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Post by j. on Jul 12, 2010 14:33:56 GMT -5
I want lego Harry Potter soooo bad. But I feel like I should wait until I'm done with my summer reading to get it.
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Post by Vixo on Jul 18, 2010 2:06:29 GMT -5
I've been listening to the Jim Dale audiobooks and OH MAN I love them so much! Something about all his voices for the characters makes the whole thing incredibly endearing and oh god they're so cute, I'm on Goblet of Fire now. Is it wrong that I enjoyed listening to the audiobook of Prisoner of Azkaban more than watching the movie? His voice for Sirius, I like a good deal. They're not departed enough from his normal voice to be 'voice acting', I guess, but they relate the characters well, I like 'em (his 'urgent voice' that all characters share is a nice mix between annoying and cute).
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Post by rc on Jul 19, 2010 18:52:03 GMT -5
idk if this gif is old, but someone just posted it on Mark's blog and I just had to share:
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Post by rc on Aug 4, 2010 21:40:46 GMT -5
Guys. GGGGUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYSSSSSSS.........
Tell me you're watching A Very Potter Sequel. It's practically as good as the first one was.
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Post by Adam! on Aug 5, 2010 11:36:56 GMT -5
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Post by Arial on Aug 5, 2010 16:44:22 GMT -5
What do you mean, noooo??? She just got a million times hotter. Good god.
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Post by katherinej on Aug 6, 2010 21:41:34 GMT -5
Ahh! I am so in love with her hair!
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Post by rc on Aug 7, 2010 17:42:26 GMT -5
What do you mean, noooo??? She just got a million times hotter. Good god. No way! I mean, she's still way cute with the short haircut, but she was MEANT for a beautiful head of hair.
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Post by Vixo on Aug 9, 2010 22:05:47 GMT -5
OK, I'm listening to the audiobooks still and they gave Bellatrix a French accent. . .am I missing something? I never thought she would have one. I figured she was English and maybe the guy she married was French but eh. . .whatever, I guess!
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Post by Jessticles on Aug 10, 2010 12:34:58 GMT -5
Yeah, the whole Malfoy family is apparently French descent, not English. I'm a loser.
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Post by Vixo on Aug 11, 2010 18:12:52 GMT -5
I guess I thought since they were on the Black family tree they were English. Oh well.
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Post by Eankam on Aug 11, 2010 23:51:24 GMT -5
This sort of made me choke up earlier. I like it.
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Post by Imhotep on Aug 13, 2010 3:37:09 GMT -5
This is the best Harry Potter related thing. Probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 1:49:14 GMT -5
I really, really love Harry Potter. I, sadly, haven't been reading along with Mark, but I check each day for new reviews and just having the memories flood back is so wonderful.
That being said, I don't know if it's because I'm super crazy emotional right now with all the craziness going on or what, but I teared up just reading the wikipedia entry on Snape. All things Snape just break my heart.
Also, thinking back to the final book, I kind of see that a lot of people were let down by the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort. I guess I can see why people expected something more epic between those two, but it didn't really bother me because I never thought of Harry and Voldemort as that much of an epic clash. Sure, Voldy was, ultimately, the primary antagonist of the books, but I never felt that Harry VS Voldemort was the ultimate point. No part of the books was honestly, truly about defeating Voldemort. It was the backdrop in front of which the real story was told, and I think the more important themes and narratives explored throughout the series are sometimes lost because Harry and Voldemort was viewed as the central conflict of the story and it really, really, wasn't.
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Post by Casey on Sept 6, 2010 13:44:15 GMT -5
Ugh, Mark just read Beyond The Veil
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Post by Arial on Sept 6, 2010 14:16:31 GMT -5
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 15:54:20 GMT -5
I've been dreading that.
