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Ideas taken here on exactly what is going on in this bit in the DH teaser trailer:
Immediate guess would have been just before "Snape-shaped hole" but it's not night (unless there's something odd going on out the window) and, well, that's just not how I pictured the motion. Other options...?
Immediate guess would have been just before "Snape-shaped hole" but it's not night (unless there's something odd going on out the window) and, well, that's just not how I pictured the motion. Other options...?
I don't like Freewill Astrology. Something about the tone annoys me; I think Rob Brezsny often sounds like he is trying too hard. (Hello, kettle? This is pot.) A number of my friends (on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starlightforest) enjoy it, however, so I simply skim past any posts of it I see.
Today, as I was doing just that toaureantes's post of his horoscope, I felt a twinge that I should go look up my own, which I ignored. After all, I thought, I don't care for Freewill Astrology, and I have a neverending stream of other things to read.
When I reached the bottom of the post, I saw the phrase "fumbling towards ecstasy" in among some reflections on what Brezsny wrote, and there was that twinge again. Deciding to yield to something that had gone to the bother of poking me twice within as many minutes, I looked up the Virgo horoscope for the week:
I already know what one is, at least. I have known for certain since early 1999, consciously suspected it for about a year before that, and can trace its threads back to about 1992 now that I know where to look. It has dark hair and dark eyes and a certain shape and sound and looks at me a certain way, and the character of Severus Snape is only one of a number of instances in my life of this particular template woven so firmly into my psyche that I cannot fail to respond to it.
It was in the presence of another such instance that I first thought that I could be loved and that there was vast beauty in the universe, that I felt a passion and life bubble up inside me and come out as shining strings of words. I know the truth of it in my marrow.
But wait; there's more.
I got turned on to the presence of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandomsecrets sometime during the winter break. I made a couple of my own "secrets" earlier this month and have had them sitting around in my "junk drawer", waiting for either the courage to post them, or a firm decision not to. Every now and again I look at them, idly tweaking the text or its arrangement, pondering whether I really think it likely I would unearth any kindred feeling, or whether it is more likely I would just get mockery. (Like PostSecret, it's anonymous, but it would still hurt, and paranoia says that someone would be able to guess it was me from style or wording.)
Last night I hit on what I thought was a perfect addition to one of them, which tied the whole thing together in terms of both content and design, and summed up the core of the secret. Those magic words, that I thought were so pithy, are the ones at the very bottom right. ( When I read about him... )
I hope the moral of the story is that I was wrong to frame this as a secret because it is not shameful.
starlightforest) enjoy it, however, so I simply skim past any posts of it I see. Today, as I was doing just that to
aureantes's post of his horoscope, I felt a twinge that I should go look up my own, which I ignored. After all, I thought, I don't care for Freewill Astrology, and I have a neverending stream of other things to read. When I reached the bottom of the post, I saw the phrase "fumbling towards ecstasy" in among some reflections on what Brezsny wrote, and there was that twinge again. Deciding to yield to something that had gone to the bother of poking me twice within as many minutes, I looked up the Virgo horoscope for the week:
In 1954, the writer Albert Camus said, "A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened." In the first month of 2008, a humble astrology columnist, yours truly, used Camus' words to direct Virgos towards one of their primary tasks in the year ahead.(Emphasis mine.)
I already know what one is, at least. I have known for certain since early 1999, consciously suspected it for about a year before that, and can trace its threads back to about 1992 now that I know where to look. It has dark hair and dark eyes and a certain shape and sound and looks at me a certain way, and the character of Severus Snape is only one of a number of instances in my life of this particular template woven so firmly into my psyche that I cannot fail to respond to it.
It was in the presence of another such instance that I first thought that I could be loved and that there was vast beauty in the universe, that I felt a passion and life bubble up inside me and come out as shining strings of words. I know the truth of it in my marrow.
But wait; there's more.
