@iwantaferret_
What’s up guys I just watched the Heartstopper movie trailer and I wanna cry
@CrowTalonda1st it’s a happy cry! It made me a little nostalgic because I remember the first season coming out when, I think, I needed it. It’s just nice that it’s getting its finishing touch
Happy Pride Month!
I officially hate the social feed update on Wattpad. What the hell.
I can see the comments of my mutuals? I don’t…love that?
Like, I can see the comment that was made AND the story it was made to. I thought it was just seeing the stories placed in certain reading lists holy crow
It just feels like an invasion of privacy to (and it makes the current reading tab, which is PRIVATE, incredibly useless)
On an unrelated note I just found a Micheal Jackson fanfic that was recommended to me by this app and that’s how I know that I don’t read on here nearly enough because HUH
Like I cannot tell you how much I hate this update omg they’re really doing everything but bringing back the direct messaging
@Broadway_Crackers Hey!! I forgot to ask if you wanted my number when I deleted Instagram but I haven’t forgotten you! I just haven’t had a day of rest since school ended lol
2 Things on My Mind:
#1: Was that girl in my class a lesbian or did she just really like the style the carabiner gave her?
#2: Socialism could genuinely help the US but so much propaganda has passed against it that we’re stuck voting for the lesser of two evils out of fear of the “worse” one winning
Bonus:
Seriously was that girl a lesbian or not
I’m graduating high school today, and I don’t think it’s settled in yet. I went to the rehearsal and it felt like one of my choir shows, like I had the idea that I would be on that stage again, some other time.
But I also started thinking about this app. It saw me through six years of my life, from 6th grade to 12th grade. I have a visual representation of my growth as a person, which is both useful and terrifying.
So, thanks—for sticking around for this long. To the friends I’ve made along the way: I love you guys.
@iwantaferret_ My last summer as a kid was awesome for me. It was probably my favorite summer of all time. Definitely take the time to just enjoy it and take it all in. It's good that you're excited about the growth as well. Personally, I hate change so I had a slightly difficult transition that circumstance did not help, but I also made 2 amazing friends, had a ton of fun bumming around campus, and got to fulfill a goal of mine to play in my college's marching band that I've had since I started band about 9 years ago now. So overall, I think the growth and change was probably worth it :)
@watch_what_happens Haha thanks for the congratulations! I forgot to respond to this So far, this being my final summer as a kid has only just begun to hit—and it’s been awesome so far. My friends and I are currently planning out our summers (and I’m waiting for confirmation with a job) just to enjoy it together. But I’m still excited for college, and the adventures I’ll have in life. I’m excited for the growth I’m gonna experience. I’m sorry shit went down at college! That really sucks. But here’s to growth and learning:)
@iwantaferret_ I feel this. I graduated high school last year and just finished my first year of college, and I still don't think it's set in yet fully. It feels so far away yet so close. I know I'm a completely different person than I was this time last year (shit went down at college sob), but it also feels like I could turn around and be right back at my high school. I think deep down though, I know I'm done and I've outgrown it more than I think. Theres definitely a lot of emotion and closure along with it though, and I absolutely don't feel "grown-up" in the slightest. Its tough to close that chapter, but its also so refreshing to let it set in honestly. And overall, congrats on graduating! Have fun looking forward :)
Sigh…
I miss writing about my boys
@iwantaferret_ don’t be shy, you can write more about them in that one shot book (not forcing obviously)
History is…scary.
Not only because of the environment we live in right now, as if we’re living in someone else’s textbook or school project. But because you’re able to see how many people don’t know it, or worse: misinterpret it.
Take Newsies, for example. It’s not a story of the opposition of child labor, like I’ve seen many people, including myself, think it to be. It’s a story of worker exploitation, and how hundreds of newsies opposed that. None of them were working toward union legislation; they just wanted to be compensated appropriately by their boss. But people have this idea because of the way American education overwhelms us with events and loose dates.
It doesn’t help that the education system is so good at omitting parts of history also. For example, for my foreign friends, in school we are largely told about the ending of American slavery with 13th Amendment, but because we squeeze this era together, a lot of people mistake it for the Emancipation Proclamation. Even worse, no one is ever really taught about what happens after the end of the Civil War, in which the education system directly pivots back to the Industrial Era. Slavery, in this country’s education, an institution that literally built this country’s wealth, is a footnote in its history that most people don’t learn about until February, when it’s then mashed up with the Civil Rights Movement.
All in all, you are being blocked from more knowledge that you can imagine. You are being blocked from caring about people on a deep level. You are being blocked from learning different perspectives and understanding your country, all in the name of blissful ignorance.
The craziest part is that education is paired with a price tag, so even if you wanted to know more, it’s almost financially impossible. Through article paywalls to lifetime debt, people are being stopped at every checkpoint to be kept from learning more in detail.
Which leaves people to not only make things up, but to commit atrocities in private, and continuing a vicious cycle of systematic uneducated people.
I was going to talk about the governor situation in California but wattpad added another update and I feel that that is more important than “Barack Obama Shaw”
I wrote a killer message but I guess I’ll simplify it
92sies has a better time building the world of Newsies than Livesies does because of the limited space and time that comes with creating a musical meant to be displayed on stage
In the movie, you see pop-ups of working-class kids that, I think, perfectly sets up the song: Once And For All. You also get to see what life is like for kids outside of the main group, like the kids sleeping on the statue at the beginning of the movie, or Patrick’s mother crying for her child’s safety after he’s run away. Even Pulitzer, a seasoned man whose morality has fallen victim to the allure of capitalism. Part of the reason he’s so harsh on the newsies and doesn’t care for them at all—especially when they’re protesting him—is because he has a bottom line to reach. But when you think about it, he’s just another immigrant hoping to make it too, just like the newsies are.
I think Livesies is really great at capturing a story, but 92sies has the room to capture multiple messages. I think it shows how destroying the Industrial Era was, for so many people. It created orphans, it tore apart families, and it made people who were all living in a new country at the same time desperate for a piece of each other’s throats. It fractured people apart.
But Livesies has its strengths also. It handles woman characters FAR better than the movie does. Katherine is a phenomenal character. Shes funny, sweet hearted, and genuinely smart and capable, and she proves it without ever needing Jack to really lift a finger for her. If anything, he’s probably following HER around like a puppy dog. And Medda has always been perfect (although, I do wish she was able to get more than one song). The music in Livesies is also more polished than the movie, which is to be expected. It feels militant but united, which is necessary is some songs.
Anyway, I’m biased. Which version is your favorite?