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Post by rc on Sept 6, 2010 16:14:02 GMT -5
I just saw. It gave me a sad. I really, really love Harry Potter. I, sadly, haven't been reading along with Mark, but I check each day for new reviews and just having the memories flood back is so wonderful. That being said, I don't know if it's because I'm super crazy emotional right now with all the craziness going on or what, but I teared up just reading the wikipedia entry on Snape. All things Snape just break my heart. Also, thinking back to the final book, I kind of see that a lot of people were let down by the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort. I guess I can see why people expected something more epic between those two, but it didn't really bother me because I never thought of Harry and Voldemort as that much of an epic clash. Sure, Voldy was, ultimately, the primary antagonist of the books, but I never felt that Harry VS Voldemort was the ultimate point. No part of the books was honestly, truly about defeating Voldemort. It was the backdrop in front of which the real story was told, and I think the more important themes and narratives explored throughout the series are sometimes lost because Harry and Voldemort was viewed as the central conflict of the story and it really, really, wasn't. Not only this, but Harry and Voldemort had fought countless times up until the end. Asking for an epic double-edged lightsaber duel discounts everything building up to that point, and undermines the tool Harry actually uses to defeat the dark lord. It was never going to be a clash of spell-casting skill.
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Post by Adam! on Sept 6, 2010 20:14:12 GMT -5
I feel so bad for Mark right now
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Post by Arial on Sept 6, 2010 20:17:01 GMT -5
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Post by Casey on Sept 6, 2010 20:24:18 GMT -5
Reading that chapter now I always feel like Gary Oldman is dead in real life. But he's not, so yay! Honestly though this chapter has had me stressed out for him for weeks.
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Post by kr on Sept 6, 2010 20:25:42 GMT -5
Honestly though this chapter has had me stressed out for him for weeks. Forreal. His review broke my heart, ugh. I'll never forget the first time I read that chapter.
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 21:03:51 GMT -5
Someone posted this in one of their comments as part of the "Sirius party" and I think my head is going to fucking explode, because I already, despite my strong desire to not comment, ended up (with others) going back and forth with this same person about being a complete jackass in a previous entry. I am completely dumbfounded by the fact that any person could then respond to criticism of that image by saying, "I'm sorry, did it offend you? I thought it was safe." literally. My find just fucking exploded. My mindless body had to reconstruct my brain and shove it back into my head just so I could edit this post and tell you that my head go boom.
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Post by Arial on Sept 6, 2010 21:36:28 GMT -5
....the fuck is wrong with people?
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 21:41:57 GMT -5
Seriously, read this fucking comment:
Then look at that image and, in the context of the Harry Potter universe, tell me if that's really what's being conveyed.
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 22:12:01 GMT -5
Critical mass of fury has been reached. Must immediately leave Marks blogs and stop reading comments.
Edit: Actually, it's really not. You know why? Because yeah, it's just the internet. Yeah, it probably isn't going to matter on a grander scale. For most of my life, and sometimes even now, out of some fucked sense of fear, I let shit like that slide. I sit back while people around me say things that aren't okay, that are offensive, and are hurtful and I don't speak up.
It's not wrong to speak up and defend your right to be human. I don't think I was an asshole in that exchange. I wasn't gentle nor did I try to be nauseatingly sweet in order to make my comments sting less. Realizing that you support, even indirectly, any system that allows for people to be treated as subhuman or less than others in any way should fucking sting. It should hurt.
I've done it. Everyone has. When I think about the things I've said or done throughout my life that have aided or increased the suffering of any marginalized person, it hurts. I loathe it. And I know that the fact that it hurts me doesn't matter at all, because it hurts someone else much more, and wallowing in guilt doesn't do a damn thing.
I am a complete and total jackass on so many levels. Even within this community, I know that there are quite a few people who don't like me because of bullshit I pulled in the past (Christian trolling the OMB; gross overreaction to OMB moderation decisions and shutting the 10C off to non-DF among god knows how many other things because I really, really have a tendency to be a jackass.) I know it. I own it. I try every day to be less of that person and use whatever I have at my disposal to not only be better as a person, but try whatever tools I have to improve whatever I can for others, whether they are worse off than I am in any way, shape, or form.
