I Hate Myself

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Yes, it's true. Sometimes, I really hate myself because I don't give myself enough time to read. So, here's the deal. I haven't been reading all that much, I'm currently reading The Gunslinger by Steven King, but I recently forgot it at my grandparent's house so it's not in my possession, and I've been watching Grey's Anatomy. And not just watching, but watching for basically every minute I'm not skiing (have I mentioned ski practice has been at 7 a.m. every morning over break? I've been getting up earlier over break than I do for school) which is fairly often, but every other minute I'm attempting to watch Grey's. I started three weeks ago and with school work and the skiing I am now more than halfway through season five.

WARNING: SPOILERS

I won't be talking about the show all that much because I emotionally can't. But I AM CRISTINA. I'd just like to say that. I just reached the part where everyone FINALLY finds out about Izzy because she's annoying and doesn't use her doctor brain to figure out the fact that Denny isn't just grief but whatever. Also, Merder? New OTP by far. I hate myself because yes, I know what's coming and yes, I am thoroughly upset before it's even happened. ALSO ON SEASON FIVE AND I KNOW BASICALLY ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DIE AND NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GEORGEEEEEEEE. I'm really unprepared for George because he is amazing and I know that when he dies everyone thinks he's going to war so he's a John Doe and they don't know he's dead and basically so not ok it's not even funny. It's not funny, AT ALL. LEXIIIIIIIIIII. MARKKKKKKKKKKK. DeRekkkkkKkkkKkkKkkkKKkkk. I'm ok. Maybe. Is it also bad that this show really wants to make me be a doctor? I think it is. Fake things should not make your life decisions, right?

thank you, dead vampire (SPOILERS) for explaining my feelings
from chasingfaerytales

I didn't exactly write this post to be all about Grey's though, I wrote it to talk about all the things that have been dragging into this reading slump. I reallyreallyreallyREALLY WANT TO READ OKAY?!?!? I just can't. I go in the #drarry and the #jily tag and it's a black fuckin hole, man. Everything there is so funny and adorable and honestly, why wouldn't you just hang there for the rest of your life? I have a ridiculous amount of books to read (an not a big enough bookshelf, but that's beside the point) and I WON'T READ. I'm probably one of the absolute most annoying people I know.

Besides the reading slump, not having a wonderful break. I had a good Christmas and I saw my friends, and that was nice. I've been getting up at 5:45 in the morning. I hate too many people in my life (CRISTINA). I just doesn't work out well for me overall. Oh well. I have Grey's and my friends. I will survive. HEY HEY. Sorry. Unnecessary.

I also am so FUCKING EXCITED BECAUSE ShAdOwHuNtErS comes out in FoUrTeEn DaYs. I'm REALLY excited. Ok, now I'm all good. Also, if that link is not enough fangirl material, there are promos all over YouTube and Instagram.

--Sheiny

Royals, iZombie, and Once, Oh my!

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Do you like my cliché title? I'm not even sorry about it. But it was shows galore this week because last week was "a week off for thanksgiving blah blah blah" and I found it really stupid! But now I am bursting at the seems to get down to it so lets go!

The Royals

Ok, pretty sure I have review this show yet, so let's get a premises up in here. The monarchy is still active in England and the oldest son, Robert, is murdered, now the second son Liam is first in line to the throne. This murder sends the whole country and royal family into an emotional tailspin, specifically the youngest, Eleanor. Eleanor is easily off-set and very reckless. Liam and Eleanor now are attempting to find their brother's killer, their mother is trying to back-seat run the country, and their father is extremely off-put.

Now for spoilers!

The latest episode was season two episode three. I totally forgot over the break that the king died and I was really freaking annoyed that I forgot because I had to go through that pain again. Eleanor will always be my favorite character, that's never going to end and I think Beck needs to take a step back and stop trying to tame my fiery little tiger. Don't get me wrong, I love Beck, but stop. Now. But it doesn't matter because they're taking time apart now. And their whole chat about her needing to drown everything out with the noise and him needing the quiet was so hard-hitting because, who hasn't felt like that?

LIAM I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU WENT TO NEW YORK TO SEE OPHELIA I'M SO MAD AT YOU I CAN'T EVEN CONTAIN IT. She's horrible for you, she moved on real quick, she changed her number just so she can't talk to YOU. Honestly, I hated Ophelia from the beginning, I knew she was going to hurt my baby Liam and it pissed me the fuck off. He just put himself through too much pain going to see her.

