Robert Pattinson has been cast as Edward Cullen.

Two reactions come to mind after the announcement, first one being “OMG!1!!! hes so cuuuute!!1 he can like totally play edward!1!” or “Damn! Why on Earth did they cast the ‘cute’ extra in Harry Potter for a part that actually requires acting?!”. Needless to say, my feelings were on the second option.

My first disappointment was the fact that they cast someone I already knew. Being the crazy fanatic of Harry Potter that I am, Robert Pattinson took the place of Cedric in my inner eye. And if I were to see a picture of him my first thought would be ‘Cedric!’ and not ‘That Pattinson who’s a great actor!’, and it’s difficult to tell my inner eye to change that view. He, that is to say Pattinson, could prove me wrong. I hope him to do so, and play the part magnificently and prove himself more than a cute extra. I didn’t have any particular reaction to Bella’s casting because I have never seen the actress on screen, so it won’t affect me when I finally go see Twilight.
I sound as though I’m horrified by the choice. Not true. It could’ve been a lot worse, and the guy does look the part. No one will ever match our own image of Edward Cullen, and one can only hope the movie won’t replace our imaginations of the Twilight world. We know through HP than he can pull off confident, popular boy, I hope he can also act the many different layers this character has. As for his looks I’m satisfied. He’s handsome, and in my opinion, he has the right bone structure and hair.

If I hadn’t seen it in Meyer’s own site I wouldn’t have believed it at first. This choice sounds so much like a hopeful fangirl’s wishes that it is hard to believe. According to IMDB he’s got 3 more movies on his plate for the next couple of years and is the right age for the part.

The last thing is the fact that he’s British, which, I though after my initial reaction, is actually a good thing. I was hoping they would let him keep his English accent (I always pictured Edward speaking British English, not American), but apparently they won’t. Meyer said ‘his American accent is flawless’ which I can’t decide if it’s good or bad news.

Here’s a fan site, in case you want pictures or more info on Pattinson: http://www.robertpattinson.org/

And that’s all I’ve got to say, I really hope he’ll pull it off. My biggest doubts are to the movie as a whole rather than him anyway. Bye!

EDIT: Oh! And on a Twilight note, I’ve added the link to my tiny space of fandom. Which is merely a sketch of a site, but it has been sitting on the server for months and I wanted it to be actually here. I’ll probably work on it in the near future. Key word being ‘probably’.

Ok, not really, but it feels like it as of now. Between yesterday and today I sat for my CPE, that’s Certificate in Proficiency English, after studying to infinity and attending daily 2 and a half hour English classes. It’s all done, I could say I’m proficient now, but I should wait for my mark and actual certificate. Anyway, I’m pretty sure I passed.

I am perfectly aware than no one on their right mind could ever give a damn about the details of how my exam went, but since I’m excited about it I’m going to tell my story anyway.

We had the Listening and Speaking on Wednesday, first day of out exam (which is odd because those are papers 4 and 5) Listening at bloody 9 a.m., which was pure cruelty, because it meant I had to wake up at bloody 7 a.m., and I detest waking up early. So there I went, somewhat grumpy and with a headache to IH for my exam. Got there, and half the candidates for the CAE were late, and they got called first. So we went into out classroom (I think it was every candidate in the same classroom, that’s how many we were) and had out listening. As always we heard tales on the weirdest things on Earth. I believe part 1 had one excerpt about a writer, one about sports, and that’s about as much as I remember,  part 2 was about hot air balloons, very familiar subject as you can imagine. And I can’t recall any others, but it went rather well, not a 100% for sure, but well enough for a certain pass.

