#alice walton

[mostlysignssomeportents]

SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules

Today (19 Aug), I'm appearing at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. I'm on a 2:30PM panel called "Return From Retirement," followed by a signing:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/festivalofbooks

It's a breathtaking fraud: SoCal Gas, the largest gas company in America, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby against our own survival:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article277266828.html

The criminal scheme is spelled out in eye-watering detail in a superb investigative report by Joe Rubin and Ari Plachta for the Sacramento Bee, which names the law firms and individual lawyers involved in the scam.

Here's the situation: SoCal Gas is California's private, regulated gas monopoly. They are allowed to lobby, but are legally required to charge their lobbying activities to their shareholders, and are prohibited from raising customer rates to pay for lobbying.

The company spent years secretly violating this rule, in the sleaziest way possible: working with corporate cartels like the California Restaurant Association and BizFed, the monopoly paid BigLaw white-shoe firms to procure people who posed as concerned citizens in order to oppose climate regulations that are essential to the state's very survival.

The bill topped $36 million – and it was illegally charged to its customers, the Californians whose immediate health and long-term survival these efforts opposed. SoCal Gas refuses to disclose the full extent of the spending, as do its lawyer-procurers, who cite legal confidentiality and a First Amendment right to secretly seek to influence policy in their refusal to disclose their profits from this illegal conduct.

The law firms involved are a who's-who of California's most prominent corporate fixers, including Reichman Jorgensen and Holland & Knight. The partners involved have a long rap sheet for anti-climate dirty tricking, most notably Jennifer Hernandez, notorious in climate justice history for an incident where activists claim she posed as one of them, infiltrating a campaign to force corporate despoilers to clean up their pollution in order to sabotage it, while secretly on a wealthy, prominent landowner's payroll.

Hernandez claims to care about the environment and says that her longstanding, corporate-funded, extensive campaigns and lawsuits against state environmental regulations are motivated by concern over their impact on working people. Her firm, Holland & Knight, denies serving SoCal Gas in opposing gas regulations, but it received $594k in ratepayer dollars, and submitted comments opposing the rules on its own behalf. Those comments were nearly identical to the comments submitted by SoCal Gas.

Hernandez also represents an obscure organization called The Two Hundred for Home Ownership in "a flurry of lawsuits" over California Air Resources Board rules on pollution, seeking to overturn the state's landmark climate change regulations.

Two Hundred for Home Ownership was founded by Robert Apodaca, who told the Bee that Hernandez's work for him is pro bono and not funded by SoCal Gas, but his entry into the fray occurred just as SoCalGas was founding an astroturf group called Californians for Fair and Balanced Energy (C4BES), which pretended to be an independent organization, disguising its relationship with SoCal Gas.

Apodaca is also founder of United Latinos Vote, an organization that had been largely dormant for seven years, not receiving any donations, until 2018, when the California Building Industry Association gave it $99k. The CBIA is a large-dollar recipient of donations from SoCal Gas, and its CEO insists that it was not acting on SoCal Gas's behalf when it made its unpredented donation to Apodaca.

The CBIA donation to United Latinos Vote was forerunner to a flood of corporate donations from the likes of Chevron, Marathon and Phillips 66. Shortly after receiving this cash, United Latinos Vote ran a full page ad in the LA Times, accusing the Sierra Club of pushing for anti-gas appliance rules that would harm working class Latino families.

This ad, in turn, featured prominently in advocacy by the SoCal Gas front group C4BES, funded with $29.1m in ratepayer money, which it then spent seeking to link clean appliance rules with anti-Latino racism. A quarter of California's carbon emissions come from home gas use.

SoCal Gas is regulated by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), which tolerated this mounting illegal conduct for many years, even as the company circulated internal memos as early as 2015 discussing its plans to oppose electrification in the state on the basis that it constituted "a significant risk to our business."

But last year, CPUC fined SoCal Gas $10m. Now, CPUC's Public Advocate office has filed a damning, extensive report on SoCal Gas's unlawful conduct, seeking $80m in rate cuts to compensate Californians for the funds misappropriated to protect the company's shareholder interests:

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M517/K407/517407314.PDF

Additionally, the Public Advocate is demanding $233m in fines for the company's refusal to allow investigators to audit its books and discover the full extent of the fraud.