I got turned on to the presence of
fandomsecrets sometime during the winter break. I made a couple of my own "secrets" earlier this month and have had them sitting around in my "junk drawer", waiting for either the courage to post them, or a firm decision not to. Every now and again I look at them, idly tweaking the text or its arrangement, pondering whether I really think it likely I would unearth any kindred feeling, or whether it is more likely I would just get mockery. (Like PostSecret, it's anonymous, but it would still hurt, and paranoia says that someone would be able to guess it was me from style or wording.)Last night I hit on what I thought was a perfect addition to one of them, which tied the whole thing together in terms of both content and design, and summed up the core of the secret. Those magic words, that I thought were so pithy, are the ones at the very bottom right. ( When I read about him... )
I hope the moral of the story is that I was wrong to frame this as a secret because it is not shameful.
I don't like Freewill Astrology. Something about the tone annoys me; I think Rob Brezsny often sounds like he is trying too hard. (Hello, kettle? This is pot.) A number of my friends (on starlightforest) enjoy it, however, so I simply skim past any posts of it I see.
Today, as I was doing just that toaureantes's post of his horoscope, I felt a twinge that I should go look up my own, which I ignored. After all, I thought, I don't care for Freewill Astrology, and I have a neverending stream of other things to read.
When I reached the bottom of the post, I saw the phrase "fumbling towards ecstasy" in among some reflections on what Brezsny wrote, and there was that twinge again. Deciding to yield to something that had gone to the bother of poking me twice within as many minutes, I looked up the Virgo horoscope for the week:
I already know what one is, at least. I have known for certain since early 1999, consciously suspected it for about a year before that, and can trace its threads back to about 1992 now that I know where to look. It has dark hair and dark eyes and a certain shape and sound and looks at me a certain way, and the character of Severus Snape is only one of a number of instances in my life of this particular template woven so firmly into my psyche that I cannot fail to respond to it.
It was in the presence of another such instance that I first thought that I could be loved and that there was vast beauty in the universe, that I felt a passion and life bubble up inside me and come out as shining strings of words. I know the truth of it in my marrow.
But wait; there's more.
I got turned on to the presence offandomsecrets sometime during the winter break. I made a couple of my own "secrets" earlier this month and have had them sitting around in my "junk drawer", waiting for either the courage to post them, or a firm decision not to. Every now and again I look at them, idly tweaking the text or its arrangement, pondering whether I really think it likely I would unearth any kindred feeling, or whether it is more likely I would just get mockery. (Like PostSecret, it's anonymous, but it would still hurt, and paranoia says that someone would be able to guess it was me from style or wording.)
Last night I hit on what I thought was a perfect addition to one of them, which tied the whole thing together in terms of both content and design, and summed up the core of the secret. Those magic words, that I thought were so pithy, are the ones at the very bottom right. ( When I read about him... )
I hope the moral of the story is that I was wrong to frame this as a secret because it is not shameful.
starlightforest) enjoy it, however, so I simply skim past any posts of it I see. Today, as I was doing just that to
aureantes's post of his horoscope, I felt a twinge that I should go look up my own, which I ignored. After all, I thought, I don't care for Freewill Astrology, and I have a neverending stream of other things to read. When I reached the bottom of the post, I saw the phrase "fumbling towards ecstasy" in among some reflections on what Brezsny wrote, and there was that twinge again. Deciding to yield to something that had gone to the bother of poking me twice within as many minutes, I looked up the Virgo horoscope for the week:
In 1954, the writer Albert Camus said, "A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened." In the first month of 2008, a humble astrology columnist, yours truly, used Camus' words to direct Virgos towards one of their primary tasks in the year ahead.(Emphasis mine.)
I already know what one is, at least. I have known for certain since early 1999, consciously suspected it for about a year before that, and can trace its threads back to about 1992 now that I know where to look. It has dark hair and dark eyes and a certain shape and sound and looks at me a certain way, and the character of Severus Snape is only one of a number of instances in my life of this particular template woven so firmly into my psyche that I cannot fail to respond to it.
It was in the presence of another such instance that I first thought that I could be loved and that there was vast beauty in the universe, that I felt a passion and life bubble up inside me and come out as shining strings of words. I know the truth of it in my marrow.
But wait; there's more.
