Jim Benton’s ability to perfectly encapsulate the experience of being a girl in middle school blows my mind. I genuinely don’t understand how a middle aged man so completely understands how my brain worked at age 13, down to the little things like drawing those cubes in my notes all the time. what a king
Bc they also went to school and were also teens and preteens. Boys have emotions and puberty and anxiety and different experiences too like they are also human. A human experience that can be shared is going to school and feeling weird or left out or confused or like everything is super huge and a big deal. Being a kid doesn't have to be about gender I totally get what you're saying, but I'm trying to explain that boys also went through a lot of the same emotions girls did, but they don't have the same outlet
I met Jim at a con and was telling him how much his works meant to me, he seemed a little distant and writing something, I was SHOCKED when he handed me a drawing of Jamie and signed it. I think he thanked me for being a fan and I like cried on the spot. He’s so sweet. Thanks for making our childhoods :)
@erosefleeting The best thing about that is that you’ll have so much backup stock shampoo! You won’t have to get more for a long time! (Unless you find that zone shampooing actually somehow works)
Ah! You got an interveiw with the author, congrats!!! I think the thing he said about her being "better every 30 days" is really interesting- it seems like he had a focus on wanting to be subversive compared to other books like these for kids at the time- and i think he defintly succeceded. This book set itself apart by sounding so genuine. Like Nikki from dork diaries appeals to a more "girly" fantasy, but Nikki hardely feels like a real girl. Whereas Jamie is defintly some middle-schooler who does get better everyday. And i do think that is reminscent of actual children around that age. They DO get better everyday, they're learning to be okay humans
100% agree! as someone who grew up reading dork diaries nikki wasn’t relatable for me as a character? don’t get me wrong i remember loving those books but jamie feels more human for sure!
had to pause a bit early cuz brb crying at the recognition of how hard it is to get a job right now... my degree is in film, and i had big starry eyed dreams of post-college that sitting here now a year later with no offers or even responses period has been hard to cope with. i haven’t given up but i also have received so much “just try harder” advice from other ppl when im so close to burning out already. so seriously thank you for even validating my experience!! and in a video about my all-time favorite children’s series!! it’s so bad out here :(
i’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this. definitely keep trying! (though i won’t say “try harder” because the problem clearly isn’t that you aren’t trying hard enough) just know you aren’t alone i’ve seen people in many different careers struggling with this as of recently it’s devastating.
This may not be exactly what you want to hear, but doing work as an extra can also be a good segue way. I also know a lot of people who are tour guides at studios and hoping to move up. Maybe these things could bring you luck?
Don't give up on your dreams! But I do encourage you to find a temporary job in the meantime. Don't slack off, even though it's not your final goal - even in the case that it has nothing to do with filmmaking, any job on Earth would be more open to hiring you if they can hear from your previous job that you had good work ethic and a willingness to go the extra mile.
I wanted to say Tysm for releasing so many video essays on niche early 2000’s girlhood shows, books and games. As a early 20’s transfemme who didn’t get to explore my femininity at a young age, watching your videos make me feel like I’m still able to be apart of the zeitgeist that was early 2000’s girlhood. Thank you for helping heal my inner child
THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I SAW THIS WAS POSTED!!! ur dear dumb diary vid is one of my favorite videos ever I watch it all the time and it was my intro to ur channel! (ofc, I watch ur other vids, too! but ddd has a special place in my heart even though I only ever watched the movie growing up.)
The way I lost my shit when you said you got to interview Jim Benton. That’s so amazing and I’m so happy you were able to talk about these books that were so important to a lot of people growing up!!❤❤
The wanting to have glasses is so real. Someone in my 1st grade class got glasses and i thought they were so cool so i wanted them to. Turns out i already needed glasses and i haven’t seen them wear glasses in 11 years.
2:00:22 I remember learning cursive in the 3rd grade, and my Nana as well as a few of my other older relatives wrote in cursive a lot of the time as well. I now use cursive handwriting for my own journal entries. I can still read the postcards, notes, and letters my family had sent me over the years because of said knowledge of cursive.
