Pain and Suffering

Hello!

How are you? Good? Yeah, not me. Guess what started this week? Softball tryouts! Yay! No that is actually a good thing, but here's the bad part: LESS READING TIME. IF THAT'S EVEN POSSIBLE. Literally I haven't read anything other than Pride and Prejudice (for English class) and my AP Human Geography textbook. It's depressing. I haven't been watching shows either. I have nothing. It's pretty awful. Fictional characters are practically no longer in my life. All I have time for is barely ten minutes of going through Instagram and, if I'm lucky, hang out in a Harry Potter related tag. Specifically Drarry, but that's just me. I want to cry all the time. I think it's because fandoms are slightly fading out because high school decided to be a BITCH. YEAH, THANKS A LOT PARK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. ALSO THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM IN GENERAL. I just wanna cry and get so dehydrated I have to be rushed to the hospital so I can get excused from school. That's how desperate I am to read more. You probably thing I'm joking right now, believe me, I'm 100% not.

Back to softball really quickly. Besides the fact I can't read anymore, I also can't move. Softball is a very different sport from skiing so there are vastly different muscles used. I can't move my legs. Or my shoulders. Or my hips. At all. Bending over? hahah that's funny. Reaching across the table? yeah, give that a try! Sitting down and standing up? may as well attempt to jump into space. It's horrible. And it sounds like I'm just miserable doing softball but I lost the sport so much. Sure, it hurts but it's so much fun. And all the girls are super awesome. It's actually worth it to limp around school to go to softball, honestly. The only thing that makes me slightly regret it is the whole reading and fandom life thing. But I love softball so, oh well.

I am also very sick. Stuffy nose, huge tonsils, insane cough, sneezing uncontrollable sick. And of course I get sick the week of tryouts, right? OF FUCKING COURSE. So yeah, that makes me even more miserable. And getting the weird looks in the hallway for how I walk isn't great either. I'm also exhausted which is why I don't stay up even later after finishing my seventeen pages of Pride and

the accuracy is realll from crossfitBrit

Prejudice, which I'm not saying is a bad book, it's just not on my TBR and because it's for school it sort of sucks the life out of it. I hate to say that because it makes me annoying, but it's just true. If you have to read a book in a certain time period then do a project on it, it sucks a lot more than it would. So back to my being sick, I sleep more than usual which is an upside and a downside because when I go to sleep is normally when I read for another hour or two. It sucks! I hate being sick.

Basically you can't even call me a fangirl right now because I'm in practically no fandoms because I don't do anything that doesn't take place at or for school. Which is just going to be the story of my life, right? Right. Great. Everything is fucking great.

--Sheiny

Best Ending Ever... Or, It Would've Been.

Hello!

Today most of this post will be a iMessage conversation between me and a close friend whom I will call Hermione for their privacy.

Sheiny- (with a picture of The Quill of Acceptance and The Book of Admittance article)
GO TO POTTERMORE AND READ THIS AND BE DISAPPOINTED WITH ME AS TO WHY THE HELL THIS WASNT IN THE BOOKS

hermione and my 8th
grade graduation

Hermione- WHAAT

Hermione- THIS MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE

Hermione- AND WOULD HAVE BEEN SO COOL IN THE STORY

Sheiny- I KNOW IM SO ANNOYED IT WAS NEVER MENTIONED

Sheiny- AND NEVILLE

Hermione- YES

Hermione- AND IMAGINE THEM FINDING IT AND SEEING ALL THE NAMES AND STUFF

S- I'm so unsurprised that Neville was doubted to be a wizard until he was eight (laughing emoji) BUT COULDVE BEEN A FANTASTIC ENDING LIKE THE THREE LOOKING AT THE FUTURE LITERALLY

H- YESS AND IMAGINE THE NOSTALGIA IF HARRY WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE BOOK AND JAMES AND LILYS NAMES WERE NEXT TO EACH OTHER

S- YES YES YES OMFG AND I JUST UGH THAT SHOULDVE HAPPENED

And then some theories of ours that I'll get back to. If you haven't read the article linked above, go do so now so that you'll be in the loop.

