#hated it

[bluebeewings]

I’m collecting Nicholas Braun’s prophetic tomgreg moments in his other movies like infinity stones

#the first one got me good #like huh???? #husband falls in love with his wife cousin #you’re the cousin nick #i think everyone knows about gay ass greg #the first movie is prom #hated it #second is date and switch #succession #greg hirsch #tom wambsgans #tomgreg #tomgreg prophecy #cinema #mine

[mxtxfanatic]

Book of the Week: Married Thrice to Salted Fish

Author: Bikabi (比卡比)

Genre: transmigration, ancient setting, danmei

Rating: M (for fade-to-black sexy times)

My Synopsis: Are you ready to cry your eyes out over a plot point you can guess from the literal title? Well grab your tissues and step right up to meet our main character: Lin Qingyu, a man who thinks the worst thing that can happen to him is being forced to marry a terminally ill young master who claims to be from another world and also to have the ability to be reborn into different people. Journey with him as he wades through court and courtyard politics, wielding his genius in medicine in order to protect himself from remaining a pawn of the royal family—and struggles with the practical knowledge that all the power and medical expertise in the world cannot stop death.

My Actual Review: Yes it’s literally in the title and official synopsis that the LI is gonna die a few times. Yes I cried every time, anyways; what of it? The story can be split into two interweaving plots: 1) Lin Qingyu fighting his way into becoming a physician against the interference of multiple royal family members and 2) the main couple falling in love as the LI works in between deaths to help Lin Qingyu achieve his dream instead of meeting his end as some book’s minor cannon fodder villain. This feels like a lot, but it works really well because Lin Qingyu, who the story focal point sticks with, still has things to do while the LI is… indisposed, so to speak. He’s not just waiting around for the LI to be reborn, and the story doesn’t stop or skip around to the LI’s return since the romance is not the only story focus. However, that doesn’t mean that the romance takes a backseat or is unimportant: each death brings the main characters closer as a couple, and each new life gives them new ways to work together as a well-oiled machine—which also makes the deaths hit especially hard despite readers knowing it’s coming.

On another note, this book has a lot of extras, to the point where they almost start to feel like too much of nothing? Especially since it just takes our cast and punts them into the modern world with no rhyme or reason (or sending them back), but they’re cute if you just mentally think of it as a modern au of the main story, for all intents and purposes.

Translation: complete

#human promotes #married thrice to salted fish #lord knows i hate hate HATE crying #and this book had me crying TWICE #HATED it #which is why i am recommending it today #so that others may suffer with me #(it’s real good y’all; trust me)

[lowkeyartdemon]

halloween ends without context.

#halloween #halloween ends #hated it #myart #art #artwork #artist #michael myers

[moonsanoverthinker]

I don’t know what’s worse the usual creepy music or the Mr Bonzo song…

#the song #obviously 100% that was fucking awful #hated it #I mean I loved it because it was awful but also hated it #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol spoilers

[alter-alterego]

Who was that Roy-Jamie fight over Keeley for? Who did the writers think wanted that scene?

After 33 episodes of largely avoiding that tired love triangle/jealous fighting trope, we’re doing it in 34? The final episode?

Jamie was sensitive enough about the video leak to comfort Keeley and then he uses it as some sort of evidence on the “she belongs with me” side? Roy smugly brings up their one-night stand? There can be backsliding on the road to becoming better people, but that whole scene felt more like free falling.

It also really detracted from the lovely and sincere conversation between Jamie and Roy that immediately preceded it.

Thanks, but no thanks. Gonna join the masses is pretending the bar conversation ended with the clinking of bottles.

#hated it #so unnecessary #did people enjoy it? #no one in my (admittedly limited) circle did #even a little #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #jamie tartt #roy kent

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Kiseitai

#card of the day #yugioh #this thing ruined me back on one of the gba yugioh games #hated it #may 27 2023

[soundlessdragon]

New experience unlocked! MRI's suck

#smaller and louder than i was expecting #hated it

[no-where-new-hero]

I need to know more about this attempt at a fourth Emily book

Oh gosh, I really haven’t thought about this for YEARS, this was a product of me being like 15 and naive enough to try and write an Emily x Dean happy ending without realizing that a purely romantic Dean was neither in the spirit of how LMM wrote him nor very interesting.

Basically, I erased a few of the years that passed between Ilse calling off the wedding and Teddy coming back to New Moon, so that the year after Emily and Teddy married, WWI began. Naturally, both Teddy and Perry would have been drafted. I envisioned Ilse moving back to PEI, and she and Emily would do comic and Rilla-ish things for the war effort. Meanwhile, Dean—who of course wouldn’t have been able to fight—comes back as well. He writes a book of pacifist poetry or something not particularly patriotic, which doesn’t endear him any better to the locals. In my teenaged mind, he and Emily would then resurrect something of romance. Whether or not it’s actively something consummated, Emily would have betrayed Teddy in spirit if not in body.

