What Rachel Reads

You want something even crazier? Animorphs ended in May 2001.  She didn’t know what was coming, but damn if she didn’t give her readers a much needed dose of reality about the horrors of war right before we were really going to need it.

If you enjoy easily-digestible sci fi, and can get your hands on the animorphs books, I really recommend it. They’re fucking great and thoughtful in a lot of ways you might not have picked up on as a kid. I’ve read the first dozen or so books over the last couple of years and they’ve literally changed the way I look at the world.

I am not a popular blog. As such, it is SO WEIRD. So very weird. To see a post I randomly tacked information to, roll BACK around to my dash, with further commentary, months later.

people rant about teenage characters being portrayed by grown up actors but i’d like to know how exactly did this happen that 65 years old alan rickman played 38 years old severus snape

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

I see #MidnightSun trending on Twitter, and as a recovering Twilight fan myself, I just want to urge fans to consider making a donation to support the Quileute Tribe’s Move to Higher Ground Project:  a project dedicated to moving the community from a tsunami disaster zone at the edge of the Pacific Ocean to a safer, better and higher ground. –and also to support other causes that directly benefit Native people such as the Navajo Hopi Covid Relief Fund. https://www.gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief As we speak, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is fighting against disestablishment by the Trump administration- you can learn more about how to help on their website and this great article in Teen Vogue: Native Tribe’s Rights to Permanent Homelands Are at Risk. As someone who LOVED the Twilight series, read fanfic, made fanart, and will most definitely have a raucous, drunken read-aloud party of Edward’s inner monologue if Midnight Sun does actually drop…  I think it is so important to never erase that Twilight perpetuates racist and othering ideas about Indigenous people, and the series’ success did not benefit the Quileute Tribe monetarily while SMeyer and the franchise rocketed to mega-success, fame, and wealth.  There’s a lot of talk about the series’ misogyny, which is important, but I think that in 2020, anybody who’s White and who’s still participating in the fandom should centralize critiques of the series’ racism, learn about the issues, and more than that, should back that up with funds and material support.

Tbh, out of all the causes that constantly beg for my attention and participation and donation (I feel guilty skipping most of them, but I am a finite resource, and while I care, I also can’t afford to care too much), whenever it is something involving Native Americans, I tend to go to those projects. Maybe this is party white guilt, but they are also the people who are regularly and constantly marginalised the most, in their own country, underfunded and ignored. Most of us know that a gofundme for a white person usually get way more attention than one for a black person (and both usually not enough), but as far as I know that is even worse in this case. Even though it almost always is not a single person asking for help, but efficient organisers, who will get so much more value out of every single donation! So, yeah, sorry for rambling, I just hope that this hellish virus won’t be the thing that killed off those tribes that managed to survive our tender mercies.

Verdict: it was for sure very cute, and although it doesn’t end with a flying car, it is the perfect update on the most ridiculous romance ever put to screen

OH AND when the MC said he was “hopelessly devoted” I nearly screamed out loud