Fandoms Assemble - September 2013

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A NOTE FROM THE

The summer has now sadly come to an end and it is now back to school. But if you are still waiting for your Hogwarts letter (which we all are) and are stuck on what to bring, do not worry! Page 15 is your source for what you need for September 1st. Mind you don’t get in the way of Peeves, though. Speaking of peeves, we’ve asked you what your top fanfiction pet peeves (pg 12) are and, thankfully, you helped us. Think about it as a guide of what not to do whilst writing fanfiction in your new school year. Now you’re back at school with your brain working again, you may begin to wonder how exactly Sherlock survived (with that sneaky trailer, which came out in August, sending the fandom crazy), but you don’t have to, as we have compiled all of your theories into one article on page 20. And with Sherlock, which foods come into your mind? Or what about Harry Potter? Hmmm, can’t think of any? That’s why we’re here; go to page 28 for two whole pages of fandom food! Yes, it’s making me hungry too. We also have two new regulars (top 10… (pg 48) and pinboard (pg 42)) so do check them out and let us know if they’re worthy enough to stay! Enjoy the magazine. Love,

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Our star worker for September’s edition is Emilie (@Holy_Hippogriff) for always being there to lend a helping hand in times of need!

Come on, who here has done nothing useful this holiday? [raises hand]. Well, what else are holidays for? Well, like the silly person I am, I left all my magazine work till last minute, and this is why I am up at 3am still doing it, but there is no point in doing anything if you don't work hard for it anyway.

And I definitely wouldn't be up this late (well, maybe I might) if it wasn't for the readers we have. Every single day I check the views of the magazine, and when we reached 10,000 for the first time I was so happy. We also couldn't do it without our amazing workers, I mean have a look at the updates on our tumblr {fandomsassemblemagazine.tumblr.com} and look at what our 11 updaters get up to. It may look easy to make this magazine, but when it takes at least two hours for each page, and you have school, it can be difficult. But I would like to thank the workers and the readers for helping us so much.

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6. Tagged

8. Recommended Blogs

10. Interview— @TMIShadowhunters

14. Quiz

JEDWARD

18. Confessions 22. Fandom

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Humour

26. Fashion

28. Updaters Wanted 32. Fandom Updates FANFIC PET PEEVES 4

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HOGWARTS LIST

33. Music Updates 34. Upcoming Films 35. Upcoming Books

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36. Music Review 37. Film Review 38. Book Review 39. To Read Next

SHERLOCK THEORIES

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Charitable Celebs

41. Celebrity Birthdays

42. Tweets of the Month

43. Pinboard

FANDOM FOOD

46. One Shot 50. Gifts

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52. Fanart

WHAT IS A TRUE FAN?

12TH DOCTOR 5

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Interview: @TMIShadowhunters

@TMIShadwhunters is a twitter account run by Satin dedicated to The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (@cassieclare) as well as her other books including The Infernal Devices series. The account has recently passed 8,000 followers and with the popularity of TMI increasing with the release of the film last month, its success is set to continue. Satin will talk about how she discovered TMI and more including the new film, TMI: City of Bones, which at the time of this interview had not been released yet.

just fell in love with the wonderfully written. The series after reading. action is the #1 thing that draws me in.

Why did you decide to dedicate a Are you looking forword to the Twitter account to TMI? I wanted to meet fans that film, released later this month, loved the series as much as and do you think the film will do I did. The TMI fans are so the book justice?

very dedicated. I've made I am looking forward to the so many great friends.

CoB movie. I am hoping it What is it you love most about does the book justice.

TMI?

Do you have a favourite twitter account dedicated to TMI or a nothe r fandom?

The thing I loved most I am about always the glued to TMI books is that they have When did you first get into TMI? badass female characters. @ShadowInked and Page to Isabelle, Maia and Clary are Premiere.

I got into TMI in 2010. I girls that can handle their What do you think of the saw the cover of CoB and own. The books are also 10

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relationship between Clary and Campbell Bower as Jace in Have you ever been to any TMI Jace? Do you ship them? particular, many people events, such as book signings?

I actually don't ship Clary preferring Alex Pettyfer.

No, I haven't been to any and Jace. Lol, I know that's very rare In this fandom, but it's true. I’m a Malec and Sizzy girl.

I never doubted Jamie at fan events. all. The casting I was the most shocked about was Lily Collins; I preferred Are you a fan of Cassandra Holland Roden, thought

Clare’s books?

Love all books.

other her

What do you think of comparisons between TMI and other book series like Twilight or Harry Potter? Do you think they can be compared, or do you disagree?

It's a YA book being made into a movie, so I expected it to be

Favourite TMI character?

