As someone from Botswana western people coming to African countries with a fetishistic reverence for our flora and fauna and a racist disdain for the people who live here is unfortunately common
As a Zambian, the whole Delia Owens situation makes me sick to my stomach! The whole thing reeks of white American entitlement, thinking that they can go wherever they want and do whatever they please. Murdering people?? Leaving their bodies in the bush?! Absolutely disgusting! No matter how you feel about poaching, what possesses someone to think they're above the law of a country that's not even theirs. Where are their morals? Zambia is not just a wildlife conservation, its a country with a rich culture, history and diverse people. Maybe they need to sort out the extreme hunting/captivity problem the US still has before they start parading around on some white saviour nonsense 😤
I literally love Jess’s dedication to the book news. After chasing Nigel, Jess did not miss a beat and continued on to her point. I wish I had that concentration 😂.
I'm on team "do the videos the way that is easiest for you" because you are providing such a valuable asset to the community and shouldn't have to bust yourself doing it.
the most frustrating thing RE: Terry Pratchet is that Neil Gaiman is still incredibly vocal on how great he was and how much he misses his friend (they wrote Good Omens together!! and in my edition of the book, there’s some author questions at the back and they talk about how they became friends and how they were both massive fans of each other’s works). Neil is regularly on tumblr answering questions about the two of them. If he (and his own DAUGHTER) say Terry wasn’t transphobic, I’m inclined to believe them over some randos on twitter
Monstrous Regiment legit has canon trans characters and it's so beautiful and celebrated and normalized. I don't understand how anyone could read that fantastic book and come away with anything other than the impression that he was very open-minded regarding gender and sexuality.
My husband loves Terry Pratchett and I've read a few books of his. The fact the TERFs lack reading comprehension is astounding. He spent a lot of time circumventing society expectations and being quite critical of boxing in gender norms. And the Scholastic news is going to be interesting since it seems like the new runner has a vested interest in the company. She's done a lot of jobs over the past 30 years. More than the sons, if I recall correctly. She expressed wanting to keep the publisher independent, too. Never a bad thing.
Re: the ARCs: The person complaining kind of changed the issue halfway through. It went from "Should POC reviewers be prioritized for ARCs by POC authors" in the text exchange, but in the question box it basically became, "Should white authors not be allowed to review books by POC authors, and should POC reviewers not be allowed to review books by white authors," a ridiculous premise that absolutely no one has suggested. It's equating "why don't I get a free book?" to "why are you preventing me from reviewing a book?" Like, white reviewers can review whatever they want; in certain situations though, they'll just have to buy it (or get it from the library if possible) like the rest of the reading public. ARCs are a gift, not a privilege.
Okay, one thing is selling an ARC for 700 dollars, but who BUYS an ARC for 700 dollars when they can get the actual, fully edited, better quality paper, book at the store for 15-30 dollars????
It’s one of the special Empire of the Vampire arcs but still, you could buy every fully edited exclusive edition and STILL have money left over for more. I can’t think of a single book I’d pay $700 for!
I haven’t read Where The Crawdads Sing (and I’m not planning to), but my friend has, and she found out about the whole thing while she was reading it and told me, so I knew about it. My friend finished the book, but it definitely made her uncomfortable… we were both pretty creeped out. Poaching won’t be eradicated by killing the poachers, it’s the merchants and the buyers of ivory or whatever, sitting in their fancy offices and houses, who should be held responsible. Ugh. Talk about the legacy of colonialism - no, actually the colonialism is still alive and well.
My wife (who is trans) thinks that Owlcrate’s decision to sell the mugs in the first place and to donate part of the profits was fine. She also thinks that the apology was more than enough. She loves HP and this has been a struggle for her to decide the way she will appreciate this series moving forward and I’m basically just following what she is comfortable with. We work to not purchase anything that would financially benefit JKR but still enjoys the books and movies.
The Owen's couple are murderers. The story sounded absurd, like murder is bad enough but the fact that the body was never found or identified, leaves me feeling cold. Like the person's family may never know what happened to their family member. And the audacity of these people to say they give a shit about animals only to go and treat humans being as less than nothing.
Whew!! This was a lot. I didn't know about Scholastic or Delia Owens so that was a wild ride. With Owlcrate, it's also worth noting they did this the month that they featured an out trans author for the first time....how do you not thing about that?!
Universal Studios literally has 2 lands (1 in each of their FL parks) devoted to Harry Potter. These lands are by Far the most busy sections in their parks. Trust me they have No plans to make Any changes where they're concerned. JKR could live quite nicely with what she made from that deal alone. Nevermind, the original book deals, movie deals and merchandising. If the woman never sold another thing in her life she still has enough 💰 to fill a Scrooge McDuck style Vault and take a 🏊. Personally, I don't care either way as I found the books to be mediocre at best. Ditto for the couple movies I saw. (I know there are more of them-I don't care. I had too many Marvel movies to watch 😂) I'm also a Disney girl so I generally don't care much for Universal IP and don't generally go there. My point is she doesn't care if you're not buying her mugs or whatever from this little Owl Crate girl. (It sounded like it was licensed products anyway so JKR would still be getting a small percentage of the 💰 -because that's how licensing agreements work unless it was a "knock off or fake" that is.) It sounds like Owl Crate purchased "X amount" of HP items so JKR already got her cut. Trust me she does not care if the cup is in your kitchen cupboards or an Owl Crate Warehouse. I know everyone these days wants to be a "social justice warrior " or "part of the morality police" or whatever, but when you're dealing with an author who has Already hit it so big it's really a zero sum game for "protestors ". But I mean if you want to keep your 19.95 or whatever it was, by All means keep it. It's your money. Spend it or don't how you want. I just think people should be a little more realistic. Trust me with all the wands, robes, and other wizard paraphernalia I saw flying off the shelves the last time I was at Universal, JKR is Not missing the 19.95 mug purchase. Welcome to America where capitalism is king and most rich people suck.
