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So here is an important conversation about relationships I was able to have with my kids thanks to the last episode of Supergirl.

Kara has a friend. And this friend, Winn, is “in love” with her. And even though she gives him no indications that she feels the same way, he kisses her. She does not return the kiss, but later finds herself apologizing to him and trying to figure out how she “messed up.”

This was the point where I paused the show and turned to my 11yo daughter and 9yo son, and told them something I wish someone had told me when I was younger.

Just because someone likes you or has romantic feelings for you, you do not owe them anything. It’s important to be kind, but it is not your fault if someone has feelings for you that you don’t have for them. You don’t have to feel bad, and they shouldn’t make you feel bad about it. Their feelings are their feelings, and yours are yours, and you never have to apologize for that. If someone cannot value your friendship for what it is, they aren’t really your friend.

I’ve consistently seen Winn treat Kara poorly and act out subtle aggressions because he feels entitled to more than friendship from her, in spite of zero indications on her part that she is interested in romance. I hope the writers address it, and address why she feels guilty. Given the overall girl-power themes of this show, I actually think they might? Fingers crossed.

Either way, it was a great talking point to have with my kids. Almost as great as when I said, “The actress who plays her boss? She’s married to Han Solo in real life!” They were SO EXCITED. (And also said, “Wow, they must be SO RICH!”)

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We’re so excited to present to you KISSING MAX HOLDEN, one of the titles selected for our sixth list!

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We’ll always hear his voice, too.

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Rupert Grint talks about a drawing of Alan Rickman. [x]

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Peggy’s not going to waste her shot! 

Credit: me. 

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I am a firm believer that my thoughts and the way I think about myself impacts my entire life and creates my experience of the world. And if I am beating the drum of … ‘Not good enough,’ then that’s where I’ll be stuck.

Aaron Hartzler, author of WHAT WE SAW (out now!) and RAPTURE PRACTICE.

Listen to his full interview here, or download it on iTunes or Stitcher.

(via firstdraftwithsarahenni)

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I read the bulk of Sinner in a day but had to stop several times to calm my heart. My brother was an addict and his choices have tormented nearly 20 years of my life (I am only 27). He and Cole share so many of the same qualities. It was difficult to read this magnified version of him. Painful and scary. What an untidy character: loud, selfish, charming... Cole was very well written and I was really impressed by how you handled his drug addiction and the effect it had, as well as Isabel's role.

Dear themusicourcollisionsmake,

This means a lot. 

This letter was tucked inside every advanced copy that went out:

A lot of readers think this is a novel about addiction; it’s really a novel about living beside someone with addiction. I said it was the truest novel I’d ever written, and I genuinely hope the optimism inside its pages is as true as the dark chapters. 

I hope you find a way to find peace with your werewolf brother, or apart from him. It’s harder to be a human, but, as I’m sure you already know, humans are where the happy endings are at.

urs

Stiefvater

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Read this beauty today. Highly recommend.

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→ “during the school week, they all wore the aglionby uniform: khaki pants and a v-neck sweater with a raven emblem. it was an easy way to identify the advancing army. raven boys.”

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This is inspired by my friend Jon Skovron’s posts about how he has transitioned to a full-time writer. I always find other writers’ schedules fascinating, so, here’s mine.

7:30: Drag myself out of bed. My older kids are already awake, reading or writing or playing the 3DS. Probably comb my hair,…

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A number of questions just turned up in my ask box that dealt with anxiety. Rather than just pulling one of them, I decided to answer all of them. Because the basic question was: “I have anxiety. Have you had it and what did you do?”

I have had anxiety. I suffered a serious bout of in…

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This is PJ. He was born with cerebral palsy. This weekend he got to dance with his fellow members of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe at their annual powwow in North Carolina.

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god, i hate teenage girls, they’re so vapid and awful

like, let’s go over a list of all the terrible things teenage girls have done

volunteered for the first line of defense at the battle of stalingrad to fight against nazis

invented science fiction

rode twice as far as paul revere, in the pouring rain and alone, to alert americans to the approaching british during the revolutionary war

pioneered the art of investigative journalism, and its use as a tool of social justice

turned the tide of the hundred years’ war

put themselves in the line of fire, often literally, in order to help end injustice

organized a student strike that helped spark brown v. board

hid from the nazis in an annex for two years and found such great poignancy in their experience that their ordinary day-to-day-thoughts have become world famous

led lewis and clark across the north american continent— while pregnant/raising a child

worked to desegregate schools in 1835, as well as to end slavery

helped found the aclu and fought for women’s suffrage; also, got arrested for being radical socialists

wrote the first known work of literature by an american black person

like, god, what a bunch of bubbleheaded excuses for human beings