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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Tommy Tallarico's house is for sale

Witness the end

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I saw this on FB today and I wanna try and express something about it. Like, you know the curbcutter effect? Where when curbcuts are put in it benefits everyone (bicyclists, people with baby strollers etc) and not just disabled people?

There is also whatever the opposite of the curbcutter effect is. And this is that.

This isn't just anti-adhd/autism propaganda... this is anti-child propaganda.

Kids have developmentally appropriate ways that they need to move their bodies and express themselves and sitting perfectly still staring straight ahead is not natural or good for ANY CHILD.

Don't get me wrong, I was punished unduly as a kid for being neurodivergent (and other types of kid will ALSO be punished unduly for it... Black kids come to mind) and thus UNABLE to perform this -- but even the kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED WELL by it. They don't benefit from it.

This is bad for everyone.

The idea that bc some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don't hurt them... is a dangerous idea. Compliance isn't thriving. Expectation of compliance isn't fair treatment.

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I won an iPad on a raffle, so naturally, I got myself a pencil and have been giving Procreate a test run. Super proud of how this one turned out!

Link to the TikTok video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ9e1E3X/

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I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

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If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

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RDR2 characters as text posts

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A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

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CANNOT get over this dude's commitment to the bit

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It's super interesting to me how History (and the terms we use!) can vary between countries. My teachers always went "the Reconquest was a crusade, but what we call the Crusades started out in mid-14th century and the two shall not be confused! Say it again, children! Reconquest->Iberian Peninsula! Crusades->Africa!" But damn if this doesn't show that history is biased and that you're gonna get different terms and learn different things depending on where you're from, or even which teacher you're getting. Like, for instance, the Reconquest is seen as stated above, re: "either killing or expelling the Arabs and the Jewish people from the Iberian peninsula"--except that it wasn't truly the case. There is a really good article on that, showing that the Reconquest was more about demanding vassalage than the actual killing and expulsion of non-Christians. Jewish and Arab peoples weren't expelled or killed in Portugal until Dom Manuel (mid-15th century, I believe? perhaps 14th?), which happened two centuries after the Reconquest was deemed finished.

But yeah, we can all agree that Aveyard really just wanted some ~exotic flair~ for her world, and never really bothered to research past the superficial.

Q: Realm Breaker features lots of complex wordbuilding. Did you work out much of that before you started writing, or did you figure it out as you went along?

A: A lot of that was done beforehand—the map, the structure of the world, the skeleton on which everything is based. I knew I wanted it to be a world inspired by the Medieval Mediterranean—Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. I wanted it to be sort of akin to the 13th century, the Crusades. And once I had those two lenses, it was much easier to figure out what I was doing, and use those as references for myself.

My challenge wasn’t how much to build before the book, it was when to stop. Because I could do that exclusively and never start writing, and kind of burn out my motivation. I had to rein myself in, and say, “There are things you’re going to discover as you’re writing the book. Give yourself space to have that level of discovery, or else it’s going to feel a little too constructed.” You have to allow some flexibility for the story to grow.

there are some authors who should just not write in certain parts of the world/history, and im fairly certain VA is one of them

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while I was reading this review, I went, "So... this is Zenith 2.0?" Because the phenomenon is pretty similar in terms of pre-publication push and hype.

Both were books that sold for a large sum of money based solely on popularity and aesthetics;

Both came out and were panned by readers and critics;

Both had big authors blurbing them;

Both hit the bestseller lists;

Both clearly have Throne of Glass and ACOTAR as inspirations;

Zenith couldn't break the second book curse, and the series was abandoned. So I'll be curious to see if the same happens to Lightlark.

Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart

Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart