#the evolution of calpurnia tate

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #the missing #encyclopedia brown #the hundred and one dalmatians #tales of magic #ballet shoes #rebecca of sunnybrook farm #just ella #the evolution of calpurnia tate #odd and the frost giants #a mango shaped space

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Aggie from the Calpurnia Tate series, who has an unspecified trauma disorder

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Cover of the book "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. It depicts a black silhouette of the side profile of a girl reaching out to a dragonfly. She is wearing a dress and apron. She has long hair in braids. She is holding a net behind her in her right hand and has butterflies flying around her feet. The bottom of the cover is covered with flowers and the top is covered with tree branches. The flowers and branches have various wooden land critters within them. The background of this piece is a warm yellow.]

#unspecified character #Calpurnia Tate #The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate #Calpurnia Tate Aggie #disabled character of the day

[puppyduckster]

Writing Master List

One Shots(Harry Potter)

Mea Culpa- A one shot exploring Sirius’s grief and guilt while he was stuck in Azkaban.

Companions and Chess Matches: A lonely Regulus befriends Kreacher, while Sirius is off at Hogwarts.

Of Disgraceful Sons and Burnt Tapestries: Walburga’s tried for years to rein her oldest son in, but it seems as if all her efforts were ultimately in vain.

Shattered Hearts: Ron finally allows himself to grieve his older brother’s death and Hermione is there to comfort him.

You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Ron visits Hermione in the Hospital Wing while she’s Petrified.

Sweaters and Letters: When Harry mentions not getting anything for Christmas, Ron decides to take matters into his own hands.

One July Morning: James and Lily welcome the arrival of Harry.

Amor vincit omnia: Andromeda Black reflects on her old life as she prepares to run away with Ted Tonks and begin the next chapter of her journey.

The Fragile Links of Blood: An early post war reunion between Andromeda and Narcissa only results in pain for both women.

These Magical Moments: The story of Lily Evans and James Potter from their First Year to that fateful Halloween night.

Ubi amor, ibi dolor: The summer before Cho Chang's sixth year is filled with many moments of grief over Cedric Diggory. Written for the HP Cry Me a River Fest 2023

To Make A Change: After his argument with Harry at Grimmauld Place, Remus realizes it's finally time to set his life right.

One Shots(Other Fandoms)

Al’s Suicide: A Divergent one shot. Al reflects on his life before he jumps from the chasm.

A Blossoming Friendship(Of Sorts): A brief study into the evolution of the relationship between Josie Pye and Anne Shirley Cuthbert during the seasons of Anne with an E.

An Introspective on Love: Willow Rosenberg reflects on her love and grief for Tara Maclay while she is on her way to England. Post Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

A Little Encouragement Goes a Long Way: There are times when Calpurnia Tate can't help but feel rather exhausted by all of her mother's expectations for her future. Luckily she has a younger brother who's ready to be there for her. Post The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate.

Multi Chapter Fics

Over and Over: A MITM fic. Malcolm Wilkerson has just suffered through one of the most humiliating days of his life. What with being antagonized by his classmates, and completely humiliated by his mother, all Malcolm wants to do is forget the day ever happened. There’s just one problem. The next day is the same all over again.  SLOW UPDATES BUT NOT ABANDONED

The Ties That Bind: A short collection of Calpurnia Tate one shots with each chapter focusing on Callie and one of her brothers. In Progress

A Little Game of Envy: A Swan Princess story. In which Derek tries to deny why he’s so annoyed by Odette’s friendship with the guards and Odette decides to test out a theory given to her by Bromley. Takes place during the opening song- This is My Idea. Complete

#my writing #masterlist #harry potter #divergent #anne with an e #buffy the vampire slayer #malcolm in the middle #calpurnia tate series #the evolution of calpurnia tate #the curious world of calpurnia tate

[froggyplanet4269]

happy pride month to calpurnia tate from the evolution of calpurnia tate

#the evolution of calpurnia tate #some of her quotes are very queer i think #like the one where she talks abt choosing your gender #or when she wonders if she could have a wife too #or yknow. lula

[anolis3]

"The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate", by Jacqueline Kelly.

"How sad to be the last of your kind, flashing your signal in the dark, alone, to nothingness. But I was not alone, was I? I had learned that there were others of my kind out there.", from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.

"When a young naturalist commences the study of a group of organismes quite unknown to him, he is at first much perplexed to determine what differences to consider... For he knows nothing of the amount and kind of variation to which the group is subject...", from The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.

