Hello! 

oh, yeah. I get that. I don't read any of the PJO/WoF adaptations partly for that reason (though I am watching the PJO tv show). :)

I watched the trailer for Nimona and it looks super good!! But also just remembered... Nimona's pretty proudly LGBTQIAP+.... so unless I get like 1 hour and a half of free time all alone at home all of a sudden... :/

I like literally all music except for 3 songs! I can't say I know too much about punk though... unless the Linda Lindas are punk? In which case, I LOVEEE punk! :D which btw, do you know about the Linda Lindas? They're great!! They're a group of Asian/Latinx(?) girls - 2 sisters, 1 cousin (?), and 1 friend who's basically family, ages 12-18 I think - who make music together!! And they're so inspiring and actually really good!! Plus their lyrics are like yayy!! They sing about real issues, things that have happened to them, their cats... :)  also I actually met them irl and they seriously seem really genuine and nice and funny, so I'm a supporter :)

what kind of music do you like? I think you mentioned mxmtoon? What's your favorite song by her? I pretty much have Cliché stuck in my head quite a lot now because... uh yeah it's pretty accurate, even with squishes or plushes or whatever *blushes* :)

I looked up The Brave and ok woah I already seriously love the cover wow. And it sounds really, really good. Like, really good. I think that condition is a real thing... I've heard of it before?, but don't trust me, ofc. Have you ever read The Door of No Return? Your description of the book reminds me a bit of that for some reason (amazing book btw). But I'll make sure... to add it... to the list... ok I've really gotta stop doing this soon.

Hmm.. for The Moonstone, do you mean 18th century? If so... I mean, it sounds interesting enough, and I'm fine with older books - love love love Jane Eyre, as well as remember loving Little Women (I read it in 4th grade when I was bored though, so don't really remember that much) and The Jungle Book (same thing but in 5th grade), all 3 of which are also 18th century I think, but... doesn't really seem like something I would want to read? Unless it's good?

I am reading Breadcrumbs - for the book club! - right now, but not much progress so far... it's so far pretty ok though, but honestly not my favorite - to be fair, I'm only like a chapter in... still. I've never heard of the real boy before... what's it about? And no way you got to interview Anne Ursu?? For your book blog??? Soooo coolll!!! :DD

anyways I should be asleep so g'night! But before I go, I've been meaning to ask for months now... on your art (which, btw, I always absolutely adore you're seriously an amazing artist!!), do you write "hua" as a signature, because a lupine is a type of flower? Just curious, bc if so, that's also really cool :)

ok yup thanks I'm tired rn you can probably tell bye! :) 

Helloo!! Sorry it took me so long to respond :/

yes yes and yes to everything you said about the Linda Lindas (including yes, I did meet them irl)!! It was pretty awesome, I got to listen to them talk about how they balance school and music-making and why they chose the instruments they did (Mila's hands at the time were too small to play anything other than drums XD, and some (all?) of the members came into the band not knowing how to play their instruments, but now they're great! :) ) and they totally got way off-topic when they were talking about some of the things haha, and there was this one little girl in the front who in my opinion was sorta attention-seeking and annoying but Ig I was like that too as a little kid so I can't talk (oh and yeah btw all the kids got to have front row seats it was great) and she kept on waving her hand and she was like "Linda Lindas!! Linda Lindas!! Can I have a hug?" and everyone awwed and I was like uhh ok, so each of the Linda Lindas came and gave her a hug and then then she was like "Linda Lindas!! Linda Lindas!! Can- uhh" and it's like she really just wanted to shout their names haha but had nothing to actually say so then the Linda Lindas asked her "what's your favorite dinosaur?" and I was like YESS that's awesome!! What a great question! :)

...yeah that turned rambly. Anyways! I got to take a picture with Eloise who is, like, super cool in my opinion (all of them are super cool honestly) so that was great, and honestly I think the best part besides meeting them irl was that I got to feel all the vibrations shooting through the floor as they played and like the whole atmosphere and energy was great. I used "great" way too many times in the last two paragraphs...

