Bookshelf MADNESS

Hello!

i mean, look at how beautiful

Can we talk about book shelf organizing? I love organizing book shelves. I love it. I've done mine by color, author, genre, publisher, height, title, literally anything. It makes me so happy to just change my view of my books. I look at them all day, after all. My bookshelf is by far my most valued \\  which makes it that much more intriguing because I cover judge a lot and I guess what books area but before I've read them and I'm most likely terribly wrong. But it's okay! Because it's my bookshelf! I love my bookshelf so much. I also like putting little trinkets on my self like cameras, ornaments, stuffed animals, and other things because it makes it THAT much more interesting! My cameras especially because I love the aesthetic of cameras way too much. WAYYYY too much.
possession(s?). And now I have books on it I haven't even read //thanks high school

After I reorganized my bookshelf, I then post about it on snapchat or Instagram which brings me to my next topic today: Instagram. I'm insanely surprised I haven't done a post about this yet, but here I am. So I have three Instagram accounts, my personal, a fangirl, and a Once Upon a Time account. My fangirl is the most popular with 1603 followers, 2813 following, and 3737 posts. Yep, those numbers are correct. I started it almost more than two years ago and it makes me so happy because I can say whatever the hell I'd like because it's anonymous. And yeah everyone always says "it's never really anonymous" but I've only posted my first name there, and that's it. The rest is my opinions. This account is my outlet to be and do whatever I want and sure, I mostly post about Harry Potter because who wouldn't. But I also post about issues in the world, other books, and other TV shows and people accept me for who I am and what I want to post. This account is ht most amazing example of how social media is good for this world. It's helped me a lot through the last few years with getting some of my anger and frustration out because I can just rant about it on there. Social media is not always bad!!!!

Also, I can now do whatever the fuck I'd like on here.

--Sheiny

OOH LOOK!

Hello!

I've been reading a ton lately and it's amazing, but I will get to that in another post because I need to write like three anyway so I'll do some I promise.

I'm almost finished with spring break and I'm sitting in my hotel room in Quito, Ecuador writing a blog post. When I should be sleeping. Jesus I'm depressing. *takes a sip of alcoholic drink* haha I'm completely kidding. I wouldn't drink and then tell the internet about it. But before Quito (sort of) I went to the Galapagos! It was really great. Sure, there were some kinks but guess who's surviving? ME! Isn't that unbelievable?

So first we flew into Quito, spent a day here, then flew to the Galapagos. Then we got on the yacht called The Comorant. It's a boat made for sixteen guest passengers and maybe that many or more crew. But basically we went to lunch on a turtle farm the first day and guess who showed up. Guess!

*pause for dramatic effect*

HARRISON FORD. Haha it was cool and I fucking hate people everyone was trying to sneak a photo and he was just trying to be on vacation. I mean, I obviously tried to but that's beside the point.

he's in the green baseball cap rIgHt ThErE. and his wife
on the left, the bodyguard in the sombrero, the guide on
the right, and the son in the blue nike shirt you can't
really see

His son, wife (who's also famous, Calista Flockhart), their bodyguard and their tourguide. Haha I hate myself for that photo it's not even funny.

But we saw all kinds of animals, too! Land turtles, sea turtles, land iguanas, sea iguanas, penguins (!!!), blue footed boobies (stop that's gross they're birds, asshole), red footed boobies, cormorants, pelicans, sea lions, finches, herons, rays, and so many fish that I couldn't name if my life depended on it. It was really cool. The Galapagos is one of the most biologically rare, diverse, and rich places on earth and, as my favorite botanist told me, "it's the shit." The natural way these islands have stayed has actually appalled me because we've ruined so much of our planet but in these tiny islands in the pacific it's as if we were never here. The National Park service is extremely strict in keeping it that way, too.

We went snorkeling very often and underwater is beautiful (the water was uh-maze-ing) and the

see, blue footed boobies. they were cool. also there's a
sea lion on the right and some cormorants on the left

plants were so full of life and the fish were vibrant and active and swimming right next to you. Same with sea turtles holy crap those were cool. They would come right under you and just kinda hang. I made friends. Some of the other people on my boat saw sharks (I didn't :'( I sad) but my mom was included and she saw it and went right on to the little boat haha she was so scared she was like "IT WAS HUGE AND IT WASN'T FAR BELOW ME AND IT WAS SO HUGE YOU GUYS GUYS gUyS" I found the whole ordeal pretty damn funny.

