You will always be my girl,

His parabatai had tried to feel nothing, for a time. Except what he felt for Jem. It had almost destroyed him. And every day, Jem pretended to feel something, to be kind, to fix what was broken, to remember names and voices almost forgotten, and hoped that would become truth.

“No one was my master—but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.”

Lola And The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (via penguinteen)

Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler

Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler

Danai Gurira as Okoye in Black Panther (2018)

WAKANDA FOREVER

Why do you have your toes out in my lab?

 New print that’ll be debuting at my table at C2E2, and then in my online store afterwards.

Black Panther’s finale is particularly moving as it uses T’Challa’s ship to mesmerize and engage Oakland kids, specifically a wonderstruck child played by Moonlight’s Alex Hibbert. He asks if the ship belongs to the Wakandan king, pauses, then asks who he is. We get to watch a kid create a hero for himself — something doubly touching as we know that’s also true for plenty of kids of color in the audience getting to see a hero who looks like them on the big screen.