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I think I love Rupert Grint, I really do. *squishes him*

From an MSN News report on HP: "[Emma Watson], Radcliffe and Ruper Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, all said they hoped to continue acting once the Potter film series was over, probably in 2010. But Grint said he had a backup plan if his career on screen and stage failed. "Recently I got an ice cream van," he said. "If it doesn't work out I've still got the ice cream van."

<3

I went to see John Barrowman's pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, for the second time on Tuesday night. And it was MADE OF PURE AWESOME. John Barrowman is sex. On legs. And utterly adorable. He was literally rolling on the floor laughing once or twice during the performance, usually spluttering things like 'this is a kids' show!'. And at the end when they called up little kids from the audience (which is usual for panto, those who don't know), he was so utterly adorable with his group that I fully expect him and his boyfriend to adopt an entire gaggle of kids now that they're hitched and all.

But better than all of this was that this time, I called in a favour from a friend (Tom D) who works in the cast. I didn't do it the first time because with ten of us, it felt too much like taking advantage, but anyway. I now have a signed personalised Torchwood postcard, and at the end in the call-outs (the leads send messages from people in the cast to people in the audience, and also announce birthdays/anniversaries of people in the audience), John Barrowman said hi! To me! John Barrowman said my name. And I am, and will remain, in a puddle of pure fangirlish glee over the above.
And here we have the proof. (If you can't read it, it says 'Bethan, best wishes, John Barrowman'.) XD!!!

In addition to all this wildly awesome awesome, plans for further millicons are being plotted. I've booked Sunday the 11th March off from work, so I can go to a three-day Millicon in London that weekend. Am meeting up with Charlotte when I go to Leicester Uni Open Day on the 31st March. Aaaand I am (hopefully) going to see Spamalot in London with Charlotte and Lauren on the 9th of April. My only regret about this is that Tim Curry is no longer playing Arthur. But. SO MANY AWESOME PEOPLE, AND I GET TO SEE THEM ALL. :D!!

Nabbed from sarah531, when I went over to look at her pretty icons: If you've seen over 70 of these movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) The Mexican
( ) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
( ) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane (Bits of it, anyway)
Section 1: 4/10

( ) The Princess Bride
( ) Young Frankenstein
( ) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
( ) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Saw
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
( ) 50 First Dates
( ) Jason X
Section 2: 0/10

( ) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
(x) Harry Potter & the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone
Section 3: 1/10 (I'm not doing very well so far, am I?)

(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil I
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
( ) Donnie Darko
(x) Lilo & Stitch
Section 4: 5/10

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) 13 Ghosts
( ) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) Thirteen Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
Section 5: 3/10

( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) Kingpin
(x) Never Been Kissed
( ) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
Section 6: 2/10

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
(x) Passport to Paris (Never, ever again.)
( ) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumb & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
Section 7: 1/10

( ) The Ring 2
( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window (...Bits)
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The whole 9 yards
Section 8 : 2/10

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
( ) Coach Carter
( ) Bad Boys
Section 9: 1/10

( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Se7en
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Bourne Identity
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
Section 10: 2/10

( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Boss' Daughter.
( ) Frailty
Section 11: 1/10

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
Section 12: 2/10

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( )Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
( ) The Others
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) The Hot Chick
Section 13: 4/10

( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle
( ) Old School
( ) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Varsity Blues
Section 14: 3/10

( ) Hitch
( ) The Fifth Element
(x) Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones
(x) Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith
(x) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Episode VI Return of The Jedi...
( ) Troop Beverly Hills
( ) Swimming with Sharks
Section 15: 6/10

( ) Air force one
( ) For Richer or Poorer
(x) Trainspotting
( ) People Under the Stairs
( ) Blue Velvet
(x) Sound of Music
(x) Parent Trap 1 (old)
(x) Parent Trap 2 (new)
( ) The Burbs
( ) The Terminator
Section 16: 4/10

( ) Empire Records
( ) SLC Punk
( ) Meet Joe Black
(x) Nightmare Before Christmas
( ) The Silence of the Lambs
( ) Sleepy Hollow
( ) I Heart Huckabees
( ) 24 Hour Party People
( ) Blood In Blood Out
( ) The Virgin Suicides
Section 17: 1/10

Total: 42. ...I think. I'm tired tonight, and my maths skills are bad at the best of times.
I'm a bad geek. A bad, bad geek.

Read this fic NOW. Though it can get confusing, it is pure, sweet crack. Tis humourfic at its greatest.

Bethan_b_bad in Officer Under

In this non-stop spy thriller, bethan_b_bad (Katie Holmes) is a Canadian hacker with a terrible past. She promises to silence xx_hazel_xx (Leelee Sobieski) before her archenemy, _honeyspider (Lacey Chabert), brainwashes her. With guns blazing, she brings down a hidden lair. The hi-jinks that follow are well worth watching.

Produced by ianiceboy

Hee!

List 5 reasons you are a geek. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud of how big a geek you are! Then pick the 5 biggest geeks you know and have them do the same.

1. I went out at midnight to get HBP. Not only that, but I pursuaded Dad to take me, whigh must earn me extra Geek Points for being so geeky I'm contagious!