Well, those are the only things that happened that I really cared about. ALSO HAHHAHAHA CYRUS HAS TO GET HIS BALL CUT OFF HAHAHAHAA. Sorry, I really really don't like him and I think he really really deserves this.

Once Upon a Time

i told you dark hook would be sexy. creds: the hollywood reporter

Fine, fine, fine. I admit it. They MIGHT be over. Oh god I was crying for hours, I was in complete denial, they can't be over how could that ever happen and CAPTAINSWAN FOREVER. I had such hopes at the beginning when they were kissing and they were going to be the Dark OneS together and noooooooooooooooooo. I'm actually an emotional train wreck because of this show and whenever I talk about it with people they always say "Then stop watching it." CAN YOU FREAKING NOT!?!?!? (that was too much emphasis but I don't care). Regina was so good in this episode but Hook just repeatedly made me cry every time I saw him and it got badd. Although he did look realllllly sexy. Oh well. This is just like Draco Malfoy. I'm so not even sorry, it's ridiculous. I love Hook no matter what I'm a ridiculous person and i need to sit the eff down because if I were someone else, that's what I'd say. I'm a disaster.

iZombie

This episode was really stressful because I totally thought Liv was going to find all his Zombie hunting things and his work and it scared me because LIV DOESN'T DESERVE THAT SHIT. And Ravi was really great in this episode and the stalker-ness was a yes yes yes it made the show so much better because, let's be honest, it was falling flat. But this episode re-intrigued me. I'm very terrified that the season finale will be everything bad coming out in the open and nothing finishing right and I absolutely cannot deal with that fact. There wasn't actually that much to say with this episode so, I'm done.

Well, those were the shows I watched this week. Also, the new Captain America: Civil War trailer?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! STRESS. STRESS.

--Sheiny

I'm Really Boring After Awhile

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I felt like my blog is going flat with all the Once, so I decided to get other people's opinions on books! I sent out a question to some friends and asked the question
"What is your favorite book that you’ve read as a teenager? Why?" and here are their responses with my short review of the book (if I've read it). (I'm the bullet points).

Katie Rusconi: The Harry Potter series.

• I love Harry Potter honestly, I think that it has really made up who I am. I read those in probably second grade and they were read to me while in my mothers stomach so... yeah first books ever and best books ever. They are just genius and magical (pun not intended {jk}) and just really engaging to anyone of all ages.

Grace Donahue: lol…… I hate reading. The only book I’ve read that was not required by school was Better off Friends which was pretty good. I liked it because it was short and easy to read but it’s really cute!

• I've never actually read that so kudos to her for reading I book I haven't #surprised.

Reede Nasser: Kinda still a tennager…. But I love Thirteen Reasons Why. I will always love Harry Potter or Divergent but the book doesn't sugar coat anything it stays real throughout the book and the emotions are derived from the author's own conscience. It makes you realize that those types of situations actually do happen.

• Thirteen Reasons Why is actually fabulous, I read it in a day. I couldn't put it down it was just really gripping and really kept me on the edge of my seat. Really great book, highly recommend.

Sam Petersen: Teenager is a super broad term… I don’t really believe in having a favourite book, because everything is my favourite everything. I loVEEEE anything by Sophie Kinsella, but I read those before I was a teenager (you probably shouldn’t though HA). Those are absolutely fabulous, hilarious, real, and actually taught me a lot about… life? I don’t know, they’re amazing and absolutely great for adults and children who like adult books alike :) I also really love I’ll Give You The Sun for a billion reasons including the fact that it’s hilarious and sad at the same time and AAHHHH I have so many other ideas. John Green is always a classic. THE NIGHT CIRCUS IS GREAT TOO. OOOH AND DAVID LEVITHAN. Annie, you know you shouldn’t have sent me this question. I need to be doing trig.

