And now my HP ship has been Jossed, too

[taotrooper]

Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. Hopefully, there'll be AUs and pre-or-post-marriage fics around. I still found the chat nice enough, since it validated some guesses I had made about plotholes, and solved a couple of doubts I and other people had.

Still, goddammit! Why do you go and admit N/L was cute and made sense, and then you give Luna a random future husband?! That's toying with my feelings, Jo. And on Neville's birthday, too.

Anyway! Even if I'm not talking about Avatar in this post, I wanted to GIP this Teo-in-a-tank icon :D Because I can't wait till September.

And a last fandom thing to discuss today:

Okay, yeah, I can see it's not only mean they don't only dodge Watanuki's situation this week as well, but also decide to take yet another a goddamned hiatus. But see, this chapter is the kind of short story you read at the end of a volume. So, perhaps this is an end-of-volume filler? Does anyone know for sure? And if that's the case, I understand they wouldn't continue with the plot, because in HOLiC they don't leave cliffhangers in the volume's last chapter.

So basically, I'm not whining about it, even if the word hiatus is making me twitch a bit of impatience.

And really, I LOVED the chapter! ^_^ I can (temporarily) forgive those whores for dragging the explanations because they gave me creepy supernatural horror. Fandom, fandom, do you remember how the series used to be like this all the time? Do you remember the man-eating monsters? Do you remember how cool it was? I do, I do! And this chapter felt like that! You guys have snarky D/W bonding all the time, but if they give me crazy shapeshifting birds with knives? It's totally even better :D

The boys call the beings "niwatori", in katakana. And that, um, means fowl. So they were attacked by evil chicken spirits? LOLOLOL.

Also, the inn with the bamboo... Thank God it didn't have spring waters, or I would've gone all OMG SASA SANCTUARY FROM OKAMI. There has to be a myth about birds owning inns somewhere, because it's too much of a coincidence, but my Google-fu is failing me.

ETA: I give up on you, TFL.

Comments

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

The problem here is that I'm the kind of fan who takes interviews as canon. But really, I don't have a problem with it not being interview!canon, because that's what AUs are for. Besides, nothing says they never had a thing for each other before she met Rolf. I'm more baffled because JKR said a couple of days ago she sort of liked the idea of N/L a bit, so I didn't expect to be Jossed so soon.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Yup, Jo said she married later, so there's time for L/N shippyness in the meantime if you want to be really really strict. Although I honestly don't think that a completely Rolf-less fic deserves to be called AU, anyway...

(By the way, did you get my mail with the beta'd fic?)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I guess I said it wrong. It's AU for my definition of canon.

(Yup. I still haven't checked throughout the doc file, but I got it :D Thank you so much~ I'm amused you found it cute without knowing the fandom [but really, all the Celestials I used were dead by the time of canon, and their ghosts only showed up to give you backstory infodump before the final boss so... I had to improvise a lot, because they lacked personality in what they showed])

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Aaah, get it now. ^_^

(I just wanted to make sure you had it, since it's so close to the deadline and everything. And it is cute! Nice fluffy gen, just what I like...)