Frostbite

I've already mentioned it but it's obviously worth mentioning it again.

We're trying to get a damn movie made here. We've definitely stalled out, just under $175,000 in over a week. I'm starting to feel things similar to what I felt the week the movie was released. Dread, doubt, sadness, anger, determination, loyalty, love. That's the range I'm constantly living in every day. Many times a day. It's a permanent obsession. My job keeps me away from twitter for a good part of the day but just cause I'm not there, I'm still checking the total all day, checking OVAM, checking my lists. One of the houses I clean, today the daughter had the entire VA box set on her book shelf. People KNOW about it, I don't know if they know about what's happening though.

Nothing's happening. There are little sparks, but the fire doesn't catch (I'm not trying to reference THG, it's just all I can think to compare with). It's so stressful and depressing to see, and to try SO hard to fix it and get nowhere. I've sent tweets to every famous person I can think of while they're active and online. Sent emails to TV shows, to TV producers, to film crew, to anyone I can think of that might RT a little favor for someone. No bites. It's like the terrible promotion the last time around has made everyone sour for anything to do with us and it's definitely not fair.

Maybe these fan made videos can be spread around and can explain the story better. We all know the fans would make the best promoters anyway, we've all been saying it since VA was fucked over. Maybe some of these perks that have been hinted at will draw in some more people, or maybe people are holding out to see the better perks. Maybe it's like an Ebay bid and nothing happens till the very last day then it goes way above and beyond. I have no clue, and that scares the shit out of me. This series deserves this. Richelle deserves this. The #VAFamily deserves it!

I donated $75 on the first day, I really couldn't afford it and I'm still suffering for it. And I honestly can say I don't want it back. I want this movie. I want to go to the theater and spend MORE money on it on it's first day wearing the shirt I'll get. I want a midnight screening, and a top promoted trend from the distributor like The Giver is having right now. Weinstien couldn't even do that for us, what makes The Giver so much better? Why did we get such a raw deal the first time around? So many things I just don't understand.

We need to come together collectively, somehow, and get behind our cause. Obviously everyone who's willing to donate so far, has. No one's going to back this out of nothing, but if we can tell them or show them why it's worth it we could still pull this off. I know if any fandom out there has the stamina and determination, it's us. EVERY challenge we faced last year we passed and won. Remember the poll when we got the Dimitri POV? Remember the MTV Movie Brawl? Remember all the other contests and polls and days and days and DAYS of voting and voting and voting? Now remember the deathly quiet our fandom has seen for the last 4 months?

We gotta start asking ourselves what would Rose do? And we need to start kicking some ass or we're going to go back to that silence. This will all be too painful for us and we're all going to move on with our lives and some day this will all be a distant memory. Believe me. It's happened to me with fandoms I thought were like family. That's not how our story ends guys!! We still have 5 movies!! We have years to know each other and to really become family. Look back only a year to the friendships you've made because of VA and how much they mean to you now. I know I have quite a few people in my life now that I don't even know what I did without them before.

VA is worth it and we need to show the world. I don't know how. I don't care how. But together we need to figure it out or it's over. Plain and simple.

I'm working on it

It's taking me a while to figure this all out and to know exactly what to say. I have a few things I'd like to say but they're going to need more thought than I can manage during the week so until then, I'll just keep you updated on the day to day randomness.

Hump dayyy!! It's been pouring all day, it's pretty miserable out, but I have to admit I like the sound of it. It's been nice having windows open and the AC off for a change, the fresh air feels good, if not a little muggy.

I haven't mentioned this on here but I have 2 cats, a Siamese named Bub (It WAS Tyler but somehow it changed to Bub idek) and a cow cat (white with grey spots) named Tatum. I gave Tatum a bath 2 weeks ago cause she got into something gross and somehow something happened to make her collar tighter. So for 2 weeks its been hurting her and I didn't know. I went to get, what I thought was, a piece of dirt off of her on Saturday and noticed the big gash under her collar. I felt so terrible, it looked so gross. I'd only ever seen stuff like that on TV in like serious cases of neglect. I couldn't believe how FAST it happened.

It scared the crap out of me, I was having nightmares of infection and all sorts of terrible things, but every day its gotten better and thankfully today when I checked on it, its 100% better even from yesterday. That was my day. Work, internet, maybe some food, sleep. SO exciting!

So that will have to do while I type out some bigger things, or have more time at once to make a full thought.

RIP Robin Williams

Robin Williams commited suicide
 

Sheesh, I don't even know what to say. I was having trouble coming up with a topic for the day and as I'm unwinding for bed I'm realizing I have to say something. I grew up watching Hook, Mrs. Doubtfire, Patch Adams, Flubber, all of them, like everyone else pretty much. Hearing this terrible, sad news today really broke my heart. For him, for his family, for the world, and for people struggling with depression like he was. To see someone who seemed so incredibly funny and happy all the time, news like this is a complete shock to the world. He's gone far too soon and I'm too saddened to even say much more than that.

Mrs. Doubtfire



Jumanji



So Fresh n so Clean Clean!

New layout, new name, new link, new look, new links, lots of new stuff! If anyone has a link I should include, like to a blog or a site you think is important but I left out (cause lets be real, there are more than 2 links in the entire world, just not my world)

Just a quick post but I'll make it worth your while....

