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[felis_ultharus]

The Tori Amos concert was gorgeous yesterday -- that venue (Place des Arts) really brings out her music much better than the Bell Centre.

I'm still not very familiar with many of her newer songs, but I liked what I heard. There were very few old favourites, but at least we got "Crucify" ^_^

Thank you em_fish for inviting me. And it was nice to see link2lando again, too.

A Rainbow for Dumbledore

(title for em_fish's benefit)

I'm amused that the most common reaction to Rowling's outing of one of her best-loved fictional characters is "That was totally dropped in -- there was no clue."

I went back to Philosopher's Stone last night, and realized that the first time Harry reads about Dumbledore, on that collectible card, it says, "He enjoys knitting patterns..."

Yeah, if that ain't a giveaway, I don't know what is.

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[seal7.livejournal.com]

I think it's more proof she sucks at doing this relationship thing. Of all the characters to make gay.
Also, her explanation about him and that wizard hitler guy sucked.
/bashing

:P

Very shiny Hisoka icon there, btw.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

True -- but at least I know that it sucks because she's bad at writing relationships, not because she's homophobic or anything :p

Just to play devil's advocate, having your lover turn into a genocidal maniac might turn someone off dating for awhile :p

She said she had him planned as gay from the beginning -- she even nixed an element of script for the fifth movie because Dumbledore was talking about an old (female) crush.

She wrote "Dumbledore's gay" on the script margin -- not her usual, "You can't say this, for reasons that will be revealed later," so she didn't seem to think of it as a secret.

Meanwhile, I did the math. Dumbledore was supposed to have been around 150 years old, give or take a few years -- so we're looking at a bithdate of around 1840-1845, since she said this after writing a novel set in 1993.

He fell for Grindelwald when he was 17.

He was reluctant to get involved in 1945, because he was still in love with him.

Very sweet that he was pining for the same guy for most of a century and two-thirds of his life. Pity she never developed that :p

And thank you. I like Hisoka, and spent awhile looking for the right icon ^_^

[seal7.livejournal.com]

Meh.
If you assumed it sucked because she was homophobic then it's your mindset that needs a tiny bit of overhaul.

Didn't she say she did that to show that love can be blinding and the disappointment in love that follows therefore etc etc?
I mean dah- if you love a person and you don't expect them to turn out a wizard hitler, obviously you didn't really KNOW the person OR your love was not the real thing. It happens but it means you were naive, not that love is blinding.
Either way it's a sucky explanation for why that's how she wrote it.

[foi-nefaste.livejournal.com]

Heya,

We exchanged some notes about perhaps going to that storytelling thing tonight. It still sounds like fun, except for the bit where I'm getting sick, I'm cold, my feet are soaked through, and that I'm going to go home and attempt to not get disgustingly ill anytime soon.

So, erm... yes. I will NOT be going to the storytelling thing, and I thought you should know.

(I also left a message with your roommate, so I hope you'll get one of them!)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I got the message from Matt -- thanks!

I was half-considering not going already, because I had so much editing.

By the way, if you're still interested in something Samhain, we're thinking Thursday. Allow me to draw your attention thitherwards (http://felis-ultharus.livejournal.com/158618.html).