Anazen333 - The Things I Think About

The bipolar conversations heard when working in a library:

One minute someone is be thanked for making homemade coffee cake-

-and then two seconds later everyone is in a passionate discussion about decapitation vs hanging.

Basically, this is why working in libraries rocks.

Back in the day…

…at the dawn of the internet, there were authors that got mad at people for writing fan fiction of their work. To the point where they would send lawyer backed cease and desist notices.

Which to me is such a strange response.

For many reasons, some (but not all) being: they (the author) thought they could control the masses, shouldn’t they be flattered that people like their work so much they want to be part of the stories in some small way, and it’s basically free publicity why would they shut down free publicity?

I have a feeling that it came down to money. Which is still illogical. Because:

Author: How dare you profit from my hard work!

Fanfic writers: But we’re not??? We’re posting it on the internet for FREE

Movie Tag!

Tagged by @a-lighthouse-a-man-a-city

Name one move release for each year of your life:

rules: list movies you’ve seen according to their release dates each year you’ve been alive

1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1990 - Kiki's Delivery Service

1991 - Beauty and the Beast

1992 - Aladdin

1993 - Hocus Pocus

1994 - The Swan Princess

1995 - Sabrina

1996 - Sense and Sensibility

1997 - Princess Mononoke

1998 - The Prince of Egypt

1999 - The Mummy

2000 - Miss Congeniality

2001 - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2002 - Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones

2003 - Peter Pan

2004 - The Phantom of the Opera

2005 - Corpse Bride

2006 - Last Holiday

2007 - Miss Potter

2008 - Wall-E

2009 - Sherlock Holmes

2010 - Knight and Day

2011 - Captain America: The First Avenger

2012 - Rise of the Guardians

2013 - Star Trek: Into Darkness

2014 - Dracula Untold

2015 - Strange Magic

2016 - Kubo and the Two Strings

2017 - Coco

2018 - This Beautiful Fantastic

2019 - Spies in Disguise

2020 - Over the Moon

2021 - Black Widow

(2015 was so hard to decide, so many of my favorite movies came out that year. And then 2019 was super sparse xD )

This hit me so hard.

As someone who is autistic.

As someone who never had a hometown.

As someone who is first generation Mexican American.

As someone who is half first generation Mexican American.

I’ve never felt like I belonged anywhere or with any group. Because I wasn’t neurotypical enough. Because I hadn’t lived there long enough. Because I wasn’t American enough. Because I wasn’t Mexican enough. Because I was too different.

And finally, it hits me - I don’t “belong”. And that’s okay - great, even. Because that is my Strength.

Thank you, Xiran Jay Zhao, for writing these beautiful words. They mean more to me than I could ever express.

My Female Heroes (in no particular order)

Saint Jeanne d’Arc - respected and revered warrior and military leader in a time when women were treated like chattel, and never backed down from a fight and what she believed in to the very end. She’s my WWJD anytime I feel scared.

Shania Twain - singer/songwriter who crossed genres with music that let me know I could be tough and feminine at the same time (and glad to be a woman). If I had a soundtrack for my life, all her albums would be in it.

Rumiko Takahashi - manga artist/author with one of the longest careers in the business and wrote several stories that are the perfect blend of action, romance, fantasy, and humor. I hope that my stories are able to do the same someday.

Beatrix Potter - author/illustrator who got her literary start and romances later in life. It took her a while to find her calling and community, giving me hope and the knowledge that I don’t have to have my life worked out before I’m 36 (rom com age limit).

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

http://chng.it/fqXB4YPvv6

I’m can’t believe this! Why would they want to drop such a good show? And just when we’re were getting such great cameos and mysteries!!!!

Change.org

Sign the Petition

Save Ducktales Reboot!

Part 1

Tell Shonda you want more scenes of Nicola

https://chng.it/9W2rWwgjHY

Done! I don’t know how much better those deleted scenes are but fingers crossed this at least gets the message across that fans aren’t happy.

Black Panther: Pride

“So this is the blacks’ Coco.”

That was the first thing my papi said when I asked him what he thought of the movie. He’s not the best when it comes to being sensitive (he tends to say all the politically incorrect terms just for the fun of it, actually). So when I got past the bluntness of his statement, I realized what he actually meant.

Pixar’s Coco is a movie that is very dear to me because I am a Mexican-American. My papi immigrated to the U.S. and thus my family grew up with a different set of culture values and traditions; I grew up as part of a minority. 

So when Pixar came out with Coco, I was one of the first to see it. And what pleased me more than the homages to Mexican culture was the reaction it received worldwide. It became a source of pride for me that people loved a film that was based on my culture; a minority culture.

And what my papi had said summed up Black Panther: it is a movie based on a minority culture and people love it, they praise it because it is different and captivating.

I don’t wish to presume, but as a fellow member of a minority, I think it’s wonderful that those of African heritage (wherever they are from now), can look at Black Panther, see how much others love it, and take it as a point of Pride.