Pahuapants Wondaland

I am a highly silly person in an often-silly world. I am very proudly a marching band geek and a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi. I love music probably more than is healthy for me, and I also love various arts. I am such a big fan of a lot of different things... I hope we can be friends. :D tags: about my face #shut up allie - poetry, songwriting, etc.

[pahuapants]

This book is an extraordinarily sweet read and a joyful celebration of Black stay-at-home mothers. I hope you give it a read - thanks for looking!

Mommy Time

[pahuapants]

Aanii boozhoo nwiijkiwenhak!

Hello hello friends! It’s been quite a while since last I posted. It’s all been for extraordinarily good reasons, I promise. Like I said in the stickied post here, I put this blog on hiatus due to my year of service as the 2025 Caldecott Committee’s administrative assistant. It was an extraordinary joy and an incredible educational experience. Then, because my luck was pretty dang good last…

Aanii boozhoo nwiijkiwenhak!

[zetrystan]

Technically true.

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He got the job.

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He takes his job seriously.

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Prof Rad over on youtube dubbed the Wolf Hunter comic (click here)! 

Go check it out and give them some support! :) (also the end killed me haha) ₍ᐢ•ﻌ•ᐢ₎

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The farmer sheared the sheep, and it was used to make a gift for Wolf Hunter, so…

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Wolf Hunter goes to the village markets.

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Wolf Hunter and his conga line of sheep.

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Wolf Hunter was looking for them for a while.

[browsethestacks]

Still Can...

[elf-kid2]

Beautiful. The composition. Colors. The lamp. The fact that the photographer managed to make the moon look GOOD (not all cameras and photographers can achieve that).

Absolutely spectacular. Ultraluminary. Yes.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

[themself]

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

[westenra]

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

[lunaescribe]

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are. 

[moltenglory-writes]

Goddess of the Old Ways

Sometimes I want to be a goddess

but not the fluffy white clouds

Mt. Olympus, feathered attendants,

ambrosia, golden light, & stardust

type of goddess.

I want to be a creature of the Black Forest

ragged, raspy, growling, spitting

with blood & bones caught in her teeth

sticks in her hair, wild-eyed, dangerous

type of goddess.

My worshippers leave me offerings

near my stagnant little pond

on an altar blanketed in moss

so I'll bless their goats and babies

type of goddess.

The village children, cats, & dogs

all know my hut on stilts and

are the only ones who tread the path

winding through sculpted trees & beehives

type of goddess.

My medicine isn't for the stupid men

or the subservient women

but for the humble men, bended knee

and the vicious women, spear in hand

type of goddess.

Do not enter my realm with arrogance

for I'm a creature of nature, of myth,

human, earthly, & avoided rightly

unless you have the proper sacrifice

type of goddess.

[boycritter]

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] put on the best talent show this towns ever seen

[boycritter]

guys this post is a big hit on the adolescent psych ward

[pahuapants]

Phoenix Gets Greater

Hi everyone - PHOENIX GETS GREATER was on my TBR for a long time, and I'm here to tell you that it made me weepy. I loved it, and here's the review with why! Thanks for looking!

Phoenix didn’t have any friends who liked hockey, trucks, and bulldozers. He made friends with those who liked dolls and dancing too. But sometimes, other kids made fun of Phoenix because he preferred dolls to trucks. They thought he was strange because he didn’t act like the rest of the boys in their class. Unpaginated Introduction Aanii boozhoo nwiijkiwehnak! Today’s book has been on my TBR…

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[pahuapants]

Mascot

Aanii boozhoo kina wiiyaa - today's book is the incredible MASCOT by Charles Waters and Traci Sorrell. It's a fabulous middle grade read in prose and I highly recommend to anyone who even remotely enjoys reading. :) Gichi miigwech for reading!

Introduction Where I come from,Cherokee people are everywhere.But here, no one sees the Cherokee in me at all.Doesn’t seem like anyone knows there are Native peopleliving, working, and breathing in Rye,in all these other cities,and in Washington, DC. p. 27 Welcome back, friends! Today’s book is a special one. I first encountered it at ALA Annual 2023 in Chicago and was super-geeked to meet the…

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NOT RECOMMENDED: Call Me Ahnighito

Aanii boozhoo, happy new year! Here's a post about a picture book I found in our collection. It's not a great bit of representation but is an important example of what Indigenous imagery looks like without Indigenous agency. Thanks for reading!

