#mazesprinter

[thelastrose]

it's so funny, your blog is like one thing and your icon is anime it always surprises me when i see it

hahahha never thought about that! 

((sorry btw i know i answered this SO late. it kept crashing every time i tried to answer on my phone))

[dietsleaze]

mazesprinter replied to your post “look at this trailer for the production of les miserables that im...”

who are you in this?

im not actually properly in the trailer lmao

but i play a factory worker, a beggar, and a wedding guest! and various other ensemble stuff 

[weneeddiversebooks]

I know the movie adaptation wasn't diverse, but you know in The Hunger Games, Katniss, Gale, and Haymitch all are described to have "olive skin", which can mean a lot of things, but in the context of the novel, they're definitely not white. I was just surprised that you put it on here as a "if you liked this..."

The purpose of the summer reading series is two-fold. First to highlight books by diverse authors and second to highlight books with diverse main characters. The books we use as the comparable all have one major thing in common - they are famous, well known, or best sellers. They themselves might be by a diverse author or have diversity (almost never the main character though), but they are all going to be well known. For example, you might find a Marie Lu book being the comparable and then the next day another Marie Lu book being the diverse one. I do want to point out one thing though. Just portraying a character as having dark skin does not make a book diverse. There are very light skinned black people and very dark skinned white people. Diversity goes beyond a superficial skin tone and embraces so much more, like cultural background, historical prejudice, etc. And any ambiguity about Katniss’s racial background should have been completely clarified when Suzanne Collins herself handpicked Jennifer Lawrence to play the role in the movie.

Hope this makes sense and thanks for asking.

[zuzumes]

um first things first you're the cooliest

FIRST THINGS FIRST IM THE REALEST~ i don't even really like that song but anyway thank you :) i am actually super incredibly lame? haha but thank you nonetheless <3

i guess i will make this a thing- TELL ME YOUR OPINION OF ME AND/OR MY BLOG?

[chanyeolvs]

you're the cooliest

And you, my friend, you are cool too x

[rhiannonmcgavin]

do you have advice about listening to your voice when editing? I had a lisp as a kid but it was apparently "fixed" in elementary school, but I still can't listen to my own voice without being hypercritical and just deleting everything in the end. also, are there any cameras you recommend?

AHH I FEEL YOU i had a stutter and a lisp in elementary school 

vocal warmups x10000 trust me

drink stuff that's good for your throat before you film! my favorite is hot lemonade, but simple tea or even a spoonful of honey will make your throat feel like velvet 

a good mic might make you feel more confident, there's some good cheap ones on the market right now

cameras: i stand by the canon vixia hf20. it's an investment, but it's 1080, dynamic, and i've personally dropped mine about 30 times and it's perfectly fine 

[actuallyadhd]

mazesprinter replied to your post: “Hey, I'm taking 36mg of Concerta each day, but it doesn't last the whole day, would it be a good idea to take a booster of 12mg at lunch, or whould I just take the extra 12mg at breakfast? (sorry for the questions, it's just I can never get hold of my psych so i have to self medicate and im scared) thanks :)”:

do you have more on the not cutting up concerta thing? i cut the booster pill in half and i'm concerned now.

Concerta (specifically CONCERTA, this is not applicable to long-acting Ritalin so far as I know) is formulated to release particular amounts of medication at a particular rate. If you cut it in half, you are messing with that formulation. That's why Concerta doesn't have a little dip thing in the middle. Most pills have a dip so you can cut them in half if you need to; Concerta doesn't, because you aren't supposed to cut it due to the way it's manufactured. Please talk to your doctor about getting smaller doses of Concerta. You can talk to your pharmacist about how to lower other kinds of medication, but Concerta can't be messed with or you mess up how it works.

-J

[dietsleaze]

im so grateful for all my friends u dont even know how much uve helped me but i love u ALL