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valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2011-07-26 01:24 pm

also, I can still recite all the dialogue in the Shrieking Shack sequence

LJ still isn't working for me. LJ, I am so glad I have basically quit you.

In my Harry Potter reread, I am most of the way through Prisoner of Azkaban! I am procrastinating by posting because I'm at the beginning of The Dementor's Kiss, and -- yeah, deep down inside, I am fairly sure that it will never stop being Sirius Black Feelings O'Clock. (Sirius still holds the dubious honor of being the only fictional character whose death made me sob uncontrollably for ten minutes straight.) Another of the ways in which I am procrastinating is by repeatedly going to a page that has you list the top 200 names in Harry Potter in eighteen minutes; it takes me about eight to get to roundabouts 100 names, and then I can coax out another 10 to 20, and then I sit there stumped. I am quite good at most of the students, teachers, Order members, and Death Eaters, but I always forget ghosts and creatures and Founders and backstory folk. I have a stupid goal to get at least 150, but really I should probably just do better things with my life.

I also, help, am doing my reread in that way where I can hear my brain taking fic notes. It is almost exactly ten years since I got into online fandom and fic writing via Harry Potter, though, so instead of resisting I will allow myself whatever revival period I apparently need. Yes, brain, you can write Marauders-era Lily/James/Remus/Sirius, and post-war Harry/Ron/Hermione, and some Ginny fic, and post-war Harry/Draco, and maybe an AU where Sirius gets a happy ending and BLACKS, BLACKS EVERYWHERE, and -- no, help, I feel fifteen again, except this time instead of having a niche I want EVERYTHING.

Never mind, I'm off to have lunch and brave some dementors.
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[personal profile] alwayswondered 2011-07-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
ARGH, THAT GAME. I got 130 on my second attempt but that missed out some of the ones I guessed the first time and I was still missing one name from the first column. But if I don't go to bed now, I'll still be here when the sun comes up. WHAT HAVE YOU STARTED.
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[personal profile] yasaman 2011-07-26 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, I too am permanently stuck at Sirius Black Feelings O'Clock. My love for Sirius Black is all encompassing and kind of crazy. Of all the heartbreaking things in the HP series, I still find the life and death of Sirius to be the most heartbreaking and I swear I will never ever ever be over his fictional death. I've never even been able to bring myself to reread OotP, that's how ridiculous I am.

Yeah, I don't even know, I've stopped even trying to be rational or sensible about my too many feelings about Sirius Black thing.
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[personal profile] yasaman 2011-07-27 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think there has ever been a time I have been rational or sensible about my too many feelings for Sirius Black.

See, I had a period of crisis where I wondered, "Oh god, am I like the especially delusional Snapewives only with Sirius?!" And then I got over it, because no, I had no intention of marrying Sirius on the astral plane. But I still can't cope with Sirius being dead, it's like denial-land in my head where Sirius is alive and happy.

And ahhh, House of Black backstory! I really should get over myself and reread OotP because I really do adore all of the House of Black backstory. I'm absolutely fascinated by the choice Sirius (and Regulus and Andromeda) made to reject their family's ideals.
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[personal profile] januar 2011-07-30 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
All of those writing ideas sounds awesome. Especially the Lily/James/Remus/Sirius one, since I've been contemplating a sedoretu story involving the four of them.
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[personal profile] januar 2011-07-30 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are exactly the pairings I was thinking! :D