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

[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. ;)