I didn't get the benefit of being called out on a lot of bullshit. There have been very few instances where I've said stupid shit and had someone tell me that what I said was stupid and explain why it was stupid, especially when it comes to larger, socially relevant things. I wish I had, throughout my life, someone doing that more often.
So, I don't know where this post is going or why it exists. The one thing I do know is that I absolutely am not sorry for standing up for my right to be treated as a person and not as an other. To not be used as an insult. Etc, etc. I am not sorry if I ever try to do the same for anyone else. I will never see every comment that deserves to be addressed for what it is and what it ultimately means, but when bullshit happens and it gets pointed out, I will never be sorry for the fact that it was addressed and I will never be sorry that someone stood up for themselves and tried to show someone else that they were wrong.
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Post by Casey on Sept 6, 2010 22:45:39 GMT -5
You weren't P, that girl is clearly an asshole. So is whoever posted this because now I want to just die forever and ever
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 23:10:18 GMT -5
That's so horrible and makes me happy that I did stop reading comments at a certain point because I'm kind of emotionally drained and don't want to be sad or angry any more right now. Good God, this comment (I'm spoilering it because that's a habit I want to get into for things that have the potential to be triggering): OMG I AM INTERNET FAMOUS OMG OMG we are friends (omg am I too happy right now? omg I'M SORRY DON'T JUDGE ME) And I commented on one of the previous chapter reviews that at some point you'd be glad that this is just a book... just saying, I called it. Also, watching the movie where Sirius dies ON 9/11? I find this to be VERY APPROPRIATE AND I APPROVE. ♥ I honestly did not see this because, I guess, my eyes were immediately drawn the above picture posted in a comment immediately after this one. Until someone else pointed it out, I didn't even realize it was there and now that I do I almost wish I didn't. I don't even have the energy to really get into it. I'm so amazed that this person is the 2nd person Mark was talking to in his review. I don't talk to Mark and we aren't friends, but even I know enough to know that he'd want stuff like this as far away from his blog as possible. And also that person that decided the appropriate way to insult Umbridge was to call her a "slut" over and over and then get defensive about it when they got called out. Dolores Umbridge is, a a character, despicable in almost every way possible. There are a million things you can say to express your disdain for her without calling her a "slut", a "bitch", a "whore, etc, etc, and they are all valid. Fuck. And and..I'm glad this stuff typically gets nipped pretty quick, because it's hard to find a place on the internet that has a mainstream appeal without having to wade through rampant bigotry. Edit: It's kind of absurd how many times I've edited this post because new replies aren't really necessary. I just keep editing and editing and editing. I think I should leave the computer and get food, because I'm hungry. Food sounds like a great idea.
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Post by Casey on Sept 6, 2010 23:18:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I didn't realize that was the same girl until Kasper just told me. That doesn't even make sense, it's just the most basic/juvenile LOL 9/11 I AM SO EDGY kind of bullshit EVER EDIT: I didn't see any of the Umbridge stuff, but I am not that surprised it showed up I guess. I'm just glad Mark made it through all these review without doing that "UGH THIS AWFUL WOMAN" kind of bullshit people always do for lady villains. Being a woman is SUCH AN INSULT RITE.
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Post by sbr on Sept 6, 2010 23:36:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's something that is so easy to discuss, but really doesn't get the attention it deserves.
Dolores Umbridge is a terrible person. It has fuck all to do with the fact that she's a woman. No one ever mentions that Voldemort is a man when illustrating how much of a terrible person he is. The is an obvious, larger sociologically relevant reason for this, but there is also the simple fact that it doesn't matter. He's terrible because he's terrible. He does terrible things. The fact that he's male has nothing to do with it, but people refuse to apply that same thought to Umbridge. The fact that she's terrible has to be intertwined with the fact that she's a woman. Even if the two have no relation, it doesn't matter. She's a woman. She's terrible. Thus, the fact that's a woman is as much fair game as the fact that she's terrible. NO. NO. NO. It's not. They are two completely independent aspects of this character; one leads to valid criticism and the other honestly plays very little part in anything that is said or done by or about her in the books. GAH!@
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