#both her and her sister disappeared entirely from social media like overnight

[twistedappletree]

ngl i think one of my ex-girlfriends might be in witness protection???

[la-knight]

Books I Read in 2016_::_The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin

“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night.

‘Use your imagination, Lorelei,’ she’d say, ‘and your whole life can be a fairy tale.”

I wanted that to be true. But I should have paid more attention to the fairy tales.”

When Lorelei’s old school mysteriously burns down, a new one appears practically overnight: Splendid Academy. Rock-climbing walls on the playground and golden bowls of candy on every desk? Gourmet meals in the cafeteria, served by waiters? Optional homework and two recess periods a day? It’s every kids’s dream.

But Lorelei and her new friend Andrew are pretty sure it’s too good to be true. Together they uncover a sinister mystery, one with their teacher, the beautiful Ms. Morrigan, at the very center. Then Andrew disappears. Lorelei has to save him, even if that means facing a past she’d like to forget – and taking on a teacher who’s a real witch.

What Lorelei and Andrew discover chills their bones – and might even pick them clean!

1.85/5 stars

So I read this book a while ago, and the first time I read it, I really liked it. Not love, but I enjoyed it just fine. I’m not snobby about the target age of my reading material: I love Dragons Love Tacos as much as I love Red Queen as much as I love The Night Circus as much as I love Aru Shah and the End of Time. And I read The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy at a dark time in my life (I have many) when my depression went undiagnosed and therefore untreated and I couldn’t handle much in the way of length or high-high stakes or grimdark or anything like that. So this book was perfect because it had stakes but it’s easier to care about one kid’s life than about, say, the war for the Iron Throne on top of all your faves possibly getting killed by ice demons or zombies. And I enjoyed this book.

More recently, I’ve reread it, and…well, I didn’t love it or like it as much as I had the first time. I didn’t hate it, but I definitely didn’t love it.

People talk about purity culture, which is hecka toxic, and I’m not here for that (I don’t judge people’s reading material unless it’s something drastic, like shouting from the rooftops how much they enjoyed Mein Kampf because, um, yikes). If there’s a book that I’ve heard is problematic, I may or may not read it for myself, depending on the nature of the issues and whatever. No media is perfect, it’s a balancing act. If I’m titchy about the person getting my money, I’ll buy that book secondhand so they don’t get any of my money (this is what I did with Stephenie Meyer, Suzanne Collins, Cassandra Clare, Anne Rice, James Dashner, & JK Rowling, for example). Not difficult to do. The obsession with consuming so-called “pure media” can be super bad and result in things like anon harassment or even death threats. I’ve seen this happen. On the flip side, the push against both problematic content and purity culture, when dealt with rationally, has led to some really great discussions regarding media analysis and critical thinking with regard to story consumption, and that’s great.

Why is this relevant?

So I reread Splendid Academy after some exposure to articles, essays, blog posts, and tumblr posts about several topics - including the pervasiveness and lethality of fat-shaming (among other things, like the silencing and condemnation by society of justified female anger). I did not go looking for these posts, they just trickled into the fringe of my social awareness as a result of using social media. I’d read them, reblogged and retweeted them, but I didn’t consciously try to apply those posts to Splendid Academy when I reread it. But this time through, the book made me super uncomfortable, although at first I didn’t quite understand why. I had to sit and, as they say, “think muh thoughts” all the way through a few times before I figured out what was bothering me.

The very basic dual premises of this book are sexist and fat-phobic. Now, I’m fat. There’s a lot of stigma around being fat. I mean, people have died of treatable, not-fat-related medical ailments because their doctor refused to look for those things, falling back on “just lose some weight and you’ll be fine” instead - and then boom, it’s something like cancer (which is not exacerbated by being fat) and the person dies.

(I am not Google. You can Google this information if you really want to. It’s all over Tumblr, Twitter, and Google. Don’t bother me about it)

The sinister nature of Splendid Academy is that its run by three witches fattening up all the kids to be eaten. Typical “Hansel and Gretel” motif, right? Except! In “Hansel and Gretel,” the kids are literally starving when they come upon a food source, an adult tells them to eat and eat and eat (it’s not their idea), and Hansel ends up locked in a cage by the witch and force-fed because the witch* threatens to kill his sister if he doesn’t. A lot of fairy tales (original ones in Grimms collections and by Andersen and whatnot, I mean) have morals of various types. The moral of “Hansel & Gretel” is not “gluttony should be punishable by death” or “being fat makes you a worthless human and it’s why bad things happen to you.”