• Oops, never read Sophie Kinsella but I'm trying! I'll Give You The Sun is probably one of the most legit books I've ever read, it's one of those books that you think couldn't happen but then think again and realize it does. All the time. Everywhere. You see things all around you that you can relate to that book. John Green....eh. I really really want to read The Night Circus it sounds amazing! David Leviathan is great.
• P.S. when Sam writes practically half your blog post for you ;D

Isaac Cortes – …

• Thanks for the input there, buddy.

credz to sugarycynicism

Maya Levine: Ahh there are so many of them. Probably the Mortal Instruments series or It’s Kind Of A Funny Story. I love the plot of both of them so much and I guess I can just connect to the characters. Also anything by John Green (especially Will Grayson Will Grayson).

• THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS = YAASS. John Green....eh. WILL GRAYSON WILL GRAYSON = YAASS.

Sean Lydon: My favorite book is the dark lord of derkholm and a lot of books by the author Diana Wynne Jones and Night Circus as mentioned by Sam.

• Oops, haven't read any of those... I HAVE AN EXTREMELY LONG TBR, OKAY?

Emma Strong-Conklin: This is rough, but out of the books I’ve had the time to read recently, one of my favorites has been We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. Made me cry. Also kind of ruined my life. Didn’t want to move for a week after finishing it. Made me very, very emotional. But it was worth it. It was an amazing book. Rate: 10/10. Would read.

• I really, really, really, want to read that book so much it sounds amazing.

Ariel Johnson: Probably The Distance Between Us, it’s really good and I’ve read it like 4 times!

• I've heard about this book briefly from YouTubers and things, but not too much praise. I'll look into it!

So, those are my friends and their favorite books, unsurprisingly I've read most of them and liked most of them! Definitely check out their blogs also, they're on my blog roll!

--Sheiny

I Cried Myself To Sleep On Sunday, Did You?

Hello!

How's your week been? Mine's been mediocre at best. Most importantly because it started out quite emotionally. Let's talk about the TWO episodes of OUAT that aired?

SPOILERS. VERY VERY VERY BIG SPOILERS.

Wow! Talk about making girls cry! Screw Grey's Anatomy this was so much worse than when (SPOILERS) McDreamy or whatever died. I was genuinely terrified by all the pictures on set of when Hook fell off the library roof, I thought that he was going to die, but nope. It was friggen worse. So much worse. When he captured Emma in that squid ink with Zelena running free? Yeah, knew how badly that was going to turn out. I genuinely thought that Hook died in Camelot and was somehow freed by Hercules in Camelot (if you haven't heard because you're ridiculously out of the loop they have officially casted Hercules and Megara to be in Once) because he went to the underworld and got him. Yes, that was also a popular theory that I stole from social media but it was a good theory!

Zelena and Robin's daughter =D soo cute oh my god. I was also very surprised at Regina's self restraint in not killing Zelena right then and there because, why keep her alive but oh well. Now she's alive and wreaking havoc in my ship. That ending was probably the most stressful I've ever seen. I was sobbing. I was a mess the next day at school. Ugh. It was really bad.

snow=fangirls regina=writers. from rebloggy

Okay now to the though stuff (hah rhyme). I was sobbing. When Emma had to take Merlin's power and make Hook another Dark One and he didn't want her to do it and then she did it anyway because she couldn't lose someone else and I'm going to start crying omfg. It was Neil all over again. It was
just really emotional and IT WASN'T UNSELFISH YOU IDIOTS WHO THINK SO.

WE DIDN'T GET A NAME FOR THE ROBIN/ZELENA BABY. I'M SO UPSET.

DARK CAPTAINSWAN WOULD BE REALLY HOT.

HOOK STOP BEING AN ASS AND BE GRATEFUL THAT SHE SAVED YOUR GODDAMN LIFE.

ZELENA DON'T PRETEND YOU'RE HELPING.

WHAT WAS WITH THE HOUSE GLOWING?

WHERE'S HENRY?

WHERE'S MERIDA?

Alright that's enough with that. Okay the next episode that was such a complete let down compared to the one before it?

First of all, I WANTED STORYBROOKE NOT MERIDA. Merida is so annoying I cannot stand her fake-ass accent, her self-loathing is totally fake, she's actually so weak whenever she's done something good it's been with substantial help from another character soon... THE GREAT PART OF THIS WAS RUBY AND MULAN I SHIP IT. WolfWarrior? Only LGBT couple? Idk we gotta get a ship name going though. I really enjoyed having Mulan and Ruby back on the show they're literally fabulous and it was good to see Mulan really grow and get past Aurora. And that scene between Ruby and Snow? "There's no one else here like me." Snow thinks she meant werewolves. What she meant was lesbians, let's be real.
Of course Merida's dad didn't have the helmet, mean, come on. Literally everyone saw that coming. Merida is so annoying and now judgmental too! Let's kill her and maybe NOT HOOK DAMNIT.