Then the speaking left me on cloud nine. It was what I dreaded the most, but it turned out really good. I had my exam with this guy I already knew from my class all year, who’s quite nice, so we had no awkwardness of whatever. First part is always similar and it never goes wrong, then the second part, which was where I had had the most trouble, we handled time perfectly concluding when it was time to conclude and following the task to the last detail. And then the 2′ talk went smoothly, which is all that can be hoped for an improvised talk on a subject you don’t give a shit about (something you’d never do in real life, talking uninterrupted on something you don’t know anything about). And the interlocutor skipped the joint question after out talks, to jump first to candidate B for his talk and then jumping ahead to the broader topic questions, which were about work and transport and I don’t know what else. The interlocutor even laughed genuinely after she asked something about the setting of a building and my classmate said he’s studying architecture, which is true and gave a reasonable but complicated answer to her question. After the test was over, which felt quite quick, and as we were leaving, he left the room before me and as I was closing the door as silent as possible so as not to bother anyone, I heard the interlocutor and the examiner say “she’s such a natural!” or something along those lines, in impressed voices. So I’m really proud of myself for that.

Today, same time, same grumpiness, but a day that stretched to infinity. I’m hell tired right now. After being like 7 hs straight inside IH, 5 of those actual examination time. First was the reading, where part 3 was about coffee, and I felt really easy, but my classmates said it had been hard for them, and said part 2 had been easy when I hesitated on every question on that. I think it was about writers again, but I might be mixing it up. In part 1, which is always fairly simple, there was one text about miners, one about a town’s downtown and one I can’t remember. And even though I had to read part 4 several times to get each question I can’t remember what on Earth it was about.

Then came the writing, and I was rather scared about not having enough time, but it went great and I was done writing after 1.30 hours of exam, and had plenty of time to correct it. Part 1 was an essay, which I think was good, I hope the examiner who marks it thinks so as well, and part 2 I picked a proposal, to show off a diff kind of language, and I think went good too.

After that we had lunch outside, I had never been that sociable with my English classmates ever before, but it was very pleasant, it’s very different people so mixing up is quite enjoyable. Then came the Use of English and by this point, it being the last paper, I was quite relaxed and ready for whatever. Part 1 was as always easy. Filling in the gaps comes quite naturally. Part 2 though, was a bit harder, the word building left me hesitant about several words. One doubting between “duration” and “durability” I wrote the first, everyone else the second. About “withstand” being correct or not, and a couple more which I have already forgotten. Part 3 was easy, might have messed one up though, between “line” and “field”, I still think it’s line, but everyone is against me. Sentence transformations was ok, not great, but I’m hopeful in those. And the summary was a bit better than usual, but I don’t trust myself there, because it has already happened that I think I’ve done it properly and then that part ends up with a mark like 9/22 or something equally depressing. I hope it won’t this time.

And the I was done, completely mentally exhausted and ready to jump into bed, which I didn’t do. I’m happy it’s over and done with, because it was a ridiculous amount of study for English, but it felt a bit like the end. I’ve been studying English for 10 years non-stop, a bit of that has been self-taught, through books, TV series and the internet I’ve acquired tons of colloquial expressions and the ability to sound quite natural. I’m not going to be doing 2 classes a week of English next year, and for the first time in 8, and I’m certain I’m going to miss it. I’ll be dong french instead, because I need it, but I’m hating it in advance, even though I don’t even know how it’ll go. I’m not planning on losing anything of all that I’ve learned, I’ll keep up the reading and the unsubtitled TV shows, but it’s still weird. English classes had become rather like my comfort zone, that place where I went basically to chat about completely random topics, where I wasn’t embarrassed at all, because I’m a good speaker and usually near the top of the class. it didn’t really feel like a class anymore for the last couple of years, because all that there is grammatically to be learned already has in previous levels. It was all about fluency, pronunciation, intonation, idioms, phrasals and new vocab of all sorts. I’m still happy real holidays are only one more step ahead.

I should be really tired of English right now. I hesitated between writing this thing in Spanish or in English, because, after all, it concerns both (my everyday life, which is generally Spanish, and English for obvious reasons), but this whole thing of the good-bye to my routine English classes made me want to stretch it a bit longer, I guess. So here I am, after writing 700 words of compositions, and answers to 9 different grammar and reading comprehension parts in 2 papers, still writing in English. That IS tolerance.

