If I close my eyes forever, will it all remain the same?
I am overwhelmed at the response to the Ray/Ray vid. Thank you so very much. I'll be responding to comments soon!
I went to the LJ birthday list to see if there were any I'd missed in the last couple of days and I realized my 30th birthday is at the end of next month. Holy crap. How is it almost August already? I fly to Chicago for VIVIDCON (eeee!) exactly two weeks from today. I should probably get my panel ready. *g*
I haven't been thinking much about it being my 30th except for the fact that I'm actually flying to DragonCon on the actual day, which means I won't get to celebrate it with AHH. I feel...I feel weird about that. On the one hand, it's my birthday so I should be able to do what I want, but I also feel like the round numbered birthdays (at the very least) should be spent with family, especially him. (I spent my 26 and 27th birthdays out of town on work travel, so that part of it is not anything terribly new.) I don't know. He's ok with it, so I don't know why I'm worrying about it, except I worry about almost everything. Sigh.
I'm not, however, worrying about being 30. It's never really been about age in my family. We're very much of the "you're as young as you feel" creed. And if you ever meet my grandmother, you'll see why. She's a dynamo. I adore her. I want to be just like her when I'm 80+.
More news about the Farscape webisodes! Including a reaction from Ben Browder. (Spoilers for PK Wars if you haven't seen that yet.)
Comic Con is this weekend so we should get more information, hopefully. To everyone who's going/has already left - have fun! Bring back lots of info!
I am still suffering Guitar Hero withdrawls. \m/
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I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows though. I don't have too much to say about it. I've never been fannish about the series, but I've enjoyed it, and I really liked the last book. I had no real serious investment in it other than seeing how the story played out and what happened to JKR's characters. When I started the book, I was convinced she wouldn't kill any of the trio, but by about halfway I thought Harry was a goner. When he used the Resurrection Stone to see his parents again I was crying like a little baby. This part especially:
He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would be his decision.
"You'll stay with me?"
"Until the very end," said James.
Awwwwwwwww. *sniffs loudly* I could hardly read the rest of the page, it was all blurry. But that whole bit about him being more alive than he'd ever been and his slow walk and everything. Well done, JKR.
I thought the pacing was all right, and that especially for the last third or so it flew by. The big battle at Hogwarts was seriously impressive; I got a real sense of the scope of that. Snape was much less active in this book than I thought he'd be, but I am entirely unsurprised that he was one of the good guys. I loved Dumbledore's backstory though and how human that made him, so that when he and Harry met up at King's Cross they were equals. Perhaps Harry even had slightly more of the power, since he was the one who really forgave Dumbledore.
I wasn't entirely sure I understood exactly what was going on at the end with the wand stuff and Draco's wand and the Elder Wand. That confused me, frankly. My current understanding is that Draco 'won' the Elder Wand from Dumbledore in the last book, when he was about to kill him, except the Elder Wand was buried with Dumbledore. Then Harry took Draco's normal wand and because of that, the Elder Wand also was Disarmed? Is that right?
Also, I find it interesting that they make the point at the beginning of the book that Harry can't keep using Stunning and non-killing spells, and yet he doesn't actually kill anyone through the whole book using a killing spell. He sticks to stunning spells (and Expelliarmus against Voldemort) and that's how he wins. Not what I expected. Or at least, I thought it would come up more directly.
I think I would've been happier without the Epilogue, but mostly because I was annoyed that they were still anti-Slytherin 19 years later. I had hoped by all of the Houses sitting together after the battle that all of that would have been erased. Alas.
Overall I thought that it was a good ending to the series.
I went to the LJ birthday list to see if there were any I'd missed in the last couple of days and I realized my 30th birthday is at the end of next month. Holy crap. How is it almost August already? I fly to Chicago for VIVIDCON (eeee!) exactly two weeks from today. I should probably get my panel ready. *g*
I haven't been thinking much about it being my 30th except for the fact that I'm actually flying to DragonCon on the actual day, which means I won't get to celebrate it with AHH. I feel...I feel weird about that. On the one hand, it's my birthday so I should be able to do what I want, but I also feel like the round numbered birthdays (at the very least) should be spent with family, especially him. (I spent my 26 and 27th birthdays out of town on work travel, so that part of it is not anything terribly new.) I don't know. He's ok with it, so I don't know why I'm worrying about it, except I worry about almost everything. Sigh.
I'm not, however, worrying about being 30. It's never really been about age in my family. We're very much of the "you're as young as you feel" creed. And if you ever meet my grandmother, you'll see why. She's a dynamo. I adore her. I want to be just like her when I'm 80+.
More news about the Farscape webisodes! Including a reaction from Ben Browder. (Spoilers for PK Wars if you haven't seen that yet.)
Comic Con is this weekend so we should get more information, hopefully. To everyone who's going/has already left - have fun! Bring back lots of info!
I am still suffering Guitar Hero withdrawls. \m/
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I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows though. I don't have too much to say about it. I've never been fannish about the series, but I've enjoyed it, and I really liked the last book. I had no real serious investment in it other than seeing how the story played out and what happened to JKR's characters. When I started the book, I was convinced she wouldn't kill any of the trio, but by about halfway I thought Harry was a goner. When he used the Resurrection Stone to see his parents again I was crying like a little baby. This part especially:
He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would be his decision.
"You'll stay with me?"
"Until the very end," said James.
Awwwwwwwww. *sniffs loudly* I could hardly read the rest of the page, it was all blurry. But that whole bit about him being more alive than he'd ever been and his slow walk and everything. Well done, JKR.
I thought the pacing was all right, and that especially for the last third or so it flew by. The big battle at Hogwarts was seriously impressive; I got a real sense of the scope of that. Snape was much less active in this book than I thought he'd be, but I am entirely unsurprised that he was one of the good guys. I loved Dumbledore's backstory though and how human that made him, so that when he and Harry met up at King's Cross they were equals. Perhaps Harry even had slightly more of the power, since he was the one who really forgave Dumbledore.
I wasn't entirely sure I understood exactly what was going on at the end with the wand stuff and Draco's wand and the Elder Wand. That confused me, frankly. My current understanding is that Draco 'won' the Elder Wand from Dumbledore in the last book, when he was about to kill him, except the Elder Wand was buried with Dumbledore. Then Harry took Draco's normal wand and because of that, the Elder Wand also was Disarmed? Is that right?
Also, I find it interesting that they make the point at the beginning of the book that Harry can't keep using Stunning and non-killing spells, and yet he doesn't actually kill anyone through the whole book using a killing spell. He sticks to stunning spells (and Expelliarmus against Voldemort) and that's how he wins. Not what I expected. Or at least, I thought it would come up more directly.
I think I would've been happier without the Epilogue, but mostly because I was annoyed that they were still anti-Slytherin 19 years later. I had hoped by all of the Houses sitting together after the battle that all of that would have been erased. Alas.
Overall I thought that it was a good ending to the series.