#books for youngsters

[phantomhivestims]

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Charles Xavier Stimboard

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Note ; hes so silly I just wanna bite his face

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[rickieleeart]

Nightcrawler

I’ve been revisiting my love for the X-Men since the From the Ashes comics started coming out (along with seeing Deadpool and Wolverine lol) and felt like drawing one of my favorite X-Men. 💙

Also he has claws because I think it looks neat.

[kingoftieland]

With the resurgence of the hit '97 animated series, it felt like the perfect time to take my class on a field trip to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters… 🏫

Because the King of Tieland and Framer of Fun Facts is getting ready to dedicate his whiteboard to an all-new season of trivia starring the X-Men starting Monday, September 2! ❌

[thelastspeecher]

the roommate and I finally started watching the PJO show and we're gonna be doing one episode a day to stretch it out (bc binging isn't the best way to watch a show) and also bc the episodes are looooong and I kept pausing to voice my Thoughts as a PJO Expert Fan

but anyways it's making me think about my PJO AU, which I love~

[noa-ciharu]

Idk how in year 2022 "what you like in fiction doesn't reflect your morals, what you like irl and life goals" is considered a hot take

[medieval-canadian]

was NO ONE going to tell me that in the premodern era ANIMALS were regularly put on trial for shit like murder (among other things) and often convicted?????????????????????????????????????

[angel-maybe-alive]

And I will be a little shit again

Shout out to peeta meelark the last good book boyfriend, it's him that guy from pride and prejudice and Aragorn in a weird not specific way

All other book boyfriends sucks and I am terrified about the taste in men of straight bookish women

[shmowder]

why in gods green earth did I just buy a full lingerie set

[tragicotps]

[stupidity-is-a-sacred-gift]

finishing a book in public is embarrassing as fuck, everyone can see you closing your book from the lack of words left to read, looking at nothings trying to register what just happened, realising you're done with something as important as a book

[randomsandotherstuff]

Reading habits among youngsters

In today's fast-paced world, where screens rule and everyone wants things now, there's this big concern about how youths are reading—or not reading. Are old-school, hefty books losing out to tablets and phones...? Well, it's not a straight-forward answer.

Sure, some youngsters aren't picking up books like they used to. The digital scene is super competitive with all the newest trends and fads. Plus, who's got time for a long book when you can watch a quick online video...?

But hold up, it's not all bad news. Plenty of young folks still love to read, just in different ways. E-books and audiobooks are in demand because of their convenience—one can read or listen anywhere, anytime.

And it's not really about the format—it's all about what they're reading. Now a days young people are into stories that they can relate to like fantasy, graphic novels, or young adult fiction with characters from all walks of life. Such stories appeal to almost everyone.

So, how do we keep the reading flame alive in this digital age?

Dive into digital: Libraries are getting updated with e-books and audiobooks, so take advantage of them.

Make it a group event: Reading together is great—it's like bonding time with words.

Match reading to interests: Whether it's graphic novels or sports bios, find what floats their boat.

Advertise love for books: Talk about books, recommend favourites, and create comfortable reading spots.

By making reading fun and easy, we can keep the magic of stories alive for youth whether they're flipping the pages, swiping a screen, or tuning in with earbuds.

[klondiketales]

Five Fun Facts About Moishe!

1. For the first decade or so of his life, he was genuinely under the impression that Mordecai, not Rocky, was his biological father. It came as a real shock when he figured out the truth.

This is meant to be lighthearted…for the most part.

4. He used to collect bugs, but Mordecai made him stop…by giving him a single disapproving look.

3. He first became interested in ancient Egypt after watching The Mummy (the 1932 version starring Boris Karloff).

(By the way, I don’t think this movie is historically accurate.)

4. He and Mordecai argue a lot. To anyone else, it would seem like they can’t stand each other, but to them, it’s normal. They love and respect each other deeply; that’s just how they communicate. They’re both blunt and to-the-point, with naturally stern, cold faces…and lots of strong opinions on lots of things.

5. He once got kidnapped by a rival. His entire family had to go to Cairo to rescue him. Martha’s great-aunt (Rocky’s ex-girlfriend’s mother’s sister) flew them there in her biplane.

(It might look something like this? But not quite as shiny and new.)

Thanks for reading!

[kingoftieland]

Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is a REAL PLACE! 🏰

[daisyachain]

In every work, there is a delineation between main characters and peripheral characters. This is more marked in non-realist fiction, where the story is more bound by conventions of narrative than imitations of history. Main characters, because of what fiction does, are more influential, independent, complex, unlikely, and remarkable than peripheral characters because they are the main characters. It wouldn’t work otherwise.

The conservation of character (save the most stuff for the ones that are important / focus the story around the most consequential characters) means that any reader of more than a few works will automatically consider the characters of a story in two different classes: those who do and those who don’t; paper dolls that interact with the paper scenery VS crayon outlines on the paper scenery.

In works that try to maintain a depth of detail similar to histories/to reality, the sharp delineation of main character from side character can break immersion. Functionally, it’s harder to make a story work if the main characters don’t think or do anything (though people have tried) and the side characters do. But, a work aiming for the emotional stakes of realism needs to convince you that the main characters are part of a greater world populated by fellow human beings.

When main characters ‘get away’ with improbable actions or side characters ‘get shafted’ by being assigned definite traits with no story arc, the expectations of a realistic world clash with the expectations of story. A side character given any details must be important, and if they are given detail without story, then it can feel like a failure of the work (even if the author was just trying to splash in some flavour). A main character loses resonance if their role in the story can only be explained by ‘these events needed to happen’ rather than by the emotional coherent choices of a plausible person. The boundaries between main and side characters must be maintained for a realist (non-formal) fiction to communicate effectively. If it’s formal……you get a bit more lenience when you can just write ‘this is the main character and you know it’ into the text.

Which brings us to: it’s easy to read a metatextual (am I using this right. Probs not.) hierarchy realistic stories. Side characters are, within their own world, designated losers. They can’t have any impact on their own lives, otherwise they’d be main characters. Nowhere is this boundary sharper than in RPGs. NPC story arcs have be handled on the side by one very busy co-author, while PC story arcs each get one author’s full attention. The NPCs are. Well. NPCs. Tulpas. Shapes of shapes of people, shadows of the shadows on the cave wall. They are imperfect imitations of PCs, which are themselves imitations of people that might possibly exist.

That then creates a massive opening in any RPG (video game or tabletop) to play with player or audience expectations about NPCs. If they’re predetermined to be city guards repeating the same line of dialogue forever, you can easily get a strong audience reaction from having them break out of these roles. The NPC is a creation that, ironically, is the character any audience member is most likely to be like. So the event of an NPC (a true NPC merchant in the town square) breaking into the story to influence it is catnip to Moi

[icharchivist]

why is he refering the egg

is that a bad way to try to get me back granblue

you don't know anything about the appeal of eggs you can't just wave the most famous egg in front of my face on just a generic sexy feral man--

[achronalart]

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.