BSG....

( Spoileriffic )

Oh, and I've long since been developing these tiny pinpricks of blisters on the tips of my fingers. They're hard, and they don't act like blisters until I finally get annoyed and stab them with a needle. I don't feel it unless I touch the skin outside of the blister, and water dribbles out once the blister is stabbed. I wonder if I should worry about this.

Several voice mails, from when I got this phone...

And hardly any of them are for me. They're all for Judy.

I don't know Judy. I don't *want* to know Judy. I want Judy's friends to wake up and realize her cell phone number has changed.

She has a kid named Michael. One of her friends lost her job recently. She goes antiquing. Her friends have bad taste in movies, but they know it. She is no doubt missing appointments because nobody has realized that her number has changed. I tried telling one of them that. They called back, twice within half an hour. I didn't pick up. No need to waste my minutes on people who are sure that this is Judy's number.

Magical lifespan in Harry Potter

( This is the lifespan of magic, not of wizards )

A rant about a popular rant....

Many people are claiming that it is impossible for the characters in HPB to be "ooc" because, after all, JKR wrote the book, and they're her characters, so they're always in character!

I'm not going to argue over whether or not they are in character. I will say, however, that it is possible for them to be out of character, or, at least, to have inconsistent characterization, which is just about the same thing.

If JKR had written five books that involved a sweet kid who never would hurt a fly, and then, in the sixth book, had him go on a murderous rampage for no reason whatsoever - that would be out of character. If Harry had been writing Hermione love letters for the past five books, and dreaming about her, then to have him suddenly declare his undying love for McGonagal in this book would be out of character. If Voldemort suddenly appeared at Hogwarts with some chocolate and said he just wanted to make up - that would be out of character, and it doesn't matter who writes it.

None of that happened in this book, granted, but my point still stands. It is entirely possible for JKR to have written this book with all the main characters out of character. Please don't use this post to argue that they are or aren't, because I'm not getting into that. Just... be logical, thanks.

Oh, and incidentally? If you're reading these books because of the Harry/Draco or Ron/Squid love, or whatever else you've got going - I'll move a complaint that you *may* be reading them for the wrong reason. Even in book 6, the relationships aren't the focus of these stories.

Cool little flash game...

I forget whom I stole this from. You can set which direction the jellybeans come from (or if they come from both directions), and you can move the pieces on the board around, or discard them onto the assembly line, or put new pieces from the assembly line, and it makes musicy noise, and it's fun.