MAGNUS! I love every single thing about Magnus.

T h i s m a ga z in e Favourite TMI book? is called City of Glass. Lots of action goes down in CoG. This Fandoms is where we meet Sebastian and I love him.

Assemble; are you a Favourite TMI cast member?

I have two, Godfrey Gao and Jemina West. Isabelle member of is my favourite female character and Jemina is so any other Fandoms?

compared. I think it is compared to Twilight because of the love story.

What do you think of the film castings? There was some controversy over Jamie

down to earth and perfect as I am in so Isabelle.

Favourite TMI ship?

MALEC, of course.

she would have been perfect. My favourite casting obviously Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane. I also think that Isabelle was casted very well. Jemima West seems like she can handle her own, no problem.

many fandoms.

My tops are Harry Potter and Star

Wars.

Any fandom related events you're looking forward to this year?

Yes, definitely, City of Bones, Ender’s Game and The Hunger Games.

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FANFICTION PET Over-use of a thesaurus Remember that Friends episode where Joey wanted to sound clever so he used a thesaurus for every single word in a letter? Fanfics that over-use thesauruses are like this, but worse.

Way, way worse. I mean, it’s nice to have some fancy words in there to break it up a bit but there is absolutely nothing wrong with using ‘simple’ words.

Mpreg Many of you will have heard of it, but if you haven’t, run far, far away. You do not want to know about men getting pregnant and giving birth. You may ask why couldn’t a female be pregnant, or the gay couple adopt, but that isn’t the way fanfiction works. If you are thinking of writing one we beg you not too. Unless the fic is an AU about seahorses (umm?) then it is okay. But ninety nine times out of one hundred they’re not. Please tell us what drives these writers to write about men getting pregnant. After reading one you can never get the thought of half of your gay otp pushing out a child out of your head. Ever.

We all have started reading a fanfiction and gave up half way along due to one insy-winsy thing. A thing that ruins EVERYTHING about that fanfic. A fanfiction ‘pet peeve’ as we call them here at Fandoms Assemble HQ. We have compiled a list of all your fanfiction pet peeves and a tip to all you budding fanfic writers: please, please, don’t do any of these if you want people to actually read it. Please.

Characters too OOC

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If it isn’t an Au fic, you expect the characters to be pretty spot on, right? So why in some canon era fics are the characters completely out of character. It’s even worse when there isn’t anything to suggest the characters are OOc in the summary. Fics like these question whether the author has even read the book/watched the Misleading, mislabelled fanfics show let alone in the fandom.

You read a summary and it meets all the requirements so you start the fic when, all of a sudden, Harry is not in the late 20th/early 21st century, but in the founders era! You re read the summary but nothing in it says anything about the fic being AU! Or, you start reading what you think is a Destiel fic, but turns out to be Wincest.

Writers waste so much of their readers’ time by not writing clear summaries. Plus, the writer loses their target audience if they, say, searched 12 rather than Destiel.

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When someone writes in first person, i.e “I think I have fallen in love with a certain James Potter…” it makes it seem poorly written because it’s annoying, boring and can sound very flat. You just don’t get the same range between all the characters if you just focus on one and all their thoughts and feelings.

Also, which person was Harry Potter written in? 3rd.

Hermione the slut Do you remember the sweet, innocent girl we met in the Potter books?

The girl who would spend every waking moment either with friends or in the library? The girl who had eyes only for Ron? She now is shipped with just about anyone from anyone of the Weasleys all the way to trees and dogs. Practically no one is safe from fanfiction!Hermione’s sexual rampage.

Incest Sexual relationships between people in the family is just disgusting.

Illegal and abominable. Why do people even write about it? One of the very worst is Wincest. Yup, Sam and Dean together, like proper together.

Dramione Don’t get us wrong, Dramione is great. We LOVE a good old Dramione fic. But when authors seem to completely forget that for seven years of their lives they were enemies, we can’t finish the fic, no matter how well written it is. The old ‘one glance and they’ve fallen under Aphrodite’s spell’ trick just doesn’t satisfy us. We do want the fics we read to keep at least some amount of reality in it. We also want fics which don’t character bash i.e. Ron in Dramione fics and Gwen in Merthur fics. They’re nice characters and if your ship doesn’t work with out the other half of the canon pairing going all bitchy then you need to change your plot drastically.

OC being the writer

Bestiality

Okay, hands up if you’ve fallen in love with a fictional character. *Raises hand* Guilty as charged! Even the best of us fall in love with the worst characters at times.

But there is a line. Creating a twitter account for them is fine. Creating a shrine in your room is creepy, but not over the line (but be careful not to show too many people). Adding yourself as a character in your fanfic and shipping yourself with them is so over the line it is like a dot to you. Just stop, thanks.