Okay basically my ship better survive or them writers be dead.

Thanks! 5x08 was actually a really really good episode. I think one of the better ones of the entire series. Although we all know the best is 4x11, let's be real. When Storybrooke was under the Snow Queen's curse and trying to kill each other? Yeah, best episode EVER.

I'm actually done. So many caps lock. Oops. Also, going to be a book review (can you believe it?) of Winter (!!!!!) coming soon, I promise.

--Sheiny

The Program (series)

Hello!

Okay, so recently I read the duology The Program by Suzanne Young. The premise is basically that suicide is now an epidemic among teenagers and the only "cure" is The Program which is basically a mental facility where they wipe your "infected" memories from your mind. They basically take away most of your life. And the main character Sloane has never been to The Program but her best friend was sent about six weeks ago and her brother commit suicide two years ago. Her brother's best friend James is now Sloane's long term boyfriend and their best friend is Miller.

SO SPOILERS? LET'S GO.

THIS SERIES WAS SO GOOD AND IT WAS HEART WRENCHING AND BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Okay, should we start with what I love and then what I hate? Let's do it.

I love James. Honestly I was friggen dying after her memory of him was gone I actually cried and had to put the book down because I was so annoyed. He's just the perfect guy and they guy that I'd want to date. I actually really liked Sloane at first, she was just this burning light and I really admired her for her fight. And Miller was really really great. Also, when Sloane was trying to get James to "wake up" kinda from the depression and gave him head? Yes. Yes. Yes. I also love love love Dallas and she's a BAMF and she's on point all the time. And for the short time we had Lacey she was the bomb.com but, you know...

Okay to the things I hate? Because I remember that stuff the most? #sorrynotsorry.

Realm can go die in a motherfucking hole. He just ruins literally everything and all I

how to die in a motherfucking hole by olivia

want to do is slap him until he dies. And he's trying to control how Sloane feels about James and he's totally judgmental. He just ruins everything. And he told Dallas that she doesn't matter. "But he sent her the cute note at the end" yeah, that was friggen adorable but you can totally tell that he was just trying to make it up to Sloane because "he loves her" blah blah blah. Sloane's mom? Honestly? Wtf? I cannot even start with that kind of betrayal. Because, not only did she call The Program once, BUT TWICE. And when Miller died and James went and cut himself? I literally sobbed out loud that my mom thought something was going on at school and I was being bullied. Not kidding. And that stupid other guy from the rebels that turned them in for The Treatment? Yeah, same boat at Realm. But that escape plan by James and Realm? Fabulous. Made my week.

Should I read The Remedy? Anybody read it? I don't actually have any readers so, why even ask? I'm such as sad human.

Just a quick note on OUAT because there's one on every post, THESE PAST TWO EPISODES ARE KILLING ME AND THE NEXT 2 HOUR ONE MIGHT ACTUALLY CAUSE ME TO HYPERVENTILATE. All the promos and spoiler pics are just nope. I'm just noping. Nope-nope-nopity-nope-nope. Dying. Actually.

DID ANYBODY ELSE GET WINTER?!?!? IM FREAKING EXCITED MAN.

Alright. I'm done. I think. I think. Phew.

Thx! Ttyl!

--Sheiny

iZombie and Dragging Grown Men

I supposed with wasn't men, plural. Just one. But I'll get into that later.

Okay, latest iZombie, 2x04, not blown away. I mean, we had beautiful Peyton/Liv and Major/Liv moments, but I kept getting bored. I ended up watching the episode about three times so that I could write even a slightly interesting blog post, but I can't. Peyton finally say Liv and they hugged and it was adorable. But there were no really funny or really sad moments so... That was fabulous! Liv kissed Major! Yay! Yay! We waited fucking forever for that. But besides that, nothing really important went down. Kinda disappointed.

