Happy Birthday Daniel Radcliffe!

I would like to wish this nice man a happy birthday! Us Potterheads couldn't have asked for a better person to portray our protagonist. You're an amayzing actor and our fandom wouldn't be the same without you. Have a great day!

Things That Are Hard About Being a Fandomeer

(Spoilers for Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
It's honestly really easy to make fun of the fandomeers. But being a fandomeer really does have its hard points. You guys must all be only too familiar with all of these struggles.
1. Most of the people you love end up dead. What fangirl does not understand having a character they love die? Well, in all honesty, this is the thing about being a fandomeer that I least understand. I don't know, the characters were dead, sure. But the books were still there. We could read them again. I feel like every single one of you are probably hating my existence right now. Maybe it's just because my favorite characters stayed alive in general. In Harry Potter, I really liked Luna and the Golden Trio, and they are all alive. In the Hunger Games, Prim did die, and I liked her. But Peeta stayed alive, despite the fact that his fate was a little bit worse than death to me. Now that, that did break my heart and that is pretty much the reason why I hate President Snow. In Percy Jackson, Percy stayed alive. So maybe I just can't relate to you kids who loved Lupin and Finnick and Silena and them. I swear, I loved them too, but maybe the fact that they weren't my absolute favorite characters changes it? I mean, I do understand being sad about a character dying. I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the first time in fifth grade. I stayed up reading it about every night and I loved it. I would read it when I had free time in class, and during one of these times is when I read Fred's death. I read it and I remember hardly being able to believe it. I mean, he was Fred. He couldn't be dead. He was so happy and carefree. Fred literally could not die in my head. My teacher who was also a Potterhead asked me what was wrong, but she hadn't read the book yet, so I said someone had died. When she asked who, I told her I didn't want to tell her, but she said I could. When I told her, she couldn't believe it either. I was in this same class when I read Harry's death, when Voldemort killed him in the forest. And of all the deaths we had gone through in this entire series and they were all very heartbreaking, this was too much for me. I just looked up from the book and the world was happening but something so much bigger than the normal activities of a fifth grade classroom were happening with me. J.K. Rowling had just killed Harry Potter! She killed the main character of her series! And I thought it was something she would never do, but she went and did it! And it all made a lot more sense when I learned that he wasn't dead. Killing your protagonist isn't really something you just do. Normally, that is, and not that I've read. But she threw me when I read the end of the third to last chapter of that book. So as far as characters' deaths go, I understand the feeling, but I'm not much of a crier and I'm not horrendously stuck on them. Hang in there, fandomeers.
2. Those feels, though. Some things make you so sad or happy that it hurts. Literally hurts. You are in pain. You guys can surely relate to this. Who can even think of a specific example? Like when I finished the Harry Potter series for the first time and it was the winter break of my fifth grade year and I was in bed and I just laid back down and smiled and I wanted to cry I was so happy but I couldn't because I used to be even worse at crying back then than I am now. Or reading The Hunger Games and knowing how nice Peeta is before the Games start and how cute of friends they are and being sure that in the books following that Peeta must be in them but Katniss also must be and he loves her and there can only be one victor and all that and you just keep thinking, "I know it's going to work out, I know both of them are going to make it out alive, but I just don't know how!!!" And the moment you realize what they meant when they said Luke was a hero. The feels.
3. People rip on your fandom and your ship. If someone doesn't like your fandom and you know that it is the best thing in the world, that is really, really hard. There is almost no way to make them change their mind. And you really, really want to do that. How good the stories are and how great it is to talk about the fandom with your fellow fandomeers. It's hard. What can you do about a person hating your fandom, absolutely nothing. And it's hard. And then there's the matter of ships. Let's be real, all the fandomeers really want is something to ship. They love the stories, but they also really love the ships. But when someone else is shipping something that you are not? This is not easy. Especially with ships that are realistic but I still hate them. I didn't understand Dramione until my sister explained it to me. It's the classic ship. She's a good girl and he's a bad boy, but he's a good boy deep down and then he loves her and she loves him even though he's a little bit bad and all that. (But me being the biggest Romione shipper ever, I'm never going to understand that.) And then there's Snily. Which I really don't like. Everyone thinks unreturned love is really cute, but I'm not really a fan. They kind of have to love each other for it to work in my opinion. And she never really saw him as more than a friend, and after all that happened it really wouldn't have worked. Just like with Gale and Katniss, as my mother pointed out to me, there was just too much that happened there. And for you Dramione shippers, Lily and James were the good girl and bad boy couple. You still got what you wanted. Gale shippers, I can see why you would ship that but in all honesty it really does not work. And speaking of Gale, shipping something that never actually happens. Ow. I generally like the person that ends up with who they like. But you Nuna shippers, or as me and my sister like to call it, Lunville, I felt your sadness that Neville and Luna did not end up together. Nerd couples are so cute! But reading the Daily Prophet on Pottermore and realizing that Luna's husband Rolf is the grandson of Newt Scamander, I think I can see that. A magizoologist that's the grandson of a relatively crazy magizoologist seems like the perfect match for our dear Luna. Seriously, though? I will not understand the completely unrealistic ships. Drapple. I just don't get it. Sure, there were those scenes with the apple. Draco may have enjoyed eating that apple. But I do not think he loved the apple. Does anyone actually legitimately ship Drapple? We thought it was so ridiculous that my little brother made up his own little ship that I totally love that like to call Drird: Draco and the bird that he put in the Vanishing Cabinet. That's cute, right? Ahaha, don't take that too seriously.
And then there's Perchel, the ship with an official ship name that no one actually ships.

