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The Originals has become my current TV obsession. I’ve been watching the episodes on Hulu, but the regular show time is Tuesday’s on the CW. It’s a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries, which I’ve never watched, but it’s pretty standalone.

The first episode opens with Elijah returning to New Orleans to handle his brother Klaus’ issues. He finds out that his brother has impregnated a werewolf girl who has entangled herself with witches. From there, we are introduced to the main characters and the idea of Original vampires is explained.

Elijah is the main star of the first episode, but succeeding episodes are from the POV of the rest of the cast. So if you don’t like the tone, don’t worry. That first episode is just to introduce the characters and the background. It’s been getting better and better.

Klaus is definitely the Machiavellian star of the show, and his sister Rebekah carries her own. Marcel is very handsome and charming as a vampire king, and Cami–who I was pretty meh about–has turned out to have an interesting backstory of her own. Hayley is the smart-mouthed and plucky werewolf, and Davina is the caged girl–they are both trapped in the center of vampire and witchy hostilities.

Go check out the show on Hulu. I definitely recommend it for your watching pleasure.

Riptide Publishing: Anniversary Sale!

Riptide Publishing is turning 2 and there’s all kinds of awesome things taking place. It’s a whole month of sales. This could be your chance to round out your Andrea Speed collection.

Week 1 (Oct 1 – Oct 5): All First Wave titles 40% off, plus 15% off other select backlist titles

Week 2 (Oct 6 – Oct 12): All Second Wave titles 40% off, plus 15% off other select backlist titles

Week 3 (Oct 13 – Oct 19): $2.99 sale! Plus 15% off other select backlist titles

Week 4 (Oct 20 – Oct 26): $3.99 sale! Plus 15% off other select backlist titles

Week 5 (Oct 27 – Oct 31): Gift Certificate Sale: All gift certificates are 10% off

Go check it out Riptide Publishing

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Kindle auto-correct is pissing me off

Remember when I was getting pissed off that there was no better spell check on the Kindle? Yeah. How do I turn the auto-correct off?

It’s very frustrating when I painstakingly spell something out — there it is right on the screen — then one hit of the spacebar and I look incredibly stupid.

If I spell something out a key at a time, why would it try to fix it? I don’t need to have my words corrected by something that seems to know less about spelling than me.

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I saw this

I haven’t watched a ton of new movies, but here’s a list of stuff — movies and shows — worth seeing:

OBLIVION – movie. beautiful, cinemagraphic dystopian sci-fi.
PACIFIC RIM – movie. fun monster fighting robot sci-fi.
PROMETHEUS – movie. thinky horror sci-fi.
LOOPER – movie. crazy time travel mafia sci-fi.
BREAKING BAD – TV. meth making science teacher/drug kingpin.
YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL – TV. girl dressed as boy, joins band kdrama.
PENELOPE – movie. Girl cursed with a pig nose. Wonderful costumes and sets.
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN – movie. Still beautiful knight during the Crusades story.
IRON MAN 3 – movie. Tony Stark is a ninja.
ORPHAN BLACK – tv. BBC sci-fi series about a woman that finds out there’s eight of her.

Any great movies or shows out there? I’ve got Netflix and DramaFever.