#the evolution of calpurnia tate #jacqueline kelly #goodreads #booklr #reading #moodboard #aesthetic

[naomitess]

Dear Yuletide Writer 2023

Dear Yuletide Author,

First of all, thank you so much for writing a story for me. I really love Yuletide. I love writing stories for people; I love reading stories written for other people in fandoms I didn’t know enough about to properly request; and I love waking up on Christmas morning with a story written just for me waiting. It’s magical. I have loved every story that was written for me, and I am sure I will love whatever you write.

Things I love, in general: witty dialogue. Fic that gets the voices right. Everyday moments that mean more than they seem to on the surface. Enemies-to-friends or enemies-to-lovers. Female friendships. I like crossovers and AUs.

Things I’m not wild about, in general: Female characters being catty for no reason other than "girls are just awful." Mpreg stories are also a really hard sell for me. (Not completely out of the question, just a hard sell.) Rape, torture, dismemberment are generally not what I’m looking for in a Yuletide story. I really don’t like stories about moms dying. I prefer gen to smut. (If you do want to write smut, please nothing smutty about high schoolers although fic where they’ve grown up a bit is OK and anything PG-13 is fine.)

Specifics for the fandoms (and all optional details are optional; as a Yuletide writer, I love getting fairly specific requests for prompts, but don’t feel like you have to stick with mine):

1. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (character requested: Calpurnia Tate)

I want what I think everyone wants on reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate: I want Calpurnia to go to college. (A real college, where she could study science.) I’d love a story about that – Calpurnia fighting to go, going, being there, graduating, any element of it. Any historically plausible college -- Or, if you’d prefer, any story where she takes an important step toward getting a real education will make me happy. Or any story where she does science with her Grandfather, because those are my favorite parts of the books. Or you could use any item on that bucket list she writes at the end of the first book as a prompt. I would prefer not to get a story where Calpurnia’s grandfather dies in the story. If he’s died before the story starts (even quite recently) that’s OK. One of the things I really appreciate about these books is that Calpurnia never surrenders to the demands of femininity. She learns to cook and knit and do various other mandatory tasks because her mother forces her, but never says to herself, “oh, this isn’t so bad,” and the book never presents “becoming a LADY” as the inevitable response to maturity.

I love all the side characters and their relationships with Calpurnia, so feel free to use your favorites or make up some OCs for her to hang out with in college or whatever.

2. Chalion series, Lois McMaster Bujold (characters requested: Tanar Xarre and Surakos Bosha)

I love Tanar and Bosha -- their complicated, intimate, not-exactly-romantic, not-exactly-not-romantic relationship -- and would love to see more of it, within canon or not. Some possibilities:

* Tanar does, as Bosha has suggested, run off and become a pirate queen. Or a bandit queen, a saint, a self-appointed ambassador to some country, anything cool and worthy of her.

* A story set when Tanar is younger, about some danger she gets into and how Bosha gets her out.

* A story in which Bosha is in danger and Tanar gets him out.

* A story about how Tanar, Adelis, and Bosha navigate Tanar and Adelis’s marriage.

* Curtainfic. (I mean, I have to figure that Bosha would spend the whole shopping trip waiting for someone to show up who he gets to has to kill.)

Please feel free to use any of the other characters from the series as well -- if you want to include Adelis, Penric, Nikys, Hekat, or anyone else, by all means feel free.

 3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (character requested: worldbuilding)

I loved this movie -- it was delightful. I think a story that goes through part of the story from the perspective of the people playing this RPG would be really interesting. (Was Forge previously a PC? Did he drop out of the gaming group and move away? Did the GM make him a villain because they were mad at the player, or did the player say, "feel free to have me come back as a villain, that would be GREAT!") I would particularly like it if any of the characters are being played by someone of a different gender from the character (or someone who initially thought they were playing a different gender, then realized they weren't), if Kira is someone's actual kid who gets to pop in and role-play until bedtime, if someone is playing TTRPGs for the very first time…

4. The Saint of Steel series (characters requested: Zale, Worldbuilding -- either/or)

I love Zale so much. SO much. I also just love the whole concept of the Temple of the White Rat. I would be happy with anything related to either Zale or the Temple of the White Rat. I realize "I love all this stuff so much" is not much of a prompt, so here are some ideas:

Zale has to handle some profoundly petty legal problem (along the lines of someone demanding a small personal item back from a former roommate) that escalates.

The Temple gets wind of one of the other swords (like from Swordheart), and sends Zale out to handle it.

Zale has to handle a child custody dispute.

Something in which the Temple of the White Rat exists in some version of the modern world.

A story in which the White Rat called a paladin and decided they were a lot of trouble and the Rat could stick with lawyers henceforth.

