five things that eat my brain

1. ( Thoughts on Philip Pullman's Golden Northern Compass Lights. )

2. I started reading in the bookstore one of those unofficial guides to Harry Potter, and I adored it. Not enough to buy it, but the tone reminds me of fandom meta, a gentle chiding of Rowling's inconsistencies and whatnot. I found myself wondering whether the author was involved in fandom. I was interested especially in his theories on how animal rights in the Wizarding world play a role in its isolation from the Muggle world. And! The mention of at least three academic articles written on Harry Potter!: one in a biology journal expounding how magical skills are a recessive gene, one in the self-same journal refuting it, and one in a legal journal criticizing the Ministry of Magic's bureaucracy. Bwah! No, I can't remember the title, and I tried to look it up online but seems like there are several unofficial guides. So, fuck it.

3. TV Tropes Wiki. Not just for TV. It's even more brain-eating than Wikipedia, at least twice as hilarious, and Wikipedia doesn't have fangirls/boys editors quibbling with each other in the examples section.

4. seventy times seven by dien. Boondock Saints/Sandman. No, seriously. Connor/Murphy, so warning: incest! My favorite part is with Delirium.

5. Like Lightning Fire Consumes by Signe. Bible. Cain/Abel, so warning: Christian incest! Like in Narnia.