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I'm rather happy with the length of the seasons. I mean, I'm behind enough as it is. If they had, say, 22 episode seasons as shows like Glee and Supernatural do, I'd have barely finished the first season at this point.

Me too. It was horrible and beautiful and everything I hoped would never happen yet everything that probably had to happen all at the same time.

I just saw Doomsday for the first time. I'm feeling terribly miserable about it.

Does anybody have a one-shot for me to read? I love chaptered fics and all, but sometimes I really prefer my fic in small doses. I will review if I get around to reading, so that's definitely an incentive for you to show me them. I don't care if you wrote the fic or if it's your favorite fic you ever read in this fandom (Which I'd also love to read, by the way. What's the cream of the crop 'round here? Any length.). I'm just too lazy to go searching for fic myself so I'm trying to make you guys do it for me. *is mildly ashamed of herself* And I have a feeling you'll do it because if you're anything like me, you treasure reviews like Voldemort treasures not dying (I wouldn't say he treasures life...).

Guess whaaaaat! I am now the proud owner of A Rush of Blood to the Head! Yay! About time, eh?

I agree. Rather epic, in fact. P.S. I've totally started writing my Harry Potter/Coldplay crossover. BE SCARED! BE VERY SCARED! It could turn out really bad, but what I have is pretty good. Not my best, but I like it.

Thanks a million. You guys really are quite sweet. I haven't yet written anything, but my ideas are starting to fall into place, which is good. I think it will be a wartime fic.

How about when almost every video in the "Recommended for You" section of Youtube is Coldplay related. Because that's really all I use my account for.

Thanks. I'll definitely keep those in mind. Anybody else have some thoughts about characterizing them? Because it will really help for this fic.

I'll feel awkward and a tad rude just ignoring the occasion sooooo HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Even though we just met. I'll try and review your fic more, but I do have Calculus to do and I have to mow the lawn so it might not happen. And guys. A question. How do you characterize the guys in Coldplay? Are there certain traits that you just mentally assign them or think they have? What do they act like in interviews and such (I don't really watch/read them much--I barely do it for Harry Potter and that's my biggest fandom)? Or are there certain characteristics that everyone seems to give to say Will. For example, in SPN RPF we often see that Sadie and Harley, Jared Padalecki's dogs, basically rule the Padalecki household. Are there things like this? What do you guys do with characterization? How can I write a fic about these men (even one that's completely AU) if I don't know how they act? It'd be like me writing a fic about Wicked after having only heard the cast recording, rather than having seen the musical or read the book. Worse, because the cast recording still shows some of the plot and character. So I have this huge hump and doen't know how to get over it.

I'll try, though it will probably be short and not very plotty because I fail at writing anything of substance.

You're right. Which two would be most likely to be bitter rivals? And I have an issue. If I want to keep their actual ages it looks like Chris would be in a different year from the other guys. Do we just want to change that. And if we keep their real ages the guys (Chris excluded) would be in the same year as Cedric Diggory, Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson and, of course, the Weasley twins. This means I can have canon characters appear in my story. Even Harry, if I felt like it. Perhaps they could be members of the D.A. (or the Inquisitorial Squad, in the case of Guy--although I hope he would be a sensible Slytherin and not get involved). And one more thing. I never noticed this before because I don't really pay attention to their birthdays but OH MY GOD! WILL HAS THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS JKR AND HARRY AND JOEY RICHTER (Ron in A Very Potter Musical). Totally Jealous.

I'll have to go with the official verdict, then. Awesome. And Chris's being a Hufflepuff proves with great finality that we are more than just duffers. Although I wonder how would they become good friends. Maybe N.E.W.T. level Muggle Studies. Because they'd totally be wizards who are all like "These Muggles have really neat instruments. Let's start a band!" So I guess if I want them to meet in Muggle Studies they're all at least Half-bloods. Or maybe three of them are in Muggle studies together and the fourth guy befriends one of them some other way. I'll definitely have to mull this idea over in my head tonight, before I do anything.

Perhaps it'd be best to stick with what I know. I actually have another idea related to something I do know VERY welll. That's Harry Potter. It'd definitely be fun to send the boys to Hogwarts--although if I could get help with the sorting that'd be great. I don't know the personalities of the guys very well (I haven't watched many interviews, plus I just don't know them personally) so it'd be hard to say what house they're in. I do have a habit of sorting people and characters so it'd be fun to sort them, though. What houses do you think the guys would be in? Any Slytherins among their number? Of course I can always just put them in my own house (Hufflepuff) and be done with it. By the way, if you're unfamiliar with the Hogwarts houses, here are the Sorting Hat's songs. And I'm not positive about the name Guy. There's that one French writer, Guy de Maupassant, so it definitely is used there. But I just checked my French Dictionary and gui is apparently mistletoe in French. Who knew? Somehow I doubt French people would name their kid Mistletoe (Unless they're like Chris, in which case they might be all over it. ;)). EDIT: Speaking of Googling stuff, a while ago I found this really neat website. It's in French and it seems to list the names of practically everyone guillotined.

Well if I do end up doing it I'd love some help, perhaps beta reading. Because I know I shouldn't get myself into these things without help. I would probably fail miserably, no matter what I wrote, though.

