Re: icon -- yeah, I couldn't resist when I found this one at wicked_visions. :) Especially as they're free to take. And it's something that'd appeal to a Muggle-born Ravenclaw, I think.
*wry grin* Used to be that my glasses just had to be very strong, but as I got older, the complications just started to pile up. And as lazer treatment isn't an option (and I'm in the 10% or so of humanity whose eyes didn't stop getting worse around age 20), I'm now stuck with having to shell out €1000 or so every two years, should my prescription change. Which unfortunately isn't unusual ever since I started needing reading glasses ...
I carry cheap reading glasses in my handbag/keep a pair in the kitchen just so I'm not constantly looking for my "good" pair; I'm wearing contacts for everyday use, and it's simply too much hassle to get those with bifocals as well.
As for coming up with ways around certain problems in fiction, to me that's half the fun of writing; I think the Star Trek:TOS writers once complained that the nifty transporter beam was quite a headache, as they permanently had to invent new ways in which it wouldn't work in any given situation. Same with magic -- if all you need to do is wave your wand, there's a big chunk of possible plots gone. :) (On a tangent -- once when Hermione or whoever needed a makeover and asked whether they couldn't just use "bippity-boppity-boo" instead of all those potions etc, an older witch just sniffed and called it a "silly glamour charm". Could've kissed the author!)
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*wry grin* Used to be that my glasses just had to be very strong, but as I got older, the complications just started to pile up. And as lazer treatment isn't an option (and I'm in the 10% or so of humanity whose eyes didn't stop getting worse around age 20), I'm now stuck with having to shell out €1000 or so every two years, should my prescription change. Which unfortunately isn't unusual ever since I started needing reading glasses ...
I carry cheap reading glasses in my handbag/keep a pair in the kitchen just so I'm not constantly looking for my "good" pair; I'm wearing contacts for everyday use, and it's simply too much hassle to get those with bifocals as well.
As for coming up with ways around certain problems in fiction, to me that's half the fun of writing; I think the Star Trek:TOS writers once complained that the nifty transporter beam was quite a headache, as they permanently had to invent new ways in which it wouldn't work in any given situation. Same with magic -- if all you need to do is wave your wand, there's a big chunk of possible plots gone. :) (On a tangent -- once when Hermione or whoever needed a makeover and asked whether they couldn't just use "bippity-boppity-boo" instead of all those potions etc, an older witch just sniffed and called it a "silly glamour charm". Could've kissed the author!)
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