“La periodista y escritora argentina Andrea Ferrariz ha ganado el Premio Jaén de Narrativa Juvenil 2007 con la novela El camino de Sherlock, una novela de trama policíaca, salpicada de humor, narrada a través de la voz de un chico de 16 años, superdotado y apasionado de las novelas de Sherlock Holmes.”

YAAAAAAAAAAYYY! Así es!! Andrea Ferrari acaba de ganar el premio Jaén de literatura juvenil! (Lástima la zeta de más en el comunicado de la editorial que juzgó o_0) ¿No es alucinante? ¡No deja de arrasar! Estamos muy emocionados por acá. Ayer salimos a festejar, un almuerzo, con mi mamá, feliz premiada, y mi viejo. Hicimos 20 brindis ya por el premio, pero no lo podemos creer mucho. Mi viejo insiste con que no es una sorpresa porque ya sabíamso que el libro era genial (que lo es, lo es), pero la verdad es que aunque mi vieja estaba esperando que saliera el fallo, era más para ver si lo presentaba en otro lado. Supongo que hace bien no ilusionarse, si no se gana, cae mejor, y cuando se gana, la sorpresa es más gratificante todavía

Ya se está planeandoel viaje a Jaén, para la ceremonia, a fines de voviembre. Capaz que me voy otra vez a España en un año y todo, sería alucinante. Todavía no tenemos casi ningún dato de nada porque le avisaron el viernes (a la tarde de allá) con muchos problemas y llamadas que se cortaban, la pusieron re nerviosa XD, pero sólo le avisaron y la felicitaron, ya le darán más datos el lunes.

El libro está buenísimo, yo atestiguo. No se si mi opinión es muy confiable dado que soy la hija de la premiada, pero se qué a muchagente le gusta su estilo, y este libro cumple con losmejores aspectos de los anteriores, un personaje principal muy humano y querible, una historia que te re mantiene, y le agrega una trama muy divertida policial. ¡Y sale para noviembre! (o algo así)

Bueno, eso es todo. Me voy a estar orgullosa de mi vieja mientras estudio… no debería seguir retrasando el estudio porque voy a terminar haciendo problemas de mate a las 3 de la mañana de hoy domingo.

Hasta mi próxima posteada, cuando eso sea.

Well, that’s it. I’m finished with DH, stretched it a long time, a week and a day to be exact, to enjoy it more thoroughly, but now I’m done, and even though the book was great, I’m a bit sad it’s all over.

Of course I’m not saying I’ll just quit the fandom and never pick up a HP book again in my life, not even close, but the whole thrill of speculation and anticipation is all done. Even if the encyclopedia comes out before the next ten years it will not be the same feeling. The excitement is gone, and apart from the happy part of the ending, there’s also the sadness for the beloved characters dead. I felt like I knew some of them better than I do of my friends. It’s a weird feeling, I grew up with these books, my whole teenage years were spent reading, enjoying and expecting this moment, when every answer was out.

Melancholic step over, I never cried so much as over this book, must have had me in tears in three different occasions, and through the last 100 pages too, even though I interrupted the reading several times. It had a funny side: I would be reading, crying my eyes out, close the book, get ready for lunch out, get a grip on myself (even if my head was in the book through the whole meal), open the book again, read the part where I had dropped it and start crying all over again. Last 20 pages I must have gone from crying of sadness, to crying of joy, to crying of mere excitement back and forth in a few minutes. What a sight.

Following this cut here I’m going to give some random thoughts on the book. VERY SPOILER-Y, so if someone ever reads this, who hasn’t finished the book, DON’T KEEP GOING.

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I have to confess that I didn’t put any thought into it. I love the idea but I will have near to no free time before the book comes out, thanks to my lovely professors who are giving me one test after the other, half of them mid-term, half finals, all very important and very time-consuming.

