Honestly chapters 7-12 are one of the more doable chunks of that book, so try not to panic. A few of those chapters are super short — 7, 9 and 11 are the little vignette chapters that are only a few pages each (the car salesman, the family selling their stuff, the empty farm). You can knock those out really fast.

What helped me with this book was reading the short chapters quickly and saving my energy for the Joad chapters (8, 10 and 12), because those are the ones your teacher will actually ask about — that’s where Tom reunites with the family and they start heading west.

Also, jot down one line per chapter as you go, like “ch 7: used car salesman rips people off”. It makes it way easier to remember everything the next day than trying to hold it all in your head. And try 25 minutes reading, 5 minutes break — five chapters is very doable in a couple of hours that way.

You’ve got this. And seriously, get some sleep after — being exhausted makes the reading twice as hard.

Congratulations!! First division and off to state is such a huge deal, you should be so proud. Best of luck in Waco, I hope you and the whole band absolutely smash it! What instrument do you play?

Ohh this is gorgeous!! I love the contrast between her dark body and those bright teal markings, they really pop. The glowing stage backdrop is such a perfect touch, it makes her look like she is mid-performance, and her expression has so much attitude. The artist did a wonderful job capturing her. Congratulations on the piece, it is lovely :)

this is so good, i love the pixel-y style! the pose with both hands up looks really confident and fun, and the caption made me giggle lol. keep posting more of your art, your style is so cute

Ooh I love the purple and black colour scheme on him, it really suits a Michael Afton design. The all-black outfit with the purple accents looks properly spooky, nice job!

honestly mine’s gotta be iced green tea. nothing beats it on a hot day, it’s light and kinda bitter in a good way. also a big fan of a good mango smoothie when i want something sweet. water is the sleeper pick though, cant go wrong with it lol

Honestly the downvote button works best when people use it for actual rule-breaking stuff, not personal beef. Getting downvoted over a skin name that had nothing to do with the theme is just petty, I get why it’s annoying. Best move is probably to just not feed into the drama side of it, since reacting is usually exactly what people like that want. If someone keeps targeting you though, I’d send it to the mods instead of trying to handle it in chat, that stuff tends to go sideways fast.

congrats!!! thats genuinely such a good first semester, 3 a’s and 2 b’s (maybe even 4 a’s!!) in senior year is no joke with everything else going on. enjoy the rest of senior year, you totally deserve it <3

Honestly I’d go with whichever song’s melody you enjoy playing the most - you’re going to be practising it a lot, so pick the one that doesn’t get boring for you! You could also try a short section of each one first to see which feels better on piano. Both are great choices though, good luck with the cover :)

another option if you havent tried it yet, this one has a bunch of stylish unicode fonts you can just type, copy and paste straight into chat https://myfancytextgenerator.com been using it for my bio and it works perfectly lol

Just to add some context for anyone curious: those “cool fonts” aren’t actually fonts at all. They’re special Unicode characters that happen to look like styled letters. What most people do is type their normal text into a fancy text generator, which swaps each letter for a matching Unicode symbol (there are whole Unicode blocks for this, like Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols), and then you just copy and paste the result wherever you want it.

That’s why it works in chat, usernames, bios, etc. — it’s all plain text, no font files involved, so it displays anywhere that supports Unicode. One tip: the more extreme styles (glitch/zalgo text and the like) can be really hard to read and sometimes don’t render properly on all devices, so the cleaner styles tend to work best.