@@TheGoofy1932 Okay? Thanks? But I know that JKR is rich and will always be rich because that's how it works when you become as wealthy as she is. But if you continue to financially support / promote JKR than you need to be okay with the fact that people will feel some type of way about your support for trans people. That's literally all I was saying, but thanks for the irrelevant essay.
@@PinkCatsy Most people who buy HP merchandise though aren't really thinking about what JKR thinks of Transpeople. They're thinking I really want that wizard wand. As I said, I'm a Disney girl at heart and have No HP merchandise, but not because JKR doesn't support the trans community. It's because I don't like HP. If Disney suddenly decided they were going to no longer have Pride Day at the parks I'm still going to spend my money there and go to their parks and buy their merchandise because I like the stuff they sell. Nor do I care what people think about my purchases. It's My money so I'll spend it how I want. I think most people feel this way. Are there a few "social justice warrior types" who will boycott JKR or whomever they don't like this week, sure. And there always will be. But most of us don't purchase fandom type merchandise and worry or really even care about the political or social stances surrounding those items. That's what I was trying to say-that the handful of people who won't buy for that reason are insignificant, in terms of the bottom line.
@@TheGoofy1932 To be honest with you, I don't care. I don't care who you support and I don't care why you support them. All I'm saying is that if you choose to buy or sell something that can, whether you like it or not, say something about you as a person. And you have to accept that. If you don't care what people think then good for you. It doesn't change what I said. The fact that you don't care or worry about the political or social stances surrounding them doesn't change the fact that other people do and other people may even judge you for your obliviousness / apathy. That's a choice you made and that's a choice that can have consequences, such as making some people distrust you. If you don't care about that then you don't care about that. I'm not trying to make you care about that. I don't care if you care about that honestly.
Nigel could teach a class in side eye. The way he side eyed you after you put him on the chair and told him to stay there was peak "Who gon' check me, boo?"
Really love how you ended this video! I may have said this on a video already, but - One of my favorite sustainable youtubers always says “we don’t need you to do ALL the good, but we need all the good that you CAN do”. No one can do everything, especially not alone. Take care!!
As a huge Pratchett fan who has been so influenced by his works and had to ask off of work because his death hit me so hard, I am enraged and disgusted by the speculation that he would have been transphobic
Just wanna say, you're doing wonderful work by compiling all this news (especially for people like me who are soo out of the loop when it comes to book tea) and if it's better/easier for you to do it in this format, then do it this way! It really doesn't change the video much for me
It's bizarre how under the radar the whole Delia Owens saga was this whole time. I had heard about it from a wildlife biology channel, but even then it was really hard to understand from what I was able to find, so I'm really impressed with your research and explanation, Jess! If I remember correctly, the motive for murder in the novel was that the marsh girl was raped by the town's pretty white boy, so it's not exactly beat for beat, BUT that obviously doesn't alleviate anything Owens did in her real life. Definitely reeks of southern white supremacy/ white saviorism.
I can't believe I didn't realize Scholastic was independent! definitely hope they stay that way the ARC thing !!! 🙄 -- (also Margaret whose Twitter you pulled that from is awesome and seeing you reference her tweet was like seeing a friend on TV 😂) I only just heard about the OwlCrate thing!! it's just really frustrating that people continue to not understand that there is a HUGE difference between continuing to reread your already purchased copies of books that are very important to you...vs. actively promoting with your platform/business/channel/etc. the Delia Owens thing is WILD. I heard about it maybe a year ago and have talked about it with people but I never had any interest in the book so it didn't come up a lot, but it always felt weird more people weren't bothered by it??? like it won a TON of book prizes. AHH that's so exciting about Chasing Pacquiao! 🎉
Hope you are feeling better after yesterday and the buckwheat mess! Any way that makes filming and editing easier for you works for all of us! Also wanted to say you looked beautiful with the locks and with out them!
Okay like it's rough to lose someone you love, BUT maybe he just didn't like y'all. Knives Out, anyone? (For the record, I'm not implying the man was killed lol)
But also like... the publisher who didn't have ARCs could have just said "we don't have any left, we'll put you on the waiting list" instead of pointing the finger at Black reviewers! they clearly wanted the ally cookies. :(
Worked very well for me! The info is always more important than the presentation, and the screen today wasn't even messy!! But this was great for me to clean my home to :) Thanks Jess!
I knew Delia Owens was sus!!! I had the misfortune to read Where the Crawdads Sing and besides a meh plot and awful murder "mystery," her black characters are shells of stereotypes. I dumped that book as soon as possible so I can't pull up examples but please don't put yourself thru it
Right I read that and was shocked and how people were ignoring the blatant stereotypes of black ppl. They were literally only there to prop up the white mc and take care of her
I think it was one of the best books I've ever read; disturbing yes. I kept putting it down when I got weirded out, but I kept being sucked back in. I just had to know what happened. When I'd finished it, I was like, " wow, that was something special." Everyone in the story was a sterotype of Southern people; not just the blacks.
