I posted a video about Harry Potter shipping about a week ago and a blog post about Hunger Games shipping four days ago.
When it comes to Twilight, I only have one really strong shipping preference: Leah and Embry. (Yeah, random couple. I know.) Still, I'm way more likely to read fanfiction where one or both of them is with someone else than I am couples in other other fandoms. I'm not really sure how I started shipping Leah and Embry. I used to ship Jacob and Leah, and I think I found a Leah and Embry fanfiction that was written by an author would also written a Jacob and Leah fanfic. I'm not entirely sure why, but I really liked them together. They've also become my two favorite characters.
Other than that I really only ship canon characters, and I'm using the word ship losely there. I don't really seek out fanfiction about that many couples. Most of the fanfiction I read has one, some, or all of the members of Jacob's pack as the main character(s). Other than Leah/Embry, I'd probably just consider myself a big fan of Jacob/Nessie and Quil/Claire. I like Jared/Kim, Paul/Rachel, Sam/Emily, and Alice/Jasper as well, but I really only read fanfiction about them if I happen to stumble upon it. I am reading a pretty awesome Paul/Rachel fanfic at the moment.
If you're a Twilight fan, what are your favorite couples?
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Even People You've Known for Years Can Surprise You
I feel like this week should be called New T-Shirt Week. On Sunday, I finally got to wear one of my new Hunger Games shirts. Then, I wore the other one Monday, and today I wore my new Lord of the Rings shirt. As I was walking in the door to yearbook today, my English teacher from last year stopped me and asked if my shirt said Mordor on it. I told him it did. He followed me into the classroom because he needed to talk to the teacher and said to her, "Check out the Tolkien reference on Haley's shirt." This started a Lord of the Rings conversation with the people in the classroom at the time. It was interesting. Turns out there's a Lord of the Rings fan in my yearbook class who is the last person you would have expected. Seriously. I've known her since elementary school, and I'm still surprised she even knows what Lord of the Rings is. People can surprise you.
I think I mentioned that we've been learning the Ammendments in government. Well, I did way better on that quiz than I thought. I only missed two of them! We took our test today, and it went way better than I thought it would too. I suck at memorizing lists of things like that. If you were to ask me what a certain ammendment is right now I don't think I could even answer.
One last thing for today: Sevenly.com is selling some awesome shirts, and for every shirt that's bought, seven pairs of shoes go to children in Honduras through Soles4Souls. They're pretty awesome shirts too. You should go check them out.
I think I mentioned that we've been learning the Ammendments in government. Well, I did way better on that quiz than I thought. I only missed two of them! We took our test today, and it went way better than I thought it would too. I suck at memorizing lists of things like that. If you were to ask me what a certain ammendment is right now I don't think I could even answer.
One last thing for today: Sevenly.com is selling some awesome shirts, and for every shirt that's bought, seven pairs of shoes go to children in Honduras through Soles4Souls. They're pretty awesome shirts too. You should go check them out.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Yearbooks and Mockingjay
I don't know why but this week has just seemed to inch by for me. There's no way it's only Tuesday. I was also a little shocked yesterday when I turned to the new week in my planner and saw September. Time's going by so fast and yet so slow.
Last year's yearbooks came in today! We spent all of class trying to sort out all of the personalized ones by grade. Tomorrow I think we're sorting them into groups passed on what class the kids are in that period, and hopefully we'll be able to hand them out. We did get to take our own, so I have mine. I haven't looked at it much though because I haven't had the time. It's really similar to past yearbooks, but it's pretty awesome.
During lunch today, my friend Haley, who's reading Catching Fire, picked up a copy of Mockingjay and read the last page. Her reaction was absolutely hilarious. Neither one of us could really say anything since Jordan, who's getting ready to read Mockingjay, was sitting right there, but her face was priceless. She said she wanted to go read Catching Fire after that. I love seeing Jordan and Haley's reactions as the read the books. We also had fun talking about Starkid and fanfiction. They're basically the only people I know who actually understand these things.
We took a quiz over Ammendments 14 throught 27 in government today. (We took one on one through thirteen yesterday.) It's definitely wasn't as hard as I was expecting since I couldn't remember any of them, but I know I screwed up a couple of things. It's so hard to keep all of the numbers straight!