Well, anyway, I did it over a space of something like 10 days, just answering every question with the first thing that came to mind. I really wanted to do the whole thing, I might check back in and correct a few if I get into theorising or my head provides some brilliant idea for DH.

Here’s the link to my answers, we’ll see how I did when the book comes out.
(I can’t believe that is in just 2 weeks!! It’s impossible to wrap my mind around it, I can’t wait, and at the same time I don’t want it to ever come and finish this amazing series)

Until I feel like posting again, or have time, or I have somehting to say. Whichever comes first.

Fan fiction is a strange thing. I have been reading three fandoms fan fiction for aproximately a couple of years now, and it doesn’t cease to surprise me. My three fandoms of choice are Twilight/New Moon (which is fairly new, both for me and for the internet in general), Artemis Fowl and, expectedly and like everyone else’s, Harry Potter. As with anything fictional written, fan fiction can be well written, efficiently planned out, characters well developed, etc, or it can not. This is often the case, for anyone at all publishes their writing on the internet, while getting a book published (even when there ARE lousy books around) is not so easy. But fan fiction can be graded on some other things too: OCness and canon and timeline sense* are some of them.

To give my rambling some coherence I will structure this post into paragraphs to make my point, and dedicate this first one to the bad things about fanfiction: as already stated, since anyone can publish their stuff, it is difficult to know where to look or how to find the good fan fiction. My sources are generally strict sites, which do not publish everything they get. Fan-ficiton.net (I believe that’s the address) has some very good stories lying around, but to find those you have to dig into piles of thousands of terribly written, disrespectful of canon and utterly ridiculous stories (for lack of a better word). Once a decent enough piece is at hand, the main problem I seem to find is how distant these characters are to the ones we read about in the original books. This can irritate me enough to close the window in the middle of a sentence or might take me into a different reading, in which I don’t look for the characters I love so much, but enjoy the story as a completely separate piece, which just happens to have its characters named exactly after the fandom ones. I have really enjoyed several stories this way, but haven’t got the thrill of diving into the fandoms I like. Something else that annoys me horribly is huge canon breaches. I understand if an author contradicts a small fact in the name of artists license for the sake of fluency or coherence, but if someone is such a fan of a book, they can’t make an enormous mistake without even clarifying why or classifying their story as alternate universe! It happens in every fandom, and is something I can find no explanation for.

On the other hand, and now that I’ve let go of everything that was bugging me, I can state what is so great about fan fiction. I find that good one-shots or short chaptered fics are the ones most in character and enjoyable. Good authors carry the book’s feeling into their writing, conveying those small situations, character development moments, that make the characters who they are. I also have read wonderful imaginative fics set on previous times to the novel’s one, whose authors have built a fantastic, complicated, believable story around 2 or 3 canon facts.

One shots have the benefit over long, novel-length chaptered fan fictions of the re-read. Personally, I’ve never re-read a chaptered fic, because the suspense is, generally, what is best about them, but I’ve re-read many a one shot, because the short recollection of a nice, or crucial moment in a character’s life can be enjoyed many times while re-reading the books themselves.

But the thing that most makes me happy about the existence of fandoms and fan fiction is the chance many new authors get. I’ve read many cases of people who used to practice their writing skills through fan fiction, and ended up publishing their own stories and characters, which might, in the future, get more people to write fan fiction. Fics are a great way to improve one’s writing, and get some honest feedback, and fandoms are usually very loyal to that.

All this being said, I’ll probably go back to the fic I was reading before and, because I’m really loving it, inspired this post, and see what happens next =).