I got turned on to the presence of
fandomsecrets sometime during the winter break. I made a couple of my own "secrets" earlier this month and have had them sitting around in my "junk drawer", waiting for either the courage to post them, or a firm decision not to. Every now and again I look at them, idly tweaking the text or its arrangement, pondering whether I really think it likely I would unearth any kindred feeling, or whether it is more likely I would just get mockery. (Like PostSecret, it's anonymous, but it would still hurt, and paranoia says that someone would be able to guess it was me from style or wording.)Last night I hit on what I thought was a perfect addition to one of them, which tied the whole thing together in terms of both content and design, and summed up the core of the secret. Those magic words, that I thought were so pithy, are the ones at the very bottom right. ( When I read about him... )
I hope the moral of the story is that I was wrong to frame this as a secret because it is not shameful.
freeze-frame fun
Oct. 21st, 2007 09:26 pmOuttakes (in a way) from screencapping: ( not that many pictures, but cut for mercy anyway )
freeze-frame fun
Oct. 21st, 2007 09:26 pmOuttakes (in a way) from screencapping: ( not that many pictures, but cut for mercy anyway )
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Oct. 10th, 2007 12:01 amI made a heck of a lot of lolpotters this last weekend. I'll spare you the complete set (you can look at the gallery if you're interested), but here's a few choice ones. xposted to lolpotters and lolsnapes to prof_snape.
(no bigger one for the teaser; the video I took caps from was this small.)
( Read more... )
lolpotters and lolsnapes to prof_snape.(no bigger one for the teaser; the video I took caps from was this small.)
( Read more... )
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Oct. 10th, 2007 12:01 amI made a heck of a lot of lolpotters this last weekend. I'll spare you the complete set (you can look at the gallery if you're interested), but here's a few choice ones. xposted to lolpotters and lolsnapes to prof_snape.
(no bigger one for the teaser; the video I took caps from was this small.)
( Read more... )
lolpotters and lolsnapes to prof_snape.(no bigger one for the teaser; the video I took caps from was this small.)
( Read more... )
*restrains urge to glomp*
Oct. 4th, 2007 06:11 pmpeignoir put me on to rickman-online.net, which has some decent-sized caps of the Snape scenes in OotP. I'm glad they were completist and put up ones of Alec Hopkins too, because this one is making me squee irrationally (...is it even possible to squee rationally?): ( Read more... )(Come on, DVD! Be released!)
[note 11/12/07: this is a version I corrected in Photoshop. Original here.]
*restrains urge to glomp*
Oct. 4th, 2007 06:11 pmpeignoir put me on to rickman-online.net, which has some decent-sized caps of the Snape scenes in OotP. I'm glad they were completist and put up ones of Alec Hopkins too, because this one is making me squee irrationally (...is it even possible to squee rationally?): ( Read more... )(Come on, DVD! Be released!)
[note 11/12/07: this is a version I corrected in Photoshop. Original here.]
"Creating the Vision"
Sep. 21st, 2007 09:59 pmI heard that the bits of footage where Alan Rickman is laughing about something with Michael Gambon which supply the cap for this icon 
(actually, the more common one I've seen is not animated, but I went back through two days of my HP reading filter and couldn't find anyone using it! graah!) were in the bonus material on the PoA DVD, so I've been watching through it (it's in Divination Class > Creating the Vision). ( wherein I burble a little about Snape )
Dan must be laughing about something with Tom in this shot, but that doesn't make his expression any less scary. It's kind of evil.
Anyway, JKR says in this piece that Alfonso Cuarón managed to unknowingly put things in the Prisoner of Azkaban film which foreshadow things in the sixth and seventh books (and at the time she is speaking she mentions five having been published so far). I can't for the life of me think of what specifically she could have been referring to, but maybe my brain just has the dumb. (I don't mean plot-wise -- she seemed to be referring to certain visual elements or something that weren't specifically in the book.) Any guesses?
P.S. Gary Oldman's regular speaking voice is a lot lighter/higher/softer/somethinger than I thought it would be.
