Curls in China

NaNoWriMo is out, the K. A. Applegate writing challenge is in: Write a 20k word novella each month for five years without stopping. Every six months you must also write an additional 30k novella. After the first two years you're allowed to get ghost writers.

Ryan Coogler gracefully won multiple Oscars and then said to himself, "Feels like it's time to correctly adapt the single most underrated children's book series in history."

animorphs does not get enough credit for its innovation in the field of platonic willing-manipulation dynamics… making peace with being used, using your friends right back, doing it because it’s the only way, doing it because you’re desperate, doing it because you love them, accepting it when and because you trust them, accepting it when and because you don’t trust yourself… strengthening your connection through it like a really disturbing friendship bracelet… loving each other fiercely in and between these moments, caring so, so much for each other, seeking each other’s company to laugh and play and rest... ignoring the weight of it when you can, feeling it full force when you can’t, wearing you down, wearing you down all the time, just another pane of plexiglass separating you from notions of normal, living in that violent dissonance, your whole adolescence in it.

They are all free to read with Applegate’s permission on the animorphs website!

Oh yeah babey

Animorphs says trans rights

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I hate what's happened to the word "triggered" because a lot of people are Not very good at realizing when they're having a PTSD response and end up lashing out at strangers on the internet about it and even when you recognize that this is happening to someone else there is not a lot of language that can allow you to compassionately make them aware of what's happening without sounding like you're accusing them of being irrational and flipping out over nothing