(*By the way, the stereotypical long-nosed warty witch who eats Christian children is an anti-Semitic caricature of Jewish women and it’s gross; luckily the author doesn’t do that)

But in this book, the kids almost seem to bring their imminent demise on themselves by eating too much junk food. Sort of like how the narration says Augustus Gloop ended up turned into semi-sentient fudge in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory because he was a greedy glutton and not because Willy Wonka is a colonizing* sociopath who should never be in charge of minors.

(*Three words: Fucking. Oompa. Loompas.)

All but one of the kids attending Splendid Academy are snackers. These twelve- and thirteen-year-olds will snack on Skittles or sunflower seeds or whatever while they do homework or school work. They’re fed gourmet breakfasts and lunches in the school cafeteria every day. The food is enchanted, of course, to be highly addictive and also enchanted so that it transforms immediately into fat, apparently? Bypassing the stomach entirely, I guess, because the kids never get full and literally just eat all day every day that they’re in school.

Wait, you say. If the food is enchanted, it’s not the kids’ fault they’re eating it. That’s not fat-phobic at all. What?

I said all but one kid has fallen for these magical machinations. One boy (not our protagonist Lorelei, but her friend Andrew) is basically immune to the call of the candy. If the One Ring of Power was candy, he’d be movie!Faramir and Lorelei would be Frodo. And why is he immune? Because he’s got a fairy godmother? He’s magical himself? He’s a total nerd and studied mythology and knows how to spot ensorcelled edibles a mile away?

Nah. It’s cuz he went to fat camp.

Y’all can’t see my face right now.

Now, to be fair, apparently Andrew was a compulsive eater and needed some kind of intervention because he was out of control (which, also being fair, is a ridiculous and tired trope about how fat people can’t control themselves around food and we need to kill that with fire and not spoon-feed the idea to tweens, thanks). But even with the blegh back story of compulsive eater, YOU DON’T SEND A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TO FAT CAMP, OHMIGAWD. Unless he’s got PICA (that mental illness where you compulsively eat dangerous or non-food shit like glass or soap or carpet lint) or whatever, he’s not compulsively eating because he’s the next Augustus Gloop and he’s a spoiled brat who hates the word “no.” I used to be a compulsive eater as a kid (which is oddly not how I got fat). I developed the habit if “eating my feelings” because I WAS SUICIDAL AND FOOD WAS THE ONLY THING THAT EVEN HELPED A LITTLE BIT.

And you know what helped me curb my compulsive eating when my depression got really bad? It wasn’t the taunting about being fat or my mom telling me I needed to go on a diet or my dad asking me constantly if I really shouldn’t put back that second cheese stick or applesauce cup. What really helped me stop compulsively eating WAS TREATING MY FREAKING DEPRESSION.

Ahem. However, the book does do one thing sort of right with this kid - because he HAS UNTREATED DEPRESSION went to actual therapy (for the compulsive eating specifically and not anything else that might be wrong) while shipped off to fat-person exile because his parents are horrible people, he can recognize “trigger foods”* - the foods that he would compulsively eat and would make him overeat when he was upset, foods he now avoids. They got that part right. But it also means he’s more selective about what he eats (which is fine) and has more self-control than the other kids (um…), self-control he learned thanks to an entire summer at fat camp (UM…), and his sheer determination alone to not “stuff his face” helps him shake off the herion-addictive magic laid on the school food.

ExCUSE me???

(*Side note, I’m on meds now for non-food stuff that screw with my appetite and also I’m a broke bitch but as a kid/teen, my trigger foods were bread, apple pie, cake, waffles, and fruit bagels. I can still, if I had money, eat an entire angel food cake but that’s not a trigger, it’s just super fluffy and delicious)

So our sidekick is a former fat kid with untreated mental health issues who got sent to fat camp and thanks to the miracle of fat camp has now overcome his unhealthy dependence on food AND has the will power (forged from denying his inner fatty) to throw off three witches’ worth of addictive magic. Something Lorelei only manages to do after she eats magical dead-kid bone chips. Because she and the other kids have no self-control and so just eat and eat...apparently.

