Harry Potter versus Twilight. Thanks to Delia for the link!

Rather good looking dancing. And one hilariously gratuitous ab shot.

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I may have been sorted into Gryffindor on Pottermore, but today I am not nearly as brave as I need to be.

Edited to add: After I wrote this, this was the first thing to come up on my playlist

Dark and Difficult Times Lie Ahead

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Delia turned me onto this one. It feels like the history of my immediate family for the past twenty years or so.

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You can get the .mp3 for free here.

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This one is actually pretty good. It's a prequel about a pivotal scene between Dumbledore, Aberforth, Grindelwold and Arianna.

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I am tempted to add this to my Christmas list. Very silly, but oh, so much fun.

See the video here.

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An interesting piece on textual analysis comparing most common words/sentences/etc. in Harry Potter, Twilight, and the Hunger Games trilogy: It includes the bit:"Like the distinctive word lists, these sentences suggest something about each author’s style. Rowling’s betray her reliance on suspense: “Harry looked around,” “He waited,” “Harry stared ( Read more... )

I'd never heard of this singer Sara Bareilles before, but this video caught my eye on Facebook (thanks, Nina Kiriki Hoffman!), as well as her comment, 'Love the all-size dancers.' I listened to it and immediately went to download it. I think it'll be a new favorite ( Read more... )

I think I mentioned one of my Christmas gifts from Delia: a felt wall hanging/Weasley clock. However, she didn't quite finish it, because she wasn't sure how to design the hands. So I designed and finished those. It's about 98% done: I just need to darken the lettering on the clock face and get a longer central brad to affix the clock hands. But I ( Read more... )

Two of them, actually, an academic one for $2,500 and an arts scholarship for $5,000. Fiona's applying to both.

Deadline is April 15.

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Jesse Galef, one half of "the world's #1 brother-sister blog about rationality, science, and philosophy" has compiled a list of what each Hogwarts house might read, hereIncludes booklists, with nice pictures of each House's bookshelf ( Read more... )