In case anyone is curious, I’m reading Awakenings (link) by Pelirroja in Twilight Fanfiction and Fanart.
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*Glossary: Sorry about the fan fiction terminology, it seems to come with everything on the internet, the specialized words have become a must. So, for those who don’t recognize something written above, I have included a couple of words which might add to your internet vocabulary:

• Fic: short for…. er, actually I don’t know what it is short for, but it is a fan fiction story.
• OC(ness): “Out of Character”(ness), sometimes OOC, means that the character referred does not react, feel or think as the one in the original book would.
• Canon: facts and things that happen in the actual book, and should, generally, not be contradicted in fan fiction.
• Timeline: order and time in which things happen, I was referring to the canon timeline, which I think should be set in stone.
• Fandom: I have no idea what this literally stands for, but it refers to the internet comunity which enjoys and created texts, pictures, paintings, songs, sites, and anything else you can think of to a specific thing. May that be a book, movie, tv series, famous person, etc.
• Alternate Universe: fan fiction which experiments changing things from canon and developing the story some other way. It’s generally a type of fan fiction on itself and the canon breaches are usually specified on its description.

Género: Fantasía (y mucho romance)

Autora: Laura Gallego García

Tercer tomo en la trilogía Memorias de Idhún, termina la historia narrada en La Resistencia y Tríada

Mi copia: Original en castellano, de la editorial SM.

Resumen: Continúa la historia de los tres personajes principales: Jack, Victoria y Kirtash, que están en el mundo de Idhún. Después de enfrentarse a Ashran, un poderoso mago humano que tenía poder sobre buena parte de Idhún, y triunfar, los tres adolescentes descubren que Ashran estaba “poseído” por le Séptimo dios (considerado maligno y enemigo de sus propios 6 dioses), y que tras la muerte del hechicero eligió otro cuerpo humano mediante el cual llevar a cabo sus planes para el objetivo de las razas sangre fría que le rinden culto. Los 6 dioses descubren su paradero y vuelven a Idhún (causando destrozos a su paso) para tratar de derrotarlo. El, ahora insignificante trío, debe lograr que los dioses detengan su batalla, para salvar a Idhún.

Crítica:

Habiendo leído los otros dos, el último es esperable. Dicho así, suena bastante mal, pero estos libros se leen por su historia, porque si uno se quedara analizando la calidad o fluidez de la escritura no llegaría muy lejos. Tengo la convicción de Laura Gallego trabajaba mucho más sus libros cuando empezó a escribir. Finis Mundi es su primer título (Ed. SM, colección y premio Barco de Vapor) está mucho más profundizado, la época está mejor caracterizada y la edición es más prolija. Con lo cual la escritura está mucho más pulida. Durante la lectura de Panteón, tuve la sensación de que le faltaban una o dos capas de edición, lo que no ayuda a la fluidez de la lectura. Dejando de lado la escritura y concentrándome en la historia, yo diría que es fiel a sus predecesores. Concluye todos los cabos que había abierto, algo que siempre resulta satisfactorio. Pero en el estilo grandioso y levemente solemne al que nos acostumbró la trilogía de Idhún. Dentro del mundo que la autora creó la historia tiene sentido, y resulta muy atrapante. Aún cuando cada vez que cerraba el libro pensaba en algo que no terminaba de satisfacerme, un comentario muy positivo es que nunca cerré el libro y me olvidé de lo que había leído, cada página cuenta cantidades de historia que dejan pensando, relacionando y adivinando que es lo que puede pasar a continuación. Me resultó muy, muy atrapante la parte de “acción” de la novela.
La porción romántica sigue también los estándares de las otras dos novelas. Kirtash/Christian es el mismo personaje frío pero fiel a su amada, que va un paso adelante del lector y sigue sus propios intereses en todo momento. Jack continua la mejora progresiva que empezó en Tríada, durante La Resistencia, Jack era un personaje estereotípico y aburrido, pero para el final de Panteón es un chico de carne y hueso, aunque muy solemne y tan romántico que satura, muy interesante. Pero Victoria, la punta del triángulo amoroso, pierde mucha gracia. Por supuesto que al segundo capítulo Victoria ya está recuperada y caminando después del trauma de la batalla de Ashran, pero su personaje sólo sirve para influenciar levemente al de los dos chicos y no aporta absolutamente nada a la trama.
Shail, Alexander/Alsan, Gerde, Eisseh, Zaisei, Ha-Din, Gaedalu y muchos de los que ya conocíamos crecen con el progreso de la trama en direcciones opuestas, pero que hacen más interesante a la relación entre la tríada y el mundo que lo rodea. Hasta que Gerde las situaciones con Gerde empiezan a repetirse a las de Tríada, y el lector se cansa del personaje.
Como conclusión yo diría que es el final que se esperaba para esta trilogía, pero de las obras de Laura Gallego no es de las mejores. Para los que ya leyeron los primeros dos tomos, no pueden dejar de leerlo, porque al fin y al cabo es la conclusión de una historia de alrededor de 2500 páginas. Pero a los que quieren leer algo de la autora les recomiendo más Finis Mundi o la trilogía de Crónicas de la Torre, que es a menor escala pero más trabajada, y tiene personajes y situaciones más reales, y a mí personalmente, me encanta.