@@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 do u think I’m gonna trust the opinion of someone who says “the blacks” on whether or not a book is racist…. 🙄🙄 Keep the dumb comment to yourself next time .
I loved the sass Nigel was serving in this video! I also hope that your mental health gives you a moment to breath. Mine has been spiraling lately too so it’s been important to remember to step back and breath. On a final note, your mans ink is KILLER. I’m working on my sleeve right now and have a chest piece so I love to see different art work and styles.
I love this style- I normally listen to your videos like a podcast anyway and this style helped me sort out my wardrobe while listening on my phone. so thank you so much Jess. Saved me all the scrolling on Twitter as well xx
The scholastic situation could be like a Knives Out situation. I mean, either he’s a jerk or there’s a reason his family didn’t get his stuff. Also, I wonder if they never had any interest in the publishing industry and he wanted to make sure someone who does gets the business.
I love this set up! We're here for you and Nigel and all the info you bring us, so whatever set up is easiest for you is cool for us. Hope you escape into a happy book this weekend~
Jess, you are a star! Nigel loses his little dog mind and you never lose your train of thought. Any way you want to put out content works for me. Honestly, I don’t care where the light is coming from or anything else. You work so hard to bring us all the bookish tea and that’s why I’m here. (As a side note, you are SO right about “The Martian.” Right there with you. I know you mentioned it in another video but I failed to comment there.)
That Delia Owen's ex-husband stuff maybe the most terrible thing I've heard on this channel. Intense. Like First 48 vibes 😳 --- side note: great arrangement
the new format works well! honestly i didn't really notice much of a difference really (might be because i'm part of the "mostly listening to the video" gang) so if this is easier for you editing/etc wise then sounds like a good change!!
This was great. I actually laughed out loud when she told her husband to get his arms out her camera 😅 Whatever format works best for Jess to keep giving us the Tea works for me too 💜
I’m a smidge late but just wanted to say I seriously appreciate you covering book news. I never interact with this outside of your channel and always enjoy the escape from “hard news”. And in terms of format do what’s best for you honestly just here for your personality. ☺️☺️
Thank you so much!!! I enjoyed the tea but I also LOVED the new format of starting and ending on a positive note. The on camera struggles with Nigel were cherry on this cake. 😁♥️
Ooooh Sholastic drama is juicy af. Scholastic book fairs and the subscription booklet they gave us in school was always such a special treat when my parents could afford it. Hope it all works out! Hi Nigel! ( and Jess).
I am dying with the giraffes. I have stuffed animals from childhood that I still love and are hidden away so my pooch doesn’t destroy them. All her toys are stuffed animals too, so she assumes mine are hers. NOPE!
I'm here for the puppy struggle! BTW, Shaun's RUclips (he just goes by Shaun, I know) has a brilliant takedown of the Terry Pratchett debate. He points out the entire premise of one of Pratchett's book is about gender identity and accepting people pronouns. The transphobes are always stretching.
Wow. I read that Delia Owens book a couple years back, and I mostly liked it, but kind of hated the ending. Spoiler: my hating the ending is a bit appropriate in retrospect now that I know the rest of this story. I will have to share these articles with my mom because we read it together and holy shit. Ughh, peak colonialism even down to the obsession with “nature” over humans, like we aren’t fucking part of nature or something 🙄
If I didnt even know my dad was close to her much less dating her, then I'd sit in my lane because I clearly didnt pay enough attention to him, about the scholastic mess
If you put owlcrate or any other bookbox name in search engines of depop and vinted, everyone just sells the merch for more than what they spent on it. Most times its before they've even received the book box in the mail.
This format was great! I love your Book Communitea series. Your personality and relatability (and Nigel cameos) make my day, even when the bookish news is eye roll-worthy. ❤️
Honestly I have been waiting for this video for a while because I am on bookstagram and so many tea happened in the last few weeks lmao. Thanks to the quality content as always
I'd like to ask for a new quote for your merch! "The devil is busy, these demons got too much time on their hands," Book CommuniTEA 8:21. 😂 Honestly, people are so desperate to be right that they'll prop up a dead man and put their words in his mouth. I enjoyed the video format and if it saves you time in editing, it's a win-win! 🙌
Honestly it makes sense to me that if an author belongs to an underrepresented group that you would send out arcs to those who identify. Like they’re not just sending out free books they’re sending out books to readers to read and promote, but ALSO to make sure that things like…geez I don’t know: *representation* have been done correctly and worded right. I just don’t understand how she 1) didn’t understand that and 2) thought that the publisher would agree to give her an ARC if she blasted them on social media like that.
Came here for the OwlCrate tea, I am a subscriber of the box and I felt sad about the decisions not to sell any merchandise from HP anymore, although I understand the reasons and how JK Rowling had hurt people with some comments I was sad mostly also for the artists. A big hello from Puerto Rico. First time watching your videos so I’m a new subscriber 😉
This format works great for me I’m glad you found a way to make it easier on you and Nigel lol (I can tell he works very hard as well). Take care of yourself! Thanks for this hour long TEA!!!!
