currently thinking about how the first time we see percy show signs of suicidal ideation was when he landed in the water beneath the gateway arch and stated that he wished he could drown himself. currently thinking about how his mom was the only person that kept him grounded throughout his childhood thus far, and, in turn, the chance of saving her being the only thing that kept him alive in his darkest moments.
percy and annabeth being an unstoppable force in capture the flag. like, to the point where if a camper spots only one of them, they panic because where is the other one?
This captures everything I love about being online
This reminds me of the time that I asked if anyone had resources on the history of Shinto and while nobody had book recs, turns out an actual Temple Maiden followed me on Tumblr and was down to chat.
Tumblr has a startling number of well informed insightful people with names that reference obscure hentai.
People are downright interesting when theyβre not being duct taped into one box or another.
The world is fucked when historians and linguists and mathematicians and artists of all kinds are forced to work jobs that suck the soul out of them because they didnβt get the right bit of paper from the right building or be born in the wrong place or something
seriously think about how many absolute geniuses spend their free time mastering some obscure realm of knowledge but have to mop up shit for 8 bucks an hour, or pick vegetables for a nickel
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinβs brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.
Sesame Streetβs official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.
As always, America, PBS has you and your kidsβ backs.
I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country.Β More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.
βUnderstand that when youβre competing for the attention of a teen reader, you arenβt competing against games, movies, and social media. A teen reader isΒ reading, just reading differently. Often, they are reading fan fictionβon their phone. They are part of a secret club, finding comfort in characters they already know and scenarios that are reassuring (and yes, maybe titillating, but these are teens weβre talking about). However, thereβs something else extremely important to remember about fan fiction: itβs free.
βMaybe part of the decline in YA sales is because books for the average teen are not affordable to the average teen.β
Hmmβ¦
THIS ONLY WORKS IF WE GET MORE THAN 7% ROYALTIES, but I am generally for it.
All of us want to read “books that are different from the books we like but also exactly like it” and that’s why we have fanfictions. That’s why we love fanfictions. It is literally the book we love but in a different font.
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