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I’m not sure how invested I’ll get in using this but I will say hello.
My name is Louisa Atwood. I’m an honors student, member of the debate team, I volunteer at the library. My family owns a second hand bookstore in town and that’s about all you need to know.
The username was my younger sister Emily’s idea I couldn’t come up with anything.
What people think the x files is like:
Mulder, on the phone at 3am: Scully have you ever realized that the white pedestrian symbol looks just like the sighting of Bigfoot on the Patterson-Gimlin film?
Scully: ohmygod Mulder please go to bed
What the x files is really like:
Mulder, on the phone at 3am: Scully have you ever realized that the white pedestrian symbol looks just like the sighting of Bigfoot on the Patterson-Gimlin film?
Scully, on the phone at 3am: Mulder, of course it does. The ambulatory pattern of species descending from Homo erectus, zoological or cryptozoological in nature, does not differ. In fact, this similarity lends even more credence to the idea that said ‘bigfoot’ is just a large man in a suit. Now, please, let’s go to bed.
the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time. you never know when those 30 seconds will be. sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years. and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever, which is also doctor who
My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.
But my dad taught me never to give out personal information online...
Anyways, here's some personal information about me!
My name is Emily, but everybody calls me Emmy! I'm from Saskatchewan, and I'm @lou-minesecent's younger sister (I'm the genius behind her url)
I'm a fan of: detective novels, cartoons, solving mysteries, and biking around town after dark
Did dad or mom give you permission to start this blog?
I am over the age of thirteen, I don't need permission to start a blog Lou
Mostly kidding.
I've kinda grown attached to the url suggestion you gave
But my dad taught me never to give out personal information online...
Anyways, here's some personal information about me!
My name is Emily, but everybody calls me Emmy! I'm from Saskatchewan, and I'm @lou-minesecent's younger sister (I'm the genius behind her url)
I'm a fan of: detective novels, cartoons, solving mysteries, and biking around town after dark
Did dad or mom give you permission to start this blog?
I guess I can understand the boredom being overwhelming but Wonderville seems like a cheap way to try and get rid of it.
Maybe theme parks just don’t appeal to me but I’ve never gone and don’t want to.
That’s right, folks! Wonderville is $ CHEAP $ and will help you BEAT THAT SUMMER BOREDOM! 🎟️🎢🎡
GET OFF OF MY TUMBLR
Don’t advertise with my stuff. I did not say you could.
boring dot com forward slash bullshit
oh god. I'm out with him right now and I can't stop looking at his perfect face. Why does he have to be so pretty at sunset. It isn't fair. I hope he dies.
nvm he threw up in my car
He really has no right to be driving like that if he's got motion sickness
Coming back to this:
HE IS AN ACTUAL ROAD HAZARD. HE DRIVES LIKE A CRAZY PERSON AND NEEDS HIS LICENSE TAKEN AWAY.
pratchett will write an entire book about the grim reaper pretending to be santa claus while the grim reaper’s granddaughter goes about hunting down the dumbass who decided to kill santa, and then right when you think you’re done and the oddly pointed shenanigans are winding down he hits you with “humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape,” and knocks you into next wednesday
“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”
GNU TERRY PRATCHETT
Gnu Terry Pratchett
While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'
And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.
