tahariel: (Harry Potter - Ravenclaws smarter)
Amazon are now taking pre-orders for the complete Harry Potter 1-8 blu-ray or DVD collection for £32.30 on Blu-ray or £25.50 on DVD.

RIDICULOUS. Ordered! I only have 1-4 on DVD so this is about the price I'd pay to get the other four ANYWAY if I waited a year after 8 is released, depending on the price drop.
tahariel: (Harry Potter - Ravenclaws smarter)
You guys who like A Very Potter Musical - you may already know this, but the guy who played Harry (Darren Criss) is going to be in Glee from next week onwards. Not sure if he's going to be a full-on regular but I'm pretty psyched about it, what about you?
tahariel: (Harry Potter - Ravenclaws smarter)
Would anyone be interested in a 'cake of the week' feature sort of thing where I tell you what I baked that week, whether it was good and give you the recipe? Because I made these amazing blueberry and poppy seed muffins today and they came out sooooo yummy. Which is why I won't bring them to the picnic, because they're ALL MINE, BWA HA HA HA!


Today's redeeming value brought to you by:





Little Red Courgette by [livejournal.com profile] blamebrampton. Summary: When this season’s purple courgettes are woefully thin, Draco Malfoy thinks it amounts to small beans. Next thing he knows, the Department of Standards is over-run with leeks, Brussels sprouts all sorts of legislative difficulties, and somebody appears to have put a roquette under Harry Potter. Can Draco seize a marrow victory? Or will his plans for peas be squashed?


Tags: harrypotter, harry/draco, slash, fic, futurefic, a:blamebrampton



tahariel: (Harry Potter - Ravenclaws smarter)
So I may have gone and done some flat viewings yesterday. I may have found a really wonderful place that I can afford and has no prior owner so I would be dealing with a company rather than some crazy bitch. I may have made an offer that the agent has assured me will be accepted come Monday. I may already be deciding how I'm going to arrange my furniture, and using the floorplans to estimate what size sofa will fit in the room and where my TV is going to go.


On to today's rec!





Percy Weasley and the Gay Vampire Cult of Oliver Wood by Decembers_falling. Summary: "But LOOK, I am clearly anti-Establishment," Percy said, his new mesh shirt pulled halfway up his chest to show a pretty silver ring in his navel. "The Man hates piercings, I read about this in a magazine." Percy is a bit changed after the Ministry's announcement.


Tags: harrypotter, harrypotter, slash, fic, genre:humour, romancea:decembersfalling



tahariel: (Cloud for brains)
It may sound like my bringing my work home with me, but I've always really enjoyed blindfic. I think it's the way it changes the character's behaviour, and the restrictions it places on them and the people around them - and the way it limits and changes the relationship that builds between them and whichever character is the love interest. As well, in good blindfic, the writer uses other sensory details to bring the world to life, and when it's done well, it's so immersive. I love it. I even tried my hand at it myself, with one of my original projects - it was a fantastic challenge.

What I don't get, though, is why people always seem to feel the need to 'fix' it at the end of the fic, no matter what the original cause of the blindness was. Surely the fact that it is a lifelong disability is the whole point of making the character blind?

It's like I was saying to [livejournal.com profile] ionaonie about an episode of House MD I watched today, in the space of one episode a main character gets a brain tumour, loses her sight, then is 100% cured with no repurcussions. Medicine doesn't work like that,, and while professionally I wish it did, narratively it never should. There should be no easy-outs.

I went to try and find a blindfic on my delicious for today's daily rec, but found that I have been remiss in my tagging and couldn't find the one I wanted. So, have this one instead! It's deep and painful and beautiful, and though the pairing seems impossible, Julad is a clever enough writer to make it seem inevitable.






Night-blooming Heartsease by [livejournal.com profile] julad. Extract: Eventually Snape did appear, and he had that washed-out look of people who've done too much apparating. He ignored Neville and tore open his sack, inspecting what was inside.


Tags: harrypotter, snape/neville, slash, fic, angst, a:julad



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