SoCal Gas is the nation's largest utility, but (incredibly), it's not the dirtiest. That prize goes to Ohio's FirstEnergy, which handed $60m in ratepayer dollars to state politicians in illegal bribes in exchange for coal and nuclear subsidies and cancellation of state climate rules. That scandal led to GOP speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder being sentenced to 20 years in prison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

There is something extraordinarily sleazy about using ratepayers' own money to lobby against their interests. SoCal Gas and its Big Law enablers have funneled millions in Californian's money into campaigns to poison us and boil us alive, and they did it while using workers and racialized people as human shields.

I'm kickstarting the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

Image: Maryland GovPics (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdgovpics/6635539089/

Jackie (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/79874304@N00/197532792

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

#pluralistic #socal gas #california #climate emergency #climate denial #Reichman Jorgensen #california restaurant association #astroturf #Holland and Knight #puc #cpuc #california public utility company #fraud #Alice Walton #bribery #ohio #bizfed #Jennifer Hernandez #American Gas Association #The Two Hundred for Home Ownership #Robert Apodaca #Californians for Fair and Balanced Energy #C4BES #United Latinos Vote #Chevron #Marathon #Phillips 66 #sacramento bee #sacbee #Joe Rubin

[foxyou-too]

Alice Walton

#Alice Walton #art #sculpture #marble #cork #pastel #orange #green #organic #random #furniture #stool #nature

[friedkingtale]

#alice louise walton #alice walton #alice walton biography #alice walton net worth #alice walton family #alice walton quotes #alice walton walmart #alice walton foundation #walmart #walmart heiress #biography #us news #the biography pen

[ireadyabooks]

Spring into Extraordinary Graphic Novels from I read YA! 🌷🎨

Graphic novels are one of our favorite reading formats here at I read YA! It’s always such a joy seeing an author bring their magnificent storytelling to life with their artwork or another artist adding their unique spin! The possibilities are endless when it comes to graphic novel styles, and that’s what makes them so perfect! There is something for everyone! We have compiled some of our recent favorite graphic novels below that you should absolutely check out as we welcome spring and warmer weather! Whether you’re looking for stories about an adorable daydreamer, a dark secret, or two boys simply falling in love, we have it all! Happy reading!

Rainbow! Volume 1 by Gloom & Sunny

From Tapas Media, the same webtoon platform that brought you Magical Boy, comes Rainbow!, a new LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel series!

Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer with Mimi, it may finally be time for Boo to face reality . . . Who is the real Mimi? The one in her dreams? Or the one in real life?

Rainbow! is perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Magical Boy, full of heart, adorable illustrations, and a storyline that any teenager can relate to!

Start reading Rainbow! Volume 1 now!

Escape From St. Hell by Lewis Hancox

In this sequel to the Indie bestseller Welcome to St. Hell, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspiring story of coming into his own as a trans man.

For Lew, figuring out he was a guy and wanted to live life as a guy was the end of our journey... and the start of a whole other journey. Escape From St. Hell charts all the changes that Lew wanted to be made in order for him to live as a young trans man -- changes not just to his own body and perspective, but to the perspectives of the family, friends, and enemies around him.

As he did in his bestselling graphic memoir Welcome to St. Hell, Lewis Hancox charts his journey with plenty of laughs, a good number of cringes, and an honesty that takes readers along for the ride of Lew's life.

Start reading Escape From St. Hell now!

The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator of the New York Times and Indie bestselling The Witch Boy trilogy and The Girl from the Sea, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic.

Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth.

Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there’s her secret, which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her of energy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even kill if it ever got out -- like it did once before.

So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community. That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town, bringing vivid memories of the past, an intoxicating glimpse of the future, and a secret of her own. Mags won’t get attached, of course. She’s always been strong enough to survive without anyone’s help.

But when the darkness starts to close in on them both, Mags will have to drag her secret into the daylight, and choose between risking everything... or having nothing left to lose.

Start reading The Deep Dark now!

Heartstopper 5 by Alice Oseman

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the much-loved HEARTSTOPPER series, featuring gorgeous two-color artwork.

Nick and Charlie are in love. They’ve finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick’s house. He wants to take their relationship to the next level... but can he find the confidence he needs? And with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie’s lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.

