You know, the thing everyone's already talking about.
BTW, the gay thing doesn't mean he can't be with Tonks. Gay dudes go for her, we already have that canon.
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Orochimaru (and Kabuto in relation to Orochimaru)/Polyjuice Questions
I've been thinking about Orochimaru pretty heavily for the past, like, two months--in anime club, we're watching the arc with the Gaara-Naruto and the Orochimaru-Sarutobi fights (and, man, if there's anything I want to see more of, it's Orochimaru-Sarutobi interaction). So, correct me if I've contradicted something in canon or forgotten to take something into account (& argue if you don't agree, :D); this is all how I know the guy.
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About Polyjuice, I wonder how exactly it works: do you turn into them as you are now, or as they were at the time of the hair collection? (We can pretty confidently rule out "as they would be at the age you are now", I think, given what we've seen in canon.) Is there a limited period of use for the hair, if it's to keep its properties? That is, can I cut off all of your hair now and use it over the next fifty years, or will the magic in the hair that lets me change into you wear off after a decade or so? What makes more sense? And was it ever actually stated somewhere that it had to be hair, or am I remembering fanfiction conventions instead of canon? :D
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About Polyjuice, I wonder how exactly it works: do you turn into them as you are now, or as they were at the time of the hair collection? (We can pretty confidently rule out "as they would be at the age you are now", I think, given what we've seen in canon.) Is there a limited period of use for the hair, if it's to keep its properties? That is, can I cut off all of your hair now and use it over the next fifty years, or will the magic in the hair that lets me change into you wear off after a decade or so? What makes more sense? And was it ever actually stated somewhere that it had to be hair, or am I remembering fanfiction conventions instead of canon? :D
HBP II: Still Not Done, but I've skimmed it.
Dude, obviously someone in England had a penny sale on elipses.
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Wrote a little AU Death Note fic here, although it was more an exercise in characterisation and an idea about memory & the death notes than anything else. (I would never have expected L to be the first one of them I'd write about.)
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Wrote a little AU Death Note fic here, although it was more an exercise in characterisation and an idea about memory & the death notes than anything else. (I would never have expected L to be the first one of them I'd write about.)
I Finally Read That Book--Well, Most of It, Anyway
About this time last year, I made a post about how Hermione was almost certainly not going to end up with any boy in the books. Er. Anyway. We all know that love potions work now. :D
A cut-tagged list of thoughts about That New HP Book:
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(But I'm still on chapter 24 or so. Maybe I'll find out what's wrong with Lavender, Tonks, etc. soon enough.)
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This morning, I was all excited to go to math class (we're studying matrix algebra! Which, OK, I did in high school... but this time, we're supposed to be finding out how it's used in economics. <3), but I left home a little late, so I ran to the bus stop. While running, I bruised the ball of my foot, but I managed to get to the bus stop in plenty of time for the 99. I had so much time to spare, in fact, that I had to take out a book to make it pass a little faster. Somehow, while reading, I missed the bus's coming up until it drove straight past me. :/ So I walked quickly down the road to the hospital in order to catch a different bus (the 97), since the next 99, which drops off right in front of uni, was 15 minutes away, and would probably get me there without time to actually get to my class before it started. I managed both to be in time for and to flag down this other bus, and we drove some fifty metres down the street... where we were stopped so that a helicopter could land at the hospital helicopter pad. (After a few minutes of waiting, I got off the bus and walked back to the bus stop so that I could catch the 99: being a little late is better than being a little bit later and out of breath from running.)
Ah, my public transport luck.
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(But I'm still on chapter 24 or so. Maybe I'll find out what's wrong with Lavender, Tonks, etc. soon enough.)
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This morning, I was all excited to go to math class (we're studying matrix algebra! Which, OK, I did in high school... but this time, we're supposed to be finding out how it's used in economics. <3), but I left home a little late, so I ran to the bus stop. While running, I bruised the ball of my foot, but I managed to get to the bus stop in plenty of time for the 99. I had so much time to spare, in fact, that I had to take out a book to make it pass a little faster. Somehow, while reading, I missed the bus's coming up until it drove straight past me. :/ So I walked quickly down the road to the hospital in order to catch a different bus (the 97), since the next 99, which drops off right in front of uni, was 15 minutes away, and would probably get me there without time to actually get to my class before it started. I managed both to be in time for and to flag down this other bus, and we drove some fifty metres down the street... where we were stopped so that a helicopter could land at the hospital helicopter pad. (After a few minutes of waiting, I got off the bus and walked back to the bus stop so that I could catch the 99: being a little late is better than being a little bit later and out of breath from running.)
Ah, my public transport luck.
