Teas from Hogwarts

Source:  Etsy

Etsy is an amazing, amazing place. I knew that when I first discovered it, but the more I go to the website, the more I adore it and find wonderful new geeky creative inspired products. For example, Teas inspired by the four different Hogwarts houses! For ten bucks, I'll definitely have to try this out.

Tom Felton & Pick Up Lines

Want to see something entertaining? For example Tom Felton saying some Harry Potter pickup lines? Than you should definitely click here. This link was brought to my attention by a comment from the lovely SuperSpySuzie (this blog loves you too beeteedubz!)

On particular gem from the website (in case you need to be convinced).

David Tennant's face of the day

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Anyone else think this is highly depressing? I'm sure that a bunch of fans shared that moment too though, once they realized wot it was, and then went back and replayed it over and over. I might do that one day have a repeat of the 'Final Tenth Doctor sonic moment.' Or, even better!, just watch clips of him sonici-ng things back to back.

Ralph Fiennes reads Harry Potter Smut

Ralph Fiennes should speak...all the time.

Also, I'm back! Sorry for the disappearance, once again, but there was travelling and school starting occurring #firstworldproblems.

Anyway, I'm back now! So I'll try to remain consistent with the Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, random shite love! Didn't you miss me? *waggle*waggle*

Style, Dumbledore's got it

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New Year Love

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To all you wonderful, amazing people out there who continue to return to this blog (to my utter amazement and joy) despite my lack of creativity and inconsistency: I hope that this year brings you the courage to simply walk into Mordor, the clarity to find the droids your are looking for, the ingenuity to manage your mischief, the health to overcome the zombie outbreak, and the opportunity to travel to all the times and places you could ever dream of.

Happy 2012 everyone! Remember to keep it secret and keep it safe, but most of all keep it fun!

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Bellaception

Mind. Blown.

The Hardest Decision You'll Ever Make

Oh no...I actually have no idea which I would pick. I've always wanted to go to Hogwarts, but being a Jedi would be incredible...and imagine training Pokémon! I'm just glad that 'being the Doctor's next companion' wasn't on there as well, because I would just die from indecision.

Harry Potter: A Musical

Now I have Hakuna Matata stuck in my head. And I've lost the game. Damn it.

Would it make me 'that guy,' if my second instinct (after bopping to the tune, of course) was to think: technically, there already is a Harry Potter Musical (because, you know, A Very Potter Musical is amazing, and exists)?

#swagrid

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Listen, just cause he's half giant doesn't mean that Hagrid can't have some swag. It takes a lot of it to be the Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts.

Leading Lady Standards

Ahahahahahahaha. Yes, so true.

David Tennant's face of the day

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I'm going to apologise profusely for being M.I.A. and try and defend myself by saying it's finals week. I've only got one final (accounting) and one presentation left, but it might as well be a million, considering how these last three days have been.

Swagger, They Name is Felton

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Do I even need to ruin this with words?

Perhaps I can't help it...but still, damn. 

David Tennant's face of the day

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So there are rumours abound that David Yates is thinking/in the process of discussing the possibility of directing a Doctor Who movie. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that, about having everything be from scratch except for the basics.

I mean, I would be upset if they went with one of the actors that already did Doctor Who and did not pick David Tennant or Eccly, considering that our dear Willy Wonka Doctor (i.e. Matt Smith) will still have the show to do, but then again who would they pick, if they want a fresh face?

I don't know, I guess it will have to wait until all of this is confirmed before making any judgements, but the prospect is both slightly exciting and slightly frightening. I love David Yates and his interpretations of the Harry Potter movies, but Doctor Who is not Harry Potter. It is far older and far more fragile, I think, and therefore requires more careful analysis and care than Harry Potter would.

I know, I know, making a book into a movie requires a massive amount of care, but people already know what Doctor Who can offer on screen, how it can fail and how it can succeed, and it's a fine line between the two so...yeah. Fingers crossed?

Hogwarts Logo

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That's wot's in the brochure, along with a Marauder's Map like layout/plan of the school that you can move around and explore. I mean, that's how I'd design the non-existent Hogwarts brochure.  

David Tennant's face of the day

They're such beautiful people. I wish I were part of the gang, /tears.

Instead I'm sitting at home, eating delicious scrambled eggs made by my sister, and trying to organize my life enough so that 'failure' does not become part of it. On the bright side, the digital content I picked to write a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis on is Pottermore, so it's not too bad. It means that the next assignment I have to do, which is to take the opportunities I've thought of and basically plan on how they could become realities, through proposed partnerships and ad campaigns and brand extension, will also be centred around Pottermore.

Which makes me feel good, because I get to plan a hypothetical future for something that I absolutely love. Harry Potter just instantly makes projects fun. 

Geek Problems

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I was pretty convinced I could speak in a British accent too, after a month of nonstop Who and Sherlock and reading Harry Potter out loud to my little brother (I try and do the voices, he seems to think they're accurate). I'd just hear the voices in my head and it's sound so right...and then I'd speak and realize how very wrong my initial confidence was.

There's so much reading to do on Marketing Management and Multimedia Financial Analysis (two of the classes I'm taking) that I have yet to do...but instead I'm making sure my blog gets updated at least twice a day. Priorities, right?

I'm only partially joking, I'm going to have my readings done. I can't fall back on work so soon, that would be a little ridiculous (like this clahs).

Stopping the world

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I got into Hufflepuff.

Is it wrong that I would rather be cunning and evil and manipulative and risk being a Death Eater than be loyal and patient and a surprisingly good finder?

David Tennant's face of the day

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I don't know why this happened or how it happened, and I honestly don't think I want to know these things. It's so much more entertaining imagining the possibilities.

On the equally bright side, finally got my Pottermore email! I've almost made it to the Sorting Hat, got my wand and books and all that wonderful nonesense (my wand is pretty awesome too, 12 and 1/2 inch sycamore, dragonecore, surprisingly swishy). I feel like I'm going to get into Hufflepuff...I don't want to get into Hufflepuff, there's too much internal prejudice against them for no real reason other than they really got the worst description in that first Sorting Hat song in book 1. Also, Cedric Diggory.

Still, probably going to get into Hufflepuff, and probably going to have to begrudingl deal with it. Though if it were a real Sorting Hat, my thoughts of 'not Hufflepuff! Not Hufflepuff!' would insure (for the most part) that I didn't go there. Unless, of course, it didn't think I fit into anywhere else. But...I'm just going to stop.

Dumbledore and internships

Despite the many, many, chocolate frogs I have gotten, I have yet to get a Dumbledore card, which is the only one that I want really. He just makes everything better. I can picture myself staring at the holographic image and asking for advice.

Ever have those moments when you get this amazing, wonderful opportunity that others would kill for but if you take it, it would just be overwhelming? I feel like I'm letting down all the even-slightly-geeky and nerdy people of the world by not being like 'screw it' and taking this internship, my lovely soul sister being one of them, but I also know that my work quality will decline in either my school work or the internship work (or both, really) if I try to juggle three 13 hour days a week whilst doing things like writing up mock pitches for book proposals and designing marketing plans and writing analytical cases on the benefits of Kindle and eBook. It's only the second day of class and I'm already drained and feel like I'm being overloaded with information that is critical to me making it through the semester.

I mean, if I could, I'd intern five days a week and not do school...but I can't do that (because it's for-credit). I'm not making excuses (don't you raise your eyebrows at me, inner self!), I'm just disappointed that's all. I would have been an amazing intern (clearly, I'm saying so myself). I just need Dumbledore to say some wise, slightly vague, things to me. Even if all he said was "Alas, earwax!" I'm pretty sure I'd feel better all the same.