Start reading Heartstopper 5 now!

Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka

In this lighthearted YA romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of falling in love for the first time.

Maisie is on her way to Fancon! She's looking forward to meeting her idol, Kara Bufano, the action hero from her favorite TV show, who has a lower-leg amputation, just like Maisie. But when Maisie and her mom arrive at the convention center, she is stopped in her tracks by Ollie, a cute volunteer working the show. They are kind, charming, and geek out about nerd culture just as much as Maisie does. And as the day wears on, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Is this what it feels like to fall in love?

Perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, this graphic novel debut is a fresh, one-of-a-kind story that celebrates the excitement of meeting someone special for the first time.

Start reading Stars in Their Eyes now!

The Good Neighbors by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh

From the bestselling author of The Cruel Prince, an astonishing graphic trilogy set in a faerie world, full of mystery, intrigue, and romance.

From the amazing imagination of bestselling author Holly Black and acclaimed illustrator Ted Naifeh, a mysterious and wonderful faerie saga, for the first time in one volume.

Rue Silver's mother has disappeared... and her father has been arrested, suspected of killing her. But it's not as straightforward as that. Because Rue is a faerie, like her mother was. And her father didn't kill her mother -- instead, he broke a promise to Rue's faerie king grandfather, which caused Rue's mother to be flung back to the faerie world. Now Rue must go to save her -- and defeat a dark faerie that threatens our very mortal world.

Start reading The Good Neighbors now!

#ireadya #yabooks #Rainbow! #Gloom & Sunny #Escape From St Hell #Lewis Hancox #The Deep Dark #Molly Knox Ostertag #Heartstopper #Alice Oseman #Stars in Their Eyes #Jessica Walton #Aśka #The Good Neighbors #Holly Black #Ted Naifeh #graphic novels

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This week’s Publishers’ Binding Thursday is a lovely floral binding in raspberry, green, blue, and gold. The book is Olive’s Story by Mrs. O.F. Walton, published in London by the Religious Tract Society in 1882. Mrs. O.F. Walton is Amy Catherine Walton, who published under her husband Octavius Frank Walton’s name and became well known for her religious stories. The Religious Tract Society was an organization founded by British evangelical Christians in 1799 that published periodicals and books most often with religious themes. This book is part of our Historical Curriculum Collection. 

The binding is a bid faded, but lovely, featuring raspberries, flowers, and leaves stamped in a raspberry color in alternating blue and green rectangular blocks. The title and author’s name sit in a gold rectangle—the title stamped in raspberry and the author’s name in blue. The spine features a similar design, with the insignia of the Religious Tract Society at the bottom. 

There's also a sweet Christmas card from one friend to another tucked in, and the evidence of the book owner's award for good attendance!

View more Publishers’ Binding Thursday posts.

View more posts related to the Historical Curriculum Collection.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Mrs. O.F. Walton #Olive's Story #Publishers' Binding Thursday #Publishers' Bindings #Religious Tract Society #Amy Catherine Walton #evangelical christians #religious books #bindings #Historical Curriculum Collection #Alice

[teddykaczynski]

#carla silicon valley #silicon valley hbo #carla walton #alice wetterlund #shes so perfect 2014 andro beanie stoner lesbian..................... #yiv

[devilsskettle]

Piercing by Ryu Murakami / Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn / Excision (2012) / Piercing / Touch by sam sax / Sharp Objects (2018) / Sharp Objects / Ginger Snaps original script by Karen Walton / Ginger Snaps (2000) / Ginger Snaps original script / Strawberry Gashes by Jack Off Jill / Ginger Snaps Unleashed (2004) / Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek by Blue October / Elementary Husk by Alice Notley / Thirteen (2003) / Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek / Piercing 

#piercing #ryu murakami #excision #sharp objects #gillian flynn #ginger snaps #karen walton #jack off jill #ginger snaps unleashed #blue october #alice notley #thirteen #thirteen 2003 #self harm tw #comparison

[sloshed-cinema]

Predators (2010)

Sometimes after watching truly great movies, I suffer a sort of writer’s block.  With such an incredible artwork, what could I possibly say to touch the face of god, to illuminate the already luminescent?  This is the exact opposite.  Predators is such a vacant, vapid non-event of a B-movie exploitation piece that I struggle to say anything about my experience at all beyond expressing basic regret for having wasted my time in the first place.  A murderer’s row of character actors join husky-voiced Adrien Brody on an inhospitable planet and get mowed down one by one.  Did we really have to have the Walton Goggins character make light about sexual assault, and have the movie cancel that out with an apparently queer Laurence Fishburne?  Fuck all of this.  This is the sort of movie my dad would show to me when I was in the seventh grade and it was 1AM on a Saturday night as some sort of weird attempt at bonding.  Okay, yeah, the guns go boom.  Fun times.  Can I go to bed now?