I Am Horrible

Hey guys so I've been back from my trip for about five days now. Hello! It's been too long! I am kind of losing my mind this summer so hopefully I will do absolutely nothing but post for you guys :)
But so this is something I was planning on writing about but I didn't. How could I not?! I am absolutely terrible for forgetting to tell you guys that on May 27th, 2014 I have been writing "It's an Adventure!" for an entire year! That's amazing! I feel like that is a pretty big day for us, fandomeers. Thanks for all of you guys for reading me! You guys make me so happy :)
Sadly, though, I have been letting fandomeers down in multiple ways. Tonight my friend reminded me that he left the copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that he was going to borrow at my house. But it was my fault. And he hasn't even read it yet! It's okay, I'll get it to him some other time. So to celebrate this occasion I will show you guys some crossover memes and edits that are on the Harry Potter Facebook page I manage which you can like here.

 



Goodbye Sweethearts :)

So I know I'm not always good about posting for you guys, but I'm not going to see you for a while because I'm going to be on a trip :) So just saying I love you guys! And if I see anything cool I will post it on the Facebook page which you can like here :) Thanks fandomeers! See you later :)

The Nancy Drew Character Struggle

(Spoilers for Nancy Drew)
So right now I am reading some Nancy Drew books, right? Well, these characters are driving me crazy. Let me talk to you about this.
In the first four Nancy Drew stories, the only solid characters we are given are Nancy, Mr. Drew and Hannah. Helen Corning pops up randomly here and there. Can I just tell you the perfection of these gorgeous stories? The old writing. I am addicted to their cuteness. But that is beside the point. We are introduced to Bess and George in the fifth book, The Secret of Shadow Ranch. Which was exceptional also. And Bess and George are much more permanent than all of the other characters we hear about in Nancy's stories that come and go with every mystery. And then The Secret of Red Gate Farm came along, which still had a good story, but this is when things started to go downhill.
So Bess was always more feminine than George, but it honestly was kind of overkill. What the heck happened to the book previous, Carolyn Keene? What happened? George is still a girl, and I know that she's not supposed to be horrendously girly, but she is still a girl. And I feel like some of the things she did she wouldn't do. And George always did tease Bess. But seriously, it was constantly and it was relatively annoying. George, stop being such a bully. But isn't that just the thing? George isn't a bully. What happened?!
And then George has always been more brave than Bess, but this was again overkill. In The Secret of Shadow Ranch Bess was willing to go on all sorts of adventures with George and Nancy. So tell me why in The Secret of Red Gate Farm she is barely willing to do anything with them. It is seriously ridiculous.
Hannah changed a little too, with her interfering with Nancy's mysteries more, but she didn't bother me as much as Bess and George did.
So I read The Secret of Red Gate Farm, and then The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, which maybe I was too excited for because ghosts are interesting, but it was a horrible book. With the same problems with the characters. Maybe it wasn't horrible, but it wasn't good.
Then I read The Clue of the Leaning Chimney, which was a great story but had the same character problems just like in The Secret of Red Gate Farm. I am reading Mystery at the Ski Jump now and the problem with the characters seems to have subsided. Bess isn't running away from every clue anymore and is actually helping with the mystery, and George isn't being annoying about being boyish.
