Really, really awesome film. I liked how Nina's [slight spoiler] ) was depicted - I went in knowing that, and that was partly why I wanted to see it - [same spoiler] )! And it was a good film to see in a group, just for the reaction-talk afterwards.

On the way back, there was snow. Wah.
Did they even use the term 'Order of the Phoenix' in entire film? )

Anyway.

A-Level results day was yesterday, and I got three Bs in Maths, Physics and Chem. I also had a C in AS Further Maths and an A in AS Biology (last year). So I didn't get in for my first choice, St. Andrews, but I did get in for Physics at York, so that's all right!

*

Completely unrelated, but I have a fic recc: Switch by [livejournal.com profile] corvidae9. Fred and George Confound the Sorting Hat, resulting in just about everyone going somewhere else. Harry and Draco are Hufflepuffs, Hermione and Neville Longbottom are in Slytherin, Ron and Pansy become Ravenclaws... and Gryffindor!Crabbe and Goyle attach themselves to Hannah Abbot.

It's a full AU that's about half-way through PoA at the moment. The author has a good style - we're familiar with the general storyline, of course, and we can follow the action without getting bogged down with re-reading what we already know.

I like, with this fic, how the characters grow into the traits of their new Houses, Ron being the best example. He begins to 'own' the cleverness he does have, realising that he must have some if the hat put him in Ravenclaw, and the others follow the same sort of pattern.

So, yeah. If you like Sorting-AUs, read it.

Gah,

Jan. 24th, 2007 10:26 pm
Is it me or ff.net that's being slow?

*tries the euro-server*

Page: *actually loads*

Yay!

( Here's the fic I was reading, BTW: http://europe.fanfiction.net/s/3032527/1/ )
What is with my bloody preoccupation with Warfic?! I'll go over to [livejournal.com profile] lower_tadfield, start of with some nice A/C Romefic and before I know it I've been taken through the humorous going-through-History-fic and overshot into one-or-other of the World Wars with their Trenchfic, and then I'll be depressed, and then the bloody Cowboy song with the gunshot in it starts playing and I'm be even more depressed! God!

Crowley (2 parts), and Aziraphale's POV. There's more fic in that universe, but I those were the main culprits. And here, for one of the other soldiers.
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=3722&font=&size=

(If you're using Firefox, I'd use Page Style: No Style to read it. The font and stuff that the site uses make me squinty, but YMMV)

Oh My God. If you are into Good Omens fanfic in the slightest, go and read The Greatest Of These by Vivien. We start with a third-coming Earth with celestial war. Then come the tearful goodbyes - I should mention that the Crowley/Aziraphale factor is a strong theme and plot device here - and near misses, and post-escape we have a eutopia of sorts. And the intigrated scripture fit right in.

I for one can say that it left me with a tremendous sense of all being right. Fluff for the soul, if you will. Because that really is THE WHOLE POINT!

... Now I'm drifting off into lines of thought that only make sense to read if you've read the fic, so I shan't spoiler you further. Let's chat about it in the comments to this, though.

And bear in mind that I have only ever recced three fics properly like this. Srsly. I haven't had a fic-derived high like this since Teenage Kicks.

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