June 2013
Casey Malone Is The Brute Squad: This Is Not Fucking Harmless →
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I love Kickstarter. I think that’s clear to people who know me by now? I love it. There’s a dude named Brad Muir and he works at Double Fine and I love the games they make, so much. But before Kickstarter, every time a Double Fine game came out I was a little worried it would be their last,…
Please click through to read the whole post. It’s about a Kickstarter project that basically advocates sexual assault. There’s a link at the end of the post to where you can report the project to Kickstarter and hopefully get it removed before it receives the money that has been pledged.
are we fucking serious?
- Tessa: I'm ready to die for Will. I'm ready to die for Jem. I want to protect the people I love, no matter what may happen to me.
- Fangirls: You're a stupid whore, please go fuck yourself or better die.
- Sebastian: I've killed Max, almost killed Isabelle, I tried to kill Jace, I tried to strangle Alec, I tried to rape Clary, I want to burn down the world. Oh, did I mention that I'm into incest and I'm a homophobic piece of shit?
- Fangirls: OMG SEBBY I LOVE YOU YOU PRECIOUS MISUNDERSTOOD SOUL.
Jenna-Louise Coleman & More Join Death Comes to Pemberley » Read the Screen →
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So excited about this one. I adored this book.
“Storytelling is not a democracy and it never will be… no petition, or trending topic, or ongoing twitter assault on my mentions is going to make us do something we don’t believe is right or necessary for the show right now. Some of you have gotten a bit meanly personal. Others have shown nothing but grace. And your enthusiasm means the world to all of us. But if you want a choose-your-own adventure, go to the library. Otherwise, find it in your hearts to trust that we love the story we’re telling and are going to keep giving 1000% of our creative souls to it — even when it makes a few people unhappy.”
—Julie Plec
“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
—Joseph Gordon Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Vol. 1. (via falling-inlove-with-books)
“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer. If you say you see things differently and describe your efforts positively, if you tell people that you “just love to write,” you may be delusional.”
—John McPhee (via robinwasserman)
lion-hearted girl: So about the so-called lack of boy stuff in YA →
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So I have a lot of feelings every single time I hear that people are “angry” or “annoyed” or whatever that they can’t find ONE SINGLE YA BOOK IN THE ENTIRE YA SECTION FOR BOYS TO READ and YOUNG MEN ARE FAILING BECAUSE GIRLS ARE TAKING OVER LITERATURE and HOW CAN BOYS POSSIBLY BE…
My 14 yo son tends to read a lot of the same YA books I read and has no problem with them. Maybe I just have the best kids ever* but I would like to think more boys would read a wider variety if it was introduced to them as books for teens and they were encouraged to read what interests them and not worry about what others think. Of course getting the average teen to not care about his peers opinions is a whole other discussion.
* I do, just saying.Related story, when my son was reading Prom Dates From Hell by Rosemary Clement Moore, at school, he was asked why he was reading vampire romance, and was told he was reading a girl book. I an so glad that he shrugged off those comments and kept right on reading.
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Her kids ARE basically the best.
Brave
Sara Bareilles
“Brave”-Sara Bareilles
Reference Desk, Long Day on the
Patron: “Hi, I need a motorcycle repair book.”
Me: “Oh yeah, sure. What breed is your motorcycle?”
Me [headdesk]
TV Producer, The Library as
Man [holding up a DVD set]: “I really hope you get more of The Wires in.”
Me: “We can request whichever season you need if we don’t have it on the shelf. Which one are you missing?”
Man: “Well, I’ve seen all five seasons, I just hope you get more.”
Me: “You mean you hope they make more episodes?”
Man: “Yes, that’s a great idea!”
Me: “-“
If anyone ever tells you you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life.