Love the new format :) it’s been a tough time all around, I hope everyone is being kind to themselves and taking the time to process all that’s been happening. It’s tough living in ‘interesting times’ ✨💜🌸☮️🐸
"YES, BITCH, YOU GET PRIORITY FOR EVERYTHING!" just slayed me. it's true, though. like, the sheer entitlement. i'm white and it's like, jfc your world will not end if you don't get an ARC copy of this book. you've probably gotten SEVERAL copies of ARCs that BIPOC reviewers didn't or wouldn't have gotten. just sit down and have a juice box or something, you big baby.
omg nigel is such an agent of chaos in this video~ i'm kinda glad to know i'm not alone in being a dog mom with a chaotic dog child 😂😂 i've had to take away all of her plush toys because she gets soooo toy aggressive with plushies.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 the ARC screenshot story. I agree with you. If you want to read a book by an under represented marginalized author and you aren’t in that group, support that author and buy it when it comes out and let reviewers apart of that group review it first.
I know I'm so late to party on this vid but I wanted to give feedback because I love the format/editing so much. I watch a lot of academic lectures and this vid 100% feels like one! Really fun, super informative, and your personality and candor really shines through. Idk if you'll read this but I wanted to recco something another youtuber does, Nisipisa. She screen records and then will bring up the preview of her webcam when she wants her face in the video. And it looks so cool when she does it, the preview looks like a frame, really fun. But then she doesn't have to edit a video in to a video, the webcam preview is in the screen recording. Brilliant, amazing, yall tubers are incredible. Love the new format, love watching you shout at Nigel, thank you for all your hard work, you're a joy
Conservation is such a complicated topic because it's not just a one stroke solution like so many people seem to think. You have to work with the people living in a place that you are trying to do conservation work, as well as with the environment to come up with a plan that is detailed to what the people and the area needs. These Owens people don't sound like they were doing that. While bringing attention can help in cases if the powerful people don't care, the better way to try to go about it is going to the government and trying to work out solutions that can protect the wild animals as well as the cattle, which the people and the country depended on at the time (or still depend on? I don't know that much about Botswana's economy & exports today). Like, you can't go to an island where the peoples main diet and work is seafood and say "stop fishing, cuz conservation", because then they lose their primary way to make a living and force them to pay a ton of money, that they now don't have because they don't have work, for what will probably be mostly imported foods. You have to work with them in supporting them, as well as looking at and trying to solve local and global issues with fisheries. This same example of fisheries even applies to certain regions of the US, so you can't even just go by country, you have to go by region and environment and the locals living in that region.
I love your last comment because it's 100% true. Social media burnout is real and many times, it's not good for you. The algorithms are against you on ALL social media platforms. I help my local community in many ways and that's where you should start if you can't afford to donate money. Instead, donate your time and your compassion in small ways, then build up to bigger projects. I know at times you might feel like you're not doing enough (I've felt that many times), but small, successful steps are way more important than giant leaps that can lead to harm down the road. Everyone can make a difference.
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As someone from Botswana western people coming to African countries with a fetishistic reverence for our flora and fauna and a racist disdain for the people who live here is unfortunately common
Ugh that is so awful 😣
That sucks
Same when people visit major US cities and get disgusted that Black people are natives there
Its your good ole typical white savior complex. I really cant stand these types of people who think.they are a gift to the universe like cmon.
As a Zambian, the whole Delia Owens situation makes me sick to my stomach! The whole thing reeks of white American entitlement, thinking that they can go wherever they want and do whatever they please. Murdering people?? Leaving their bodies in the bush?! Absolutely disgusting! No matter how you feel about poaching, what possesses someone to think they're above the law of a country that's not even theirs. Where are their morals? Zambia is not just a wildlife conservation, its a country with a rich culture, history and diverse people. Maybe they need to sort out the extreme hunting/captivity problem the US still has before they start parading around on some white saviour nonsense 😤
I literally love Jess’s dedication to the book news. After chasing Nigel, Jess did not miss a beat and continued on to her point. I wish I had that concentration 😂.
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the whole Scholastic sitch is giving me major Knives Out energy...
That was my first thought. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that.
I was looking for this comment because that’s what I kept thinking too... 😅
Yes!!!!! I thought that too. 🧐🧐
I'm on team "do the videos the way that is easiest for you" because you are providing such a valuable asset to the community and shouldn't have to bust yourself doing it.
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I agree thank you Jess 😘
the most frustrating thing RE: Terry Pratchet is that Neil Gaiman is still incredibly vocal on how great he was and how much he misses his friend (they wrote Good Omens together!! and in my edition of the book, there’s some author questions at the back and they talk about how they became friends and how they were both massive fans of each other’s works). Neil is regularly on tumblr answering questions about the two of them. If he (and his own DAUGHTER) say Terry wasn’t transphobic, I’m inclined to believe them over some randos on twitter
you really cannot read good omens and believe terry pratchet is transphobic lol.
Monstrous Regiment legit has canon trans characters and it's so beautiful and celebrated and normalized.
I don't understand how anyone could read that fantastic book and come away with anything other than the impression that he was very open-minded regarding gender and sexuality.
My husband loves Terry Pratchett and I've read a few books of his. The fact the TERFs lack reading comprehension is astounding. He spent a lot of time circumventing society expectations and being quite critical of boxing in gender norms.
And the Scholastic news is going to be interesting since it seems like the new runner has a vested interest in the company. She's done a lot of jobs over the past 30 years. More than the sons, if I recall correctly. She expressed wanting to keep the publisher independent, too. Never a bad thing.
Re: the ARCs: The person complaining kind of changed the issue halfway through. It went from "Should POC reviewers be prioritized for ARCs by POC authors" in the text exchange, but in the question box it basically became, "Should white authors not be allowed to review books by POC authors, and should POC reviewers not be allowed to review books by white authors," a ridiculous premise that absolutely no one has suggested. It's equating "why don't I get a free book?" to "why are you preventing me from reviewing a book?" Like, white reviewers can review whatever they want; in certain situations though, they'll just have to buy it (or get it from the library if possible) like the rest of the reading public. ARCs are a gift, not a privilege.