This is the coolest concept because this is making the future. It's writing exactly who's coming to the school in eleven years and that is just mind blowing to me. And it makes me really sad that not every Harry Potter fan out there has read this article because it's such an interesting topic. It's so cool. I just want a series where someone figures out how it works because I'd like to know. Also Neville, you're so cute. I love you.

Hermione and I also came up with some fantasies about how this book could work.

H- BUT WHAT IF THE BOOK WOULD WRITE NAMES IN GROUPS AND LIKE IF NAMES WERE TOGETHER THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THEY WOULD BE INVOLVE OR REALLY GOOD FRIENDS
AND THE MARAUDERS NAMES WERE ALL NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND LILY TOO
BUT THEN AFTER JAMES AND LILY DIED DUMBLEDORE NOTICED THAT PETERS NAME HAD MOVED

S- HONESTLY AND PEOPLES NAMES WOULD CHANGE COLOR AS TO WHAY HOUSE THEYRE IN AND THEIR CHILDREN COULD BE LISTED UNDER THEN AND FAMILY TREES AND OMFG WAHT

(then we just expressed how annoyed we were again)

H- cough cough harry and dracos names being next to each other \

S- GOALS
ALSO REMUS AND SIRIUS's
AND LILY AND SNAPES RELUCTANTLY BEING TOGETHER THEN AFTER THE MUDBLOOD INCIDENT IT MOVES FAR FAR AWAY

And then we began talking about the 5th Wave move. Still gotta read it. And then see it. Even though everyone hated it. But honestly this friggen idea makes me so happy and J.K., I don't get disappointed in you nearly ever but right now if I could send you to be without supper I would. I'm pissed off this idea is so cool. I just don't understand why this is a thing. Why would you so that. WHYYYY!?!?!??!

Oh well. I'm in a reading slump. I have no new books EXCEPT ONE WHICH ILL WRITE ANOTHER POST ABOUT. But besides that I really haven't been reading because HIGH SCHOOL'S A BITCH.

Yeah. I'm boring. Oh well. Have a nice day!

--Sheiny

Pottermore -- Update

Hello!

So, a while back I posted about pottermore, and all the changes it underwent. For example, got rid of the game aspect altogether. I'm still upset about that. BUT they just introduced a bunch of stuff that I plan on discussing throughout the post!

J.K.'s Writing- This is (probably) my favorite aspect of this new pottermore because she's been releasing them so much more and they're so good and so interesting. It makes me sad that some of this stuff wasn't in the books and that all the Harry Potter (books) fans HAVEN'T read these things. The biggest and most crushing example of this so far is The Quill of Acceptance and The Book of Attendance. If you haven't read this article go read it now. I think I'm going to write an entire post about it, actually. It's so interesting and I'm going to write about it in a later post so, yeah. It's so great reading from J.K. again, I miss it. WRITE MORE PLEASE PLEASE pLeAsE.

my new desktop background from pottermore

Sorting and Wand- Pottermore has just, just, added the sorting and wand aspects back into the site! This was very exciting. I could sing in again! Yay! I got to see my wand! I missed it. So much. I miss my cat though. Damnit. The coolest thing about this sorting, now I can click on Slytherin and it takes me to dozens of cool Slytherin articles, comics, pictures, excerpts, anything and it's really great. I also can (and have) download Slytherin backgrounds and photos. They make me very happy.

News- Specifically about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play! If I see the play, my heart will actually break from excitement. I'm so excited. ITS A SEQUEL OMG WE GET MORE ON ALBUS (child not the disturbing ex-headmaster) AND HIS OTHER KIDS AND HARRY AND RON WITH JOBS AND I CAN'T. We get all kinds of news from trailers to casting to set design to makeup and costume design. It really gets you excited for upcoming events.