(actually, the more common one I've seen is not animated, but I went back through two days of my HP reading filter and couldn't find anyone using it! graah!) were in the bonus material on the PoA DVD, so I've been watching through it (it's in Divination Class > Creating the Vision). ( wherein I burble a little about Snape )Dan must be laughing about something with Tom in this shot, but that doesn't make his expression any less scary. It's kind of evil.
Anyway, JKR says in this piece that Alfonso Cuarón managed to unknowingly put things in the Prisoner of Azkaban film which foreshadow things in the sixth and seventh books (and at the time she is speaking she mentions five having been published so far). I can't for the life of me think of what specifically she could have been referring to, but maybe my brain just has the dumb. (I don't mean plot-wise -- she seemed to be referring to certain visual elements or something that weren't specifically in the book.) Any guesses?
P.S. Gary Oldman's regular speaking voice is a lot lighter/higher/softer/somethinger than I thought it would be.
"Creating the Vision"
Sep. 21st, 2007 09:59 pmI heard that the bits of footage where Alan Rickman is laughing about something with Michael Gambon which supply the cap for this icon (actually, the more common one I've seen is not animated, but I went back through two days of my HP reading filter and couldn't find anyone using it! graah!) were in the bonus material on the PoA DVD, so I've been watching through it (it's in Divination Class > Creating the Vision). ( wherein I burble a little about Snape )
Dan must be laughing about something with Tom in this shot, but that doesn't make his expression any less scary. It's kind of evil.
Anyway, JKR says in this piece that Alfonso Cuarón managed to unknowingly put things in the Prisoner of Azkaban film which foreshadow things in the sixth and seventh books (and at the time she is speaking she mentions five having been published so far). I can't for the life of me think of what specifically she could have been referring to, but maybe my brain just has the dumb. (I don't mean plot-wise -- she seemed to be referring to certain visual elements or something that weren't specifically in the book.) Any guesses?
P.S. Gary Oldman's regular speaking voice is a lot lighter/higher/softer/somethinger than I thought it would be.
(actually, the more common one I've seen is not animated, but I went back through two days of my HP reading filter and couldn't find anyone using it! graah!) were in the bonus material on the PoA DVD, so I've been watching through it (it's in Divination Class > Creating the Vision). ( wherein I burble a little about Snape )Dan must be laughing about something with Tom in this shot, but that doesn't make his expression any less scary. It's kind of evil.
Anyway, JKR says in this piece that Alfonso Cuarón managed to unknowingly put things in the Prisoner of Azkaban film which foreshadow things in the sixth and seventh books (and at the time she is speaking she mentions five having been published so far). I can't for the life of me think of what specifically she could have been referring to, but maybe my brain just has the dumb. (I don't mean plot-wise -- she seemed to be referring to certain visual elements or something that weren't specifically in the book.) Any guesses?
P.S. Gary Oldman's regular speaking voice is a lot lighter/higher/softer/somethinger than I thought it would be.
_youngblood_ started this silliness on prof_snape. I fixed two of xirs which didn't have the canonical font style (the first two - I think the gag in the first one is particularly clever because of its double meaning) and added one myself. I do believe a monster has been created as I found myself writing out the various lol tropes with Mad-Libs-style blanks ("invisible _____", "im in ur _____ ___ing ur ____"...) so as to think of more of them. (I hope there's a good shot in GoF with Snape and Crouch, at least, and better a glimpse of Dumbledore, so I can do "He made you a Veritaserum but I drinked it".)( 7.2 on the lulz scale )
_youngblood_ started this silliness on prof_snape. I fixed two of xirs which didn't have the canonical font style (the first two - I think the gag in the first one is particularly clever because of its double meaning) and added one myself. I do believe a monster has been created as I found myself writing out the various lol tropes with Mad-Libs-style blanks ("invisible _____", "im in ur _____ ___ing ur ____"...) so as to think of more of them. (I hope there's a good shot in GoF with Snape and Crouch, at least, and better a glimpse of Dumbledore, so I can do "He made you a Veritaserum but I drinked it".)( 7.2 on the lulz scale )