A story about how the White Rat calls devotees (does the Rat call people? Or do people just find their way to the Temple and get adopted?)

Seriously, anything sounds great. I also love all the other characters: feel free to include as many as you want (or to invent OCs).

Thank you, and happy Yuletide!

[missparker]

loves your honey in the marrow book , when is the next book coming out?

meanwhile what’s your all time favourite books recommendations would you mind sharing?

Hello! So glad you liked it. I have two more books currently cookin' with Ylva. One will likely come out at the beginning on 2024 and one at the end, but it's hard to know for sure. So many things can change between now at then, but that's the rough timeline.

I'm a librarian which means I hold books and authors in a reverent, high regard and also know what gets published is often just hot garbage. Now, just because something is garbage doesn't mean it shouldn't be published. Some people want only to read garbage and that is totally valid, but there's nothing like holding poorly written, poorly designed, and poorly produced books every day to really make you appreciate your favorites. Also, I don't care how good a book is, if it falls apart in my hands after three circulations, it was designed to break so it would have to be purchased again and I hate that.

ANYWHOO, here are some of my favorites:

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein My Antonia by Willa Cather The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds The Hours by Michael Cunningham

#honey in the marrow #emily waters #library life

[johnwinchestersotherson]

#polls #books #middle grade #my polls

[the-dust-jacket]

#Rita Williams Garcia #Jacqueline Kelly #Richard Peck #One Crazy Summer #The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate #A Long Way From Chicago #All of a Kind Family #Sydney Taylor #Love That? Read This!

[catlynn-reviews]

BFT Book Photo Challenge | January 2019

01.02.2019

My God It’s Beautiful

I’ve always considered the cover and message of this book to be stunning.

#catlynnscontent #bftchallenge #booksforthoughts #bpcforthoughts #books #My God It's Beautiful #The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate #jacqueline kelly

[best-childhood-book]

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and the Moomin Series

Added to the list!

#ask #the evolution of calpurnia tate #mumintrollen

[pintofperegrine]

An illustration for my review of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly, a historical middle grade novel about a young girl who discovers her unconventional passion for science.

Credits: the girl is from a photograph from the 1890s, on Forgotten Faces, the writing behind her is from one of Charles Darwin’s letters, and the plant specimens in the background are from Old Book Illustrations.

#the evolution of calpurnia tate #middle grade #middle grade books #books #book review #collage #my blog #thepigeon.co

[shortgirlwrites]

Childhood Book Review: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Childhood Book Review: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Hi-ho, everyone, and welcome back to the newest installment of Childhood Book Reviews, the series where I review books I loved when I was younger! Up today: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly.

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her…

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#book review #childhood book review #the evolution of calpurnia tate

[puppyduckster]

real pain is when one of your favorite books is so obscure that it has zero fandom activity😭

#books #life problems #bookworm #book problems #the evolution of calpurnia tate #the curious world of calpurnia tate #I love these books #but I have never been able to find any fan content for them :’(

[naomitess]

Dear Yuletide Writer 2022

Dear Yuletide Author,

First of all, thank you so much for writing a story for me. I really love Yuletide. I love writing stories for people; I love reading stories written for other people in fandoms I didn’t know enough about to properly request; and I love waking up on Christmas morning with a story written just for me waiting. It’s magical. Checking my e-mail for the link always feels a little like “DID SANTA COME? HOLY SHIT SANTA DID!!!” I think -- you know the answer will be yes and yet it’s still a THRILL. I have loved every story that was written for me, and I am sure I will love whatever you write.

Things I love, in general: witty dialogue. Fic that gets the voices right. Everyday moments that mean more than they seem to on the surface. Enemies-to-friends or enemies-to-lovers. Female friendships. I like crossovers and AUs.

Things I’m not wild about, in general: Female characters being catty for no reason other than “girls are just awful“ (although, lol, I am requesting MEAN GIRLS fic this year and it’s sort of inherent to that canon? So, I mean. If you’re writing THAT one, it goes with the territory, feel free.) Mpreg stories are also a really hard sell for me. (Not completely out of the question, just a hard sell.) Rape, torture, dismemberment are generally not what I’m looking for in a Yuletide story. I really don’t like stories about moms dying. I prefer gen to smut. (If you do want to write smut, please nothing smutty about high schoolers although fic where they’ve grown up a bit is OK and anything non-explicit is fine.)