I absolutelyyy adored this video and the interview with Jim Benton himself was truly great as well!! Hearing two people discuss a series they clearly both have a lot of love for makes it extra special💖💖😭but I feel like I reaaalllyy need to get all the 'dear dumb diary' books to read myself now too haha. Thank you for all the time, effort, love, and care you put into making this video. It really does show💞
i love how jim benson talks about jamie and her as a character with such respect like shes a real little girl. it remembers me on how ursula k le guin would "talk" to her characters to learn more of them
your original dear dumb diary video was one of my favorites of yours, and was the first video i saw of yours!! so i’m so happy for this sequel. umm tell me how i never knew about year 2? i only knew about the first group of books!! i feel like i missed out
I was 7 when the first book came out, but I think I was in 5th grade when I read the first one? And I was OBSESSED. I grew out of it by the end of Year 1 but now I wish I still had them 😭 Kids, keep the books you loved when you were younger! I wish I still had my American Girl books too.
one thing i really appreciate about this series is that a lot of times when adults try to write for kids from the perspective of a kid they fall into the mistake of thinking kids just like and do random things for absolutely no reason. Jim Benton understands kids do the weird random shit they do because they have a thought process that is logical to their kid minds. also on Jim saying some parents complain to him that jamie is a bad role model- i think dear dumb diary is at a reading level where the kids who can read it should be able to learn from the story. Jamie is very flawed but that’s the point, we learn through her thoughts and actions what makes someone a good friend. if a child who can read at that level is taking it at face value it’s an opportunity for them to learn that in art & life the lesson is not spelled out for us, we have to learn from the bad most of the time.
I had always wanted glasses as a kid cuz I just liked how I looked in them I finally got glasses at 16 and I still think I look nice in them. I think they help me pull off a more masc look :3
binge watched your other video on this and this one tonight, love em both!!! The other one you made actually made me remember that I had, in fact, watched the movie and had ready two or three of the books! It was fun to reexplore this series, I wish I knew about it more as a super awkward kid :)
god the dynamics between jamie, isabella and angeline are so compelling. how does a middle-aged man capture tweenage female friendship so well edit: OH MY GOD ANGELINE GETS TO BE FED UP ABOUT EVERYBODY ALWAYS ASSUMING THINGS ABOUT HER. ANGELINE RUDE ERA. LET'S GO GIRLYPOP!!!!
I was like, oh i know of this book series but i don‘t think ive read it at all! but when you started showing parts of the book i remembered EVERY gag and plot point. Wild how the brain works.
I LOVE JIM BENTON, you introduced me to the DDD series cause I was raised as a boy and I never could read girl books, and I adore the series so much, I think I'll get the books and read them all myself, plus Jim himself is such a sweet guy Thanks Lula :>
I remember when the first 2 books from this series came out this is such a nostalgia trip! I somehow had a bunch of the books from a garage sale and managed to get this one by begging my mum to let me get it, and then reading the other at the library. Goated series
i founs you because of your first dear dumb diaries video, and i had been looking for a good dissertation of rhe series for years!! no one had done it and i was SO excited to finally find one! and by an extremely well researched, funny, sweet, and cool creator at that!^_^ i watched athena p for a while beforehand so i think thats why you were recommended, and ive never been happier with the youtube algorithm! thank you for your hard work to cover a book series that defined my childhood❤
i had sort of aged out of these books by the time year two came out so this is the first time i’m hearing about them and holy shit the coffee grounds thing is one of the funniest things ive ever heard from these books
I love your longer videos! I'm so greatfull every time you upload- i'm not sure why but your videos are perfect to draw to. I watch your backlog on repeat :D
I loved dear dumb diary as I kid, I had all the books, and maybe I’m misremembering, but there was like a special edition one that was in full color I think. I remember a lot of the drawings and story from it, and I think the name was something about like “revenge is best served cold”? Does anyone else remember it? 2:10:48 lol never mind just saw that part. Is the video going to stay patreon exclusive or will it be uploaded on the normal channel?
