Yubsie's Yammerings

Random thing that Vicki came up with when we were discussing Deathly Hallows. Obviously, Death in the fairytale can't really be Death, since she's too nice and all that. But it makes perfect sense if it's DESIRE disguised as Death. Really, the brothers get what they desire. And look where it gets them. :p

Torchwood is Torchwood. :D I need a Torchwood icon, srsly. :p

( Torchwood spoilers! )

Also, got my Peeves/Marietta FST posted! Yay. :p

So to get the obligatory thing out of the way...

OMIGOD YOU GUYS! DUMBLEDORE IS GAY AND EUROPEAN! :p

Which I wound up arguing with RANDOM PEOPLE at a restaurant today because one of them mentioned it and the others didn't believe her. :p

I just finished the most painful two hours and fifteen minutes of my life. Or at least the most EXCRUCIATINGLY LONG two hours and fifteen minutes. :p In other words, I had to proctor a midterm. We weren't allowed to read, write, play sudoku (even chemistry sudoku!) or even listen to music. All we could do was walk around and watch the students write. Going mad was starting to look like a highly valid option. All I had to entertain me was seeing the fishes. Fifteen minute intervals became exciting because I got to go change the board. :p

I honestly wish I had been WRITING the exam. :p

Oh, and CATS? SO AWESOME! The acrobatics were ridiculous.

QotD

Jello: See, I am sensitive, a good listener, not a superficial boob freak, and I can watch chick flicks
Jello: WHY AREN'T WOMEN THROWING THEMSELVES AT ME!?

Stolen from fireflyfailure

List twelve characters! Don't read my answers until you've listed your own characters if you’re wanting to fill this out later:

1. Death (Sandman)
2. Kaylee (Firefly)
3. Wes Janson (Star Wars)
4. Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter)
5. Kei (Pretear)
6. Carrot Ironfounderson (Discworld)
7. Peeves (Harry Potter)
8. Wash (Firefly)
9. Jaina Solo (Star Wars)
10. Yayoi (Pretear)
11. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
12. Delirium (Sandman)

( Questions and Answers! )

I apparently just keep forgetting to update this thing. So now I will talk about movies that I've seen in the past couple days. :p The first was Transformers. I wanted to see OotP, but Ryan pouted. :p It was surprisingly good though. :p

( LJ Cut for Devi! )

My mother wound up taking me and my siblings to see OotP today, so all was well. :p

( Luna Lovegood and the Harry Potter Movie )

BOOKBOOKBOOK! Deathly Hallows on SATURDAY!

SO, my default icon TOTALLY clashes with the Valentine's Day colour scheme. Thanks LJ, now my eyes are burning. :p

I watched Hogfather today and yesterday. It's so shiny! Teatime's voice is SO CREEPY! And DEATH and Susan were BANG ON. I love both of them SO MUCH. :p My only real complaint about the movie was that Nobby looked much too human. In general though, it was splendidly done. And a lot of my favourite lines were left intact. "They need fantasies to be human. To be the place where falling angel meets rising ape." Pratchett, I love you so.

And the match girl scene! I love that scene SO MUCH. Albert trying to explain why the little match girl is supposed to die and DEATH having NONE OF THAT! "You're not allowed to do that." "But the Hogfather is. The Hogfather gives gifts, and what better gift is there than a future?" LOVE!

Also, there should be a rule against certain songs shuffling up when I'm studying. Nothing quite like studying for a midterm and then suddenly hearing "I wish I could go back to college...". I informed the song that actually, she didn't. :p

Inorganic midterm tomorrow. Hard to study for, but hopefully it won't be deadly. The one from last year looked manageable, at any rate.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Vicki and I were looking at old Grindelwald (a Harry Potter RPG that I used to play in a couple years ago before it died an unfortunate death) stuff last night. We realized that the PB for Padma Patil looked awfully familiar. We eventually realized that she was...

INARA

I'll never be able to look at Padma the same way again. This is SO going in the House Cup.

