Please enjoy these early renderings of the creepiest ghosts to ever ghost.
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Monday, October 19, 2015
How Many Of These Secondary "Harry Potter" Characters Do You Recognize?
Posted by Unknown on Monday, October 19, 2015
Consider this quiz your O.W.L.s.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
We Played Pictionary With The Creators Of "Wicked And Divine"
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
AKA, Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen take a true test of friendship.
When you run into Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen at NYCC there's really only one thing to do. Scheme as hard as you can to get a bunch of beautiful fanart to hang on the walls of your office.
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We started them off with an easy one.
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Kieron Gillen: It's a circle. A ring? Pizza?
Jamie McKelvie: Yes! Second word.
KG: Kangaroo...dog? Dog! Pizza Dog!
JM: Ayyyyyy! Look at this amazing, amazing drawing.
KG: I, certainly, am very impressed.
It's Time To Talk About How The Recast Dumbledore Was Literally The Worst
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
HARRY, DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!?!?!!!
If you don’t already know, Professor Albus Dumbledore (AKA THE MOST POWERFUL WIZARD IN THE WORLD) is a beloved character in the Harry Potter series.
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He is a wise, gentle soul with a naturally calm demeanor and a hint of a sensitive side.
"Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!"
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Keywords: GENTLE. CARING. WISE.
"To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
'I am very touched, Harry.'"
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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He may not be perfect, but he damn sure did what he believed was best for Harry.
"'I feel I owe you another explanation Harry,' said Dumbledore hesitantly. 'You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess... that I rather thought... you had enough responsibility to be going on with.'
Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard."
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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17 Jokes Only “Lord Of The Rings” Fans Will Get
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
Listen, J.R.R. Tolkien… you’re off to a good start. But Tumblr has some thoughts about how you can improve your iconic series just a bit.
Boom. Just saved you 11 ½ hours of watching and countless hours of reading.
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Helping Faramir solve the riddle of Cirith Ungol.
Appending the title of The Hobbit to include the subtitle "A Wet, Wild Journey".
The unofficial prequel to The Hobbit.
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6 Trans Women’s Memoirs You Need To Read
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
Because being trans is hella complicated.
New York Review Books, U Chicago Press, Broadway Books, Atria, Zoe Dolan, Verso
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23 Two Sentence Horror Stories That Will Scare The Hell Out Of You
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
11 Things You Need To Know About "Room"
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
The new movie about a mother and son held captive is an intense, moving must-see. Emma Donoghue, who wrote the novel and adapted it into a screenplay, talked to BuzzFeed News. MAJOR SPOILERS ahead!
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During Room's running time — just under two hours — you will gasp, shudder, grip your seat, cry hard, and, yes: you will laugh. Lenny Abrahamson's film, adapted from Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel and then her screenplay, is an affecting, active moviegoing experience. Don't be scared, though. It is worth it.
Brie Larson plays a young woman who has been held captive in a shed for seven years, and Room begins on her son Jack's fifth birthday. Jack (Jacob Tremblay) was born into this minuscule world, and not only has he never been outside, he doesn't know there is an outside. His mother, whom he calls Ma, has protected him from the knowledge that they are prisoners and that there is an entire world beyond the confines of their shed. They exercise, they read, they watch a small amount of television, and Ma shields Jack from their captor's nightly visits. They communicate in a language without articles, since there's only one of everything: rug, wardrobe, room. That's the premise of Room — but then everything changes.
Room is now in limited release. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in early September, and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has been drawing raves and Oscar buzz since — for Larson, Tremblay, the screenplay, and the movie itself. For Donoghue, an Irish-Canadian novelist, her own role in Room's publicity campaign has come as a surprise. "I always thought the writer was the least important element of the film," she said with a laugh recently over lunch in Beverly Hills.
Donoghue adapted her own work, but those who have read the book and see the film will notice she was not precious about making changes. Things are added and subtracted; characters change, as do settings. It's a stripped-down self-edit that will please book loyalists, but also immediately grip people who know nothing about Room's plot and its twists.
Donoghue talked to BuzzFeed News about her close involvement with making the film, working with Abrahamson, the cast, and how her own life did (and did not) help create the novel and movie. There are many, many spoilers below, about both large and microscopic plot points. So stop reading now and go see Room if you don't want to be spoiled!
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"I know it might seem cocky," she said. "But I didn't want to feel I was going to try to bully a company into hiring me as the screenwriter just because I owned the novel."
Donoghue had written novels, short stories, and plays before, but until Room, she said, "I never felt I had quite such a filmable story." She decided to adapt it herself on spec, thinking that, yes, there would be interest in making Room into a film. "If they like it, we can work together," she remembered thinking. "If they tell me it's rubbish and I believe them, I may say, 'OK, let somebody else do it.' I was just trying to be cards-on-the-table about it."
Though Room's story was inherently dramatic, if not cinematic, its structure posed some challenges. The novel is told entirely from Jack's 5-year-old perspective, which would not be the case in a film. Though Abrahamson's direction often allowed the audience to share Jack's gaze, Donoghue embraced the difference in medium as she wrote the screenplay.
"Cinema doesn't spell everything out," she said. "It gives visual information quickly, say, about the room. But often you're looking at Jack's face and you don't quite know what he's feeling in that moment — where in the book, you know exactly what he's feeling. In the film, often these big beautiful faces of the actors, they're kind of a blank screen, and we project ourselves onto them."
Plot-wise, Room's story cleaves into two halves: the story of Jack and Ma's imprisonment in room, and then the aftermath of their escape. "The first half was way easier to write — we did far less worrying over the script," Donoghue said. "The first half has a real momentum: Will they get out?"
The screenplay was a living document throughout the whole process, even in editing. "There was no final moment with the script," Donoghue said. "All the way through, they'd improvise some bits, or Lenny would email me and say, 'You know what, we need a bit of dialogue, can you make it up to me for Tuesday?' Even in postproduction, he'd write to me and say, 'Oh, I'm missing something, write with me.' There was a wonderful fluidity to that."
Which Series Should You Read Next Based On Your Favourite "Harry Potter" Character
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, October 18, 2015
Embrace your inner Hermione and start a new reading list.
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
Two Book Publishers Got Into A Cute Little Twitter Spat
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, October 17, 2015
“We hate books”
Chapter 2: Penguin Random House, the giant books publisher with a worldwide reach, decided some shade-throwing was the appropriate response.
Chapter 3: Threats involving snail mail are exchanged. (What would you expect from two book publishers?)
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