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...but I think I'm rooting for Ten in this one. Come on, guys, please vote for him? ALSO, JON STEWART. :DKLJD:LAS:LAJSL HOW IS HE LOSING IN THIS ROUND??? TO CHANDLER BING??????

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Also, um, remember when I nearly backed out of Azkatraz to go to the Blackhawks convention instead? Well, between Wizziekins being traded and the email I received last night, guess I'll be going after all.

I sent in three programming proposals (in the hopes that perhaps one of them would get picked up), and. Uh. All three of them are now approved? They're not shippy at all, but I hope if you're going to Azkatraz, you'll still consider coming to one of my roundtables for moral support ~~and also because how sad would it be if no one showed up?~~

One of them will basically be a fangirling session for Blaise Zabini (hey, they asked for minor characters :|), another will be about the post-Hogwarts world and how, like, everything went from there to the epilogue (like, what happened to the remaining DEs? The Slytherins? Who was in charge and how did they make sure no one would do a Voldemort again, etc), and the third is about writing magic in Harry Potter (sort of inspired by this) considering all the weird inconsistencies that JKR seems to have created.

And and and. If you DO want to go and are interested and whatever, I'd appreciate it if you could give me, like, suggestions/ideas for what you'd like to discuss about particularly. Thanks! ♥

If you've been living under a rock, you should probably know that LJ has laid off a lot of people, and basically, people are either saying it's the end of LJ or that people are just getting spooked all over again.

The funny thing is, it's actually GJ that bit the dust. :|

Well, whatever, I would rather just make sure I've got my LJ backed up properly. So I remembered my password for insanejournal (username, by the by, is also

slumber, which is also my handle in journalfen), and now I am shopping around for a good back-up program. I'm using a Mac, and I'd prefer it if the program also imported comments from the entries.

Flist, any good ideas/suggestions?

ETA: I have started friending some of you on IJ, which I did oh-so-systematically by friending one person I knew in IJ, and from that person's flist, looking at who else I knew, and from there, well, you get it. :| Haven't backed my LJ up there yet, but yes. You may also leave your IJ/JF username here and I'll get to friending.

I kind of really like RPattz's new haircut. So there.

guys? The HP Lexicon is gone. D: Bring it back bring it back. *cries*

UPDATE: According to this comment it's just changing domains. Keep your fingers crossed!

Since this entry I feel like I can say nothing else that is more interesting or more amusing, so I'll go for the opposite and bore you to tears. ~~See my icon be ironic. Hahaha.~~

I got a part time job starting yesterday and consequently overslept for it.
I have got a major oral and written presentation due next Tuesday and even though it's group work, I'm essentially micromanaging it and I haven't written anything for the paper yet.
I will be out of town on the one weekened before the project. Shall be in New York from Friday to Sunday.
I have 45 minutes until the bus to the downtown campus arrives, and instead of being productive I am contemplating catching up on Heroes. (I probably won't, but I'll likely not be productive either.)
I still need to do my laundry tonight when I get back home at like, 10pm. Fun.

On the bright side:

I had another presentation/homework/project due on Monday which required research, but thankfully the research topic overlapped with what I was already doing for Tuesday, so yesterday I just sent my bits to my groupmates.
I will have money to pay for the swanky ivory coat I ordered. :|
The quarter will soon be over.

QUESTION: If the Harry Potter series were real, and somewhere in an alley between a bookstore and an audio store Diagon Alley bustles to life, and-- wait, hang on.

Which BNF do you think will most likely fit in with the world of Harry Potter and why? :|

Yes, of course this question is important. :| OH MY GOD I THINK I KNOW WHO. *ponders*

Current Mood: lazy
Current Location: dorm
Current Music: heater

Here I present my sordid past. :|

Fandom Relationships Meme
(as stolen from

seneska_bicku)

The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it.
House, because that is what House would do.

