Looking back, I thought I had alot more things I wanted to talk about, but that's okay.

So first off, I was watching James and the Giant Peach with my mum the other night, what with it being on TV and all. Cripes. I hadn't watched that since I had it on VHS. V. H. S. (I may know all about these newfangled iPods and such, but technology can certainly make anyone feel a little old, even if they aren't.)

But anyway, I remembered a lot more of it than I would have thought; you know, but I totally wasn't humming along with any of the songs or anything like that. I swear. However, I did remember quite vividly that I liked the grasshopper best, and I never had any idea why. Watching it again, it's quite obvious.

Mr. Grasshopper is the British professor-ly type.

And I was, like, six.

That's not weird at all...

So, going down the list, I went to my brother's Court of Honor for Boy Scouts, and I was quite surprised with some familiar faces: kids who are in my english class, in my art class, who poke me in the head, or have a strange shoebox!Sirius/Minerva relationship with my bio teacher... By I also saw a familiar face not from school, but from fandom, by which I mean I saw ickle!Snape's incarnate in the Viking patrol. (Or was it the Liberty Bells...) But anyway, even my friend Amy, who is not a Potterhead, agreed with me. I was like, "OMG Amy, there's this kid that looks just like little!Snape!" "Where?" "I dunno, somewhere- He has shoulder-length, slightly greasy black hair, and a big nose, and is kinda pale and skinny." And immediately she says, "Oh, that's Eli!" ELI = SEV = WINNNNN~

Yesterday, Ms. Beekley took one look at the guys of the english class all grouped together for a project and said, "NO FRICKIN' WAY," as loud as she possibly could.

Tyler said he would play Professor Layton soon. I sort of prodded him in Psych class, talking about how it was very European and nice. Also, I told him about this review I read on the internet, and how it compared PL to the (second?) Die Hard movie, all, "Some of these might give Jeremy Irons a run for his money!" This image will be burned into my mind forever, of Layton jumping out of helicopters and running the Laytonmobile off the side of an overpass. 

Did you know that Tyler owns a pet chinchilla, wants to live in Scandinavia, plans to be a dentist, and likes tea with those funky holiday sugar cookies that come out of a tube?

Speaking of sweets, I ended up making fandom cupcakes for my secret santa person, Kenny. There was a Rebel Alliance (Star Wars) cupcake, a spiderman, Battlestar Galactica, creepyface, star trek, Kid Flash, Green Lantern, two with the Chinese characters for Serenity, and three with "not" "a" "lie." It was pretty great. Unfortunately, Elise brought them back to me in homeroom all, "You forgot your cupcakes! =DDDDDDDD" And I was just like, "DDDDDDDD=" I was up until 11:30 finishing those... I left one for Ms. Colotti, though, the most lovable and adorable art teacher ever (also, probably the most gorgeous.) And then the Flash one was supposed to go to Mr. Muller, but he wasn't there, so I gave it to Mr. Mintz. To which he said, "Awww, you're so sweet!" and I was just like, " ILU =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"

 

lyricalecho

There's this Youtube video of 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes, all from different movies and stuff. It's awesome. I spied some Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Apollo 13, Orli Bloom in something, Robin Hood (the lovely one with Alan,) At World's End, Dead Poet's Society, Galaxy Quest (which also has Alan in it,) and something where Lockart is surprisingly not a Nazi for once.  It's very cool.

I could talk more about Youtube vids, but while I'm on the topic... It's true. Kenneth Branagh, who was Lockhart, has been a Nazi in every other thing I've seen him in. Most recently, I was watching TV when I saw a commercial for Valkirie, and was all "OMG WAZ THAT LOCKHART?" And it was. Speaking of which, I'm usually not into Nazi movies, but this one has the above mentioned, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander... A little Davy/Beckett reunion there. And then I don't know what Eddie Izzard is doing, but he's there.

On the topic of movies? Boy In Striped Pajmas, with David Thewlis? It didn't get very good reviews. DDDDDDD= (To which I say, how bad can it be with Remus in it?)

