I'm having a bit of a dilemma. I've been part of online fandoms for well over ten years now, and during my teenage years and even up until yesterday, I had never had any problems calling myself a fangirl. I'm a girl and I'm a fan of something. Of course, I had seen the term fangirl (and fanboy) in a negative context- "fangirls almost crushed Robert ( Read more... )

...or the people at Pottermore decided to send this pre-Welcome email just to keep us sane while we wait for the real Welcome email ( Read more... )

I just realized that not only I left some stuff out of my review, but also two paragraphs got chopped off. Apparently, a toothache can cause forgetting how to cut&paste. So anyway, a few extra thoughts:

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 To the Spanish speakers in my f-list:
We all, at some point or another, have complained about the horrible translations. So my best friend forced me to create a Facebook group. Join!
Here's a link. But I don't really trust the link, so the name of the group is:
Le decimos NO! a las traducciones de Gemma Rovira Ortega de Harry Potter.

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It's EVERYWHERE in the world news, so you've probably heard about it. We won: gay marriage is a law. I'm so incredibly proud to call myself an Argentinian right now. There's a lot of indifference and ignorance in the general population, but this is a great start for a more just society ( Read more... )

My USA Lit professor is a Nathaniel Hawthorne/Herman Melville shipper. Seriously. He spent half an hour yesterday explaining all the facts that support that theory. He even read out loud some correspondence between them, and he was totally right- that was some damn hot puritan love letter.

It still is funny that a seventy-year-old man was so ( Read more... )

The people at the Student's Union are stupid. Stupid and lazy. I went last Friday, with all the horrible heat, and asked for a CD I needed. They said they would have it for Monday. As I am an intelligent person, I gathered that they wouldn't have it for Monday at all, so I went today. Again, with all the horrible horrible heat.
They didn't have my ( Read more... )