Gallagher Girls

So I just finished reading and rereading some of the Nancy Drew books.....
Nancy Drew started in 1930 and heck were those first few books just adorable and I loved them so much. But did we need 350 books after that and still going strong? But I guess that going strong isn't exactly accurate because Nancy Drew books haven't been good for a while. When the first books came out they were one of the cutest ideas in the world of literature. Now, they are one of the world of literature's biggest mistakes.
I'm going to start rereading the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter, about Cammie Morgan who goes to the Gallagher Academy, a school for spies. I read the first four back when there were only four and I was sure she would end the series there. It felt so closed to me. My friend thought that it could go either way. Maybe Ally would write another, maybe she wouldn't. But I was sure she wouldn't. When she wrote another, I was actually mad. I thought that the series was over! It felt over!
Now there are six books in this series and I am excited to finish it. I'm starting at the beginning though, with I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You. I will stand by the fact that this series is the best chick lit ever written. I'm excited!

Blind Dates Are Just Real-Life OTPs

This is something that I realized a bit ago.
Blind dates, when somebody sets you up on a date with a person you don't know. I hear they are awful. Why would anyone ever put their friends through this? Because they are hardcore shipping their two friends together and it just needs to be a thing.
People just get immense joy out of imagining how cute two people would be if they were together. The next time someone thinks you're weird for having an OTP (my friends laughed at me so hard when I said that Flynn and Rapunzel were my Disney OTP and then they asked what an OTP was), just remember that people outside of the fandom world do it too, even if they don't know it.
And just think, when you go on a blind date and it's just really terrible, it's kind of like when you ship a couple that the author didn't actually write. That's crazy.

Phoenixes

(Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Hey, guys, hi!
So as many of you may have seen on the Facebook page me and my sister went to the first part of a Harry Potter marathon, the first two movies.

(Look, my sister has an awesome Hufflepuff lanyard and bottle of felix felicis around her neck!)
 And it was Fawkes at the end of Chamber of Secrets that got me thinking.
Okay, firstly, we wondered, if phoenix tears have healing powers, why didn't Dumbledore just offer up Fawkes for all the petrified people? Instead they had to wait for the mandrakes to be ready. But what if that worked? Maybe it wouldn't. But it was just something I wondered.
And now I'm going to say what I started thinking. Phoenixes are kind of like people.
Wait, what? Let me explain myself. So Dumbledore is describing to Harry in his office all the things that the phoenix can do. He says first that they can carry incredibly heavy loads. And I thought hey, I've watched people go through really hard stuff in their lives but they can still handle it and by the time it's all over they aren't completely done, they can keep going still. People can carry incredibly heavy loads too.
And then Dumbledore said that phoenix's tears have healing powers. Honestly when I thought about it I thought that it was kind of a miracle that phoenixes could cry at all, because they're birds and birds don't generally cry. But I thought about it and I thought that people's tears have healing powers too. Because when a person is so heartbroken and devastated about whatever has happened to them, and then someone is mourning with them, or crying should I say, because they care about that person, and that makes that person feel just a little bit better.
So whenever you are thinking that you are not amazing, remember that that is not true! Because you have the same powers as a phoenix and that is awesome! I love you, fandomeers!


I'M BACK!!!

(Spoilers for Heroes of Olympus)
Hey guys! I'm so happy to see you!! For those of you who are wondering where I've been, I haven't actually been anywhere. I've just been hecka busy I guess. Well while we're here I guess I wanted a little check-in post about all the things that have been going on :)
So guys. Blood of Olympus is finally out! I'm trying to find enough time to read so that eventually I can start rereading/finishing that series!
(Guys, please remember that I have still only read up to Son of Neptune so please do not say anything :/)
But I'll be honest with you guys. Seriously? Rumors of a new series? Why is he doing this? Eventually some authors I feel like just keep going because they get really attached to their characters. Rick didn't fail us with Heroes of Olympus. But then there's things like the crossovers with Kane Chronicles and Percy Jackson that he's written and it makes me uneasy, because how long can he go on writing a story that's over? Maybe he can make it work again. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

And yes, guys, Mockingjay Part 1 is finally here! I have still not seen it so please do not say anything :/ (I feel like you guys are probably wondering "Dang! Has she done anything?!") But you must know that on the day it came out I wore my Hunger Games t-shirt, my Mockingjay pin, my Peeta bracelet and brought my Peeta blanket to school? (Which I posted a picture of on my Facebook page which you can like here) It was kind of awesome, if I'm being completely honest with you all. My little brother saw Mockingjay for a birthday party he went to, his first time seeing a Hunger Games movie! So after that he watched The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.... Now how do we convince him to read it?
I'm going to write another post tomorrow! Winter break should mean lots of time, right? :D I love you guys!

