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[active_apathy]

I started reading HP7, and I'm currently somewhere in the vicinity of chapter 7. A thought occured to me, and I decided to make an icon. (Details will be cut soon-ish, because I really can't be the only person who hasn't read HP7 yet.)

And then I checked something on Wikipedia, which apparently can has lolcat article, from which I found out that there exists...

LOLCODE, a programming language written in lolcat. There's even example source, such as a counter that looks like this:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
	UP VAR!!1
	VISIBLE VAR
	IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

Weirdly enough, I'm fairly certain that more people would understand that than would understand it in, say, Java.

Strangely, this kind-of reminds me of Inform. (When did I start to think of lolcat as natural language?!) Anyway: I have an idea for a one-room text adventure. Well, more a one-desk text adventure. When I have something actually written, who'd like to test it?


And now, the spoilery part of the entry. Of course.

Radcliffe's muscular buttocks, she killed the owl. Seriously, the owl. The owl. Anyone with a Deathly Hallows dead pool must've felt mightily ripped off somewhere around page 52... which gave me a mental image of an Order of the Phoenix death pool, because I'm kind of odd like that. So!

Arthur: Didn't we start one of those charming killing-puddle things that Muggles have?
Harry: Are you sure you don't mean a dead pool, Mr Weasley?
Arthur: Right you are! Fascinating concept. So who had Hedwig, then?
Ron: I had a galleon on Errol. Bloody bird can't even die when-
Hermione: *pokes Ron*
Ron: *squeaks loudly*
Hermione: Ron! That's hardly helping to find a winner, is it?
Hagrid: 'Fraid Hermione's right. Anyhow, 'tweren't me; I was goin' fer Grubbly-Plank after tha' virtually-unknown Muggle-studies teacher bought it.
Fred: *grins*
George: *also grins*
Fred: I reckoned George would've been-
Molly: Fred!
George: We took each other, Mum.
Molly: George!
George: (to Fred) See? She can tell us apart now. No fun.
Fleur: I 'ad zee 'orrible man who was with Moody. We can pretend 'e eez dead, no?
Kingsley: Wait! I had Mundung-
Fleur: (out-rage-ouslee) You silly English aur-or! Now go, or I shall taunt you-
Hermione: (exasperated) Fleur! Fourth wall!
Fleur: Tonks would 'ave blundered through eet-
Arthur: Um, yes, that's all very well but who was it that had Hedwig?
Rowling: (in distance) Bwahaha. Bwahahahaha. BWAHAHAHAHA. Haha. ha.
Ron: *does Ronface* A-au-aaauuuthooor...
Hermione: (apoplectic) Jo! Fourth wall!
Rowling: (in distance) Oops, sorry about- Wait, what?! How do you know about the fourth wall?
Hermione: *rolls eyes* It's in Hogwarts: a History.
Rowling: (in distance) Oh. Um... oops. Why did I think it was a good idea to give you that book?
Ron: Yeah, I'll say. Right insuff-
Hermione: *pokes Ron*
Ron: *squeaks loudly*

...and that wandered mightily off-topic. It's like something you'd expect to see in an episode of Thank Merlin You're Here.

Anyway, the icon was going to be a Hedwig—Rowling 'dialogue' made up, for the most part, of O RLY and YA RLY. I was thoroughly dissatisfied with the result, deleted it, and decided that it probably already existed somewhere else anyway.

And that's mercifully it, I think, unless you want a short rant on why it's unfair that they still don't make any Ravenclaw stationery.

Comments

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

Fourth wall? What fourth wall? *looks around wildly*

Err, by Hedwig/Rowling, you don't actually mean that as a pairing, right? 0_o

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

o.O

*changes punctuation*

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

Dammit.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Thank Merlin You're Here.

I'm sure you know this, and equally sure that you hear it from a lot of people, but OMG I love you. Just sayin'.

Also, if this isn't metaquoted by the time I get home from work, I'm doing it, with your permission of course.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oooh... love.

And permission, of course. 'tis all yours. But only if you'll still respect me in the morning.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Done. I imagine the comments may get spoilery.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hooray! And I don't mind that so much, since it was the utter failure of LJ to be spoilery that made me buy the book so soon.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

LOL Thank Merlin You're Here

also, I totally wanna see that ORLY icon. XD

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I wasn't too fond of how it turned out, but I might try again sometime soonish, like if I maybe get bored, or something. :)

-insert highly amused noises here-

[regalis.livejournal.com]

skittered along by way of metaquotes. mind if I add you?

Re: -insert highly amused noises here-

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Not at all! *points to userinfo*

Re: -insert highly amused noises here-

[regalis.livejournal.com]

*shift* ... the looking... helps, yes.

Re: -insert highly amused noises here-

[lady-lirenel.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I love your icon? I almost choked on my popcorn.

Re: -insert highly amused noises here-

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Ohnoes! You can has airway?

(...and now I want popcorn. The non-choking variety, of course.)

Re: -insert highly amused noises here-

[lady-lirenel.livejournal.com]

non-choking, the best kind!

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

THIS IS MADE OF SO MUCH WIN I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT. Seriously, you've got her dialogue styling down so pat that if you wrote an HP8 YOU COULD MAKE A FORTUNE. Parody's protected, hey? This would be killing.

uh, no pun intended.

(by the way, everyone keeps talking about Charity Burbage like we were supposed to know who she is, but I mean - did she ever come up in any of the other books at all? I thought Rowling was trying to start the book off with a green bang by killing a random character - I figured the whole point was that we weren't supposed to know who she was. Was I confused?)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Muggle Studies is mentioned in PoA, but... no. Wikipedia says she's only mentioned in Deathly Hallows, and because it's on Wikipedia and it's a pop culture subject dear to the hearts of many obsessive Wikipedians it must be true.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I don't read HP, but hit me up for beta-testing the IF!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Then on whom shall I inflict the alpha testing?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I thought the author did the alpha testing I wouldn't mind doing that, either – just ask!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

But I'd already know the verbs, so where's the fun in that?

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

Hermione: (exasperated) Fleur! Fourth wall!
Fleur: Tonks would 'ave blundered through eet-

This kills me, since I adore Tonks & her cheerful klutziness :D

Rowling: (in distance) Bwahaha. Bwahahahaha. BWAHAHAHAHA. Haha. ha.
Ron: *does Ronface* A-au-aaauuuthooor...
Hermione: (apoplectic) Jo! Fourth wall!
Rowling: (in distance) Oops, sorry about- Wait, what?! How do you know about the fourth wall?
Hermione: *rolls eyes* It's in Hogwarts: a History.

And this kills me because I ADORE 4th wall jokes....too much theater as a kid :P

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Tonks' klutziness is, I think, some of my favourite incidental property damage ever.

[coffeestudies.livejournal.com]

so i was about to tear at my teatowel, wail and punish myself for not knowing about the fourth wall which is undoubtably known to every one else but me and an essential part of the hp myth.

but! 'hold on', i said to my deeper and deeper in self-accusation sinking self, ,wikipedia is our friend!' and it is, indeed.

and i can't believe how little i miss hedwig. i liked that owl, don't get me wrong. but obviously i never really grew to relate to her, as a character, if you know what i mean...

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It is. And now we're all a little wiser, even if reading about the fourth wall did, somehow, turn into perusing the list of asteroids 37501-37600.


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