I swear to fuck, I get a little frisson of cognitive dissonance every time someone refers to the "ABO integration conduit" at work. Every damn time.

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I just blazed my way through the extant Percy Jackson books, which are actually quite good and which I would have read over and over and constantly over again if I were my son's age. I'm torn between love of Annabeth and love of Hazel (er, Piper too), and have decided I like them all quite well enough that I don't have to decide between them.

( Spoilers for both of the series. )

I miss having hobbies. Even when I took a night off last night (due to tiredness and burnout), I still didn't get to start watching my shows, because they would take too much attention and make me want to stop cold on doing schoolwork ( Read more... )

Some people think it's awesome to make sockpuppets to write fake reviews on your own book and to write bad reviews on your competitors' books.So, people do that outside of fandom. Professional people! And get publicly called out for it ( Read more... )

The parenthetical is there because, of course, no one is saying that Chicago teens who are not of color would be turned away. Or that anyone will be.

Per the PocketCon website: Pocket Con is a single day convention for Chicago Teens. It focuses on work by artists of color, particularly African American authors and artists, as well as comics ( Read more... )