I'll post some cupcake pictures later, but that's it for now.

stella_muse

1. Prof. Severus Snape (Harry Potter - <333)
2. Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket - NEEEEEEDS A HUG OMG LET ME MAKE IT BETTERRRRRR~)
3. Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - all rolled into one = amazing and cute!)
4. Diego Armando/ Godot (Phoenix Wright - so in need of a hug and so awesome, EEE!)
5. Miles Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright - also occasionally emo, and equally in need of  hug)
6. Remus Lupin (Harry Potter - d'awww, guyz. d'awww.)
7. Abe Sapien (Hellboy - way too cute for a fishman)
8. Prof. Hershel Layton (Prof. Layton and the Curious Village - "A gentleman always puts the lady first." I LOVE THIS GUY~)
9. Alan Rickman (RL, peeps - don't get me started. i'll drool)
10. Neil Patrick Harris (and again - EVEN ELMO LIKES HIM)
11. Dr. Simon Tam (Firefly - awwww, all awkward-y)
12. Billy/ Dr. Horrible (Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog - Biiiiillllllyyyyyyy~)
13. Dick Gumshoe (Phoenix Wright "HIYA PAL!")
14. Hoban Washburn/ Wash (Firefly - "I AM A LEAF ON THE WIND!")
15. Margrave Royston (Havemercy - argh stop being so cute)
16. Balfour (Havemercy - "No one deserves a blue face...")
17. Col. Christopher Brandon (Sense and Sensibility - too cute for a Jane Austen peep)
18. Prince Septimus (Stardust - WAAAAAY TOO MUCH LIKE SNAPE)
19. Dr. James Wilson (House "*chhk* Hoooooouse... This is Gooooood... Refoooooorm your liiiiife...")
20. Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird - EEK SO CUTE AND LAWYER-Y)
21. Com. James Gordon (Batman - driving the Batmobile in Batman Begins? = WIN)
22. Alan Tudyk (because he's cute, and Erika's fangirling makes him grow on me even more)
23. Nathan Fillion (since, you know, he's hot in a cool way and it's funny how he picks on Alan and dirty!cat
24. Anderson Cooper (another RL - CNN - blame my mum)
25. Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Twilight - ANOTHER HOT DOCTOR)
26. Fred/ Geroge Weasley (Harry Potter - as one entry....)
27. Davy Jones (POTC - and obviously I don't mind fishmen)
28. Silas Orello (an OC of mine - so cute and huggable)
29. Benvolio Montague (Romeo and Juilet - eee!!!1!!)
30. Johnny Depp (another RL - he's just so gorram nice)
31. Sydney Carton (Tale of Two Cities - the only reason I liked this book)
32. Gregory Peck (i like old actors, shush)
33. Gregory Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright - eee~)
34. Ayame Sohma (Fruits Basket "=DDDDDDDDDDDDD")
35. Howl (Howl's Moving Castle - HE HAS PLUSHIE ZEBRAS AND DINGLY DANGLIES)
36. Kureno Sohma (Fruits Basket - 'cause I'm a Rooster, anyway, but he does need a hug)
37. Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - I'm conflicted, but he is indeed hotter than Edward AND HE DOESN'T SPARKLE)
38. Kyle Hyde (Hotel Dusk: Room 213 - me and my obscure yet AMAZING DS GAMES)
39. D (NOT RL D - Trace Memory - another incredible DS game; one of my favorite games EVER)
40. Sesshomaru (Inuyasha - I haven't seen this for a while and I should; Ren = <333)
41. Com. James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean - preferrably AWE Norrie)
42. Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice - I just love it, okay?)
43. Katsuya Honda (Fruits Basket - so obscure, and ILU)
44. Cillian Murphy (an actor, albiet not as well known)
45. Wall-E (HE'S A ROBOT, BUT HE'S STILL REALLY CUTE, OKAY?)

