This Made Me Cry

A Live Action version of Spiderverse but gayer

I've literally never read a book that would be so great adapted to cinema, but if they do, they have to have it narrated by the actor playing Alex cause I want to hear every idiotic thought going through Alex's head when he isn't screaming them at at whoever will listen himself on screen in someone's face, I want big bold later saying WHAT THE FUCK on screen everytime Alex think those words or any profanity for that matter, I want freeze frames when something embarrassing happens (which is like half the goddamn book) and Alex talking about it in the background, I want the letters between him and Henry read dramatically as if they were 18th century lovers writting to each other like you know when they superpose the person reading the letters and the one writting it with a kind of transparent thing and u watch them smile and you can watch them smile like so overly cheesy it makes it funny, I want Zahra absolutely throwing up profanities at Alex when he fucks up which is like every 5 pages in the goddamn book, I want Alex's disastrous dumbass (who is actually kinda smart when he isn't being and absolutely fucking idiot) half mexican bisexual ass doing the most stupid shits and coming to term with his sexuality and DATING THE FUCKING PRINCE OF ENGLAND on my screen

-When I told the army doctor that sometimes my period pains make me unable to function for days, he didn’t even write that down. -When I told my dad “don’t touch me, I’m in pain” he backed down for a moment until my mom told him “she’s on her period”. Then he just laughed. -When I told my teacher before a big test that I was unable to do it because I was in extreme pain and could barely move at all, she said I was making up excuses and that it wasn’t a real reason not to do the test.  -Wenever I tell someone about how different I feel during my period emotionally they say I’m just “making up drama”.  We need to start treating people on their periods like actual human beings in pain. 

-The fact that it occurs monthly doesn’t make the pain less real. It should be treated seriously and with respect. -The fact that the hormones effect the emotions doesn’t make your sadness less painful or the anger less valid or that terrible feeling of being lost less terrifying. Guess what? Hormones affect everyone. Feelings aren’t always rational. It should be also treated seriously and with respect.

Please stop mocking people with periods. Please stop dismissing us. Please stop violating our boundries. Please respect people with periods. 

HELP BRAZILIAN READERS

so, in brazil, we have this gigant publisher called ‘galera record’ and and they publish most of the big titles and authors (here’s a list of some authors and books, but there are many more)

the problem begins with the absurd price they put on the books. it’s so expansive, most people can’t afford it. when they released koa (one year after the book was launched) it was cheaper to buy the original, hardcover, signed copy then the portuguese one. but then you say “okay, it’s expansive, but you’re paying for a high quality product, so it’s worth it” right? no.

here are some of the problems we have with this publisher:

1. the translations

i’m going to use a recent exemple, but you can find stuff like this in basically all their books.

they released the brazilian version of house of earth and blood, by sarah j maas this semester, and it was one of the most expected books of the year. they whitewashed ALL the non white characters. Hunt, Fury, Juniper, Isaiah... you name it, they whitewashed. it was absurd. all the fans ware so angry, we made it to the trends and they said that in the next edition they were going to fix it. but if you had already bought it, it’s your problem. you keep the racist copy or pay for the new one.

like i said, you can find things like this in most of their books. here we have Raphael from tmi (Cassie Clare) saying “i’m not gay. i’m not straight. i’m not interested.”, and they turned to “i’m not gay. I’m straight. i’m not interested.”

they literally changed his sexuality

and this is an old book, they never fixed. besides changing characters races, skin color and sexuality (among other absurd things), their books are poorly translated. wrong words, characters names spelled wrong, changes in the original texts that are not necessary or make sense

2. bad quality of the books

besides the poor translation, the books have a low quality. like, really low.

the paper they use it’s terrible and gets yellow with months (in the pictures, 1° one is books that i have for six years from other publishers and 2° have 3/4 years)

we’ve been complaining about this for YEARS, they aways say they will change the papers, but never do.

besides this we have other problems: books with missing chapters, books with the pages glued together, with whole pages missing, the bumps of the books not aligned, literally anything you can think about. and yet they put an absurd price no one can afford

3. lack of professionalism

this one is the most recent one. yesterday, the main editor of the publisher was “talking” against pirate books. i understand. it’s her job. but then she compared piracy with RAPE, RACISM AND MURDER and then made this joke, referring to a case that is running here in brazil, where a girl’s rapist was sentenced with “guilt rape”, witch is basically saying he didn’t meant to rape her. that’s not even legal and it’s so so so disgusting and wrong. we are still fighting to have justice brought to this case and this girl, and the main editor of one of the biggest publisher in the country had the nerve and lack of character to make a joke saying that reading in illegal epubs is “guilt piracy.”, when most people who read in illegal forms don’t have the money to buy books. we don’t have many libraries. it’s either read in epubs or don’t read at all. so besides having no compassion with all these peoples, she used an serious and disgusting issue as a joke.

that’s not the first time she’s involved in cases like this, and yet she was never fired or reprimanded. they just ignore it, because she’s the heir of the publisher, so i guess it’s okay she does this kind of thing

we are basically hostage of this publisher because it buys all the big titles and it’s either give them money or don’t read the books we love so much.

most of us cant read in english or cant afford to buy international copies, so if we want our favorites, we need to buy it from them. the reason for this thread is to ask you to help us bring attention to this. we are tired of the disrespect this is and we want authors to know who their selling their work to, and to know what is happening here. so please, tag the authors, publishers, managers ANYONE you can think of that will read this and be able to do something to help. please. we are so tired of having to deal with this, we just don’t know what to do.

thanks for reading, i’m so sorry for any mistakes, and please share this and tag people

UPDATES: AUTHORS WHO SAW THIS AND MADE A STATEMENT

angie thomas

kalynn bayron

brittainy c cherry

rory power

kami garcia

holly black

v.e schwab

sarah j maas

shelby mahurin

colleen hoover

sabaa tahir

anthony horowitz

aiden thomas

cassie clare

we reached to every author i mentioned and more. thank you so much to everyone who helped us, it means the world to us!

My heart can't take it

AN INCOMPLETE LIST: THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HRH PRINCE HENRY OF WALES

I can’t match you for prose, but what i can do is write you a list.

— Euripides

@asiandramanet November creator bingo challenge: free choice

“Do not disappear from my sight. Since I have you, I can endure this hellish time”… “Even though I put you in that hell?” Moon in the Day (2023) | ep 7

give it up for 2022

Roswell New Mexico + favorite romantic relationship-> Liz Ortecho/Max Evans (requested by anonymous)

“Right now, what you're feeling is... an echo of what I feel for you. It'll wear off, just like the handprint will.” // “I want you to feel what I feel for you.” “Echoes.”

Yes, please!

It’s been a really long time since the last date Max had been on. His entire world seemed bleak and dreary, the gray skies and endless rain didn’t help his general mood and demeanor. Not that Roswell usually had rain, or much precipitation at all.

“I’m not sad,” he says again, shoving the cabinet door closed. Changing his mind at the last moment and leaving the tequila bottle hidden, even if all he wanted to do was drown in it. Pulling long shifts at the bar also didn’t help his general loneliness and urge to drink.

“That’s what you keep saying,” Isobel says from where she’s draped across the back of the couch. She’s the only reason Max isn’t neck deep in booze and watching reruns of NCIS.

He gives his sister a harsh glare, “I’m not lonely either.”

“We’re throwing a singles party at Rosa’s galleria,” she says simply. “People are coming from out of town to celebrate Roswell flooding due to alien influence.”