@@chadman9355 I think so? I remember the cover was green, and the story was about them trying to invent stuff I think. I also remember Jamie kept trying to get a nosebleed and I’m pretty sure stinker like died or something
@@sunnfIower 1. Yes the cover was green and had Jamie with an ice cream cone on her head. 2. I remember something about a nosebleed but I don’t remember when in the book it happened. 3. Yes Stinker did die but was saved by the vet I think. 4. Yes there was something about plates and some concoction with salad and soda combined (which sounds fucking disgusting to me), something about Angeline’s dad losing his job.
Ough the first book hits close to home Except math was my best subject and I struggled with language arts. They would put me in the advanced class anyway because of my test scores, but when it came to writing things that were to be graded… I was just, like, paralyzed. I like writing for myself, but something about the prospect of my work being graded makes me completely clam up
14:03 THIS this would happen to me all the time there was like this math prodigy in 5th grade who I asked for help and he literally just told me it was easy 😭 like lol that was so helpful thanks
Dear dumb diary was my favourite book as a kid, I still have all the books to this day and I still live them. I love that people are finally talking about it
rewatching this video: LULA you know the “reverse psychology letter” from emily, that one IS actually from emily!!! she resumes being her dumb self!!!! it’s to hint to the viewers that there’s something up with the letters!
Lmao I remember loving these books, but there was a page describing ballet girls with “horse legs” (which described me exactly as a kid) and it made me so sad
I learned cursive for a bit in third grade but I think they stopped teaching it in the middle of the unit so I didn't learn how to write all of the letters until I taught myself years later. Teachers giving up on teaching us skills seems to have been a trend though because I also didn't get to properly learn how to type and I probably don't know how to actually swim either.
Idk why but the section of her telling us about the worst kind of enemy being one who never does anything wrong made me think of Jaime Lannister, and then my mind spiralled and now I’m picturing an alternate universe fanfic of him in this universe being Jamie, Cersei as Isabella, and brienne as Angeline except super ugly instead of pretty, it makes a lot of sense, Cersei is evil but Jaime sees her as perfect, Jaime initially hates brienne but she’s honestly perfect and never does anything wrong and they become friends, and he’s kinda an ass but not quite evil just like Jamie
I went to Christian school so a lot of the stuff you cover from my childhood I have no idea what you're talking about but I would love to watch it anyway.
As of the latest second yr book, angelines dad loses his job and jamie isabella and Angeline look for ways to make money. No spoilers if you wanna read it urself! Otherwise i can explain how that ends
Jim Benton’s ability to perfectly encapsulate the experience of being a girl in middle school blows my mind. I genuinely don’t understand how a middle aged man so completely understands how my brain worked at age 13, down to the little things like drawing those cubes in my notes all the time. what a king
NO LITERALLY
Bc they also went to school and were also teens and preteens. Boys have emotions and puberty and anxiety and different experiences too like they are also human. A human experience that can be shared is going to school and feeling weird or left out or confused or like everything is super huge and a big deal. Being a kid doesn't have to be about gender I totally get what you're saying, but I'm trying to explain that boys also went through a lot of the same emotions girls did, but they don't have the same outlet
@@Atlasintokyoguy here, we don’t have emotions we just fart and stuff
@Atlasintokyo theres some very specific baby gay experiences in these books lol
“RIP jamie kelly you would’ve loved sniper chess” this made me giggle
58:52
I met Jim at a con and was telling him how much his works meant to me, he seemed a little distant and writing something, I was SHOCKED when he handed me a drawing of Jamie and signed it. I think he thanked me for being a fan and I like cried on the spot. He’s so sweet. Thanks for making our childhoods :)
IM SO SO SO JEALOUS OF YOU😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
just realized jamie x angelina was my first toxic yuri ship…..