RANT TIME

So, as I've explained before, I'm a ski racer. Because of the lack of snow, we do drylands every day at Alpenfit gym. For those of you who don't know, drylands is a work out geared toward whatever sport you do, so we do squats, dead lifts, push pulls, power cleans, and conditioning-type-things. This week  has been one of the hardest weeks ever. On Monday, they took us jogging over the the ski hill, and made us run up and then down the race hill, twice. My shins hurt for days. And the worst part was, it was freezing, so your insides are on fire but your outside is blue.

Then on Tuesday we did anaerobic exercises, namely kettle bell swings, sit ups, squats, then burpees, for twenty seconds then ten seconds of rest. And ten seconds seems like a reasonable amount of time, when actually that's nothing. Nothing. So actually, we got no rest and all work. And all of that doesn't seem so hard, but then we had do each exercise eight times. That turns out to be 32 rounds of twenty-seconds-on-ten-seconds-off. Needless to say, I then took Wednesday off.

"get your fat ass off!" -chloe whalen. courtesy of the fitness armory

But I did go back to drylands on Thursday. It was great, at first. We talked for a little while about everything that's coming up, and then we did yoga. It was really hard, but it wasn't exhausting it just was really hard on my abs and now, standing up is the real struggle. Then, we did an exercise where we hop from a couple feet off the ground, and try not to wiggle. That was really great too, right? Not so hard? Yeah, get this.

We also have the conditioning component to drylands, correct? Yesterday we had to do the shuttle run and pull the sled five times. Now, for the shuttle run we just run ladder, you know when you run from start to ten feet then to start then to twenty, etc. That wasn't so bad. But the sled. This to the right is the sled. We also have a rope with loops on the end thought that little circle that a person wears like a backpack. Now, one person is wearing the straps to pull and the other is pushing with those two metal rods. For my partner and I we had a twenty-five pound and a thirty-five pound weight on each rod as seen in the photo. But then, he split us into teams of three and four. Luckily, I had four but we are the slightly less strong people on the team. We kept the weights with two people pushing and two pulling. Then, our coach, Brian, sat on it. So, yes we had to drag a grown man. Now, my shins hurt even more. Brian, you're lucky I nearly passed out, otherwise I would've socked you in the jaw. And more.

So, basically my week. And yes, I left the dragging the grown man part for last so you'd read until then because this is so boring! I'm sorry. Hopefully my pain is slightly entertaining? Funny? Whatever.

Okay, when your ship might die, you stress. A lot. Merida is horrible and obnoxious and Emma needs to stop. Oh, right, I'm now shortly talking about the new sneak peak for 5x06 of Once Upon a Time because god dammit.

That's it. I'm sorry it's so horrible. I just felt like talking about dragging grown men was a good time. Oops.

--Sheiny

Dreamcatcher?!?

Hello!

Okay so, I already explained the premise of Once Upon a Time in my last post Is CaPtAiN sWaN oVeR?!?!? if you'd like to check that out. From here on out, I'm talking all about the latest episode 5x05 "Dreamcatcher."

WARNING: SPOILERS AND MILD SWEARING (okay maybe not so mild).

NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. THIS WAS SUCH A PROBLEMATIC AND EMOTIONAL EPISODE. I mean, it was named "Dreamcatcher" what did I expect? Honestly, I cried so much more than I should have. At the beginning it was like, okay I'm prepared, there should be a Captain Swan moment that we can all really enjoy because for the past three seasons we've had big Captain Swan moments in episode five, but NO. Not one Captain Swan moment to be found. And I knew, I knew it would be all about Neil because dammit the dreamcatchers were their thing so, of course they became Emma's "hobby." They brought up Neil way to many times for it to be healthy for the fangirls because that is a wound that is still open and stinging. THIS WAS LEMON JUICE IN THE WOUND. Neil was so great and the echo cave was so beautiful and adorable and I MISS NEIL.

The whole Rumple thing is really starting to bug because Merida is always in the way of my ships at this point, that bitch sucks. She's obnoxious as hell, she is about to ruin Rumbelle forever, and she thinks she's better than Dark Swan. Like, stop. It's frustrating me to no end, I was totally expecting her to be gone after the first episode because she's not needed. Like take Killian's heart so there is some CAPTAIN SWAN PLEASE.

honestly the entire episode. Courtesy of GooglePlus

Alright, alright, alright, yes I was putting it off. I'm in school right now so I'm afraid I might start crying but... let's talk about Henry. I cannot believe that Emma 1. even thought to do that to Henry and 2. even though she did that, made Regina go through the pain of losing Daniel again. Like, how horrible can you get? I know you're the Dark One, but I see the light in you. Regina and Henry saw it. Yep, past tense. They now want NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. You've now obliterated an entire part of your life and you barely care. I just wanted to give Henry huge hug and tell him that he doesn't need her, her being Emma or Violet. Violet bugs me to no end. She's all "Oh, Henry my horse ran away. Can you go find him? I'm just a useless girl that can't do anything on my own and I need a boy to do it for me. I'm only here to make Henry look better overall for the show because he's losing popularity." That's all I get from her so far. But Emma did rip her heart out, which won a teeny tiny bit of sympathy for her.

