Welcome to my blog guys, my first time every doing this. Any way my name Jaleigha/Leigha/Ladybug (most get called Leigha). I’m a very silly person and I love to eat anything blue. I love to do TikTok’s, love to sing, love animals, and I LOVE TEDDYBEARS!!
I have been writing since I was in first grade to be honest. In first grade I started to write to help with my coping. I also was dealing with a lot so I would write about my day or act like I was writing to my mom. I had like 60 something journals in my room lol! I would just write just to write. I would try to write songs with my sister, I would write about my day, my feelings, and I would write silly stores only about animals.
Growing up I got to learn how to write with using the right lower and capital case latter, and where to put the right punctuation marks. Yes, I can say writing is not so easy even if you have been writing for months even years, writing can be hard at time (at least for me). I say that because you can have some good ideals for stores, but you might have to take a good little amount of time to think of something (I take a while sometimes.) But when I listen to music it be easy for me because I don’t think much then I be singing or dancing to the music. Anyway I have always love writing and think it’s a good way to free your mind. But yea, so this is me. See I told said y’all was go love me. I know I’m a chill person and I’m a little weird but yea.
Hello world!!! To kick off the year I’d like to start off with a quick splurge about my current favorite show, The Walking Dead! I’m on my second watch and have been interacting with the fandom space and let me tell you I am not happy with the direction they’ve taken the show. This blog post will cover over my frustrations with the spin-offs. Spoilers Ahead!
I want to preface this by saying I am not a fan of the direction they chose with the post main show spin-offs. The only one I see as needed is The Ones Who Live which if you don’t know follows up on Rick and Michonne after Rick had left the show in season nine and Michonne left in season ten. It was nice to see them tie the Grimes family back together and address more of Rick’s grief after losing his son Carl. I’ll have a whole other blog post about what happened to Carl and how much a dislike it.
Now we can get into the spin-offs I don’t like. Starting with the lesser evil, Daryl Dixon. The first season was pretty alright. It was just a southern dude on his own traveling through France with what was thought of to be the second coming of Jesus, but where my problems arise is the fact that Daryl loses his accent nearly fully. Daryl, who was born and raised in the south until what is presumed to be his late 20s early 30s, just loses his accent the moment he touches French soil. The whole reason Daryl went to France in the first place was to find Rick because he never stopped looking for him after the characters in the show thought they watched him die. Then in season two he just refuses to go home. Like he has a dog, is pretty much the guardian of Rick and Michonne’s kids, and an entire life back at home. He has people he’s spent about 12 years with back in America, and he abandons them for a French kid and a nun. It’s ridiculous! If you’ve seen the show, it’s like he’s a completely different character now! He left all the people that loved him and he children he raised. After being abandoned and left behind and neglected throughout his life you’d think he’d stay, but nope. I really hope things get resolved and fans finally get the thing most have wanted since 2018, a reunion between Rick and Daryl.
Next is Dead City. I don’t know how to start this one off other than with it shouldn’t exist. At the end of season eleven of the main show Maggie is done letting her grief of Glenn, her late husband, run her life, so she sits Negan, the man who murdered her husband, down and tells him that she can work with him, but she’ll have days when she can’t and that he has to understand that. That she doesn’t forgive him, because who would after what he did, but she’s ready to move on. Negan agrees with her logic. Then in Dead City she hates him again. Like season 10 hasn’t seen his character growth hatred. In season two of Dead City Negan, even though he had a very heavy redemption that the writers really tried hard on, becomes who he was in season eight all over again. The most offensive part is that he’s given back Lucille, his bat wrapped in barbed wire, which broke at the end of season ten to show that the grief of his wife and the tyrannical reign he had was behind him and he was changing. I get that they did it for the plot of season two, but season two didn’t have to exist. Dead City didn’t have to exist. It’s set twenty years into the apocalypse, seven years after the main show ended. The Ones Who Live brought back Gabriel, Jadis, Judith, and RJ. Daryl Dixon brings Carol into the story in season two. Dead City keeps Negan, Maggie, and Maggie’s son Hershel. That’s literally it. At least Daryl Dixon has an excuse because it’s set in France. Dead City is in New York! Rick literally came from a huge group of people looking to take over other areas and cities. They could so easily bring back a little Negan and Rick rivalry since it seems like they want an empathetic version of season eight Negan. It does nothing for the story. Nothing. The show has no loose ends without the existence of Dead City.
