#realist review

[portalmonsterrr]

after the interdarshan championship

a little WIP because im having a bit of a bad day I just couldnt resist drawing pleading eyes emoji kaveh with those desert foxes

#genshin impact #this is haikaveh trust me it WILL be #kaveh #the references for these foxes accidentally were the lions from the lion king remake #i was watching a 2 hour 40 review of how it sucked and i was drawing them like #damn man i wish there was a way to make them both realistic and expressive #anyways fuck that movie #maybe some of yall know what video im talking about

[claudtrait]

cute lil sim i made earlier

#i just know she be saying the most realist shit ever #also she might have a vlogging channel where she does like book reviews and grwm’s #HELSJFJKDG #ts4 #simblr #sims 4 #sims #the sims 4 #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 screenshots #sims 4 cas #ts4 cas #my sims

[skellebonez]

"The story is bad because not everything was fully explained."

Sometimes. Stories are better if you don't answer every question because thinking about what it could mean afterward is half the fun.

Yeah, it's bad when something like a mystery doesn't explain key elements. But if you're looking at like... a Lovecraftian inspired story and going "but it didn't explain everything"?

You have severely misunderstood half the appeal of the genre you are looking at.

#bonezrattling #inspired by me looking at reviews for a horror game to see if its for me #only to read a review by someone who wanted EDLRITCH ABOMINATIONS to have a realistic explanation

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality #i do think that some christian publishers are getting better #and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues #instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests #but i'm not sure *how much* better #because anything above the low bar feels like great literature #the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem #and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept #i have some issues with the history and the mystery #but the characters! #it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book #several chapters of solid waterworks #(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived) #i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards? #(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic) #but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault #here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just #'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?' #are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships! #your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre #i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now

[sprout-fics]

It’s such an experience to be learning about modern warfare tactics in my degree while also involved in a fandom that is deeply involved within the same topic, just within a fictional setting. I’m sitting here reading about modern military nuclear integration and there’s a part of my brain that’s like ‘I wonder how I can translate some of these lessons into a fictional context’

#cross analyzing the similarities and differences between nukes used in the OG cod mw series #and comparing it to briefs within the annual nuclear posture review #I’m in love with this #it’s so fascinating #and makes my writing so much more engaging and realistic bc these are genuine issues facing our modern military

[go-see-a-starwar]

Today’s installment of “I watch Hayden Christensen’s filmography and tell you how pretty he is in it” is Awake (2007).

Hayden is Clay Beresford Jr, heir to a billion dollar fortune who’s struggling to escape the shadow of his deceased businessman father. His heart is torn between his loving but overprotective mother and his beautiful girlfriend Sam, who he’s scared his mother will not approve of. Oh and that heart? It’s weak and he needs a transplant. But when the anesthesia for his heart surgery fails to fully put him under he discovers a sinister plot.

How pretty is he in it?

Ridiculously gorgeous, a damn dream. None of those billionaire romance books on Kindle Unlimited can compare.

Does he get drenched at some point? A classic Hayden in a Tub scene happens in the first five minutes and what a drenching it is. 4💦 out of 5

How’s the movie itself: If you have any familiarity with hospitals and cardiology, the medical scenes will likely make you go “wow that’s not how it works at all.” But if you can manage to suspend your disbelief regarding the medical stuff and focus on the suspense and drama of the plot it’s a decent psychological thriller. It’s also very beautifully shot with a ridiculously good-looking cast.

Is the RottenTomato rating unfairly low?: it’s sits at 23% and I feel it should be at least double that, it has a solid cast that give good performances all around and a very intriguing premise.

Surprise Star Wars!: Hayden playing a character with mommy issues and having a secret, somewhat forbidden love affair is a little familiar. A more tangible Star Wars tie is Awake writer and director Joby Harold would go on to be a head writer for the Obi Wan Kenobi series, aka Hayden’s triumphant return to Star Wars (Hayden thanked Joby specifically in his Saturn award acceptance speech).

In Short: The fascinating (if not entirely plausible) premise and overall beautiful look (and cast) makes this one of Hayden’s better films. And if nothing else it contains great inspo for your modern AU Anakin/Star Wars fics. (also has a couple adorable Hayden bloopers)

#hayden christensen #clay beresford #jessica alba #awake (2007) #awake #while the medical plots not realistic there is some medical ickiness so TW for the squeamish #gsasw reviews hayden movies #not sw

[the-ratmans-shiny-rock]

It's ok if you didn't enjoy the sun and the star. I enjoyed it but not everyone has to like everything.

