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[reenka]

So I've been having more of the writing meets with my friend, though this time by coincidence, we were joined by a DC comicsverse writer friend and I was also writing my H/D novella instead of original fic. Hehe, it's cute 'cause my friend was totally way more excited than I was when she said she heard book 7 will be released this summer & I said it was actually July 21st :D And I showed her Aja's post with the Borders stickers, and she squealed! Even though she thought the Half-blood Prince was Voldemort (ahahah) and so totally didn't get it when I said Harry had a crush on him :>

Anyway, non-fandom people's pure HP love is so cute. ♥. If totally misinformed :)) She was like, 'it's so great to read such a well-written book. LIKE MARGARET ATWOOD' :)) AHAHA I LOVE MY DOPEY RL FRIENDS ♥. (...yeah, she's the one who wants to write like Mercedes Lackey, hehe.)

Man. I'm sorta... ready, I guess. In a really calm, damn-I-have-a-headache-and-can't-get-too-excited-about-anything ('cause I'm so out of it) sort of way. It sort of feels like... it really is true that book 6 & book 7 are going to be two parts of the same book, and I'm ready to finish the bloody book & also to stop seeing fics about horcrux hunting :> I'm a bit mean that way. ^^; Even though the canon's likely to make H/D 'more difficult', well, welcome to my world, where H/D has been pretty damn difficult post-HBP :> It can't get worse, it can only get more settled, which would be a relief. I've really been both excited and messed up by the developments in HBP-- many mixed feelings, especially as to my own personal flaming writer's ennui the last 2 years.

...And it would rock if I did get my shit together enough to be in England for the con when the book came out :D Oh man. I wanna read at least the first chapter in Trafalgar Square as the sun sets... *daydreams*

Comments

[trolleys.livejournal.com]

I think book 7 will be the most H/D-friendly of them all! I dunno, call it a gut feeling. Or wishful thinking, hah... not in terms of the pairing but that it would ensure a more or less intact Draco by the end.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Well, really, nothing can stop H/D-- if he was a zombie, well, Maya could always write more H/D zombie!sex in Azkaban... mmmmm *___*

I think JKR said somewhere she'll include a postscripty last chapter where she'll say what happens in the future to everyone, so we'll get to know what names Harry & Ginny's kids are and everything, I imagine. I feel a sort of sadistic glee, though :>

[dahlia-777.livejournal.com]

Non-fandom people's reactions can be frustrating. I was at work when I heard and I was all "What day is it? Is it a Saturday again? I must make sure I don't have to work a shift that day! Oh, I'm so excited!" And the girl sitting next to me looked at me like I was crazy. "Will you really read it the first day it comes out?" she asked. "Yes, of course, I can hardly wait as it is!!!" I said. It all became clear when she told me she'd only read the first book and hadn't thought much of it :/.

Oh and sorry, but it'll go on sale at midnight in London and it'll be pitch dark. And at that time of night Trafalgar Square will be full of drunks trying to catch buses home. Of course, some of those drunks will be clutching copies of HP. I speak as someone who went on a bar crawl ahead of my midnight book shopping when OOTP came out, and had to wait bloody ages for a bus from Trafalgar Square.

[trolleys.livejournal.com]

I think JKR said somewhere she'll include a postscripty last chapter where she'll say what happens in the future to everyone

*Cackle* It's as if she revels in the thought of the ensuing wankplosion!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

WHY YES, YES I DO (...too, heheh) :D :D IS IT THAT OBVIOUS?? >:D :D I'LL HAVE A WANK PARTY, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE INVITED :D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hehe I think it depends on who you're with! My friend is weirdly almost more excited about HP than I am 'cause it's all so fresh & exciting to her. The other person I was with was like, 'weeeelll, I'd read the first 3 books...' (I think this is rather common-- quitting at some point-- I mean, hey, I do it with other multivolume things). At this point of HP popularity, it's almost odder -not- to be excited for any random person you ask. When I wasn't into HP back when GoF was coming out, I definitely thought so, haha.

I didn't mean I'd wait for it at midnight! I'm too sleepy to read something I'd want a fresh head for by then, so even if I did get it at midnight (which I did with HBP), I would read it the next day. The mania of the exact moment the book comes out is sort of fun, but I've done that several times already, and it's sort of gotten a bit old, I guess? Of course, just getting it in London at any time of day would be so awesome I could cry :D Although possibly not awesome enough to go to Kings Cross just because, for instance. That's the sort of cheesy stuff that comes to mind, though :>

[ishuca.livejournal.com]

dude, i love that you are still so passionate about this. and, since i have been AWOL, how has seattle been treating you?

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I'm surprised you think this is passionate, unless you're comparing me to someone who doesn't care at all! I mean, compared to the Ninja Turtles woman linked in this (http://fangirljen.livejournal.com/222038.html?format=light) post, I'm practically cold as ice :> I was wondering whether to bother posting this, and generally I barely talk about HP anymore, but since my friend was so excited/silly, I thought it'd be cute enough to mention :> It's a bit of inertia, really-- not to say I don't care, 'cause I do. But I get so much more passionate about things :))

Heh, I'm just happy you're back (...if you are). Didja get my card? heh
Umm, it's funny how easy it is to go back to normal-- even though it's still new and exciting and wow when I go outside, I still stay in my room and read manga a lot, trying to get up more energy & do all the stuff I should do, etc. But this February, I finally feel like it's now or never in some weird way, so I'm going to go look at Evergreen and finally get a job if it kills me. Oh, and I've been learning Tarot a bit obsessively and having writing meet-ups where I used to be trying to write original fic, but then I gave up & just started writing fanfic, which is also positive. Maybe. And I keep thinking of getting a cat (more seriously). Generally, it's just cold and and I'm in a basement apartment so I barely get any sunlight... so I feel a bit like I've gone underground for the winter.

And yet... I really love Seattle, my usual issues aside ^^;;