Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Melissa would love to be in a detective series. And while she'll only really get to play a detective on TV, her superheroics will pave the way for the future that Lila Carter is eventually born into. #AwesomeCharacters

#Mememay 22 Lila's favorite song is "Grateful" by Better Than Ezra. Melissa's would be "In The Darkness" by Mackenzie Phillips.

When I first realized I could write fictional as well as reading it.

Name ten bands you've seen live: Nickelback Garbage Echosmith Tonight Alive The Mowglis American Authors Tegan and Sara Death Cab for Cutie James Durbin (Is this one cheating?) Altered States of Funk

Batman: "They'd love it here, don't you think?" Dictator Batman: "Who?" Batman: "Mom and Dad. They'd be so proud of you." -Justice League, "A Better World"

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It apparently costs 80,000 dollars to get one of these for your home. For that price, it better be able to do my taxes, clean my house, and cook me a five course meal on the regular. This cannot even walk up a couple of stairs.

Lila is taking her family out to a nice dinner. #AwesomeCharacters

It would appear that Barnes & Noble is comfortable with losing loyal customers. How unfortunate. #NoAI #BoycottBarnesAndNoble

If a #MagicaRiot anime existed, I would 100 percent use this for an AMV of Claire and Bloom fighting evil together.

Over a decade later, this song still breaks my heart.

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap I couldn't find any GIFs of them actually performing, but it has to be The Old Gods of Asgard from the Remedy Universe. youtu.be/r5kb0nUoyqc?...

Hot take: In the age of generative AI, we should stop calling 3D animation "computer-generated." It risks giving people the wrong idea. #NoAI.

As much as it pains me to say about the creator of a beloved franchise, don't be like Hironobu Sakaguchi. Be like Hayao Miyazaki instead. #NoAI

Melissa heads to the Carkeek Park beach with her friends. Or just goes for a swim. Lila goes to get ice cream. #AwesomeCharacters

Lila hasn't thought about it that much. She doesn't even really clock that she's falling in love at first. It sort of sneaks up on her. #MayWorldbuilders

Gameoverse. That's bad. I'm gonna die.

Even as a fan, I'll be the first to admit that "Nancy Drew Diaries" has some major flaws, but none of them are an excuse for the article I found suggesting that Simon and Schuster should use ChatGPT for future books in the series. No self-respecting Drew fan would ever be okay with that. #NoAI

The girls trying to hash out whether Bloom is old enough to drink is one of my favorite scenes in #MagicaRiot.

Clover's jinx means the has a lot of these. Her first job, working at a movie theater, was a disaster. All we see of that is an overflowing popcorn machine, but there were a lot of similar incidents. Sometimes I feel bad for how rough I'm going to make things for poor Clover. 😅 #AwesomeCharacters

Rise of the Ocean Guardian is Book 1 in the Ocean Guardian Nera series, a Sentai-inspired YA fantasy about a girl who finds a magical crystal at the bottom of the ocean and becomes a guardian of nature.

Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, Black Ranger, Yellow Ranger, Pink Ranger, Green Ranger. Nailed it!

The philosophical implications of Zhuangzhi's butterfly conundrum (short version: If you wake up from a dream that you're a butterfly, how would you know that you're not actually a butterfly that is now dreaming of being a human?) #Mememay 16

Monetary Dragon is a wild man. I could never.

Lila Carter, 18. Pros: Can find where you left missing items. Will crawl into cramped spaces to retrieve them. Cons: You will not have secrets from me. If you're hiding something, I'll be able to tell. Yeah, dating Lila would be rough. It's the downside of being a detective. #Mememay 15

The Invisible. Underrated film. I blame bad marketing for this. The movie is good, but it was advertised as something very different.

hell yeah voice actors

Clover is currently in Centralia, about 92 miles from home. Melissa lives at the bottom of the ocean, so about as far from home as possible without going to space. Lila moves to Seattle, which is a short train ride away. #AwesomeCharacters

I don't normally post my spicy media opinions, but you know what? Helen Corning really got done dirty in the 2019 Hidden Staircase adaptation. She spends half of the movie as Nancy's enemy, and she barely shares the screen with Nancy, Bess, and George. #NancyDrew

Melissa draws power from nature, which I think makes her a druid. #AwesomeCharacters

Frankie from "I Am Frankie"

Lila would be a crow, smart and inquisitive. Melissa would be an Osprey, a bird of both the surface and the water. Clover (the protagonist of my current script) would be whatever the statistically unluckiest bird is. #AwesomeCharacters

Melissa's mother took a job as the head marine biologist at an experimental underwater research lab. Melissa isn't happy about having to move, but like any good mother should, Melissa's has her best interests in mind. #AwesomeCharacters

1. I met Sidney Sierota from Echosmith when they toured with Tonight Alive in 2013. She praised me for knowing all the songs on "Talking Dreams." 2. I was the only boy on my high school cheerleading squad. 3. I once adapted the self-help book "Who Moved My Cheese?" into a school play. #MemeMay 10

A visit to her friends. Cell service isn't really a thing at the bottom of the ocean, so Melissa has limited opportunities to see them. She does use her powers for unofficial visits, but she has to be careful not to get caught. #AwesomeCharacters

A hopeful message in dark times: "Daylight's still a long time comin', but I know it will."

My current writing playlist is formatted like a story. I have a variety of songs, mostly high energy and upeat, but punctuated by slower, softer ones. And I bookended the playlist with songs by the same three artists. #PretendPanel

"This society's deprivation depends not on our differences but the separation within."

The inciting incident of my WIP is the end of a chain of events that began with an AI data center leaking chemicals into Puget Sound. It is my hope that LLMs fall out of favor so thoroughly that future readers will comment on how poorly aged this plot point is. #WriterSky #BookSky

#Mememay8 👧📿✨️🌊🦸‍♀️

Melissa generally wears sneakers when on land. On her first swim after moving into the research lab, she wears SCUBA gear, flippers included, but once she gets her powers, she finds that they're no longer needed, so she swims barefoot after that. #AwesomeCharacters

This is incredibly cool. youtu.be/ojSmc7s1rgU?...

Melissa's favorite small is salt water. She also likes the smell of smoked salmon, but becoming the Ocean Guardian makes her less inclined to eat fish (even though it isn't technically a violation of her oath). #AwesomeCharacters

Melissa does eight counts in her head. She had a brief stint as a middle school cheerleader, so she developed a habit of counting out eight beats. #AwesomeCharacters

That feeling when you've been struggling to open your WIP and then you finally crack it. Can't beat it. #WriterSky

Most of the work of Christopher Nolan, but if I have to pick one, I'm gonna go with Inception. It's not awful, but I find it overrated. Especially since Doctor Strange did its core visual gimmick so much better while telling a better story.

Slightly diminish a book And Then There Were A Slightly Smaller Number of People

Okay, here's the thing: Lila is a saver, but her society has a very different relationship with money than ours They have universal basic income for everyone 18 and older. And since she has additional income as a detective, she can afford to spend. Saving is more of an old habit. AwesomeCharacters

I use music while writing, but I also listen to audibooks and fiction podcasts. #PretendPanel