That about sums up my rather uneventful day.
Last year's yearbooks came in today! We spent all of class trying to sort out all of the personalized ones by grade. Tomorrow I think we're sorting them into groups passed on what class the kids are in that period, and hopefully we'll be able to hand them out. We did get to take our own, so I have mine. I haven't looked at it much though because I haven't had the time. It's really similar to past yearbooks, but it's pretty awesome.
During lunch today, my friend Haley, who's reading Catching Fire, picked up a copy of Mockingjay and read the last page. Her reaction was absolutely hilarious. Neither one of us could really say anything since Jordan, who's getting ready to read Mockingjay, was sitting right there, but her face was priceless. She said she wanted to go read Catching Fire after that. I love seeing Jordan and Haley's reactions as the read the books. We also had fun talking about Starkid and fanfiction. They're basically the only people I know who actually understand these things.
We took a quiz over Ammendments 14 throught 27 in government today. (We took one on one through thirteen yesterday.) It's definitely wasn't as hard as I was expecting since I couldn't remember any of them, but I know I screwed up a couple of things. It's so hard to keep all of the numbers straight!
That about sums up my rather uneventful day.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Changes in the Harry Potter Movies
It's considered a given that when a book is adapted into a movie, things about it are going to change. Certain things that work great in books don't work as well in movies and vice versa. Still, fans are always going to wish that certain things had made it into the movie, even if they think the movie was awesome overall.
I love the Harry Potter movies, but that doesn't mean there aren't things about them I'd change. For every single movie, there's at least one thing I'd have loved to see be kept in from the book. In this post, I'm going to choice one thing I wish had been in each movie.
I think Sorcerer's Stone is the hardest for me since I actually saw the movie before I read the book. Because of this, it's often hard for me to remember things that were in the book but not the movie. I have a similar problem with Chamber of Secrets. I was just so young when these movies came out that it's hard for me to distingush between the books and movies no matter how many times a read or watch them. Plus, there aren't huge differences between those two books and movies I don't think, at least compared to the rest of the books and movies.
I think I'm going to choose Peeves for Sorcerer's Stone. Technically, Peeves would work for every movie, but they'd actually filmed scenes with Peeves and then decided to cut them. I would absolutely love to see that footage. Peeves would have been great.
For Chamber of Secrets, I'd have to say all of the Valentine's Day stuff. I completely understand why all of that was cut, but it still would have been really amusing to watch.
Prisoner of Azkaban is one of my favorite Harry Potter movies, but I also have the most problems with it (which completely makes sense). How can they have not talked about the Marauders backstory!? To me that seems incredibly important. You have no idea how many times I've had to explain all of that to people who haven't read the books. It's basically impossible for people who haven't read the books to understand all of that. They don't have a clue why Harry's patronus is a stag, why Sirius and Wormtail are animagi, or who made the Marauders Map and why Sirius and Remus know all about it. I don't understand why they thought leaving all of that out was a good idea. That's the number one thing I'd change in all of the movies.
Goblet of Fire is my least favorite Harry Potter book, and I don't have many complaints about things they changed in the movie. They only thing I can really think of is Rita Skeeter being an animagus. That would have been cool to see. S.P.E.W. would have been cool too. More houselves is never a bad thing. In fact, forget the animagus thing. I just want to see Dobby and Winky.
Order of the Phoenix had a lot cut from it of course, but the one thing I would have loved to see is Snape's Worst Memory in it's entirety (or at least more than they gave us). We didn't even get to see Lily, and we find out later that she was the whole reason it was his worst memory. I really wish they could have given us more.
To just prove to you even more how much I love house elves, the biggest thing I would have liked to see in Half Blood Prince is Dobby and Kreacher interaction. They basically gave us this when they added Dobby into the Grimauld Place scene with Kreacher, but I still would have loved to see them tailing Draco together in Half Blood Prince.
It's hard to think of something for Deathly Hallows Part 1. It would have been nice to see Lily's letter and the picture of baby Harry. (Babies are always awesome.) There wasn't anything huge that I was upset to see cut out though. (Unless I'm forgetting something, which wouldn't surprise me.) They also didn't talk much about all of the Dumbledore stuff.
