BLAAGH

HELLO FRIENDS I AM SORRY I LEFT FOR LIKE SIX DAYS OR SOMETHING BUT I AM BACK NOW AND I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU AGAIN. (At least I hope not.) 

Who's happy it's Friday?! Me, but not me. You know? It's getting really close to final exams and I am super stressed and so is everyone around me, and with good reason. Actually, it's a really weird attitude that's going around, though. It's simultaneously "I need to study right now because if I fail I will die" and "I don't even give a crap anymore. Screw it all." So, on that note... 

I've been thinking of fandom-themed game shows. I'm going to list some that I thought of.... Here you go: 
1. The Wheel. Of. Fandoms. 
2. King of the Fandoms!
3. Finish that Quote
4. Let's Talk Fandoms (How many fandom-related topics can you discuss in 60 seconds?)
5. America's Next Top Fangirl (Modeling the fangirl look - sweats, you know - book-reading competitions, and fanfiction writing games :P) 

Anywho, I'm sorry for the short post, but stress is ruling right now and my mind is blank. Comment more Fangirl Gameshows! We can make a Fangirl Gaming Network (FGN) and it could be fabulous. 

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading,
Fangirl Anonymous

Character Complications

Hellooo! I haven't posted in a while - sorry! - but school has been majorly busy and stressful, what with the year being almost over and such... But I'm posting now, despite my still slightly damp nail polish. Because I really want to discuss this topic, and make sure I'm not alone. So screw you, still-tacky nail polish! 

Anywayy... Character complications! Maybe not all complications. But injuries. Internal struggle. Weakness. Not death, but that character's "cross" to bear. That is what we are here to cogitate. I just love it. Am I the only one? I adore the idea that our favorite characters have some extra weakness, or injury. Something that should be incapacitating, but isn't, not for them. I love that characters can have like a broken wrist or ankle (*hem* Annabeth *hem*) or a power that drains them, like, majorly, that they can't do anything for hours after, and they can still be totally bad-a. I love that characters can be fighting some inconceivable internal struggle, and still manage to be level-headed and completely in-control, and not let anyone see what they're going through. I love it. Because the fact that they have that weakness and nobody else knows, or only a couple people know, and they can hide it, despite the amount of pain it's causing, for the greater good, to keep morale up, to keep people safe, makes my favorite characters that much stronger. That they can remain completely the same on the outside when they are being torn apart on the inside, that they can fight with a sword or whatever (I don't know) with a broken wrist, just so that no one notices, makes them so much better. I don't know. I've been reading fan fiction - good fan fiction, no worries - and it's Percy Jackson fanfic, of course, and just... There are people stepping up, you know? Like struggles, physical and mental, and everything, and they don't show it, because they don't want others to be worried. 

Sorry, that was mostly ramble. But tell me whatcha think!! I need comments! I want to know that people are taking this stuff in. Or at least enjoying it. Or, at the very least, relating. 

Until next post,

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading!
Fangirl Anonymous

Okeydoke

Okay. So how is everyone? Good? Good. Because we have some important things to discuss. 

FIRST. First. It has come to my attention that apparently (rather large spoiler alert I suppose) the two crossover short stories Rick Riordan has written - Percy Jackson/Carter Cane and Annabeth Chase/Sadie Kane - take place after the Giant War. After the Prophecy of the Seven. So this means that my theory (in my Valentine's Day ship post) was - *gasp* - wrong. Because Percy is not a god in Sun of Sobek, and I haven't read Staff of Serapis yet - it doesn't come out until Tuesday and I just - but Annabeth - at least in the summary - seems fairly demigodish. And neither of them seems dead or anything - there's nothing to suggest that they are ghosts - so my theory was indeed wrong. Oops. Oh well. So the question remains, as Uncle Rick has so heart-wrenchingly promised us at least one death, who is going to die? 

GUYS YOU NEED TO TELL ME HOW YOU ARE HANDLING WAITING UNTIL OCTOBER. I AM JUST SLOWLY GOING CRAZY AND READING FAN FICTION. HELP. No, I'm okay, really. I just have this thing about waiting. I'm not patient. Like, at all. So wish me luck. 

SECOND. Second. How do we feel about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? I know that we've known for a bit that it's coming out, but how do we feel about this upcoming trilogy? I have to say, I'm pretty excited. J.K. Rowling is indeed doing the screenwriting, and it starts off in New York, apparently. I just can't believe we have to wait until 2016. Again, with the waiting thing. But, until then, I am just reading other books because there's nothing else I can do about it, other than reading more and more fan fiction - good pieces of which, by the way, are becoming increasingly difficult to find. 

Anyway, I wish you luck in your distraction from the wait for new content - I need good luck too. 

