Caturday Saturday

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Apologies for bad formatting!

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Have a favorite fandom animal? I have many, so I thought why not start Caturday Saturday on my blog for favorite fandom animals. Suggestions are welcome or pet photos to share. I’ll probably share a picture of my cat each Saturday cause who doesn’t love a cute cat?
This Saturday I am doing my top favorite fandom animals from video games to television to movies and more. I hope everyone enjoys my list!

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My Top 5 Fandom Animals

1. Scooby-Doo

I’m used to the old ones that originally aired in the 1960’s. I was a 90’s baby and grew up watching them on boomerang and also “What’s New Scooby-Doo?”, “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!”, and scooby-doo movies. The new versions fro 2010 onward make me go ew new cartoon style doesn’t look right. The lego ones are meh and the Velma and Daphne movie I gave a hard pass. The live action movies from 2002 and 2004 were a couple of my favorites growing up and I thought these live actions did well. I also played scooby-doo games on my PlayStation 2 (PS2) when I was younger, the one I played was “Scooby-Doo Night of 100 Fright.” I sadly do not own it anymore, it may be at my parents, if not, I would like to buy a new copy. This game was super challenging and amazingly fun.

2. Warrior Cats Series

I grew up reading these books, I started in about the 4th or 5th grade. I instantly fell in love with Firepaw (then star). The cats tales captured my imagination and I loved them and cried when my favorites had died. Jayfeather is my favorite character of the newer series, he is a very grumpy blind cat who captured my heart, as well as Spottedleaf and Leafpool. I could go on and on with how much I love these books but am just going to leave it at this and add a movie may be coming! The warrior cats website has been redone but still has some amazing content with games, forums, fan art and more. This has been a nostalgia purpose for me to go to the site and take the quizzes to see if I remember the content.

3. Tom and Jerry

Another cartoon classic! Tom and Jerry premiered in theaters first in an MGM classic cartoon called “Puss Gets the Boot” on February 10th 1940. I started watching when I was 6 (2000 about) and loved them. I always loved the fights Tom and Jerry had and then them teaming up with each other usually against spike or another cat. Though, even at a young age I noticed with a musketeer one it had a dark tone to it and a beheading in the background. Creepy, right? When I was older (maybe 11 or 12) I got a PS2 and got my parents to purchase “Tom and Jerry: War of The Whiskers” which is a boxing style fighting game. It was my favorite for the longest time due to the fact my dad always played it with me. I still have the game and original PS2.

4. Winnie the Pooh

These last two picks were rather hard to make, but Winnie the Pooh had to be on this list! Winnie the Pooh has an interesting history, A.A. Milnes son was named Christopher Robin and named his stuffed bear after a zoo bear named Winnie and that’s when it all started, first in a newspaper story named “Teddy Bear” in 1924 and then changed to Winnie The Pooh in 1926 when the book first came out. Winnie The Pooh I watched with my grandma, it makes this cartoon more special since my grandma still loves and we watched “Christopher Robin” together when I was over there for Christmas. I still think it is one of Disney’s best live-action adaptations. I have played games with winnie the pooh, “Disney Friends” for DS and “Disney Magical Kingdom 2” for the 3DS or 2DS like mine.

5. Garfield

Our loveable monday-hating-lasagna-loving cat makes the list at number five. I relate personally to garfield as an adult, hate mondays, want to sleep all day, and love coffee! The comics were first published in book form in 1980 called “Garfield at Large” and newspapers in 1978, the creator Jim Davis has done thousands since then. I see Garfield comics in my newspaper and get all excited. I first got into garfield probably when I was 10 or 11, “Garfield: The Movie” was one of my favorites as a kid and I still enjoy the movie to this day, as well as “A Tail of Two Kitties,” the second live adaption of Garfield. I watched the Garfield and Friends cartoon as well and garfield books.

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Runner Ups:

1. Goose from Captain Marvel

2. Sylvester

3. The Aristocrats

4. Timon and Pumba from The Lion King

5. Fox and the Hound

6. The Rescuers (mice)

7. Dory from Finding Nemo
8. Spirit
9. Sam from I Am Legend
10. Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy

Do you have any favorites? Comment below and may be featured in next Saturday’s Caturday!

