Now hold on, I'm gonna press the right pedal harder. I expect us to accelerate.

Anya ,'Showtime'


We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good  

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Steph L. - Jul 28, 2005 10:53:16 am PDT #8717 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

A world of yes! Of course, I've also been wanting them to make real-looking Hogwarts House clothes, and not just for Gryffindor.
I'm *still* looking for a Ravenclaw prefect's badge.

I was just at the library, and they had huge banners for each house hanging in the atrium. I think I squeed just a little bit.


Fay - Jul 28, 2005 10:54:09 am PDT #8718 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I so want a Beauxbatons Patch. Or a Durmstrang Patch. THAT'S the kind of merchandising I like - like being able to buy mugs that are the same shape and design as those used on Star Trek, rather than mugs with Picard on the front. Merchandising that only other hardcore geeks are going to really clock.


Atropa - Jul 28, 2005 10:56:14 am PDT #8719 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Durmstrang patch: [link]

Beauxbatons: [link]

Aaaaand the two-tone silver Hogwarts patch that I just bought: [link]


Lee - Jul 28, 2005 10:59:09 am PDT #8720 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

OOh. I want those. I feel like Fay has first dibs though.


Fay - Jul 28, 2005 10:59:43 am PDT #8721 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

You go for it, love. I can't get 'em, 'cause I don't have a credit card. But I can admire them from a distance.


DebetEsse - Jul 28, 2005 11:01:14 am PDT #8722 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

My problem with the Snape thing is that I'm mostly just tired of Dumbledore swearing up and down the he trusts Snape, without telling anyone why. Maybe she'll explain why telling Harry would have been a Very Bad Thing, but I'll take some convincing (And is there no one else in the Order he can trust with the info, so that, if he dies, it's not lost, and just an issue of faith in Dumbledore). I'm tired of it, and I feel like it's been beaten into the ground, and can't possibly live up to the amount of time she's spent hammering "not evil, just an asshole"


Lee - Jul 28, 2005 11:02:03 am PDT #8723 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

You go for it, love. I can't get 'em, 'cause I don't have a credit card. But I can admire them from a distance.

Or I could buy them both and then send you one if you send me a mailing address.


§ ita § - Jul 28, 2005 11:02:33 am PDT #8724 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dumbledore's the king of not explaining things, though. It's one big reason I don't like him.


Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2005 11:02:46 am PDT #8725 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Anne, that sounds cool.

Debet, I hear you. We'll see.


Fay - Jul 28, 2005 11:06:19 am PDT #8726 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Perkins, you are an angel, but I couldn't put you to such trouble.

...otoh, I may end up using my Dad's Paypal account to buy a Ravenclaw patch, or an Atlantis Patch. Or, and this one REALLY tempts me, a Wormhole Extreme patch.