Introduction Aanii boozhoo nwiijkiwenhak! Welcome to a new year, and welcome back. Today we’re going to be talking about a book that I stumbled on in our collection. From Publishers Weekly: As an author’s note explains, Ahnighito is the name of the enormous meteorite now housed in New York City’s Museum of Natural History, transported there from the North Pole in 1897. Conrad (The Tub People)…

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[pahuapants]

The Unbeatable Lily Hong

New year, new blog post! It's been a bit, but I wanted to get back into the swing of things with this adorable story from Diana Ma. THE UNBEATABLE LILY HONG was so darn cute! Thanks for looking!

Introduction Happy New Year friends, and welcome back! Today’s book is a NetGalley pick, and what a good one it was. The Unbeatable Lily Hong is Diana Ma’s middle grade debut after two prior YA novels. In it we follow Lily, a high achiever and aspiring filmmaker whose goal is to be the best she can possibly be. This is a very recent release – January 2nd! From the publisher: … In addition to…

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[pahuapants]

IRL: The International Indigenous Librarians Forum

It's been a little bit since I've posted on my blog! I promise it's been for a good reason - here's my write up about the International Indigenous Librarians Forum. Thank you for reading!

Aanii boozhoo nwiijkiwenhak! It’s been quite a while, but I have a great reason for being gone for so long. This is going to be a super-long post about the 12th International Indigenous Librarians Forum. A lot of my time in October and November was spent getting ready to attend and then actually attending this incredible event. There’s too much to cover in one post, but I wanted to share a little…

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[pahuapants]

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

Aanii boozhoo kina wiiyaa - here is my review about the beautiful AUTUMN PELTIER: WATER WARRIOR, written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Bridget George. Gichi miigwech for reading!

I am nibi. I have a spirit. I have feelings. I remember. p. 1 Introduction Aanii boozhoo! Today, I’m reviewing Carole Lindstrom’s latest picture book, Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior. I should have expected that I needed tissues when reading this one – heed my words and have some on hand, because this one made me cry. A summary from the publisher: Indigenous women have long cared for the land…

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[pahuapants]

Field of Screams

Aanii boozhoo, I'm back! Here's a book from over the summer that I'm finally posting. I'm glad to be back, gichi miigwech for reading!

Introduction Aanii boozhoo kina wiiyaa! I’m back after a break! I know I said beginning of October for my return, but let’s just call it me being on Indian Time, hehe. I’m back with a selection that was published over the time I was gone – it’s very appropriate for my favorite month out of the year. Field of Screams is a debut novel from Wendy Parris for middle grade readers. From the…

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IRL: Still here, I promise!

A small update about where I've been - tl;dr busy, as always, but with some cool stuff coming up!

Hello everyone! Thank you for your patience – real life work has brought a lot of changes and added responsibilities, which means I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to write here about new books I’m reading. To catch up and make more of a backlog, I’m going to pause book reviews until the beginning of October. Instead, you can catch me virtually and in-person doing some cool stuff! Tomorrow…

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[pahuapants]

The International House of Dereliction

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF DERELICTION was overall a fun read about a fiercely loved and loving girl named Alice. This story is definitely going to appeal to my younger patrons! Gichi miigwech for reading!

Alice rocked back on her heels and sighed with satisfaction. She had taken this one thing, this one most important thing in the House – for everyone knows that the fireplace is the heart of any house – and fixed something broken and made it like new. There was no better feeling in the world. Chapter 4 Introduction Welcome back! This week we’re looking at Jacqueline Davies’ new middle grade…

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[pahuapants]

Give Me a Sign

I loved this story so much - GIVE ME A SIGN by Anna Sortino was a wonder and I'm gonna recommend it to literally everyone. Gichi miigwech for reading!

And maybe, if the loss were profound, my family would be forced to finally take learning American Sign Language seriously. I’d seem “deaf enough” that my classmates would truly understand my need for all those school accommodations, rather than silently judge and question me. Because right now, they know I’m not hearing, but I don’t fit their expectations of deafness, either. It’s a strange…

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