Shadowhunters

Shadowhunters: A Trainwreck Show

for the people who love the books

Disclaimer: Photos used are from the tv show and I, in no way claim them as mine.

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I started reading The Mortal Instruments when the City of Glass had been published, so years before the television show (or disastrous movie) was considered and it has always been a favorite book and the characters and world are dear to me. One of the reasons why I did not read the last book for over two years because I was afraid of the heartbreak of leaving the characters I love behind, I have not started the new series which I will hopefully do soon. I have a lot of strong opinions on this topic and some swearing is used.

I would like to point out first, that Cassandra Clare has admitted they did not target the audience of the books (so screw the die-hard fans feelings basically) but more so of men and people who have never seen it and this interview has honestly pissed me the f**k off, especially because my main reason for leaving was Malec (Magnus and Alec ship) and how they treated a majority of the female characters in the show. Here is a quote from a Barnes and Noble interview with Cassandra Clare “[…]described a female character of mine to me as “just tits and ass” and told me no one wanted to see a gay character onscreen with a man so a woman would be introduced for him to spend most of his time with.” It also makes me extremely sad as a writer to hear how much she was ignored in the process of people trying to recreate a world she made

“[…]described a female character of mine to me as “just tits and ass” and told me no one wanted to see a gay character onscreen with a man so a woman would be introduced for him to spend most of his time with.” ~Barnes and Noble Interview with Cassandra Clare

There is a staggering amount of differences between the books and shows and after halfway, through season two I honestly am throwing in the towel and hope the show burns. I have enjoyed the show, I admit and have tried to stay along for the ride but I can’t anymore, I am fine just watching small scenes (mainly about Magnus) and looking at photos cause the casting that Cassandra Clare helped with was rather great.

A huge reason I never gave up on the show was because of Magnus Bane and my love for his character and how much he looked like the Magnus I envisioned, I love Harry as Magnus. So my mixed feelings of how they totally screwed over my ship are hard to deal with and them delaying the relationship because they are gay really makes me hate this show even more. I understand season two has new writers and showrunners but they have still thrown a rather big wrench in other ships and the storyline from the original books are gone still. Season 2 is where my anger stems from, even more, killing of a vital character in the books on the show.

 

 

Harry Shum Jr. as Magnus Bane

 

Matthew Daddario as Alec Lightwood and Harry Shum Jr. as Magnus Bane

 

 

Lydia Branwell was the most annoying addition to the series and tarnished the Branwell name I love. The name Branwell is in the series The Infernal Devices, Henry and Charlotte were characters I adored as well and grew attached too, especially Charlotte. Lydia did not live up to the name I know and love. The nice huge wrench they threw into my Malec ship didn’t help me like her anymore and the other ones they have thrown in season two make me want to tear my hair out if the did the book ones that’d be fine but this is plain frustrating. So that is the main reason I quit.

Another reason is Luke and Jocelyn, Luke was a great character without being a cop and is defiantly not the look I envisioned. I grew on Jocelyn in the books and they were another favorite ship of mine. Jocelyn waking up so soon then her being killed in season two ruined a lot of good moments in the show (like the ending of the last book).

Then our main character, Clary, to start off she was only fifteen going on sixteen in the books and not about to go to college. Clary in the books was a warrior who did not want to be that and wanted to be her own person and was a very inspiring character. Clary’s relationship with her mom in the books was so different and moved the plot along well (this is now gone as well).

Clary in the show is not a completely horrible character, she is strong and brave still, she will fight for anyone she loves no matter what and these are the traits I enjoyed but they even ruined those due to the poor traits they gave her. I think Katherine MacNara was a great casting choice and I think Katherine is a good actress but I hate that they have made Clary a damsel in distress so much and she is rather whiny as well.

 

Katherine MacNara as Clary Fray

 

The other differences that I could rant forever about are Isabelle and Yin Fen, Simon and Maureen and Simon in general, Jace and Valentine’s relationship and the whole “oh hey I’m a Herondale” storyline and the whole damn storyline in general but I’m going to stop now because it is late and I’ll continue with the plotlines I mentioned above in another article before I pull my hair out with frustration.