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Troye Sivan’s new song, Strawberries & Cigarettes, from the Love, Simon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Troye Sivan’s new song, Strawberries & Cigarettes, from the Love, Simon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
These are my top ten favourite Disney channel original movies that i have seen in no particular order :)
1. High School Musical (1 and 2- HSM3 was not a DCOM)
2. The Cheetah Girls (all)
3. Camp Rock
4. Princess Protection Program
5. Cadet Kelly
6. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
7. Starstruck
8. Lemonade Mouth
9. Let it Shine
10. Geek Charming
The IT fandom is so weird to be in because we have literally created a whole separate storyline for all the characters, and we basically ignore the original plot of the book almost entirely even though it is the very reason why we’re all here in the first place. Stephen King may have created these characters and implemented them into a unique and complex story, but we’re all just turning a blind eye like FUCK your canon compliant universe, Stephen. Killer clown who? Stan and Georgie’s deaths whO? They forget everything WHO???? Eddie dying and not getting to express his true feelings for the love of his life WHO??!!??!?? We take denial to a whole other realm of existence and I’m honestly here for it.
thotwing asked:
crollalanzaa answered:
I’m kind of rubbish at thinking up original things to say and with decent explanations so … have some off the top of my head.
Daichi - Detective shows he watches
Suga - Food blog. He can’t cook very well, but likes experimenting - especially with chillies.
Asahi - art blog. He draws and likes creating things with his hands
Nishinoya- t-shirts. (Incidentally this is me, I have a passion for tees)
Tanaka - ducks
Ennoshita - movies. I think that’s a given. It’s canon.
Narita - Eurovision.
Kinoshita - Game of Thrones
Kageyama - what’s a blog?
Hinata - VOLLEYBALL!
Tsukishima - fish,
dinosaurs,
cool people in glasses,
how to cope when your brother lets you down in the worst possible way so you look stupid in front of that classmate that wasn’t Yamaguchi.
short people and how to annoy them.
making the most of your height.
Yamaguchi - pokemon
Kiyoko - hairstyle tips
Yachi - studying the smart way, hair accessories (secret blog is Kiyoko Appreciation)
Takeda - the Art of Persuasion
Keishin - music and old movies.
Bonus Saeko - mototbikes, drums, kickass women, contributes to a certain someone’s music and old movies blog.
What she says: I’m fine
What she means: In Howl’s Moving Castle Sophie goes back in time and witnesses Howl making his original deal with Calcifer thus discovering the way to break Howl’s curse and before she leaves she tells Howl to find her in the future and if you recall to the beginning of the movie Howl saves Sophie from some highly questionable and rapey soldiers and tells her “there you are sweetheart, sorry I’m late, I’ve been looking everywhere for you” because he took what she told him as a child to heart and has been looking for her ever since and if that’s not the tightest shit ever I don’t know what is
I am so excited to announce more details about my new imprint with Disney – Rick Riordan Presents! In 2018, we will be publishing three fantastic books by three wonderful authors, but if you’re a little confused about what this imprint business is all about, read on! I will do my best to explain.
If you missed it, here’s the original announcement from Publishers Weekly about why I decided to make an imprint at Disney.
And here’s the follow-up with Publishers Weekly talking about the three authors who we’ll be featuring in our first year.
Basically, our goal is to publish great books by middle grade authors from underrepresented cultures and backgrounds, to let them tell their own stories inspired by the mythology and folklore of their own heritage. Over the years, I’ve gotten so many questions from my fans: “Will you ever write about Hindu mythology? What about Native American? What about Chinese?” I saw that there was a lot of interest in reading fantasy adventures based on different world mythologies, but I also knew I wasn’t the best person to write them. Much better, I thought, to use my experience and my platform at Disney to put the spotlight on other great writers who are actually from those cultures and know the mythologies better than I do. Let them tell their own stories, and I would do whatever I could to help those books find a wide audience.
So let’s go through some questions you might have!
What IS an imprint?
An imprint is like a brand, a subdivision within a publishing company that usually specialized in one particular kind of book. If we were talking about movie studios, for instance, you could describe Disney as the publisher, with various “imprints” under their umbrella – Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney Animation, etc., each making a different kind of film, but all part of Disney.
With publishing, Disney Worldwide Publishing is the main company I work with. They have published all my various mythology-based books. Rick Riordan Presents will be a small branch of that very large publishing house. Our hope is to eventually publish about four books a year under the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, two books every fall and two every spring. All these will be books that my editor Steph Lurie and I feel will appeal to kids who like my books. In other words, they will probably be some type of fantasy, with lots of humor and action, and probably draw on myth or folklore in some way.
Are you writing all these books for the imprint?
No! My job is to help edit the books where it seems appropriate, to offer advice and guidance where I can, and to promote the great books we will publish, but I am not writing the books and I don’t tell the authors what to write. This is not like using a ghost writer or ‘assistant writer’ to write my ideas. These are original stories generated by the authors – their intellectual property, told their way, with their characters and their sense of humor. The worlds they create are their own. They are not extensions of Percy Jackson’s world.