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says a swear.

Adrien’s character is evasive about something.

Someone says ‘help’.

Electric guitar sting!  That’s exciting!

BIG DRINK

Predator-vision.

Someone bites it.

Off-color sexual assault jokes, Jesus H Christ what

#drinking games #predators #nimród antal #action #action & adventure #horror #horror & thriller #sci fi #sci fi & fantasy #predator #adrien brody #mahershala ali #alice braga #laurence fishburne #danny trejo #walton goggins #topher grace

[moviehealthcommunity]

Predators (2010)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.  

Predators has several sequences of machine gun fire, most of which take place in daylight. There is some sparking of damaged electrical equipment that creates strobe effects in dark environments. Some scenes from the point-of-view of the creatures have occasional bright flashes as they shift their focus from subject to subject.

The film opens with a highly disorienting skydiving sequence, with spinning, rolling, and shaking of the camera. Through the rest of the film, most of the camera work is smooth, but there is some mild shaking in a few action scenes. There is also some peril at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 9/10. Motion Sickness: 6/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film is very bloody and gory. There is a noble-sacrifice suicide, a mercy killing, and a character who almost dies by suicide as an alternative to a more painful death. One character openly admits to being a rapist without remorse. A man vomits once while inhaling smoke.

Image ID: A theatrical poster for Predators

#Movie Health Community #Health Warning #Actually Epileptic #Photosensitive Epilepsy #Seizures #Migraines #Motion Sickness #20th Century Fox #Predators #Adrien Brody #Topher Grace #Alice Braga #Walton Goggins #Laurence Fishburne #Nimród Antal #Rated R

[sunvalleytales]

character tags! 🌺

#character. 🌺 gerard bryant hjortshøj. #character. 🌺 iris georgina dixon. #character. 🌺 scotty hawthorne. #character. 🌺 kazuyuki shimizu. #character. 🌺 hilary faith harrington. #character. 🌺 mitchell sanders. #character. 🌺 willowdean laurie dixon. #character. 🌺 alice trajano walton. #character. 🌺 marco antônio souza de lima. #character. 🌺 carmen ortiz borbon. #character. 🌺 jessica o'malley. #tags #my characters

[foxyou-too]

Alice Walton

#Alice Walton #compression #process #textile #layers #layer #pastel #dulled #beige #light blue #light grey #eco #sustainable

[hannahbellinger]

⠀⠀🌺⠀ 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔: character tags!

#˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀alice trajano walton‚ liz.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀iris georgina dixon.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀willowdean laurie dixon.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀gerard bryant hjortshøj.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀scotty hawthorne.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀mitchell sanders‚ hellzing.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀kazuiuki shimizu‚ kazu.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀hilary faith harrington.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #˳⁺⁎˚⠀𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓⠀🌺⠀marco antônio de souza lima.⠀˚⁎⁺˳ . #tags #character tags

[ebiographypost]

#Alice Anne Walton

[ireadyabooks]

Read with Pride Love Stories Perfect for Valentine’s Day! 💟🌈

Believe it or not, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! It’s the perfect time of year to grab a romantic read and fantasize about your own Valentine. At I read YA, we believe everyone deserves to see themselves represented in all aspects of life so we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite queer romances for you to add to your shelf during this season of love! We hope you fall in love with these sweet reads just as much as we have!

Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton & Aśka 

Maisie is on her way to Fancon! She's looking forward to meeting her idol, Kara Bufano, the action hero from her favorite TV show, who has a lower-leg amputation, just like Maisie. But when Maisie and her mom arrive at the convention center, she is stopped in her tracks by Ollie, a cute volunteer working the show. They are kind, charming, and geek out about nerd culture just as much as Maisie does. And as the day wears on, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Is this what it feels like to fall in love?