Oh, and Rent in Italian is AMAZING. :D

Someone wrote a letter to Macleans complaining about the fact that their article about Stephen King et al. begging JKR to not kill Harry had HBP spoilers in it. Someone really needs to tell that person that the statute of limitation on Harry Potter spoilers is CONSIDERABLY less than a year. :p She was talking about how she was pregnant and her eyes wouldn't focus right so she couldn't read the book. What I want to know is how she read the article. :p Also, why anyone thinks that HBP wouldn't be mentioned in an article about potential developments in book seven wouldn't mention stuf from book six. There's something hilarious about a letter to Macleans ending in "You're so mean! I'm like totally mad at you guys now." :p

But yes person, Snape kills Dumbledore on page 595! :p

This is the kind of cover version I don't like, incidently. It's close enough to the original that I keep trying to HEAR the original and get weirded out. If you're going to cover a song, make it cracktastic! (ie, Jonathan Coulton's disturbingly PRETTY "Baby Got Back" or Rockapella's hilarious a capella "Bohemian Rhapsody" :p) But I suppose my musical tastes are a little bit odd. :p

Yeah, this is mostly a GIP. I made a ship icon... with the Stupid Ship Name on it. Not my fault that Neville/Luna has the greatest Stupid Ship Name EVER!

Video viewing was fun, though there weren't a lot of people there. Many a New Day looks really cool. :D

My father doesn't like our answering machine. He's no fun. :p He also has a funny definition of "Not responding to anything for 24 hours" He claims I didn't answer his email, but I hadn't GOTTEN any email from that address in three days. IMing when I'm set as away and calling when I'm out SO don't count. Also, my mother doesn't understand how USELESS the Sackville Hospital is.

Me: You know, Dream doesn’t really come out looking very good on this soundtrack so far
non_horation: LOL
Me: Actually, all things considered, they both come out looking pretty bad
non_horation: LOL
Me: Of course, both sides of this feud are pretty wanky
non_horation: LOL
Me: I wonder what their HP ships would be
non_horation: LOL!
non_horation: Desire is obviously a trioshipper
Me: lol
Me: The whole trio?
non_horation: yes
non_horation: have you never heard of this?
Me: I’ve heard of it
non_horation: I think its Lame Ship Name is "Menage a Trio"
Me: I was just checking that was what you were referring to
non_horation: LOL
Me: Now, Dream’s ship...
Me: What ship screams “HOpeless emo romantic”?
non_horation: H/Hr
Me: LMAO
Me: Dream as a Harmonian
Me: Actually, you know what’s TOTALLY in the library in the Dreaming?
non_horation: LOL, what?
Me: The version of HBP the rest of the fandom seems to have read!
non_horation: LOL!
non_horation: that Harmonian rewrite
non_horation: it sucked so bad :-
Me: lol
Me: BTW, I’m now picturing Dream being all “I will give her writer’s block if she doesn’t make it H/Hr!”
non_horation: LOL!
Me: He’d get bipped for that though
non_horation: LOL
Me: Because Death wants to know how it ends
non_horation: Death ships R/Rh
non_horation: er, Hr
Me: She totally would
Me: Delerium ships Peeves/Hat
non_horation: LOL
non_horation: Destiny ships H/G
Me: Destiny doesn’t ship because he knows what will happen
non_horation: LOL
Me: Despair ships Remus/Sirius
non_horation: LMAO
Me: I’m just trying to figure out Destruction
non_horation: Draco/Pansy?
non_horation: Or Voldemort/Bellatrix
Me: lol
Me: He’s a generally happy and untwisted guy
non_horation: LOL
non_horation: too bad draco isn't cooler
Me: For some reason, I’m thinking, like, Arthur/Molly
non_horation: LOL
Me: Their relationship reminds me of his personality
non_horation: LOL!
Me: We’re such geeks, you know that?
non_horation: LOL
Me: We’re deciding what characters in one fandom would ship in another
non_horation: LOL