When you walk into Waterstones you don’t see row upon row of books containing bestiality, do you? So how come in the fanfiction world you do? Shipping animals isn’t very common in real life, so where did fanfiction writers get their inspiration from and why do they find the need to write about it? What is worse, most of the fanfictions aren’t between animals themselves, but between humans and animals, e.g.

Ron and Hedwig, Hermione and Fang.

Fics not being updated

‘Lilly’

Some amazing fics, and we can all name a few, have only one flaw: they’re not finished. And that would be fine, if they were updated often. Yet, most take years to update! Longer than series three of Sherlock, that’s for sure. Okay it does take ages to write long chapters in amazing quality, but otp! It’s just so frustrating! What’s worse, some people lose interest in the fics as they are not constantly updated and people forget about them.

It is a Jily fic, the characters are James and Lily. How do people misspell her name as ‘Lilly’? Other annoying spelling mistakes include ‘Weasly’ and ‘Merther’. Main characters deserve to have their names spelt correctly.

Bad grammar

Maruder fics

If u sw a published buk wriittun lyk dis wut wood u do? Put it straight down and walk away, of course. This is the same with fanfiction. It could have an amazing plot and characterisation, but if it is badly written there is no chance someone will read it. At the very least run it through Word’s spell check.

Another thing that ruins a fanfiction is speech punctuation. It is very easy and simple and annoys us when wrong.

The Marauders consist of four people: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. It is common knowledge. So can someone please, please, explain how in some Marauder fics Peter is just left out? He was their friend when they were in school. The writing is before he betrayed them, so he would still hang around with them!

His name is on the map for a reason. We also don’t understand why Remus is sometimes portrayed as an angel and saint from above. He was a Marauder for a reason: he was troublesome too.

Maybe not so much as James or Sirius, but would they really have let him into the Marauders if he wasn’t at least a tiny bit naughty, too? What’s more, many make James out to be friendlier with Lily than all of the others. Um, they were all friends. Or, when Lily has loved James all along. If the writer reads the books they will realise that it took James years to get Lily to even talk to him, let alone fall in love with him!

Americanism in British things Harry Potter is British. Sherlock is British. Merlin, Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings are British. So they would change their ’trousers’ not ’pants’. They would walk on the ’pavement’ not ’sidewalk’. They would go up and down in a ’lift’ not an ’elevator’. You get the gist. Or, Americans could go the other way and assume everyone in Britain talks like the Queen and has two thousand cups of tea everyday. It’s hard to find a balance, but we all have faith in you.

Boring plot No matter how well something is written, it will never, ever, ever go anywhere if there is no climax, no problem and no excitement. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl falls in love, the end. How about no.

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The Boys Are BACK! John and Edward—Jedward—are coming to a town near you this September!

It’s been nearly two years since Jedward, twins John and Edward Grimes, have had a tour in the UK. What have they been up to in that time?

The answer is far too much to record, but here are some of the highlights!

2012 May last year saw the Dynamic Duo from Dublin represent their country, Ireland, for the second time in a row at the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. They came 19th, with their song Waterline.

A couple of weeks later in June they released their third album, “Young Love”, which debuted at No. 1 on the Irish album charts. The Twins started making videos of songs from the album – storyboarding, directing, shooting, editing everything themselves – and so far have released videos for 8 of the 15 songs on the album (one video, Luminous, was made by someone else).

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At Christmas, they had a sell out run of 34 dates for their third Dublin Panto, “Jedward and the Magic Lamp”, and announced they were to appear next season in “Jedward Beauty and the Beast”.

Fans travelled from all over the world to see it – Jedward’s previous Panto, “Jedward and the Beanstalk” made the record books as the fastest sold out Panto ever!

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May this year saw them in the recording studio in LA, laying down tracks for their fourth album. It’s been revealed that they’ve written most (if not all of the songs), and they’ve been working with names such as Drew Ryan Scott, Big Time Rush, and Nash Overstreet, from Hot Chelle Rae. Big Time Rush even covered the title track from Jedward’s “Young Love” album, in a move which saw both August saw them performing in Sweden acts gain fans. and Ireland, and in September they recorded the second series of their jedsheeran popular CBBC history programme, “Jedward’s Big Adventure”. This year What may come as a shock to some is the they did two shows in London, and one in friendship they have struck up with UK each of Cheddar Gorge, Duxford, and singer Ed Sheeran. The trio first met at Orkney. November had them doing more an after party for the Grammy Awards this concerts, and they made the second series year, which John and Edward were of “OMG Jedward’s Dream Factory” for attending with their good friend, Tara 16

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They introduced themselvesto Ed, and the next day, “doorstopped” him in his hotel, with the help of Sheeran’s cousin, Murray.

