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ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ.. and how odd it is to be haunted by someone that's still alive
❝ byrd ❞ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤam I still not good enough? #⟡ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤam I still not worth that much?
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤi'm sorry for the way my life turned out ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤsorry for the smile I'm wearing now,,
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤguess I'm still not good ㅤㅤㅤenough
#first divider by thecutestgrotto#second divider + last by enchanthings#song: good enough by little mix#fc: jeremy sumpter#Byrd elana#the outsiders oc#the outsiders#the outsiders x oc#original character#I love birds btw
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Here Are The Finalists For The 2017 National Book Awards
[via NPR]
It began with more than 1,500 books.
With all the works submitted by publishers, the judges for this year's National Book Awards have had their hands (and bookshelves) full the past few months. But that daunting number of contenders winnowed further on October 4, when the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for its literary prize — just five works each in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.
This year's winners will be announced on Nov. 15 in New York City.
Fiction

Elliot Ackerman: Dark at the Crossing Lisa Ko: The Leavers Min Jin Lee: Pachinko Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Young People's Literature

Elana K. Arnold: What Girls Are Made Of Robin Benway: Far from the Tree Erika L. Sánchez: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Rita Williams-Garcia: Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Ibi Zoboi: American Street
Nonfiction

Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Frances FitzGerald: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Masha Gessen: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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Natl Book Award Shortlist 2017
Natl Book Award Shortlist 2017
The National Book Award shortlist in Young People’s Literature has been announced (chuffed to see VCFA WCYA represented twice!): American Street, by Ibi Zoboi Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, by Rita Williams-Garcia Far from the Tree, by Robin Benway I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika L. Sánchez What Girls Are Made Of, by Elana K. Arnold PS. The links take you to the Booklist reviews.…
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ㅤㅤㅤㅤ" i want to go back to a time before it was too late ,,
ㅤㅤㅤ❝ pheasant elana ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤpheasant being a bird that symbolizes good luck, imagination, optimism, ㅤㅤㅤbeauty, prosperity, and grace ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤelana can translate to swallow ( bird )
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ" and one day ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤyour name didn't make me smile anymore "
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤthis just in, i am a total fucking dumbass ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤand i've come to the uncomfortable conclusion that ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤi'm gonna be spending the rest of my life in a state ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤof constant paranoia
alias'. none age. eighteen, sept. twentieth gender. male, he/him/his sexuality. bi, fem pref status. soc faceclaim. johnathan brandis
ㅤㅤㅤㅤand I've found that the road to happiness ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤis paved with rows and rows of very tempting parking spaces
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ" weeds are flowers too once you get to know them ,,
" elana? jeez, that kid would practically be in jail right now if he wasn't a good time soc. i've seen them do some crazy stuff man. everyone always acts like they didn't see it, too scared to speak up against his family. i guess it makes sense. his family's one everyone knows. you cross 'em and you're out for good. happened a while back with another kid. don't remember his name, but that's the whole point. " — dallas winston
PHEASANT ELANA ISN'T A BAD PERSON. that's the first thing you should know. he's quite the complex character to describe him easily. he's that one side character in a movie that's divided fifty-fifty in who loves them and who hates them. a fan club practically follows him and his posse around. anyone who wants to be popular just has to be mentioned by pheasant once and you're in.
HE PUTS UP QUITE THE FACADE, which only adds to the popularity. and while not completely lying, he's obviously not as happy as he always seems to be; but everyone buys it anyways. either wanting to avoid the awkwardness of 'are you okay', or they're just genuinely oblivious. it's that hardship of everyone acting like you're fine when you really just need someone. something. to keep you going. and . . . well pheasant lost his.
THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF EMOTION, and still pheasant manages to control it. he isn't often seen lashing out in anger, or folded over himself in grief. instead a natural smirk on his face, nothing big, a simple quirk of the lips, and a type of softness in his eyes. but it depends who's looking. sometimes someone might see the glare of a high end soc, instead of pheasant.