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets.
This is likely Yuu Yuu Hakusho, which is my first ever fandom, and you don't really forget your first love, do you? I still remember my reaction when my friend told me that there was a thing called "fanfic" and that people wrote "yaoi". I was outraged, haha. Man. Those were the days. *wanders off for a nostalgic romp*

The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized she really was fucking crazy.
Weiss Kreuz, hands down. No wonder I could never write with this fandom. The cast is just. CRAZY. And the fics are. Yes. I ended up trying, finally, and produced fluff. Helpful. Someday I hope to write my Yohji/Ken, once I figure out the damned spelling of Yohji. (Youji? Yoji?)

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved she doesn't actually live in town.
Oh, huh. Torchwood, I think, considering especially how

ccharlotte and I essentially DID spend a weekend watching the whole series. :| But there is too much intensity and crazy in this universe, and really, I hardly need to write fic for it when it's all played out on-screen. :|

The steady.
Harry Potter. Big surprise.

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with.
This must be Doctor Who. Like. The Doctor. Or the Master. *swoon*

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't.
Queer as Folk, in the sense that I love it, but I really can't do anything more to it. I love Queer as Folk as it is, doing fandomy things to it is... crossing a line, almost.

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool chick except it's never really gone anywhere.
Good Omens, because I love this, and I love the angels, but oh my god I am so not worthy!

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at her and thinking, "her? how the hell did she land all these cool guys?"
Naruto, Prince of Tennis, and the other new anime wave shows, and I don't know. I'm just awed at the extent to which the anime!love spread through HP fandom, I think.

The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly.
Um. I have no idea. :|

The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and who you measure all other potential partners against.
Oh. Still Harry Potter, I'm sorry.

I'm reserving final judgment for OotP after I've read each book, seen their adaptations (except for the Philosopher's Stone, which I'd done reading by the time I got the idea), and then read HBP as well, in time for Deathly Hallows, to get a gist of what was alright in OotP and what bothered me about it, because initial feelings are basically, I can't wrap my head around the logic behind turning the longest book of them all into the shortest film.

But enough of that. I've been reading flist reviews, plenty of which have squeed and woed over certain scenes and stuff, but.

( Here's the time for canon speculation: Has no one else noticed... )

Oh, and while we're at it. If there's any more doubt that Harry's the last Horcrux, let me point you to Chamber of Secrets (bold mine):

"[sic] Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure..."

"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, thunderstruck.

"It certainly seems so."

From Chamber of Secrets, chapter 18, page 333 in the Scholastic paperback edition

You really can't get any more blunt than that, can you?

Current Mood: curious

fandom_counts currently has 23191 members and the number changes every time I refresh. That is rather awesome.
Yeah, yeah, I am SO LATE to the party. Later, in fact, than Mr CEO's attempt at PR management. FAIL, Mr CEO, FAIL. It's not the apology that matters as much as the EXPEDIENCY with which it is received.
What say you, flist? If LJ had never been bought by Six Apart, do you think this would have happened? (I'm not suggesting anything, but hey, if you have any opinions, go ahead. :P)
Although to play devil's advocate, I suppose you can't completely blame Six Apart for wanting to cover their asses. Their lawyers say that LJ would have been held liable for the content of the journals, even though fandom_lawyers say otherwise. This I would like to see in court. Or celebrity death match.
But still. Considering Six Apart's the big boy here (I mean, really, what were they scared of, again? Internet vigilantes? Who don't even use livejournal? If they were going to be scared of people on the intarwebz, they should look to those responsible for putting those dollars in their paychecks. Geez.)
Re: Fandom Unite! efforts, though... Besides fandom_count, which is useful only insofar as at least giving us a count of how many we are, I don't think other efforts will work as well. The size of fandom is its weakness as much as its strength. There are many of us, sure, but we are as scattered in what we'd like done as we are with, you know, the kinks in our user infos, so. *shrugs*
23376 members now. That is pretty awesome. How many do you think we'll get?