I finally gave her curly hair. True curly hair :3
Anyways! Meet Josephine Grace Andrews! She's a real sweetheart. Albeit shy
Blue: job
Purple: hobbies
Pink: favorite foods :p
She's in her mid 30's, and is about 5'9 :)
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I'm jealous of kids today being able to grow up with the amazing YA books being written now ("now" for me being within the past 15 years or so), but I still read them even though I'm not Young. Here are a few of my favorite YA authors and books, in no particular order:
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
TW: mental illness, suicidal thoughts
I adore that there's a whole epic fantasy battle thing that we see pieces of in the foreground, but the book focuses on the characters in the background who are dealing with their own stuff.
Alice Oseman, Radio Silence and Solitaire
TW: suicidal thoughts, emotionally abusive parent (RS), self-harm (S), eating disorder (S)
You might recognize Alice Oseman as the author of the Heartstopper comic and TV series. They wrote novels too! Really good ones, although that's not surprising. Solitaire's protagonist is Charlie's sister Tori, and its events take place a year or so after the start of Heartstopper (possible spoilers for season 3, who knows?). Radio Silence is set in the same town I think another year later, and Aled (who was in the comics, but was renamed and somewhat reimagined as Isaac in TV Heartstopper) is a main character though not the protagonist. Nick, Charlie, and Tori make very brief cameos.
David Levithan and John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
TW: I can't think of any major triggers in this book, I apologize if I missed something.
Obviously both of these authors have independently written other excellent books, but this one is my favorite, mostly because I love Tiny Cooper and his musical so much. This is the lightest (i.e. not dark, and not heavy) by far of the books here. It's mostly really fun but occasionally serious.
Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
TW: bullying, homophobia, suicidal thoughts, death
I read a review of this book that basically said enough with the artsy language and metaphors, so maybe it isn't for everybody, but I found it brilliant. It encapsulates a thought or an idea or a feeling in a way you'd never expect, but that you relate to immediately. Also I think that having the POV switch between twins, but two years apart (one twin at 14, the other twin at 16) with a major life-altering event in between, is an amazing way to tell this story.
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor and Park and Carry On
TW: bullying (E&P), abusive family situation (E&P), vampires (CO)
Eleanor and Park is set in the 80s with all of the requisite 80s accessories, and characters that will make your heart break in different ways. Carry On is a sort of Drarry fanfic spoof (and supposedly written by a character in a different Rainbow Rowell novel!). But the characters are so well-developed and engaging that you stop seeing them as caricatures and start caring about them in their own right.
Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Haters
TW: vulgar talk (really just teenage boys trying to be gross), dysfunctional family situation (M&E&DG), death (M&E&DG)
I can't overstate how much I love the writing style of these books. Always entertaining and often hilarious, it jumps from normal prose to an outline, to a film script, to a bulleted list, and always turns out to be the perfect way to show whatever is going on.
What's most important to me: In all of these books, the young adult characters are real people who are complicated, and surprising, and funny, and passionate. They may have serious problems but they can have fun and be silly. They screw up but they try to fix things. They love and support their friends, and their friends love and support them. Often there are parents who are also real people doing their best; I appreciate that in a YA book! For the most part these books don't have magically happy endings, but they do end in a good place, with hope.
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Mark? MARK? Hes wired in. Sorry? He’s wired in. Is he? Yes. How bout now you still wired in? Call security. You issued 24 million new shares of stock! You were told that if new investors came along- how much were your shares diluted? How much were his? You signed the papers. You set me up! You’re gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company? This is gonna be like im not a part of facebook. It won’t be like youre not a part of facebook. Youre not a part of facebook. My name’s on the masthead! You might wanna check again. Is this because i froze the account??? You think we were gonna let you parade around in your ridiculous suits pretending you were running this company? SORRY MY PRADAS AT THE CLEANERS! Along with my hoodie and my fuck you flip flops, you pretentious douchebag! Security’s here, youll be leaving now. Im not signing those papers. We’ll get that signature. Tell me this isnt about me getting into the Phoenix. You… you did it i knew you did it! You planted the story about the chicken! I didnt plant that story about the chicken- Whats he talking about? You had me accused of animal cruelty! Seriously. What the hells the chicken? And i’ll bet what you hated the most, is that they identified me as a co founder of facebook WHICH I AM. You better lawyer up asshole, cause im not coming back for 30%… im coming back for EVERYTHING. Get him out of here. Its okay, I’m going. Hang on! Almost forgot. Here’s your $19,000. I wouldn’t cash it though i drew it on the account you froze. I like standing next to you, Sean. It makes me look so tough.
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Pixar Movies 24 - Luca
Pixar Movies 24 – Luca
It seems that Pixar hasn’t done as well with their advertising in the last couple of years. I knew very little about Soul before I watched it about a year ago, and I didn’t even know this movie existed until I started researching for a month where I’d catch up on Disney and Pixar movies. Their 25th movie, Turning Red, wasn’t exactly well advertised either. As for Lightyear, which is currently…
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The castings I would recommend as protagonists for gay movies with guaranteed success (In order) :
1. Michael Fassbender & James McAvoy
2. Dylan O'Brien & Thomas Brodie-Sangster
3. Ben Barnes & Andrew Garfield
4. Andrew Garfield & Jesse Eisenberg
5. Bradley James & Colin Morgan
We already know they have great chemistry on screen (except Ben and Andrew, but I'm willing to bet they'll be magical)
Add your own castings!
This could be our contribution to the film industry (not that they need our help or sth)
I would add Ben Barnes and Freddy Carter too but I feel like I would be judged
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