it's a magical world

It's been a very long couple of days. I got three hours of sleep last night before having to haul myself out of bed for an eight-hour shift house managing, and then I got distracted by a Borders on my way home for a while. I'm finally now checking my flist for the first time today, and realize, hey! Remix reveal!

So, yes. I am responsible for Staging (Rebel Without a Cause), a remix of thedeadparrot's most excellent fic Stage Five. I must have spent DAYS reading and rereading her House fics for something I could remix without making an utter ass of myself, and I kept coming back to that one, so. I'm not good at remixing, but I'm a lot happier with this remix than I usually am, so that's good.

Also! I should have flailed about this earlier, but remixes were posted while I was doing Passover, and it just slipped past. rian219 remixed my fic Logical Deduction as Gravitation (The Logical Conclusion Remix), and it is TWELVE THOUSAND KINDS OF AWESOME. She took my silly crack-addled Sirius!fic and made it aching and funny and brilliant and REMUS, and I am kind of in love. If you read this, rian, THANK YOU.

I can has sleep now?

(Also, BSG? OMGWTFCHIEF & CHIEF/BOOMER. That is all.)

ALSO. I was rereading parts of Deathly Hallows to keep track of all the Remus bits, and it really needs to be mentioned how much I love ( this DH spoiler )

OotP definitely improves upon second viewing, and considering that I liked it a fair bit the first time...yeah. The things that bothered me last time weren't nearly as annoying, if only because I was prepared for them, and the good bits just got better, and I noticed lots of subtle nifty details and suchlike that I missed the first time. Still think PoA will remain my favorite of the movies, but not bad, not bad at all.

Also, memo to self: posting fic on a Saturday afternoon is very, very silly, as no one is on LJ then.

The boyfriend and I have tickets to the midnight showing of OotP. It's weird, I'm more excited about this movie than about book 7. Possibly because movie 5 promises lots of Sirius and Remus, which book 7 certainly doesn't. (Well, no Sirius, anyway. Ought to be some Remus, although probably nowhere near as much as I'd like.) But also? I don't particularly want the series to end. It's more fun this way, the sense that the possibilities are endless. I don't want to be told what happens, I want to make it up for myself!

I realize that not everyone shares my love of ambiguous or unresolved "endings", and I know I'll still probably read the entirety of book 7 in the space of a day. But yeah. I don't like endings. Especially when I know at least one character I'm fond of is going to kick the bucket, and that's going to piss me off.

I've seen a couple of other people doing this, so...( my Deathly Hallows predictions/speculations; no actual spoilers, obviously, as I haven't read the dratted thing yet )

Y'know, this is why I usually stick to my OTPs. Because when you've already spent 6600 words trying to work things up to the point where two characters (read: Harry and Draco) could conceivably fall in love or at least into bed together and you're not sure how much more there is to go but it's more than a little, then clearly, these two characters were NEVER MEANT TO BE PAIRED.

And this isn't even for a ficathon. This is just an experiment for MYSELF. An experiment which has lasted nearly eight months now and is bloody well going to be finished before book 7 comes out and fucks up my personal interpretation of what-happens-next.

Although I did just write a scene of which I'm rather fond, but still. How can this POSSIBLY be such a popular pairing, when it takes so much build-up to believably transform their relationship into anything even remotely romantic? Bah.

On the off-chance that there are people on my flist who live under a rock, someone's compiling a massive amount of HP fic recs, hpficmasterlist. So. Rec fics! The original rec post (plus explanation) is here and a second is in progress here. And I've seen several excellent fics that still need a couple of supporting comments to make the masterlist, so while it takes a while to sort through all the comments, it's very worth it. Plus, lots of fics! That you haven't read yet!

A masterlist like this would be fantastic, given the ginormousness of the fandom and the difficulty of finding the good stuff, so if you're into the HP fandom at all, you should check it out.

Right. As you were.

So! Yes. I was responsible for Faintly Falling, a Remus/Sirius what is a remix of kenazfiction's Neither Sign Nor Symbol. The original is better. Go forth and check it out.

And penknife wrote a most splendiferous remix of my fic 'Can't Run But', which is probably better than mine, which looks at both Regulus and Draco from Snape's POV and actually tells the story in a linear fashion, making my love of flashbacks look rather silly. Read it! It's here.

In other news, I met up with siochan on Saturday, who is most lovely, even if she is a Viggorli shipper. :P We watched a truly insane amount of QAF US and wandered about and saw Inside Man. See it, it's a lot of fun, although I was hoping for a bit more of a twist at the end. And at soem point we hung out with smittenrosebud for a bit as well. I should meet up with my LJ friends more often, they're much more fun than normal people.

Oy. I should be writing my essay. And yet.

Saw GoF, again. I have no willpower.

But oh, man. If I'm aready bawling my eyes out over Cedric Diggory, a character I don't really care about, then I am going to be a WRECK at the end of the OotP film. Just sayin'.

Oh the brilliance! There's a clip from the GoF movie here and it is so much with the awesomeness and hilarity. You must all click and see.

Er. Unless you're spoiler-free. In which case, well, you rather obviously shouldn't. Because a clip from the movie would probably constitute a big honking spoiler.

Do ALL of Voldemort's followers get snazzy Dark Marks, or just his most hardcore minions? I mean, back in the first war, when the members of the original Order of the Phoenix were all scared and dying off and suspecting each other, wouldn't it have been easier for Dumbledore to just make everyone roll up their sleeves and check for spies? Or did Peter not have a Dark Mark?

Finally got it this morning. Just finished it. Haven't been on LJ since Friday because, well, avoidance of spoilers. ( and here there be spoilers )

Oh, dear. Sims 2 really does eat your brain, doesn't it? *plays instead of doing homework*

Except I did the stupid thing and decided to start each of the Marauders as children with their parents and siblings and such, which means it'll be ages and ages until they're old enough to start shagging each other. *facepalm* MY fandom is pixelated OMG.