Alrighty then…

But Andrew’s not our lead. Lorelei is. And Lorelei interesting as a middle grade protagonist. Her mom recently died of cancer and Lorelei blames herself (because that’s what kids do) and she’s filled with even more confusion, fear, self-hate, and anger than a typical tween girl as a result both of her mother’s lingering illness and ugly death as well as the fact that Lorelei at one point jerked away from her mom during an argument and, due to chemo-induced weakness, her mom lost her balance, fell, and broke a bone.

Lorelei is lost and angry. She makes friends with Andrew and finds out about the witches and their cannibal plot while still struggling not only with her mom’s death and her own guilt, but the screwed-up situation with her family. What situation? Her dad and older brother are 100% emotionally abusive and treat her like she’s some kind of bratty little monster because she’s feeling sad and guilty and scared and angry all the time.

HER MOM JUST DIED YOU BUTTHOLES, SHE’S GOING THROUGH PUBERTY WHICH IS A HORMONAL HURRICANE OF DEATH THAT RUINS EVERYTHING, AND YOU POOP-WAFFLES ARE HELPING NOT AT ALL AND YOU SUCK.

This is a MAJOR pet peeve for me because too often emotional abuse is normalized in middle grade fiction, especially when it comes from parents (this book, The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary, All Four Stars by Tara Dairman, Young Wizards by Diane Duane, and even in Harry Potter, perpetuated by some of the so-called heroes) and it drives me bat-crap.

This is a middle-grade review, so I’m trying to keep it PG13.

The head witch, Ms. Morrigan, is drawn to Lorelei because of her anger and how lost she feels, and instead of eating her, wants to adopt her and make her into a baby cannibal-witch. This would be kind of a cool angle except once again, it reinforces that Lorelei being angry about her mom being dead is a flaw iin her character and not a completely understandable psychological response to a tween’s universe being ripped in half by the concept of her mother being gone forever.

Her dad and brother are “good guys” and disturbed/horrified by and condemning of her anger, grief, guilt, and fear, and they punish her for it. Ergo, according to the narrative, her anger is bad. The evil witches who literally eat children admire her anger and say it proves she should be one of them, too. Ergo, her anger is double bad. She only stops being tempted to join with the witches once she realizes being angry about her mom dying is “immature” and “bad.” Ergo, blah blah blah, girls should never be angry, it’s unladylike and turns you into a flesh-eating witch.

My parents spoon-fed me “demonstrating anger in any way for any reason is bad” along with a HUGE helping of “being angry about feeling powerless makes you a bad person” for six years of my adolescence, then wondered why I started self-harming, developed depression, and attempted suicide on multiple occasions before I was twelve. The message that a child’s anger in the face of powerlessness, death, or sudden and unpredictable changes to their homeostasis is an inherently bad thing that should be punished and makes them bad or evil can be incredibly damaging. Her mom died. A twelve-year-old girl is allowed to be confused and sad and hurt and angry about that.

Like I said, I didn’t hate the book (although these two things I ranted about made me suuuper uncomfortable while reading and the more I thought about them later, the angrier I got). But I didn’t love it, and I didn’t like it as much as I did during my first read-through. The fat-shaming was annoying and gross, and I’m suuuper tired of angry girls being shamed for their feelings, especially teens and kids. Young people feel things so intensely. And they don’t always have the experience or the vocabulary to parse out how certain aspects of a story make them feel or why, or resist internalizing toxic messages about how feeling intensely or feeling a particular way at all is bad. Thre’s a big differene between asking an eight-year-old to consume their media critically and someone twice or thrice that age. And yeah, parents have a responsibility, family discussions, if they rely solely on books society has failed them, blah blah. Unfortunately, a lot of parents suck and a lot of parents shame their kids for having feelings the parets don’t think they should. Especially young girls. The normalizing of emotional abuse by parents in middle grade books proves how “normal” many adults think such things are.

Did I Enjoy This Book: yeah, for the most part, I guess. But I won’t be reading it again anytime soon.

Would I Recommend It: No, I wouldn’t. I can’t think of anyone I would feel comfortable recommending it to, who would actually enjoy it.

