seen on Privet Drive.  He was tall, thin, and very old ( Read more... )

OMG YOU GUYS!!!!!!11!!! LOOKIE HERE!!!

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ETA: Because not everyone knows what I'm talking about, this is from the comm userinfo:

HALLOWOOD SQUARES ( Read more... )

( Yeah, I'm just going to cut-tag the whole entry. )

...and in the dream, I open up the book to check out the chapter titles, and I realise there are only nine of them.

Mmkay, dream-me thinks; so they're long chapters.

I give the chapter titles another look, and I realize they're in a totally different, non-HP-ish font.

All righty, dream-me thinks; perhaps this is symbolic of how Harry and co. are ( Read more... )

quote in subject line from Jacob HornbergerDammit. I stayed out here as long as I could, but with the newest "hey, let's ruin everyone else's fun" spoiler-news, I'm going to go to ground ( Read more... )

1. The HP #7 nerves have officially set in. On each of the past two nights, I've had dreams about the upcoming book. I don't remember much about last night's - mostly, it was me trying to keep the Oldest Child away from a caffeinated beverage at the midnight release party - but the previous night's dream was a doozy ( Read more... )

Because I've dithered over this long enough.

Title: 20 Random Things the Basilisk Would Prefer No One Else Knew, circa 1992
Author: jenowago
Character(s): The Basilisk; brief mentions of other characters
Rating: G
Summary: Twenty facts about Hogwarts’ most famous snake.
Warning(s): It’s entirely possible I did too much research into snakes before writing ( Read more... )

Our local bookstore had a little party last night to celebrate the release in paperback of HBP. Of course I had to go (what, me miss a Potter event? Nevah!), and Oldest Child asked if he could come along ( Read more... )