A Potter-ish post

[ebonlock]

Couple of things. First, I will do my best in the coming weeks not to spoil HBP for anyone, but as we know I sometimes forget things like cut-tags and often press the send button before I should. Now what does this mean? Well, it means that if you come and read my posts daily that you are taking the chance that I might say something spoilerish. So here is my disclaimer, if you are borderline psychotic about not knowing anything about HBP and don't trust my impulse control, then by all means feel free to un-friend me for the next few weeks or however long it takes for you to finish it. No hard feelings, I promise.

Why? 'Cause this is my journal, I don't go out and make people read it, I don't have you trussed up like in "A Clockwork Orange", eyelids propped open, strapped to a chair, with Beethoven blasting in the background. If I did I'd be a bit more forgiving of folks who read my journal and then blast me for fouling their delicate minds. But I don't, so if you come here, read something you think is spoilery, and get ticked, well tough titties really.

So, to summarize: I will inhale this novel, I will read it quickly and I will post about it. I will do my best to put stuff under a cut tag for at least two weeks, which seems a reasonable period of time to buy and read the damn thing if you're that nutty about it. Aside from that I make no promises. Fair enough? Like I said above, if you're really worried about it, de-friend me for a few weeks, I promise not to get offended and I'll still be here when you get back. But I'd really suggest staying away from my comments page.

Edit: ravenmb says it far better than I did above in the comments:
"I just planned on taking an LJ sabbatical until I was done with the novel. Seems like if I don't want something spoiled then it is my responsibility to make sure it isn't, ya know?"

If you think you'll read something on my journal that you don't want to, on *any* subject, you have the power to take me off your friends list at any time. I *hope* you won't, of course, but I will completely understand if you do. There's just so much self-censoring I'm willing to do in my own journal, you know? And I'm really tired of all the "Spoil me and I keel you!" posts I've been reading lately.


Now, one more thing, I have become convinced that the reason my cats don't get along at all is that one is obviously a Gryffindor while the other is just as obviously a Slytherin. This really does explain so much. Pye is all reckless energy and enthusiasm, a mix of brainless bravado and a profound sense of fun, he's constantly testing the limits, and is far too clever for his own good. Kage, on the other hand, is sneaky, cagey, vindictive as hell, moody, haughty, wily and always looks out for herself first and foremost. She likes her creature comforts, hell, she *insists* on them, is utterly pampered, knows it, and is convinced she deserves it.

More often than not it's like living with the animagus forms of Harry and Snape.

Sometimes my degree of fannishness scares even me...

Comments

[meyerlemon.livejournal.com]

Er, no one "comes to your journal", it just shows up on our flist.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Er, no one "comes to your journal", it just shows up on our flist.

Hence the de-friend me bit, I just don't want anyone spoiled who's gonna' freak about it and get angry with me. Like I say I'll keep the stuff behind cuts as much as possible but I'm getting a little tired of the various "I will hurt you if you spoil this novel for me!" posts.

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Unfriending! But you're still my friend! Thanks for the warning.

(Life is pretty busy, so I probably won't get to the new book for a few weeks, and I'll probably take a couple weeks to read it, so I expect to be vulnerable to spoilers until late August.)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure not to come to your journal and spoil ya until at least September then ;)

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I just planned on taking an LJ sabbatical until I was done with the novel. Seems like if I don't want something spoiled then it is my responsibility to make sure it isn't, ya know?

You better believe I'll be pushing myself to read it faster than I've ever read anything (though I despise scanning; I must read every last word and fully comprehend it, else it's like swallowing fine Dutch chocolate without letting it melt on your tongue, and what fun is that?)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I just planned on taking an LJ sabbatical until I was done with the novel. Seems like if I don't want something spoiled then it is my responsibility to make sure it isn't, ya know?

**does Snoopy-like happy dance**
Thank you, thank you, thank you for getting that!

You better believe I'll be pushing myself to read it faster than I've ever read anything (though I despise scanning; I must read every last word and fully comprehend it, else it's like swallowing fine Dutch chocolate without letting it melt on your tongue, and what fun is that?)

Ah well see for me the first read-through is all about "Must..know..what..happens". The second and third times are for savoring. :)

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

**does Snoopy-like happy dance**
Thank you, thank you, thank you for getting that!

If people would just start taking even a little more responsibility for their own happiness... oh, sorry, almost stepped up on a soapbox there. I won't rant in your journal, dear.

Ah well see for me the first read-through is all about "Must..know..what..happens". The second and third times are for savoring. :)

Remind me never to share fine Dutch chocolate with you, in that case. ;)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If people would just start taking even a little more responsibility for their own happiness... oh, sorry, almost stepped up on a soapbox there. I won't rant in your journal, dear.

Heh, well you know it's a soapbox issue of mine too...Hmm, think I'll edit the post to include some of this 'cause it's what I was really trying to get across.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Heh, well you know it's a soapbox issue of mine too...Hmm, think I'll edit the post to include some of this 'cause it's what I was really trying to get across.

Now that's a sincere compliment, thank you! That's going to make me smile all the way home.

Enjoy Sue's tonight!

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

I say, at a high level a cut-tag is nice, but not necessary, the reality is that if you feel the whole book will be ruined by knowing thing X, then for something like this you need to get to it in the first week or so or get over yourself.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Have I told you lately that I love you?
*smooches*

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

Probably, but I can always hear it more.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

And I must squee loudly for your new icon, such wonderful taste you have!

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

Flattery will get you every where. I took that innuendo one from one of your posts. and there is this one too...

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

OMG, the pretty! I need to watch me some more Nine/Jack episodes *sigh*

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

Yep, they are yummy.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I will still be your friend, although I probably won't buy a copy of the book for at least a year. (Soft cover is your budgetary friend!)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I will still be your friend, although I probably won't buy a copy of the book for at least a year. (Soft cover is your budgetary friend!)

I shall have two copies probably by next week (one from England, one from here), Aelf has asked to borrow one and you're welcome to borrow the other :)

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

Hey, all I'm asking is that my friends use cut-tags over the weekend coz it may take me an extra day to find a copy. If I sounded bitchy in my post, it was because I'm still really upset about the doc forbidding me to fly, which has completely fucked my plans for the next two weeks to hell and gone.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Hey, all I'm asking is that my friends use cut-tags over the weekend coz it may take me an extra day to find a copy. If I sounded bitchy in my post, it was because I'm still really upset about the doc forbidding me to fly, which has completely fucked my plans for the next two weeks to hell and gone.

Hon, this was mostly aimed at the casual readers who've friended me probably because I friended them and have been posting "I keel you!" threats. I *hope* that most of my actual friends would be willing to forgive me if I slipped up and said something I shouldn't. Or at least, they'd hold off on bodily harm ;)

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just being paranoid and overwrought from lack of sleep and feeling like shit all the time. That, and your post showed up on my f-list like three minutes after I made my "I will KEEL you!" post. *wry grin*

Besides, tersa has already offered to spoil it deliberately if it will get me out to CA for the purpose of decapitating her. ;)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Besides, tersa has already offered to spoil it deliberately if it will get me out to CA for the purpose of decapitating her. ;)

Saa-aay, now that's not a bad idea... :)

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

Snerk. Yeah, thought you'd like that. ;)

I could never "un-friend" you.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I love you too much. I also agree, if they don't like what we write they aren't forced to read it.

I'm going to TRY and not react when some whiner doesn't like my journal.

Possible response to such types: "Why don't you go home and fill yo' mama's water dish."
(Courtesy(?) of Dave Chappele)