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[liptonrm_backup]

You know the only bad thing about the approaching Potterdammerung? That everybody is watching the new movie or preparing for the new book (or, in my case, popping some corn and bunkering down to watch the wank explosion. *scrubs hands in anticipation*) and no one is posting fic.

I want what I want when I want it. Come on guys, indulge my irrational demands.

Yes, yes, I know, my pathetic selfishness will do nothing to sway the variegated currents of fandom. Whatever. ;-)

Had this conversation yesterday:
me: So, I'm in the middle of writing this story and it was only supposed to be Sam keeping Sandy's business card but now it's turned into this thing and I'm almost to the point where Sam is going to have to tell Dean to go away that he can't keep sacrificing his future to hunt things and OMG! Why do I keep doing these things? It's like in my XF crossover that suddenly ended with Sam having the 'Croatoan' vision. What is wrong with me?
BaylorSister: It's okay. You just can't help it. You love angst. I pretend things where I get to buy shiny new clothes, you pretend things where you have to kill off whole families. It's just who you are.
me: *hangs head* You're right. I'm so twisted.
BaylorSister: *pats*

Later that night we had to hold a tiki ritual of our own devising to restore luck because baylorsr killed a cricket in Fangirl Central after we were talking about some very important things. We're really crazy.

Oh, you wanna know what the very important things were? Sorry, can't say anything. Don't want to lay a jinx down after the cricket killing episode.

We also solved all of network TVs problems. It really is a shame that we're not in charge of television.

I finally, after around 2 years of having a copy, picked up Half Blood Prince and started reading it. As a muggle it bothers me that the wizarding community is all arrogant about how they know things that the rest of the world doesn't. It reminds me of this Buffy/SPN crossover I once read that was pretty good (very good Jo characterization) until it showed how the Buffy people considered Hunters to be stupid amateurs who didn't know what they were doing. Attitudes like that are ... bothersome.

Comments

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

OMG stop saying interesting/sekrit things outside of my presence!@!!!

I have discovered chocolate dipped Altoids. Am exceptionally minty fresh and sweet today.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I will try to make us duller but we can't help being interesting. I'M SORRY!

Have only ever heard of chocolate altoids. Apparently I will have to try them as well.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

What's strange about the wizarding world is that their ignorance seems deeper than the muggles' -- after all, their society is hidden from us, but ours is open to all. Don't know if you've gotten to it yet, but I think there's a point in that book when Ron's dad (who's fascinated by muggle technology) longingly wonders "how do airplanes fly?" Well, duh, Mr. Weasely, pick up a book. I wonder sometimes if Rowling has intentionally made the wizarding world seem kind of backward and insular -- like maybe that's why Voldemort is such a threat to them, because they're so deliberately closed off and not open to any fresh knowledge.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

The stupidity of the wizarding world must have been intentional on Rowling's part. She has definite messages with regards to class and society and the detrimental effects of their extreme isolationism is certainly a part of that.

But, seriously, how stupid does the wizarding world have to be? They have a constant influx of people/children who have intimate knowledge of this other world and they never once think to capitalize on it? If they're going to be that deeply stupid then they deserve to be destroyed by some megalonmaniac bent on complete world domination. Morons.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Yours is the third post in a row on my flist that talks about the Potterdammerung. I don't feel as sad about the end of Potter as I did the end of LOTR, so I think I'll join you in the bunker to watch the wank. I'll bring the chips and salsa. :)

Also, my theory as per the seventh book? Snape is good but going to die, Neville is a goner, and Harry will survive. That's what my money is on.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Wow, it took me so long to reply to your comment that the seventh book has been released and devoured by now. I so lose. ;-)

Nah, the end of the Harry Potter saga isn't nearly the same as the end of LotR, but then, LotR is in a league and class all of its own. Nothing will ever compare.

But Potterdamerung is such a fun phrase that I have to use it every reasonable chance I get.

Speaking of, wank should be erupting any second now. I can't wait. *scrubs hands in anticipation*

[shanghai-jim.livejournal.com]

SHE KILLED A CRICKET?!?

doom, doom, doom!

*off to go email her to say just exactly that*

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the tiki ritual SAVED US. Hopefully.

*crosses fingers*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

No new fic. But I was rereading one of my old stories and I have to admit I still like it. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/599029/1/Balance