Damn Im So Clumsy!

damn I’m so clumsy!

btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors

Keeper of the Lost Cities is how I became friends with my boyfriend of one year

Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.

Annabeth and Percy

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

People are so wrongfully dismissive of KotLC's worldbuilding. For the themes it wants to convey to its intended audience, it's so brilliantly done.

It tells themes of choosing love, defying authority, finding a home, and dealing with guilt; it has detailed worldbuilding about things like interspecies relations, expected conformity, governmental structures, and magic systems. And this is all in a book intended for kids! There are treaty negotiations shown, where one species is represented with far more people than any other, but they're placed around a "round table of equality," so everyone has to act like it's equal when it isn't.

And this is in a book series intended for kids, but so many of us are older and still get something out of it because it's so well done!

Like, when I was ten, I wasn't thinking "This series has a really strong point to make about marriage equality and how what's believed to make an 'ideal' marriage is ruled so much by bias and eugenics!" I was going "wow, matchmaking is really bad..." and the deeper message was something I unlocked later. Every time I reflect on these books, there's more for me to come away with that applies to the times we're living in.

The world of KotLC is built and displayed so that you're presented with a "perfect world" that makes you deeply, deeply uncomfortable. You're shown people who believe their world is perfect through the lens of characters who know better than anyone else why it isn't. You're shown how the dominant view can be hurtful and wrong, and how young people are critical to changing things.

And yet people will openly say that the worldbuilding sucks? It blows my mind.

yall I tried the Esmeralda variation yesterday and about broke an ankle. If anyone has some easy/intermediate level pointe variations, I would love suggestions! no hops en pointe please they scare me

what is it with mothers of chronically ill children and magnesium