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Hypable: In a new interview conducted by Emma Watson, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling drops a bombshell: She regrets putting Ron and Hermione together.

SO, this is hilarious on so many levels. Such a premium was placed on Being Right About Canon in the HP fandom, including ships, like one got points for correct predictions. Not that it was the ONLY fandom where that happened, of course.

I’ve always been a Harry/Hermione shipper and completely unapologetic about it, with the note that I never expected my ship to be canon, because the Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny was telegraphed from way early on.

However, the smugness of the dude at Mugglenet (don’t remember his name) combined with the attitudes of a lot of people in fandom on both “sides” pretty much guaranteed that I stopped talking about it. I didn’t and still don’t need any of my ships to be canon to enjoy them in fandom, but god it was just a big ball of anger and awkwardness all around.

So I’m going to just say this made me laugh for a full minute, and I’m totally serious when I say that, in the spirit of some of the meanest shit that went down in the HP fandom, if you were one of the people that tried to make ANYONE feel bad for how they enjoyed their canon OR fanon ships, and this is the sort of news that would upset you?

I hope you are a little bit fucking miserable right now. I hope you are weeping and gnashing your teeth a little bit. And I mean that in the meanest way possible, because you totally stole some of my joy from the final HP books, not because my ship wasn’t canon, but because you all sucked the joy out of the fannish room and I will carry that grudge FOREVER.

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I REALLY enjoyed the Day of the Doctor. It was so happy-making and had a kind of… positivity that I haven’t felt in the same way from Who in a while.

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I've recently updated and revamped my skin care and make up routines, and feel like talking about it. I know this won't interest all of you, so feel free to skip if it's not your thing.

Since I'm starting to see the faintest signs of aging on my face, I've actually started a For Real skin care regimen. I'm mostly using Clinique products, as they are of a fairly reasonable price range and I have super oily, olive/yellow undertoned skin with large pores (but weirdly, I rarely break out), and Clinique has decent solutions there, plus I have had good luck with them in the past. I'll be linking to Sephora for the most part.

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Part 2: Makeup coming soon!

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So the Hobbit was very good! I took one of my friends this morning at 11 am and then took her to lunch for a late birthday present. We ran into allysonsedai and her husband and were able to sit with them so that was nice! <3

We saw the 2D, which sounds like a good choice considering some of the reviews I've seen. I'll probably try out the 3D before it goes out of theaters, but I am honestly not a huge fan of 3D movies. I've only seen a handful and it always kind of pulls me out of the experience because of those stupid glasses and me going "wow, that's some crazy 3D action!".

A few notes:

1) It really should be titled "The Hobbit And A Bunch Of Other Shit From the Appendices of LotR", but I suppose that might be ridiculous. :))

2) Structurally, it's The Fellowship of The Ring. Which totally makes sense, but also made it a little boring? In a lot of ways, I felt like I'd already seen this movie, though obviously the material was different. It's not really a complaint so much as an observation.

3) It needed to be about 30 minutes shorter.

4) They could not have picked a better Bilbo Baggins than Martin Freeman. <3

5) The sweeping shots of beautiful New Zealand were so plentiful that I'm sure NZ tourism people were like OMFG YES THANK YOU PETER JACKSON.

There were many times I felt a bit weepy in this movie and most of them were related to Bilbo.

I will wait to fully judge this movie until I've seen the entire trilogy. I absolutely appreciate Fellowship of the Ring more now that the whole trilogy is done, and I have a feeling that I'll feel the same about this one.

Also, I seriously about came up out of my chair cheering for the Star Trek trailer. God, that movie looks so awesome. I hope it lives up to its trailer. I'm not sure I will be able to handle Benedict Cumberbatch's voice vibrating in my chest through movie theater speakers for two hours, but I'm going to really try. :)) B was all "Jesus Christ, I'm going to see that movie" and she does NOT give a shit about Star Trek at all.

ETA: I'd also like to mention that I was completely surprised at my emotional reaction to seeing the opening credits and hearing the opening music for The Hobbit. LotR really touched me 10 years ago, and being back in that seat, giving it a chance to do that again apparently made me have FEELS about it. :))

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The Truth is Out There: “The X-Files” Ended 10 Years Ago & Predicts the End of the World


Ten years ago today the series finale for the X Files aired. I’d barely watched any of season 9, but I tuned in to those last few episodes. I was 21 years old, a junior in college and I loved that show more than anything.

Though I didn’t do much more than read fic and lurk in that fandom from the age of 16 to about 22, the fact that I knew fandom existed came from the X Files and caused me to go looking online when I first read Harry Potter less than a year later. I jumped in there with both feet, and the rest is history.

I remember standing (yes, standing) in front of my TV as those last moments of my beloved show aired, crying like a baby, and sure I’d never love again.

Oh, 21 year old me. If you only had known that the best was yet to come. <3

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1) Saw the Avengers on Friday and it was GREAT FUN! I've never been much of a comic book person, but I usually enjoy the movies made from them even if I don't rush to see them right when they come out. I'm glad I saw this one at the theater, and I would like to see it at least once more before it goes out.

2) Also, in the run up to watching Avengers, I rewatched Iron Man, and I watched Iron Man 2, Captain America, and Thor for the first time. IM2 was great fun, as I assumed. I liked Captain America and Thor more than I thought I would, which was a nice surprise.

3) OMG HOUSE. I have no idea what's going to happen next Monday in the finale, but I spent most of this week's episode curled up in a ball around my pillow going OH GOD and WHAT THE HELL? The show's quality has declined in recent years without a doubt, but I still have a PLACE OF LOVE for it in my heart and will be sad to see it end. I hope it doesn't suck. Series finales always make me cry.

4) Work is CRAY CRAY and I'm mostly keeping up with social networking twice a day. I check in the morning when I wake up and once I get home from work. This means I usually have MASSIVE amounts of Tumblr to go through. LJ is almost depressingly manageable and Twitter has started to drive me insane as my Twitter client on my computer decides how far back I can read with no option to retrieve cut off posts. I might have to start reading on the site again, as I cannot seem to find an option/preference that turns off the whole "loading only last 2 hours of posts" crap. My phone at least allows me to refresh those missing posts.

5) Anyone got a twitter client rec for Macbook?

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Today is my 9th anniversary with regards to LJ. I don't post here as much as I used to, but I still read religiously every day. I've always been kind of crap about commenting, so not much has changed there.

Pretty much every major life experience I've had since the age of 22 has been recorded here in some fashion, and the people I consider my closest friends in this world I met because I asked for an invite code on a mailing list back in 2003. And I'm still meeting new and awesome people. That's kind of crazy in the good way.

Today also, weirdly, marks the 7th anniversary of starting with the company I currently work for. I started out as a staff accountant. It was my second "real job" and I was 9 months out of school. Since then I've held several different positions, seen an increase of 50% from my original starting salary and manage my own department. Which is also kind of crazy.

Work is challenging and frustrating and interesting right now. I've become incredibly cynical about corporate America in the last 7 years, which is quite possibly unavoidable, but I'm also grateful that I have a good job that engages me, even if some mornings find me wanting to hide under the covers and not come out because oh my god insane.

In other news, I'm finishing up season 6 of my West Wing rewatch. I love this show and it is my comfort space. <3

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So I posted on Twitter that I shouldn't have gone through the Benedict Cumberbatch tag on Tumblr, but I saw this post and changed my mind.

The text, for those disinclined to click:

the only cumberbatch i’ve seen at the oscars tonight was during that warhorse clip for gary oldman.

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That has pretty much made my night.

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