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[rhivolution]

A couple of squee-harshingish thoughts, so they are cut, because I honestly don't want to hurt no one. If you want to know what they are generally about before clicking: Harry Potter, SDCC and Twitter, Old Spice Guy/British comedy.

- I wonder if I'm the only person out there who's glad to get the HP movies over and done with. Maybe it's my OCD making me a completest, maybe it's living in Britain, maybe it's the fact that I stopped with Book 5 while I could still mold the series into an image of my own choosing. I dunno.

I do want you all to enjoy yourselves, though. Be careful if you're driving after a midnight screening.

- I may just have to ignore Twitter save for at-replies during Comic-Con because I know too many people who are going to mute them and I am honestly not interested in most of the panels, as I can catch up after the fact. I know, people probably had me on mute for WisCon, so. Not a personal judgment on you, just the facts as I follow 500 people and don't even keep up with that as is.

- The Old Spice Guy is not nearly as funny in Britain. Same advert, no changes, just...has my brain shifted paradigms? Lately, I have been finding Alan the Walls keyboard-playing dog adverts to be fucking hilarious and I don't know why.

Oh, and Matthew wants to say 'hello' to all of you. So he has done that.

Comments

[feverbeats]

You stopped with Book 5, or before it? Because if the former, then man, too late.

[rhivolution]

After. But I liked it at the time, you had to be there.

[feverbeats]

Oh yes, I recall being there.

[torachan]

I'm not happy to see the HP movies over, necessarily, but I'm not torn up over it or excited or anything. I only ever watched the first one, and didn't care much for it, so for me HP was over years ago with book 7. (And while I really love the books, I wasn't torn up over it even then, maybe because I'm too old for them to have been such a huge part of my life the way they were for people younger than me, plus I wasn't really invested in the fandom despite writing fic for it quite often.)

As for Old Spice Man, I have never found him funny. It's still reinforcing rage-making gender shit, just in a hipster ~ironic~ way that supposedly makes it totes okay.