So I said above we were on a boat with other people (nine of them, six in my group). None of them were children (the youngest were my parents age) but they were some of the nicest people, the best people you could wish for on a trip like this. There was one lady who was crazy but also crazy nice and sweet. There was a jolly, funny guy who you could talk to about literally anything. And there was a genius college professor who was always intellectual. And those are just a few. I was really glad. Though, they were crazy. They went on hikes at 5:30 smh.

THANKS FOR LISTING TO MY CRAZINESS I'M SORRY I KNOW THIS POST KINDA SUCKED ASS.

--Sheiny

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

CASSANDRA YOU LITTLE BITCH

Hello!

So you saw my title, yes? I'll get into why.

Many of The Mortal Instrument's fans have heard that Cassandra Clare wrote Shadowhunter's Academy and it's the story of Simon and the leading up to ascension. It was so much more than that. We get some Emma and Julian, some Tessa and Will, some James Herondale, MALEC OMG OMG OMG Okay I'm getting spoilery just go read them and I highly highly recommend the audio books, they are so great.

SPOIIILLLLLSSSSS

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO END THIS WHY CASSIE? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? IT'S JUST MEAN. JUST MEEEAAANNNN. I hate you. I don't, but I do. George was BAE why would you kill him? He was cute and funny and smart and I just don't understand. I really don't. It makes me want to cry a lot. A lot a lot. George was so cute. I loved his accent and his demeanor. I honestly don't understand why he wasn't strong enough. And now because of all this, Simon is broken. You fucking broke Simon. I can't even.

harry and kat aaahhhh from shadowhunterstv

MALEC MALEC MALEC MALEC. I'm so fucking excited to see more of Malec in Lady Midnight because I swear if we don't, I'm going to jump off a bridge. I swear. THEY NAMED HIM MAX. I WANT TO CRY. AND HE'S BLUE AND ADORABLE. And the ENTIRE scene where the Lightwoods originally come to the academy to baby proof and talk about names made me the happiest person. When Magnus first walked in though, and he saw Clary, and I don't remember the exact line but he said something about him always enjoying her presence. Then she bounced over to him and they relationship is the absolute best because i don't even know but I just imagine him holding her as she's sobbing g because of a fight with Jace because she wouldn't go to Simon because he'd beat Jace to smithereens but Magnus would just sit there and hold her and god I just can't explain it because it's so cute. "Magnus was always pleased to see Clary. 'Hello, Biscuit,' he said. Clary sidled over to the doorway and grinned up at him, a thousand gallons of troubled in a pint sized body. "Hi.'" ITS SO CUTE. SO CUTE.

PARABATAI YUS. I'm so pumped because now I know more about how the parabatai ceremony and things work, and holy shIT. Now, I just look at people who are good friends and decide if they're close enough to be parabatai or not and it's so beautiful. I can't even begin to understand why we didn't get this in the books orginially because it's so beautiful and wonderful and Simon and Clary and uuughghh. It's so beautiful and Simon and Clary are gonna be parabatai and Simon all broken so still FUCK YOU CASSANDRA.

Catarina is fucking fabulous. She's so badass and she's everything I imagined her to be from The Bane Chronicles and more. Her little relationship with Simone throughout the story was beautiful. Right after George, it was her to grab Simon's shoulder. Her. OHMYGOD SO CUTE. I can't even handle it.

This book is an amazing example of why I read. It. Makes. Me. So. Happy. SO. HAPPY.

--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

XOXOXtinemay

Dear Christine Riccio,

Hello! I know you don't read these, but I have to write to someone in the top of the field of fangirling so yeah. Basically you are goals and I love you and victory rolls and goals. You preach the absolute best in all of our universe and you rock at it. I love your book talks and how excited you are in them I love your games because you make them funny for you and us. I love all the other booktubers you invite to your channel because it creates different perspective. I love your bookhauls because you don't tell us too much or too little. I love the questions you ask authors and other celebrities you get to meet because you make them engaging.

too accurate from your channel

I remember when I was first introduced to you, I stayed up all night watching your videos and saying to myself, I want to be just like her. Her status is my goal in life. Now, that's changed only a little, but not much. You still complete a lot of my life. You are also fabulous at making predictions and theories and new ways the story could go.

I did try to make book videos once. My best friend and I tried really hard to make funny and interesting videos like yours, yet we failed. Miserably. We were only funny to ourselves and uploading our videos was not in our favor. You were 100% our inspiration, though.