I think that’s enough for now. I’m pretty sure I went over my word limit this first time around haha! I didn’t mean to go off like that, and I’ll probably continue a bit more on the specific mischaracterization within the spin-offs, but that’s it for now. Bye Bye! See you next time!!!!
Hey guys! This first blog is going to be more of an introduction to me and what my blog is for.
My name is Robin. I have always had a love for the arts. I love writing, drawing, and music. I have sketchbook upon sketchbook of drawings that leak from my hands. I have notebooks upon notebooks that are filled with my writings, not a page blank. I have bookshelves filled with great stories, authored by great writers. Calluses from my guitar have become part of my hands. I have sores in my ears from wearing my headphones constantly. My friends have said that I am very calm but most of the time I don’t feel that way. My mind is constantly on, always thinking about something. I have also been told I am a very quiet person, which if I’m being honest makes sense. I don’t talk about things out loud often. So, a few more things about me and some random facts before I introduce my blogspace are:
I am from Pearl, Ms. I love it there and it will always be the place I consider home.
I listen to all types of music. I listen to indie, rock, metal, pop (not my favorite but on occasion), Alt., new wave, rap, worship, post-punk, Midwest, anything really. I am a big believer in listening to diverse music. I feel it helps us not only understand who we are as individuals but helps us understand new perspectives and new ideas or concepts.
I love watching movies and tv shows.
I don’t like chocolate ice cream.
I’m afraid of heights.
Now that we have covered who I am. I feel as though I should write about what I want this blog to be. I want this blog to be a space for me to just write and find my voice. I want to write about my opinions on music, movies, and topics or concepts. I would like to share some of my writings as well.
I feel writing is an outlet. Writing helps organize your thoughts and even helps know what you’re thinking or feeling. It helps your mind empty and have a space to output information being input; in today’s society more is being input than what is being output. This can create problems. It hurts our balance of creativity and life, as well as interfering with how we are able to process our own thoughts. Writing improves who you are and how well you know and understand yourself. Writing is improved by practice, and this is a great tool for practice.
Theres many things in this world that people can enjoy like, Coffee, Boba, and Tea.
You may or may not be a morning person, so coffee may or may not be for you. You might enjoy a bitter but prominent flavorful taste; Tea is the way to go. Now if you enjoy both, Boba adds to the fun. Giving you a silky-smooth milk tea or coffee experience with fun popping or brown sugar boba balls at the bottom. Each one of these drinks can add just the right amount of dopamine to your day. It doesn’t have to be every day but whenever you want.
In better understanding what each of these beverages bring to you, you have to be willing to TRY them, otherwise you miss out on, potentially, a newfound experience. Or maybe you have, and it just wasn’t for you, that’s fine, you don’t HAVE to like them.
Coffee is a well-used essential beverage in everyday life, specifically mornings to help those wake up for a very long day with a boost of caffeine. However not always is it used for this purpose. From what I’ve seen, coffee is a very comforting beverage to some and even helps keep the brain focused without a dump load of caffeine like energy drinks do normally. You can drink it on the go, hot or cold, you can even try many different types of coffee like a Frappuccino, Macchiato, Cold brew, so on and so forth. You can even mix and match flavors and styles to find and personalize your own. [If you couldn’t tell already, I really like coffee.]
Most people who like coffee, don’t really like tea and those who really like tea don’t really like coffee. Tea in itself is unique. It’s herbal and fresh and brewed fresh just for you. It can be bitter, but that can change with anything you want to add into it. Tea is a very soothing beverage, it helps ease the mind and if you’re not a caffeine fan, this helps keep you energized and awake in a good healthy way. You can drink it hot or cold, anywhere you want.
