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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

[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.