Overall, 10/10 episode because everything in the show was done beautifully and shows, books, movies are supposed to make you feel supreme emotion and this was amazingly done. Also Neil. Neil is worth 10/10 always.

Just really fast I'd also like to bring up the new promo? Yeah, OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. Finally some Rumbelle but did it really have to be over a bear attack? Really? We get nothing for months and this?`AND EMMA ORDERED MERIDA BITCH TO KILL BELLE?!?!?!?!?? I'm terrified. I am not okay. Not okay.

Comment, let me know what you thought (?) I'll catch ya later.

--Sheiny

Is CaPtAiN sWaN oVeR?!?!?

Hello!

I'm planning on talking about the new episodes of Once Upon a Time and iZombie today. I suppose I should explain the premise for those who don't watch the shows. Well, Once Upon a Time is about fairy tale characters. They have been cursed to our land, to a town called Storybrooke, Maine. The main characters are Emma Swan (daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming), Snow White, Prince Charming, Henry (Emma's son), Rumplestilskin, and the Evil Queen. Here's the catch: the fairy tale characters don't remember who they are. Snow White is now Mary Margaret, a school teacher. Prince Charming, David Nolan, is in a coma. Rumplestilskin, Mr. Gold, owns the town and is a pawn broker. Emma Swan is a bail-bonds person in New York when Henry finds her, after she gave him up ten years ago. He finds her, and he asks her to bring him home. She goes to Storybrooke and Henry tells her she's the Savior and she has to break this curse and restore everyone's memories. 

Now, iZombie. The main character, Olivia "Liv" Moore, is a heart doctor with a really attractive fiancé, Major. When Liv is invited to a boat party, Major makes her go and says "What's the worst that can happen?" You want to know what the worst that can happen is? Zombie. Apocalypse. That's right, a new drug being sold at the party was cut with something that created Zombieism. Liv gets infected. It's now five months after the party and she broke up with her fiancé because, turns out, Zombieism is an STD, and now works at the morgue to get her sustenance of brains. Her boss, Ravi, knows of her Zombieism, but no one else does, and Liv basically just spends her days doing nothing. Here's the thing, when you eat someone's brains you get their personality and some of their old memories. The "visions" of the memories are triggered when she sees, hears, and smells, something that the dead person had. She uses these to solve crime with the detective Babineaux. That's pronounced "Bab-in-o." It's really awesome and Liv is fabulous.

OKAY NOW I'M TALKING ABOUT HUGE SPOILERS, WARNING.

effin' adorable. courtesy of giphy

HOLY GOD NO: my reaction to the last episode of OUAT.  I was actually crying. I swear, if Captain Swan breaks up, my life will be a train wreck. I have shipped them every since Neil died. That's a very long time. And Hook is so great, I mean he started out as a begging puppy but, better. He did. Now he's amazing and beautiful and THEY CAN'T BREAK UP. Dark Swan is totally fabulous and badass though. And Regina is so great and it makes me sad that she feels unsupported. And Henry is getting so much better. So. Much. Better. ALSO LET'S KILL AUTHUR. I called it, too. I called it, I called it, I CaLlEd, IT. I just knew Arthur was evil. Have you seen the new sneak peak? He wants the dagger! Remember what the dagger and Excalibur together would do? Huh? OH YEAH SNUFF OUT THE LIGHT. I'm so stressed right now this is not okay. And Emma woke Rumple and she's going to force him to take out the sword and Arthur is ripping apart Snowing. And the whole thing with Charming and getting the mushroom I was just like, attention whore much? Latest OUAT episode: 7/10 minus three because Charming ruins everything. It bugged me so much. I'm so excited for next episode. Oh my god that's tomorrow. So. Far. Away.