It will be horribly angsty if I do, I'm sure. It also might be written in the second person, which I've come to really like writing. It's not at all good for long pieces like novels and such, but for the short pieces I tend to write it can be excellent. And I'll probably end up giving them silly French versions of their names using my French-English dictionary (for their surnames, which, fortunately, can be cut into normal words and roughly translated, though I can't guarantee what I come up with will be a real French name). So. Chris=Christophe Martin Guy=Guy Baiehomme (Literally taking what my dictionary says is berry and mashing it with homme, which I know is man) Will=Guillaume Champion (Champion is, apparently, a cognate) Jonny=Jean Mâleterre (Again, I took the word for buck+the word for land and mashed them together. And you'll notice that Jean=John, not Jonathan. Well I couldn't find a French equivalent to that name so I just used Jean. Live with it.) The French folks on this forum would probably laugh at my ridiculous Frenchization of their names (Or maybe they wouldn't. They're very nice you know. They helped me figure out what "L'imagination au pouvoir" means.), but it's fun to do, you gotta admit. Okay. I'll try and write it. It'll probably be grossly historically inaccurate, but what can you do? Oh yeah. Research. Well there's a problem with that. I have over $30.00 in fines on my library card so I can't really go and get books on the French Revolution from the library. Oh and I'll tell you when I'm done with the other fics I've got on my plate, okay?

If you love history, you'll love The Alexander Hamilton Mixtape. [ame= ] [/ame] Seriously, though. Watch this. It makes my life so much better.

High fives for audiobook loving, especially Harry Potter! US or UK editions? I have UK for OOTP and US for DH.

Guys...that idea of a French Revolution AU...I'm getting this mad temptation to write it myself. I really shouldn't. I don't know enough about the French Revolution to write a fic about it (Although I did read Twelve Who Ruled by R.R. Palmer, which is about the Committee of Public Safety. So Robespierre, Saint-Just, Barère, etc.) I'm horribly tempted to write some sort of angsty fic in which Chris--or should I call him Christophe for authenticity?--gets sent to the guillotine for uh stealing something. And it's all angsty and the rest of the boys are miserable. Maybe they try and break him out of prison and end up getting themselves guillotined as well? Or perhaps one of the others claims to be the thief and takes the chop in his place? Wouldn't that be the pinnacle of misery? I really need to resist this urge right now. By the way, I've now reviewed at least one chapter of a fic from each person that asked (I think? Was there anyone I missed? Do speak up if you want a review. I'm reading and willing, provided I have the time.). So that's good news. I'm gonna do my best to continue reviewing the fics, okay? I hope they were good reviews and helpful.

Haha. It happens. Obviously we could just ignore it. I mean, they don't allow NC-17 stuff and people sort of say eff that and put it up anyways. But I still say AO3 is the best route for an easier way of posting fic.

Well technically it's true that some people might perceive him as such because you're really not supposed to convert from Islam to another religion as he did. If you're father is a Muslim, you're a Muslim. End of story. But. This is a big but. I feel like those people would be those well versed in the Islamic religion, that is to say, Muslims. Only 0.6% of Americans are Muslim (and I doubt all feel that way, in the same way that not all Christians think that homosexuality is evil). This doesn't account for around 17.4% of the people who are thinking he is Muslim, and that's only assuming that every single Muslim believes he technically is one. I guess it sort of makes sense that some people are confused, as fearmongers like to spread that idea around, but I'm surprised that almost 1/5 of us buy into it. You would think it'd be less. Maybe I'm optimistic, but I'm surprised that all these people who are clearly confused about our president's religion don't just do some research as John Green did. It just seems like the sensible thing to do and I like to think that most human beings have common sense (That's why it's called common sense--it's supposed to be common.)

Yeah. It's very aggravating. I admit I'm sort of the kind of person that likes to push my interests on others because if I think it's awesome, why doesn't the rest of the world, which I think my family really dislikes. And Katie! I totally reviewed the first chapter of that fic. My apologies to Dianna, who I probably should have reviewed first since you asked first. I will get to you in good time.

If only more Americans were as sensible as John Green. [ame= ] [/ame]

Well it's not really an album per se (Although it comes on a CD so it half counts. I think.), but I would always fall asleep to the Lord of the Rings audiobook. I remember being stuck in Lothlórien for weeks just because I kept falling asleep very fast.

Hi again. Thanks for the kind comments about my little HP poem. And Kyra, the problem with fanfiction.net is that they don't allow RPF, which is what our fic would be. AO3 is open to that and has most of the features fanfiction.net has (Like communities, which they call collections on AO3), plus a really nice tagging system so you can tell what pairing a fic is and some other features it has. For example, if you decided to write a fic in which Chris is an orthodox Jew and falls in love with say Will you could tag that fic with "Jewish character." It's a really excellent archive, I think, though not yet perfect (For example they don't have the subscription feature that fanfiction.net has, although they're working on it.). If you guys all join we could make a collection there together. That would make older fics a lot easier to find, I think. And by the way, I'm also Finny over there, just so you know. And coldplayisawesome--I don't remember your name. Was it Brooke? There was definitely a Brooke somewhere--thanks for friending me. I need more friends who like Coldplay as I currently have no one. My whole family NEVER likes things I like and it depresses me. And guys, I'll do my best to review your stories as I have time. Gosh, I'm in high demand. ;) Makes me feel special. EDIT: Also, Katie, is there anything in particular you're dying to have read? And as for what I've read, to be honest I've only read about half of one fic so far (Cemeteries of London). I'm liking you guys; you all seem really nice and very welcoming. EDIT NUMBER TWO: YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL TOTALLY FRIEND ME LIKE SHE DID SO WE CAN BE ONE BIG HAPPY COLDPLAY-OBSESSING FAMILY! (Or rather, so I can join the family that already exists.)