For plot-related reasons, I'm sure.

[pauraque_bk]

First. I call your attention to my new icon. alejandradd made it from this delicious crax. All hail.

Second. After the birthday discussion, tourniquette99 put up a poll on astrology in HP.

Third. Last night I re-read amanuensis1's A Spell To Turn Tigers To Butter (NC-17), and afterwards had a dream related to it. Lucius was there. Amy was too! Not entirely sure of the details.

Fourth. I'm starting to re-read OotP -- just a quick go-over so that it's fresh in my mind for July -- and it strikes me how talky the first few chapters are. So much dialogue, both exposition and cutesy character establishment. There are things I love about the beginning of this book -- the exchanges between Harry and Dudley, the whole world-collision sequence with the Dursleys -- but it does take its time getting to the part where things actually happen. I still don't like Tonks: Too cute, too little to do. Lupin, though? Love him in this book. His entrance made me feel all fuzzy.

Fifth. I've finally caught up on Lost. I powered through the last two eps of the season tonight, which made three straight hours of TV, but once I started I couldn't stop. *woozy* When I was a kid, I could watch TV all day, but those days are ooooover. Hurley is my hero.

That is all.

Comments

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

We're still giggling over Hurley's panic attack when he saw the numbers. Absolutely precious!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

You dreamt about a fic of mine??

Wow. I don't think I've ever been so proud of anything.

[pauraque]

You know, I've been miserably remiss in telling you how much I love your fics. They get in my brain, man! In a very good way. *g*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* Awww, you make me squee. ^_^

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

vibrations that will penetrate through the dance floor

Ha! I see a tagline in that future.

[timba.livejournal.com]

I dunno if you know this, but there's a_chapter_a_day and we're currently on Ch. 5 of OotP.

:)

[pauraque]

I did know that, actually! Hopefully I can stay caught up and maybe participate if I have time.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I was so pleasantly surprised by the way they handled Hurley. I loved him from the beginning and when they finally gave him a storyline it was the best one! Don't blow it up! The numbers are bad!

I remember even the first time in OotP feeling it was taking an awfully long time to just get to school, what with all the cleaning and all. I just found Tonks' intro awkward too, like something out of a sitcom pilot to show you who this person is.

[pauraque]

I really liked that when Hurley's told he has to buy a second plane ticket, it wasn't played against him for a cheap laugh.

Tonks is continuing to annoy me as I read on... She has quite a lot of dialogue, mostly unnecessary. There are so many important characters in play already -- the kids, Sirius, Remus, Arthur, Molly -- that it just feels like Tonks is taking up "screen time".

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

ITA about Hurley. That really shocked me because how many people would have been able to cough up the money for a second ticket from Australia to the US? Those things are expensive! And yet I can also understand that with the size of airplane seats, it's really impractical to pretend a guy Hurley's size can fit in just one.

[jheaton.livejournal.com]

Great icon! I'd like to think Clark is dancing to the same song he's singing in my icon.