Now for the newest iZombie. That was some of the funniest shit I've seen in a while. I'm mean, she's on frat boy brains! She wore a strapless dress made out of crime scene tape! She put makeup and sparkles on Ravi! She put the skeletons in a very sexual position. And there were some fabulous Liv/Major moments, like when he fell asleep on her lap, "I'm never going to let anything happen to you." It was so cute. After Lowell died they just needed to get back together. I'm still pissed that she healed him. So pissed. They would've had beautiful Zombie sex. And where the heck is Peyton?!? She just disappeared. What a great friend, am I right? Whatever. Latest iZombie episode: 9/10 minus one for Major being not very nice at the beginning and no Peyton.

Let me know what you thought about the latest episodes in the comments, or whatever you want do.

--Sheiny

Why? Why!? WHY!?!?

Hello!

How's life? Mine's chaotic and crazy and uncontrollable and I think I'm about to lose my mind. The homework load in ninth grade is so much more than in eighth. In eighth grade they were always saying "I'm only doing this to prepare you for high school." Yeah, well you did a pretty shitty job at it. I have about four and a half hours of homework every night. Last year I had more like two. this is beginning to get ridiculous. How to these teachers expect good grades and sometimes extra credit, if that's expected in five classes. Don't any of you teachers ever talk to each other about homework load and maybe not cause unhealthy stress on your students?

In a study taken at Xavier University, it says that teen suicides spike during school times. They drop off during the summer and longer breaks, then spike once school begins. Suicide has moved from being the third leading to the second leading cause of deaths among 15-24 year olds. Why does this not spark anything in our society? Does this not raise any flags for anyone but me? People always say that high school isn't the best. Cleary it's not! How come children are miserable all the time, I mean from my personal experiences 97% (yep, just made that up) of kids that I meet, hate school. I've met maybe five kids who like school at my age. I just don't understand why our school and education systems haven't changed. 

Honestly how I felt the entire time while reading All the Bright Places.
Courtesy of giphy

Well, that was unbelievably depressing, but I needed to get it out. Believe me I thought I would explode. Also, a book that has teen suicide that is literally one of the best books I've ever read in my All the Bright Places. It's about a boy and a girl who meet at the top of a bell tower and it's unclear who saves who. I read it this summer at camp, and it actually changed the way I look at teenagers these days. Also The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an eye opening movie with the topic of suicide involved.
life is

So back to how I think I'm losing my mind. I'm a ski racer, did I mention? Right now because there's no snow we have drylands training everyday. On Friday, the 9th, we had to do the Beep Test, or the Pacer Test. It hurt so bad. But only five out of fifteen of the kids on my team showed up. So my ski coach was pretty upset. So yesterday he made us do The Filthy Fifty which is when my coach picked ten exercises that we had to do 50 times each. In the end that meant five, HuNdReD, EXERCISES. Well, four hundred for me. I haven't really been saying this but I technically only had to do forty of each because I didn't go to dryland all summer and my coach didn't want me to die of exhaustion. BUT STILL THAT FOUR HUNDRED EXERCISES. I feel like I'm going to just fall on my face and pass out. Thanks, Brian, you suck. 

I'm so so sorry that I haven't been posting fandom stuff a lot lately, I've been in a reading slump. Back to the four hours of homework and the drylands everyday, I don't have much time. I'm so mad about it. But I have picked up a new TV Show, it's called iZombie and it's made by the same guy as Veronica Mars and it's so good. Season 2 just started and I'm bouncing, I'm so excited.

Thanks for letting me rant my guts out, jeez it was really bad today.

--Sheiny

Pottermore?!?!?

Hello!

So, I know that I'd only really talk about books, movies, and TV shows but this is related, right? Oh well. Here, is my first rant on this blog. Oh man. Okay, I just recently completed the adventure part of the Pottermore website. You know, the part where you go through each chapter and moments within that chapter and find all kinds of random crap like galleons and Every Flavor Beans. So, I recently finished the whole series and was MAJORLY disappointed in how Goblet of Fire through Deathly Hallows was orchestrated. There were moments nearly every three chapters! That's so underwhelming! So, I began to complain about that to my family and friends (you know, casual), and then I got the newsletter that said more on those books were coming soon and I was like YES YES YES YES! 

