Almost a full hour of aural dread.

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I am so grateful for you, dearest writer. Thank you for signing up for this year's Yuletide! A small disclaimer: there is no pressure to conform to these requests exactly. Merely take them as suggestions; I’ll leave the adventure of writing up to you.

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Hey, look! I found a previously unreleased IB promo picture! It's Shosanna and Fredrick, natch.



(You are the best, and I am so very grateful that we're friends. I LOVE YOU.)

Tags: flist love, killin' nazis
Current Mood: amused

Tags: television

It's rained here a ton over the past week. That means, MUSHROOM PARTY!!!!!


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Current Music: josh ritter - the curse

I didn't know I needed this music in my life. Now I don't know how to live without it.

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I blame this entirely on tumblr, Ed Stoppard's face, and Persie's fabulous lipstick.

what you'd rather hear
Sir Hallam and Lady Persie.

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Current Music: joanna newsom - have one on me

Alyssa Rosenberg via The Atlantic:

My great love is for Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends, a girl born to human parents with magical abilities, who I believe is perhaps the greatest and most progressive popular romantic heroine of a generation. When makeover narratives were the single most prevalent romantic storyline in popular culture, Hermione got the guy in the library, dressed up for the Yule Ball, and returned placidly to her regular routine. Hermione didn't transform herself because she never particularly felt the need to be transformed.

Her concern for house elves—magical creatures who are essentially wizards' slaves—started out as comedy and ended up as the early articulation of the novels' great moral concerns for equality, as well as one of the most moving sequences (and some of the best writing) of Deathly Hallows. Ultimately it is she, rather than Ron or Harry, who undergoes real and prolonged torture at the hands of the Death Eaters, and it's she who survives that torture with her dignity and her friends' secrets intact.

The things that make Hermione a scold, a nerd, a pain, a victim in the early pages of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone are the things that make her a heroic, lovable woman. What changes is how she expresses her intellectualism and her social convictions.

Tags: potter potter potter, them womens, things i could have written
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: warpaint - bees

(My apologies for posting this so late! Thanks for your patience.)

SO, YULETIDE:

1. Yuletide is something I look forward to all year, so I can’t thank you enough for being involved. You rock!
2. I’m in awe of people who can construct intricate, well-paced, and gripping plots, but atmosphere and character are the two parts of storycraft that I really, really love. Play with them as you wish.

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lol my life.

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Current Mood: cold