Near & Mello and That Institute/HP Question
Dude, flour is a magical miracle powder. I had practically no clue before this year that it could be used to make stuff; I knew people kept it in their cupboards, but I wasn't sure for what. I think I might have thought it was used to keep cutting boards floured, or something. Who knows. I might not have thought about it at all. But it turns out flour can make pancakes, brownies, bread, and pizza. I'm kind of in awe. Everything I've eaten today so far started from one packet of flour. This is the coolest thing I've learnt since beginning to try to cook stuff. (I need to make some Yakitate!! Japan icons!)
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Er, in other "Really cool stuff!" news, and I swear I'm not just in a really excitable mood so that everything strikes me as brilliant, I finally read chapter 61 of Death Note, and also read chapter 67. I really missed a lot in not reading 61 before; it goes a long way towards setting up Mello and Near as real characters, as characters one can care about.
(And I'll say here that I'm glad for the existence of those two. I was certain that the tension between L and Light couldn't possibly hold without major changes; my brother and I had predicted the end of the series would come by chapter 60. It really did, too; the series with Mello and Near is not Death Note as we knew it. And, man, was I getting bored of Light/L as we knew it. It got so that I would read any DN fic that sounded interesting unless I suspected it might be Light/L.)
I like Mello and Near a lot. I don't think I like Light as much in the context of this new story as I did in the beginning; he's no longer my favourite character; I actually like Misa a bit more than I like Light, because she's more interesting for me at the moment. I think I like L more than I like Light, actually, although I do like Light more than I like L if I forget about everything after 59. If that makes any sense at all. (It's sort of like the way I like characters in Weiss Kreuz--I wouldn't have liked anyone except Crawford, Manx, and Farfarello in the original series as much as I do if I hadn't watched Glühen first. Seeing them in the light of a different series changes my attitude towards them in the first.)
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They're not as cool as Matsuda, though. (And after 67, I no longer think that Matsuda belongs anywhere but Gryffindor.) Man. <3. I didn't really get the love before, but I do after that stunt.Someone write Sayu/Matsuda/Light/Misa...! It takes a special character to be both brave and self-sacrificing without making me want to gag. :D
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How does finite incantatem work? I mean, do you have to point your wand really accurately? Can the spell read your mind to figure out which other spell you want to stop? Will it stop the last spell your wand cast, or the last spell someone else cast in the area to which it's pointing? Or would it take down all spells (or at least all relatively minor spells) in the immediate vicinity? I imagine that would make for a very dangerous spell in the wizarding world. Even if all spells that were both weak and performed in a specific room in just the past week--and just the ones that lingered in the room in some significant way, too--suddenly uncast, that'd suck.
(I just don't really understand how HP's magic works. Obviously it has some limits, or else no one would ever have to worry about money or about tattered clothing, if he was at all powerful or had powerful friends, but I can't figure out where the limits are.)
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I can't help thinking that that one author who posted the anti-fanfic essay recently must be a bit of a hack, because of one of the things he said: "Fan fiction is a good way to avoid learning how to be a writer. Fan fiction allows the writer to pretend to be creating a story, while using someone else’s world, characters, and plot."
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I've always thought that there's much more to a story than the content. In fact, I won't read a story if I think that all it has is content. If nonfiction or an essay is written badly, I won't read it. Fiction is not an art because it can communicate a point clearly; it's art because it has style. I mean, my lecture notes very clearly communicate a point. I have several shopping lists that communicate a point. I'm hoping to get more than communication of a point from my reading, man. I'm hoping to get literature.
The rest of the things he said were opinions I didn't agree with (and some of them made him seem a little delusional and full of himself), but they didn't necessarily point to any illogic that'd make for bad art. I'm a reader, not amoralist writer; I don't care what goes into a work, as long as what comes out of it is good. The one quote I pointed out does seem to lead to bad art. Someone who thinks that all writers have to do is come up with a world, characters, and a plot is not someone I want to be reading--or at least, the chances that that person would write something I'd not only enjoy but respect as art are very, very low.
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Er, in other "Really cool stuff!" news, and I swear I'm not just in a really excitable mood so that everything strikes me as brilliant, I finally read chapter 61 of Death Note, and also read chapter 67. I really missed a lot in not reading 61 before; it goes a long way towards setting up Mello and Near as real characters, as characters one can care about.
(And I'll say here that I'm glad for the existence of those two. I was certain that the tension between L and Light couldn't possibly hold without major changes; my brother and I had predicted the end of the series would come by chapter 60. It really did, too; the series with Mello and Near is not Death Note as we knew it. And, man, was I getting bored of Light/L as we knew it. It got so that I would read any DN fic that sounded interesting unless I suspected it might be Light/L.)
I like Mello and Near a lot. I don't think I like Light as much in the context of this new story as I did in the beginning; he's no longer my favourite character; I actually like Misa a bit more than I like Light, because she's more interesting for me at the moment. I think I like L more than I like Light, actually, although I do like Light more than I like L if I forget about everything after 59. If that makes any sense at all. (It's sort of like the way I like characters in Weiss Kreuz--I wouldn't have liked anyone except Crawford, Manx, and Farfarello in the original series as much as I do if I hadn't watched Glühen first. Seeing them in the light of a different series changes my attitude towards them in the first.)