Plot: .35 star

Word Choice: .5 star

World Building: .5 star

Characters: .5 star

Realism: .75 star

-¼ star for fat-shaming

-¼ star for normalizing emotional abuse

-¼ star for shaming female anger

Total Score: 1.85/5 stars

________________________________________________________

Nicole Kidman as Principal Trapp Michelle Pfeiffer as Ms. Morrigan Bryce Dallas Howard as Ms. Threnoddy

[corona-de-vil]

How did this happen?

How did this happen?

The article I‘m sharing below is the first post about Covid-19 that I shared on Facebook, that I can find – on Feb 6, 2020. The first cases were reported back in December 2019, in Wuhan. I’d heard about it, I’d thought about, it entered my mind a few times, but I wasn’t concerned. This was happening in Wuhan, China, thousands of miles away from Cincinnati, Ohio. Surely, we were safe. Clearly, we should have all been paying more attention. The doctor referenced in the article below, died. He died trying to treat patients from a virus that seemed like the flu - that he didn’t yet understand.

In the U.S. we were too busy holding impeachment hearings and failing to impeach our corrupt President. The world was mourning Kobe Bryant’s death. At home, my uncle and my grandma Secen had both passed away days apart. We were mourning them. I was able to see her a few hours before her death and although I’m so grateful for that, it was so sad to see her so frail and so close to death. I’ll never forget her sister-in-law coming in and overhearing my grandma whisper for her to pray with her. I think she knew then it was upon her. She lived a long and full life I know, but still, I can’t imagine lying there with a fully functioning brain knowing that your body would give out at any moment and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Life and death have always weighed so heavy upon me. I feel like I am constantly trying to sweep away thoughts of death. 2020 had already started out as a shit year. I worried about my dad losing his mom. Elizabeth Warren, the best candidate in my opinion, fell in the polls and ultimately dropped out. I was getting over that and busy being excited that Bernie Sanders was looking likely that he really could be the nominee and then, March 3rd, Super Tuesday came and went and out of nowhere, Joe Biden swept taking the delegate lead and not looking back. Not everyone cares about these things, but politics is really important to me and we need to get Trump out of office. Also the kids were sick and Jonathan and I were both sick, so we were out like an entire week as a family. It took me days to clean up all the vomit filled laundry. Isla was telling me dirty stuff was coming out of her mouth and Sophia was crying “please don’t throw up, please don’t throw up”…. Pretty much breaking my heart seeing my kids so sick.

So 2020 has been less than stellar to say the least. And now here we are, Sophie has been out of school most of March and she probably won’t ever return to preschool. She was supposed to be working on art work for her end of year art show, having a pizza party with her classmates, getting ready for a graduation ceremony. She may never see any of those kids again. She has no idea. My heart hurts. They haven’t been to gymnastics in weeks. Isla has cried several times because we can’t go to the zoo. And we have no idea when this will end. Everything is cancelled until further notice - Opening Day, all of baseball, the flying pig marathon. I have renewed anger for Trump supporters. I’ve seen so many posts over the last month about how this is blown out of proportion, that it’s a hoax, that the media is in a frenzy and scaring everyone. The sad reality is its real, and its very scary. And we lost weeks not preparing – our President couldn’t stop this virus from reaching our shores, no one could  have prevented it really, but he wasted time downplaying for weeks and were paying for it. Its global, it’s a pandemic, but he is not a leader and he caused us to fall behind the curve. There is a shortage of tests, numbers are under-reported, everything is basically shut down and we’ve been in a lockdown in Ohio for nearly 3 weeks. We’re under social distancing, stay at home orders ow until at least April 30. It’s April 1st. Thankfully Governor Dewine has been taking it seriously in Ohio. 

There are close to a million cases worldwide, with over 200k in the U.S. and nearly 40,000 people have already died. 

I’m already losing it a bit. So, here we are, making the best of it. We have our beach vacation planned the last week of May. Right now I’m crossing my fingers we don’t have to break Sophia’s heart and cancel. ☹

So I guess that kind of catches things up. I’ll add a timeline from wiki.

 Beijing (CNN)The death of a doctor widely regarded as a hero in China for blowing the whistle on the threat posed by the Wuhan coronavirus has led to a massive outpouring of grief and anger online.

