dear roach, as someone whose opinions on literature i value very much, i’d be interested in hearing about your favorite books from around middle school. i’m a middle school english teacher in training, and i’m in the process of cultivating my classroom library. any and all suggestions are welcome! thank you :)
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knottedodyssey asked you:Okay. Hmm. First off, I don’t really read literature, and never have. I am terrible with literature. If it doesn’t have spaceships, dragons, aliens, time travel, or a half-decent apocalypse I get bored really fast. On the other hand, ‘literature’ is a bizarre and artificial construct and who doesn’t like a good story with dragons in? This is going to be a long list, even though I’ve only included books I’m pretty sure are middle-school-ish level. I’m not entirely sure how appropriate a level any of these books are going to be for all of your middleschoolers! Especially the non-nerds. But I think they really couldn’t hurt for any of your middleschoolers to have a go at, and I think there’s a range of reading levels here, and I read these all repeatedly from ages 9-15, so that should be enough range. Also tried to warn for objectionable content.
Doctor Who: SCREAMING
Supernatural: CRYING
Sherlock: WAITING
Merlin: DEAD
Homestuck: Quietly, quietly, watching. Laying in wait. Assimilating to other fandoms. Watching watching watching. ready to POUNCE
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The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?
What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.
Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]
It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?
IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!
Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.
My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.
So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.
Prices of prices went up.
We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.
We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.
Most of us can’t afford to:
Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding
Buy a house
Buy a new car
PLAN to have children
Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.
Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.
So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.
Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.
anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.
read the commentary above ^^
Can I also point out that a hell of a lot of millennials aren’t buying this kind of stuff because they are unemployed or underemployed? So many of us are in huge debt because of the things we were *told* to do that we were *told* would pay off in the long run and haven’t, like go to college. Do you know what the average starting salary for an English major is? $33,000. And do you know what kind of mortgage that will pay for? An imaginary one.
We are broke because the job market sucks, everything is expensive as hell now, we aren’t getting help to pay off the things we need help for while the government shells out millions to support rich companies, and then we get shamed and called “cheap” or stingy for not being able to do what we’re “supposed” to do? Fuck you. Things are not the same way they were 40 years ago. The traditional idea of get a degree, get a job, get married, get a house, get a nice car, have kids - that doesn’t fucking work anymore. That dynamic doesn’t fucking exist, so stop imposing your generation’s expectations on ours without respecting the entirely different financial and social climate we’re living in.
Yeah, what they said.
Fuck you, article. Millennials aren’t cheap; we simply can’t afford to live like our parents.
this is why rich white adults shouldn’t write articles about anything other than their topiery animals or some shit
If you think that I live at home with my parents at nearly 27 because I WANT to, then you’re an idiot. I live at home because they don’t charge me rent because they’re awesome. I somehow didn’t qualify for financial aide for college out of high school, so I still haven’t gone. I work part time making less than $8 an hour. I walk to and from work (in Arizona heat) every shift that I have, not by choice, but because I can’t afford a car + gas + insurance. If you are not living in my situation, don’t presume to know anything about it.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m97qpaHmvN1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?
What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.
Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]
It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?
IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!
Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.
My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.
So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.
Prices of prices went up.
We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.
We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.
Most of us can’t afford to:
- Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding
- Buy a house
- Buy a new car
- PLAN to have children
- Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.
Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.
So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.
Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.
anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.
read the commentary above ^^
Can I also point out that a hell of a lot of millennials aren’t buying this kind of stuff because they are unemployed or underemployed? So many of us are in huge debt because of the things we were *told* to do that we were *told* would pay off in the long run and haven’t, like go to college. Do you know what the average starting salary for an English major is? $33,000. And do you know what kind of mortgage that will pay for? An imaginary one.
We are broke because the job market sucks, everything is expensive as hell now, we aren’t getting help to pay off the things we need help for while the government shells out millions to support rich companies, and then we get shamed and called “cheap” or stingy for not being able to do what we’re “supposed” to do? Fuck you. Things are not the same way they were 40 years ago. The traditional idea of get a degree, get a job, get married, get a house, get a nice car, have kids - that doesn’t fucking work anymore. That dynamic doesn’t fucking exist, so stop imposing your generation’s expectations on ours without respecting the entirely different financial and social climate we’re living in.
Yeah, what they said.
Fuck you, article. Millennials aren’t cheap; we simply can’t afford to live like our parents.
this is why rich white adults shouldn’t write articles about anything other than their topiery animals or some shit
If you think that I live at home with my parents at nearly 27 because I WANT to, then you’re an idiot. I live at home because they don’t charge me rent because they’re awesome. I somehow didn’t qualify for financial aide for college out of high school, so I still haven’t gone. I work part time making less than $8 an hour. I walk to and from work (in Arizona heat) every shift that I have, not by choice, but because I can’t afford a car + gas + insurance. If you are not living in my situation, don’t presume to know anything about it.
That was the most informative thing I have ever been told by a duck
And I have been told a lot of things by ducks.
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Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.
Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.
Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.
Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.
Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.
Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
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Just gonna let babblr hang out for the time being. It won’t let me log in, but that’s probably because it’s beta buggy right now. We’ll see how it goes in the next few days.
This just seems like a really good idea.
This is awesome and scary at the same time!
I would like to have an aquarium slumber party!
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