Boba is a nice, sweet surprise in a cup. The tea, coffee or even milk itself is not what makes this drink so overly fascinating, it’s the surprise at the bottom. Can you guess what their called? These fun little surprises can make any tea or coffee ten times more enjoyable and fun. Certain flavors with the right beverage mix will be an explosion of flavor in your mouth if you have the popping pearls. The regular pearls at the bottom are usually just the standard brown-sugar pack in a three-pack box from Walmart. These Boba’s are a lot squishier and purely just for flavor. You can of course get different flavor of the standard pearls and the popping pearls, its fun to mix and match sometimes!
So, what do you think? Willing to give these three drinks a try?
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. For my first post I figured that I’d tell whoever is reading this a bit about myself.
To start, my name is Lela Reed. I’m sixteen years old. I was born on June 23rd, making me a cancer if you’re into astrology. I grew up in Natchez Mississippi, only about an hour away from Brookhaven. I’ve been to four different schools (including MSA). Before coming to MSA I’d only been to parochial schools. *A parochial school is religious school. I was also a dancer before MSA, I had done ballet since I was three. Twelve years later and I still suck at it, but ballet did make me a big fan of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
In my bio I mentioned that I have a myriad of different interests which is true. A few are: shopping, makeup, writing (obviously), reading, traveling, musicals, late 90s and early 2000s shows, story-based video games. The list goes on and on.
Another interest of mine is animals. I love animals of all different species. It doesn’t matter if the animal is a mammal or if the animal is a reptile. I love them all equally. I have a dog and two cats, three if you count the one I accidentally kidnapped. Anyways my dog’s name is Beaux, pronounced “Bow”, and my cats’ names are Roses and Twister. Roses is named Roses because she was found outside of a store called Roses, and Twister is named Twister because of a drink. Twister is an outside cat; she loves to be out in the sun roaming around and doing her own thing. I would like to have a few more pets, like maybe a few more cats and a snake.
On the contrary, something I hate is AI, artificial intelligence. It doesn’t matter if it’s Grok or ChatGPT, I don’t like AI. I’ll be talking about why I don’t like AI in a future post, maybe. I just feel like it’s kind of obvious why I don’t like AI, I go to an arts school…
Moving on, most of my blog posts will most likely consist of whatever’s on my mind at the moment. I could post about climate change, Bora Bora, an ancient civilization, the Uncharted video games, Harry Potter, etc.
To close out if you got this far thank you for reading my blog, and hopefully you’ll want to read whatever I have to say next Wednesday.
New! What a strange way to start but so many things in life are New. Hey, my name is Lydia Nytes and I’m New to MSA, and this is my fist blog! before I get into this chapter in my life let me interduce myself real quick,
I’m sixteen
I play the flute
I am one of seven children
I was born in Bali Indonesia
I love writing in my free time
I work at VBS every summer
Cats are my favorite animal I love cats
I’ve lived in Mississippi for almost two years
I’m a military child so I’m from a little bit of everywhere
And in my free time I love volunteering around my community
Learned, Mississippi
Moreover, now that we know a little bit about me, this brings the topic of this blog NEW. What does New mean to you? New, one word three letters. It has many meanings in one-word; New life, New chapter, New friends, New school, it can even be New shoes! So many things in my life are New, but New is not New forever.
For example, was when I was living in Vilseck Germany I did not know the basic words. I did not know how to get around, where to go, what was happening, so everything was New to me. But after about a month, I figured out to say some things, I figured out paths, figured out where to go. So after it was not New to me it was not this big scary place anymore it was just a small town.
Bruges, Belgium
Even with making friends it may be weird and uncomfortable at first since its New, and you don’t know them, but soon you will be familiar with those people, and it will feel like you have known them forever those friends won’t be New to you anymore, also some of those friends you met in with that one weird New interaction could end up being lifelong friends.
