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

A GOOD FINALE FINALLY

Hello!

Finally I get to talk about Winter! This book was fan-fucking-tastic and it's the wrap-up of The Lunar Chronicles series, and this series is multiple fairytales told in a futuristic sic-fi genre. The first was Cinder, obviously Cinderella, the second was Scarlet, Little Red Riding Hood, the third was Cress, Rapunzel, and the final book was Winter, or Snow White. The final book takes place nearly the entire time on the moon and since it's the fourth book, I don't have much for non-spoilers.

SPOILERS SPOILING SPOILSSSS

not that kind of winter, dumbass courtesy of dreamatico

THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD 10/10 WOULD BAND GOOD SO FANTASTIC AND A WONDERFUL CONCLUSION TO THIS 9/10 SERIES. That little -1 rate was for Scarlet, she still pisses me off to no end. Along with Wolf. But they are very overpowered in this series so, I think the last book was 10/10 because they were very minor while the characters I do like were much more major (ha three m's). Cinder was so badass and this book just kept me right on the edge of my seat the entire book. Cinder saved everyone and that final battle. Was so. Well. Written. Tears were worse than waterfalls down my face, I was just a mess and then Cress and Scarlet (idiot) and Wolf and it was just a disaster but they made it. I was unbelievably curious about what happened to Winter after the episode and if she's ever going to wake up from this "coma" and how Jacin is ever going to survive.

One of my absolute favorite parts was when Cinder and Jacin were taking the antidotes to that sector in the car-type-thing and they get into the garage and Cinder is preparing to get out of the car and Jacin just goes toward the stairs and Cinder just goes "No, Jacin, no, we can't fit, Jacin, don't if we break this car, Jacin stop, JACIN!" but they fit. and its bumpy but hilarious and they save all those people (little smiling, blushing emoji here). It was cute and funny and made me smile like an idiot. KAI AND CINDER WERE BARELY TOGETHER THE WHOLE BOOK WHICH MADE ME VERY UPSET. But when they were together it mAdE mY lIfE wHoLe. Also, I know, Levana is a bitch and a horrible person but I think she's kinda funny because she's just ridiculous and if you've read Fairest, you get it, she believes everything she's doing is right and justified and I find it comical in a very inappropriate way. Oh well. I'm insane so...

I'm a little disappointed on the lack of... physicality we got to read about the relationships. In other words, THERE WAS NO SEX. None and I am throughly disappointed. I'd also love to see Cinder and Kai totally get it on and her hard drive over heat because they are So DaMn HOT. And Cress and Thorne's make out scene was pretty good but I think Marissa can do better. A lot better. Also, we never find anyone for Iko which makes me sad. She's kind of alone. Just swooning over Throne who loves Cress. Whatever. FINE. Whatever. I'm way too emotionally attached to everyone in this series.

Ok I'm done talking about Winter. Not like I'm annoyed I just have nothing else to say. BUT GUYS GUYS GUYS SHADOWHUNTERS COMES OUT IN FOUR DAYS FOUR FUCKING DAYS GUYS. SO FUCKING EXCITED.

--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

Royals, iZombie, and Once, Oh my!

Hello!

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