Oop
Zone shampooing was the one thing my brain remembered after 13 years since I read the books- I definitely tried with coconut and apple suave shampoo 😭
YES SAME
ok time for me to buy like 7 different shampoos so i can attempt this
@erosefleeting The best thing about that is that you’ll have so much backup stock shampoo! You won’t have to get more for a long time! (Unless you find that zone shampooing actually somehow works)
Ah! You got an interveiw with the author, congrats!!! I think the thing he said about her being "better every 30 days" is really interesting- it seems like he had a focus on wanting to be subversive compared to other books like these for kids at the time- and i think he defintly succeceded. This book set itself apart by sounding so genuine. Like Nikki from dork diaries appeals to a more "girly" fantasy, but Nikki hardely feels like a real girl. Whereas Jamie is defintly some middle-schooler who does get better everyday. And i do think that is reminscent of actual children around that age. They DO get better everyday, they're learning to be okay humans
100% agree! as someone who grew up reading dork diaries nikki wasn’t relatable for me as a character? don’t get me wrong i remember loving those books but jamie feels more human for sure!
Jim Benton got me to try zone shampooing
Same😭
had to pause a bit early cuz brb crying at the recognition of how hard it is to get a job right now... my degree is in film, and i had big starry eyed dreams of post-college that sitting here now a year later with no offers or even responses period has been hard to cope with. i haven’t given up but i also have received so much “just try harder” advice from other ppl when im so close to burning out already. so seriously thank you for even validating my experience!! and in a video about my all-time favorite children’s series!! it’s so bad out here :(
i’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this. definitely keep trying! (though i won’t say “try harder” because the problem clearly isn’t that you aren’t trying hard enough) just know you aren’t alone i’ve seen people in many different careers struggling with this as of recently it’s devastating.
@@lulaloopseythank you!! wishing luck for all of us in this struggle 😌
This may not be exactly what you want to hear, but doing work as an extra can also be a good segue way. I also know a lot of people who are tour guides at studios and hoping to move up. Maybe these things could bring you luck?
Don't give up on your dreams! But I do encourage you to find a temporary job in the meantime. Don't slack off, even though it's not your final goal - even in the case that it has nothing to do with filmmaking, any job on Earth would be more open to hiring you if they can hear from your previous job that you had good work ethic and a willingness to go the extra mile.
Bless Jim Benton for mentioning the toothpaste at the movie joke because to this day I think that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read in a book
I wanted to say Tysm for releasing so many video essays on niche early 2000’s girlhood shows, books and games. As a early 20’s transfemme who didn’t get to explore my femininity at a young age, watching your videos make me feel like I’m still able to be apart of the zeitgeist that was early 2000’s girlhood. Thank you for helping heal my inner child
i’m so glad my content has been healing for you! 🫶
Babe wake up a new lulaoopsey video just dropped 🥸
this is so funny because me and my girlfriend genuinely do tell each other every time she uploads
THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I SAW THIS WAS POSTED!!! ur dear dumb diary vid is one of my favorite videos ever I watch it all the time and it was my intro to ur channel! (ofc, I watch ur other vids, too! but ddd has a special place in my heart even though I only ever watched the movie growing up.)
What Jim Benton saw your last Dear Dumb Diary video Well Congrats to him
gotta say that the loopy letters are 100% the best ones to write in cursive. you were based for that
SEE you get it!
The way I lost my shit when you said you got to interview Jim Benton. That’s so amazing and I’m so happy you were able to talk about these books that were so important to a lot of people growing up!!❤❤
The wanting to have glasses is so real. Someone in my 1st grade class got glasses and i thought they were so cool so i wanted them to. Turns out i already needed glasses and i haven’t seen them wear glasses in 11 years.
This was me! Glasses and braces 😭
@@graceb2957 I GOT BRACES TO!!!
I think it's called nerd chic, right?