So Furthermore, New is what I chose my title and theme of my first blog to be Since a lot in life is New but not for long. You just have to get familiar. Everyone is still learning, MSA is New to some of us juniors, the people here are New, there are New techniques of writing, traveling to a New place is New. Everything in life is New and we need to embraces it because it is not New for long just a period of time.
Hiiii! My name is Sarah and I’m a junior literary. I loveeee color guard, hanging out with my friends, watching musicals and movies, and listening to music.
I am soooo excited to start posting on blogspace and see where this leads. I am planning on using my blogs as a way to express my thoughts and like not annoy my friends since I talk a lot…
My blogs are probably not going to have a set tone or whatever, I’m just going to type out my thoughts and see what gets the most traction tbh.. Like if I want to wake up and talk about how bummy my math class was I’ll talk about that, but if I wake up and want to rank every single Hamilton song, (act I and II BOTHH,) I’ll do that.
Oh, another thing I’ll probably use this for is to get the “scraps” of writing that I have out of my notebook and out on some platform. The reasoning behind that is because if I never put it somewhere I’ll never know if it’s something worth exploring, y’know?
Also, I have no clue how long to make this so bear with me!
A little bit more about me is:
I’m from Shannon, Mississippi, and I’m proud of it no matter how much bad everyone hears about it.
I am literally obsessed with learning about bugs.
I’m currently reading 3 books. (If he had been with me, Why we broke up, All the bright places.)
God is my rock, and I will probably write about my beliefs here as well.
I love all kinds of music… except country… It’s just not my cup of tea.
I will in fact be bringing up my friends a lot.
My favorite movie is “The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.”
My favorite book is “Eleanor and Park.” GUYS HEAR ME OOUUUUTTT.
My favorite food item is a grilled cheese burrito from Taco Bell…….. It’s so fire.
I love writing more than anything. I love writing free verse poems and short stories the most.
Well, that’s enough from me today but seriously I hope this helped you understand what I’m here to do. I’m actually so awesome and cool and like the best person in the world perchance (in the most non-cocky way ever.)
Thank you for reading all the way to down here, tune into next week if you are interested! <3
( !! Spoilers for the Percy Jackson Series, The Owl House, The Walking Dead, Avatar: The Last Airbender… honestly, just proceed with caution. !!)
When I think of Fandom spaces one of the first things I think of is how certain characters (. As complex or as single-faceted as they may be) may be handled. I’ve seen genuine strong, complex, and dangerous female leads be reduced to a forced romantic subplot or over explained to the point she’s just some 13-year old’s new oc. I’ve seen simple, nearly background, male characters be forced into spotlight, and for what? He’s got no flavor! Nothing exciting! He’s just a random white guy with brown hair, there’s no substance! Why is he everyone’s favorite!?
Now, don’t get me wrong. Mischaracterization can be displayed in a lot of ways, not only complex characters being reduced or boring characters being elevated (for what? He’s hot??). Sometimes it can be something as small as, say, people latching onto the fact a character cries a lot and reducing them to something weak, unworthy, or annoying. Or an annoying character being bad. A lot of the time, I’ve seen, it’s just someone taking a character so far away from their original plot that It’s not even the same guy anymore!
What is mischaracterization?
Mischaracterization is the incorrect portrayal or description of something. When a character is thought of in a way that is not intended by the original author. See, this is different from the instance of Misperception, which I find may directly lead to and be caused by Mischaracterization. Do I have to explain the correlation between the two? No. Do I want to? Also no. I still want to, so you guys are getting a link.
I’m SOOO good at explaining things, I know. A whole external link explaining my argument, and I’m continuing to use the term Mischaracterization when it’s clearly misperception that I’m thinking about.
Is Mischaracterization/Misperception the end of the world? In most cases, No. Not at all. Get over it. Except I can’t get over things, and it is the end of the world! Yay!!
What are you even talking about right now, dude?
Good question! I’ve no clue! Joking, joking. This blog is basically the types of mischaracterizations that I see a lot in FANDOM spaces. Heavvyy emphasis on FANDOM spaces.