They gave Ed a leather jacket, because it was his 22nd birthday the following day.

They have since met up a few more times and keep in regular contact. Given the three of them are about the same age, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that they have things in common. John and Edward covered Ed’s song, “Little Things”, and Ed arranged for them to have front row tickets at his concert in Toronto.

young love “Young Love” has been making an impact around the world, with songs from it getting airplay in places as far afield as Finland, Canada, and even Australia! In fact, the last two countries have been a major focus of the Twins over the past 18 months, with them visiting Canada on no

less than 3 occasions (most recently as guests of the Much Music Video Awards, in Toronto, back in June), and Australia in April. Jedward are planning an Australian concert tour in November, their first outside Europe.

At the end of July, John and Edward gave two sold out concerts in Ireland, which included, for the first time ever, an acoustic set. The Twins sang, sitting on stools, with John accompanying their voices on guitar. It was a dramatic change from the usual two hours of non-stop high energy, but it was a welcome one!

Later this month John and Edward will be having a six-date tour of the UK, with concerts in Lowestoft, Leicester, Chatham, Selsey, Fareham and Cardiff.

Hopefully they’ll also feature the acoustic set on their UK tour!

Details on how to buy tickets to Jedward’s tour are available on their website, planetjedward.net.

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I hate the name “Teen Wolf” and it puts me off from watching it.

I don’t find Misha Collins hot.

I really don't like how Jennifer Lawrence acts around the press. Her persona of 'I love eating and being lazy,' feels really forced..

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I listen to classical music whilst reading fanfiction.

Sometimes I feel the world isn’t a safe place now that Harry Potter is over.

I would love to see Dan Howell as the next Doctor.

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Is a true fan the one there from the beginning?

The one with the most merch? Met the most celebrities? Been to the most concerts? Has the most amount of followers on their twitter/tumblr dedicated to them? Knows their idol’s life story and food preferences? Is known as that fan in their friendship group? We don’t know, so we delved into the realms of the internet and asked you what it means to be a true fan.

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WHAT IS A TRUE FAN?

Welcome, welcome Peter Capaldi It is time to say goodbye to Matt Smith and hello to Peter Capaldi!

From William Hartnell to Matt Smith, eleven Doctors have graced our TV screens for the past 50 years and now it is time to introduce Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor. However, similar to when Matt Smith became the Doctor four years ago, Capaldi has received a less than warm welcome. Fans are not giving Capaldi a chance, claiming he is ‘too old’ for the job at age fifty five. The last three Doctors were relatively young and attractive and so some feel Capaldi does not fit in and is not the right person for the job. Many also hate him because they feel he is replacing Smith, whom they do not want to go.

fanboy at heart Yet shouldn’t we embrace Capaldi with open arms and not give him the same hate that Smith received? Capaldi is five years older than the show and therefore has grown up with it. He, not unlike Tennant, has been a fanboy of the show and wanted to be the Doctor since he was a small child. When he was 15, he wrote a letter about the show to the UK TV listings magazine Radio Times. Because he has been such a fan, he will bring so much passion and excitement to his portrayal of the time lord.

age doesn’t matter Although he is old enough to be the father of Matt Smith, he is the same age as William Hartnell was when he started as the first Doctor. In comparison, however, Capaldi is fifty five going on forty and has aged much

more gracefully than Hartnell did. Whilst Hartnell played a cranky old man, Capaldi can easily turn on his boyish charm and act much younger than he really is. What’s more, being the older man he is, Capaldi does not have as much energy as Smith and so the twelfth Doctor will not be written as hyperactive as the eleventh was. We have often heard about how intellectual the Doctor is and maybe with a less physical performance the writers will play to other strengths, one being the Doctor’s intellect.

breaking the cycle David Tennant broke the hearts of many when he left his role as the tenth Doctor and so Smith got a lot of hate as many fans were still not over Tennant. However, after a few episodes, the nation had once again fallen in love with the Doctor and the new actor.

Now he is breaking hearts by leaving, but the cycle should not repeat. Fans should give Capaldi a chance as the new Doctor to show the world what he is going to bring to the show, how talented he is, and why he is a good choice. At Fandoms Assemble we are very upset about Smith leaving, but we know moaning about it will not change anything.

Fans say they won’t watch the show because he is “too old” or “not attractive enough” or “not a woman” or any of the other pointless excuses that do not exist in our team. Those “fans” need to grow up and realise the Doctor does not have to be in his late twenties/early thirties and make you go unf for the show to work. It has worked with older actors for the last 8 Doctors and nothing is going to change that.

