Thursday, October 23, 2014

Anime Bonzi 10th Anniversary

I got to go to Anime Bonzi last weekend. The panels were interesting and funny, I bought tons of fandom merch, and all the people were super nice and cool to talk to. Honestly if I could go back every weekend, I would.

It started on Friday when Alice picked me up. I was cosplaying as Tavros, Milly was Sollux and Alice was Terezi from Homesuck. We had to wait in line for a half an hour, but we got to talk to a Canada cosplayer. She was extremely nice and I talked to her for an hour before I realized any time had passed. On the first day I spent most of my time talking to people and helping choose which toy llama my friend Sarah should buy. I only went to one panel that day, Reading vs Writing and it was fun to talk about fanfics we had written or read. I also bought lots of merch, including a Supernatural pin, a plushie Darlek, a Prussia wall scroll and a Sherlock purse. It was a truly beautiful thing.

Prussia, ze awsomest! And Gilbird on has head.
The second day I was Aries from Fairytail and loads of people asker to take pictures with me. It was tons of fun again and I was also able to meet up with the people I had seen the day before. Although I went to way more panels on Saturday including origami 101 (I FINALLY made a swan!), a Doctor Who scavenger hunt (got to keep a commemorative bow tie and everything), a Fairytail one (Spoilers D:) and most of a very intreating Hetalia panel (they had a cool Russia). I made friends with 2 Terezis, a grimdark Rose, a Prussia, Jake English(yes, he had an english accent), and a very attractive Dave Strider. There was also a Batman in a hot tub, but I didn't nor do I ever want to know. I also bought some cute Supernatural and Hetalia stickers.

Moral of the story, whenever given the chance go to a fan convention because it is amazing. I had so much fun, and I'm taking all my friends who didn't go this year next time.



top left to bottom right England and a mint bunny, Russia with a metal pipe, Italy with a white flag, and Germany judging them all, Sam, Castiel, and Dean

Blood of Olympus (SPOILERS)

First of all, thank you Morrison for lending me The Blood of Olympus, and thank you William, for being too sick for Morrison to lend you the book first like she promised. Of course I only had the book for 2 days while William was still out sick, but I managed to finish the book in under 48 hours. Side note: reading for 8 1/2 hours straight is very likely to cause a bad headache.

 Even though I was really excited to finally read the book after waiting for a year after The House of Hades was published, it's sad to see the series end. I am content with the ending though, because everyone was able to find their place and where they would be happy. I also liked the fact that it had Nico and Reyna's POV. Although now that I'm thinking about it, the fact that neither Annabeth and nor Percy got a chapter from their POV, I find that sort of irritating.

The top five things that I liked were that Nico found his place at Camp Half-Blood, the giants were defeated in an epic battle, Octavian was the only person I knew by name who died (thank the gods), the Romans and the Greeks are finally getting along, and Charisse, the super hardcore daughter of Ares, became a godmother. I'm happy with how it ended, but also a little sad that Percy Jackson's quests with his friends are over. Thank you Rick Riordian for giving us Percy Jackson and his friends extraordinary adventures.


Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Back in Back-SPN Season 10

Having missed the Supernatural season 10 primer and not wanting to wait all next day, I got up at 5 AM to watch it on demand and I can say for certain that it was worth it. Now a week later and I still can't believe it. Dean's a demon, Cas is dying, and Sam has gone on a demon-slaghtering-rampage (again). On top of all this, without Cas the angels are messing up heaven (that one's not difficult to believe).  The story left of in season 9 with Dean being turned into a demon (or deanmon take your pick) after being stabbed by Metatron and Sam about to sell his soul for his brothers life.

Now the Story picks up a month later with basically everything that could possibly still go wrong for them going wrong. The first episode has Dean singing really awful karaoke, and since the fifth episode, Fanfiction, is a musical episode, I can't wait to see that. The seasons fifth episode will be the 200th episode of the series and many shows never make it to their 100th episode, let alone a 200th.

Soon the Winchesters story will come to an end and after fighting monsters, angels, demons, and stoping a fair amount of apocalypses, the boys really deserve to have a happy ending. Knowing this show though, it's much more likely that we will have a brief glimmer of hope that will be swiftly pulled out from under us and leaving things even more desperate than they previously were. Yep, that's how you write a successful TV show CW.  However I'm honestly really excited for the new season and what will happen to the brothers now.
Sam and Dean in front of the Impala