Rick'n Reality

Around September I picked up a new hobby: coloring. I never ever ever get new hobbies, so let me quickly explain how this happened.  So, I’m part of my school’s mental health club, Rams Minds Matter, which is a chapter of the Our Minds Matter organization, and we planned at our interest meeting to do stress relieving activities, which included coloring. As you may know, I’m obsessed with tv and movies, and the idea of doing coloring pages of different franchises hooked me. So I went online and printed a coloring page of… (this was still the time of my Harry Potter 6 obsession), the Harry Potter 6 movie poster, because it looks cool. I gathered all of our colored pencils, put on headphones to listen to music, and just started.  It was definitely a win. I was stressed that day, for some reason, and coloring helped me switch my mind to something else. While I tried to stay accurate to the source material, I made some creative decisions to make it more of my own. It felt super rel...

Hi… so, it’s been awhile. To keep this brief, I didn’t post anything because a) I was too busy to care (I know that’s not a good excuse but it’s true) and b) I was beared writingless for some time.  What you’re about to see is a writing I did back in September for my English class. Our assignment was to create a pastiche (an imitation of someone’s writing style) of Alice Walker. This was when I was randomly obsessed with the sixth Harry Potter book/movie, for no reason at all, so that was my source of inspiration.  So without further ado, I present to you, the pastiche:     It started on Chapter 9: The Half-Blood Prince. I had randomly decided to bring my copy of the sixth Harry Potter book to school (to read, obviously). And I specifically started at chapter 9 because it's the first day of classes for the main characters. This year, Harry and his classmates (they don’t use that weird word: peers) decide which courses they will continue into the N.E.W.T., the m...