Strangeness and Charm

A trio war/post war fanmix using the potter_land prompt "Life"

here at my creative community

• Reply with "Fuck yes fierce ladies (and awesome dudes, too)" and I'll give you four fandoms.
• Write about your favorite character from each fandom.



fauxkaren gave me Doctor Who, Angel, Harry Potter, and Merlin. The quotes used were done from memory, so sorry if they're not completely accurate. And this was done entirely with HTML, so hopefully everything is posted OK (especially the cut!)
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[Poll #1761526]I bought 5 books on my kindle today! A Song of Fire and Ice books 1-4 boxed set for $30 and The Hunger Games for $5. SO EXCITED! I read the first 2 books of the Sookie Stackhouse books. I feel kind of meh about them? I mean, Sookie gets beaten up a bit too much and I always feel awkward reading sex scenes, and some of the stuff is kind of weird. But I have the first 12 books on my kindle so I'll probably keep reading. I love how it took me a really long time to reach my reading goal of 85 last month and in just 13 days I'm TWO books away from my monthly goal of 100. Less computer time really does wonders for my reading.

borg_princess  asked about my favorite ships and why I love them.

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1) A book a month starting Feburary 1st (today!)

2) A weekly discussion post, every Sunday night, alternately hosted by myself and sunny_serenity . We will post the links to the others LJ to make it easy for our respective flists. The first discussion will be posted on herjournal!

3) General discussion will be all things Potter. WARNING: This may be a very pro-H/Hr because that's who we are. Do not feel like you cannot participate because of this. We want as many people to enjoy/share this. There's a reason it's called 'discussion'. Bring your opinions and views.

4) We will probably NOT be reading books 6 & 7 (see previous). As an alternative there may be an epic fanfic read/re-read. Any suggestions are welcome.

5) Be nice or leave. There will be no flaming or bashing of characters or ship. Criticism is OK, but please use your words wisely. This fandom's history has been steeped in enough wank.

Most of my flist ships Harry/Hermione, but there are a few of you who ship Ron/Hermione, or don't mind them.

Lately I've been thinking about it, and thinking about book!Ron/Hermione versus movie!Ron/Hermione.

( spoilers for the books and the movies, including DH )

I had a really nice time yesterday. Well, in the morning I had to do a bunch of schoolwork which wasn't so nice, but in the afternoon my friend's mom picked me up, and my friend's brother was in the car. She took us to In 'N Out (a burger joint) and we got the food to go. Then we went by her house to pick up my friend's little sister (who made me a birthday card that was adorable and so cute!) and my friend's mom gave me my birthday present, the book Ever by Gail Carson Levine. Well, my friend wasn't feeling well so she didn't end up coming with us. The mom said "Oh, by the way, you don't need to pay me back for the ticket. It's your birthday!" and afterwards she made me a delicious smoothie, so it was all really nice.

OK, so the movie. I know a few people were curious what I'd think since I loathed the book, and I'd be happy to tell you, but first let me say something about me. I AM a shipper, but I don't let that define who I am in fandom. Meaning that while I'll be like, "Oh yay! Something for my ship happened" it's not the source of all of my opinions and not what I talk about. My ship can be lovely and amazing and I can still dislike a movie/show/book whatever. Or, my ship could have not had anything happen for them and I'll love the show.book/movie etc.

I can count on one hand the amount of times I've gone on, what I am going to call, a shipper's high. This means I've lost all coherent thoughts about the thing and I have no opinion at all about other stuff because it's all "OMG MY SHIP AAHHHHH"

( incoherent shipper ramblings because I LOVE THESE KIDS )
( actualy somewhat coherant thoughts )