HOWEVER, you not enjoying a peice of media or how it was written does not make it bad. Tsats is not badly written because you didn't like it.

#im not saying its without its flaws but that dosent make it bad #tsats is not bad #tsats rant #tsats #the sun and the star #nico di angelo #pjo #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #solangelo #will solace #percy jackon and the olympians #booktok #booknerd #book recommendations #book review #book blog #books and reading #its the most realistic depiction of a teenage romance we've seen in a riordan book #im so normal about this book #books #annabeth chase #percybeth #percabeth #nico di angelo x will solace #heroes of olympus #rick riordan

[vibinwiththefrogs]

2023 Language Stats

This year I logged: 355 hours and 58 minutes!!! New record!

It was a lot more than 2022, which was 267 hours and 10 minutes. This doesn't include listening to music, its mostly active listening and practice (reading, writing, speaking). Here's the distribution by month:

Here's a heat map for the year, hottest in June because I traveled to Japan. I found myself unsure of how much I was using the language so I logged 3 hours for every day I was there since I was out and about all day, reading signs and ordering food and such:

I did use Polylogger this year to log stats but on the desktop version it doesn't make a stats page for all languages, so I don't really have a nice graph (unless I make one). For 2024 I plan on using Lingotrack as my main tracker.

Books/comics read: 돌이킬 수 없는 약속 (2nd novel ever finished in Korean!!), コンビニ人間, most of 地球生人, ~50 chapters One Piece (Japanese, actively reading), 전지적 독자 시점 (~8 chapters, actively reading)

Series watched (no English subs): 그 해 우리는, 今際の国のアリス, Mob Psycho 100 S2 & S3 (Japanese), かぐや様は告らせたい S2 & S3, ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！, 映像研には手を出すな！, 逃げるのは恥だが役に立つ, 推しの子, Ao Oni playthrough on YouTube (Korean), 김비서가 왜 그럴까?, 7 episodes Ministerio Del Tiempo, 9 episodes 커피 프린스 (actively watching), 3 episodes No Activity (Japanese, currently watching)

I'm kind of shocked at how many series I watched. This year college was really intense so I found myself opting for listening practice rather than reading because it felt less demanding. In the past 2 months to make up for it I started reading manga/webtoons instead of books.

I also dabbled in Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, and Russian this year, but I don't think I put in more than 10 hours for any of them.

In a few days I'll post 2024 goals~

#I don't see myself studying much more before the end of the year so gonna post this now #I probably have a lot more hours if I logged passive listening #But I like to be realistic and only log what feels like active practice #langblr #Japanese langblr #Korean langblr #If anyone wants a review of any of those series listed I can tell you how it was #2023 in review

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Grimoire of Grave Fates

YA fantasy anthology of interconnected short stories

follows 18 students at a magic school, in the aftermath of the murder of a hated professor

as they all investigate or accidentally discover different clues to what’s going on

all sorts of interesting magic including necromancy, smoke, embroidery, song, dance, magical creatures

diverse cast of queer, trans, bipoc, & disabled characters

#The Grimoire of Grave Fates #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i enjoyed this a lot! #i could have used a list of all the characters to remind myself (which I guess is probably the chapter list…i listened to the audio tho) #I think a lot of reviews of people disappointed w the wider plot are like. treating it like any other book rather than an anthology #it is def a little repetative #I think: go into it thinking of it as a bunch of character studies set in the same place with a background mystery? #I mean. I enjoyed it a lot more than i enjoy normal anthologies so #i’ve seen a lot of ppl saying this reads as younger YA..imo it reads as exactly what YA should be (it’s just: so much YA trends older) #I like that it’s like. the school is so progressive and inclusive! #but most of the marginalised students are like……..there’s still plenty of inaccessibility and bigotry actually lmao #realistic #the secret element in the last story kinda felt like it came out of nowhere and i def think it ends pretty abruptly #also. the school nurse is a reanimated skeleton who loves bone puns

[eerna]

reading some reviews and I wanna kiss Tazmuir on the mouth for being the exact opposite of 90% of pop culture right now by making every one of her books completely unpredictable and non-formulaic to the point where a lot of people can’t even read more than one of them because the rest is so different