Pasado este corte voy a hacer algunos comentarios que el que no haya leído el libro no va a querer leer. ¡”SPOILERS” POR TODOS LADOS!

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FINALLY! We have the title of Book 7! The awaited title for the last book of the series. Which coming to think of it, is quite a melancholic and sad thing. My addiction for Harry Potter wasn’t as high before HBP, so I didn’t get into all the madness this bit of news produces in the fanodom. Today is absolutely insane: I hadn’t heard of it for 4 whole hours I’ve been awake, and my dad who is the least interested person on the subject tells me “did you see this? the new HP title is out.” And reads some translation to me… I sarted screaming like mad, “How come I hadn’t seen it yet!”. Then I read everything about that in Mugglenet, Leaky Cauldron and HarryLatino, and listened to a Pottercast on the subject (it took them what… 3 hours to get a PC about it? that’s a real obession, a round of applause to Melissa and Sue, it was fun listening to the enthusiastic theorising on those 6 little words).

I’m not trying to let my ridiculous energy go by writing this post on the subject. After hearing someone else’s thought on this I’ve probably got to gather my own before I start on my own thoeries. If I had to venture a guess, just at the top of my mind, I’d say the “hallows” part of the title refers to an old way of saying “saints”, since that’s the only possible noun for it, unless there’s one I don’t know, because every dictionary pointed out to me that “hallow” is generally a verb. “Deathly”… since my English is not that specific I went and looked this one up to… I’m confused between “deathly” and “deadly”… deadly would mean very dangerous to one’s life, odd thing to apply to a saint. But it’s deathly, which could mean “relevant to death”? as in “Harry Potter and the saints of death”? or my first possible translation: “Harry Potter y los santos de la muerte”?
But if I go back to hallows as a verb, meaning somehting like blessing, another translation could be “Harry Potter y la santificación sepulcral” (HP and the deathly/sepulchral blessing), which I’m less into.

Another weird thing is that I found deathly to be most commonly refered to silence. As in terribly silent, or as silent as someone dead.  In relation to the story this could mean a retunr to that fateful room, “The Death Room”, where Siruis made his leave (for forever, I believe, unlike some fangirls I’ve met) and relate to the veila nd the reaosn why some people could listen to the voices and some other couldn’t. I’m still not into the idea of the final battle being at the ministry where so many things could take place at the same time, or interrupt the Harry vs Voldemort duel.

What I don’t like very much about this title is the many religious insight it might have during the story. I didn’t think that Rowling would write anything about religion in her books sisnce she hasn’t yet, and she doesn’t seem to want to raise that controversy. I wouldn’t like seeing religious content inside the books, but I’m still convinced we won’t. I just hope no one raises some sort of war cry to Rowling because of this title and the way it would be linked with religion.

