Instant Death

[mike_smith]

Jim was telling me about this thing where all these Snape fangirls started seeing Snape in their dreams or something, and started forming some sort of cult about it. Or something. I'm sure he tells it better than I do. The whole thing's on fandom_wank, which I don't read a whole lot because everyone talks like the Smurfs over there, and I have

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[grapefruitzzz]

OK, I give up. What is Tenchi Muyo and where do I download it?

"It made all the difference in the world, Harry. You helped uncover the truth. You saved an innocent man from a terrible fate."
OK, I call bullcrap.

Completely. Dumbledore is a lying sack of crap and always has been.

The really strange thing is that I agree with most of your review and yet still think there's something compelling in the franchise. Maybe she'd be best off writing a long-running TV series because she can definitely do character and setting.

do 'goblet of fire' you know you want to. think of all the girls you can impress at conventions.

[mike_smith]

OK, I give up. What is Tenchi Muyo and where do I download it?

As far as I know, you don't download it. But I'm not well-versed in that sort of thing.

As to the other, TM! is an anime franchise started up in 1992. Originally a six-episode story arc straight to video, the popularity of the show has given rise to fourteen additional episodes, two television series, three feature films, a spinoff series, and a comic book. There's also some novels, but I don't know anything about them.

The continuity shifts a little from one medium to the next, but generally the plot revolves around an unassuming boy, Tenchi Masaki, who encounters various alien women who all wanna jump his bones to some extent. They end up living together, occasionally fighting crime, matchmaking, or just experiencing the nuances of Japanese culture for the first time.

The rating system I've been using since Half-Blood Prince features two screencaps from the series. Tenchi's alien grandmother Airi meets him for the first time, and expresses distaste for the

[grapefruitzzz]

That's quite a franchise empire for a series I haven't heard of. I do like stories about aliens discovering Earth customs. Airi Masaki seems quite fierce, because that was some serious slappage.

Obligatory Jim Answer.

[mike_smith]

OK, I give up. What is Tenchi Muyo and where do I download it?

[jim]Duh, it's some titty show that Mike jerks off to, because he has poop where his brain goes. Everyone has dumb names like Gagashoopoo, and it's retarded. COBOL XML SQL.[/jim]

There. Think of all the time I've saved him. Not that he'll appreciate it.

[kirabana]

do Order of the Phoenix.

it's better, i swear.

and i love fandom_wank, that chick is clearly nuts

[merenwen_81]

If you want him to read more, you have to use reverse psychology.[/loud stage whisper]

Mike, OOtP really sucks and you shouldn't touch it with a long stick.

I officially don't get f_w. I'm sorry, but those people just aren't half as witty as they think they are. Half the time they're just un-necessarily mean though I do admit the Snape-worshippers are in need of some tough love.

[jim_smith]

I think Mike's line about hating f_w is meant to originate from Our Heavenly Father Snape. Which is consistent with his formal declaration that his dreamscape wives are forbidden to post there.

I'm sorry, but those people just aren't half as witty as they think they are.

I usually agree, but for me the main attraction isn't the witty banter--it's the pure WTF, which they deliver in massive quantities.

[kirabana]

oh right, sorry. Mike the book blows.

that whole snape thread was hilarious. f_w is the best. how esle would i have known about Msscribe, Cassandra Claire, or Usagi Kou?

[seductivedark]

Hey, thanks again. Loved it.

[takla_makan]

The appeal of Azkaban was the Shrieking Shack scene and all that cool backstory we got about the Marauders, which engendered billions of fanfic bunnies forevermore. (I hate fanfic, though.)

Plus the pr*ank that Sirius played on Snape set up some really hot smackdowns debates over at HPfGU back in the day.

Folks also liked the Snape Busts Harry scene and the Snape Brings Lupin The Potion scene in which there is tons of subtext and tension and junk that Harry of course misses.

Mike, you struck gold.

[lovehonorlife]

Unless Snape regards him as being a boy who routinely gets mixed up in plans dreamed up by slightly smarter individuals.

Seems to be the theme for any book of the series. Harry gets caught up in _________. And it's somebody else's plot, scheme, hobby, or shenigans that the little turd reacts unreasonably to, and completely fails to comprehend. Snape's really got him pegged here, when you think about it.