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FANDOM UPDATES What is happening in the fandom world right now PERCY JACKSON Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters was released on the 7th of August and is doing very well!

MARVEL A trailer for the new Marvel film Thor: The Dark World was released. Watch it here. The film will be released on the 30th October.

SHERLOCK A trailer for season three of Sherlock was released after the repeat of The Reichenbach Fall.

John Watson (Martin Freeman) is seen sporting a new moustache.

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GLEE At the Teen Choice Awards, the Glee stars picked up an award for Choice TV Show: Comedy. Lea made a speech about Cory.

See a full list of the nominees and winners here.

SUPERNATURAL New stills for season nine have been released, including one where Castiel is wearing a suit. A few episode titles for season nine have also been released; with episode two titled “The Devil May Care” and episode three “I’m No Angel”. The popular show comes back on the 8th of October 2013.

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Movies GOING OUT Can’t decide whether to stay in and watch a film or trek to the nearest cinema? We’ve got a list for you that highlights the best of the month, so don’t miss out!

Insidious Chapter 2 13th September

Iron Man 3 9th September Featuring: Robert Downey Jr. & Gwyneth Paltrow

£12.50

Featuring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey and Ty Simpkins

BBT Series 6 2nd September

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 27th September Featuring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris

Featuring: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco…etc

£14.33

Star Trek Into Darkness 2nd September

The Wizard of Oz IMAX 3D 20th September Rerelease of the 1939 classic, this time in fabulous 3D!

Featuring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch

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All DVD pricings can be found at Amazon.com

Books of September United We Spy (Gallagher Girls #6)

Doctor Sleep (The Shining #2)

By Ally Carter 9th September

By Stephen King 28th September Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

The sixth book in the Gallagher Girls series leads Cammie and her spy school friends to another wildly entertaining mission.

With new assignments to tail and capture, the final book in the globally bestselling series results in an explosive finale!

With exclusive extra chapter!

Russian Roulette

Perfect Ruin (The Internment Chronicles #1)

By Anthony Horowitz 52th September The highly anticipated prequel to the well-known Alex Rider series. A gripping insight into the teenage life of Yassen Gregorovich, set against a backdrop of violence and corruption.

From Yassen's training to become a deadly assassin, to meeting a teenage spy called Alex Rider, this thrilling adventure will be the deadliest yet...

By Lauren DeStefano 5st October On Internment, the floating island in the clouds where 15-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives, getting too close to the edge can lead to madness. Then a murder rocks the city. Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially when she meets the one taking blame. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find — or who she will lose

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle (#2) Fangirl

By Maggie Stiefvater 57 th September Written by Mercy Falls best selling author Maggie Stiefvater we return to the Raven Cycle, where everything is changing…

Ronan is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are searching for the very same thing Gansey is after!

By Sarah Rees Brennan August 29 th The perfect novel for people of Fandoms. There will come a time when you reach the age where you have to decide: do I just let it go?

Cath doesn’t want to let her fandoms go. In fact, she’d rather embrace them. But she’s just joined college, and she is increasingly getting more and more lonely. Is she ready to start living her own life?

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PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THEIF Athena, and Brandon T. Jackson as Grover the Satyr. Jake Abel also turns up as the son of Hermes, Luke.

The young actors are the ones with the worst acting, which may be expected, although Jake Abel is probably the best of them, despite his limited screen time, time. Sean Bean plays an angry and rather stupid Zeus, whilst Pierce Brosnan is good as the centaur Chiron.

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief is the 2010 adaption of the book Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by American author Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief was directed by Chris Columbus, and follows the story of demigod Percy Jackson as he discovers that he is the son of Poseidon and a mortal. He is taken to Camp Half-Blood, where the other demigods live, by his protector, Grover.

Logan Lerman stars as Percy Jackson, with a supporting cast that is full of big names, such as Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Uma Thurman, Steve Coogan and Joe Pantoliano; all good actors. The younger cast is rounded out by Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, the daughter of

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Whilst I found Percy Jackson relatively entertaining to watch — as I have always been interested in Greek Mythology — it is not a great film. I don’t know how it compares to the books at all, as I haven’t read them, but from what I’ve heard it isn’t a fantastic adaption of the book.

What really lets this film down is the writing.

There are some glaring contradictions within the script, with characters seemingly hating each other one minute, and then going on an adventure together the next.

However, the special effects in the film are actually quite good. There are several mythological beasts that turn up, and none of them look fake. The actors respond well to them for the most part, and I think that is impressive.

Although this good use of special effects doesn’t excuse the film’s glaring issues, it does save it from being downright dreadful.

