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[skygiants]

HELLO FRIENDS!

Brief update: got to Chicago safely; got back safely; had amazing time; did not want to leeeeeeave!; am currently ensconced chez chaos_pockets; am having feet pounced by kitten of chaos_pockets, who = CUTEST THING EVER; read That Book, will relate opinions in comments if anyone desperately cares.

Also, I now have sparkly toes and fingers.

Think that covers it.

Comments

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

I desperately care!

[skygiants]

Fair, since I totally just went back and read all yours. *giggles*

Opinion: I really liked it, for the most part! I loved Ron and I loved the Ron development; Lupin's storyline bothered me a little (even apart from, you know, the end), because it ignored all the character traits that I most loved about him; JKR still does not know how to write romance, especially first-person (inexplicably, he thought of Ginny! Huh!) but she is good at writing platonic teenaged banter, so, yay!; I cannot express how glad I am that Dumbledore got complicated backstory, no matter how late in the game it seems to throw it in, because Saintly Dumbledore has always made me want to kick him; the epilogue just made me laugh and want to pat JKR on the head.

Also, I know a lot of people were bothered by the Extended Snarly Quest Scenes in the middle, and they did get a little long, but I am really glad that the difficulties of things like hunger and cold and being dead-end trapped in one place for a long time and how that wears on someone were gone into, and not just brushed over. All it was missing was commentary on the lack of available bathrooms!

[furikku.livejournal.com]

Lupin's storyline bothered me a little (even apart from, you know, the end), because it ignored all the character traits that I most loved about him

THIS WAS MY PROBLEM THANK YOU.

Also, hello sparkly toe buddy! :D

[skygiants]

Hi! *waves sparkly toes in your direction happily*

And . . . yeah. Lupin has always been one of my favorites because he actually manages to remain calm, kind, and reasonable in the face of great great stress! This is something that is rare in the HP books!

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

I cannot express how glad I am that Dumbledore got complicated backstory, no matter how late in the game it seems to throw it in, because Saintly Dumbledore has always made me want to kick him

Word. I love that Albus is fucked inna head now. :D

[skygiants]

Exactly! It was always my opinion that he was fucked in the head, so it is pleasing to me that it is justified. :D

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

HI MIR AND BECCA AND MIR'S KITTEN –

I believe that was the entire message.

[skygiants]

Y HALO THAR! says the kitten, for lo, she must speak in Cat Macroese!

Everyone else just says hi in the normal sane way. HI! :D!!!!!!!

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

HALO FRND!

[newredshoes]

The Chrestomanci book! It is amazing!

Also, whee sparkly!

[skygiants]

SO GOOD I KNOW! Chrestomanci was one of my very top childhood crushes. How far have you read? Will you understand yet if I squee to you about dressing gowns?

[newredshoes]

I just finished Charmed Life at lunchtime, and had to force myself not to start in on The Lives of Christopher Chant until I take the train home!

DRESSING GOWNS, YES INDEED.

[skygiants]

Eeehehehehe. *beaming*

Christopher Chant (in my humble opinion of course) is even better than Charmed Lives. TINY CLISTOFFER. THE PRE-DRESSING-GOWN ERA. CRICKET!

*glees the glee of having made a new convert*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

HELLO!

[skygiants]

HI!

*waves at you with sparkly fingers*

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Hello!!

[skygiants]

Hi!! *sparklinates*

[jothra]

I miss you already.

*tragics*

[skygiants]

MOI AUSSI.

*sneakily smuggles you into suitcase* *. . . back in time*

[genarti]

*pines*

*sans sparkles*

*also WAVES HELLO TO ALL INHABITANTS OF HOUSE, INCLUDING KITTEN*

[skygiants]

Now I am home sans kitten (and Mir) (AND YOU AND ALL) and the world is a sadder place.

*clings*

[genarti]

*clings back*

Why can we not live in an independently wealthy Milliways commune, Becca? Why?

[skygiants]

Because the Fates are CRUEL. *weeps on your shoulder*

(Come on, Fates! You know you'd at least be really really entertained by us? *cheesy smile up at the heavens*)

[genarti]

*shakes fist at the heavens*

(I kinda think they already are. *rueful*

BUT, FATES, YOU WOULD BE MORE ENTERTAINED WERE WE ALL IN ONE PLACE!)

[skygiants]

(...valid point.

STILL. We have made sacrifices to you, Fates! Pieces of our sanity were sent up to you with all due ceremony! YOU MAY RECEIVE MORE!)

[genarti]

(And with all due lack of ceremony! *te... Okay, I was about to write "*tempts*," but possibly that is not the best plan when addressing Fates.)

[genarti]

P.S. Without context, that icon keyword is just plain surreal.