shaelit:savetheplanarians:meganwhalenturner:shaelit:1) Holy CRAP, 2020, you did something right2) Ok
shaelit:savetheplanarians:meganwhalenturner:shaelit:1) Holy CRAP, 2020, you did something right2) Okay, here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna form a prayer circle. Sacrifice some goats. Dedicate some earrings. And pray that the mighty rage of Riordan’s ghost keeps that level of nonsense away. Keep readingOoh, what made me think I could beat Shae with the news … This is a good time to remind myself of what I told myself when I found out they were adapting The Raven Cycle for television:I once had dinner with Megan Whalen Turner (!) (!!!) (I’m not yet over that, btw) and a young man who was perhaps even a bigger fan than me. He told her that if she was ever offered a movie deal for her books, he hoped she didn’t sell out. She looked at him and said, “If I’m ever offered a movie deal, I’m going to take that check and cash it before they change their minds.” He argued that it would be too easy to ruin the books in a movie. She replied “Aren’t the books still sitting on your shelf? Does a movie take them off your shelf and burn them or something?” It’s my new favorite perspective on books-to-visual-media. We all love the author and want them to be successful. If part of that success means that they’re paid large sums of money for the right to mangle the narrative, then I’m going to support that, because they /deserve/ to get large sums of money, on account of how they made a thing that brought me joy. And the books don’t go away, no matter what the movie looks like.In this house, we stan sensible advice.Aaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! -- source link