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This Is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. I just can't get it out of my head...

I'm typing up the script I used for Extended Fiction, and I've already noticed two glaring errors. One is a homonym ("here" instead of "hear"), and the other is a similar yet completely different word - the kind of mistake you make in your speech when drunk: I wrote "perspective" instead of "perceptive". I can't believe no one mentioned that out of my entire fiction class!

*Yawn*

Bed now, methinks. I'll continue working on this tomorrow.

By the way, if I've snapped at you over the past couple of days, or if I snap at you over the next couple of days, it's not necessarily because of you. I've been going through rapid and violent mood swings, and I imagine this'll prolly continue over the next few days. It's prolly at least partly due to stress, but prolly also due to brain chemistry. God knows I'm prone to these from time to time.

And before you try to be funny and ask, no I'm not fucking premenstrual. (Neither can I spell. Woo.)

Fandomness.

velvetrain just wrote this great article about the Harry Potter fandom. I was going to leave her a note, but then it started to sound too much like an essay, so I'll write it here.

Her basic hypothesis is that the HP fandom is where the true fans reside, and that anyone not participating in the online fandom isn't really a fan. This sounds harsh, but you should read the whole thing. It makes sense.

I'd never thought of it in that way before, but I agree. Fandom does so much more than just create a lot of fic (mostly badly written) about the same stock characters. The fandom is best when there are variants on a theme, endless improvisations on the same leitmotifs and characters. I like and respect cairnsy not just because she writes awesome fics (which she does), but because of the rants and essays she writes on the characters. It's thanks to her that I respect Percy as much as I do; he's no longer a boring background character, but one of the most tragic characters in the series.

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I'm sorry, I'm sure I had other stuff to say, but it's just melted away (like an ice cube on a summer's day)

In other fandom news, Cassie has just written her wrapup of the CoS US premiere. It's filarious. I had immense difficulty not laughing out loud in the computer rooms at uni.

skylark wrote this post about rabid shippers. I must say that's not for me. I have a few preferred ships, but I find no joy in telling other people their ships are bad/wrong/not canon/whatever. I'll read pretty much any fic, no matter the ship (although I must say het doesn't generally float my boat, and also tends to be badly written - the major reason I shy away), but I'll lose interest if it's written badly. Although I consider Sirius/Remus to be practically canon, it won't stop me reading Sirius/Snape or Remus/Snape (I'm sure I've read at least one well done version of the latter).

Oh, and Jason Isaacs (in that film clip which has subsequently vanished from Counting Down) has finally convinced me that Lucius Malfoy can be sexy and (gasp!) an interesting character. I can't wait til CoS.

More fandomness.

Ah. Now I remember that little misspelt, mistyped Latin phrase that pisses me off so righteously: Per se. Not "per say" or "persay". PER SE. Get it right, people.

Also, as far as I know, the "normalcy" is a uniquely American word. The Brits would use "normality". And in the UK, it's "arse", not "ass". An ass is a donkey.