Specifics for the fandoms (and all optional details are optional; as a Yuletide writer, I love getting fairly specific requests for prompts, but don’t feel like you have to stick with mine):

1. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

I want what I think everyone wants on reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate: I want Calpurnia to go to college. (A real college, where she could study science.) I’d love a story about that – Calpurnia fighting to go, going, being there, graduating, any element of it. Any historically plausible college -- Or, if you’d prefer, any story where she takes an important step toward getting a real education will make me happy. Or any story where she does science with her Grandfather, because those are my favorite parts of the books. Or you could use any item on that bucket list she writes at the end of the first book as a prompt. I would prefer not to get a story where Calpurnia’s grandfather dies in the story. If he’s died before the story starts (even quite recently) that’s OK. One of the things I really appreciate about these books is that Calpurnia never surrenders to the demands of femininity. She learns to cook and knit and do various other mandatory tasks because her mother forces her, but never says to herself, “oh, this isn’t so bad,” and the book never presents “becoming a LADY” as the inevitable response to maturity.

I love all the side characters and their relationships with Calpurnia, so feel free to use your favorites or make up some OCs for her to hang out with in college or whatever.

2. Mean Girls

I finally saw this movie this year and (probably because I am old) wound up thinking a lot about what an absolute motherfucker of a year that was for poor Ms. Norbury. She almost gets fired for being a drug pusher (which she isn’t), finds out a colleague is sleeping with students (did the teachers have an inkling? there’s so much that happens at schools that teachers know even if students don’t, even if they can’t prove it), she gets randomly put in charge of the sharing & healing session after the brawl and actually does surprisingly well given that she got handed this task with no warning, and then someone gets hit by a bus. Like, this is an eventful year by the standards of most high schools.

I would really like a story about Ms. Norbury’s perspective on that year and the fallout from it. Maybe she’s mentoring a student teacher and stuff about that year comes up and she winds up retelling the story (a year later, or YEARS later -- based on her age in 2004, she’s probably still teaching!) (Pandemic references are fine, if you go that route.) Maybe she has to teach some of them the next year or runs into them some years post-high-school-graduation at her second job. Maybe she has another wildly eventful year and draws on some of what happened in 2004 to handle it. 

3. Clueless

I also finally got around to watching Clueless, and -- okay, Cher is clearly a lesbian, right? The whole “I don’t date because I’m just not interested in high school boys!” thing has such a 90s-lesbian-teen-not-out-to-herself-yet vibe. And then she falls for a boy who turns out to be gay (because that gaydar that she doesn’t even know she has is telling her he’s safe) and then she gets ragingly jealous because Tai is getting together with her ex-stepbrother and concludes, despite the fact that her stepbrother was dating someone else a week earlier and she was totally fine with that, that she’s jealous of Tai because she really wants to be with him? Oh, honey, NO. You are in love with TAI. (Tai, meanwhile: could basically be the original disaster bisexual.)

Anyway: I would like a story about Cher figuring out she’s queer. AU fixfic where she just makes the correct realization at the end would be fine. Or maybe Josh figures it out. Or Dionne does (I bet Dionne knows Tai is bi and into Cher because Tai blurted it out one day when Cher was out of the room.) Or maybe she figures it out in college. Or maybe there’s some sort of hilarious story involving mistaken assumptions, a desperate desire to avoid awkwardness, and a happy ending? 

She does not have to end up with Tai, but I do totally ship them. Also, I have not watched the TV series (and probably won’t) and I haven’t read Emma (but if a Jane Austen fan matches with me on this, feel free to draw on stuff from Emma and nag me to read it in your author notes, you can probably talk me into it!)

4. Chalion series, Lois McMaster Bujold

I love Tanar and Bosha -- their complicated, intimate, not-exactly-romantic, not-exactly-not-romantic relationship -- and would love to see more of it, within canon or not. Some possibilities:

* Tanar does, as Bosha has suggested, run off and become a pirate queen. Or a bandit queen, a saint, a self-appointed ambassador to some country, anything cool and worthy of her.

* A story set when Tanar is younger, about some danger she gets into and how Bosha gets her out.

* A story in which Bosha is in danger and Tanar gets him out.

* A story about how Tanar, Adelis, and Bosha navigate Tanar and Adelis’s marriage.

* Curtainfic. (I mean, I have to figure that Bosha would spend the whole shopping trip waiting for someone to show up who he gets to has to kill.)

Please feel free to use any of the other characters from the series as well -- if you want to include Adelis, Penric, Nikys, Hekat, or anyone else, by all means feel free. 

Thank you, and happy Yuletide!

[beaut1ful-l1ar]

Pretty™ yellow things

#yellow #yellow aesthetic #black and yellow #succulents #plants #plant #fluffy #furry #the evolution of calpurnia Tate #jaqueline Kelly