Horcruxes

Hey hey guys! It has been way too long since I have written for you all! I just checked and I haven't written a post since the eleventh of September. And that was a just-checking-in post. I am sooo sorry. Well fandomeers I hope you're happy to see me because writing for you all is a pleasure!
(Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Well friends I guess that I am here to tell you a little story about me and the Harry Potter fandom. Harry Potter is that fandom that I can't remember not being a part of. Since I was a young kid I was into Harry Potter. That was my thing. So I saw the first four movies when I was a kid (or at least the first three and most of the fourth). And around that time or something I started reading the books and I read the first four no problem. Well around the time I read the fifth book I wanted to finish that book before the movie came out and before I went to see it in a theater. Well let me just tell you fandomeers I did not accomplish this goal. And the next time I watched that movie I was yelling at the screen because I was so upset at Percy Weasley because by then I had finished the book. Then with the sixth book, The Half-Blood Prince, I was going to try to complete my goal again. I came even closer this time but still did not do it. I had the same goal for Deathly Hallows but this time was actually successful. :)
But I don't know that's just context really and that's actually I suppose the entire story but that wasn't really my point. Because there weren't a ton of things in the Harry Potter stories that surprised me. I had seen most of the things before I read them. I already knew what was coming. There is still a ton of pleasure of reading these stories even if you know what's coming as many of you may know. But I guess that I have a pretty special place in my heart for horcruxes. Because I started the fifth and sixth book not knowing what was going to happen but those were all pretty basic things that we knew existed. Horcruxes, those were completely new. And those I learned from reading the books. It was incredible. Reading Slughorn's memory, turning the page into a chapter entitled "Horcruxes" and learning what those were. So I got to learn about horcruxes from the Harry Potter books and experience those for the first time that way. Is there not something truly magical about that?

Just Checking In :)

Hello guys, it's nice to see you again! You see I'm really excited because why? My page on Facebook (which you can like at https://www.facebook.com/itsanadventur) is as of right now two likes away from one hundred! Thank you thank you thank you in immense amounts to all of you! So for those of you new to my blog welcome and we're glad you fandomeers have joined us :)
So guess what? My English teacher at the beginning of this school year that we wouldn't be doing a ton of reading in the class.... Do you know what that means?! I don't think I have required books this year! I think I'm free! I got a new teacher but as far as I can tell that still stands! I'm freeee!
Well anyway as far as things going on in the fandoms in recent time, October seventh the new book for the Heroes of Olympus series, The Blood of Olympus, is being released! And then I will finally be able to read the whole series! (I just couldn't keep going when I found out not all the books were out in the series yet.) And shortly after that, the Mockingjay Part One movie comes out! Many people thought that Mockingjay was the worst book in the series, and maybe it was but I'm not totally sure. It really moved because that whole book pretty much was a lot about how unconditional love is. I thought it was really awesome after looking back on it.
And I thought I might as well look it up, because as far as Harry Potter goes, I didn't know when the Fantastic Beasts movie was coming out. Well thank you to my dear friend Google for helping me find this information. It tells me the eighteenth of November of 2016. Wait, what? That's a long time! Well for all you Potterheads out there I guess we have a while to wait :) But another fun date that I will be waiting for: September the first, 2016. Do you know what that is? That is the day that the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, "Nineteen Years Later", takes place. I can't wait for that day! 2016 is also the fifteenth anniversary of Philosopher's Stone, November the twentieth to be specific. 2016 will be a big year for the Potterheads!
Goodbye everyone! I love you!

Hermione Granger

(Spoilers for Harry Potter)
My apologies in immense amounts. I haven't written for you guys in eternity. The last two posts I did were birthday posts on the twenty-third of July. So the last real post I did was posted on the thirteenth of July. I am so sorry! I hope you have missed me because I certainly love you guys!
So, fandomeers, today we have come to discuss Hermione Granger, or more specifically why she was placed in Gryffindors. Have any of you fandomeers heard of hatstalls? A hatstall happens when the sorting hat is torn between two houses for a specific student. Notice that some of the sortings take a long time while sometimes they don't. Hermione had a hatstall between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. In the end, Hermione was placed in Gryffindor. And honestly, look at Hermione. She would've been okay in Ravenclaw I guess, but really it was good that she was placed in Gryffindor. Just think about all of the quests they went on in school. Hermione was always willing to help her friends and fight crazy Death Eaters and things like that. And all the things that happened in Deathly Hallows, when they were escaping from the Ministry and she had to randomly switch locations mid-Apparition, when Ron left and she still kept going like she was totally okay, when she was tortured by Bellatrix, all of that. And then I think about how Hermione always stood up to her teachers. How she walked out of the Divination class when she didn't agree with it or in her first lesson with Professor Umbridge when she wouldn't back down from asking about using magic! In that way Hermione's a great example to us because if she believed in something she wouldn't let go of that thing when people tried to ignore it.
But then I think about in Sorcerer's Stone, when the students were on the train to Hogwarts and Harry and Ron were talking to Hermione and Hermione was doing that thing where she rambles a lot. She was talking about what houses they wanted to be in and she mentioned how she thought that Gryffindor sounded really good and Ravenclaw sounded pretty good too. The way she said it kind of made it sound like she really liked both... but in the end Gryffindor was the favorite. You know that thing Dumbledore says about choices? How those define who we truly are far more than our abilities, as he put it? I think that it was Hermione's choice of Gryffindor over Ravenclaw that also put her there, like Harry's choice of Gryffindor over Slytherin.