#i think this is the first time that the hater portion of the internet is completely understandable to me. i understand why they dont like #these books because they ARE a pretty wild shot in the dark and if it lands then great but realistically most people won't like them #''once gideon is no longer the main character the series falls apart because it was relying on her charm'' to YOU. i love gideon as much as #the next girl but to me these books are about a bunch of girls who have messed up relationships with one another that include love #and them doing gradually worse things for that love #gideon harrow and nona are all my beloved girls and i vnever felt disinterest in ANY of their povs sorry not sorry #tlt liveblog #so many disliking reviews of harrow are that it's incomprehensible and im like. yes that's why it's y fav of them. #the moment i started understanding that book will live in my brain FOREVER it was SUCH a good experience. and every time i read it #i understand even more!!! bro!!!!!!! it's SO GOOD but i understand why people might not have fun with it

[songsintheattic]

emboldened by the knowledge that you can, in fact, independently submit research to journals; perhaps i will get started on my little project after all

#though realistically the literature review part could take me like 2 years we'll see lol #m

[unrestrainedbalderdash]

#steam in review #kind of love how we've got the arkham trilogy at the top but then arkham origins gets beaten by ebf #if steam in review counted days a bit later ftl would've shot up on some of these stats #imagine arkham and ebf crossover. i kind of need it now #i've already drawn anna with poison ivy #could think about comparing batman's obsession with protecting gotham and pushing his allies away with lance's war crimes #out of fear of the monolith (but he also is a shitty person) #but also it would be really funny since arkham is gritty and 'realistic' but then we have these cartoon characters #also imagine batman doing a stealthy predator mission then nolegs uses his limit break and summons godcat #matt and nolegs are criminals. imagine if nolegs teamed up with catwoman. imagine matt accidentally becoming a rogue #imagine these goofy goobers in gotham city #imagine matt endlessly complaining about all the puzzles riddler leaves while natalie tries to solve them

[enfinizatics]

finished another queer book written by a queer poc!! it was an absolutely delightful read and it gave me so much hope and closure and god, why didn’t i read it sooner!!!

#didn’t give 5 stars only bc i don’t really like 1st person pov but tbh it was really well written!! #i love how realistic it was #with the fandom stuff #and internet best friends #and queer community #i loooooooved it #if you still recognise me #cynthia so #book review #bookblr #queer #queer books #queer book #lgbtq community #lgbt #gay books #lgbt books #wlw books #moira reads

[imrryr]

people gotta stop reviewing games like this, i can’t afford to keep buying shit out of spite!

#fueled by spite #this is a review for roadwarden btw #a game where you apparently fight monsters #but it's not realistic!!! #o:

[childofaura]

Between HAKO (Base), Kusakihara Toshiyuki (Brave) and Niji Hayashi (Summer but cheerleader unit), who was the best artist for Marianne?

I think I have to give this one to Kusakihara Toshiyuki:

I remember when that one anon wanted me to roast Kusakihara after my Ryoma Kitada rant, but it bears repeating that Kusakihara’s art is so damn good and deserves no roasting; they made Marianne look absolutely beautiful. The outfit design with all the details, the lighting and shading (especially in the crit portrait where it gets dramatic and features Maurice), the slight muscle tone they added to Marianne. Don’t get me wrong, I love Niji Hayashi too, but B!Marianne was lovely. I don’t know where Kusakihara has gone but I really want them back. I’d have preferred to see how they would have tackled designing the Book 7 characters over Yoshiku.

#Fire Emblem Heroes #FEH #ask game #Someone mentioned it on my original art review and I thought it was a good point #That when Toshiyuki draws big chested characters the breasts are drawn realistically; they sag instead of looking like balloons #And I honestly liked their artwork because they treated the subjects they were drawing right in-character #Rinkah wasn’t in any suggestive out-of-character poses #Loki was well drawn and had some fun expressions #Though Noire absolutely was a mess I’ll admit that

[fefairys]

being a fat streamer or youtuber or like.. idk basically any internet Personality must be so hard because ppl r always drawing u as a skinny little cartoon sona :/ like its bad enough when ppl draw fat fictional characters as skinny but when its a real person its like jesus.

#not even just ppl who draw skinny cartoon or anime versions of ppl but also like #thinking about that poster quinton reviews is in and they fuckin made him thin 😭& that was like a more realistic style #and they obviously used references. so what happened #like come on #i feel like ppl shy away from drawing ppl as fat bc they think its unflattering or offensive #theyre like 'ill make u look better :)' and that means skinny. lol. so fucked #fatphobia