Your Cassandra Clare videos are my absolute favorites. I love your theories especially the Isabelle theory (it's going to come out in The Dark Artifices I swear). I also love your book talks and your merchandise (the stuff you wear in your videos for Cassie videos) and just how dedicated you are to make us entertained and your commitment really inspires me, specifically in these videos.

I write my blog for you because you are the goals of the fangirl community. 267,140 subscribers on YouTube is goals. For you to put yourself out to that many people and have the amount of authors that you do come talk to you directly is what I'd like to achieve as a fangirl and reader. Going to the conventions and shows you get to go to. Getting the free books and merchandise you get. The amount of books you have. I secretly envy you because of your success, but that just pushes me harder.

--Sheiny

Now I'm done talking to her because each of my posts is for her. I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT SHADOWHUNTERS. RIGHT NOW. I'm so excited man it's already going in a better direction and heading to better places and there are less horrible acting scenes. The special effects probably won't fix up for a while (if at all) but there are less dramatic ridiculous scenes, that's good. Ok, Simon and Camille? What the actual fuck? That was not a thing and it was disgusting. I was very uncomfortable with that happening. And Meliorn needed to be much more attractive. That hair man. Bleh. Gross. Then he and Izzy had full on sex! Again, NoT a ThInG. But the conquering the vampires scene was badass and exactly what I wanted. The scene with Jace teaching Clary the knife movements was pretty bad, but they are so... YEAH. VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THIS SHOW.

--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

It Has Finally Arrived. It's Time.

Hello!

IT'S HERE. SHADOWHUNTERS DAY HAS COME AND GONE AND THE SHOW WAS OHMYGOD. Okay, for the non-spoiler section the acting and the special effects were pretty bad. BUT the potential for where this show is going and how it's going and following the plot of the book and ohmygod. I'm very impressed. I figured it'd just be anything but the book but damn, they were close. Ok now I gotta talk spoilers

SPOILERS

Okay so the start of her walking into the art school was actually kind of awesome to see right away that she's like an art person but we also knew by her portfolio they were going to let her in because of that. It was pretty obvious. Then her with Simon was a fabulous BrOTP moment that I don't think I could've lived without. Then she goes home and sees her mom and her mom gives her the "family heirloom" which I actually liked because now she has the family's instead of one she gets randomly. Then the demon attack and Dot (the actual fuck was this bitch and why was she good???) being possessed by the ravener demon and those action sequences were pretty great. Ok, but before the demon attack and Clary was there?!? Uh nope. And the special effects of that portal. Uh hell no.
And Clary's scared acting. Laughably no. But Dominic and Alberto and Harry were pretty fucking awesome. And I loved Pandemonium, and the Institute was all tech-y which I thought is actually cooler because their technology was just not logical in the book. We also got no explanation of anything so people watching this show and not having read the book are just lost. Straight up, these people must be so confused because they didn't explain shit. I understand the need for the "All the legends are true" line but still. We need some more. And I would like some more Magnus. Now. I love Harry Shum and I love Magnus so overall, thoroughly excited for more of him.

i mean come on, a cover like this is bound to have some issues. from fan-place

I actually loved Simon in this, like a lot. He was really funny and how he was around Clary was great. I know that'll all get ruined once the whole "love triangle that lasts for 20 pages" happens. But still. Then Sizzy. AND MALEC THERE'S ALREADY AN EPISODE CALLED MALEC SO PUMPED. I loved Jocelyn and Luke was great and way to attractive for me to handle. The men in this show, man. So attractive. All of them. And you know you're only going to get more attracted to them as the show goes on. It's going to turn into Benedict Cumberbatch. He's really unattractive but apparently after you watch Sherlock you're magically attracted. Whatever. I still haven't watched it. Sorry not sorry.

I'd rate this finally an 85%. The soundtrack, the ideas put in place, and the cliffhanger really made it fabulous. What dropped it was the horrible special effects for the magic and the acting (specifically Katherine, I LOVE YOU THOUGH, I JUST KNOW YOU CAN DO BETTER) because they were disappointing.

Also there was a new Pretty Little Liars. It was okay. Not great. Kind of over this show. Should've ended it last season to be honest. It's just the same thing every season. Whatever. It's fine. I'll probably keep watching it because I'm trash.

So, not really reading anything. Sorry. It's finals week and I'm busy all the time. Reading slumps if you'll refer to my post "I Hate Myself" you can find more.

--Sheiny

I Hate Myself

Hello!

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

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