Another week, another series. VAMPIRE DIARIES.

I'm not exactly sure when my life started spiraling out of control into a blur of teen dramas and vampires, but I'm not mad about it. Not even a little bit. 

Last week I was sick for a few days and after going to dinner with two friends who talked about vampire diaries a handful of times, I figured what the hell? Why NOT start another series on netflix? And even better, it's a vampire teen drama? UM HELLO HAVE YOU MET ME? This is a perfect combination, and since cancelling my beloved secret circle, vampire diaries will have to do considering it was written by the same author. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I love it even more than secret circle.
IT IS SO GOOD. It's not like, true blood good, but it's CW good (and we all know one tree hill is one of my favorites, shh). It's very rare that I like almost all the characters on a show, BUT I DO. Even Caroline who was annoying as fuck in the beginning became a great character. 

She gets me

DAMON'S EYES and one liners. Stefan's brooding. Bonnie being a badass motherfucking witch. Alaric and his vampire hating half self (Although I'm sad about this). Even the villains are charming and likable! I mean, are we supposed to hate Klaus and Rebekah? Because I just can't. I FEEL FOR HER, poor thing, all she wants is to go to a high school dance and have a boy like her (can't say I understand the school dance part, though). 
AND THE FLASHBACKS. I LOVE FLASHBACKS.
I knew it was a winner for me when I cried a million tears somewhere around the second season finale. ANY SHOW THAT BRINGS ME TO TEARS IS A WINNER. Although I'm not happy about some of the people they have killed, not even a little bit, I guess that's the point, right? Take people the audience love and rip our hearts out. AND THE SEASON THREE FINALE? OH. MY. GOD. Dead. I need someone to talk about it with. My best friend started it but she's still on season one so I'm DYING HOLDING IT IN AND TRYING NOT TO SPILL THE BEANS.
I know my life and choices are questionable but to be honest I'm okay with living my life vicariously through TV shows and creatures of the night. Especially when it comes to this dude

Don't you roll your eyes at me, Damon

Can we also discuss the deep lines in between Stefan's eyebrows that perfectly match up with the lines above his lip? Because i'm obsessed with them, and I'm not really sure why. Don't judge me. 

AND. THE FACT THAT IT IS CARRIED ON INTO REAL LIFE. Damon & Elena are actually a couple! Stefan is married to crazy nanny Carrie/crazy Melissa Hastings! MASON IS LADY GAGA'S BOYFRIEND! It's like the CW had a partner swap (minus gaga, obvs) and ALL THE BEST COUPLES CAME OF IT. 


Anyway Sorry I'm not sorry for my overuse of caps but I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THIS OKAY.

SSB: That time I marathoned the entire series of Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek recently went up on Netflix and after a few ladies were talking about starting it up, I figured what the hell? I haven't seen it since I was in high school and even though I know it's terrible, it's the good terrible, right?! RIGHT? Okay maybe it's actually a literal terrible but who cares. 
The first two seasons are so. bad. I don't really have words. The talking, the slow motion walking when Jen and Tamara come on screen, Dawson's hair, I just .. I can't. Joey with her stupid smile (don't even get me started on the beauty pageant episode), Jen being so ~damaged from the big city~. Dawson, who is the "nice guy", AKA the entitled, eternal victim who expects his girlfriends to think he is God's gift to earth. Pacey is the only one I love and even he is questionable in the first season.

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By season three, however, I'm into it. Not the beginning with stupid Eve, but when Pacey realizes he's into Joey and Jack meets a boy he likes and Jen kisses a dude who is now better referred to as Jimmy and looks like Leonardo DiCaprio's little brother. 

Dawson also slowly gets less and less scenes, which is great. It also provided us with this gem:

I apologize that it is mostly Dawson in these gifs, considering he sucks the most, but I'm shocked and appalled at the lack Dawson's Creek gifs on the internet. 

Anyway, I'm jealous Joey got to go on a boat all summer with Pacey while I sit at home and watch netflix with my dog. I also think the way he broke up with her was kind of rude but if I was dating her I'm pretty sure I'd feel the same way. The college years happen and WHAT A WASTE because they generally suck, although I am a fan of Eddie and there are a few good episodes, such as the K-mart one (the face shaving scene gets me, I can't lie). The ending is stupid in that I hate that TV always feels the need to kill someone off for NO reason, but I still liked it and cried a lot (don't judge me), especially when Jen was talking about never feeling like she fit in and Jack was like DON'T YOU GET IT THAT'S WHY WE'RE SOULMATES. I am also happy with the way it ended for My Favorite Couple >:).

The moral of this post is that I really need to get a job and stop locking myself in my house with my phone on silent. 

vamps, dystopia, and never leaving my house.

If you know anything about my Secret Home Life, you know that I watch a lot of TV series in their entirety and read a lot of young adult fiction (I actually just typed victim instead of fiction, that should tell you how sick I am).

This week I decided to watch True Blood from the first episode since the new season starts next month. Oh. My. God. I forgot how fucking good it was. Pretty much every thing Lafayette says in the first season is flawless (although I love him always, especially when he's with Jesus, RIP), Tara was hilarious and making up stories about her husband killing dudes and her baby daddy who just got out of prison going to beat her bosses ass. 

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Bill was actually dark and sexy in the first couple episodes (and always accompanied with a string quartet) and Eric was not. What a sad world when you think Bill is better than Eric. Also, let's have a moment of silence for the beautiful episode in season three when Alcide walked into our lives. I'm not usually into super buff tan werewolves, but give me a tall, bearded dude any day and I probably won't be mad. 

After the can't-put-it-down can't-think-about-anything-else state the Hunger Games left me in, I needed more. I picked up a few other books that were recommended to read after HG, and although I was doubtful they'd fill the huge Peeta shaped hole in my heart, I had to do something to feel normal again.

Because I'm bad at summarizing - (via hellogiggles) - Lena lives within the confines of her society where, at eighteen, all teens are cured by the government of deliria (ie: love) and assigned a spouse and job. This all sounds good to Lena – whose own mother committed suicide after the cure failed her – until she falls in love three months before she’s scheduled to have the procedure. 


So, the writing in the book is great, but a little Too Much. Every little detail is described in so many metaphors and... words. Too many words. Describing a spoonful of broth would take up half a page and you'd forget that the conversation was even happening. It was about 90% describing minuscule details and 10% action. Lena was kind of annoying with how By The Books she was, but became more bearable by the end. But then there was the end, and I didn't like that either. I couldn't get into it until halfway through the book and by then end I was MAD and left with something that doesn't attract me to reading the second book. Bummer.


Divergent, on the other hand, is my new obsession.

Also via hellogiggles - In post-apocalyptic Chicago, society is divided into five factions based on very different and distinct virtues. 16-year-old Beatrice must decide to either stay with her family’s faction or follow her heart to another group and risk being shunned by her parents and peers.


This book totally did it for me. It started out a little unclear whether or not it was going to be able to, but half way through I was all about Tris, fighting for her life (literally), realizing how wrong things were at the same time she did, feeling like you're 13 and not sure if this boy is someone you like or someone just playing with you. It was SO GOOD. The sequel just came out last week (though I have yet to read it, very tight schedule with True Blood and all), but the thought of waiting a year for the last book basically makes me want to die. I have no idea how anyone managed to do it for Hunger Games, my life would've been so empty and meaningless for the year in between books. Yes, I take young adult fiction this seriously, but WHO DOESN'T!?