2:00:22 I remember learning cursive in the 3rd grade, and my Nana as well as a few of my other older relatives wrote in cursive a lot of the time as well. I now use cursive handwriting for my own journal entries. I can still read the postcards, notes, and letters my family had sent me over the years because of said knowledge of cursive.
I absolutelyyy adored this video and the interview with Jim Benton himself was truly great as well!! Hearing two people discuss a series they clearly both have a lot of love for makes it extra special💖💖😭but I feel like I reaaalllyy need to get all the 'dear dumb diary' books to read myself now too haha.
Thank you for all the time, effort, love, and care you put into making this video. It really does show💞
i appreciate this comment so much!! so glad you’ve enjoyed the series 🫶💕
i love how jim benson talks about jamie and her as a character with such respect like shes a real little girl. it remembers me on how ursula k le guin would "talk" to her characters to learn more of them
your original dear dumb diary video was one of my favorites of yours, and was the first video i saw of yours!! so i’m so happy for this sequel. umm tell me how i never knew about year 2? i only knew about the first group of books!! i feel like i missed out
p.s. i’m also the kind of autistic who is very bad at math and not a genius lol
i did learn cursive when i was younger but i don’t remember a lot of it and am not good at reading it lmao
I was 7 when the first book came out, but I think I was in 5th grade when I read the first one? And I was OBSESSED. I grew out of it by the end of Year 1 but now I wish I still had them 😭 Kids, keep the books you loved when you were younger! I wish I still had my American Girl books too.
PLEASE tell me Junie B. Jones was a part of your childhood too🙏🏽
It was these books and the ones you mentioned. So you're not the only one.
A two and a half hour long video?! I'll clear my schedule.
This is my motivation to get my revision done so I can watch this 😭
YOU GOT THIS! 🙏
@@lulaloopsey tyyy gcse exams are the bane of my existence but it'll be over in a few weeks so I'm glad
one thing i really appreciate about this series is that a lot of times when adults try to write for kids from the perspective of a kid they fall into the mistake of thinking kids just like and do random things for absolutely no reason. Jim Benton understands kids do the weird random shit they do because they have a thought process that is logical to their kid minds.
also on Jim saying some parents complain to him that jamie is a bad role model- i think dear dumb diary is at a reading level where the kids who can read it should be able to learn from the story. Jamie is very flawed but that’s the point, we learn through her thoughts and actions what makes someone a good friend. if a child who can read at that level is taking it at face value it’s an opportunity for them to learn that in art & life the lesson is not spelled out for us, we have to learn from the bad most of the time.
Thank you for giving me future content to watch while working on art!!!
AAAH i love that! the amount of artists who’ve told me they do this makes me so happy
I’m so here for this even tho I haven’t read a single one of these books
I had always wanted glasses as a kid cuz I just liked how I looked in them
I finally got glasses at 16 and I still think I look nice in them. I think they help me pull off a more masc look :3
binge watched your other video on this and this one tonight, love em both!!! The other one you made actually made me remember that I had, in fact, watched the movie and had ready two or three of the books! It was fun to reexplore this series, I wish I knew about it more as a super awkward kid :)
YESS IM SO HAPPY U MADE A PART TWO 😭😭 ive been addicted to ur video essays lately. Im a fangirl atp
god the dynamics between jamie, isabella and angeline are so compelling. how does a middle-aged man capture tweenage female friendship so well
edit: OH MY GOD ANGELINE GETS TO BE FED UP ABOUT EVERYBODY ALWAYS ASSUMING THINGS ABOUT HER. ANGELINE RUDE ERA. LET'S GO GIRLYPOP!!!!
your first dear dumb diary video is one of my comfort youtube vids i am giggling and jumping for joy rn!!
I was like, oh i know of this book series but i don‘t think ive read it at all! but when you started showing parts of the book i remembered EVERY gag and plot point. Wild how the brain works.
