Life offers us many challenges. And that's why I'm gonna hide behind the couch.

it's all about the trio :)

i went to the midnight showing with my sister and my nephew. we got there about 8:30 and it was SO awesome. mostly younger kids, but their costumes were so cool! we sat near a group of really nice young girls who were very sweet with my 11 year old nephew and his questions and nattering on. one was moaning myrtle and the other was mad eye moody. they were brilliant! we also saw a girl dressed up as hedwig. so cute!

then i saw it again last night with some friends. and i'm going to see it tonight with the whole family. i'm trying to see it as many times as i can since it's the last time!

anyhow...

i LOVED it! i laughed and cried and everything in between. it was so sad and yet so exciting!

ron was fucking awesome! the kiss cracked me up :) neville was awesome and luna was adorable. harry was so brave and hermione was so sweet.

cried over fred and remus and tonks and the marauders in the forest :( snape will always be a bastard.

my sister and i keep talking about it and this makes us REALLY want to get harry potter tattoos. just have to figure out what.

i don't want this to be the end! *cries*

so it was dragon*con this past weekend. gareth david-lloyd was there.

and apparently there were shenanigans. NAUGHTY shenanigans. naughty SEXIN shenanigans.

*shakes head*


EDIT: it also made for an odd mix of my fandoms, since tom felton's name was also bandied about. well, they do say cons are crazy.

i read an awesome hp fanfic today. i feel kind of bad, because i haven't read any in a REALLY long time, and this reminded me how much i LOVE these boys. it was by one of my favorite authors and her ron is just so absolutely perfect. so i ended up reading a bunch of others as well and i smiled SO MUCH. they just make me so happy :)

then i read another (yes, another) au ai fic tonight. it was also made of awesome. and so funny too! i feel kind of creepy reading rpf, but these two ARE au's, and a good story is a good story, right? and, again, they just leave me feeling extremely happy! so i shouldn't feel bad.

cuz i'm tired of feeling bad. and torchwood just breaks my heart. seriously, the contrast in emotional response between the hp and tw fic i read is ridiculous. and i deserve some fucking happiness.

speaking of torchwood... it is ianto jones' birthday today. and i firmly believe he is alive and well and celebrating spectacularly.

my sister and i went to the midnight showing last night. yay!

it was very good, but i missed a lot since the theatre was FULL of teenagers and they were talking, laughing and screaming thru the whole thing. will go see it again for sure.

still had to get up and go to work this morning, on only 3 hours sleep. is ded of tired.

it was completely different than the book and i didn't cry at all. also... ron is still awesome and rupert was great :)

third torchwood trailer:

another trailer, with only acting eve. i will admit that it is a bit creepy, but it mostly just makes me laugh. okay, the world is NOT going to end. we know this, and so it’s just funny and false to make us actually think that it does or something. and yes, torchwood may be over, but doctor who still goes on, and there is no way that they could ‘destroy the world’ or earth or whatever. it’s overly dramatic and a bit ridiculous and a lot of acting acting eve.


fanfiction & other fandom stuffs:

i get so annoyed with all of the sex in fandom. random pairings “just because” or “i think they are hot” or “an orgy would be SO crazy cool and fun.” i guess i am too old fashioned, because i actually want to see a relationship between characters, and not just an excuse to get them a sexin.

but then that takes us into canon vs. fanon territory, and that is a whole huge slippery slope that i find tricky to navigate. my feelings on all of that are difficult to explain and sometimes hypocritical and extremely varied. and, of course, i believe MY views are the correct views. except when i'm ambivalent.

and then also, there is the whole ot3 thing that people go on about. i am not a fan of threesomes or polyamory, but i know a lot of people are (in fandom and real life). but it makes ME uncomfortable (except again, when i have those exceptions of mine) so i stay away from it. i like monogamy and so that is what i read and enjoy.

EDIT: let me reiterate that it seems almost ALL of fandom is into this whole 'sex with everyone!' mentality, and that is what really annoys me. and i hate the excuse/reason for this being that this show was MADE and/or FOUNDED on the 'fact' that everyone gets it on with everyone (or some such bullshit that i think is bullshit). i just keep seeing it so much and it gets really old really fast. i am obviously an odd duck in this regard, which is fine since i don't actively 'participate' in fandom. and this makes me really glad i don't, because it makes me unreasonably disturbed. (should NOT have read fandom!secrets today - 06.24.09)

EDIT the second: case in point... "and then there was an orgy." i see this SO often and i really can't stand it. was reading a thread on someone's journal today and had to close it once i got to this because EVERYone then agreed and expanded and wanted this and on and on and on. ugh. drives me crazy. (08.01.09)


canon vs fanon:

i prefer fic to be as close to canon as possible. but this is where i tend to be kinda messed up and screwy about things.

my first main pairing is NOT canon. but i still want everything to be as canon as possible. this meant that most of the fic i read was future fic. this pairing could have the true love happily ever after ending, and yet i was okay with a third specific character joining in occasionally, because of the relationship the three characters had. but only as a v. two of them just would NOT work as a pair at ALL. and maybe the fact that they CAN get their happily ever after is why i don't mind other people being in the picture.

my second main pairing is (somewhat) canon. this pairing will NOT have the true love happily ever after ending, and yet i am NOT okay with reading fic where other parties are involved. except on the extremely rare occasion of a threesome, but only with oc's, and it has to be REALLY well done, and i'm still always a little bit squicked. maybe the fact that they CAN'T get their happy ending is why i WANT them to so much, and why i don't like other people being involved. maybe because there is enough angst involved with the situation to begin with, i don't like the additional angst of sharing or jealousy or whatever. they have such a short time together as it is, i want them to make the most of it, with each other.


au:

in my first main fandom, i HATED anything that was au. take them out of that world, and i just didn't give a damn. it was silly and stupid and completely uninteresting to me.

in my second main fandom, i have found i LOVE au fic. again, i think it goes back to the lack of happily ever after in canon. in an au fic, my pairing can have the happily ever after. they can have a 'normal' relationship. plus, you can take the characters out of their original setting and still make it interesting and awesome.



(my explanations are horrible and incomplete, and i find it difficult to properly explain my feelings on stuff like this. but sometimes i just feel like i NEED to explain for some reason. even just to myself. this doesn't ever seem to work)

wow, you stop paying attention and look what happens!

so i saw that rupert grint is in another indie film, which looks to be quite interesting. and then i saw that he was cast in what looks to be a 'major' film with lots of famous people.

this makes me inordinately happy for him. i hope he does well and i wish him the best of success :)

And now... I'm finally gonna post about the book.

Actually, I just wanted to wait until his birthday (today, of course :) so that it was all fitting and everything. Yup, yup I did. Thought that one out ahead of time I did.

*shifty eyes*

( My opinion... )