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They're not as cool as Matsuda, though. (And after 67, I no longer think that Matsuda belongs anywhere but Gryffindor.) Man. <3. I didn't really get the love before, but I do after that stunt.
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How does finite incantatem work? I mean, do you have to point your wand really accurately? Can the spell read your mind to figure out which other spell you want to stop? Will it stop the last spell your wand cast, or the last spell someone else cast in the area to which it's pointing? Or would it take down all spells (or at least all relatively minor spells) in the immediate vicinity? I imagine that would make for a very dangerous spell in the wizarding world. Even if all spells that were both weak and performed in a specific room in just the past week--and just the ones that lingered in the room in some significant way, too--suddenly uncast, that'd suck.
(I just don't really understand how HP's magic works. Obviously it has some limits, or else no one would ever have to worry about money or about tattered clothing, if he was at all powerful or had powerful friends, but I can't figure out where the limits are.)
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I can't help thinking that that one author who posted the anti-fanfic essay recently must be a bit of a hack, because of one of the things he said: "Fan fiction is a good way to avoid learning how to be a writer. Fan fiction allows the writer to pretend to be creating a story, while using someone else’s world, characters, and plot."
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I've always thought that there's much more to a story than the content. In fact, I won't read a story if I think that all it has is content. If nonfiction or an essay is written badly, I won't read it. Fiction is not an art because it can communicate a point clearly; it's art because it has style. I mean, my lecture notes very clearly communicate a point. I have several shopping lists that communicate a point. I'm hoping to get more than communication of a point from my reading, man. I'm hoping to get literature.
The rest of the things he said were opinions I didn't agree with (and some of them made him seem a little delusional and full of himself), but they didn't necessarily point to any illogic that'd make for bad art. I'm a reader, not a
Housing Non-HP Characters
Inui is like Fred and George, only scary.
After seeing that picture, I started wondering what house Inui would be in. I thought Ravenclaw at first, because. Well. Data. But then I started to think that he might be more suited to Hufflepuff: his way to get back on the regulars and to beat Tezuka is to train extra-hard (...there might be some Slytherin in him, with his giving himself a harder training menu than he gives everyone else) and to gather data about him for years. When he was booted off the regulars, instead of running off for several days to sulk, he immediately asked Ryuuzaki to let him train everyone else. He's all about the hard work, and working together, and knowing his own strengths. And he's mean and unforgiving, just like the canon Hufflepuffs who don't die horribly. :D I still don't know, though.
And then I started wondering about the house affiliations of my other favourite anime and manga characters. Where does Eiji belong--Gryffindor? Tezuka and Oishi can fit in Hufflepuff; Fuji's probably either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw; Ryoma and Yukimura seem Slytherin. Which house is Light in? I can see evidence for any of the four. (Emphasis on justice and on intelligence, god complex, devious powerlust.) What about L? Misa? Matsuda? Mello? WHY DO I WANT TO PUT EVERYONE IN HUFFLEPUFF?
Naruto's a little easier for me.Everyone in Konoha, move directly to Gryffindor. Naruto, Sasuke, Temari, Hinata, and Kiba seem to belong to Gryffindor; Sakura, Orochimaru, and Shikamaru are sorta Ravenclaw; Kabuto's kinda straddling Ravenclaw and Slytherin, but would probably be sorted into the latter with half of the Sound Five; Gaara, Lee, and that Obito kid are pretty Hufflepuffy.
...but what do you think?
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After seeing that picture, I started wondering what house Inui would be in. I thought Ravenclaw at first, because. Well. Data. But then I started to think that he might be more suited to Hufflepuff: his way to get back on the regulars and to beat Tezuka is to train extra-hard (...there might be some Slytherin in him, with his giving himself a harder training menu than he gives everyone else) and to gather data about him for years. When he was booted off the regulars, instead of running off for several days to sulk, he immediately asked Ryuuzaki to let him train everyone else. He's all about the hard work, and working together, and knowing his own strengths. And he's mean and unforgiving, just like the canon Hufflepuffs who don't die horribly. :D I still don't know, though.
And then I started wondering about the house affiliations of my other favourite anime and manga characters. Where does Eiji belong--Gryffindor? Tezuka and Oishi can fit in Hufflepuff; Fuji's probably either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw; Ryoma and Yukimura seem Slytherin. Which house is Light in? I can see evidence for any of the four. (Emphasis on justice and on intelligence, god complex, devious powerlust.) What about L? Misa? Matsuda? Mello? WHY DO I WANT TO PUT EVERYONE IN HUFFLEPUFF?
Naruto's a little easier for me.
...but what do you think?
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