If you like Greek mythology you might enjoy this film, or you might detest it, depending on how you view its use of the base material. It is, however, an enjoyable family film if you don’t think too hard about how much sense the things happening on screen make. Unfortunately though, the script just isn’t there, and without that none of the actors can really do a good job.

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Bethany Griffin SLATED BY TERI TERRY By

world that is trying to be created by the CC, is anything but.

There are other people going missing and they are not under sixteen, so what happens to them? Kyla starts to ask questions but finds no real answers, even from her family. So she must try to get answers herself, despite her warnings to just leave it alone.

Slated was one of those books that just caught my eye in the bookstore. The beautiful cover really drew me in, and the mystery that was shown just on the blurb made me want to read it.

Slated is a dystopian novel, by Teri Terry, about a new England, about sixty years in the future, that is now called the Central Coalition. In this world, anyone below sixteen, who is found guilty of being a terrorist, or part of the gangs that caused so much damage in the famous riots that fought against the CC, are not punished with prison, or even capital punishment, but are instead 'slated'. If you are slated, your memories are gone, you don't even remember who you are. You're given a new name, new family, and a second chance at being the kind of citizen that the government want.

Slated centres around Kyla, a sixteen year old who has just been slated. From the beginning, it is clear she's not like everyone else. It seems Kyla is beginning to remember things from before, something unheard of in this society.

Another thing I enjoyed about Slated was its characters, and the way Terry could show so many different parts of one character - how one who appears to want to help, seems to be most elusive about what's going on or how someone who seems as though they're going to kiss Kyla, is only showing he is ready to listen. (Argh, boys!)

After many discoveries that make Kyla question who she is and who she was, she begins to realise this perfect

I would definitely recommend Slated as it is an exciting, enjoyable and easy read and I am looking forward to reading its sequels and

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I gave Slated three and a half stars because, the beginning was rather slow paced and it lacked a certain oomph about it.

Nevertheless, I found the plot well thought out and planned by Terry and the information we got about it made it seem more real, in contrast to other dystopian novels like The Hunger Games. This, along with Kyla's thoughts, questions about this society and confused flashbacks of her previous life and identity really drew me in, and I found myself beginning to be suspicious of characters and things about the Central Coalition as Kyla began to as well.

SO YOU’VE READ ‘SLATED’ BY TERRI TERRY AND ENJOYED IT? WHAT NEXT? The Killables—Gemma The Repossession—Sam Earth Malley Hawksmoor Edwards Everyone accepted that people were different physically. But inside? Inside, they were different too. You just had to know what to look for. Evil has been eradicated.

The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how 'good' they are. If they show signs of the evil emerging, they are labelled a K… But no one knows quite what that means. Only that they disappear and are never seen again.

34 kids missing. Vanished without a trace. Believing she is possessed, Genie Magee's mother has imprisoned her all summer encouraged by the sinister Reverend Schneider.

Genie meets Denis. Missing two years now, but hasn't grown an inch. Rian is haunted by Renee, who insists she's not actually dead. Soon they discover the terrible truth about Reverend Schneider and worse, Genie is next ... and Rian can't do a thing to prevent it.

The Foresaken—Lisa M. The Stasse Merle As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.

Glimpse—Claire

In a near future, society is segregated according to whether people are genetically disposed to mental illness. 17-year-old Ana has been living the privileged life of a Pure due to an error in her DNA test. When the authorities find out, she faces banishment from her safe Community, a fate only thwarted by the fact that she has already been promised to Pure-boy Jasper Taurell.

Girl—Janet

2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-yearold Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.

Shadows Cast by Stars— Catherine Knutsson Cassandra Mercredi might be immune to Plague, but that doesn’t mean she’s safe—government forces are searching for those of aboriginal heritage to harvest their blood. When a search threatens Cassandra and her family, they flee to the Island: a mysterious and idyllic territory protected by the Band, a group of guerilla warriors—and by an enigmatic energy barrier that keeps outsiders out and the spirit world in.

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I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You Destiel

By @gaystiel

Dean groaned as he dropped himself into one of the chairs in the diner, his back aching in protest. They were on their way to Ohio when they spotted the diner and Dean's stomach had taken control of the steering wheel, growling loudly once they pulled into a parking spot. Sam was grateful, considering he, too had been halfway to starvation from their 2 hour drive without an ounce of food. Castiel followed them inside wordlessly, glancing at the menu like he always did, but didn't order anything. Not that he needed to, of course. Angels didn't need to eat.

