The New Adventures of Old Christine

Okay, it's Harry Potter Reunion month and I pledged to myself to participate!

Info and activities are HERE.

Fandom Roll Call

Names by which I've been known: Danijo (on FictionAlley), danijo1/misscake (on Live Journal), mscake (on Tumblr), ceekling (on Twitter), Christine (pretty much everwhere else).

Its been over 11 years now since I got actively involved in HP fandom, first via FictionAlley (smidge of writing, but also as eMentor and later as a moderator), and then onto LiveJournal. I loved the community we had, the easy way to track and follow people and events, and the ease of interaction.

I'm probably mostly on Tumblr now, mostly into TeenWolf, dabbling in other pop culture-y things, though work has cut into my fandom activities severely.

The husband is an ex now (or at least we are formally separated, but on very friendly terms). The boy is 16 now -- a Junior in High School, an honor roll student, and has obtained a learner's permit to drive. Oh, and have fully recovered from Frankenfoot.

Still a Potterhead at heart though. I re-read the books this summer for the first time in years. Watch the films whenever they are on, have the LEGO Knight Bus proudly displayed on my desk, and wear my Gryffindor colors with pride.

Hope to hear from a lot of all of you over the next few weeks!

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Hey, if you're still out there and reading, head on over to kerryblaze's LJ and check out her post on an HP fandom reunion weekend.

Miss you all and this fandom.

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Posting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of this El Jay! I created it exactly 10 years ago today, which was exactly one month after I joined FictionAlley, which was approximately 8 months after I found Draco Trilogy and began lurking around fandom.

Loads of things have changed in the last 10 years. Thanks for being with me on the ride!

I was always sort of a multi-shipper, with heavy emphasis on H/D. I knew canon would go the way it did but I quite liked reading all sorts of pairings (except anything with Voldie or Lucius).

What was the worst, though, was seeing fans treating each other so awfully over whose interpretation of the text was right.

I will echo what I said on Tumblr, though. I am sincerely glad not to be modding the SCUSA forms over at FAP right now. But I do miss the HP fandom experience and all of you!

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Now that LJ is cooperating, I can edit this in!

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Well done, London! That was fun!


Also, anyone have some good TeenWolf fic?


Also also, hi!

Books:

FINALLY finished A Storm of Swords (aka ASOIAF, book 3). I reached a point in the middle of this book where I was just, "What is the point of all of this?!" and lost interest. But once I only had 3000 300 pages left, I just had to push through to the end. I still really love this world and many of its characters, but omg, GRRM! Brevity! Find some! That said, I really do love how every evil characters has their endearing moments and every "good" character is flawed.

So, this left me free to finally get to Kristin Cashore's Bitterblue which I devoured in a day and a half. I know Kristin really struggled with this book, doing two major rewrites. I was pleased with the final version, but I feel like she could have gone on for 300 more pages and filled in some holes. I guess this is what fanfic is for... so, um, get on that people, because there is currently a dearth of it.

I need to decide if I want to start in on ASOIAF book 4 (A Feast for Crows) next or find something else. Has anyone read the Divergent series by Veronica Roth?

Television:

Game of Thrones: The thing about this show is that it only covers about 30% of the book with 80% accuracy, but the actors are so damn good you really don't care if they throw in stuff that didn't happen in the books or take lines from one character and give them to another.

Glee: Um. I just would really like to understand the writers process on this show. Or if there even is a process or plan. Because it could really be so much more!

White Collar: I was watching the "Bizarro Jerry" episode of Seinfeld and suddenly Jerry's counterpart, Kevin, looked very familiar! It was a young Tim DeKay!! Is it July 10th yet?

Eurovision: Honestly, why is this not broadcast here? I mean, I know we are not in Europe, and we can't vote in it anyway, but this show is so hilariously awful and camp! I can't believe Norway came in last; their singer was so cute!

Films:

We went to see Men in Black III yesterday. Predictable, though it had its funny moments. But yeah, Will and Tommy Lee are definitely showing the 15 years since the first film. TLJ's face in his scenes looked like a mortician had prepped him rather than a makeup artist. Josh Brolin, though, was pitch perfect as a young K.

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Cubicle: the small, squarish or sometimes rectangular space that most office workers occupy during the work day.

Cubical: relating to a cube (a three-dimensional form).





Sorry, but I have seen people using cubical when they mean cubicle far too often recently and it is getting on my last nerve!!!

*deep breath, smoothes down hair*

Rant over.

Carry on.

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Question: Writerly type people, do you always write linearly or do you sometime write a scene that will come much later in your story but is so vivid in your head that you must write it before it disappears?

Squee: Omg, you guys, I am so happy with the new person I hired! 1) She is whipping everything I give her into tip-top shape, and 2) I think she might be a closet fen. We like a lot of the same books and keep discovering new stuff we both like, and she didn't even blink when I mentioned fanfic. I love it when things work out even better than you imagine.

Owies: I am pretty sure that I have plantar fasciitis in my left foot. It's been going on for a couple of months now and I've been ignoring it, but it's not going away. So I am trying anti-inflammatories and icing, but the most common therapy is staying off your feet for up to a week, which is not really possible right now. This getting older shit is really not fun.

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