Melodia

This is a blog about my random thoughts and rantings on many topics. Like TV shows, Anime, Books, and other things I like.

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🌺🌸Phenomenal women🌺🌸

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I wrote this article about the accessibility of San Diego Comic Con and how they’ve improved but also still have a lot to work on before they become a completely accessible space.

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Check out my book podcast

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Hello! We're Visionary Comics -- Jazmine Joyner and Nestor Gomez -- Incase you don't know us already, we are the little store that could! We've been at our current home in Riverside, CA for just under a year, and our little independent comic shop has outgrown our current storefront so we're reaching out to the wider comic book community to help us expand! Visionary Comics is our baby, and we have been overwhelmed by the support we have gotten from the local community of Riverside. Our next step will be to move to a larger store where we can better supply our large, diverse customer base and create an inclusive comic book space in Riverside! Our mission is always to promote inclusivity and accessibility! Our owner Jazmine Joyner is a disabled black woman, actually the first disabled black woman to own a comic shop in the US! Which is not just amazing, but also makes it a little harder for us to take our next step! Which is why we are asking for your help! Our goal of $6000 would allow us to easily move into our new storefront and make sure it's completely accessible and amazing for all of our customers! As two young people of colour living in the age of Trump it's been almost impossible for us to get a small business loan to enable this small move which would make a huge difference! We are already a community space, with regular free events and local small press section, but the size of our current store has held us back from truly reaching our full potential as the radical, accessible, inclusive arts space that we know we can be. Our close connections with Riverside's thriving arts scene means we are inundated with incredible people wanting to collaborate with us on future projects, we just need the space! In our new shop we would be able to run regular zine workshops, games nights and community arts events as well as having a far more expansive and varied inventory! Our pull lists are currently taking up almost half of our store, so we would be able to dedicate proper space to those, and really be able to focus on making our customer experience even better! Visionary Comics has come so far, but has so much more to offer! So please help us out! Become part of the Visionary Comics community today!

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My store has started a Kickstarter Campaign to raise money for a larger space! Check it out!

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My store has been open six weeks now. I am dead tired but yay for store. Must go back now and sell stuff.

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The place where I live committed fraud and stole 2k from us. hot fucking mess 

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San Diego Comic Con: All Hype and No Substance? - Black Girl Nerds

Share this post!I had been trying to get into San Diego Comic Con for the last 3 years. Really, I had been trying to get into the waiting room to get tickets to get into comic con for 3 years. The exclusivity and allure of San Diego Comic Con draws people in. The mega panels, …

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I wrote a thing

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Today is the day of my shops soft opening!

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My comic shop is having a soft opening thus thursday! If you’re in the area come check us out!

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Come check out my store if you're in the area!

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So fucking close...we are so fucking close to opening this damn comic book Shop. I have been drowning in paperwork and business legalese. I have the business license, all the membership forms signed and the percentages of ownership doled out. The only thing I have left is to get all the paperwork figured out to get distributors ready to ship is our inventory. We have made the rounds with all the local business's. People are excited for our shop. 500 people visited our Facebook page...our instagram is doing well. And the idea that a comic book Shop with toys and gaming competitions is opening in their backyard is creating a lot of hype. I spend my days making sure the books are good everything is on the up and up and that all our info is up to date with the distribution companies. I have pepsi reps calling me about flavors of aquafina. I just want the regular water flavor. But berry blast is a thing , something close to that name I think, honestly I can't remember . I am overwhelmed and not. I have it all taken care of. And since I've made this my full time job our productivity and organization has gone up over 100%. When the doors are finally open I can finally stop dreaming of pop vinyls and kidrobot figures. We have put everything into this, ever penny, all our sanity, and a lot of blood sweat and tears. The mural in the gaming lounge is almost done. The spray painting is epic and the fumes travel up too our apartment. We live above it Bobs Burgers style. My home is work and work is my home. But all of this is worth it to be able to say I work for myself. I own a business and whether I get to work on time is dependent on how fast I go down the stairs. I am truly lucky. So bring on the paperwork and the phone calls.

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I fell down today. I was being dumb and was air humping my boyfriend, (charming, I know) he started to stand up and I loss my footing and fell on to the floor of our bedroom, hard. Like my legs were in the air and the tv shook, kinda hard. I laid there as my boyfriend freaked out. He knows I'm made of eyelashes and the hopes and dreams of college students. Sooo basically nothing. I hurt my arm pretty bad, my ribs, and legs. Now I'm 25 my first fall in years and I shatter. I can barely walk. I needed help up the stairs, our whole condo? Apartment? Thing? Fuck what it's called, Its all stairs, three stories. The very top being our bedroom. I don't know how I'm gonna get around tomorrow. And I can't sleep. Anyways just wanted to write down what happened cause it's interesting mainly to me.

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My warbling inner thoughts...

That moment when you have been on and off your zoloft to the point your brain is like putty. But you finally get your prescription back on track. Meanwhile your opening a comic book Shop managing the whole thing and figuring out all the confusing legalese for the licenses, trying to get everything in order for the big opening. The opening that at this point seems to be rolling toward you like that big stupid Boulder in that one Indiana Jones movie. You know the one I'm talking about, right? Well, all that, and your in your third month of being a big adult and living out of the house your family lives in. There's no food in the fridge, all money is going downstairs to the Comic store you live above, you backed you car into the garage...the garage is fine, but the car is a forreal lemon now. AND! Your transferring to a state school in a couple of months to finally get that damn degree it's taken eons to get. Also your on your period, you have a writing deadline and if you don't get the materials you need for building the shelving for the comics to go on in the damn comic store today you'll probably explode. But instead of that you go up to your master suite, with your beautiful queen mattress on the floor and collapse on it. Nap time is all that will probably get done today. Because the chemical stabilization taking place in your head needs time to even out.

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Spending my birthday in the er...yay!

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I am published again

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I've been working hard. Too hard. I had to be sent home from work for having a blood pressure of 155/92. I went to the er twice this weekend. And today I can't get my blood pressure to even out. Even though I've been on medication the whole time. I think the stress of all the life changes happening at once is getting to me. But the store is painted and shelves will be going up.

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Life So Far

 I don't know how to start this. I know I want to talk about how I hate my job but stay because it has great opportunities. I know I want to tell you about my big move and the difficulties I am having calling this place home. I want to talk about the fact that I am exhausted and confused. Or the fact that I got into college but don't know if I should go. Or the harsh reality that I gave up my poor artist life to grow up and build a new life with the man I love.  This new life is hard. It's cliche to say "oh I never knew how difficult it would be." but I didn't. I think the responsiblity is the most difficult part. I only had to be responsible for me. So if i didnt go to work or didnt do what I said I would I only had to worry about myself. But now I have someone else depending on me.  I am a disabled person. My body most of the time cant handle all this stress and I am pushing it so we can live  without worry. But the pain is so bad all the time. I just want to quit most days.   We are opening a comic shop. We are living above it Bobs Burgers style.  It's actually really cool cause I have always wanted to open a book store. Comic books,book books, its close. It should be open by the end of May. Today I work everyday 430 to 3am except I get weekends off. I feel dizzy and my kidneys hurt. I need to finish cleaning up the shop so we can paint. I need to give the CSU money so I can hold my spot. We're adulting well it's just a lot all at once and I turn 25 next week. All I want for my birthday is the shop to be almost done and a toaster. I miss toast. Don't get me wrong I am super lucky to have a nice place, a job, and our on business. I am just having a hard time physically keeping up.