Dudley and Pansy Parkinson 4eVah!
EXACTLY!!!
We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.
Mal ,'Serenity'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
lisah - Aug 21, 2007 10:20:59 am PDT #2534 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2007 10:23:49 am PDT #2535 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Another story I'd love to read is Snape's POV of 7th year.
Oh, would LOVE to see that.
And while Ginny would probably jump Harry's bones at the first opportunity, I suspect Harry would have to get over some worries about how Ron would react.
Oh its just so TRUE!
You know how Harry kisses Ginny and then leads her out of the common room at the end of Chapter 24 of HBP? I doubt his virginity made it to Chapter 25.
Oh see now, that would be sad. Let them have their happy teenage fumbling... everything is so mysterious and fun. Such a shame to rush that.
Atropa - Aug 21, 2007 10:42:25 am PDT #2536 of 3301
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Luna started a blog
Oh. My. I am now filled with the urge to write that. Sure, the computer part would have to be all handwavium, but the notion of writing Luna's blog entries is nigh irresistible.
Aims - Aug 21, 2007 10:46:03 am PDT #2537 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Luna started a blog
She should also have a bit in each blog called "Luna's Daily Nargle" and it be one thing that irritated her that day.
Ginger - Aug 21, 2007 11:00:54 am PDT #2538 of 3301
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I always thought of butterbeer as being slightly alcoholic, the way rootbeer used to be, back when they used fermentation to make bubbles.
Vortex - Aug 21, 2007 11:05:39 am PDT #2539 of 3301
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Sure, the computer part would have to be all handwavium, but the notion of writing Luna's blog entries is nigh irresistible.
I think that Luna would have some incredible, fanciful description of the computer, a magical lighted tablet or something.
DCJensen - Aug 21, 2007 11:31:51 am PDT #2540 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
So then Butterbeer is alcoholically like the "near beer" or non-alcoholic beer sold here in the US, only better tasting. I think it tops out at .5% alcohol
JZ - Aug 21, 2007 11:42:47 am PDT #2541 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
There's a fermented cola made in the UK (we used to be able to get it at Yum, the local fancy-pants soda boutique, but it has alas closed) with a similar present-but-wee alcohol count. You could try to get drunk on it, but your bladder would burst or you'd go into sugar shock long before you'd gotten even the tiniest buzz off it.
Unless you're a house elf, I suppose.
Fay - Aug 21, 2007 10:35:55 pm PDT #2542 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
And what about Senior Week?! WOOOO (I'm guessing Senior Week is not actually a thing in the UK...but it is funny to imagine them all drunk on wine coolers, sleeping on the beach, getting into drunken epic fight with their best friends, and making out with random dudes from DC...um not that I'd know anything about that kind of a Senior Week. woo)
....there is already more than enough fanfic out there that seems to be under the impression that the UK is America with funny accents - that we live on blocks, have Graduation and Spring Break, that "pants" refers to trousers and...and I think I'm going to need a lie down or a stiff drink. I'm sure that someone somewhere has written this, if you want to go looking.
I too have assumed that butterbeer is similar to shandy, which kids can buy and drink back home (mmmm, shandy! The perfect beverage for a hot summer day!) but which is a half/half mix of beer and lemonade. But of course the name reminds one of butterscotch, and implies a greater degree of sweetness.
Fanfic wishlist? God, SO many things!
Aims - Aug 22, 2007 3:36:15 am PDT #2543 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have to say, the thing that cracks me up about a lot of fic is how what seems to me to be a VERY American author trying to work in the British lexicon to make it seem like the author is British, but gets a little carried away and tries too hard. IME, this leads to shag, shag, shag. Knickers, knickers, mate. SNOG SNOG knickers mate shag shag cup o' tea.