Wizarding Schools- Okay, technically this is from J.K.'s Writing, but it was too good for me not to write a separate section. There are eleven other wizarding schools around the world, and JK is releasing articles on the bigger ones, and holy SHIT they're so cool. Japan is definitely the coolest. When you first arrive at school you are provided robes that change color as your magical intelligence increases, starting with a pink and, if you get top scores in all your classes, finishing with gold. It gets better. If you were to perform an act of illegal (dark) magic, your robes turn white. To "turn white" is the utmost disgrace and you are immediately expelled and put on trial. SO SICK AND PRODUCTIVE. There's also the African one where they're famous for their spell-casting WITHOUT wands! IT S SO COOL. This also creates problems because people can claim they didn't mean to cast a rather nasty spell, i.e. "I didn't mean to give them a boner, I was just flipping my hair!"

Explore the Story- this is the area where the rest of it goes. The comics/explanation pictures, theories, deeper meanings, anything else. The best are the pictures they make of the number of mentions of a character and their first and last mentions, their traits, its beautiful. This is also where character profiles go, most include date of birth (and death if they're dead), their wand type, their heritage, their animagus, etc. It's beautiful and amazing and nearly makes up for the lack of gaming.

Pottermore has gotten so much better and I spend basically 24/7 on it because this friggen school blocks everything else! Yeah. It's fabulous and it makes my year!

--Sheiny

How Did This Happen?

I have friends. I do. I know I'm the nerdy girl who reads in the corner a lot of the time but I have friends. My main group of friends or as we call our selves squad. My squad is made up of a random yet perfect group of insanity. This may or may not be copying completely but I loved the idea too much not to. I'm going to nickname my friends by book characters from, you guessed it, Harry Potter.  Hopefully these friends of mine will be able to figure out who they are because (not the sharpest needles in the haystack (JUST KIDDING ILYSM)).

my dysfunctional yet functional friend family

Dean Thomas

Lily Potter

Remus Lupin

Seamus Finnigan

Katie Bell

Draco Malfoy

Minerva McGonagall

Ron Weasley

Cho Chang

I'm in that midst as well, incase you were wondering. I take what I said back, you guys won't figure out who's who. Sorry. I probably won't explain it either. Not sorry. About half of these people I met under two months ago. And how I've grown to love these people and need these people so much it scares me. I've shared so much with these people I feel so much more connected to them than I have anyone else. These people make me feel completed. They will always give me a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold, a leg up, arm candy (the girls are much more attractive), a chest to punch, or a pillow of a thigh. These people care. They're some of the only people that do. I love them so much. All of them in their own unique way make this group a functioning friend group and I thank them for it everyday. 

Okay I might start crying if I keep writing about that so... let's talk about my day yesterday.

Yesterday was a really tough day. If you don't know or haven't heard, yesterday was the day Alan Rickman passed away. I found out on Instagram about thirty seconds after I woke up and I started crying. I realized I still had to go to school and stopped. I got dressed, I brushed my teeth, I packed my bag and I still had 30 minutes before I had to go to school. I thought too much and almost began crying again. Almost. I went into school unhappy. I organized the library books and was still not feeling any better (I love organizing bookshelves). I went to AP Geography and I did something that actually made me happy. I searched in google "wolfstar tumblr"

from tumblr

and that was the ONLY thing that made me even remotely happy. Then I went on Instagram and my ENTIRE FUCKING FEED WAS ALL ABOUT ALAN AND IT DIDN'T FUCKING HELP AND I'M PISSED. FUCKING PISSED. Then I saw a photo of Alan with the comment "When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me 'After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always.'" And I broke down. He never made it to 80. I'll never forget that. I remember reading that quote years ago and I said "That is so ME!" and now it'll never be him either. It just hurts and nothing makes sense right now. He made such an impact on my life that I just can't see straight. It's not okay. Nothing is okay.

I'm done. It's going to be okay. It's not right now but it will be.

--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

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--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