Hmm I'll have to listen to her Dawn EP later... I've been putting this post off to find time but then when there is time I keep on forgetting and use up that time to do other things (yeah I still have to listen to a bunch of BTS songs and half of My Head is an Animal by Monsters and Men and the whole of Lowlight by lor via CB chats and music club haha (not that I don't like all the music recs, the CB's introduced me to some of my favorite songs ever and I love discovering new music (not me making up a whole choreography for Little Talks... ahem)!) so it's sorta slow-going).

yeah :/ it's honestly not as much my family's totally against LGBTQIAP+ stuff, it's just that idk if they are, and am too chicken to find out haha. Also my family like doesn't even know I know exactly what "gay" means, much less anything else... which is a reasonable assumption given that a few years ago I thought the only meaning of the word was "happy" haha :) but yes it's messed up that it's still an issue... :/ and even sort of the ignorance out there isn't great (e.g. me a few years back, and last time I checked one of my good friends was also convinced that transgender wasn't a real thing, I think bc she's also lived most of her life in ignorance and out of the blue I was reading a book where the MC's trans and to her it was just like "everything you know is false! What can you believe anymore?" so... I don't think you can really blame her. The ignorance is bad. But I can't be talking bc I shy away from topics like that irl...)

Yay! I'm glad it's getting a lot of good reviews! I've only watched the 1st episode bc I've convinced my whole family to watch it together, so we have to find time when we're all able, but I'm sorta in love with how the episode titles are chapter titles in the book XD, and I have high hopes :) also yes you should totally read HoO! It's my favorite out of all the Riordan books! Well, but I'm biased, cuz those were my first Rick Riordan books ever, so. :) tell me if you get to rereading them and if you like them!

:0 why do all the books you recommend sound so good?? :/ *tbr pile increases by a book* :)

Wow, that's actually really cool! And I never knew that it was pronounced differently in Japanese, so thank you for that too! :)

QotD: tysm for putting the word "some" in there XD and hmm... well, you already know about On a Sunbeam and Nimona and The Girl from the Sea... I also loveeee Dog Man/Cat Kid and no one can tell me otherwise :) When Stars are Scattered is pretty good too though it's been a while since I've read it, and idk if Wink counts? I've been meaning to read American Born Chinese and Parachute Kids and Go With the Flow (thank you again for the recommendation! :) )... there must be more I'm forgetting... oh! And I also really like Tidesong by Wendy Xu!

Helloooooo!!!! I'm like super hyper rn with the CB back on and all sorry, just coming back really quickly I'll respond later but ALSO before the CB went down I meant to add ALSO ANY COMIC BY JASON SHIGA IS A MASTERPIECE srsly why don't as many ppl know about him plus he's Asian which is always a bonus with me but... :DDD *calmly exits thread before it becomes more incoherent*

Ooh, cool! I went to Japan recently and... well, I honestly liked Tai Wan better, but Japan was super cool too! Something to note btw is that I noticed a kinda lack of trash cans while there (wait I suddenly can't remember if that was Japan or Tai Wan or both- somewhere in Asia though) so if you have trash.. um, it might benefit to bring something to put it in? There was also an astonishing lack of trash XD, where in America, it's overflowing with both trash cans and trash! It's funny how that works :)

btw in Japan I saw a storefront with a pride flag in the display case it made me so happyyy

ok and also now that you've got me going: all the electronic train cards are so cute (and also I am very happy because among all those animals they have a platypus~ :D platypuses are amazing) AND when we were there we went to a shaved ice place I think it was (that btw was playing Studio Ghibli music!! Have you ever watched any of their films?) and it was just us and this person and her daughter and when they finished their food and got up to go I was just eating and honestly feeling a little indifferent to Japan (no offense! Just... idk. Can I say I'm not a huge fan of seafood? Or sushi. Sorry :/) when she came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and showed me her phone, and on the screen was google translate (btw, if you ever need it, google translate is a big help across language barriers! Even if it can be a bit inaccurate) and she'd written: "have a fun time in Japan!"!!! Which was so niceee!! :DD And just that one thing made my visit all that much greater :)

also, it's so cool you're learning Japanese! Honestly, learning any new language is cool. Sometimes I feel irrational and want to learn them all >:). I'm sure you'll be a great translator!! And I really do mean it :) (ofc, I may be wrong as I am a stranger on the Internet and have never (I think) met you in real life... but for some reason I still 100% feel like you will be? But yes I'll stop talking now :) )

do you know any other languages?