However, I have a theory about this whole thing and why this character problem occurred. This is not fact, but this is what I think may have happened.
Carolyn Keene is the name for a group of authors. So the first Nancy Drew books went by with great stories and no consistent characters. Since Nancy Drew is a never-ending series perhaps it was decided that some solid characters should be added to the stories. So in came The Secret of Shadow Ranch and with that story came Bess and George. That was a good book. But with a group of authors and a never-ending series, it's easier to write characters that you can predict what they do. It's a lot easier to predict a girl who runs from every clue and another girl who denies everything feminine and makes fun of her cousin. So with the excellent story of The Secret of Red Gate Farm came the new Bess and George, which I liked a million times less. This must have gone on for a long time, because The Clue of the Leaning Chimney is the twenty-sixth book in the series and this is still going on. But I don't know when they decided that the characters weren't like they were originally introduced, because Mystery at the Ski Jump is book twenty-nine and the old Bess and George that we originally liked came back.
So that's what I think happened, and I'm glad that it ended, because that easy mistake to make is not my favorite.
Okay, so I hate ending on a note that sounds slightly negative, so I have to write something happy now to end the post. :) #Nerd

Beginnings and Endings

Well, guys, I have some pretty big news for you. I have been finished with Brave New World for a few weeks now. And yes, that does indeed mean that I am done with required reading for this school year!

 

Now that the summer is on its way I am hoping to get a little more serious about reading. I feel like I've been slacking lately. I've failed you, fandomeers. I'm sorry about that.
So Brave New World, may I just say, was pretty good and the ending is so eerie you could probably read it just to find out how it ends. Seriously well-written.
All this thinking about endings reminded me of a quote I read in the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke. I can't remember the book it was in, and I can't remember who said it, but it's still cool to think about. It was about the part that you don't get to hear of stories. How the story has a beginning and an ending, but the life of that character was going on before that, and the life of the character goes on after the story ends. And I'm not sure whether or not this was part of what was said in the book, but still, even if the character's life begins or ends at the beginning of the book, things were still happening. The side characters and the people they know have lives that were happening before the story and are still continuing after the story. Which I think is really awesome and should often be considered when writing something fictitious, and honestly, the best authors usually do think about what happens at least before the story, if not after.



Alan Rickman, We Appreciate You

 

 

One day me and some of my cute friends were watching Catching Fire together. When President Snow said something, we concluded that he was almost like Alan Rickman... but not. Which is when we realized that it must be really, really hard to be Alan Rickman. Not just anyone can portray Snape so well and have an awesome voice like that. Which just made us appreciate him more.

Alan Rickman probably assumed that a lot of people would like him playing an inspirational character from one of the biggest fandoms of all time. But did he know just how cool all the Potterheads would think he was? Seriously, everyone loves Alan Rickman. Not only because he has a really cool voice, but he's an awesome guy. Alan Rickman, we fandomeers really do appreciate you.