The Secret Life of a Care Bear

ANOTHER new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer was released! Eeee! It’s a bit crazy, since the movie doesn’t come out for another…(checks out countdown)…246 days! Are they going to keep releasing trailers? We’ll have seen half the movie by next summer! :)

I wasn’t expecting this at all! Sweet! (Available for download here, also)

Too bad the movie doesn’t come out until next year, instead of in a month…grumble grumble…

First, a link to a hilarious comic about Mary-Sue characters in Harry Potter fanfiction.

Next, a hilarious video of a Twihard watching the new Twilight trailer for the first time. If you watch the whole thing, it’s hilarious, but I can understand if you can’t stand 9 minutes of squee-ing.

And for more Twilight fun a hilarious recap/commentary on Breaking Dawn. If you’ve read the book and have a sense of humor, you’ll love it. If you haven’t read the book, but are bored, it’s probably worth your time. I promise. A short preview: (This should be obvious, but serious spoilers ahead, yo!)

Okay, so. Previously on As the Vampire Sparkles, emoteen Bella Swan moves to a tiny little depressing rainy town and won’t shut up about it. There she meets a mysterious boy who turns out to be a 100+ year-old vampire who literally sparkles “like diamonds” in direct sunlight and reads minds (but not hers), and after three hundred pages of Bella wondering why he’s so mean to her and why he’s so weird and why he’s not being mean to her anymore and what his deal is and if he likes her and if he actually loves her and how much he loves her and how he could possibly love as someone as Mary Sue plain and boring and clumsy as she is and if his vampire family will like her, a plot finally shows up, but it doesn’t last very long. And then they go to prom. In the second book, Edward the sparkling vampire leaves Bella for her own good, and she spends most of the book trying to kill herself with motorcycles and cliff-diving. Sort of. And then her best friend falls in love with her and turns out to be a werewolf, but Bella runs away to save Edward from committing suicide by public sparkling in Italy. In the third book, Jacob the best friend/boyfriend wannabe/werewolf turns into a total asshole trying to force himself on Bella, and a vampire with a grudge from the first book is trying to kill her, but more importantly, Bella and Edward argue about whether they should have sex, get married, and/or vampirize Bella, and in what order.
Hand to God, I did not make one word of that up. Twilight means never having to say you’re kidding.

Go read the whole thing when you have time. I promise that it won’t let you down. (Well…unless you are a huge Twilight fan who takes the books seriously. If that’s the case, I don’t think I want to know you…just kidding!) Then go read the ones for the first three books! Seriously.

I just recently found out that the first twelve chapters of the next Twilight series book, Midnight Sun, were leaked onto the internet. Yeah, I’m behind the times, I don’t keep up with Twilight stuff, really. Anyway, Midnight Sun is Twilight from Edward’s (the main vampire) perspective. I’m going to go read it soon. I’ll definitely be posting my reaction here. I expect it to be…amusing.

Edit: You can find the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun on Stephenie Meyer’s website (along with her commentary about the situation). She decided to post it so that fans wouldn’t have to illegally read it. She also threw a big fit and decided to put the book on hold, which I forgot to mention earlier. Yeah, it totally sucks that someone you trusted leaked your book, but seriously, it’s not like there’s anything you can do about it now. Just finish the darn book and publish it. There are plenty of fans everywhere who will buy it. Heck, I’d even buy it. I bought the rest of the series and I’m not even a big fan!

New stills from the Half-Blood Prince Trailer are here! The first (above) shows a young Tom Riddle, played by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, son of Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort. The other picture shows Dumbledore in some sort of magical firestorm or something, presumably in the cave scene. The teaser trailer satellite debut is set for tomorrow evening and will be available online exclusively from AOL sometime tomorrow. Woot! I think I also read somewhere that the full trailer is rumored to be debuting before the Clone Wars movie on August 15th, but that seems a bit soon to me. We’ll see.

Bunny pictures tomorrow! We got the cages moved up to the office and let them explore their new territory today. We tried letting Abby & Helah out at the same time, but Abby chased Helah back into her cage. :(
They seemed to really enjoy their new room, though. Hurray!

In other slightly less exciting news this week: The fourth Twilight Series book, Breaking Dawn, comes out Saturday. I’ll probably go buy it. Not at midnight, though. I want to know how she finally finishes this series, but not badly enough to stand in line with a bunch of squee-ing tween girls. No thank you.

First, giant spiders are taking over my apartment. It’s creepy and gross. I do not approve!

And now, a list of “pets” that I would like to have, as compiled by Kirsten and I at lunch yesterday:

1. A baby gryphon (That talks! Also, I won’t mind when it grows up, I just want it to start as a baby!)
(Drawing by Larry Dixon, who did the art for the Valdemar books)2. A Companion

3. A little owl that will carry my mail and also communicate telepathically with me.

It has come to my attention—through talking to Kirsten about the blog post I was trying to write—that there is nothing major going on in any of our favorite fandoms this summer. The next thing I have to be really excited about is the release of the next Sims 2 expansion pack (Apartment Life) in September, and then the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie in November. (Although Kirsten and I have plans for some excellent HP fangirl business in August, but that’s TOO weird for the rest of you). We are going to remedy this situation by having a Nerd-a-thon. What’s a Nerd-a-thon? Well, we don’t really know either, but we’re pretty sure it’s going to involve having long, über-nerdy conversations about our favorite fandoms, PLUS MORE. Perhaps it will also involve the watching of movies and eating of themed snacks. I have also just had a revelation that it should involve COSTUMES, too. We are very excited already. There’s no date set, yet, so if you want to join us, drop me a line and I’ll let you know when it gets all planned out. Plus, I’ll probably make a facebook event for it, because I love facebook events. If you want me to come to anything, you’d better put it up on facebook.

Anyway, in other slightly related news, there IS a Sims 2 stuff pack coming out on June 24, which will probably have to be the apex of my summer, since nothing else is happening. It’s entitled “Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff”. Normally I would disapprove of the commercial whore-ness of it, but the H&M stuff pack was pretty awesome. Basically, they suck at designing stuff and IKEA doesn’t, so it should be awesome. And yes, it has “real” IKEA furniture. Check it out. I can’t wait to give my sims a “MALM” bedroom set. As Adam would say, “Sweet action!” ;)
EA really gets too much of our money…
I think I’ll update sometime soon with pictures of my sims, just for kicks.

In other nerdy, fandom related news, there has been a lot of Harry Potter news lately. I know this because I read the feed from The Leaky Cauldron, a Harry Potter news site. So nerdy, I know. Anyway, in case you didn’t hear, J.K. wrote an 800 word Harry Potter prequel as part of a special charity event for the UK bookstore Waterstone’s. It will be auctioned off on June 10th, along with other stories written by twelve other famous authors, including Neil Gaiman, and stories by three contest winners. Then later, they’ll be selling postcard books with all the stories. I’m excited, but also afraid that this prequel will suck like her epilogue did. Also in the world of Harry Potter, pictures from the Half-Blood Prince movie are starting to get around. I’m excited. I can’t wait for more Bellatrix, and Slughorn, and the Ginny kiss, and all the Snape goodness. Now if they would just release the teaser trailer! I’m guessing it will be with one of the movies this summer, hopefully soon! So here’s one of the pictures. Looks like it’s Slughorn’s party. I wonder if that’s the elusive Blaise Zabini over there on the right?

Speaking of Blaise Zabini, here’s an awesome song about him…her…