yes, it was me who mentioned Coyote Sunrise! Ooh, tell me how it is when you finish! I'm still waiting to check it out :/ but yess such a great book!!

I just finished rereading book 2 of the Six of Crows duology (unfortunately, book 1 was checked out), which always sends me into a crazy rant-phase bc ahh I love those books so muchhh!!! I definitely recommend if you haven't read them (though they can be a bit dark). There's so much character building and worldbuilding and ofc both books are chock-full of witty and beautiful and truthful and empowering and sweet and laugh-out-loud quotes- sometimes I feel like I could quote the entire book (both entire books) and each word will resonate totally somewhere in my heart <3

also, it's all diabolically brilliant (still talking about SoC)

I've also been reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (recommended by Hex), which is also full of absolutely amazing world-building (astonishing, really) and great characters who all feel so natural it's crazy and yes it's totally worth being over 1,000 pages long and renewed 3 times so far to read :D it's more serious than SoC, but Brandon Sanderson is also great at humor (very much recommend reading his short story I Hate Dragons! It's typed up for free on his website) so yeah! My only complaint (ok, besides the gender-separation, but I'm assuming that's a part of the worldbuilding and will be remedied later on) is that it's super loosely-bound, so the book always feels so floppy and unsubstantial in my hand, which is very annoying for some reason? I prefer heavy, thickly-bound books where I can feel the full weight of them resting on my lap/in my hands. But just a personal preference. Do you have any opinions on that?

andd we're reading Fahrenheit 451 in class, which yayy I've been waiting for this bc I was originally just reading it over the summer but then we found out we'd be reading it for class and so I stopped in order to be able to read along with everyone else as much as I could :D it's great so far, I don't know if you like those kinds of books though?

Hi Amity, sorry I didn't respond sooner. I think you may want to make that comment in BaB?? I honestly don't really know the school for good and evil (though I did love Beasts and Beauty!!) or warriors, but if you make a thread/comment there there'll be more ppl who have read those books? :)

ALSO, @Lupine btw!! First of all, want to apologize bc I just realized I said "Noelle Smith" in an earlier post, but it's actually "ND Stevenson". And speaking of!! Today in my school library I found a book of his -- the graphic novels section is so full of lgbtqiap+ books I'm honestly a bit scared to linger in/around there haha always scared I'm gonna get yelled at or something so I always try to make the most of whatever oppurtunity to inconspicuously browse the books there... anyways, have you ever read The Fire Never Goes Out? I only got a peek before I had to go, but it seems really good (and ofc, it's ND Stevenson, so... I'm saying it's gonna be good) and I loveee the cover for some reason.

AND IT IS OFFICIAL. Well, more official. Molly Knox Ostertag and ND Stevenson are amazing. I did NOT know ND Stevenson worked on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (have not watched it yet but want to; have you? I did watch a lot of She-Ra when I was younger I think and loved it??) and Molly Knox Ostertag worked on The Owl House!!!! Squeee!!!!! I am in love with that show literally and I only have 5 episodes left how is that possible noo. Have you watched it?

Alsooo oh my how have I forgotten to tell you a while ago I listened to the Dawn EP and <333 Almost Home might be one of my favorite songs by mxmtoon now (I really can't decide anymore), I choreographed a whole dance to it and everything lol. So comforting <3 thank you. I really love the whole Dawn EP.

andd now it's past midnight so good night! Btw, for your trip to Japan, did you know the difference in pronunciation for kawaii?