Start reading Stars in Their Eyes now! 

Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See

Less than a year away from graduation, seventeen-year-old Joy is too busy overachieving to be worried about relationships. She’s determined to be Caldwell Prep’s first disabled valedictorian. And she only has one person to beat, her academic rival Nathaniel.

But it’s senior year and everyone seems to be obsessed with pairing up. One of her best friends may be developing feelings for her and the other uses Caldwell’s anonymous love-letter writer to snag the girl of her dreams. Joy starts to wonder if she has missed out on a quintessential high school experience. She is asexual, but that’s no reason she can’t experience first love, right?

She writes to Caldwell Cupid to help her sort out these new feelings and, over time, finds herself falling for the mysterious voice behind the letters. But falling in love might mean risking what she wants most, especially when the letter-writer turns out to be the last person she would ever expect.

Start reading Love Letter for Joy now! 

Heartstopper  Volume 5 by Alice Oseman

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the much-loved HEARTSTOPPER series, featuring gorgeous two-color artwork.

Nick and Charlie are in love. They’ve finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick’s house. He wants to take their relationship to the next level... but can he find the confidence he needs? And with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

Start reading Heartstopper Volume 5 now!

What a Desi Girl Wants by Sabina Khan

Mehar hasn’t been back to India since she and her mother moved away when she was only four. But when her father announces his engagement to socialite Naz, Mehar reluctantly agrees to return for the wedding. While her father still doesn’t make the time for her, Mehar barely cares once she meets Sufiya, her grandmother’s assistant, and one of the most grounded, thoughtful, kind people she’s ever met! Meanwhile, Mehar’s dislike for Naz and her social media influencer daughter, Aleena, deepens. Mehar’s starting to think that putting a stop to this wedding might be the best thing for everyone involved.But what happens when telling her father the truth about Naz and Aleena means putting her relationship with Sufiya at risk . . .

Start reading What a Desi Girl Wants now!

Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts.

To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys. Charlie is determined to stay out of it, but Sam, the irritating new seer in town, expects him to track down who -- or what -- is responsible and uncover the dark purpose behind these disappearances.

But when one of Charlie's ghostly friends vanishes, he has no choice but to face the shadows -- and his growing feelings for Sam. The boys must be willing to risk it all to save York’s spirits, because this adversary will stop at nothing to complete their devastating plan. Afterlives are at stake, and Charlie is running out of time . . . 

Start reading Sixteen Souls now!

The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver

Just days before spring break, Neil Kearney is set to fly across the country with his childhood friend (and current friend-with-benefits) Josh, to attend his brother's wedding—until Josh tells Neil that he's in love with him and Neil doesn't return the sentiment.

With Josh still attending the wedding, Neil needs to find a new date to bring along. And, almost against his will, roommate Wyatt is drafted.

At first, Wyatt (correctly) thinks Neil is acting like a jerk. But when they get to LA, Wyatt sees a little more of where it's coming from. Slowly, Neil and Wyatt begin to understand one another . . . and maybe, just maybe, fall in love for the first time . . .

Start reading The Feeling of Falling in Love now!

#ireadya #yabooks #Stars in Their Eyes #Jessica Walton #Aśka #Love Letters for Joy #Melissa See #Heartstopper #Alice Oseman #What a Desi Girl Wants #Sabina Khan #Sixteen Souls #Rosie Talbot #The Feeling of Falling in Love #Okay Cupid #Mason Deaver

[serialunaliver]

hostile environments to me

• upper middle class neighborhoods - too quiet, not enough trees, overall feels like thneedville from the 2012 lorax movie

• walmart - every time i'm in there I remember alice walton has a yacht while walmart has a business model surrounding poverty and want to kill someone

• parking lots - always feel like someone wants to run me over

• malls - the lighting makes my brain malfunction in a terrifying way for some reason

• mold room at work - there's always mold growing in there and it smells bad

• theme parks - I can't fully explain this one but when i'm in a theme park I feel like a sim that just got a notification about a meteor heading straight towards me

[animentality]

choose who to

#polls #for legal purposes this is a joke #i know tesla is monitoring my movements but #dont let that sway you