There were a ton of changes in Deathly Hallows Part 2, but I was perfectly fine with most of them. I would have loved to see Percy make up with his family, but I can understand that being cut. One thing that slightly annoyed me was the fact that Teddy was never even mentioned. That's not entirely true since Harry mentions him when talking to (Resurection Stone) Remus in the Forbidden Forest, but since non-book readers don't know about Teddy, this just seems completely random. I would have loved to see the scene where Remus shows up at Shell Cottage after Teddy is born.
What are some things you wish had been in the Harry Potter movies?
I love the Harry Potter movies, but that doesn't mean there aren't things about them I'd change. For every single movie, there's at least one thing I'd have loved to see be kept in from the book. In this post, I'm going to choice one thing I wish had been in each movie.
I think Sorcerer's Stone is the hardest for me since I actually saw the movie before I read the book. Because of this, it's often hard for me to remember things that were in the book but not the movie. I have a similar problem with Chamber of Secrets. I was just so young when these movies came out that it's hard for me to distingush between the books and movies no matter how many times a read or watch them. Plus, there aren't huge differences between those two books and movies I don't think, at least compared to the rest of the books and movies.
I think I'm going to choose Peeves for Sorcerer's Stone. Technically, Peeves would work for every movie, but they'd actually filmed scenes with Peeves and then decided to cut them. I would absolutely love to see that footage. Peeves would have been great.
For Chamber of Secrets, I'd have to say all of the Valentine's Day stuff. I completely understand why all of that was cut, but it still would have been really amusing to watch.
Prisoner of Azkaban is one of my favorite Harry Potter movies, but I also have the most problems with it (which completely makes sense). How can they have not talked about the Marauders backstory!? To me that seems incredibly important. You have no idea how many times I've had to explain all of that to people who haven't read the books. It's basically impossible for people who haven't read the books to understand all of that. They don't have a clue why Harry's patronus is a stag, why Sirius and Wormtail are animagi, or who made the Marauders Map and why Sirius and Remus know all about it. I don't understand why they thought leaving all of that out was a good idea. That's the number one thing I'd change in all of the movies.
Goblet of Fire is my least favorite Harry Potter book, and I don't have many complaints about things they changed in the movie. They only thing I can really think of is Rita Skeeter being an animagus. That would have been cool to see. S.P.E.W. would have been cool too. More houselves is never a bad thing. In fact, forget the animagus thing. I just want to see Dobby and Winky.
Order of the Phoenix had a lot cut from it of course, but the one thing I would have loved to see is Snape's Worst Memory in it's entirety (or at least more than they gave us). We didn't even get to see Lily, and we find out later that she was the whole reason it was his worst memory. I really wish they could have given us more.
To just prove to you even more how much I love house elves, the biggest thing I would have liked to see in Half Blood Prince is Dobby and Kreacher interaction. They basically gave us this when they added Dobby into the Grimauld Place scene with Kreacher, but I still would have loved to see them tailing Draco together in Half Blood Prince.
It's hard to think of something for Deathly Hallows Part 1. It would have been nice to see Lily's letter and the picture of baby Harry. (Babies are always awesome.) There wasn't anything huge that I was upset to see cut out though. (Unless I'm forgetting something, which wouldn't surprise me.) They also didn't talk much about all of the Dumbledore stuff.
There were a ton of changes in Deathly Hallows Part 2, but I was perfectly fine with most of them. I would have loved to see Percy make up with his family, but I can understand that being cut. One thing that slightly annoyed me was the fact that Teddy was never even mentioned. That's not entirely true since Harry mentions him when talking to (Resurection Stone) Remus in the Forbidden Forest, but since non-book readers don't know about Teddy, this just seems completely random. I would have loved to see the scene where Remus shows up at Shell Cottage after Teddy is born.
What are some things you wish had been in the Harry Potter movies?
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Who's Irene?
I love Saturday. It is by far the best day of the week. My feelings for it kind of wan in the summer, but as soon as school starts again, I remember how much I love that particular day of the week.
Today was the Drive One 4 Ur School event that I worked at. One of the local car dealership let people test drive cars for free, and our school got money each time someone test drove. There was a decent sized group of kids there from school, way more than was needed. Most of our time was spent just sitting there talking. A lot of the teachers were there, including our principal, vice principal, and guidance counselor. It's kind of weird seeing them outside of school.