After staring at the menu for a few minutes and ignoring the pain that was shooting up his spine from driving too long, Dean decided on his meal and waited for the blonde, flirty waitress to make her way over to their table. She smiled politely at all of them before talking, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"Welcome to Blueberry Hills Diner, I'm Amy and I'll be your server for today." The waitress - Amy - told them, her thick southern accent blowing in Dean's face.

He glanced up from his menu, expecting her eyes to be glued to him, when he realized she was staring at Castiel and batting her eyes. Dean inwardly growled, a feeling of possessiveness taking over him, and it shocked him that he was so protective over the angel, but he shrugged it off quickly.

This had been happening a lot lately when he thought about it. Castiel had been receiving a lot of female attention and each time, Dean had grown angry and jealous. It was strange for Dean to be jealous of Castiel, for wanting all of the female attention for himself, but after dwelling on it a little more, it wasn't that he was jealous of Castiel. Hell, Sam had been fucking girls in the motel for a while now and Dean was never this defensive or jealous. As a scary thought entered his mind, Dean realized that he was never jealous of Castiel in the first place. He was jealous of the girls.

Sam was watching his brother with curiosity. Dean seemed very out of it, which was something that Sam rarely saw. Dean was normally the focused one, but as of lately, Dean was tending to drift off and zone out. Something must have clicked in Dean's mind, considering he blushed - again, a phenomenon to see - and rubbed his forehead in a manner that indicated Dean was frustrated.

By this point, the waitress, Amy, had already taken Sam's order and had finally

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written the entire thing down before she turned her eyes on Castiel, who looked he was also trying to decipher what Dean was thinking about. “What'll it be, sweetie?" Amy asked Castiel, twirling a long strand of hair and smiling at him.

This seemed to rip Dean out of his inner turmoil and he glared at the woman.

Before Castiel could answer, Dean was speaking in an angry voice, almost a growl, and Sam had to hold back his laughter because he finally understood why his brother was acting so different. "He's not ordering anything. He's not hungry. He's not thirsty. He's also not available for your mind games, lady. I'll have a bacon cheeseburger and a coke." The woman seemed taken aback by Dean's tone of voice and raised her eyebrows defensively before walking away.

At this point, Sam was snickering in a volume that was now noticeable and Castiel's head was cocked to the side in confusion. Dean glared at Sam for a few minutes until Castiel finally spoke up, noticing the tension.

"Was she a demon or a shape shifter or some other monster?" Castiel asked, pulling Dean out of his glare. Sam laughed even harder at this.

"Shut up, Sam. No, Cas, she was just annoying." Dean said, avoiding meeting his eyes with the angel's. Sam's laughing was not even close to dying down, which was just confusing Castiel even more.

"I didn't find her annoying, she seemed quite pleasant." Castiel said, bewildered.

Sam stopped his laughing long enough to blurt out a few words.

"Dean's jealous." Sam said, and then he continued laughing. Dean sputtered at this and grumbled something unintelligible under his breath, but Castiel was still very confused.

"Jealous of who? Me?" Castiel asked, directing his question to Sam. "No, jealous of-" Sam stopped midsentence as Dean's foot kicked harshly into Sam's shin.

"Nothing, Cas, it's nothing. Let's just eat our food and leave."

After they were done eating, Dean felt a wave of relief rush through him. The meal had been entirely too awkward, with Sam laughing nearly the entire time and shooting Dean looks that Dean glared at in reply, and with Castiel being hopelessly confused with the entire situation.

Dean jumped in the driver's seat as fast as he could, and he turned to glare at Sam, but Castiel was in his place.

"Where's Sam?" Dean asked, confused.

"Back here, jerk. I thought you could have some time to talk with your angel while I sat back here and slept the rest of the way. You're welcome, by the way." Sam

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replied, snickering from the backseat. Dean glared at his oaf of a brother until Sam settled into the seat.

An hour later, Sam was fast asleep, snoring softly from the back seat of the Impala. Castiel still looked mildly confused, and after what looked to be like a few minutes of contemplation, the angel began to speak. "You've been acting different lately." Castiel stated. Dean grunted.

"Yeah."

"Why is that?"

"It's nothing."

"It's obviously something, Dean."

"I'm fine."

"You're different."

"Sorry?" Dean asked, not sure how to respond. He wasn't prepared to blurt out that he was in love with a fucking angel, of all things. His angel, a voice in the back of his head reminded him, and he flinched slightly.

"I don't dislike it, I'm just confused." Castiel remarked.

"It's hard to explain, Cas."

"We have another 4 hours until we reach Ohio, Dean. Explain."

"I don't want to tell you." Dean said, his voice harsher than he intended it to be.

Castiel looked hurt by this, but he didn't say anything, simply nodding wordlessly and turning on the radio.