Li Wenliang died of the virus in the early hours of Friday morning local time, Wuhan Central Hospital, where he worked, said in a statement. The confirmation follows a series of conflicting statements about his condition from the hospital and Chinese state media outlets.

"Our hospital's ophthalmologist Li Wenliang was unfortunately infected with coronavirus during his work in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic," the hospital said. "He died at 2:58 am on Feb 7 after attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful."

Li was among a number of supposed "rumormongers" detained in December for spreading news about the virus. He had warned about a potential "SARS-like" virus spreading in Wuhan. Nothing Li said was incorrect, but it came as officials in the city were downplaying the severity of the outbreak and its risk to the public.

There were more apparent efforts to control the narrative even after Li's death -- leading to widespread anger.

Earlier on Thursday night, several state media outlets had reported Li's death, following which Chinese social media erupted in mourning. Hours of confusion followed, with Wuhan Central Hospital releasing a statement saying Li was still alive and in critical condition, adding that they were "making attempts to resuscitate him."

State media subsequently deleted their previous tweets, only for the hospital to then confirm his death.

Wuhan's whistleblower

Li had raised the alarm about the virus that ultimately took his life.

In December, he posted in his medical school alumni group on the Chinese messaging app WeChat that seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and were quarantined in his hospital in Wuhan.

Soon after he posted the message, Li was accused of rumor-mongering by the Wuhan police.

He was one of several medics targeted by police for trying to blow the whistle on the deadly virus in the early weeks of the outbreak, which has sickened more than 28,000 people and killed more than 560. He later contracted the virus himself.

Li was hospitalized on January 12 and tested positive for the coronavirus on February 1.

Fury on social media

China's social media channels were awash with anger following news of Li's death.

The topics "Wuhan government owes Dr. Li Wenliang an apology," and "We want freedom of speech," soon began to trend on China's Twitter-like platform, Weibo. Each gained tens of thousands of views before disappearing from the heavily censored platform.

Another topic, called "I want freedom of speech," had drawn 1.8 million views as of 5 a.m. Friday morning local time (4 p.m. ET Thursday).

Top comments under the Wuhan Central Hospital's statement about Li's death included "I've learned two words: political rescue & performative rescue" and "Countless young people will mature overnight after today: the world is not as beautiful as we imagined. Are you angry? If any of us here is fortunate enough to speak up for the public in the future, please make sure you remember tonight's anger."

Several comments also marked the timing of the announcement. "I knew you would post this in the middle of the night," wrote one Weibo user.

"You think we've all gone to sleep? No. We haven't," said another.

Confusion over his condition

The Global Times first announced Li had died in a tweet at around 10:40 p.m. local time Thursday, linking to a report that cited friends and doctors at Wuhan Central Hospital.

It deleted the post several hours later. Other Chinese media outlets also deleted their reports of his death, without explanation. The World Health Organization released a message of condolence following the initial reports that Li was dead but later updated their statement to say they did not have any information about the doctor's status.

Wuhan Central Hospital issued a new statement confirming his death later that day.

The death toll and number of people infected by the Wuhan coronavirus continues to grow, with no signs of slowing despite severe quarantine and population control methods put in place in central China.

The number of confirmed cases globally stood at 28,275 as of Thursday, with more than 28,000 of those in China. The number of cases in China grew by 3,694, or 15%, on the previous day. There have been 565 deaths so far, all but two of which were in China, with one in the Philippines and one in Hong Kong.

CNN's Amy Woodyatt contributed to this story.

[zelwin]

@peepstercrue23​ Accidentally sent me all the questions and then said to just answer the ones I wanted to, but I’m doing them all because I have nothing better to do.

(1) Do You Sleep With Your Closet Doors Open Or Closed? Depends, if the door slides open I don’t care, but if it swings open it has to stay closed.

(2) Do You Have Freckles? Sure do.

(3) Can You Whistle? Yes, I do it all the time.

(4) Last Song You Listened To. “Spring Cleaning” by Hi I’m Case

(5) What Is Your Favourite Colour? Lime Green or Hot Pink

(6) Relationship Status. Taken, more or less.