2. Quite often, I could happily spend my entire life on the internet. Hell, I could happily spend my entire life on sages_of_chaos, sometimes.

3. I really want to go to the proposed Sages of Chaos UK meet-up. Yes, a roleplayers' party! Forgive me, oh normal people, for I have sinned and fall mightily short of sanity normality.

4. In about 18 months of buying comics (and with only about £15 a week total budget), I believe I may have over a hundred of the things. This terrifies even me.

5. I'm making a list in MS Word of the URLs of my favourite LJs, since my History list keeps losing them and for some reason I never use my Friends' Page. The geeky part? I'm on page four (size 10 font), and I have plenty of addresses to go.

I'm going to get in trouble for this bit...
silver_carrion,
volandum,
analogboyuk,
lurker_lane and
xx_hazel_xx, you're tagged!

12", Holly, Dragon You scored 42 wisdom, 38 bravery, 21 emotional, and 11 martyrdom!

Holly is a powerful protective wood that good for use against evil, but it also represents dreams and fertility. Your dragon's heartstring core makes your wand very effective in hexes.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 52% on wisdom You scored higher than 66% on bravery You scored higher than 41% on emotional You scored higher than 5% on martyrdom

Link: The Harry Potter Wand Test written by sputnik845 on Ok Cupid

I like this one.

X-Men: Legends for PS2 rocks hardcore. :D Not addicted, nope, not at all...

OK, two memes, because I'm procrastinating.

Fictional crush meme nabbed from fernwithy:
List five fictional people -- from television, movies, books, whatever -- that you had a crush on as a child (or early teens). Then post this on your LiveJournal so other people can know what a dork you've always been.

No particular order
1. Merry (from movie!LotR)
2. Pippin (see above)
3. Sirius Black (NOT the movie version)
4. Remus Lupin (ditto)
5. Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner

Will probably change when I get some sleep and remember less recent crushes, these are all from no more than a couple of years ago.



You're a Gryffinclaw!: You are a determined and
intelligent person who is used to getting your
own way all the time. You are very passionate
about your beliefs and will defend them until
your last breath. Often Griffinclaws work as
lawyers or activists because they have feel so
strongly about a certain subject. You feel that
knowledge is to be used in a practical way and
you often have a very low tolerance for people
you consider of low intelligence. Although you
aren't a social butterfly, you don't have
trouble making friends, people are usually drawn
to you. Your weakness is that sometimes you can
be insensitive, you're too busy being witty
that you don't realise that you're hurting
peoples' feelings, often your friends. With the
wit of a Ravenclaw and the passion of a
Gryffindor you can face all your battles in
life head on!


Which Mix of the Hogwarts Houses are You?
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I really wanted Slytherclaw, but this is truer to my personality, so close enough.

OK, I'm pissed off and bored so today's entry (entries?) will almost certainly be extremely random.

Completely Random Inspirations (mostly started by my fellow loyal lesbian minions at Pottersues, so you know who to blame):
Jessica Rabbit fanart, because that girl is far too underrated.
Pursuading foxglove_icons to start making Shrek and Disney icons.
Making an icon which says 'Pottersues is my idle', either blue or lime green on black, because BEST. TYPO. EVAR.
Making a Snape icon with the caption "Why do you love him? Why do people love Snape? I do not understand this." (JKR's own words), just to piss Hazel off.
Writing a Harry Potter/Ab Fab crossover, because I have this Vivid Mental Picture of Edina and Patsy trying to cope at Hogwarts, with Hermione replacing Saffy: *in whining voice* "Mimi dear, do that hangover-curing charm for Mumsy again, there's a love." Oh dear God, Hermione nicknamed Mimi. *scrubs brain clean*
Drawing Remus Lupin and his Characterisation Protestion League, because the poor man so badly needs one.

Any suggestions as to the order I should do them in?

Have been banned yet again except for homework, which there is a distinct sparsity of (or more to the point, a distinct sparsity of reasons I can make up for)- though Dad decided to be lovely earlier and let me on since Mum went out for the evening. Am now sneaking on, however, as he's gone to pick her up.
I have a lovely icon made especially for me by foxglove_icons, who I will link as soon as I find out how. Any of you lot know the html?

Where are you going baby
With your face all pulled down low?
Where are you going baby,
Do you even know?
So shake your head to cover your frown,
And we’ll laugh together on the beach all night
But don’t forget to cover up your eyes
As the sound waves crash down

I am no superman, no not at all,
I have no answers to the things you ask
I only know we fall.

I am no superhero, no not at all
But I can save you from your lonely face
If you only hear me call

I am no superman, that is plain to see
So I just do the things I can
To make you smile for me

And your smile comes out like a sunburst,
Until it hits your eyes
So I have to say that that’s my favourite way
To make a sunrise
Very much like this, despite the complete and utter lack of a rhythm or any sort of pattern at all, really. Will rearrange and edit at some point.

Have made own icon featuring Pippin (shock horror) but it's crap so am unlikely to be posting with it. Uploading made the words go all wonky, for some reason, though thanks to diantha_malfoy I now know how to post pictures in a message. ^-^ Love that girl sometimes.

Really, really want first post over at pottersues, but can't get it as cannot stay online late enough. *pouts*