Hope to get some new ideas soon, mine, or from someone else, I’ll go see what else I can find around the net. I just googled the title and didn’t find a single result… I guess by tonight there will be more than a million.

If you want some more info check:
Mugglenet.com
The Leaky Cauldron or
JKRowiling.com

Genre: Fantasy Fiction

Authors: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Part of the Death Gate Cycle series, following Dragon Wing and Elven Star

My copy: Spanish copy, by publisher Timun Mas. Translated by Hernán Sabaté.

Brief Summary: Haplo, the patryn who was ordered to travel to each of the four worlds through the Death Gate, heads towards Abarrach, the stone realm, flowing through a magma flare on board of his ship. Haplo shares said ship with Alfred, a sartan, who was his ancestral enemy but whom he is united with out of need. They discover that a large amount of sartans live in the dying world of Abarrach and that they devote themselves to the forbidden magic of necromancy.

Review:
I should probably start the review of this book by saying that I had liked Dragon Wing a lot, it surprised me several times and I though the story was throughly and brilliantly planned. I was hooked from the first chapters, so when I finished, I got the second one. Elven Star wasn’t such a satisfying read, one of the main characters irritated and bored me and Alfred, who had been such an entertaining part of Dragon Wing, was missing entirely. That is why it took me quite a long time to acquire and start reading the third volume of the series.

I was hesitant across the first chapters, mainly because I had forgotten a large portion of the story and happenings of the previous books and didn’t feel like going back to read the whole thing, and their back covers didn’t help much. It still caught my attention, and by chapter 7, when Haplo, the character the whole series revolves around, returns, I was definitely into the read. From there it only got better, I got really hooked on it till the last page. A must for fantasy lovers.
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If I ever decide to write a horror film that is my favourite title… and it would even scare the bravest. Yesterday, a friend of mine, Ana or Anis as I call her, and me decided to walk a few blocks through Corrientes avenue, so we could take the tube at out usual station. But since it was still early an Ice-cream to combat the heat seamed appropriate. So we head towards the shop, but when we got the corner of the previous street we see a queue. Quite a long queue too, she suddenly remembered that her mother had told her that Ricky Martin would be showing his face and signing autographs or something of the sort in Musimundo, so to avoid that place at all costs. We didn’t think it would last till then, but we had to walk one more block to get to the ice-cream shop. So we started elbowing our way across the hundreds of people there, and realized the queue went all the way around the block… we couldn’t stop giggling, people were carrying flags with the guy’s and their own face painted on, and photographs of all kinds and sizes to be signed. We started inventing this thing about how we could start yelling how much we didn’t like Ricky Martin and see if the crowd would attack us, we didn’t do it, but they would certainly have. When we finally got to our destination (which is unfortunately just next to Musimundo where the guy was) and saw the poor guys who worked there who had apparently had enough of the screaming, we went all the way to the back of the shop and we could hear the shouting from the street, it was insane.

On our way out we heared one of the guys from the shop say Ricky Martin would be finally leaving soon, so we had another laughter attack and started running… we half-ran the two blocks filled with desperate “Rickyfans” laughing really hard, while they stared at us, not at all in a friendly manner. We guessed who had gone or was going to be part of the crowd all the rest of the way. At the time, it was hilarious.. now it sounds quite odd. But we had fun.

Anyway, we had gone over there in the first place to order some pins. So, a couple weeks into the new year, as the girl in the shop said, I’ll have pins for every fandom I’m planning on including in this website. At some point in time. Maybe.

That’d be: Eragon (Inheritance Trilogy or whatever), Twilight (Stephenie Meyer’s books), Harry Potter, and Laura Gallego’s books, which I’m doubting about because it’s a Spanish author and the whole site is in English which wouldn’t make any sense, since fans would most probably discard a site they couldn’t understand, or only understood partially.

Well, that’s all for today, I’ll probably go read some more Edward and Bella fanfiction now, I’m pretty addicted right now, but it’ll pass soon enough, he.