HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARRY!

Thank you for everything you've given me over the years and for everything I know you will continue to give me through the coming ones.

I love you, kid. Have an unforgettable day.

Snarry

Okay, I know it's wrong. Really. I mean, I know it's technically wrong according to my religious beliefs which I know to be truth. However, I'm having a little bit of trouble in that area currently and it's totally not conducive to keeping my mind off of the most adorable, fulfilling, sigh-worthy, awesomeness that is the romantic/sexual pairing of Harry Potter and Severus Snape. Especially when Harry is underage. *ducks and hides* I totally did NOT just say that. Or, er, write that. Except that I did. I just can't hold it in anymore. I would be all for gay rights and all that jazz if I weren't a Christian.

I'm so going to hell for this...but it's just too good.

HOW CAN SOMETHING THIS GOOD AND ATTRACTIVE AND UTTERLY HEART-WARMING BE SO COMPLETELY WRONG!?

The world may never know. Oh poor Snarry....

This is insanity.

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, I'm going to go drive off my energy. I'll come back and upload a Snarry fan art pic to go with this post when my family's not around to see it. *facepalm*

[Four hours later...]:

Gah.

One word

The Harry Potter film stars were asked by Empire Magazine to sum up their HP experience in one word. I hate tearing up...eternal damnation upon this video. But not really.

I ♥ Sev

I have recently developed a obsession with Severus Snape. Particularly adoptive-dad-to-Harry!Snape. *sighs* I've spent the day so far sifting through pictures of him on deviantART and I found this one, which is now my absolute favorite picture of Snape ever.

Best Snape-adopts-Harry fics I've ever read in my life (In all fairness this isn't saying much as I've only lately begun seriously pursuing this genre in the last month or two, but these are incredible. Like, for reals.):

A Year Like None Other by aspeninthesunlight (and sequels A Summer Like None Other and A Family Like None Other)

Resonance by GreenGecko (and sequels Revolution and Resolution)

Also: Whoa, I haven't posted in forever.  Must rectify further.

Exhilaration...and just...life

I have never in my life been this momentarily happy.  It's crazy awesome, almost too much to experience at one time.  And I can't really explain it.  Between discovering Nerdfighteria, getting completely re-mega-obsessed with Harry Potter and his fandom, and realizing that I want to go to college and graduate and become a self-supporting writer who lives in a crappy apartment in NYC and just make the world a better place...I don't know.  Well, that's just the build-up.  Today, I discovered Katy Perry's song "Firework."  I watched the music video on youtube and completely fell in love with it even though I'm not generally a supporter of Katy Perry.  I listened to the song once and was like "meh" and then I kept listening to it and I LOVE the parts in the video when the boy gets between his fighting parents and when the girl jumps into the pool with everyone else.  Oh.  I can't even describe it.  And then I put the song to Harry's life journey in my head, and I don't know what happened.  It's like the meaning of life just attacked my brain and wrapped itself around and wouldn't let go.  I thought about my Harry and blasted "Firework" in my already-blown-out eardrums and jumped up and down in my living room.  I realize this won't make any sense to anyone else, but I felt I had to write it down somewhere because it was just the single most awesome moment of my life.  Oh MAN, I wanna go out there in the world and DO something and see places and meet incredible people and make a difference, I can't even hold it all in.  I want LIFE!  I'm so excited about what the future might hold...it's frustrating to know I'm stuck where I am for at least a few more months.  Oh goodness.  LONG LIVE Harry and the people who love him, Nerdfighters, the online community, kindness, and hope! ♥

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Underlying suicidal tendencies much?

So I've pretty much spent the entire day watching John and Hank's vlogbrothers videos and browsing the Nerdfighters site, and I stumbled into the chatroom just as someone was posting a link to this video.  This is the one of the craziest things I've ever seen.  Is this for real an official race!?

VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo

DH gets auto-tuned at the Oscars

It was disappointing that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows didn't earn an Oscar, I'm not gonna lie.  Sure, it was the first time I ever came away from an HP movie feeling introspective and thoughtful rather than rabidly excited (not to mention the fact that it's the only HP film I could have legitimately slept through - it very much had the feeling of being a "Part 1" and couldn't stand on its own in my opinion), but it's still Harry Potter and I'm fiercely protective.  The acting at least was phenomenal...and the art direction in the scene where Hermione reads the "Deathly Hallows" story was unique and very well done.

On the positive side, they did put together this little number which I found rather entertaining:

Cheers!

Why is March not July?

I just got completely re-excited about LeakyCon '11.  HP nerds, unite!

Pretending to be Girl-With-No-Name

On Valentine's Day, my church's college and career group met like we do every Monday.  This time, however, we met to talk about the upcoming two-on-two basketball tournament we're putting on for the island.  It was announced that we'd be doing this skit at the tournament:

Our youth group did it once, and it turned out really well.  My brother's done it twice; the first time he was Satan, and the second time he was Jesus.  Go figure.  This will be his third time, and he's playing Jesus again.  The only thing is...I was unanimously volunteered to play the main girl.

What?  Are you serious?

I have virtually no acting skills, and my face is probably about as involuntarily expressionless as it can get.  I'm currently questioning the collective wisdom of our beloved C&C group.  Oh well...I'm sure it'll turn out well if the Lord's got anything to do with it.  Hopefully He'll be able to keep me from messing up horribly....

Here goes nothing.

Rededication

In the shower two days ago, on February 11, 2011, I gave my life back to Jesus Christ (if, that is, I had ever really given it before at all).

God is ♥.