Do The Spiderverse Kids All Have. Slightly Different Meme Cultures

Nice ass, sorry about the mental illness

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Track Dracula Daily on Storygraph/Goodreads

if anyone wants to track dracula daily on storygraph or goodreads day-by-day, i’ve got you covered! i have all newsletter dates and the page progress under the readmore, ready to go

i love tracking my reading on storygraph - hopefully this helps anyone who wants to too!

(for the Standard Ebooks edition)

Edit: my ebook reader displays 493 pages, but the edition on Storygraph has 448, but if you multiply each date by 448/493, you should get the correct page number.

May

may 3: 6 pages

may 4: 8 pages

may 5: 26 pages

may 7: 33 pages

may 8: 40 pages

may 9: 42 pages

may 11: 44 pages

may 12: 50 pages

may 15: 52 pages

may 16: 57 pages

may 18: 58 pages

may 19: 59 pages

may 24: 64 pages

may 25: 66 pages

may 26: 66 pages

may 28: 67 pages

may 31: 68 pages

June

june 5: 69 pages

june 17: 70 pages

june 18: 70 pages

june 24: 72 pages

june 25: 76 pages

june 29: 78 pages

june 30: 82 pages

July

july 1: 83 pages

july 8: 83 pages

july 18: 85 pages

july 19: 86 pages

july 20: 88 pages

july 22: 88 pages

july 24: 92 pages

july 26: 93 pages

july 27: 94 pages

july 28: 94 pages

july 29: 95 pages

july 30: 95 pages

August

august 1: 99 pages

august 2: 99 pages

august 3: 101 pages

august 4: 102 pages

august 6: 105 pages

august 8: 111 pages

august 9: 113 pages

august 10: 116 pages

august 11: 121 pages

august 12: 124 pages

august 13: 124 pages

august 14: 126 pages

august 15: 126 pages

august 17: 128 pages

august 18: 130 pages

august 19: 133 pages

august 20: 135 pages

august 21: 135 pages

august 23: 136 pages

august 24: 141 pages

august 25: 142 pages

august 30: 142 pages

august 31: 142 pages

September

september 1: 143 pages

september 2: 146 pages

september 3: 148 pages

september 4: 151 pages

september 5: 151 pages

september 6: 152 pages

september 7: 160 pages

september 8: 162 pages

september 9: 163 pages

september 10: 166 pages

september 11: 169 pages

september 12: 170 pages

september 13: 173 pages

september 17: 180 pages

september 18: 198 pages

september 19: 199 pages

september 20: 218 pages

september 22: 225 pages

september 23: 226 pages

september 24: 228 pages

september 25: 238 pages

september 26: 254 pages

september 27: 259 pages

september 28: 259 pages

september 29: 287 pages

september 30: 309 pages

October

october 1: 340 pages

october 2: 350 pages

october 3: 398 pages

october 4: 405 pages

october 5: 418 pages

october 6: 421 pages

october 11: 427 pages

october 15: 428 pages

october 16: 429 pages

october 17: 429 pages

october 24: 430 pages

october 25: 432 pages

october 26: 432 pages

october 27: 432 pages

october 28: 440 pages

october 29: 444 pages

october 30: 458 pages

october 31: 459 pages

November

november 1: 462 pages

november 2: 464 pages

november 3: 464 pages

november 4: 468 pages

november 5: 476 pages

november 6: 483 pages

Last Update: 484 pages

I’m so excited to share some of the work I did for my personal passion project/Cartoon Network intern pitch, GIRL GANG! (Ideally I’m hoping to eventually publish it as a graphic novel/webcomic!)

The story takes place in a future where ocean levels have risen and covered the Earth, leaving only chains of islands where continents used to be. On an island in the Pacific, a gang of street girls fight to survive the oppression of the Empire, a civilization from across the ocean that is on a mission to colonize and conquer all the world’s remaining land. 

Some brief character blurbs about the main gang: Miya- the quiet and somewhat shy leader of the gang who talks little but packs a massive punch with her baseball bat; Emi- the gang’s getaway driver and auto specialist and the disowned daughter of a wealthy Inner Circle family; Yuyu- the black market dealer and scavenger with a bubbly personality and an obsession with 200-year-old anime artifacts; and Blue- a Muy Thai fighter who values honor and justice above all else, and defected from her previous gang when Miya saved her life.

