In many ways, volleyball in the pool is just like blitzball.

not since I got circumcised. Fool me twice...

psʇd ǝʌɐɥ ᴉ sᴉɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟᴉ

I've seen it several times but it bummed me out! A friend came with me who had never seen it and was wondering if she was meant to leave or something.

Another vote for Inkarnate, I've been using it for D&D maps lately and there are some good modern examples inkarnate.com/explore

and believe me, it was a trick that quickly stopped working.

It was Inception!!

we've moved from "death of the author (philosophically)" to "death of the author (wishfully)"

do you feel like the movies made the books better?

HP coinciding early internet may play a significant role, maybe one of the best positioned YA series to get broadly discussed online. Even Hunger Games came out after the big blog-heavy period.

Did you also read comics or have any other series like this? It's genuinely something I never had experience with, I was just poisonously online since like 10 years old.

I don't even read a lot of fantasy stuff, but it seems like if you enjoy friendship, read one piece. if you like people going to school, read xmen I guess? they even have cosplay you can still do!

yeah, it's an example of dissonance I can't really understand. I don't know of any media I couldn't drop and try to replace with any number of equal or better series if the author explicitly said "I will use my continuing money from this to hurt marginalized people"

checks out, and when they are including images every page it softens the racial stereotypes.