broadcast me a joyful noise

dopplegl owes me icons :D

( I have never actually written these characters before. THEY ARE SURPRISINGLY DIFFICULT. )

For those who haven't heard (are there any of you left?) - Dumbledore/Grindelwald is canon.

I'll repost my initial (slightly grouchy) reaction to this, from a comment in Aria's journal:

'Wow, I would have had a LOT fewer secret gripes about the heterocentric HP-verse if she had bothered to tell us that before. If Harry's Heroic And Powerful (Though Flawed) Role Model throughout the whole frigging series was gay, that's a statement of some kind or other, even if it's fairly incidental to Dumbledore's importance as a character. So...I guess I can see why she would have kept quiet about it, even though the 'oh, I would have told you years ago! tra la!' thing just reeks of hypocrisy. She knows her fans, she knows fandom, and if she was really invested in making them squeal and not in avoiding the potential alienation of the conservative parental market, she would have told us years ago.'

I mean, I have no problem at all with the fact that Rowling waited for the series to end and then sprang a revelation like this - it means that the fact of sexuality just gets added to what we already know, rather than colouring the reading of the book, and that's fine. It's her playing coy with authorial intent that rubs me the wrong way.

HOWEVER, let it not be said that I am one to spend ages staring a gift horse in the mouth or any other unappealingly bestial metaphors. EVEN IF IT'S NOT REMUS/SIRUS (bitter? me? okay, maybe a little), IT'S GAY CANON! Considering the huge public profile & popularity of the books, this is a great thing.

Does anyone who's been actually following the pairing have any fic or art recs? I know I read one fic a while back about sex on a chair and the use of spells, but I forgot to bookmark it because I am a FOOL. Located! Hallowing Lions by wired_lizard.

So I read OotP yesterday afternoon, and then HBP this afternoon, and resultantly my best friend has accused me of being a robot. How charming of her.

DISOWNED, Tink. For the billionth time :D

Right, right, reaction. Not very profound, I am sickasadog and didn't really make any notes as I was reading.

( Or possibly there was a thing with fairy godmothers )

So today I washed my hair and forgot that I had a work shift and hastily shoved it into waist-length plaits and then got home and collapsed and let it out.

And it is WAVY, dear lord, the WAVY. We're talking not only launching a thousand ships here but also conveniently transporting them to the walled up city of their choice, though if Eric Bana is involved I'll take it as some measure of consolation.

WAVY NAVY *runs*

In other news, I need to open a new bank account and contact my scholarship office about transferring payment and make a list of Essential Groceries and buy a new watch and some phone credit and locate some more cardboard boxes and oh dear why did I agree to become an adult? Is there some sort of refund program I can take advantage of? For exchange: one set responsibilies, as new. Mostly intact. Will also accept cash or sexual favours.

I need new friends! New people to chat to! Possibly I should stop sekritly stalking some people's journals and actually contact them, but I have Rejection Issues and maybe I should get drunk first. Except no, because I'm on a weird Healthy!Eating!Thing! where I stop furtively living on turkish delight chocolate and start drinking water and lots of tea and am surrounded by beautiful pastries at work for six painful hours and only eat a small multigrain roll.

Um. Someone can start singing 'mad dogs and Englishmen' now. With much emphasis on the Australian midday sun, its effect on impressionable English minds, etc.

As an experience, madness is terrific... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

- Virginia Woolf

*casts about for a distraction*

( Cookie! )

*More Woolf. Irony is the new black.