I screenshotted this during biology

So I kept checking Pottermore and attempting to fully complete each moment (yes, it bugs me if the little gold bar isn't full) and then one day I was bored out of my mind in a certain class, so I went to Pottermore to attempt to entertain myself into staying awake and I enter Pottermore in the bar, and it went to this new, weird page about news in the Harry Potter world. At first I was like, hey this could be cool, a new opening page and stuff, and so I tried to go to my adventure page and look through the moments I need to complete AND IT'S GONE. Disappeared. Erased. All my hard work for almost two years, down the drain. What is going on with Pottermore? I mean, don't get me wrong I enjoy a lot of the articles they put up there. The best was the wand comic, holy funny. I almost died in that certain boring class. 

Back to the point. Is this now just another boring site where there's random new articles and newer information? Or is this temporary and they're actually working on those new moments and chapters? If so, very very excited I actually like Pottermore quite a bit. And I am a huge book and movie fan. I have all eight movie posters in my room and they're like four feet tall. 

I just don't really get why people don't like Pottermore like what's wrong with it? Can someone please explain this to me? OOH also comment what house you're in #slytherinandproud. 

Well. I got it out. Someone give me hope, someone research this for me? I'm too lazy and decide not to go to the next page on google. Oops. Whatever I love Harry Potter so so much. All the movies make me cry. My phone background is literally all sad moments from the movies as seen. I'm not even sorry if I made you cry. It makes me cry maybe every other day. ESPECIALLY the one with Harry and Lupin, I mean have you seen this meme?!? I almost just started crying in biology. Fabulous. 

unbelievably not sorry

Comment, follow, email, thanks!

--Sheiny

Welcome!

Hello!

I’m Annie Sheinberg (Sheiny is a pen name, you could say) and this is my blog for my English assignment. I’m fourteen years old, I live in Park City, I attend Treasure Mountain Junior High, and a couple classes at Park City High School. I ski race and play softball. I have five cats all named after fictional characters, Winky, Dobby, Nico, Jem, and Simba. I go to summer camp every summer in Minnesota, at Camp Lake Hubert.  I actually have an extremely boring life, and you probably don’t want to hear about it!

If my childhood could fit in one picture, this would start it.

This blog is going to be all about my fandoms (Harry Potter is definitely my biggest fandom), my non-fandoms (if you catch my drift there), maybe an occasional real life story that’s funny or slightly relevant, and some other reading life style things. Specifically those things would be about music that gets me in x genre of book mood, my favorite places to read, book pet peeves (*cough* *cough* “I let out a breath that I didn’t know I was holding” *cough* *cough*), my ships, the best memes, and so much more. Mostly, this will be about books, but if there’s a really, really, REALLY excellent new Once Upon A Time (speaking of which, season 5 started on Sunday! Anyone else ecstatic about this new season? :-D), or a huge new movie came out (specifically a book-to-movie adaptation) then I’ll talk about those too! I absolutely would also love to take suggestions, so if you have a good idea or want to hear about something specific, let me know! I’ll always read my comments!

Well, I’m sorry to say I can't say this is going to be an un-bias, un-opinionated page, but I can say I'm not here to offend anyone (except maybe Donald Trump). I can get extremely passionate and over-excited, so I may seem harsh at times. But I swear, I’m not here to actually harm anyone. Just here to share, be open, meet new people, receive a good English grade. Just kidding. (No, I’m not).

Again, this is also an English assignment for school, so if you do notice any grammatical errors, corrections are not only welcomed, but encouraged. 

I also have just recently read the Throne of Glass series, I’ll probably be talking about those A LOT. Specifically my beautiful Rowan, my bangin’ girl Manon, and my sweetheart Fleetfoot! I will also, most likely, talk about one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in a long time. I actually got the chance to meet Sarah J. Maas in Salt Lake City! She talked for a while, answered some questions and I will go into deeper detail later. But she was really awesome and down to earth and I hope you all get to meet her one day too!

I also subscribe to a phenomenal YouTuber, polandbananasbooks, her name Christine and she's absolutely fabulous and fantastic. I would definitely check that out and subscribe to her for really great BookTuber-ing.
P.S. her collaborations are the funniest.

I absolutely love to hear from readers, so if you'd like to get in touch my e-mail for that is fangirllife210@gmail.com.

--Sheiny