I LOVE JIM BENTON, you introduced me to the DDD series cause I was raised as a boy and I never could read girl books, and I adore the series so much, I think I'll get the books and read them all myself, plus Jim himself is such a sweet guy
Thanks Lula :>
your intro is so nostalgic it hurts
Jamie is somehow a better person than I am because if my friend pulled the crap Isabella does I would simply stop being friends with them.
I remember when the first 2 books from this series came out this is such a nostalgia trip! I somehow had a bunch of the books from a garage sale and managed to get this one by begging my mum to let me get it, and then reading the other at the library. Goated series
i founs you because of your first dear dumb diaries video, and i had been looking for a good dissertation of rhe series for years!! no one had done it and i was SO excited to finally find one! and by an extremely well researched, funny, sweet, and cool creator at that!^_^ i watched athena p for a while beforehand so i think thats why you were recommended, and ive never been happier with the youtube algorithm! thank you for your hard work to cover a book series that defined my childhood❤
i had sort of aged out of these books by the time year two came out so this is the first time i’m hearing about them and holy shit the coffee grounds thing is one of the funniest things ive ever heard from these books
Live each day to the dumbest helped me a lot after my grandpa died last summer honestly and for that I'll always appreciate it
I love your longer videos! I'm so greatfull every time you upload- i'm not sure why but your videos are perfect to draw to. I watch your backlog on repeat :D
I went to a Montessori school!!! It rocked ppl don’t talk about them enough
I was in such a bad mood, but seeing that this was posted just made me so happy 😭 I was highly anticipating part 2
All of this was so much fun to go through again! I LOVED that you got to talk to Jim Benton! That's seriously so cool
absolutely loved this one!! you deserve so much hype, your videos hit just the right spot 🫶🫶
PLEASE do a dork diary video!!
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL :3!!
I loveeeeee love love this little series it was so fun to relearn everything I knew from my childhood 🦭 I love your videos so much
I loved dear dumb diary as I kid, I had all the books, and maybe I’m misremembering, but there was like a special edition one that was in full color I think. I remember a lot of the drawings and story from it, and I think the name was something about like “revenge is best served cold”? Does anyone else remember it?
2:10:48 lol never mind just saw that part. Is the video going to stay patreon exclusive or will it be uploaded on the normal channel?
Yes I know what book you’re referring to. The one with the plates, right?
@@chadman9355 I think so? I remember the cover was green, and the story was about them trying to invent stuff I think. I also remember Jamie kept trying to get a nosebleed and I’m pretty sure stinker like died or something
@@sunnfIower
1. Yes the cover was green and had Jamie with an ice cream cone on her head.
2. I remember something about a nosebleed but I don’t remember when in the book it happened.
3. Yes Stinker did die but was saved by the vet I think.
4. Yes there was something about plates and some concoction with salad and soda combined (which sounds fucking disgusting to me), something about Angeline’s dad losing his job.
I’m obsessed with you and your videos 💞💞 I hope you have a wonderful day
Ough the first book hits close to home
Except math was my best subject and I struggled with language arts. They would put me in the advanced class anyway because of my test scores, but when it came to writing things that were to be graded… I was just, like, paralyzed. I like writing for myself, but something about the prospect of my work being graded makes me completely clam up
14:03 THIS this would happen to me all the time there was like this math prodigy in 5th grade who I asked for help and he literally just told me it was easy 😭 like lol that was so helpful thanks
REAL CINEMA IS BACK
I’m so happy you continued this it’s so nostalgic for me I’m so happy I’m not the only one who read these books !!:)
Dear dumb diary was my favourite book as a kid, I still have all the books to this day and I still live them. I love that people are finally talking about it
rewatching this video: LULA you know the “reverse psychology letter” from emily, that one IS actually from emily!!! she resumes being her dumb self!!!! it’s to hint to the viewers that there’s something up with the letters!