Okay, one thing is selling an ARC for 700 dollars, but who BUYS an ARC for 700 dollars when they can get the actual, fully edited, better quality paper, book at the store for 15-30 dollars????
I am SO CONFUSED who would buy any book for $700 🥴🥴🥴
It’s one of the special Empire of the Vampire arcs but still, you could buy every fully edited exclusive edition and STILL have money left over for more. I can’t think of a single book I’d pay $700 for!
That's what I keep sayin'. lol
@@JessOwens this is why rich people don't deserve rights 🙃
@@avsambart omg fuck yes. I know 1000 better things to do with that money.
I haven’t read Where The Crawdads Sing (and I’m not planning to), but my friend has, and she found out about the whole thing while she was reading it and told me, so I knew about it. My friend finished the book, but it definitely made her uncomfortable… we were both pretty creeped out. Poaching won’t be eradicated by killing the poachers, it’s the merchants and the buyers of ivory or whatever, sitting in their fancy offices and houses, who should be held responsible. Ugh. Talk about the legacy of colonialism - no, actually the colonialism is still alive and well.
My wife (who is trans) thinks that Owlcrate’s decision to sell the mugs in the first place and to donate part of the profits was fine. She also thinks that the apology was more than enough. She loves HP and this has been a struggle for her to decide the way she will appreciate this series moving forward and I’m basically just following what she is comfortable with. We work to not purchase anything that would financially benefit JKR but still enjoys the books and movies.
Thanks for sharing her perspective !
I think this format is fine. Do whatever is easiest for you Jess.
The Owen's couple are murderers. The story sounded absurd, like murder is bad enough but the fact that the body was never found or identified, leaves me feeling cold. Like the person's family may never know what happened to their family member. And the audacity of these people to say they give a shit about animals only to go and treat humans being as less than nothing.
Nigel stealing the giraffe has me CRYING 😂😭
THE DISRESPECT
Dang the scholastic drama sounds like the plot of Knives Out. Lol the CEO’s sons and family should’ve checked in with him to see what was in his will.
Ok third comment about Knives Out - I must watch ASAP
@@JessOwens you need to watch it.have some tea and popcorn
Whew!! This was a lot. I didn't know about Scholastic or Delia Owens so that was a wild ride. With Owlcrate, it's also worth noting they did this the month that they featured an out trans author for the first time....how do you not thing about that?!
It's one thing to keep Harry Potter a part of your personal life. It's a different thing entirely to keep it a part of your business.
Thousands of people are.
Universal Studios literally has 2 lands (1 in each of their FL parks) devoted to Harry Potter. These lands are by Far the most busy sections in their parks. Trust me they have No plans to make Any changes where they're concerned. JKR could live quite nicely with what she made from that deal alone. Nevermind, the original book deals, movie deals and merchandising. If the woman never sold another thing in her life she still has enough 💰 to fill a Scrooge McDuck style Vault and take a 🏊. Personally, I don't care either way as I found the books to be mediocre at best. Ditto for the couple movies I saw. (I know there are more of them-I don't care. I had too many Marvel movies to watch 😂) I'm also a Disney girl so I generally don't care much for Universal IP and don't generally go there. My point is she doesn't care if you're not buying her mugs or whatever from this little Owl Crate girl. (It sounded like it was licensed products anyway so JKR would still be getting a small percentage of the 💰 -because that's how licensing agreements work unless it was a "knock off or fake" that is.) It sounds like Owl Crate purchased "X amount" of HP items so JKR already got her cut. Trust me she does not care if the cup is in your kitchen cupboards or an Owl Crate Warehouse. I know everyone these days wants to be a "social justice warrior " or "part of the morality police" or whatever, but when you're dealing with an author who has Already hit it so big it's really a zero sum game for "protestors ". But I mean if you want to keep your 19.95 or whatever it was, by All means keep it. It's your money. Spend it or don't how you want. I just think people should be a little more realistic. Trust me with all the wands, robes, and other wizard paraphernalia I saw flying off the shelves the last time I was at Universal, JKR is Not missing the 19.95 mug purchase. Welcome to America where capitalism is king and most rich people suck.
@@TheGoofy1932 Okay? Thanks? But I know that JKR is rich and will always be rich because that's how it works when you become as wealthy as she is.
But if you continue to financially support / promote JKR than you need to be okay with the fact that people will feel some type of way about your support for trans people. That's literally all I was saying, but thanks for the irrelevant essay.
@@PinkCatsy Most people who buy HP merchandise though aren't really thinking about what JKR thinks of Transpeople. They're thinking I really want that wizard wand. As I said, I'm a Disney girl at heart and have No HP merchandise, but not because JKR doesn't support the trans community. It's because I don't like HP. If Disney suddenly decided they were going to no longer have Pride Day at the parks I'm still going to spend my money there and go to their parks and buy their merchandise because I like the stuff they sell. Nor do I care what people think about my purchases. It's My money so I'll spend it how I want. I think most people feel this way. Are there a few "social justice warrior types" who will boycott JKR or whomever they don't like this week, sure. And there always will be. But most of us don't purchase fandom type merchandise and worry or really even care about the political or social stances surrounding those items. That's what I was trying to say-that the handful of people who won't buy for that reason are insignificant, in terms of the bottom line.