On the opposing side, Riza’s gang of wealthy and entitled elitist Inner Circle girls are out to wreak havoc in the Outskirts, and end up clashing with Miya and her gang as a result. Riza is the daughter of a highly influential politician and believes herself to be superior to “Outskirts trash,” while Krystal (the Empire’s number one teenage pop idol), Jin (a cyber hacker) and Momo (a skilled wrestler who sticks with Riza out of a desire to belong) enable her to put the Outskirts in what she perceives to be their rightful place.

That’s all for now but I hope you all enjoy!! I love this project and I can’t wait to fully realize it sometime in the near future. (ALSO: IF YOU WANNA DO FANART- GO RIGHT AHEAD, JUST PROMISE YOU’LL SHOW ME!!) Love, Kat!

good evening! what the fuck

If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.

Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.

For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.

the music hole: Actually, I’ve been working on a new song myself.

me, knowing exactly what she’s about to sing:

Rick Riordan won a Stonewall award today

for his second Magnus Chase book, due to the inclusion of the character Alex Fierro who is gender fluid. This was the speech he gave, and it really distills why I love this author and his works so much, and why I will always recommend his works to anyone and everyone.

“Thank you for inviting me here today. As I told the Stonewall Award Committee, this is an honor both humbling and unexpected.

So, what is an old cis straight white male doing up here? Where did I get the nerve to write Alex Fierro, a transgender, gender fluid child of Loki in The Hammer of Thor, and why should I get cookies for that?

These are all fair and valid questions, which I have been asking myself a lot.

I think, to support young LGBTQ readers, the most important thing publishing can do is to publish and promote more stories by LGBTQ authors, authentic experiences by authentic voices. We have to keep pushing for this. The Stonewall committee’s work is a critical part of that effort. I can only accept the Stonewall Award in the sense that I accept a call to action – firstly, to do more myself to read and promote books by LGBTQ authors.

But also, it’s a call to do better in my own writing. As one of my genderqueer readers told me recently, “Hey, thanks for Alex. You didn’t do a terrible job!” I thought: Yes! Not doing a terrible job was my goal!

As important as it is to offer authentic voices and empower authors and role models from within LGBTQ community, it’s is also important that LGBTQ kids see themselves reflected and valued in the larger world of mass media, including my books. I know this because my non-heteronormative readers tell me so. They actively lobby to see characters like themselves in my books. They like the universe I’ve created. They want to be part of it. They deserve that opportunity. It’s important that I, as a mainstream author, say, “I see you. You matter. Your life experience may not be like mine, but it is no less valid and no less real. I will do whatever I can to understand and accurately include you in my stories, in my world. I will not erase you.”

People all over the political spectrum often ask me, “Why can’t you just stay silent on these issues? Just don’t include LGBTQ material and everybody will be happy.” This assumes that silence is the natural neutral position. But silence is not neutral. It’s an active choice. Silence is great when you are listening. Silence is not so great when you are using it to ignore or exclude.

But that’s all macro, ‘big picture’ stuff. Yes, I think the principles are important. Yes, in the abstract, I feel an obligation to write the world as I see it: beautiful because of its variations. Where I can’t draw on personal experience, I listen, I read a lot – in particular I want to credit Beyond Magenta and Gender Outlaws for helping me understand more about the perspective of my character Alex Fierro – and I trust that much of the human experience is universal. You can’t go too far wrong if you use empathy as your lens. But the reason I wrote Alex Fierro, or Nico di Angelo, or any of my characters, is much more personal.

I was a teacher for many years, in public and private school, California and Texas. During those years, I taught all kinds of kids. I want them all to know that I see them. They matter. I write characters to honor my students, and to make up for what I wished I could have done for them in the classroom.