(7) What Is The Temperature Right Now? 45 degrees Fahrenheit

(8) Did You Wake Up Cranky? Almost always, I just don’t sleep enough.

(9) How Many Followers? 226

(10) Zodiac Sign. Gemini

(11) What Is Your Eye Colour? The darkest brown.

(12) Take A Vitamin Daily? No, I should, but I don’t.

(13) Do You Sing In The Shower? If I’m home alone, yes.

(14) What Books Are You Reading? None at the moment, which is super sad.

(15) Grab The Book Nearest To You, Turn To Page 64, Give Me Line 14. “Screw you, I’m driving as fast as this piece of shit will go.” - From ‘Hero’ by Perry Moore

(16) Favourite Anime? Log Horizon

(17) Last Person You Cried In Front Of? My sister, in her car.

(18) Do You Collect Anything? Do regrets count? 

(19) What Did You Have For Lunch? A bagel the size of my head.

(20) Do You Dance In The Car? All the time. :D

(21) Favourite Animal? Tigers and Turtles, equally.

(22) Do You Watch The Olympics? I used to, now I’m always working when they’re on.

(23) What Time Do You Usually Go To Bed? Bed by 10 or so, asleep by... 2-3am?

(24) Are You Wearing Makeup Right Now? Nope.

(25) Do You Prefer To Swim In A Pool Or The Ocean? Pool, I don’t like sand.

(26) Favourite Tumblr Blog? caffeinewitchcraft

(27) Bottled Water Or Tap Water? Tap water in a bottled water bottle (refills forever.)

(28) What Makes You Happy? Rain, music, days off work, iced tea, naps, and David.

(29) Post A Gif Of What You’re Currently Feeling Right Now. Link

(30) Do You Study Better With Or Without Music? With, always.

(31) Dogs Or Cats? Cats

(32) If You Were A Crayon What Colour Would You Be? Cerulean

(33) PlayStation Or Xbox. Play Station (But really the Switch.)

(34) Would You Swim In The Lake Or Ocean? Ocean, lakes smell funny.

(35) Do You Believe In Magic? Yes.

(36) What Colour Shirt Are You Wearing? Burgundy and gray stripes.

(37) Can You Curl Your Tongue? Yes, but only once, can’t do tongue clovers.

(38) Do You Save Money Or Spend It? Spend it, I’m terrible.

(39) Is There Anything Pink Within 10 Feet Of You? My pillowcase that I’m laying on, a couple of my pens, my hair brush...

(40) Do You Have Any Obsessions Right Now? If people count, yes, David, if they don’t, no.

(41) Have You Ever Caught A Butterfly? No, but that’s okay, they’re free spirits and don’t deserve to be caught.

(42) Are You Easily Influenced By Other People? Unfortunately, yes.

(43) Do You Have Strange Dreams? Only every time I sleep.

(44) Do You Like Going On Airplanes? I don’t know, I’ve never been on one.

(45) Name One Movie That Made You Cry. A Monster Calls

(46) Peanuts Or Sunflower Seeds? I eat peanuts more often, but Sunflower Seeds are much better.

(47) If I Handed You A Concert Ticket Right Now, Who Would You Want The Performer To Be? Kesha or Joywave

(48) Are You A Picky Eater? Not really.

(49) Are You A Heavy Sleeper? Incredibly, I can sleep through anything.

(50) Do You Fear Thunder / Lightning? Not at all, I’m the crazy person dancing outside during a thunderstorm.

(51) Do You Like To Read / Write? Both in varying amounts.

(52) Do You Like Your Music Loud? No, I don’t care if it’s loud, so long as I can hear everything going on in it.

(53) Would You Rather Carve Pumpkins Or Wrap Presents? Wrap presents, it’s not as messy and I don’t feel I have to try as hard to be creative.

(54) Put Your Music On Shuffle, What Is The First Song That Came Up? ‘Coming Attractions’ by Chris Jobe

(55) What Season Are You In Right Now? (Weather) Fall, kind of gloomy, it’s been raining/drizzling for a few hours now.

(56)What Are You Craving Right Now? Affection or blue cheese, not sure.

(57) Post A Screenshot Of Your Tumblr Feed. [No thanks, it’s porn right now.]