The authors (and their agents) who choose to submit their works to the imprint negotiate a publishing deal with Disney the same as they would with any publisher. I’m not directly involved in those negotiations. Steph Lurie just shows me samples of the different works that are submitted and I let her know which ones I’m the most excited about. The three books we will publish in 2018 are the first batch, and I am stoked about each of them!
*Suspicious Sideways Glance* So what’s in it for you?
Disney is paying me a nominal fee to write an introduction for each book, help edit and promote it, etc., but that’s the limit of my monetary involvement. As I said above, the authors own their own intellectual property and negotiate contracts with Disney as they would with any publishing deal. I am not doing this for money.
Honestly, for me this is a way to give back for my success. I’ve been very lucky in my career. I want to use my platform to help other writers get a wider audience. I also want to help kids have a wider variety of great books to choose from, especially those that deal with world mythology.
Will you keep writing your own books, though?
Oh, yes! The imprint won’t affect my own projects at all. I’ll keep writing my own books. Not to worry.
So how do you choose which books to publish for Rick Riordan Presents?
My editor and I look for books that I could enthusiastically recommend to my own fans. If you like Percy Jackson, if you like Magnus Chase and all my other stuff, then I believe you will probably like these books too. That’s not to say the imprint’s titles are exactly like my stuff. These authors all have their own unique voices, senses of humor, plots, characters, etc. But the books are all great, highly accessible reads with lots of fun fantasy and mythology elements. And, as I said, we try to pick books about cultures you don’t hear enough about in middle grade books, by authors who know their mythology and folklore from the inside in a way I never could.
Okay, tell me about the first three titles, then.
I’m so glad you asked!
First up, in spring 2018, is Aru Shah and the End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi. (The author goes by ‘Rosh,’ and her first name is pronounced ‘Roshni.’ The ‘a’ is silent.)
You guys have been asking about a Percy Jackson-esque take on Hindu mythology, and let me tell you, Rosh does it better than I ever could. Aru Shah is a smart and salty middle school girl who just wants to impress her snooty private school friends. She takes them on a tour of the Indian-American Museum her mom curates, where her friends dare her to do the one thing she is forbidden to do: light an ancient lamp that will supposedly start the end of the world.
Aru takes the bet. You can guess what happens from there. All of Hindu mythology comes crashing down on her. Aru finds out the secret of her ancestry. She is plunged into new worlds. She meets new friends, lots of enemies, and a host of gods and demons on her quest to stop the chaos she’s unleashed. Oh, and there’s a talking pigeon and a ping-pong ball that shoots lightning. What else could you want? The book has been described as Percy Jackson meets Sailor Moon. Yup. This is going to be great!
Rosh is a rising star, for sure, but she is no stranger to publishing. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of young adult fantasies The Star-Touched Queen and A Crown of Wishes.
Here’s her website: http://www.roshanichokshi.com
And follow her on Twitter! @NotRashKnee
Next up, in spring 2018, are two more great titles!
Storm Runner by Jennifer Cervantes.
Zane is a lonely 13-year-old boy in New Mexico whose physical disability makes him feel even more like everyone at his middle school is watching him. But as he soon learns, his physical differences are merely the first clue to a family history that connects him to the Mayan gods–and puts him in mortal danger. As an ancient Mayan prophecy begins to unravel, Zane has to find the hero within himself.
Great premise, wonderful main character, and some seriously awesome mythology!
Jennifer’s first book was the middle grade novel The Tortilla Sun, which racked up multiple starred reviews and awards.
Here’s her website: http://www.jennifercervantes.com/home.html
And follow her on Twitter! @jencerv
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee.
Yoon Ha Lee’s debut novel was an adult sci fi book called Ninefox Gambit, which I absolutely loved. You can read my review here. A few weeks after I finished it, my editor Steph wrote me and said, ‘Hey, this author named Yoon Ha Lee would like to do a book for our imprint –”
And I said, “YES!” Then I read the proposal. And then I said, “YES!” again.
My elevator pitch for the book is simple: Korean fox spirits in space! (Echo: space, space, space.) It’s a mix of sci fi opera and Korean mythology. This is not something you’re going to see every day, and no one could pull it off like Yoon Ha Lee does.
Our main character is Min, a teenaged fox spirit whose brother disappears, supposedly deserting the Thousand Worlds Space Forces to search for the legendary artifact the Dragon Pearl, which may have the power to save their struggling home colony.
Yoon Ha Lee has already been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and I anticipate he will be seeing a lot more accolades when people get to read Dragon Pearl next spring!
Here’s his website: http://www.yoonhalee.com
And follow him on Twitter! @motomaratai
hey white author allies take note, this is how you use your popularity for good! <3 @rrriordan forever
(Also, plz read his books, they are v, v, v, good)
what she says: i'm fine
what she means: in the flesh was one of the the best shows to come out in recent years and dealt with real world topics in a popular format that was breached in an original and intriguing way and i will never understand why it only got two seasons comprised of nine episodes in its entirety that ended with a cliffhanger that will haunt me to my dying days meanwhile some shows that have run their course ad nauseum are still being allowed to scrape the barrel for new material
JELLYBEAN JONES DID THAT!
