TABINOF IS HERE

Finally it arrived at my house too today! I decided I wanted to make a video of my first impressions, so here it is :)

Excitement!

Hi!

Life is pretty stupid and boring like 50% of the time but I would like to focus on the other 50% that makes my insides cheer with excitement and makes a horrible day a little better. Some of those things are happening in the near future and I'd like to express my happiness about them right here and now:

The Amazing Book is not on Fire (Or: TABINOF)
A very exciting book that's almost arriving at my house is The Amazing Book is not on Fire by Dan Howell and Phil Lester. Yes the youtubers. And I know that 99% of the youtubers have a book now, but that doesn't take away my joy that Dan and Phil decided to join in. I've known these two for at least four years now, they've always been there to cheer me up and they're still here, doing new things to make me happy.

To be very honest I have no idea what this book is about, but Dan has said repeatedly that we should just trust them (I do, very much, trust them) and that it is not entirely written in Comic Sans. So that's definitely something to be excited about.

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Apart from this awesome book that looks really amazing on the outside and will definitely be more amazing on the inside, they are also going on tour. First they go on tour in the UK (ugh why don't I live where things are happening) but they might take it to the rest of the world! In a recent live show Dan mentioned he'd love to come to The Netherlands too, so I'm confident that it will happen. I don't care if I have to go alone, I will go. What will happen on stage is still a huge surprise too, but again: I trust them to make it incredible.

X Look what's part of the set: a plant! 

Check out TABINOF here! Dan's youtube here and Phil's here, in case you didn't know them yet. Also their shared youtube channel where they play games in the most incredibly funny way possible. (I love them)

Marble Sounds
Ohh I am so excited about this one. About five years ago I was just randomly listening to new cool songs on the internet when I came across Marble Sounds, a post-rock band from Belgium. The song I heard first was The Time To Sleep and it is to this day one of my favourite feel-good songs. It's so great to just listen to in any season of the year, to clear my head and de-stress.

The rest of their music came to my attention a few months ago, and the rarest thing ever happened: I liked every single song. Besides their amazing songs, their music videos are really creative and cool too. Check this one out :)

The exciting news is that they're releasing a new album this January!! After their first two albums Nice is Good and Dear Me, Look Up, a new one full of new songs is actually happening. I'm super excited.

There's so much more I'm excited for but I think this should be enough for now :D Let me know what you're excited for!!

love,
Mia

THE INTERNET

Hi everyone!

Today I'd like to discuss my latest obsession: The Internet.

I will divide this post into three sections:

Twitter

Tumblr

Youtube

because that is where I spend all of my time (apart from the time that I blog on blogger).

At the bottom of this post the Dictionary of The Internet can be found.

Twitter

Twitter. Oh Twitter. I have made many friends on Twitter. No, who am I kidding? I might have made two friends on twitter.

I don't think I have to explain twitter, but basically it's a site on which you can share your opinion cramped into 140 characters and other people can follow you to read what you had for dinner (for example).

I don't really use it for 'I ate a banana' or 'tomorrow I will see my aunt who lives three kilometers from my house'. I use it to:

- Keep up with the news on my favourite (foreign) tv-shows like Doctor Who or Once Upon a Time;

- Fangirl after another episode of one of my favourite tv-shows;

- Talk to people on the other side of the world and find out what it's like to live there;

- Complain about the fact that I'm not British;

- Stalk the actors that I love and therefore I love every single tweet (even this one by Alexander Vlahos). (That was actually really funny because he tweeted that with his phone in his pocket without noticing).

Also on Twitter you have the Follow Friday tag. On Friday you can mention people you like to follow in one FF tweet to tell your followers to follow that person you like to follow. What? Never mind. Just read it a few times, you'll get it.

Tumblr

Tumblr is the website I spend most time on. I have explained here what Tumblr is.

As I told you in that post I am a fangirl. I'm a pretty normal and calm person in RL but I can be rather crazy on the internet. I'm not very loud and I don't really get noticed (I have 22 followers) but I understand everything that appears on my dashboard.

Fangirls have their own language. Most of it has to do with the shows we watch, but some things are just abbreviations of really weird phrases. 

