You Rach You Lose

Suddenly Kreizman!

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:52:42 -0400

Suddenly Kreizman!

RENT

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:26 -0400

RENT

shapeways: Just posted a GIF (Taken with GifBoom) Aight,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:31:45 -0400

shapeways:

Just posted a GIF (Taken with GifBoom)

Aight, Shapeways, you got me. Where can I buy 3D printed jellyshoes?

rainbowrowell: “Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:26:31 -0400

rainbowrowell:

“Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.”

So John Green reviewed Eleanor & Park inThe New York Times this weekend, and I don’t have enough exclamation points to express how I’m feeling.

If you’d like to read my book, you can find it in lots of great bookstores — and online here:

Amazon Barnes & Noble IndieBound iBooks

PSST! You have exactly one chance to see Rainbow Rowell at a public appearance in NYC. Don’t miss it!

Nothing makes me feel quite so glamorous as wearing a brand of nail polish you can't buy at Walgreens.

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:45:51 -0400

Step 305: Do not listen to random angry anonymous internet strangers

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:23:47 -0400

adulting:

Here is the thing about making anything for public consumption: Some people will like it, some people will dislike it, and some people will be so so confusingly furious at you for even existing.

The first category is the people you should be focusing on and making things for.

The second category will sometimes have valid criticism; when they do, listen to them. But don’t get too hurt or caught up on their dislike of what you make — you don’t like everything other people like, after all.

The third category is absolutely useless and you need to ignore them. Seriously. Do not read what they say. Go do something else, something fun, something that doesn’t even involve the internet, maybe.

This post brought to you by the wonderful commentariat of Yahoo! News.

ASTERISK: People will be much angrier at you for existing if you are a young, attractive, confident woman who is also succeeding.

"There are many teens out there that could benefit from messages like these. They are not saying..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:01:10 -0400

“There are many teens out there that could benefit from messages like these. They are not saying “DON’T HAVE SEX OMG OMG!”. They are saying “BE CAREFUL: HAVING A CHILD IS NOT A GAME”.”

- Bobby’s Blog

No they’re not. They’re saying “fuck you for having a kid in your teens. You asshole, you ruined your child’s life and your child ruined yours.”

You named the message NYC Social Services wanted to say, but definitely not the message they did say. These posters are extremely bad at their job, with so much ill consequence that those who approved them should eat major public-relations shit.

(via nickdouglas)

Also they misunderstand or misrepresent statistics in ways I learned not to by 8th grade in New York City public school.

Fershleiser described Tumblr, a network of 106 million blogs, as...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:31:16 -0400

Fershleiser described Tumblr, a network of 106 million blogs, as a “passion network” that isn’t just about books but “about everything.” Unlike a social networking site like Facebook, Tumblr is more about specific interests and about forming communities based around those interests (“what are you into and what are people into that also into?”). One of Fershleiser’s favorite characteristics of Tumblr is its equalizing nature; there’s no established hierarchy among users. You’ll find fans of Rainbow Rowell blogging “fan art” for Eleanor & Park, Rowell reposting the fan art and, in turn, blogging about books she loves and her affection for Dr. Who, all in one fell swoop. It’s a powerful resource for authors, enabling them to directly engage with fans.

(via YA Readers in the Age of Social Networking: A CBC Forum)

I thought I said Sherlock. I wonder if she likes both or if I’m a big old fandom liar.

girl, you made my day :) -kristin

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:00 -0400

Girl, you’re not really getting my credit card number. :) -Rachel

etsyfindoftheday: etsy find of the day 1 | 4.11.13theme...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:18:43 -0400

etsyfindoftheday:

etsy find of the day 1 | 4.11.13

theme thursday: muted metallics

diamond chip necklace by juliegarland

the theme of today is muted metallics, starting with this gorgeous diamond chip necklace by juliegarland. i love the shiny, monochromatic beiges and tans, especially with the bright silver chain. what a combo!

