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Honestly I’m just curious lol. Feel free to share anecdotes about what you remember from that day in the notes. I was in kindergarten myself and remember it surprisingly well (probably because I was only a couple hours away from United 93).

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asking for praise for a thing you made feels so humiliating like oooh look at me I’m a little animal and I did a trick and made a thing can I have pets and treats about it. and then somebody tells you it’s good and you understand why golden retrievers are the way they are

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bruh ik i see it- jack frost paid a visit this morning and wrote his name on my car 😭 HELPP

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doodle :3x

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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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may all your favorite fanfic writers never lose their hyperfixation and love for your blorbos so they keep writing fanfics about your blorbos forever

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1998 // 2019

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are you able to say why rootbound got pushed back to july 2026? the tangled fandom is so excited for it lol!

I'm so glad to hear y'all are excited, I am too!! As a professional gossip-hound, I am sad to report the delay is nothing juicy—the short answer is there were some business shuffles with Disney's publishing arm that led to a LOT of books getting rescheduled. For the folks who want the nitty-gritty, I'll drop that under the cut!

So the unsung wheels of publishing are printing (the process and logistics of printing thousands of copies of one (1) book at time) and distribution (the process of moving enough copies from the printer to various bookstores to meet demand.)

There are a limited number of mass printing facilities worldwide, and hundreds of books published every year, so that alone means publishers have to schedule their books to go to print far in advance. Factor in shipping (especially if the books are printed overseas), authors running late, books being "crashed" (the publisher pays a LOT to skip the queue so a book can sell ASAP), the chaos of tariffs impacting material costs.... the further out you can schedule, the better.

Now distribution, that's its own set of logistics. And it's not unusual for a publisher to actually contract with another publisher to handle their distribution—for example, Bloomsbury has been distributed by Macmillan for a while, at least in the US. It just costs less to pay Macmillan to share services than to try to set up and manage their own distribution. Similarly, Disney Publishing had a distribution agreement with Penguin Random House, where PRH's distribution systems also handled Disney books.

Emphasis on 'had'!

This past May, PRH and Disney announced a HUGE licensing deal. This means instead of JUST handling distribution, PRH would be taking over the entire process for all the titles they'd licensed, editorial, printing, you name it, for the Disney tie-in books. But as you can imagine, that means hiring more staff to handle the additional load for editorial, marketing and publicity, production, etc. It also means they need to figure out where and when to print all these books, and also WHEN they can release them for best impact.

On the author side, we could tell there was some sort of shakeup in the works as far back as last fall, because huge layoffs were hitting at every level. My editor Flannery put in a herculean effort to make sure I got the last of my substantive editorial notes before she was let go. As a result, Rootbound is more or less done! The final stage remaining is called pass pages, where the text is laid out in a PDF as it'll look in the book, and I do a final read and make any cosmetic tweaks. Then it ought to go to print!

You might be reading this with some degree of horror at how little control it seems I have over this process, but frankly, that is typical of publishing. Stuff gets announced and changed for books all the time, and it's not a reflection on the work, it's a reflection on an unpredictable market with a lot of variables. Here are a handful of reasons I've seen release dates changed:

A major bookstore selected it for a monthly book club

A major book box would do a special edition, but for a different month

A major retailer would order a SIGNIFICANT quantity of copies up front... IF the release date was changed

To sync up with the release of a UK edition

Wanting more time to pitch a book for things like book club picks, special editions, retailer buy-in, etc.

The author is running extremely late and/or turning in an unprintable manuscript

COVID! Just covid.

The publisher acquired a different book they a) think will compete for the same market and b) sell better, so they give the new book the more favorable release date

The publisher has beef with the author and has scheduled the book for a terrible release date on purpose (not me, and I will not elaborate)

So all in all, I'm happy for Rootbound's delay to be for utterly boring reasons, haha. While I would have loved for it to go out into the world sooner, it gives PRH's team more time to make the most of the launch. And honestly, having release dates shift on me quite a bit, this may not even be the final change. All I can promise is I'll keep you updated as best I can!

(Before anyone asks, I do not currently know of any special editions planned, that doesn't mean there won't be any, but if there are, I won't be able to talk about them until they're announced!)

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Jfc this is such a Rapunzel about Gothel song!!!

I've spent my whole life trying to Find silver lines in clouds of blue I wonder will the edges change But no, they always look the same And you were wise, you should have known I realise it now I'm grown You stretched my branches far too wide And left the leaves to fall and die I wake up in the night To replay the story As I wipe my eyes Pretend that you're sorry I'm glad that you died 'Cause now I don't worry But no matter what I do I'll be carrying the weight of you Everybody has a past Just sad how long mine seems to last I rip the words right off the page But I always write them down again I wake up in the night To replay the story As I wipe my eyes Pretend that you're sorry I'm glad that you died 'Cause now I don't worry But no matter what I do I'll be carrying the weight of you You were the one to start my emptiness What kind of monster leaves a girl like this? There I said it I wake up in the night To replay the story And I wipe my eyes Pretend that you're sorry I'm glad that you died 'Cause now I don't worry But no matter what I do No matter what I do No matter what I do I'll be carrying the weight of you And no matter what I do I'll be carrying the weight of you

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You probably were ask this before but do you wish that tangled brought a little more culture? Or in the series?

I don't know what you mean by "brought a little more culture." If you could explain yourself, I'd be glad to give my opinion.

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non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

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↳ Day 4: underrated tv show/arc | Prodigal Son

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“The girl with the Night Fury!!”

Another sketch I did of my girl Grey and her Night Fury Shadow based on the screenshot of Hercules and Pegasus from Disney’s Hercules!

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Did all viking women get married? In other words, Does Astrid absolutely have to get married and become Mrs. Haddock? :D

Absolutely.  All Viking women were expected to get married.  Except for those who became hofgyðja (temple priestesses).  Also, if she were a spækona (seeress) or a seiðkona (sorceress).  No one really touched them.  They were kind of creepy.  A spækona or seiðkona would live outside the village in their own little houses and would never actually go into the village to practice.  People came to them.  Völvar made house calls, but even they had been married at some point.

And shieldmaidens didn’t have to…if they existed at all.

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I’m glad you wrote this because my OC in a loosely based HTTYD role play becomes the Chief of her village initially without a husband.

Hello, this has been bugging me for months, I've undertaking museum trips and asked a lot of curators who don't seem to know the answer to this but does the wife of a Viking Chief have a name? Any power? I googled tribe culture and found something about the wife being a Chieftainess but I want to make 100% sure this is correct as it was from Wikipedia and about tribes in general and not just Vikings. Been thinking about this with Hiccstrid see.

Well…First thing’s first. Berk is actually not a tribal community.  Oh, yes, they refer to themselves as a tribe, which is of course why you looked up tribe, but the Iroquois are also referred to as a tribe, but many people who have studied North American history will tell you that the Iroquois were actually a state…Or six allied states.  What have you.  Berk is not a state, though.  Berk is a chiefdom.  Like, textbook definition.  So whatever Wikipedia had for you on tribes…Throw it out the window.  Forget it.  It’s not applicable.

And this seems like such a weird thing to talk about here, but it’s important.

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I mean where’s the lie?

Charles, Logan, and Hank: ok, Peter, we’re going to be breaking into the pentagon, please wear something comfortable and discreet.

Peter, already in the car: