Spinning canon

[heidi]

In looking around at images from one of the GoF Behind the Scenes shows, I came across the one where Tom Felton was talking about dancing with Emma, so I looked at the stills of people spinning around across the dance floor and realised that what I like about fanfic, or fanvids the HP films, is the little tweaks you can make, or you can see, on the books. I get my canon from JKR, and I don't really read fanfic to get more canon - nobody generates it but JKR herself. What I like are the spins on canon, the bits where some of it gets lifted into the air, or the hands shift from one side to another, and the parts where things move in unison and in quick-step, and Flitwick does some crowd-surfing. So I've decided, per my current default icon, to become a canon spinner. Assuming, that is, I ever write again. But the FA update is so sparkly and shiny that omg I am tempted. Tempted but the truth is discovered, in fact.

Along the lines of icon-pondering, it's probably been a year since I did the "ask me about my icons" meme, so I'm going to do it now, Ask me about my icons, people!

Then go through all the essays you've written over the years and put them into the HPInkPot (and if you think it's pink now, you should've seen it when Sabs started on it). copperbadge came up with the InkPot name, but I couldn't get the domain, so I popped HP in front of it, realised that meant the word PINK was enclosed, and decided that clearly had to be the name. If it's too squicky as a colour, we may magenta-ize it more. Later.

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News of the Day:
ellen_fremedon gave this link to Forbes' list of the 15 richest fictional characters. They included Lucius via a damned clever bio, although I have issues with his inclusiuon in the first place, as I firmly believe that he's a bit of a parvenu who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to marry the wealthy Narcissa when her cousin Sirius, to whom she was betrothed, walked out on the family and hence the marriage (whether said walking-out was because of his werewolf boyfriend or not is something that I haven't fully decided yet). So I don't think the money is his - I think it's hers. Such a situation would explain his rivalry with Arthur a bit more coherently, IMO, and would also explain why he does bother to become a Death Eater, in a bit of an "I'll Show Them" sort of approach. Wonder what Jason would say.

I was sad to hear that Wendi Jo Sperber died yesterday. I loved her in Bosom Buddies, and the Back to the Future films, among other things. She seems to have been a terrific person. Sad.

But on a happier note to end with, congrats to the new Garner-Affleck baby. Hopefully said child will get a sensible name. Hopefully.

Comments

[plaidphoenix.livejournal.com]

Very sad news about Wendi Jo. I'll always remember her from 1941, she was the soaring high note of that movie.

The Bennifer(Take 2) baby's name is Violet. Which I can live with. On the other hand, Alias has been cancelled after this season, which I don't care for one whit.

[story645.livejournal.com]

Are the requirements for inkpot spelled out anywhere? Cause I've got an essay or two, but not positive just how allowed they are.

[story645.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the phrase canon spinner rocks!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

: twirls in pinksparkly blur

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Grammar, spelling, and at least 750 words long. We may up it to 1000 if we get a lot of things that we think are more appropriate for the Park, but that's pretty much it for requirements through the end of 2005. We like chapter citations but they're not mandatory.

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

ellen_fremedon gave this link to Forbes' list of the 15 richest fictional characters.

That list is profoundly fucked, as you can see from Santa Claus' top ranking, which cites infinite net worth.

Mr. Claus, a radical philanthropist who has staggering annual expenses and zero income, has in fact got infinite debt.

I don't think the money is [Lucius'] -- I think it's hers.

It's plausible, given the long historical precedent of English nobility like the ninth Duke of Marlborough (who swapped his name for wealth by way of a loveless marriage to a Vanderbilt).

However, I have the strong impression the Malfoy manse was not formerly the Black manse, but has been a Malfoy holding for generations. So if the Malfoys came on hard times, I think it was within the last century.

Of course the concept of wizard wealth has always seemed peculiar to me. The point of wealth is increased access to goods and services, both of which come for free via magic. And I have to wonder how the goblins add interest to Gringotts accounts, which are extremely literal; do they actually open the vaults and toss in more gold every so often?

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're so precious. Oh, cutest icon of evar.
Oh, Draco/Hermione, my first love...

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Why oh why, especially after she was Oh So Worried about him when he was slashed in PoA, didn't we just get to see his reaction to the Hermione Barbie in GoF? It would have been just 100% snoo!-ful.

[red_squared]

I firmly believe that he's a bit of a parvenu who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to marry the wealthy Narcissa when her cousin Sirius, to whom she was betrothed, walked out on the family and hence the marriage (whether said walking-out was because of his werewolf boyfriend or not is something that I haven't fully decided yet).

Snap!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Hee, this isn't even tagged! How'd you find it?

[red_squared]

No, but it's on page one of your journal :)

And after you commented in mine, I thought I'd come poking around and see what you were like...

Me, I think Sirius asked his parents to break the betrothal and they did because Narcissa isn't really a Black. Her mother's a Malfoy, the man her mother married is a Black, but her actual father's a Malfoy.