The next hour was filled with awkward silence as Dean kicked himself for being such an asshole and a coward. Castiel silently listened to the radio, flipping the stations every once in a while until he finally settled on one.

"I'm sorry." Dean said, his voice quiet and gravelly. Castiel was confused again, so Dean went on.

"I'm sorry for being such an ass about it. I didn't- I don't mean that I don't trust you, I just mean that... I don't know if I can tell you without sounding like an idiot." Dean said, avoiding Castiel's eyes. Castiel nodded and considered this for a moment before speaking again.

"You... You can tell me anything, Dean." Castiel said, and he turned to Dean slightly before hesitantly reaching over to squeeze Dean's hand. Dean sucked in a harsh breath at the contact and Castiel pulled away quickly, focusing his gaze on the window beside him.

"I know I can, Cas." Dean said, his voice shakier than he intended it to be as he grabbed Castiel's hand with his own and intertwined their fingers together.

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Castiel turned his head quickly to stare at their hands, but didn't pull away, which was a good sign in Dean's eyes.

"I, I was... I want... I hate seeing people, girls, look at you and talk to you and flirt with you. You aren't theirs. You're no one's." Dean said.

"That's not true." Castiel said lightly. Dean nodded.

"I know, I know, you belong to God, or whatever." Dean said. Castiel shook his head.

"No, that's not true, either."

"Please tell me you didn't sell your soul to some demon," Dean said, laughing nervously at his own joke.

"You know I wouldn't. I don't belong to God; I don't belong to the females who talk to me. I belong to you. I'm yours." Castiel replied, his voice quieter than before, unsure.

Dean heard himself inhale sharply and Castiel turned his face towards the window again, trying to pry his hand from Dean's so that he could fly away, but Dean held on.

"Yes, you are." Dean said, and that comment, alone, turned Castiel's head at a rapid speed. The angel's mesmerizing eyes were wide and sparkling with hope.

Dean pulled over at that point on the empty road and turned towards Castiel, his heart racing.

"You're my angel," Dean said. "If you want to be, that is."

"I don't want to be your angel." Castiel said, causing Dean's heart to sink.

"I need to be your angel, Dean. But I want to be more than just your angel." Castiel said, squeezing Dean's hand.

At that point, Castiel didn't question how he knew so much about physical contact all of the sudden. He was moving by pure instinct. At that point, Dean didn't question why he was so nervous. They both knew why they were so different.

They both knew that this was real, true love. No one needed to voice that. It was obvious. So, Dean did what he had been wanting to do for the past couple weeks and captured Castiel's face in his hands before kissing him, sparks flying the moment their lips touched. Castiel responded with his instinct and moved his hand to tangle in Dean's hair, pulling them closer together. Their lips slotted together in a perfect rhythm and it felt so right.

All of their tension was released and they continued kissing for another 15 minutes before pulling away, both Dean and Castiel thoroughly flustered as Dean began to drive again, remembering that Sam was snoring in the back seat.

This time, when Castiel's hand met Dean's in the middle, neither of them pulled away.

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pinboard Find out what the Fandoms Assemble team are enjoying this month!

EMILY “I'm very excited to see Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor; I think that he is going to be marvellous. “

JESS "I really love the new covers and back covers of the new US edition of Harry Potter.

What really makes it for me

JESS I'm just reading TMI so I'm getting caught up on all that and the cast touring.

ELEANOR

“I really can’t wait until Supernatural Season nine airs in October! With a few of the titles released and some stills (including one of Castiel in a SUIT and another of him layered up Winchester style!!!)

I am fangirling to the MAX!”

NEHA I'm fangirling over The Hunger Games cause I can't wait to see our Girl On 48

Fire spark the big screen with Catching Fire.

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LISA SAFFY “I started ELLIE “I’ve enjoyed reading Insurgent and getting even more into the fandom and knowing more… And it’s got me more excited for the new book.”

watching American Horror Story and Once Upon A Time, which are both fab.”

“I’m loving Happens in The Dark by Jedward and the lyric video they made and uploaded.”

[Watch it here]

RAE “This month we finally got an insight into Lupin’s biography on Pottermore, and it was everything I had hoped for and more. He is my favourite character but we know so little about him, and I now feel as if his story is complete.”

CHARLIE ”I thought the Lightning Thief film was enjoyable, [find the review on pg 35] although it had some problems. I've 49 not read the books though.”

JESS “I’m loving the TMI mall stops and all the promotion they’re doing!”

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Hand-painted Mug ontheMantle. £6.97

Birthday Card. amysnotdeadyet. £3.99

Sherlock Bookmark. bethydesigns. £6.00

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FeerieDoll. £13.28

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