@@TheGoofy1932 To be honest with you, I don't care. I don't care who you support and I don't care why you support them.
All I'm saying is that if you choose to buy or sell something that can, whether you like it or not, say something about you as a person. And you have to accept that. If you don't care what people think then good for you. It doesn't change what I said.
The fact that you don't care or worry about the political or social stances surrounding them doesn't change the fact that other people do and other people may even judge you for your obliviousness / apathy. That's a choice you made and that's a choice that can have consequences, such as making some people distrust you. If you don't care about that then you don't care about that. I'm not trying to make you care about that. I don't care if you care about that honestly.
Nigel could teach a class in side eye. The way he side eyed you after you put him on the chair and told him to stay there was peak "Who gon' check me, boo?"
literally !!!
I hollered when you were chasing Nigel around the room LOL 😂
This is my daily life 😆
Me too. I was cracking up!
That whole Scholastic situation sounds like the premise of The Inheritance Games lol
THANK YOU!!!!! I knew that story sound familiar and not Knives Out. I just couldn’t remember where I heard that premise before.
Really love how you ended this video! I may have said this on a video already, but - One of my favorite sustainable youtubers always says “we don’t need you to do ALL the good, but we need all the good that you CAN do”. No one can do everything, especially not alone. Take care!!
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I like the new format. If it makes it easier for you too, win-win.
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this is Nigel’s world you’re just living in it
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I love the new format you did in this video and anything that makes filming and editing easier for you is great 💛
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People getting mad when they can get a physical ARC and me happy to get an e-arc because is the only one I can get 😂😂
The things people get mad about
As a huge Pratchett fan who has been so influenced by his works and had to ask off of work because his death hit me so hard, I am enraged and disgusted by the speculation that he would have been transphobic
you going from screaming at nigel for eating your carpet to cooing at his beautiful face 😂love the accurate dog owner representation
You know how much I appreciate the tea 💕 but chasing around Nigel after he steals your giraffe makes this video 🐶🦒
Just wanna say, you're doing wonderful work by compiling all this news (especially for people like me who are soo out of the loop when it comes to book tea) and if it's better/easier for you to do it in this format, then do it this way! It really doesn't change the video much for me
It's bizarre how under the radar the whole Delia Owens saga was this whole time. I had heard about it from a wildlife biology channel, but even then it was really hard to understand from what I was able to find, so I'm really impressed with your research and explanation, Jess!
If I remember correctly, the motive for murder in the novel was that the marsh girl was raped by the town's pretty white boy, so it's not exactly beat for beat, BUT that obviously doesn't alleviate anything Owens did in her real life. Definitely reeks of southern white supremacy/ white saviorism.
omg i thought the "murder" in the title was just a joke.....
Same. Just horrifying
I can't believe I didn't realize Scholastic was independent! definitely hope they stay that way
the ARC thing !!! 🙄 -- (also Margaret whose Twitter you pulled that from is awesome and seeing you reference her tweet was like seeing a friend on TV 😂)
I only just heard about the OwlCrate thing!! it's just really frustrating that people continue to not understand that there is a HUGE difference between continuing to reread your already purchased copies of books that are very important to you...vs. actively promoting with your platform/business/channel/etc.
the Delia Owens thing is WILD. I heard about it maybe a year ago and have talked about it with people but I never had any interest in the book so it didn't come up a lot, but it always felt weird more people weren't bothered by it??? like it won a TON of book prizes.
AHH that's so exciting about Chasing Pacquiao! 🎉
Hope you are feeling better after yesterday and the buckwheat mess! Any way that makes filming and editing easier for you works for all of us! Also wanted to say you looked beautiful with the locks and with out them!
Okay like it's rough to lose someone you love, BUT maybe he just didn't like y'all. Knives Out, anyone? (For the record, I'm not implying the man was killed lol)
I thought of Knive's Out and The Inheritance Games immediately when I heard this story lol.
Was thinking that too.
But also like... the publisher who didn't have ARCs could have just said "we don't have any left, we'll put you on the waiting list" instead of pointing the finger at Black reviewers! they clearly wanted the ally cookies. :(
Ohh this is such a good point
the way I HOLLERED when you said "you know what racism is? NOT THIS BITCH!" lmfaooooo! 😂😭😭
the Scholastic sucession thing is giving me major Knives Out vibes
i had the same thought
Someone else said this ! Now in need to watch the movie 👀
"you get priority for everything anyways!"
LOL yesss.
Worked very well for me! The info is always more important than the presentation, and the screen today wasn't even messy!! But this was great for me to clean my home to :) Thanks Jess!
I knew Delia Owens was sus!!! I had the misfortune to read Where the Crawdads Sing and besides a meh plot and awful murder "mystery," her black characters are shells of stereotypes. I dumped that book as soon as possible so I can't pull up examples but please don't put yourself thru it
Right I read that and was shocked and how people were ignoring the blatant stereotypes of black ppl. They were literally only there to prop up the white mc and take care of her
I think it was one of the best books I've ever read; disturbing yes. I kept putting it down when I got weirded out, but I kept being sucked back in. I just had to know what happened. When I'd finished it, I was like, " wow, that was something special." Everyone in the story was a sterotype of Southern people; not just the blacks.
@@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 do u think I’m gonna trust the opinion of someone who says “the blacks” on whether or not a book is racist…. 🙄🙄 Keep the dumb comment to yourself next time .