I'm typing fast; I have Nano and an english paper and a test and some other things so- yeah.

It was D's real birthday, so we made him cake. It was a new type of cake, however, one that apparently had some sort of tunnel of fudge. Now, we made this bundt cake, and there WAS NO TUNNEL OF FUDGE. This cake was a lie. It was. I almost had a stroke, but indeed it was a lying cake and the cake was indeed a lie.

 ceiling_smiley has very good opinions. About Twilight, about Alan Rickman, about Harry Potter... Generally. (COL. BRANDON ILU)

Ok, here's my Twilight thing. (Possibly my Rant of the Day.) I read the books and I liked them. I didn't love them, but they weren't bad. It was just a regular vampire romance novel, and I'm not all too fond of the genre anyway. But it was still okay, and I counted it under my fandoms. BUT THEN. I started hearing the cry of the fangirls. They got louder, and louder, and more annoying and arrogant than any normal fan would. Why? Because it's all about Edward. Just like High School Musical is popular because girls like to drool over Zac Effron (who was totally in Firefly, BTW!) or because Harry Potter is popular because girls like to drool over Snape- AHAHAHEM WHO SAID THAT? that is why it's so huge. I think. It might have just been the publicity. And you know how they're saying it's the next Harry Potter? IT'S NOT. As lyricalecho said, Twilight's writing is not fantastic, and neither is its plot particularly original. Harry Potter's writing is not all that amazing either, but the characters, and the places and animals and plotline and that entire universe is just that- an entire universe. Harry Potter > Twilight. I'm sorry.

Oh, also? I summed up Twilight for a friend in art who hasn't read it. It went something like, *in a low, yet oddly feminine pitched voice,* "Oh, Bella! I want to suck your blood and kill you horribly, but I love you!" *in a high, squeaky voice* "Oh, Edward! I love you so much, and I really don't care that you're a vampire and could kill me even by accident! Please, Edward! Make me into a vampire like you!" "No, Bella! I could never do that to you! To curse you with my fate is too horrible!" "Oh, Edward, please, bite me, please! I want to be with you foreeeeeeeverrrrrr! <33333333"

Also? What's this I hear about vampire babies? I mean, like, I wouldn't want to spoil Clean Mondays with this, but... Like, you know, wouldn't the guy need actual blood in his body to, you know- ANYWAY. SEE, THIS IS HOW NONSENSICAL TWILIGHT IS. THE VAMPIRES? THEY SPARKLE. FRICKING SPARKLE.

In other news? Tyler likes Benny Goodman. My life is now complete. <3333333333333333333333333 SPEAKING OF WHICH:

I was writing my english paper, and I went over it again only to find how... Well, how shoebox-y it sounded. "And so there I was, raking, with my nose in a terrible upset on account of being half-frozen off. My ears, though they were clamped tightly beneath my hat, were rather irritable as well. My fingers? Don’t get me started. The more I thought about it, the more I was sure that my neighbors’ appendages were in a far better state of well-being than my own." So yeah, that. I hope they get the account up and working again; the whole hacking thing was really the epitome of suckage. *Russians. I told'ja, we gotta go over there and be all, 'Shoo! Git off our eenerneyts now, we got some shoebox to read don'cha know!"

Today in Bio, we were talking about fossil fuels and the cabon cycle and that stuff. My teacher was talking about how decaying animals got buried in bogs and stuff, though the exact phrasing was, "and they sank into the swamp." I laughed hysterically, and no one else got it. But it was so worth it.

Um... I should get back to My Life's Work, as Echo calls it. My Life's Work = Snape!fic. It does seem like that, though. Trust me, I started *and I know* on August 27, 2007. I don't know how I ever survived without Snape.

Which, by the way? I was reading through the earlier Harry Potters just to get some characterization stuff for Sev and all of that? And he was cruel. I mean, really awful and abusive. And I was like, "wow, I had forgotten how horrific he was." But then it mentioned something about him sneezing, and I dove right back into, "D'AWWWW! SEV, ARE YOU GETTING SICK? LEMME GET YOU SOME TEAAAAAAAAA!!!"

