Lightning

[louiselux]

Yesterday we were directly under a lighting strike. We'd just got out of St James Park after watching lightning flicker moodily in the brassy clouds over Buckingham Palace, (I hurried M up, getting jumpy being out in the open, he told me not to fret) and had made our way to Victoria for a thrilling trip to the Passport Office. A few minutes later, lightning hit the building right next to us with an enormous crash that seemed to resonate through my entire body. I saw it as an intense ball of light, the fork strangely foreshortened because it was above our heads. Coming from the sides were mauve tendrils. I dived into a doorway, completely instinctively. Of course, we were safe because effectively we were in a canyon made of buildings. But the entire street was clutching its collective chest, open-mouthed in shock.

Then we spent two hours sitting in the passport office, which was a sort of boring antidote to the excitement of being nearly-but-not-quite struck by lightening.

Hey, all those people who’ve been saying that the shoebox_project is really great. You’re exactly right. It is. (Although it could do with some Britpicking.) I had the pleasure of reading all 12 parts in one go over the weekend, rather than having to wait for updates. Of course, now I have to wait.

My remus_remix is remixing, sort of. I’ll have it done by the deadline, at any rate.

I haven’t been reading much fic recently, apart from the shoebox this weekend - can anyone rec me some good stuff? Please? I’m willing to try anything in any fandom - long and plotty if possible.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Although it could do with some Britpicking

A - men. I could barely read the last installment, because their idea of how NEWTs worked was so completely bollocksed (Asking what subjects they're taking next year? At the end of their sixth year? Well, either the Wizarding world introduced AS levels thirty years earlier than the Muggle world, or we have Hogwarts High.) And James is the wrong age! He should be seventeen!

But then you read the scene where they first worked out the Animagus spell, and allllll is forgiven. Well, almost forgiven.

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Yikes, the lightning seemed pretty close here, but that's really spectacular. I was delighted when it scared off the evangelists though, divine judgement on their cheesy rock.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Yikes indeed! We don't really get very impressive thunderstorms here (according to a very precise former colleague, it's something to do with the sea and the hills), and I tend to pine for the truly spectacular Fenland storms I grew up with. Once, when I was about eight, I was at a fete with a friend and we had to jump into a ditch to avoid being struck by lighting. There was even a scorched bit on the ground where we'd just been standing, and everything!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Yes, the whole NEWTS thing was messed up, but like you say there are enough good things to forgive them a lot. Although if I read vacation and candy instead of holidays and sweets just a few more times my head might explode.

But then you read the scene where they first worked out the Animagus spell, and allllll is forgiven. Well, almost forgiven.

I loved that scene. The writers are really awful to Snape, which sometimes makes me laugh and sometimes makes me annoyed, but either way he's very true to canon.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I was delighted when it scared off the evangelists though, divine judgement on their cheesy rock.

Ooh, did it? Hahahaha! How wonderful.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Wow, you just escaped! It's lucky you had speedy reactions and weren't carrying golf clubs or umbrellas.

One of my precise colleagues was telling me that it's far more common to be hit by lightning than people think, which made me feel better... a boy in Birmingham was hit by lightning this weekend while camping in his garden, which strikes me as terribly unlucky.

[ladyjaida.livejournal.com]

Wah, I am sorry, I am sorry, I am sorry. I will continue to bash my stupid head up against hard things until the hate ends.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Nooo! Please don't! I suppose the thing is that the Britpicky things crop up and then I have to shift my perspective to accomodate them, like a little seismic shift, and that interrupts the flow. I noticed that you'd thanked someone for britpicking and I actually did intend to leave you a comment with a few suggestions for word changes (like the examples I mentioned above - sweets instead of candy and holiday instead of vacation).

I think you and dorkorific have created something really special with the shoebox. I'm sorry if the comments upset you.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Aargh, I didn't know you were reading this! Eek! I thought you people were too Big and Scary and Impressive to read anything I was likely to write! Sorry!

But dude, that wasn't hate. That was a minor criticism of a series I love, somewhat forcefully expressed. Nowhere near enough to stop me reading!