I loved the sass Nigel was serving in this video!
I also hope that your mental health gives you a moment to breath. Mine has been spiraling lately too so it’s been important to remember to step back and breath.
On a final note, your mans ink is KILLER. I’m working on my sleeve right now and have a chest piece so I love to see different art work and styles.
I’ll tell him, bc he is very proud of it 😂
I love this style- I normally listen to your videos like a podcast anyway and this style helped me sort out my wardrobe while listening on my phone. so thank you so much Jess. Saved me all the scrolling on Twitter as well xx
The scholastic situation could be like a Knives Out situation. I mean, either he’s a jerk or there’s a reason his family didn’t get his stuff. Also, I wonder if they never had any interest in the publishing industry and he wanted to make sure someone who does gets the business.
I love this set up! We're here for you and Nigel and all the info you bring us, so whatever set up is easiest for you is cool for us. Hope you escape into a happy book this weekend~
This format was spot on, loved it
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I grew up with reading Rainbow and Next Gen. Lavar Burton should be the host of Jeopardy for sure.
Jess, you are a star! Nigel loses his little dog mind and you never lose your train of thought. Any way you want to put out content works for me. Honestly, I don’t care where the light is coming from or anything else. You work so hard to bring us all the bookish tea and that’s why I’m here. (As a side note, you are SO right about “The Martian.” Right there with you. I know you mentioned it in another video but I failed to comment there.)
Not me just finishing Crawdad 2 days ago and loving it 😐🤨
Same girl, this story is so crazy
Jess did a whole book report on murder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to give us tea
I usually listen as I work, so I appreciate you reading things and the podcast style works for me 😁
That Delia Owen's ex-husband stuff maybe the most terrible thing I've heard on this channel. Intense. Like First 48 vibes 😳 --- side note: great arrangement
the new format works well! honestly i didn't really notice much of a difference really (might be because i'm part of the "mostly listening to the video" gang) so if this is easier for you editing/etc wise then sounds like a good change!!
This was great. I actually laughed out loud when she told her husband to get his arms out her camera 😅 Whatever format works best for Jess to keep giving us the Tea works for me too 💜
Listening in my car. Pulled up to the panera drive thru window right as you said to Nigel "Your butt stinks sir!" 😆😬
Omg Jess! "the devil is busy" 😂I love this set up, Nigel is as always causing chaos and I love it ❤️
1h of you & nigel is giving me life💛💛
“Nigel, your butt stinks!” Every dog owner ever 💀
I’m a smidge late but just wanted to say I seriously appreciate you covering book news. I never interact with this outside of your channel and always enjoy the escape from “hard news”. And in terms of format do what’s best for you honestly just here for your personality. ☺️☺️
The Delia Owens story made me say bitch what the fuck out loud 😰😰😰😰
It’s .. quite a story 🥴
Thank you so much!!!
I enjoyed the tea but I also LOVED the new format of starting and ending on a positive note.
The on camera struggles with Nigel were cherry on this cake. 😁♥️
Ooooh Sholastic drama is juicy af. Scholastic book fairs and the subscription booklet they gave us in school was always such a special treat when my parents could afford it. Hope it all works out!
Hi Nigel! ( and Jess).
I am dying with the giraffes. I have stuffed animals from childhood that I still love and are hidden away so my pooch doesn’t destroy them. All her toys are stuffed animals too, so she assumes mine are hers. NOPE!
I'm here for the puppy struggle! BTW, Shaun's RUclips (he just goes by Shaun, I know) has a brilliant takedown of the Terry Pratchett debate. He points out the entire premise of one of Pratchett's book is about gender identity and accepting people pronouns. The transphobes are always stretching.
Wow. I read that Delia Owens book a couple years back, and I mostly liked it, but kind of hated the ending. Spoiler: my hating the ending is a bit appropriate in retrospect now that I know the rest of this story. I will have to share these articles with my mom because we read it together and holy shit. Ughh, peak colonialism even down to the obsession with “nature” over humans, like we aren’t fucking part of nature or something 🙄
If I didnt even know my dad was close to her much less dating her, then I'd sit in my lane because I clearly didnt pay enough attention to him, about the scholastic mess
idk why people still buy book boxes they’re mostly just junk and clutter
Exactly ! I like special edition books, but you can keep the rest
If you put owlcrate or any other bookbox name in search engines of depop and vinted, everyone just sells the merch for more than what they spent on it. Most times its before they've even received the book box in the mail.
I love this format. It feels conversational, and your personality really shines. Take care of yourself and thanks for making these xx
I am living for the chaotic energy in this video. Nigel is running your house like my dogs run mine. 😂
He is in charge of my life 😂
So glad you are listening to The Read!! I found Kid Fury back in his RUclips days. You are going to have such a good time with their catalog too.
Omggg Kid Fury had a RUclips !? I never knew !
I’m loving this format of screen sharing.
I’m here for both: editing and screen sharing.
Screen sharing especially for big news weeks.
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This format was great! I love your Book Communitea series. Your personality and relatability (and Nigel cameos) make my day, even when the bookish news is eye roll-worthy. ❤️
I think that I have seen the arc situation via Twitter as well. My god, didn't know that the person would be selling ARC's.
