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In this festive time of year, SpellCast is bringing you a special holiday episode to supplement your celebrations - or help you escape from their stresses. With our second podcast play's debut and holiday filks rounding out the episode, we hope you'll find it as unforgettable as we do. - We ease into the holiday spirit with an Artist's Corner as Venessa asks Margie (cauldroncakebkr) for tips on holiday baking. - "Holidays and Maps" makes its fandom debut as our second podcast play. It will be available to read on FictionAlley on December 25. - As a special episode treat, the hosts review two fics for the episode: Lady Ravenclaw's "A Black Christmas" and Cedar's "One for Each Night." Along the way, listen for filks sung by Zorb, Sidney, and Venessa: - Zorb channels the Basilisk for "Change 'Em to Rock" by Caius Marcius; Sidney brings us Lavender's point of view in "Won-Won Baby" by Lilac; Venessa finishes with "Norbert Roasting on an Open Fire." You can read more holiday filks at the Harry Potter Filks site. Whether, wherever and whatever you celebrate, we hope you're enjoying the holiday season. Let us know if SpellCast brought you seasonal cheer at our website, LiveJournal, MySpace, or FAP forum!
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'T WAS the week before Christmas, when all of the fans
Were waiting and hoping for a title to have.
Their stockings were hung and some dreidels were spun
Amid hopes that JKR would grant us some fun
The fangirls were clicking again on her site
To see if a title would give us some light.
Then all of a morning, the news was a snap
And roused all our brains from this long winter's nap.
In forums and journals arose such a clatter,
Google news and the bbc had views on the matter
Away to the websites we flew like a flash,
Clicked on the images and hangman-ed the stash
The words on the screen were like new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to discussions, we'd know
What did deathly hallows refer to, my dear?
Neither miniature sleigh, nor eight tiny reindeer,
No, maybe horcruxes - hard to rhyme, I think
Or relics or places or people - or drinks?
Like rapid Abraxans, the theories, they came,
And we pondered, and shouted, and called them by name;
Now Potter, now Riddle, now Albus, RAB
On adverbs and verb-nouns and research in wikis
To the top of the page! to the google we call!
Now type away! Post away! Discuss it all!"
As thestrals before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with a ship debate, take to the sky;
As around the websites the theories they flew
With a dictionary and the first six books, too
But is it a twinkling til we get the proof
Of a DH release date, that we'll put to use?
The bookstores had begun, before we turned around
To start taking orders as fanfare abounds
You can preorder it via Amazon and
Borders and others plan parties so grand
A challenge for fic and art will soon debut
On FA for writers and artists like you
A wink of Jo's eye and a twist of her head,
Lets fan creativity explode again
She spoke not a word, but went straight to this work,
Like it or not, please agree it's a perk
Of having a fandom where everyone knows
The author is grateful when the writing flows
So spring to your keyboards and sketchpads and things
We'll skype and ym thoughts through winter and spring
It's like Jo had exclaimed ere she wrote for our sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
Direct download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/spellcast/SC13.mp3 or http://www.spell-cast.com
Via iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=156422019
'T WAS the week before Christmas, when all of the fans
Were waiting and hoping for a title to have.
Their stockings were hung and some dreidels were spun
Amid hopes that JKR would grant us some fun
The fangirls were clicking again on her site
To see if a title would give us some light.
Then all of a morning, the news was a snap
And roused all our brains from this long winter's nap.
In forums and journals arose such a clatter,
Google news and the bbc had views on the matter
Away to the websites we flew like a flash,
Clicked on the images and hangman-ed the stash
The words on the screen were like new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to discussions, we'd know
What did deathly hallows refer to, my dear?
Neither miniature sleigh, nor eight tiny reindeer,
No, maybe horcruxes - hard to rhyme, I think
Or relics or places or people - or drinks?
Like rapid Abraxans, the theories, they came,
And we pondered, and shouted, and called them by name;
Now Potter, now Riddle, now Albus, RAB
On adverbs and verb-nouns and research in wikis
To the top of the page! to the google we call!
Now type away! Post away! Discuss it all!"
As thestrals before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with a ship debate, take to the sky;
As around the websites the theories they flew
With a dictionary and the first six books, too
But is it a twinkling til we get the proof
Of a DH release date, that we'll put to use?
The bookstores had begun, before we turned around
To start taking orders as fanfare abounds
You can preorder it via Amazon and
Borders and others plan parties so grand
A challenge for fic and art will soon debut
On FA for writers and artists like you
A wink of Jo's eye and a twist of her head,
Lets fan creativity explode again
She spoke not a word, but went straight to this work,
Like it or not, please agree it's a perk
Of having a fandom where everyone knows
The author is grateful when the writing flows
So spring to your keyboards and sketchpads and things
We'll skype and ym thoughts through winter and spring
It's like Jo had exclaimed ere she wrote for our sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."