one more miracle

Firstly, my friend bunnymcfoo is once again organizing a true holiday miracle - she's raising funds to buy warm winter clothing for the kids at a local shelter. Her generosity and warmth blow my mind, and last time this was a rousing success, so let's make it so again! You can read about the project and donate here. Every little bit helps!

Secondly, DEATHLY HALLOWS TRAILER!!!!!!!!!!! Every time I don't think about HP for a while, then the hype for the new movie or book starts and I'm like OMG OMG OMG OMG EEEEEEE. Those of you who have been around know that my heart belongs to Harry/Hermione and Remus/Sirius (the former mostly as best friends until the end of the earth, the latter as tragic doomed true love OTP OTP OTPPPP), and so I have pretty much no problem with the fact that the coverage of the movies seem to be like LOOK AT DAN AND EMMA BEING CUTE. :DDD I adooore them omg. Go watch the trailer! Revel in its TOTAL AWESOME! I am seriously super pumped. I think I should read the book again. I never reread it! I was just... overwhelmed. But god it was good.

( A few hi-res caps from MuggleNet )

We have to wait like a million years don't we? :(

I saw Rent again! Yay!

Very, very strangely, I did not cry. I teared up, during the saddest parts, but I didn't cry. I kept waiting for it to come, and it just wouldn't! Meanwhile, Sara was shaking, she was crying so hard. I felt it through the seat. And she just saw it yesterday! I have no idea... it was sooo weird. My theory is that, this time I was with Sara and Michelle, so we had been joking around for a while, so I was in a very upbeat mood. When I saw it the first time, I was alone, I had just walked half an hour in the cold, and was feeling very introspective and thoughtful. So I was very vulnerable and open to the emotional effects of it.

Nevertheless, I loved it again, of course! :)

In really great news, Brokeback Mountain averaged $38,000 per theater yesterday!! How ridiculously amazing is that? I'm SO excited for this movie. So so excited.

In bad news, my photoshop randomly stopped working. When I try to open it, the window opens and it loads and everything, but then once it's done the window just disappears. Imageready works,but when I try to move an image to Photoshop, it says could not do this because Photoshop is not responding. Argh. So I'm trying to download another PS with a torrent. But if anybody has any idea what's wrong, could you help?

I'm watching the first Harry Potter, and it's so cute. I am such a total and complete HHr shipper now, it's ridiculous. I pay attention to them without even meaning to.

True love comes in quietly, without banners or flashing lights; without force or insanity.
She is the sanity in your world full of madness.
True love is not how grand you are or how simple you are, it's who you are when you're with her - and she loves you not in spite of it, but because of it.
She's the one who stands with you when the rest of the world falls down.
-Thomas Wild-Fontaine

This was the quotation used on the cover for a Harry/Hermione fanmix posted by leonhart_17.

All I can say is: exactly! No, wait, I can say a lot more than that, but that sums it up. This quotation is... SO beautiful, and SO perfect. It completely epitomizes Harry and Hermione to me. See, Harry and Hermione just work together. They're complementary. She's the only person who's always had complete confidence in him and been at his back for everything. That can't even be said about his other best friend, Ron, who completely abandoned him for a while in GoF. But SHE was with him. No matter what. She's the only one who can diffuse his temper. He may exasperate her sometimes, simply because he's a teenage boy, aka the most exasperating creature on earth, especially to a sensible girl like Hermione, but in the end they have a certain harmony - yes, Harmony... I've always thought it was an extremely apt nickname for the ship - that just works. There's no weaponized birds, no revenge snogging - but there is kindess, confidence, respect, and affection. Isn't THAT what a true relationship is about?

I've been thinking about why I love HHr so much, because I treat it very differently from my other ships. I almost never read HHr fic (although I read a great one last week) and yet they're definitely one of my OTPs. I tried to write a story for them, and just... couldn't. For Simon/River, for example, I can just start writing and something will come up. But for HHr, it's not so much about the specific interactions they have, or how their first kiss happens - but it is about that idea that your true love is first and foremost your best friend. I believe in that wholeheartedly, and I really think it's why I haven't ever had a boyfriend. I refuse to just start going out with a guy I barely know. I need that strong foundation there first, or else I won't be able to be intimate in any way, physically or otherwise. I think this might be why I sometimes despair of ever finding anyone, because my standards are SO high. I also have this conflicting thing where I really don't want to spend my whole life with the first guy I date - you only live once, and to only.. okay, let's be honest, kiss and be otherwise intimate with one person in your whole life seems kind of a waste. I obviously don't want one night stands, but I do want multiple relationships before I settle down. However, it doesn't seem like any relationship's going to happen any time soon!

Um. The point of all that was that I want something like Harry and Hermione have, or what I feel they have - a true friendship that can blossom into something more. (I'd mention Sean here, but those of you who know me well enough don't need me to. For those who don't... it's not worth getting into :P)

Happy national coming out day!

In related news, today at work I cataloged a book called "Queer cowboys." Hee. So naturally I took some time to flip through it. I looked in the index for Brokeback Mountain but didn't find it; however, I later randomly turned to a page and saw "Brokeback Mountain" - it was mentioned in a footnote relating to a point about gay cowboy relationships running parallel to those same cowboys being married, and how the story caused a bit of a furor because of this. It also mentions the movie ^_^ I love finding randomly entertaining books at work.

Also, I made a new Simon/River header that I am painfully proud of (it actually turned out like I imagined, which NEVER happens) so that will be going up soon :)

Ummm what else. I am seeing SERENITY tomorrow night (if Sean doesn't have to work! *crosses fingers*). I also have a paper due Friday. But it's a short one. SO IT'S OKAY.

Ummm, I'm basically updating because I haven't in a while. So. Hi! and Bye!

(Sean Maher still SO PRETTY.)

ETA: I ALMOST FORGOT. Brand new GoF picture that makes me to die with the happiness. Harry/Hermione, hell yes!
( It's a biggie )

OMG. GOF TRAILER. *Squeeeeeeeee!* It's so damn good, I am in love. Love, I tell you! I blew off my intended calc homework in order to watch this and squee about it for the past hour. So I'm going to get some of these thoughts down so it was not wasted time.

( Spoilers for GoF trailer. Like, massive ones. )

I want to see this movie SO BAD.