I think about my former student Adrian (a pseudonym), back in the 90s in San Francisco. Adrian used the pronouns he and him, so I will call him that, but I suspect Adrian might have had more freedom and more options as to how he self-identified in school were he growing up today. His peers, his teachers, his family all understood that Adrian was female, despite his birth designation. Since kindergarten, he had self-selected to be among the girls – socially, athletically, academically. He was one of our girls. And although he got support and acceptance at the school, I don’t know that I helped him as much as I could, or that I tried to understand his needs and his journey. At that time in my life, I didn’t have the experience, the vocabulary, or frankly the emotional capacity to have that conversation. When we broke into social skills groups, for instance, boys apart from girls, he came into my group with the boys, I think because he felt it was required, but I feel like I missed the opportunity to sit with him and ask him what he wanted. And to assure him it was okay, whichever choice he made. I learned more from Adrian than I taught him. Twenty years later, Alex Fierro is for Adrian.

I think about Jane (pseudonym), another one of my students who was a straight cis-female with two fantastic moms. Again, for LGBTQ families, San Francisco was a pretty good place to live in the 90s, but as we know, prejudice has no geographical border. You cannot build a wall high enough to keep it out. I know Jane got flack about her family. I did what I could to support her, but I don’t think I did enough. I remember the day Jane’s drama class was happening in my classroom. The teacher was new – our first African American male teacher, which we were all really excited about – and this was only his third week. I was sitting at my desk, grading papers, while the teacher did a free association exercise. One of his examples was ‘fruit – gay.’ I think he did it because he thought it would be funny to middle schoolers. After the class, I asked to see the teacher one on one. I asked him to be aware of what he was saying and how that might be hurtful. I know. Me, a white guy, lecturing this Black teacher about hurtful words. He got defensive and quit, because he said he could not promise to not use that language again. At the time, I felt like I needed to do something, to stand up especially for Jane and her family. But did I make things better handling it as I did? I think I missed an opportunity to open a dialogue about how different people experience hurtful labels. Emmie and Josephine and their daughter Georgina, the family I introduce in The Dark Prophecy, are for Jane.

I think about Amy, and Mark, and Nicholas … All former students who have come out as gay since I taught them in middle school. All have gone on to have successful careers and happy families. When I taught them, I knew they were different. Their struggles were greater, their perspectives more divergent than some of my other students. I tried to provide a safe space for them, to model respect, but in retrospect I don’t think I supported them as well as I could have, or reached out as much as they might have needed. I was too busy preparing lessons on Shakespeare or adjectives, and not focusing enough on my students’ emotional health. Adjectives were a lot easier for me to reconcile than feelings. Would they have felt comfortable coming out earlier than college or high school if they had found more support in middle school? Would they have wanted to? I don’t know. But I don’t think they felt it was a safe option, which leaves me thinking that I did not do enough for them at that critical middle school time. I do not want any kid to feel alone, invisible, misunderstood. Nico di Angelo is for Amy, and Mark and Nicholas.

I am trying to do more. Percy Jackson started as a way to empower kids, in particular my son, who had learning differences. As my platform grew, I felt obliged to use it to empower all kids who are struggling through middle school for whatever reason. I don’t always do enough. I don’t always get it right. Good intentions are wonderful things, but at the end of a manuscript, the text has to stand on its own. What I meant ceases to matter. Kids just see what I wrote. But I have to keep trying. My kids are counting on me.

So thank you, above all, to my former students who taught me. Alex Fierro is for you.

To you, I pledge myself to do better – to apologize when I screw up, to learn from my mistakes, to be there for LGBTQ youth and make sure they know that in my books, they are included. They matter. I am going to stop talking now, but I promise you I won’t stop listening.”

Agosto

Libros

The antrophocene reviewed ~ John Green

La soledad de los números primos ~ Paolo Giordano

Howl's moving castle ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Películas

Uncut gems (2019)

Mr. Roosevelt (2017)

Blackkklansman (2018)

Clue (1985)

Pray Away (2021)

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)

Arrival (2016)

Zombieland (2009)

Series

Calls

Ted Lasso

Betty

Mad Men

Pushing Daisies

A few friends and I are thinking of making an animated something based on His Dark Materials. We’re taking our time on this one to get it right. 

Here, the people I’ll be working with. From top to bottom:  @shliten, @matthieudaures, @leareymauzaize , @kojad and @cy-lindric with their daemons ! 

Imagine if he becomes a hardcore fan and makes a collab with rebecca

Lin-Manuel Miranda is apparently watching Steven Universe for the first time!