EMOTIONAL BLINDNESS isn't something pheasant has. while he's not an expert at reading feelings, he's still able to realize the ones people are trying to hid, as he has experience in hiding his own. often, if pheasant sees a kid struggling to do something, crying or whatever, he'll try his best to help them, even if his friends are around. when it comes to matters like that, he doesn't care what they think of him at that moment.
likes. kids, basketball ( watching or playing ), cool places, being/keeping busy, rom-coms, knowing things dislikes. knives, weapons, too sweet things ( people + food ), romance, musicals, language arts, baseball ( playing )
BYRD ELANA as the younger brother
" i've seen them both around, never together though. makes you wonder what's going on in their family life, y'know? " - two-bit mathews
byrd and pheasant have every sibling dynamic ever. loving hatred. byrd bothers pheasant, to say the least. it bothers him that byrd isn't taking what their parents offer. a good life, one fully set with necessities and collage . . . all paid for. pheasant took that the moment he knew of it. byrd, however, didn't. byrd is just weird for a soc. they might have the same last name, but they've never been a brother to each other.
RHEA MORGAN as the girlfriend
" it was quite depressing to hear of her death. from what you observed of their relationship, they really did seem to love each other; which is quite an oddity for someone like pheasant elana." - ferris victoria
pheasant loved rhea, and rhea loved him. they were that adorable couple you couldn't help but love, even if you hated them. they were the romance of the school, making cheesy plans about the future, no one would think of seeing them with anyone else. "love is blind", not this one. they opened each other's eyes and despite both being high end socs, they were part of the few who weren't the worst about the social class difference. it was utterly perfect. until it wasn't. right on his birthday. november twentieth. 2:27 pm. when the death of rhea morgan was announced. pheasant never really cared for birthdays before, but from then on, the disgust he felt for that date was—is—indescribable. future plans destroyed, and pheasant changed for the worse.
PARKER QUILL as the best friend
" their friendship weirds me out. phes always seems to be so much worse with quill. drinking, smoking . . . he acts like a greaser—i mean one of those hoodlum ones! not just any greaser—!" - byrd elana
quill is everything a soc isn't. which makes sense why the two were drawn together. opposites attract, no? they're like two halves, and together they're the definition of chaos. pheasant keeps quill from going too far, and quill pushes pheasant to go further. in an odd way, they are both quite good for each other.
DENI PRENTISS as the bother
" deni's the only greaser who's actually gotten under phes' skin. it's actually kinda funny to watch him get all hot 'nd bothered when deni comes out with another 'kill'. soc or greaser, the two will never get along. " - parker quill
it's a mutual hate. though deni seems to have more fun with pheasant then pheasant does with deni. prentiss always loves teasing the soc, 'bout his status, how he messed up in gym, sometimes when pheasant really rubs him wrong, deni'll even bring up rhea. deni's the only person pheasant's ever gotten into a fist fight with before. and they both went home bleeding.
" i don't really know him—pheasant elana—besides the fact that everyone knows him. investigate further and you'll get a bunch of different results. some people love him, some more people hate him . . . he's interesting to say the least. always seems to be having fun or something, messin' around with his friends or teasing some greaser. he kinda scares me to be honest. his eyes are blue, and with the right person they could be real nice; but with him, they just stare at you like he wishes he could kill you with his eyes. 'specially if you're a greaser. he's never laid a hand on anyone though, at least not in a bad way. 'less they deserved it. like he was protectin' someone or something. i guess a bit while back his girlfriend died, and he seemed to die off himself too. least until quill came along. now he seems fine for some reason. there's no certain cause of death that people know of though. rumor is that she got beaten to death. i think she got jumped to be honest. after her death, he seemed to hate greasers even more. darry says not to make assumptions though. i got a whole lecture when i mentioned it. it's sad either way, if you're a greaser or soc. anyone who knew pheasant before his girlfriend knew he was one of those flirty guys, kinda like dal, but less explicit. nowadays you'll barely see him around any girls who have romantic interests with him. it's jus' interesting to compare old him to present him. a giant change, y'know?suppose he felt like there needed to be one. " — ponyboy curtis
#i fear i didn't yap enough#he's so complicated why did i make him so complicated#this took way too long :(#ALWAYS LOOKING FOR RELATIONSHIPS/CONNECTIONS PLS PLS PLS#oh nd any names you don't recognize are ocs that will hopefully be coming out soon <3#pheasant elana#the elana brothers#the outsiders oc#oc x canon#oc x the outsiders#pheasant ily#the forgotten tragedies of Tulsa#excuse my shitty writing of pony's voice
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