Would love to see a magic tree house recap! They have audiobook versions.
i keep rewatching ur dear dumb diary' videos they're my comfort videos fr
Lmao I remember loving these books, but there was a page describing ballet girls with “horse legs” (which described me exactly as a kid) and it made me so sad
we need a dork diaries lulaloopsey video
I just started watching you and I love your videos ❤
great video~ saw the whole thing!
if there's one thing i learned from this. it's that Moshi Monsters had a movie 😂
arguably that’s the most important thing you could’ve learned!
As a '96 baby I had to learn cursive but don't remember having to use it past 5th grade I also add the loopy tails to my y and g print letters!
Jenny Nichols videos that i have already watched that are hours long come up on my auto play daily. This is going to have a very long life
i loveeeed these books so much! got all the nostalgia feels
interview is awesome!!! ❤
I have never clicked on a video so fast in my life!
first of all i LOVED your last dear dumb diary video so I was so excited to see another!! i love your videos
watching these vids reminds me that i am the way i am because of jim benton
So glad we brought up the Angeline obsession feeling a little gay
I’ve also had an IEP my entire school life and I too have a deep hatred for math
they made us learn cursive in like 3rd grade and to this day my regular handwriting has bits and pieces of it lol
11:58 “i don’t have pronouns” always makes me laugh cause it’s just like awee… they’re stupid💕
I still accidentally sprinkle cursive letters in when I'm writing 😅 its funny how many other people do this
I loveeed this series and I had the make it yourself diary, brought it to school and filled it with drawings and stuff with my classmates😅
I hate when people post a part 2 and don't link the part 1 in the description and I have to go search for it
Rip a jamie Kelly you would have loved Chapel Roan
i LOVED the franny k stein books. i work in a bookstore and i never see them in
THE INTERVIEW WAS SO CUTE
the visuals can be insane sometimes
@lulaloopsey You should make a video covering the Aqua Pets toy line or the Zoobles toy line
Dear god I adored this series, I swear, this series, and warrior cats, were the REASON I even read books!!!!!
Jamie's problems being boy crazy she just needs to realize that she's not straight and that obsessing over guys anyways she's like 13 now right
I learned cursive for a bit in third grade but I think they stopped teaching it in the middle of the unit so I didn't learn how to write all of the letters until I taught myself years later. Teachers giving up on teaching us skills seems to have been a trend though because I also didn't get to properly learn how to type and I probably don't know how to actually swim either.
As a late millennial I'm vibing so hard with all of your videos!
I LOVED this movie as a kid
Jim is iconic
WOW I completely forgot this existed! The phrase rings a bell though :D
sometimes i think jim benton understands girlhood better than i, a girl
I would love to see a deep dive or just video on Phoebe and her Unicorn :]
Idk why but the section of her telling us about the worst kind of enemy being one who never does anything wrong made me think of Jaime Lannister, and then my mind spiralled and now I’m picturing an alternate universe fanfic of him in this universe being Jamie, Cersei as Isabella, and brienne as Angeline except super ugly instead of pretty, it makes a lot of sense, Cersei is evil but Jaime sees her as perfect, Jaime initially hates brienne but she’s honestly perfect and never does anything wrong and they become friends, and he’s kinda an ass but not quite evil just like Jamie
Once you said that you're Autistic, I immediately subscribed!!!! I'm Autistic too, and I absolutely enjoyed her books! 😍😍💖
YAYYYY LULALOOPSEY POSTED
I went to Christian school so a lot of the stuff you cover from my childhood I have no idea what you're talking about but I would love to watch it anyway.
Ok on the topic of niche childhood books PLEASE look into Amelia Rules its a kinda wild tween graphic novel and I was obsessed with it
YIPPEE NEW VIDEOO🎉
I FORGOT I LOVED THIS SERIES OMG?!!
I’ve been waiting for this one ☝️
Can someone tell me what happened at the end of the second year books
As of the latest second yr book, angelines dad loses his job and jamie isabella and Angeline look for ways to make money. No spoilers if you wanna read it urself! Otherwise i can explain how that ends
You should watch the movie 😏 The Meatloaf Mystery was such a banger!
i did in the last video