The first, worst type: He’s bisexual I didn’t know that
I do think this one is the end of the world, yeah. I can get all into how we treat queer men in media as if they’re lesser, and how we portray them as extremely feminine in fandom spaces and how that draws back to societies perception of men and masculinity; however, I’m not going to do that. I prefer keeping this brief (I say at 564 words), so I’ll yell about it some other time.
(Flip this coin: How queer women are treated in media, and how fandom spaces deal with that like it doesn’t matter as much or they force one party into a masculine role, because women can’t possibly be taken seriously.)
The first character that comes to mind is Nico di Angelo. He’s so badly misperceived by fans that I honestly don’t even know how to characterize him myself. Thanks for that one, Rick.
Sorry i just wanted to put a picture of him. Anyways.
He has this incredibly complex character with so many ties to literal fascist Italy (???) with complex storylines and arcs!! Oh and by the way, He just so happens to be queer. “So this means he can be reduced to a blushing hyper-feminine queer teenager?” Uh??????? No????? Can we touch on the terrible, terrible religious guilt he feels?? ??? ?????? (A few more question marks for emphasis, ??????????)
Honorable mention of Jack Twist, the most criminal instance of a character being reduced to their queerness and stripped of all other sort of personality. He’s so much more than what people claim. ILY Jack Nasty. <33
Second, Tragically: OH EM GOSH, ROMANCE!!!
Powerful Women with forced romantic subplots.
KATARA, BABY! RUN GIRL!! RUNN!!
I will always be a hater of their entire romance thing. Sorry not sorry (extra not sorry). This isn’t even from he fandom, since the WRITERS THEMSELVES did it and it just does not make sense for her character. Not saying powerful women can’t have romance in their lives, but the entire subplot was so forced. It was just an excuse for the “Beats the bad guy, gets the girl” trope. Horrible. 0/10. to the chopping block with you.
Okay, okay. I can’t do much about what the writers did, because in the end that’s what happened. I can however complain. And I’m choosing to complain about how the fans, somehow, reduce her ENTIRELY to a motherly friend and Aang’s girlfriend. free her. free her from her prison.
Another few characters worth nothing are Maggie Rhee from The Walking Dead, Mary Linton from Red Dead Redemption 2, and Katniss everdeen.
(Honorable mention of Geralt from Netflix’ Witcher series. don’t know much about that guy but allegedly he’s a powerful woman reduced to a romantic subplot. love that for him.)
Three: I’m a horrible person but I’m also hot!!! So its okay!!!
The most often that i’ve seen this is in men. No comments. Just complaints.
I lied. There are c0mments. so many comments.
I’ve been so angry about Shane (TWD, not SDV) and his existence that I’ve genuinely been unable to sleep.
Also from The Walking Dead. I haven’t met him yet but apparently Negan Smith is a horrible person. I wouldn’t know.
This is just criticizing the lengths people will go to in attempt of excusing.. certain actions within media.
The Last, the WORST mischaracterization: WHERES MY MELANIN@?!!??!?!?!?!
Guys. Guys. Whitewashing is bad. Seriously trying to find a picture of Damian Wayne where he looks how he’s supposed to is incredibly difficult. Also one where he doesn’t look like someone just pulled him out of a lint trap.
For reference, He is described to be Arab and of Chinese descent on his moms side, and pretty pasty on his Dad’s, who is, uh, Bruce Wayne. Ignoring that. He’s BROWN. He’s supposed to be BROWN. WHAT HAPPENED YALL?????
(They just wanted him to look like his dad)
She can’t catch a break. free her.
I don’t think i even WANT to talk about how bad some of her fanarts are. because actually what???
Connie WHYYYYY Do they take your melanin babe you need thatt it makes me sick
A lot of what i’ve seen about her is, and i’m QUOTING here, “Her being brown doesn’t fit my image of her character.” Great! Because she’s not your character!! You’re really weird!
Also him
Okay!!!! I had to cut down like more than half of this because it was getting to be like 1.5k words and I think this one is at a similar length again (??) So!!! I didn’t yell as much as I wanted to but here’s like.. the worst instances of what I STRONGLY dislike in fandom spaces.