A list of most of the fandoms:

TV shows/films

- Doctor Who

- The Avengers  (and Iron Man, Thor, Hulk etc.)

- The Big Bang Theory

- Supernatural

- Teen Wolf

- Once Upon a Time

- Harry Potter

- Sherlock (BBC)

- The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings

- The Hunger games

- Merlin

 My goodness this list is longer than I thought and it actually goes on, but I think you see what I mean.

A list of the actors/actresses fangirls fangirl over:

- Tom Hiddleston

- Robert Downey Jr

- Matt Smith

- Arthur Darvill

- Karen Gillan

- Tom Hiddleston

- Emma Watson

- David Tennant
- Tom Hiddleston

- Colin Morgan

- The list goes on and it's longer than the last one so I'll stop.

You get the picture: mostly men or flawless women.

Commonly loved things on Tumblr that are not fandoms:

- Kittens

- Cats

- Puppies

- Stars/Universe

- Shoarma

- Chocolate

Also you can tag your posts, just like I can tag my blogposts on Blogger. 

These are common tags: All the feels, all the cries, crying, i'm so done with this, i'm 700% done with this site, flawless cast is flawless, pretty graphic is pretty, accuracy beyond accuracy, WHY WOULD YOU POST SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I can't, I lost the ability to can, and lots and lots more. Some fangirls have the ability to make a whole story out of tags; I, however, am to lazy to do that.

This is an example of a post that makes me a proud fangirl because I understand. I'm sorry it's too complicated to explain.

I'm starting to regret starting this post. I must seem such a freak to you now. 

There are some fun things we fangirls do. For example we get attached to fictional characters. We cry when they're sad, we cry when they're happy, we cry when they die. (Fictional characters we get attached to tend to have more chances of dying somehow). Also we ship characters. When we ship two characters no matter what they do, we call them our OTP. I'm not going to explain these words now because if I do my dictionary won't be of any use. We are happy when our OTP goes canon, and we cry when they don't. We make AU Gifsets and write Fanfiction. Further fun words can be found in the dictionary below.

Here's a video by Bryarly in which she explains Tumblr and it's a nice bridge to my next topic (Youtube):

Youtube

Youtube is a lovely place for opinions. I am subscribed to a lot of Vloggers. Here's a list of vloggers I actually love and watch regularly:

- Charlie
- Bryarly 

- Phil

- Dan

- Elle

- Mascha (she's actually Dutch)

- Kandee

They are all very different and usually very interesting. That is actually all there is to say about Youtube. Just try some of their videos! Should be fun!

Dictionary:

- Fangirl (verb) = be hyperactive and talk about every facet of the episode/character/show you're a fangirl of

- Fangirl (noun) = a person (male/female) who is obsessed with a tv-show or fictional character

- Twitter = website on which you can tell your followers what you're doing

- Tumblr = website on which you can share what you made or wrote or just fangirl (see fangirl)

- Dashboard = the homepage of Tumblr (see Tumblr) on which you can watch what the people you follow have rebloged from the people they follow

- RL = Abbreviation of 'Real Life', which is the life in which time passes normally and in which you have a family and you need food and exercise in order to stay alive

- Ship (verb) = To like two certain characters to fall in love with each other and create pretty babies (regardless of sex, sexual preference or if they actually like each other in the show or not)

- Ship (noun) = Two people who are being shipped by a fangirl

- OTP = Abbreviation of One True Pairing, which is the ship a fangirl will ship forever no matter what happens

- AU = Abbreviation of 'Alternate Universe', which means that things go differently in some other universe. For example: Sherlock meets The Doctor in another universe and they hang out together preventing the apocalypse from happening.

- Gifset = a set of gifs (why did I even add this to the dictionary)

- Fanfiction = A story written by a fan about the existing fictional characters of a certain fandom which usually lets ships go canon

- Subscribe (verb) = follow a Youtube blogger

- Vlogger = a person who tells his/her opinion to a camera and uploads this to Youtube

- Youtube = A website on which videos are shared and watched
- To go canon = When a Ship actually gets together on the tv-show

I hope next post on this blog will be more normal than this one. My apologies for being weird.

Love,
Mia

PS: Follow me on twitter and tumblr :)