How about we focus on the thousands of species that are critically endangered rather than bringing back an already extinct species.

Yes, this is a great achievement for science, but why don’t we focus this money and time into coming up with conversations tactics to protect the plants and animals we still have????

Like genuinely its heartbreaking to scroll through the list of endangered species and know that barely any effort is being put into protecting them.

Our futures rely around these plants and animals. Even the smallest thing such as an isopod or a butterfly, they make a huge difference.

Almost 50% of the cause of endangered ocean life is due to climate change…Guess who is responsible for that? Humans! We are!

Yet we’re stuck on bringing back the Dire Wolf.

There’s been an increase in seal and sea lion deaths due to algae blooms. Algae blooms are caused by increased water temperatures.

Coral bleaching is occurring due to warming waters. Coral reefs are home to almost 30% of all marine life. Further more, they’re a vital asset in carbon cycling. A lot of people think that trees are the main source of oxygen…But the ocean produces more oxygen than trees and all other land plants combined!

50 million dollars…That’s how much money is being funded towards the protection and growth of coral.

Can you guess how much funding went into bringing back the Dire Wolf?

435 million dollars.

$435,000,000.00

Four hundred and thirty five MILLION dollars.

The last two Northern White Rhinos…only females left. 100 million dollars.

So the question is; why is all this money being pushed towards a project that would bring back an ALREADY EXTINCT animal when there are so many more that this money could be going to?

My life seems to always be revolving around the spiral of serendipity.

So that post may have saved my life and it may have made my treatment a lot easier too.

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that's an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?

okay, then bring it up to a librarian

seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we'll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say "hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?" most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there's an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen

Struggling with your character descriptions sounding a little too rigid or flat? Here’s something you can change about your writing mindset today that will help you craft more immersive and natural descriptions of your characters!

Stop over describing your characters!

The one thing that’s going to give you away as an amateur writer is having paragraphs upon paragraphs of plain physical description listing basic characteristics for every single character you introduce.

You don’t need to give us their eye color, their hair texture, the details of their face, their clothing style, or anything else — unless it’s presented with a purpose and crafted into the story flow.

Instead of giving flat and uninteresting descriptions that simply list out characteristics of physical looks your readers won’t even remember, tell us…

How they smile too widely when they’re nervous, or about how the atmosphere changes when they walk into the room, how the volume of their voice jumps when they get excited, or their dimple caves in only when they laugh at a certain person’s jokes…

When they enter the scene, do they grab people’s attention, do they stop to chat with anyone along the way? Do they keep stepping on the shoelaces of the yellow sneakers they drew smiley faces over in black pen when they were little?

If you want to do physical description in the right way:

Think about how you can include more story into it

Use it with purpose and at appropriate times

Weave it into your character’s personality so smoothly that it doesn’t even feel like description anymore

Did you know I have a whole chapter inside The Character Bible dedicated to nailing your physical description with examples from beautifully written books?

Pick it up on its own or as part of my Writer’s ToolBoox through the [link here] or below!