But in my story, I killed Snape's cat. D= I know, I know... But I'm nicer to my fic!peeps than Echo is. =p

G2G WRITE NOW GUYZ~
 

I've had no time to really post all the little things that happened this week, for reasons that are neither entertaining nor even interesting.

Today was strange. I almost got mowed over by a runaway wheelchair, I found a lone straight noodle in my lunch of curly ones, and I saw four Teletubbies, a gorilla, a girl covered in caution tape, and a half-naked guy in a Native American headdress. Such was the end of Homecoming.

Also, I was somewhat excited about the presidential debate, and I stayed up late to watch it. The few things I gleaned from it were: that Barack Obama has super shiny shoes, and blinks approximately 82 times a minute, and that John McCain opposes nailing jello to walls.

I gotstella_muse to read Havemercy. She loves it. SUCCESS!

I was in Psychology, and we were talking about Konrad Lorenz, who did that thing with geese and imprinting and stuff. So afterword I went over to this kid, Steven, and said, "Well, that Lorenz guy might have had all these goslings following him around, but at least he didn't juggle them." =D

I had a particularly Snape-y bout of geekery on Wednesday. I went to the Fair again, and I went into the beekeeping place to get some of those honey sticks that rot your teeth. They had an exhibit talking about different kinds of honey taken from bees who had been pollinating different kinds of plants. I saw one jar labeled 'asphodel' and immediately (and nonchalantly) thought, "Oh, if only they had wolfsbane, we could make some Drought of the Living Death!"

Also at the Fair, I saw a 1,400 pound, big-ass pumpkin, and a guy that looked just like Harrison Ford.

My mum is redoing the outside of the house, and she was worrying about the landscape. To D she said, "I know the shorter ones are cheaper, but would the taller ones hide the foundation?" To which I said, "You should get some of each, and have the two-level effect! With a little path down the middle!"

lyricalecho told me to go watch Neil Patrick Harris chatting with Elmo on Sesame Street. I think she was trying to kill me with cute, I swear. I mean... D'AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! *hence the avatar- just a 100x100 taste of otherwise lethal adorableness*

After my last post, LE and I got into a bit of a playful tiff about whether I was correct in using the word "suave" to describe Snape. For future reference, I was using it in the context of being "sophisticated and elegant." I was certainly not using it to say he was a social butterfly- which I find so laughable, I'm wholly guilty of mocking the poor fellow.

Also, there was some joke about Voldemort being green that I can't remember.

Now, I don't think starting a Livejournal just after the first week of school is a very smart thing to do, but I am indeed doing it, because I'm sure I'll find some super amazing fandom-y things at school, right? Riiiiight.

So, I don't know if too many people would actually READ this stuff, and I doubt it, but I'm going to pitch it to you anyway and perhaps find some neat communities and things like that. Because, of course, this is Livejournal and not silly Facebook. X.x

I'll probably be posting random fangirlings, and fandom rants and other things relating to Harry Potter (SNAPE IN PARTICULAR OMG ILU,) Phoenix Wright (especially,) Fruits Basket, Zelda, Monty Python, Avatar: TLA, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (also big right now,) Batman, Miyazaki films, general comic books and other fandoms that I have either forgotten at the moment or will somehow stumble upon later. *wow*

FOR EXAMPLE: It has recently been brought to my attention that my best friend/partner in crime/Remus Lupin fangirllyricalecho's history teacher is able to remember which US state is Nebraska due to its resemblance to Boba Fett's spaceship AS SEEN HERE.

This tidbit of (non)information of course has absolutely NO use in the real world, but we don't really care about that do we? Anyway, later on I'll reiterate my stories from the San Diego Comic Con (which was epic,) my ongoing battle to complete a snape fanfiction (or two or three,) the wonders of creepyface, and maybe you'll even learn the secrets of The List.

"So... That's coming along."