(58) What Is Your Gender? Cisgendered Male

(59) Coffee Or Tea? Tea, every time.

(60) Do You Have Any Homework Right Now? If So, What Is It About? Nope.

(61) What Is Your Sexuality? Somewhere between Asexual and Rampant Homosexual.

(62) Do You Make Your Bed In The Morning? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

(63) Favourite Pokemon? Squirtle, always has been.

(64) Favourite Social Media? . . . There’s something other than this hellsite?

(65) What’s Your Opinion On Instagram Stories? I don’t know her.

(66) Do You Get Homesick? I’ve never been away from home long enough.

(67) Are You A Virgin? Yes.

(68) What Shampoo And Conditioner Are You Using Right Now? Whole Blends “Honey Treasures”

(69) If You Were Far From Home And Needed To Sleep For The Night, Would You Choose To Rent A Crappy Motel Room For $60 Or Sleep In Your Car For Free? Rent a crappy motel room, it’s probably not sanitary, but I can’t sleep in a car overnight without waking up feeling like a glowstick.

(70) Are Both Of Your Blood Parents Still In Your Life? Yes.

(71)  Whats The Next Movie You Want To See In Theaters? Thor: Ragnarok

(72) Do You Miss Your Ex? Depends on the Ex? Some yes, some no.

(73) What Is Your Favourite Quote Right Now? “Contouring is for women who want to leech the souls of their dead lovers, and collect the inheritance of their ex-boyfriends who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.” - Sailor J

(74) What Eye Colour Do You Find Sexiest? Hazel

(75) Did You Like Swinging As A Child? Do You Still Get Excited When You See A Swing Set? Yes and no, respectively.

(76) What Was The Last Thing You Ate? Pecan Donut from Harris Teeter

(77) What Games Do You Have On Your Phone? 1010, looking for more I’d enjoy though.

(78) Would You Give A Homeless Person CPR If They Were Dying? Why Or Why Not? Yes, because I’ve been trained to do it and anyone deserves to have their life saved.

(79) Been On The Computer For 5 Hours Straight? Today? No. Ever? Absolutely.

(80) Stalked Someone On A Social Network? Accidentally, maybe.

(81) Do You Like Meeting New People? Not really.

(82) Do You Wear Rings? If You Do, Take A Picture Of Them. That would involve turning on a light, and I don’t want to do that, but it’s essentially this: Link

(83) Do You Sleep With Your Bedroom Door Open Or Closed? Closed, mostly because I’m the last one awake and I don’t want people peeping at me while I’m still snoozing.

(84) What Are Three Things You Did Today? Discovered Sailor J, tried to walk home from work (and made my sister mad at me by doing so), and answered all these questions.

(85) What Do You Wear To Bed? Pajamas? Todays are blue plaid bottoms and a burgundy and gray striped shirt (the one I mentioned a while ago)

(86) List All Of Your Different Beauty Products You Have Right Now. A few different nail polishes (various shades of green and blue), L’oreal quick blue hair bleach, and various hair dyes (Arctic Fox Virgin Pink and Sunset Orange and a box of L’oreal Feria Deep Burgundy)

(87) Are You A Day Or Night Person? I’m filling this out at 2am. Night person.

(88) List All Of Your Video Games On Your Phone, Console Etc. That’d be a long list, but right now I’m playing 1010 on my phone, Super Mario Odyssey on my Switch, and Final Fantasy 14 on my laptop.

(89) Tell Me About A Dream That You Had And When It Happened. One time when I was I think in middle school I dreamed about these electric slime monsters that could travel through the power lines and wanted to eat people. I spent the entire dream finding the half-eaten bodies of my loved ones.

(90) Favourite Soda Drink? I can’t drink soda anymore (I voluntarily gave it up, and now if I try to drink it the carbonation murders me) but I *really* miss Coca Cola.

(91) What Sounds Are Your Favourite? Calm breathing, thunderstorms, heartbeats, and acoustic guitars.

(92) Do You Wear Jeans Or Sweats More? Pants are for cold people.

(93) How Do You Look Right Now? Tired and frumpy but comfortable.

(94) Name Something That Relaxes You. Talking to myself.

(95) What Tattoo Do You Want? More trees! I want my own forest!

(96) Favourite YouTuber? Corinne from Threadbanger