Are fucking kidding me? I have been sitting at home and constantly watching the news after the events of yesterday. For those of you who are wondering, I am a junior at REYNOLDS HIGH SCHOOL! I was there when the shooter kept running in the halls trying to open the doors and get in. I was there in the dark praying and crying while my librarian kept saying ” they’ll have to kill me before they touch my kids” I have known her for three years, her determination to keep us safe broke her heart. Seeing this, that little children need protection in school. Are we sending kids to a battlefield? I have three little brothers ranging from 5-10, and still people have the nerve to speak about the second amendment? Really? I can’t even type anymore. I’m so disgusted and frustrated. When will you realize that it’s important to have gun control? When a shooter is pointing a gun at your child? Is that when you’ll realize that guns aren’t something to be kept around. People say it’s a free country but honesty, this country is more oppressed and diseased than any other country.
Show me ONE instance where gun control and gun free zones prevented school shootings.
What’s really motivating the cultural panic over The Hunger Games and The Fault in Our Stars?
y’all should probably spend some time reading this
Oh my god this was supposed to be about books but it’s actually about my relationship with my parents I was unprepared for these feels
yep yep yep this
“The hot insistence on labeling YA as “trashy” and not fit for adult reading isn’t just about a visceral hatred of genre fiction. It’s also a form of denial from older adults who don’t want to engage with the issues faced by Millennials. If the validity of experiences underlying the desire to read YA can be eliminated, then older adults can feel less responsible for what they did to the generations that followed them”
Read the whole thing. Seriously.
I hadn’t even thought about it this way, but I think I just had my whole worldview reframed. Terrific article.
Working in a bookstore, I get at LEAST one parent per day that calls YA comics or novels trash. And ALWAYS in front of their disappointed kid/teenager/tween who was really looking forward to reading that book. And EVERY TIME it takes a shitload of willpower (because customer service) for me to tell them to FUCK OFF.
Once, I was giving a class in a school about manga, and this one kid, her mom threw out all the manga she had bought, with her summer job money, (and it was good series too) simply because she thought her daughter was wasting too much time reading them. You know, instead of discussing the issue that maybe she didn’t do her chores or whatnot? Just fucking toss the books. Yeah.
The hatred on books because they are for teens or for girls shows off the lack of understanding that a group has for another (adults to kids, boys to girls, etc).
YA stories matter because they allow their readers to deal with uncertainty and disappointment, it allows them to enjoy themselves, it allows them to look up to a character that didn’t start up a special, but discovered they could be special if they took into their own hands to become great.
Coming of age stories now happen in books for pre-teens, teens, tweets, and even 50 years olds (after all, the midlife crisis is coming to terms with a change). Because society has strong expectations of everyone at every turn of age now.
BOOKS FUCKING MATTER. The internet and the people who write on it matter. It all matters.
I’m writing YA stories until I die.
And I will never tell my readers they don’t matter.
A video showing a Pittsburgh Police officer using what appears to be excessive force on a 19-year-old Pittsburgh PrideFest attendee, has sparked outrage online after it was shared on Facebook late Sunday afternoon.
According to eyewitness Autumn Huntera, the incident occurred around 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Huntera explains that the teen engaged in a heated debate with a group of anti-gay protesters attending the Pride festival: “She was saying that being gay is not a sin and that she was a lesbian and proud of it, and that she wasn’t going to hell for it.”
Huntera detailed her account of the incident for us:
The girl was debating with one of the protesters, and she stepped closer without even realizing it and the officer ran over to her. He grabbed her by the back of her neck, pulled her over, dropped her on the ground, pulled her up by her hair, and said “Do you want me to hit you.” When she didn’t respond, he hit her in stomach area about 4 or 5 times repeatedly. After everyone yelled at him, he hand cuffed her, put her against a wall. She was crying against a wall next to her ‘attacker’ while her fiancee was panicking trying to find someone who recorded it.
Huntera adds that the protester and teen were about a foot apart when the officer grabbed her without prior warning.
Please signal boost, the news stations in the area are NOT giving it much airtime or writing articles about it, so we need to spread the word.
Pittsburgh cops are known for being super corrupt and I won’t be surprised if nothing comes of this and he walks away a free man. DONT LET THAT HAPPEN
I love how none of that ‘woman are hard to animate and have to always look pretty and with the same expression’ applies to Dreamworks girls. Ruffnut is still pretty and expressionate and perfection.
i know the mother of one of the guys who worked on this movie (and the croods) and they literally think that the ‘women are too hard to animate’ thing is bullshit and they say it’s actually kind of fun to animate them because they’re often given more expressive lines