Hi! Hello! Nice to meet you! I’m your host, AJ, and it’s lovely to have you here. This week’s first-ever blog post is about my new club at MSA: Dungeons and Dragons! Alright, alright, settle down. I’m just as excited as you are.
So, to start us off with a simple question, what is D&D? Dungeons and Dragons, often shortened to D&D, is a tabletop role-playing game. Typically, you have a Dungeon Master/Game Master, who is essentially the guide and narrator. Normally, you have 3-6 players who are the main characters of the story! It’s a collaborative storytelling game with creativity and battles. Normally, your group meets once a week to play, or once a month, depending on scheduling.
Sounds cool, right? Well, I, AJ Eubanks, will be the club DM. I’ve been in the D&D community for over 4 years now, but this is my first time DMing. This club is going to be open to all players, whether they’re experienced and know the ropes or are brand new and don’t know what dice to get. I want to create an exciting and fun group for nerds to gather and express themselves through the power of roleplay and storytelling. I will help you with your character creation and even make cheat sheets to help with your class and abilities. I will also provide dice you can use during game sessions (several made by yours truly). Water bottles will also be given out!
So why am I starting a D&D group this year? I wanted to bring the same joy and community that I was given with Dungeons and Dragons in 7th grade, because I feel like everyone deserves a good, safe place to express themselves and their creativity. I want to bring a place where those who feel like they might not “fit in” can feel comfortable and make friends. So far, I am loving MSA and want everyone else to have a great experience too!
Now, enough with the sappy stuff, let me tell you how the group itself is going to go. We will be doing a one-shot/session 0, which is a pre-game to get familiar with your characters and the basic D&D rules. The one-shot is very simple: The placid waters near a fishing village have been invaded by a huge, aquatic beast. The creature is destroying the ecosystem, attacking villagers, and blocking passage to an island full of healing herbs. The party needs to act quickly, before the creature claims its next victim. It is a very easy start and allows new players to get comfortable with the mechanics and storytelling aspects.
So, to wrap up this nice adventure with a golden bow, I would like to thank you for reading! I appreciate it greatly. Next blog post is going to either be my monthly favorite animal facts or my current fixation on cross-stitch. Pictures coming soon!! 🙂
The album Showbiz is Muse’s 1999 Debut album. The band could have made a album that was palatable and easy for listeners to attract to but instead they made a statement with each song. I will be explaining my take on each song in order.
Sunburn
This song opens with “Come waste your millions here” already establishing entertainment as a theme. This is then followed by words like “sneers” which suggests a darker side to this innocent entertainment and “corporate” which ties this into the entertainment industry specifically. The song then proceeds on with a extreme theme of guilt such as “I’ll hide from the world behind a broken frame” and “guilty conscience grow” these both show how indulging in whatever was first brought up in the beginning has made them shameful.
Muscle Museum
If you were to look up Muse in the dictionary then Muscle and museum would come before and after it, which is how it gets its title. This song is one of the most subtle of all the songs in the album. The lyrics talk about people not facing they’re inner feelings. the music video shows people doing normal day things such as brushing their teeth or eating, except they are ugly crying as they do them. This also contributes to how everyone feels these emotions no matter how boring the life.
Fillip
This song has a very debated meaning but i personally see it as a uplifting song. I see as a song about readying for big things and chasing the memories of life instead of the worries.
Falling Down
This song definitely is about growing up in a small town, the singer references how the place he’s looking for isn’t the small “five thousand houses” town. Even if the town is not remarkable he still wont forget it even though he’s “heading straight for the clouds
Cave
Inspired by Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Cave has almost the same theme as the book its inspired by. Cave describes how men retreat into themselves when in distress, using lines like “Leave me alone, it’s nothing Serious” and “please close your ears and try to look away” show how they hide they’re emotions. Other lines like “I’ll do it myself, it’s got nothing to do with you” and “ don’t ever come my way” draw out how men try to do things by themselves without help.