Hi Jensen

 

ok then

I think I like this. Let's try this blog thing again shall we? I'll just pick up like nothing ever happened. But first, no I'm not reading The Fallen Star series anymore, no I never finished it (blame Game of Thrones, and then other books I've been waiting for, then losing my iPad and yea) ok. I'll get back to that. At the moment, I'm at about chapter 5 of the first book in the Lux series by Jennifer Armentrout. I'm starting to see what the fuss is about. Before that was Silver Shadows (holy crap I cant even touch that one without fear of spoiling it) and then I read Four. ok that's the last few and current.

 

So anyway, I just got this laptop and typing is so much easier than it was on the tablet. Actually, everything is easier, so I'm going to try to keep up with this now. I'm going to try to keep the topic similar to what my twitter name already says, Read, Watch, Freak. A name I never really liked, (ReadWatchFangirl was too long, like come on its ONE letter over) maybe now I can make it have some actual meaning instead of just looking to me like a last minute, I've already tried 5 other words, solution. Hopefully a post a day about anything and everything that's going on in my life.


The biggest thing that's going on right now for myself and for the #VAFamily is that Frostbite has started raising donations. It was a promising first day, raising over $100k in 24 hours, but its seemed to have stalled out, though someone did purchase the Queen Bee Package today for $10,000. I could go on forever about why we need this movie, and maybe I will this week, but more than that, we need BIG names promoting it with us. We need to do the groundwork that wasn't done for us when VA came out. EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE if we raise this money Adrian will be real, Eddie will be real, Rose will knock out a guardian with a Maglite!!! I wrote to Ellen after seeing a few other people mention they had as well and I think its a great idea for everyone to do it. I mentioned that it was a "great series about female empowerment and the bonds of friendship" and that if her viewers had given the first movie a chance they would have loved it. Maybe if Monday morning rolls around in LA and some assistant gives Ellen a rundown of her idk social media popularity or something, they'll mention "and you've received 1500 requests to look into a crowd funding campaign for a movie?" and Ellen says hmmm let me see. She's seen more obscure things. She probably has actual people she pays to troll the internet. Idk, I just feel somewhere like its the right thing for us. Like she's our answer, or one of many answers, who knows. I was also thinking of writing Amanda Seyfried, or anyone else I can think of that would seem to be into something like this.

 ENews is also doing their #HottieOfTheWeek, tho today is Sunday so I'm not sure when polls close or if they do it every week? not sure? But I know we were nominating Danila for it to try to get some exposure. Anything we can get anyone to mention will help. A lot of great articles have already come out, the problem is, we got all they're going to give us, there need to be new articles in big places throughout the entire month. I'm pretty sure I saw the TCA winners so I can say that's not going to help us too much, it would have been nice to get someone there to mention it, but what can you do?


Well maybe that's it for today. The link to donate is below, I know if any fandom out there can raise 1.5mil in 30 days its us, I'm just afraid too many people have lost interest and that we wont be able to get the word out to enough people with the money to put on the line. I donated the first day and if I can do it again the last week, after Sep 1st I'm going to. I got the Dhampir package, I'll pay $75 again for that hoodie or maybe something else, by then there could be some cool perks!


https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frostbite-a-vampire-academy-film#home

I ship Gemma and Alex so hard!! I REALLY REALLY REALLY  hope they end up together!! With a happily ever after!

The Fallen Star Series

At the moment I'm reading the Fallen Star series by Jessica Sorensen. I got the first book (called The Fallen Star) probably about a year ago, for free from some free book website. Just from seeing the cover I knew there was a high possibility of me liking the story. And of course, I did. I purchased the next two books and also read those around the same time. Then life happened and I never finished the series. So, about a month ago I all of a sudden remembered the cliff hanger I left myself on, and dug up the details to find out there's a fourth book, which ends the series 😪 BUT there are TWO more books in a follow up, with the same main characters, called The Fallen Soul series.

Ok that's my personal history.

So, I've again read, the Fallen Star, the second book called The Underworld, and am almost 65% of the way through The Vision. Tonight I think I'll just write about the two I've finished.

The series centers around a girl named Gemma who has violet eyes. One day she woke up and all of a sudden could feel emotions. Until that point it obviously never bothered her cause she couldn't feel anything. She gets this prickle on the back of her neck every time she feels a new emotion for the first time. Then this new kid, Alex, comes to town (with his sister Aislin), and right from the first time she sees him she thinks she remembers him from somewhere but knows its impossible, since she was raised by her grandparents and had no life and no memories of anything except being empty and emotionless.

Now, she keeps having these nightmares of these freaky scary monsters with yellow eyes chasing her thru the woods and killing her. Now she starts seeing yellow eyes pretty much whenever she's alone, but somehow Alex always ends up being there to save her. At the same time all he does is treat her terribly. So blah blah blah, Im not writing a review, or spoiling it cause you should definitely read it.

It eventually all unfolds with Vampires, Witches, Forseers, and the most important, the Keepers, and they're all trying to save the end of the world from happening (on Dec 21, 2012 lol) which centers around Gemma. Oh, did I mention, she has the energy of  a fallen star inside her which is the key to either saving or ending the world.

The bad guy turns out to be Alex and Aislin's father which really shakes things up. I can't even say much more without spoiling it, so ill just go back to reading it 😛

Hopefully this series gets more recognition, cause I think it's awesome and I REALLY can't wait to get to the last books I haven't read before.

So this is it, huh?

I've finally started a blog. Word. The name itself says almost everything, I'll use it for things I like, but I'm not limiting myself there. I'm sure I'll rant a whole lot about things I absolutely hate, cause let's face it, that list is much longer than the first.

So yeah, introduction to my blog. I think I'll write a bit about the books I'm currently reading  a little later.