Honestly I have been waiting for this video for a while because I am on bookstagram and so many tea happened in the last few weeks lmao. Thanks to the quality content as always
An hour? What have I done to be so blest
Caramel joint with the whip is a mood
"You don't get Mommy's giraffe no sir"
The way Black people talk to their pets>>>>
My aunt talks to her dog the same way 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 he is very lucky he didn’t get all the way cussed out
I'd like to ask for a new quote for your merch! "The devil is busy, these demons got too much time on their hands," Book CommuniTEA 8:21. 😂 Honestly, people are so desperate to be right that they'll prop up a dead man and put their words in his mouth. I enjoyed the video format and if it saves you time in editing, it's a win-win! 🙌
I have a french bulldog and she eats rugs too! She's just an absolute menace who is lucky she's cute. Her and Nigel together would be chaos lol.
They really only have their cuteness going for them bc they’re truly demons 😂
Honestly it makes sense to me that if an author belongs to an underrepresented group that you would send out arcs to those who identify. Like they’re not just sending out free books they’re sending out books to readers to read and promote, but ALSO to make sure that things like…geez I don’t know: *representation* have been done correctly and worded right.
I just don’t understand how she 1) didn’t understand that and 2) thought that the publisher would agree to give her an ARC if she blasted them on social media like that.
I love the starting with good news and ending with good news to bookend the video.
Your pup brings me so much joy.
Came here for the OwlCrate tea, I am a subscriber of the box and I felt sad about the decisions not to sell any merchandise from HP anymore, although I understand the reasons and how JK Rowling had hurt people with some comments I was sad mostly also for the artists. A big hello from Puerto Rico. First time watching your videos so I’m a new subscriber 😉
The style was great! And if it’s easier, even better!!
This format works great for me I’m glad you found a way to make it easier on you and Nigel lol (I can tell he works very hard as well). Take care of yourself! Thanks for this hour long TEA!!!!
I really loved your setup for this video! I loved seeing your bookshelves and the way you put things on screen. Also, glad it saves you time!
I love you & this format! The reality of bringing us all the tea! You are awesome! 💜🙌🏾💜
Love the new format :) it’s been a tough time all around, I hope everyone is being kind to themselves and taking the time to process all that’s been happening. It’s tough living in ‘interesting times’ ✨💜🌸☮️🐸
"YES, BITCH, YOU GET PRIORITY FOR EVERYTHING!" just slayed me. it's true, though. like, the sheer entitlement. i'm white and it's like, jfc your world will not end if you don't get an ARC copy of this book. you've probably gotten SEVERAL copies of ARCs that BIPOC reviewers didn't or wouldn't have gotten. just sit down and have a juice box or something, you big baby.
An hour?! What kind of shit storm did people create this time???
omg nigel is such an agent of chaos in this video~ i'm kinda glad to know i'm not alone in being a dog mom with a chaotic dog child 😂😂 i've had to take away all of her plush toys because she gets soooo toy aggressive with plushies.
This editing style was totally fine, so if it's easier for you Jess you should definitely continue doing it this way!
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 the ARC screenshot story. I agree with you. If you want to read a book by an under represented marginalized author and you aren’t in that group, support that author and buy it when it comes out and let reviewers apart of that group review it first.
😂🤣 I feel the same about my giraffes 🦒! You chasing Nigel was hilarious 😆
I know I'm so late to party on this vid but I wanted to give feedback because I love the format/editing so much. I watch a lot of academic lectures and this vid 100% feels like one! Really fun, super informative, and your personality and candor really shines through. Idk if you'll read this but I wanted to recco something another youtuber does, Nisipisa. She screen records and then will bring up the preview of her webcam when she wants her face in the video. And it looks so cool when she does it, the preview looks like a frame, really fun. But then she doesn't have to edit a video in to a video, the webcam preview is in the screen recording. Brilliant, amazing, yall tubers are incredible. Love the new format, love watching you shout at Nigel, thank you for all your hard work, you're a joy
Thank you !
Right after Nigel went full chaos RUclips cut to an ad for Caesar Milan’s Better Dog show. Lol. Perfect advertising 😂
This format works great Jess, really enjoyed the episode 👍
Conservation is such a complicated topic because it's not just a one stroke solution like so many people seem to think. You have to work with the people living in a place that you are trying to do conservation work, as well as with the environment to come up with a plan that is detailed to what the people and the area needs. These Owens people don't sound like they were doing that. While bringing attention can help in cases if the powerful people don't care, the better way to try to go about it is going to the government and trying to work out solutions that can protect the wild animals as well as the cattle, which the people and the country depended on at the time (or still depend on? I don't know that much about Botswana's economy & exports today).
Like, you can't go to an island where the peoples main diet and work is seafood and say "stop fishing, cuz conservation", because then they lose their primary way to make a living and force them to pay a ton of money, that they now don't have because they don't have work, for what will probably be mostly imported foods. You have to work with them in supporting them, as well as looking at and trying to solve local and global issues with fisheries. This same example of fisheries even applies to certain regions of the US, so you can't even just go by country, you have to go by region and environment and the locals living in that region.
These are the highlight of my week rn!! Thank you for making them! I hope the new method works and is helpful!
The new format works well. And if it makes things easier on you, I support it.
I love your last comment because it's 100% true. Social media burnout is real and many times, it's not good for you. The algorithms are against you on ALL social media platforms.
I help my local community in many ways and that's where you should start if you can't afford to donate money. Instead, donate your time and your compassion in small ways, then build up to bigger projects. I know at times you might feel like you're not doing enough (I've felt that many times), but small, successful steps are way more important than giant leaps that can lead to harm down the road. Everyone can make a difference.
I think this format worked really really well!