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading!
Fangirl Anonymous

Herroski

Hi! So, happy Monday? No? Nobody? Nah, me neither. Oh well.

So, my homework is finished (you know how I told you I was done on Friday? Well, teachers are trolls and they assigned more, soo...) and I am ready to do some hard core blogging. Haha, inspiration has left as opportunity arrived.

So, I was wondering - do you think Annabeth would be good at knitting? I mean, her mom is the goddess of useful crafts, but we learn in The Mark of Athena that she had never found any of that stuff - weaving, etc. - very useful. I know Hermione can knit, and last we saw in the books she was getting better. I wonder if she knits sweaters for her kids, like Mrs. Weasley did for Ginny, Ron, Fred, George, etc.? That would be pretty cute.

But anyway, in case you hadn't noticed, I like to knit. I recently finished knitting a hat. It is adorable and also my very first finished knitting project (I have tons of experience but very rarely follow through to the end.).

What happened to all the hats that Hermione made and Dobby wore? What if Annabeth made Percy a hat for Christmas? These are the kinds of important, in-depth questions that we need answers to.

Anywho,

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading,
Fangirl Anonymous

Thanks

Hey guys! So, today I just wanted to say thanks for reading my blog. I know it's not insanely deep a lot of the time, and usually just consists of fandom-based ramble, and posts aren't always regular... But I'm really glad you guys are sticking with me... Starting this blog was probably one of the better choices I've made, and so I wanted to thank you. Overall I've gotten over 100 views, and I know that over three and a half(ish) months, that doesn't seem like a lot, but it means a lot to me that I have people who read this regularly, and people who are still reading it. 

So thanks, guys! I'm really glad you like it here on Fangirl It Up, and I hope you stick around. 

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading,
Fangirl Anonymous

I FOUND IT

Alright, guys, the sole purpose of this post (since I posted twice yesterday I'm going to keep it short) is to let you know that I found the adorable piece of fan art that I was unable to find yesterday for my post about fan art makers.

Okay, so it's by Burdge, work I absolutely love, especially her HP fan art...
Specifically
this
this
this
this
this
this
and THIS
The first link is the one I told you about, so enjoy...
Alright, byeee...

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading,
Fangirl Anonymous

The Fault in Our Stars

(Note: I cried so much during this book and the feels are still really fresh, so forgive me if I gush or ramble or whatever.)

Okay, so I know I already posted today, but I finished this book in a course of within a course of 6 hours and 30 minutes (more or less), and I needed to write about it.

And let me just say, it was a privilege to have my heart broken by this book.



In The Fault in Our Stars, we are introduced to our narrator, Hazel Grace Lancaster,  a sixteen-year-old girl with thyroid cancer, who goes to a support group at her local church to battle her "paralyzing and totally clinical depression" (Green Loc. 73). [I read this from my Kindle (on my Mac) so I am putting in the Location numbers instead of pages.]

As the cast of the support group is constantly rotating in a depressing sort of way as a "side effect of dying," Hazel is (quite understandably) unwilling to go. That is, until she gets there, and meets a handsome, charismatic seventeen-year-old by the name of Augustus Waters, who had osteosarcoma a year and a half before the meeting. It is evident to readers, almost immediately, really, that their personality types are as compatible as humanly possible, despite differing viewpoints, and they have a kind of easy banter that puts the Movie!Hinny to shame. The duo is startlingly frank about everything they talk about, be it "Cancer Perks," family troubles, or controversial opinions. And it is through this sort of sophisticated, intelligent flirtation, that Hazel Grace unwillingly falls for Augustus Waters, despite the fact that she is a self-proclaimed "'grenade'" and wants to "'minimize the casualties'"(Green Loc. 1071).

"...I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once" (Green Loc. 1334). And thus begins the tragic love story that will make you laugh, cry, emote, and feel  so deeply that your emotions are tattered and shredded so totally that life seems meaningless, as it should after reading a good book. Is that not the sign of a truly exceptional story? That nothing else matters in that moment and in that reality?

Granted, I cry easily at books. But this was a beautiful story with beautiful characters and with beautiful development. I really hope you enjoyed it if you've read it. And if you haven't, I strongly recommend it. I'm not going to yell at you like some will about books. Because things thrust upon you tend to lose their singularity, their memorability, their importance. However, in the words of Hazel Grace Lancaster herself, "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book" (Green Loc. 391). This was one of those books. Heartbreaking, magnificent, singular, and striking, The Fault in Our Stars is not a book you want to miss out on. 


Thanks for reading my review!

Good luck in life, happy watching, happy reading!
Fangirl Anonymous


P.S./EDIT: Oh my gosh this got reverted to a draft by accident so I reposted it, so sorry