Selina

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be known to the public eye as an influencer, a life-changer, someone who is looked up to as I share my thoughts and talents, whatever it may be. 
          
          But I know there will be others who will criticize me for who I am or what I do. Even if I don't make stupid life-changing decisions knowing it's wrong. The smallest ripple could be the biggest tsunami and destroy what I build. Could I rebuild it or go into hiding forever?
          
          Maybe it's a good thing I hide behind an online persona.

Imagine celebrating something that someone close to you has lost. Imagine you're in a room and everyone is proud of an accomplishment, and partying and having fun,
          
          And your sisters and mothers and daughters are disappointed in you, for taking away their only chance to have what should have been theirs from the beginning.
          
          And not just them. Your friends who are poc, who are LGBTQIA+, who aren't cis white males who only care about themselves. 
          
          Imagine what they see in their Twitter and Instagram feed. They're mourning. They're angry. They're comforting one another. Hope is all they cling to now.
          
          Are you proud of yourself?
          

"Comparison is the thief of joy."
          
          -Theodore Roosevelt

"Make what you love, love what you make."
          -ImpulseSV, "Artists and their Influence" 

soooo 
          
          i was wonderinggggg 
          
          would you like a cameo in an upcoming TMS book? 
          
          i am recruiting people for background roles and i need a professor for no specific reason that definitely doesn't involve a certain chaotic main character attending the Crystal Cliffs Academy for the plot- and i thought you'd fit the role pretty well-

"Living is not just avoiding death. That's staying alive. If all you're trying to do is avoid death, you're just staying alive."
          
          -Skizzleman, "Legacy."

Nyctophilia- a love or preference for night and darkness.

"Different is not better. Better is different."
          
          -Skizzleman, "Pushing the Envelope"

"I've been the archer,
          I've been the prey.
          Who could ever leave me, darling,
          But who could stay?"
          
          -Taylor Swift "The Archer"

Esther Day - a holiday created on August 3rd to celebrate love between friends and family, specifically the kind of love that is often overlooked.