Saturday, May 31, 2014

John Green is a Visionary

Paper Towns. Looking for Alaska. An Abundance of Katherines.
And The Fault in Our Stars.

Oh my Rowling, The Fault in Our Stars.
Augustus Waters. Hazel Grace Lancaster. Peter VanHouten. ISAAC.

June 6th. Friday. I don't think the world is prepared...I'm certainly not. I am, however, excited; ridiculously-and-totally-unable-to-breathe excited. And I'm sure there are many others who are on my level. And if you're a fan and you're not freaking out....GET ON MY LEVEL!

Okay...like I don't even know what to say right now. My head is just spinning with memories of the feels. The horrible and wonderful and amazing feels.

I have no idea how they can properly put those words on screen, but clearly we all desperately want them on screen. We want Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster and their confounding love story to be truly visible and tangible.

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Alright, since I am obviously dumbfounded and illiterate when it comes to actually talking about TFiOS, let me speak of its author.

John Green.

Seemingly endless and impossible vocabulary. Some of the words he used were so sophisticated I thought he made them up and they didn't actually exist in real life.

And it's crazy. They're just words. Just a stringing together of words. But they mean so much to people. To me. I like to think I can reasonably put together interesting and complicatedly beautiful sentences, but I have found no one - no other author - who can do that as well and as hauntingly honest as John Green. His combinations of words make people cry, and laugh, and I think most importantly they make people think. After reading TFiOS and Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska you just view life differently. And I think that is one of the biggest accomplishments any writer can have.

Very respect. Much awe.

So let's just have that be the overall message here....HUGE props to John Green.
God-willing I will one day write half as well as him.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Moodier than a PMSing Woman

Everyone knows Mother Nature can be one hell of a raging bitch, but no one knows better than those around a PMSing woman. How it is humanly possible for one person to have so many moods and switch between them so quickly, is beyond nearly all men.

Except, perhaps, one man...Jace Wayland/Morgenstern/Herondale/Lightwood (Lightwood was the final name choice for your edification). His attitudes and feels switch so continuously in TMI that it's even hard for me to keep track and I'm quite good at 'moody.' It's actually a hobby of mine - being a crazy, moody woman.

No one knows the moods of Jace Lightwood better than Cassandra Clare, the fabulous lady who created him; however, we fans like to think we come close. And what's so magnificent about Jace is there's so much more to him than just his odd emotions.

He is filled with anger, courage, fear, passion, snark,  and LOVE. But oh my that snarkiness just bleeds through into everything he does. And then it mixes with sarcasm and he is just one angsty boy. I suppose he gets it from the one and only Will Herondale...whom you want to punch in the face at one moment and hug endlessly the next. It's just those Herondale genes. God bless 'em!

Okay, now for the shipping. Clace is just wonderful, and yet very frustrating. I've not heard of anyone shipping Jace with anyone other than Clary....so that's his only ship. And it's the perfect ship that has totally had its drama and its supermegafoxyawesomehot times.

And Jace is just totally and completely supermegafoxyawesomehot in his own right. Like thank you Cassie!

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Okay let's just marinate on the fact that CoHF is being released on May 27th. That is only 16 short days from now. And it is the culmination of Clace and Malec and Sizzy and all the other ships and OMG shits just cray. Like, if I were one to give in to excitement I would be hyperventilating.

I think I thought this post would be longer...but there's always comments!!!!


¡¡¡AND. NEXT POST WILL BE ON SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING THE WORLD HYPERVENTILATE!!!