#missxrojas

[identifymydreams]

"Hold onto what you can do, and tackle those problems and that itself is an achievement."

- Rosianna Halse Rojas (x)

[maniacwrangler]

"Food [that's grown or local] doesn't arrive in this enemy, shrink-wrapped state. It's real food. It's life that has been nourished and grown in the same way we need to be nourished and grown. I know that we are all not carrots, but sometimes it helps if you think of yourself like a carrot. "

Rosianna Halse Rojas, Bodies and Self Care. WATCH the whole video.

[addressedtothefire]

So this was I believe the first of Rosianna's videos I ever saw, and it bears rewatching every once in a while for

1) Its explanation of Clarissa Explains It All, which I sadly never watched as a kid (although I'm thinking Lizzie McGuire might have served something of the same purpose)

2) Its argument in regards to the power of youtube and videoblogging in humanizing women & letting women's voices be heard

3) Its introduction to the idea of the male gaze and (indirectly) why we need feminism

[iminmypants]

Women On Youtube - Vidcon 2014

Laci Green (moderator) - www.lacigreen.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/lacigreen

Rosianna Halse Rojas - www.hermionejg.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/missxrojas

Akilah Hughes - www.itsakilahobviously.com (incl link to youtube)

Lex Croucher - www.lexcanroar.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/tyrannosauruslexxx

Hayley G Hoover - www.realhayleyghoover.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/hayleyghoover

Emily Graslie - www.ehmeegee.tumblr.com (As far as I know Emily doesn't have a personal youtube channel but this is the link to The Brain Scoop which she presents and it's super cool so check it out if you haven't) www.youtube.com/thebrainscoop

Hartbeat - www.ihartbeat.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/hartbeat

Person who uploaded this video to youtube and is therefore super awesome because I couldn't go to Vidcon and was super sad cause I wanted to go to this panel. www.youtube.com/user/paulidinsvideos

This is (unsurprisingly) a panel about being a female content creator. It's super great and these ladies are amazing and if you don't follow/sub them then please check them out and maybe you'll discover a new person.

Thanks to the women on this panel for being amazing, for making content and for inspiring me with your videos and equally important for making me laugh and making me happy :)

Thanks to Vidcon for listening and having this panel again.

And thanks again to Paul for uploading it so I can watch it :)

[girlaboutcampus]

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars" // Why I cried at the The Fault In Our Stars movie.

SPOILER FREE MOVIE THOUGHTS

"Holy shit," I murmur at my computer screen. "OH MY GOD!"

This reaction, on two separate occasions, caused my mum to come running into the room to check I wasn't mortally wounded. The first was some four years ago when I discovered John Green was coming to the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The second was only about two weeks ago, when I won tickets to the The Fault In Our Stars #littleinfinities screenings in Glasgow yesterday. Yesterday was a very emotional experience for me, and it wasn't just because the movie tore my heart out of my chest, no; this story starts back in 2009 when I discovered John Green and his brother Hank on Youtube. 

I can't remember precisely how I discovered the Vlogbrothers, but I think it was through Rosianna (missxrojason Youtube) who incidentally is now John's PA. I don't think it was too long after the release of Paper Towns, so it was either really late on in 2008 or at the start of 2009. I was going on thirteen and experiencing what, in hindsight, was almost definitely the shittiest phase of my life so far. As someone who had been incredibly comfortable in primary school, high school wasn't a welcome change for me. I know people throw around the statement "[x] celebrity saved my life" a lot, and I definitely wouldn't go so far to ever say that I was ever so unhappy that I needed saving- far from it. John Green's novels are the closest I've ever come to expressing this sentiment. 

I read Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska on holiday in Cornwall. I'm one of those people who's mum tells them "You can just bring two books" on holiday and then, because I have no concept of 'pacing myself', has to spend the rest of the holiday looking for a Waterstones in the middle of nowhere. I remember finishing reading Looking for Alaska and just wandering around in a semi-vegatitive state for the next two days thinking nothing but, "I wish I'd written that." And that is why I'm moving to St Andrews in September to start a degree in English. 

That same summer I managed to snag the last five tickets to attend John's talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The friends I took were a mixed bag of Nerdfighters, readers and one of them had pretty much no clue who he was at all. At fourteen, we were some of the youngest at the event, only just coming out of the intensity of a heavily Potter-influenced childhood. There was about 150 people at the event, and back then that was a big John Green event. 

I was reminded of this just this week when John started the TFIOS movie tour. He instagrammed pictures of the events where literally thousands came to see him and the cast. These pictures made me pretty emotional. I realised that what I was feeling was pride- pride for a man twice my age, who I don't really know and have only met once. It seems a bit unusual to feel this way, but as someone who has watched John Green go from a man with a small online community to a globally celebrated YA author, I can't help but appreciate how far he has come. 

As with all things which are mostly celebrated by teenage girls, adults are quick to dismiss John's novels as unintelligent, cheesy and well, really uncool. As insulting as this is, I'm often quite glad that we get to keep these books to ourselves. As a teenager, these books are extremely personal to me. I'm so so thankful to the casting director of the TFIOS movie for not casting actors who were years older than their characters. Ansel, Nat and Shailene did a really good job of being my age and there were so many scenes that they managed to get the teenager vibes just absolutely spot-on.

So what completely wrecked my eye make-up yesterday was not just the perfectly executed heartbreaking scenes of the movie, but the event itself. In my early teens, when I was first introduced to YA and Nerdfighteria, both of these things were fairly unheard of and whenever I talked to people about them I usually encountered puzzled expressions and polite faux-interest. I cried at the The Fault In Our Stars movie because it wasn't all for nothing, because without John's books I wouldn't be reading English at university and without this community I'm pretty sure that somewhere along the road I would have forgotten to be awesome.

Shit, now I'm crying again.

DFTBA,

Ellen x 

[qed4242]

If like me you follow Rosianna then you might agree that this was inevitable. When life gives you lemons you make lemonade, when someone gives you lots of avocado...

[tippingtimeless]

this is great.

Rosianna is great. The people she quoted are great (I'm one of them.)