Apparently I fail at napping during the day. This is worrying as I am doing my first ever night shift for the care home tonight. Cue me dead by 5am. Anyhow, since I am not sleeping, I am instead watching Dollhouse (November and Caroline ftw. Why are you all not watching this yet? It's really getting into it's stride.) and going to bore ( Read more... )

It was actually such_heights that brought this up, and now I can't stop thinking about it. Why doesn't His Dark Materials have an active online fanbase? They are very well known books and are about to become a huge film franchise, so you'd think there would be huge communities squeeing, but there isn't. Is it because, Harry Potter phenomenon aside, fandom ( Read more... )

Newer, longer, better, detaileder The Golden Compass trail. SQUEE!

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=39864529&sdm=web&pt=rd

'Scuse me whilst I die of impatience.

I'm not sure if this is in every version, but on the inside of the front cover of the British Harry Potter books (the "children's" cover, don't get me started on how much I hate the concept of "adult" covers for fantasy books) there is a picture of J.K Rowling standing in front of a bookcase. And because you can tell a lot about people from what ( Read more... )

This just goes to prove how distracted I am at the moment. Saw this a week ago, got all excited...and forgot about it. People on my f-lis keep doing it and it's taken me this long to finally sit down and do a simple quiz. Bad fangirl me. But oh, the fun now I have!

The code won't embed into LJ for some reason, do go here to see my daemon, and ( Read more... )

LOOK!!!! LOOK LOOK LOOK

Finally, first official footage for The Golden Compass!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! So the special effects haven't been filled in yet properly but OMG, OMG OMG, this is going to be the best thing ever. BEST. THING. EVER. *fangirl overdrive*

*jumps up and down and runs round* OMG the happy.

I got all four Harry Potter films for Christmas. I've already watched them all. Ooops. *giggle ( Read more... )

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1) I wore a dress. Like out, where people were, and everything. I felt completely self-conscious and ridiculous, but I did it. Unfortunately there is no photographic evidence, but I have witnesses that will state the event did actually take place ( Read more... )

Margi sent me this text last night: The golden pollen is blowing off the trees in Parliament Square and it looks like sraf For you poor deprived souls who don't know what sraf is, it's from His Dark Materials. It's Conscious Dust. It is what all world's survive and nourish on, and it's a part of all of us. And I wanted to see it (yes, I really ( Read more... )