Supernatural

***SPOLIER ALERT*** this post will contain some spoilers so beware.

I have resisted talking about my all time favorite TV show long enough! I started watching Supernatural back in 2005 back when the CW was still called the WB and Smallville (my other great TV love) was still airing. I was obsessed from the beginning. I tuned in every Tuesday at 9pm (till they moved it to Thursday halfway through the season which was awesome because then it was on after Smallville) and then rented the DVDs from the video store to binge watch and fill the void the season finale left me with. So this show is very near and dear to my heart.

The show centers around the Winchester family who at the beginning of the show live a normal life. Mary and John have two sons, Dean who is 4 and Sam (Sammy) who is 6 months. Tragedy strikes right away in this show as the Yellow Eyed Demon (Azazel) is in Sam's nursery and it kills Mary and burns the family home down, leaving John determined to find and kill the thing that murdered his wife. He raises Sam and Dean to be hunters. Flash forward 22 years Sam is at Stanford going to college living with his girlfriend Jessica (Jess) and attempting a normal life. But that all goes to hell in a handbasket when Dean shows up and informs Sam that their father is missing and he needs Sam to help him find him because he's worried something's happened to John. So Sam agrees to go on this one hunting trip with Dean and help him find their Dad. They successfully finish the hunt their Dad went AWOL on and afterwards Sam goes back to his apartment only to find Jess pinned to the ceiling on their bedroom with a bloody nightgown before bursting into flames and burning their apartment down. The same MO as the thing that killed his and Dean's mother. So now Sam joins Dean to find their Dad and this:

The show is set up with a "Villain-of-the-Week" style and has a bigger plot slowly unfolding in each episode but

Plus there's so many amazing characters to meet. There's Sam

Dean

Bobby Singer

John Winchester

Castiel

Crowley

Ruby

Meg

The Trickster God (AKA Gabriel)

Lucifer

Chuck

The sexiest car that ever exsisted, the Impala (AKA Baby)

Just to name a few (of my personal favorites).

Supernatural is well known on Tumblr for being a show with lots of "feels" and a bit eccentric fandom. And I'm positive everyone and their brother has heard of Destiel or Wincest by now. (Though Cas doesn't show up until season 4

and personally I'm a Wincest shipper and believe any long lasting canon relationship is doomed because this show is about the brothers and the giant clusterfuck that is their life. So all pairings are basically crack-shipping. Sorry I just have a lot of feeling about ships...)
Anyways like I said this is my all time favorite show. I got Caitie addicted to it and I don't think she has ever forgiven me for the emotional trauma I have put her through. Plus we have a gif for everything in this fandom. Seriously.
So if you ever have considered watching Supernatural. Run. Run very far. This show will ruin your life, take up all your free time, and you'll start writing and reading fanfiction at 2am and wonder why you can be a productive and functioning contributing member of society.

It's an all consuming addiction! So flee for your lives!
...unless you're into that sort of thing. Then definitely watch it!

Also this show gives you the best life advice I have every had

Which is the title of the list Caitie and I have of what we would do to survive a horror movie which was posted on May 7th, 2014.

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Attachments is another fantastic book by Rainbow Rowell (who I actually met and got her to sign my copy of Fangirl!) Attachments is about a twenty-something named Lincoln O'Neill who starts working as a Tech guy for a Newspaper and one of his jobs is to monitor the emails that employees send out. That's how he "meets" Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder, by reading their emails they send back and forth. So that's a little creepy, but it endears me to Lincoln because he really is just that awkward about people and he genuinely feels bad about reading their emails and invading their privacy.

Lincoln feels stuck in life. Stuck with where he is and has no room to grow and do something else which is really relatable to me at this juncture in life and he sees a bit of a kindred spirit in Beth who feels the same. She's stuck in a dead end relationship with a musician. (Rule #23 of Amanda's Rules for life: Don't date musicians.) Her boyfriend is also kind of a jerk (Rule #3: Don't date assholes or "fixer-uppers") but sometimes he's a bit endearing which makes it hard to decided if I want Lincoln and Beth together or if I want this tragic stalking to end with them never having met face-to-face.

As the story progresses we learn more about Beth and Jennifer. Like Jennifer is struggling in her marriage because she's afraid of taking the plunge and becoming a parent, though ultimately she does get pregnant and Beth is a bridesmaid in her sister's wedding which brings up a lot of conversation about how she isn't married and her relationship with the musician (whose name escapes me so we're going to call him Bill because I am unimaginative.) So Beth's sister's wedding put a lot of stress on Beth and Bill's relationship.

Meanwhile Lincoln starts to get the hang of adulthood (WHAT ARE THE SECRETS OF IT LINCOLN TELL ME!) He moves out of his parents house and quits his job to get one he actually wants to have and doesn't hate. But before he leaves he writes a note to Beth explaining that he has been reading their emails, that he's sorry and knows it was wrong but that they should probably stop sending emails to each other at work. The books starts to wind down and I'm fearful that my ship won't sail and it's just one of those bitter life lessons we learn about unrequited love and how to respect privacy in this modern age but then ships ahoy! Beth and Lincoln meet in real life when she's at a movie theatre to review a movie and he's there to watch the movie for funsies! So they have a pseudo date which leads to a real relationship!

I really enjoyed Attachments by Rainbow Rowell and I look forward to reading more of her books.

Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

So I got this as a free ebook on my Nook. It said it was about aliens in high school and I thought eh why not? I read it and then I was hooked. The main character Katy is pretty realistic and although this book follows the "Twilight Trope" that has become so popular in YA Fiction I feel like this book has something to offer.

First off when main characters Katy and Daemon first meet there isn't any insta love(YAY!). Daemon actually pisses Katy off and they spend the majority of the book fighting and basically being assholes to each other. Which was awesome. Katy becomes best friends with Daemon's twin sister Dee and Katy starts to notice weird things about the Black family and their close friends the more time she spends with them.

She finds out that their aliens and that the government has been basically covering up the existence of two alien races that have come to earth. The Luxen who are light based beings and the Arum who are dark based beings. Daemon and Dee are Luxen and Katy slowly gets tangled up in their world and ongoing battles with the Arum.

What I liked most about this book was Katy's character. She's funny, intelligent, runs a book blog, and basically a well rounded teenage character. She feels realistic to me as a sixteen to seventeen year old girl. The next thing I loved about this book was that they did poke fun at the similarities between it and Twilight. Jennifer L. Armentrout knows her audience well. Plus Daemon is described a super-hot but he's basically an asshole the entire time which I liked. He's trying to keep Katy and human at a distance after the disappearance of his and Dee's other brother and his human girlfriend. But Daemon and Katy undergo some really great character growth.

I have to admit after reading this book I bought the rest in the series as ebooks and I loved it. Sure sometimes I caught myself rolling my eyes at the characters because of their plotting and their attempts at being adults but I do that with real teenagers. All in all I would 100% recommend this book it made me laugh, it surprised me, it was predictable in some cases, but it was a great read!