Are you guys following Etsy Find of The Day? I should basically just give this blogger my credit card number and be done with it.

notebookofmaxfenton: The 100 largest building lots in NYC,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:40:04 -0400

notebookofmaxfenton:

The 100 largest building lots in NYC, 1854.

Image by @mgiraldo at NYPL Labs
Source maps at http://maps.nypl.org/warper/layers/861

Thanks Max!

jgrassound: Like. Holy crap! I feel like a famous person!

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:41:05 -0400

jgrassound:

Like. Holy crap!

I feel like a famous person!

"Logan is not just broody and slightly rude/chip on his shoulder, he is a TOTAL PSYCHOTIC ASSHOLE in..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:43:00 -0400

“Logan is not just broody and slightly rude/chip on his shoulder, he is a TOTAL PSYCHOTIC ASSHOLE in S1 and doesn’t even have Spike’s excuse (that he had no soul).”

- Just some intellectual discourse from Jenn.

Eleanor & Park embroidery fan art! Wow wow wow wow wow! (by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:31:00 -0400

Eleanor & Park embroidery fan art! Wow wow wow wow wow!

(by yadykates)

Uh, John? Something you wanna tell us?

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:35:00 -0400

Uh, John? Something you wanna tell us?

What did Chinese authorities do in July 2009 when tensions...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:52:00 -0400

What did Chinese authorities do in July 2009 when tensions between the predominantly Muslim population of China’s Xinjiang province and authorities escalated into violent riots? They turned off the Internet in Xinjiang. This inspired China scholar Jason Q. Ng to devise a computer script to test all 700,000 terms in Chinese Wikipedia to see which ones are routinely censored on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, which currently has over 300 million users.

The result was the groundbreaking and highly praised Blocked on Weibo blog, expanded here into a book. Ranging from fairly obvious words, such as “tank” (a reference to the “Tank Man” who stared down the Chinese army in Tiananmen Square) and the names of top government officials (if they can’t be found online, they can’t be criticized), to deeply obscure terms, such as “The Four Gentlemen” (though it means a set of four traditional flowers, it can also refer to various quartets of dissidents) and “hairy bacon” (a coded insult for Mao’s embalmed body), Blocked on Weibo collects many of the phrases that could get a Chinese Internet user invited to the local police station “for a cup of tea”—a euphemism for being illegally detained by the authorities.

An invaluable guide to sensitive topics in modern-day China, Blocked on Weibo exposes the fissures between the idealized society that Chinese authorities dream of having and the actual one that Chinese netizens are creating each day.

(via The New Press - “Blocked on Weibo” by Jason Q. Ng)

A serious nonfiction Tumblr book deal — congrats, Jason!

According to Rachel Fershleiser, who handles Tumblr’s literary...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:03 -0400

According to Rachel Fershleiser, who handles Tumblr’s literary strategic outreach, “Your URL might be a reference to what you love. The focus is less on who you are than on your passions. The culture on Tumblr is a little bit intellectual, a little bit nerdy. We’ve got a huge community of teens who spend their spare time reading.”

(via Teenage Tweetland)

I just called you all nerds in Publishers Weekly. Nyah nyah.

"Thank you for talking about it so much on tumblr that it stuck and I remembered it!"

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:16:01 -0400

“Thank you for talking about it so much on tumblr that it stuck and I remembered it!”

- Y’all give me the loveliest compliments about my book recs/verbal diarrhea.

Favorite Swear Words of Famous People is an awesome Tumblr by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:00 -0400

Favorite Swear Words of Famous People is an awesome Tumblr by the author of an Oxford University Press book about the history of swearing called, I shit you not, Holy Sh*t.

amiwithani: I made some more fan art, this one from my favorite...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:54:51 -0400

amiwithani:

I made some more fan art, this one from my favorite line in Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins. I loved Edie, and even though food was ultimately her downfall, there was something beautiful about her hearty enjoyment of it, which this line sums up perfectly.

(I know the pub date for The Middlesteins isn’t until the end of October, but this was too good not to share immediately.)

Just a reminder that Ami + Jami = Bliss