I was so excited about finally getting to wear my awesome new shirt today. (I can't wear it to school because it's kind of spoilery for the last Hunger Games book, and Haley and Jordan are still reading them.) Then, I get there, and they hand me a Drive One 4 Ur School. I didn't really have to take it, but everyone else was wearing them. (Plus, I wasn't turning down a free shirt.) I'm determined to wear that Hunger Games shirt tomorrow. I don't care that it breaks my rule of not wearing t-shirts to church. (I'm never dressed up at church anyway, so it's not like it's a big leap or anything.
Ji and I were only supposed to work an hour and a half, but we ended up staying for two and a half hours. It really wasn't that bad since we were just talking to everyone. We even played hangman for a while. Ji and I took some pictures for the yearbook. (Ji took a lot more than I did.) We also informed Ji about the hurricane when she asked who Irene was after hearing the name. I then informed Ji of every single bit of Hurricane Irene news that I say through twitter for the rest of the morning. We even got some awesome free popcorn.
When I got home, I discovered that my Hoosier Girls State DVD had come in the mail! That actually reminds me that I need to go make my family watch it with me. I'm looking forward to all of the memories (and making my family see how awesome it was).
I have a slight favor to ask you guys today. As you know, I'll be going off to college next fall, so it shouldn't be surprising that I'm trying to get as much scholarship money as I can. There's this site called Fastweb that helps you find scholarships. It's pretty awesome. Right now, if you refer someone to the site, you're entered into a drawing to win $500 of scholarship money. If you're also looking for scholarships, please use this link to register. It'll help you find scholarships, and you can help me out at the same time. I'd be extremely greatful.
That basically summarizes the more exciting parts of my day. The rest of it was mainly spent watching Naruto, How I Met Your Mother, vlogbrothers, and The Hillywood Show. (Isn't that just full of variety?) I'm going to go convince my parents to watch that HGS DVD with me. (It's only August, and I'm already reliving the summer.)
Today was the Drive One 4 Ur School event that I worked at. One of the local car dealership let people test drive cars for free, and our school got money each time someone test drove. There was a decent sized group of kids there from school, way more than was needed. Most of our time was spent just sitting there talking. A lot of the teachers were there, including our principal, vice principal, and guidance counselor. It's kind of weird seeing them outside of school.
I was so excited about finally getting to wear my awesome new shirt today. (I can't wear it to school because it's kind of spoilery for the last Hunger Games book, and Haley and Jordan are still reading them.) Then, I get there, and they hand me a Drive One 4 Ur School. I didn't really have to take it, but everyone else was wearing them. (Plus, I wasn't turning down a free shirt.) I'm determined to wear that Hunger Games shirt tomorrow. I don't care that it breaks my rule of not wearing t-shirts to church. (I'm never dressed up at church anyway, so it's not like it's a big leap or anything.
Ji and I were only supposed to work an hour and a half, but we ended up staying for two and a half hours. It really wasn't that bad since we were just talking to everyone. We even played hangman for a while. Ji and I took some pictures for the yearbook. (Ji took a lot more than I did.) We also informed Ji about the hurricane when she asked who Irene was after hearing the name. I then informed Ji of every single bit of Hurricane Irene news that I say through twitter for the rest of the morning. We even got some awesome free popcorn.
When I got home, I discovered that my Hoosier Girls State DVD had come in the mail! That actually reminds me that I need to go make my family watch it with me. I'm looking forward to all of the memories (and making my family see how awesome it was).
I have a slight favor to ask you guys today. As you know, I'll be going off to college next fall, so it shouldn't be surprising that I'm trying to get as much scholarship money as I can. There's this site called Fastweb that helps you find scholarships. It's pretty awesome. Right now, if you refer someone to the site, you're entered into a drawing to win $500 of scholarship money. If you're also looking for scholarships, please use this link to register. It'll help you find scholarships, and you can help me out at the same time. I'd be extremely greatful.
That basically summarizes the more exciting parts of my day. The rest of it was mainly spent watching Naruto, How I Met Your Mother, vlogbrothers, and The Hillywood Show. (Isn't that just full of variety?) I'm going to go convince my parents to watch that HGS DVD with me. (It's only August, and I'm already reliving the summer.)
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