Anyone who has Pottermore: Do any of you know what the 1531, 4157 counter is, up in Harry's closet bedroom in chapter 2? I keep thinking it's some sort of easter egg, a la dialing 'MAGIC' into the cell phone on Jo's website, but IDK where to use it. I have this suspicion that it's something to do with the last locked charm.

Anyone who doesn't have Pottermore - my extra one that I registered by accident is now activated. Who needs it?

Nevermind my bullet list of things they should tweak, for if they ever do ask for more feedback than the silly beta tester form.

• Duels & Potions obviously need some fixing
• When practicing spells for dueling, there should be a "Keep Practicing" button, alongside the "Return to Dueling" one, so that it takes us back to our textbooks instead of to dueling.
• The site lacks daily visit appeal; once you've gone through the book and brewed a couple potions, there's not much to do. Incorporate some sort of once-daily task to earn knuts/sickles, which can be used to buy more potion ingredients/wizarding supplies, which would in turn increase possible house points.
• Everyone and their mom wants optional sound.
• Purchasable Chocolate Frogs! Make collecting and trading a bigger thing in game.
• Gobstones? Chess?
• Readable pages in books?
• Cauldrons don't actually change the amount of time a potion takes to brew, despite being labeled 'slow' and 'fast'.
• If you own more than one cauldron, you should be able to brew more than one potion.
• Even when you check 'remember me,' it doesn't.
• I can't go re-collect potion ingredients.

Hey friends, who wants to play a Draco Malfoy in 2010?

I need him to have been a Death Eater, and I'd love him to be his usual over-achieving douchebag, Granger-hating self rather than a ~*~*MISUNDERSTOOD*~*~ fellow who's been reformed and now fosters homeless kittens because he just wants to be loved by everyone. :| We have the whole Trio, and Pansy and Blaise and Goyle and lots and lots of other Slytherins and one other fellow Death Eater who's been paroled (Terence Higgs, played by me, hence the want). For more info see: salemmods!

Hooray New York! ♥

I just killed spider #6, for today. Where are they all coming from? :(

I'm blocked. I'm blocked and indecisive. I'm blocked, indecisive, and contemplating just scrapping everything I have for New Salem.

What do people need? Because as it is now I'm just not able to click any of my ideas into place, and I could maybe use some new ones.

My mother's friend's husband likes to send her about twenty spammy style e-mails of jokes and videos, pretty much every day. But today, he has shared something AWESOME.

iBand Christmas Carols

SNOW DAY!

Lots of snow, at least a foot of snow!

Work closed early so that people could still get home before it got dark! The walk from the car to my door, the snow came up almost to my knees! I think technically it's even a blizzard because of the wind and rapid accumulation. On the less fun side, it's supposed to continue snowing for two days, I think the internet and power might go out. :(

I'm planning to make a wave of layouts, and thought I'd ask my friends what they really like/really dislike in layouts, or if you have a specific idea you've always wanted and it's never been made.

• Sidebar
  • Does it matter if it's left or right, or should it be capable of both?
  • How do you feel about horizontal sidebars across the top of the journal?
  • Do you want your sidebar to be able to display lots of tags and links and list of your entries, or does it suffice if you have just your basic IJ links, plus space for a few more from your links list?
  • Do you want a calendar in your sidebar?
• Fonts
  • Serif vs. Sans Serif?
  • Large or small?
• Colors & Patterns
  • Solids or prints?
  • Bold colors or muted ones?
  • High contrast (WGAA compliant) or low contrast?
• Images
  • Banner or no banner?
  • Thoughts on other images, in the background, sidebar, entry title, etc.?
• Etc.
  • Rounded edges or square?
  • How do you feel about new features, such as drop shadow, glow, etc.?
  • Anything else?

You are wonderful, thank you! ♥

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Well, Check is done (thanks everyone, for making it so awesome while it lasted!), and for the first time in a while, I have zero characters. I have a couple holds, but I'm actually not 100% sure I'm going to follow through with them. I want to play with everyone at Spygame and it looks well thought out and has lovely coding, but I'm also a bit spied out. I held Remus at Incognito for the same reasons exactly, but I've never been a Marauders type girl. I'm going to think on them for a bit, maybe try to get a bit done for applications, but I'm also thinking about going ahead and attempting to do a Merlin game.

On that note though, I don't like the third season at all. Is that just me? The second season ended with such promise, and the half dozen episodes or so before that were great too. The characters were maturing, the plots were gaining intricacy, it was grand. But nothing - not even almost being sacrificed for the good of Camelot - can justify Morgana's cheesy-bad-acting-hatred-of-everyone, Arthur is regressing back to an immature butthead, Gwen is floundering around doing... absolutely nothing, and the plots have gone back to the one-episode-only format, centering around Camelot being invaded by some strange magical creature/force, and now, farting. It makes me mad because it was honestly something so wonderful at the end of season two, I thought the show was finally starting to come into its own and showing the growth of the characters as they work towards more of the well-known legends. Another show jumps the shark. :-/