Now, though, if I were to follow this war-themed plot thread, I think I absolutely wouldn’t go that route. I think Emily’s attitude to Dean and to herself would have completely changed as she grew older and seen more of the world. She would understand him better and perhaps pity him just a little—she was so nearly him, losing the love of her life to someone else. I’m not entirely settled about how Dean would react to this change: On the one hand, I’m tempted to think that he would miss not being able to patronize her anymore (I'm sure he would try and it wouldn't work the way it used to). As with many Gothic pairings, their relationship relied on inequality. On the other hand, if underneath his possessive jealousy he really does care genuinely for Emily—which we might infer if only from the final scene when he admits that she can write—they might be able to negotiate a new kind of friendship, where Dean can claim his corner of her life without it being unnecessarily fraught. Even now, I'm not sure how much of this is possible--despite Emily's newfound cynicism, she still seems a bit naive at the end of EQ about what he intends about claiming a corner of her home--but I do believe that her own literary achievements would be able to help her hold her own against him.

In the end, I always intended Teddy and Perry to come home—as much as I enjoy tragedy, I couldn’t sacrifice either in good faith—though I assigned Perry many heroic war wounds. Emily also would have written a Great Canadian Novel based on the war that would have been set up as a counter to Dean's pacifist poems. In some ways their literary output would mark more than anything the divergence in their lives.

Thinking about this now is really interesting though in terms of our previous discussions of Walter in a pairing with Dean! I’m tempted to start writing fanfic scenarios about this instead now.

#i originally wanted to write an Emily bk 4 because i found another fanfic for a bk 4 somewhere on the internet and hated it #HATED IT #i think i was irrationally biased against it because ilse has a child and in no universe did i think that was in character for her #i did not contemplate the implications of a society before widespread birth control where she might not have a choice #it was just like. ilse wouldn’t be the type to become a mother. ergo she wouldn’t be a mother #tbh I almost think she would be the type to get an abortion but that’s another issue #i'm also convinced that the same fic included an endgame for dean with a character from the anne universe #but it wasn't even a more kosher romance like there was still an age gap problem and that was weirder to me without the tenuous excuse #that in emily dean had found something like a soulmate #lmm lockdown #emily of new moon #emily starr #dean priest #teddy kent

[radioactive-earthshine]

And Time Trapper was Superboy Prime all along 🙄🙄🙄

#orla reads losh #hated it #but whatever

[witherfide]

sometimes i wish i was born a little bit earlier so i could really appreciate the classic movies a little more

#watched blade runner #hated it #seedless romance will be the death of me

[kiefbowl]

did GOT even have JonCon in it?? prob not since they cut fAegon, right? damn that sucks…what did they eventually reveal Varys up to? Nothing? Was he just a shifty guy for no reason?

#asoiaf #for context I quit GOT at like season 3 I think #Hated it

[whereforartthoumisthios]

Tagged by the very lovely @cataliinaa, thanks!! I don't really have anything artsy I'm in the middle of currently but:

Here is some Kass I never finished from a while back, and I don't know if I ever will cause her face is hard to do in a realistic style for me LOL

Tagging (with no pressure as always!): @ainulindaelynn @blue-mono @wickedwitchofthewesninski @solareias @aeide @tashabanes @scottysketches

#i think this could be a nice little doodle but as you can see #i did her face #hated it #then erased it lmao #but i kind of like the outline bc you can tell its Kass #anyway lol #tag game #art tag game #artsy #kassandra #ac odyssey #aco #kass #drawing #kassandra drawing

[robinsversion]

Not me just now remembering that i recently bought and read a manga volume just because James somerton recommended the series in a video

#it’s ‘the summer hikaru died’ btw #hated it #thought it was just down to a difference in taste #but now I’m starting to realize that it was so much different than how James portrayed it #not necessarily the plot or main events but more like the pacing and style #he made it seem more like Heartstopper but horror and with a weird conspiracy side plot #if he had portrayed it right I would not have even thought of buying it #I guess that was what $12 down the drain cuz I chose to trust a guy who turned out to be a plagiarist misogynist hack #welp #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #james somerton #why are you booing me i’m right

[nana2009]

ageheightnups ( ///^O^/// )

#homestuck #davekat #karkat vantas #dave strider #ruroekaki #tried out a new type of shading #hated it #will do it again #heheuha #anons that sent me ask im finishing them hope you understand (_ _')

[theshadowrealmitself]

Successfully argued for one my questions on a quiz so now I have a 40% instead of a 20% on it 😭😭😭

#had to show my answer using calculus #hated it #and I’m STILL doing hw #I have 2 hours before I have to turn it in 🥺 #reblog #this is hell

[cappedinamber]

No Hard Feelings (2023)

Directed by Gene Stupnitsky

Cinematography by Eigil Bryld

#hated it #no hard feelings #gene stupnitsky #eigil bryld #2023