Finally Finished Writing About How Much Stormbringer Enhances The Skk Dynamic Which Was At A Nascent

happy birthday, Megumi 

listening to podcasts while having adhd is just an endless cycle of i'm understimulated when listening to the podcast and not doing anything else so i need to do something while i listen and if i'm doing something while listening to my podcast i will stop paying attention and will not process what i am hearing

I started reading the Percy Jackson books when I was ten, as they were first coming out. I felt an immediate connection with Annabeth. She was a 12-year-old blonde girl who was tough, and smart, and brave, and a huge nerd. I was a scrawny blonde 5th grader who was smart, and tried to be tough, and tried to be brave, and got a lot of “dumb blonde” jokes lobbed at me. I loved seeing myself in Annabeth. She meant a lot to me growing up - and her character still means a lot to me now, 16 years later.

And. I am so, so excited for Leah Sava Jeffries to play Annabeth Chase. I am so, so excited for Black girls to see themselves in her too; to see themselves portrayed as tough, and smart, and brave, and nerdy. I am so excited for all the kids watching this show to see Annabeth Chase as a Black girl. It meant so much to privileged little me to see a smart blonde girl fight and think and love her way through the world of Percy Jackson and I believe with my whole heart that it means even more to see a smart Black girl do that. Blonde Annabeth was important to me, and so is Black Annabeth. These things are both true.

I hope that Disney and Rick do Leah justice. I am confident that Leah will do justice to Annabeth.

I am so excited for this girl, and I am so excited to see PJO come to life in a way that reflects the heart and soul of the books I grew up with.

Here’s looking at you, Annabeth Chase

FYI HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON IS A MASTERPIECE.

Something's not right about yourself

[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]

begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.

but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.

diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).

she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.

and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?

diana ignored her and kept fighting.

and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason

LEGENDS SUPPORTING LEGENDS!

Being aromantic when your parents have always been the perfect married couple is so wild....

Like I grew up understanding how loving and healthy their relationship was, how close they were and how they were best friends that made each other better people. And I’m like, yeah, I’ll have that one day. We’ll love each other like that, and get married and have kids and it’ll be so fun. I can’t wait to meet that person.

And as the years go by and I have absolutely zero interest in anyone, my mom is reassuring me that I’m busy with school, my older sister is reminding me that I’m so young, it’s not “real” dating anyway so why bother, my grandparents are telling me to “never settle, sweetie” and I’m like yeah lol don’t worry I will never settle I just haven’t found anyone I want to date...I’m just busy right now and everyone is so young, they can’t actually be seriously dating, right?

:/

And then it’s college, and everyone IS seriously dating besides me, and I realize people actually get crushes on people, like that’s not just a childish infatuation...I come to realize after forcing myself on a few first dates (they asked me out and I felt like I should at least try, right? How will I ever find that special person if I don’t at least try?) that I don’t actually like it...I don’t like them. I don’t like dating. ?

And because my parents relationship is still #goals in my head, because I still want those feelings, when I take the online tests to see if I’m aromantic or not, I fail them. I like romance stories and I see the appeal of a long term romantic relationship...so I’m “most likely not aromantic”...despite, you know, never feeling that way towards anyone...

How was I suppose to realize I’m aro when half of it’s just a waiting game? And I, despite not LIKING romance for me, WANT to want romance for me. Amatonormativity’s a bitch.

They're siblings, your honor

I think…. it might be time to admit…. That Come From Away is my favorite musical.