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Reading amy's stories feels like following google maps and then somehow still ending up in the middle of nowhere

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Some days you're healing, some days you're feeling. Some days you're thriving, some days you're surviving. All are valid. Give yourself grace.

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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They’re releasing the Wicked original book with a movie tie-in cover, thus guaranteeing another generation of middle school girls and gays will unsuspectingly pick up what they think is a novelized version of the musical and get instead lesbian sex, politics, and animal orgies.

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WTC deserved four seasons instead of SCN

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sotcn is getting four seasons bc the story is so garbage it needs another season to regain its balance and have the plot actually make sense, not bc it's better and more popular than other books

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Can't believe I'm gonna say this, but as a fantasy fan I, among others, agree that the amount of super natural stories we've been getting lately is getting too much. After TTS and SC, I feel like they all are starting to blend in together and I can't nor am I interested much to keep up with them.

-But what about the fact that all every day stories flop?

First of all, which authors did mostly write them? Anastasia and Amy. Sorry but these are not very skilled authors to begin with, in my opinion. Ironically enough, Choices has proven that you can write every day stories without supernatural elements and make them good. For example Open Heart (medical drama like House), Queen B (college drama with smart lines) Royal match (self explanatory) etc etc. Of course slice of life is going to flop when you have Anastasia basing her stories very heavily on her characters being miserable without adding anything else interesting.

To add on that, a non supernatural story doesn't necessarily have to be about slice of life. You have other genres like sci fi, history, war or strategy, dystopia, detective mystery etc etc that out of the 45 stories, are non existent or very under-represented.

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9 years later and josh/sam are still THE couple of until dawn. i love it here

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cw for remaster spoilers here but i love the way sam’s new ending for the epilogue is obviously meant to parallel josh at his worst. showing that they are like two sides of the same coin, (also let me be a little bit giddy about the fact it’s only sam and josh specifically who have new endings - jossam you will always be the best characters) they are like ying and yang and clearly need one another to try and balance out, like scales, they rely on one another and seek comfort in each other. a connection. pieces of the puzzle that fit perfectly together. without the other they’re lost.

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“they’re so sibling coded” i don’t know what game you played buddy!

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“they’re so sibling coded!” okay guys are you asking your siblings if they need help getting into the bath raise your hands

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love realising upon my hundredth until dawn rewatch that there is no "subtext" between jossam, it's literally just text. it is plain text. it is in your face about it. there are so many parallels between jossam and chris/ashley that it's ridiculous, they're quite literally knocking you over the head with it. sam's "they are very sweet together, i just wish they'd get on with it already" and josh's "they need a traumatic event to send them into each other's arms" is so obviously meant to mirror josh and sam, it's not just about chris and ashley. it's so clear to me that they're also talking about themselves, josh and sam aren't really aware of this - but the game is, the writing is. even down to the way they close others off from trying to weasel their way in their heads (i'll be your mirror).

josh says, "you notice how i gave chris and ash a mission together? i was thinking they could use some alone time." while josh and sam are the ones alone together is not lost on me, and of course when josh brings up the fact that sam came back to the lodge, this is their alone moment (of course, before everything else he's got planned) but he needed his moment to talk to her like that, one on one, to specifically thank her. the game is quite literally rubbing it in your face that these two have something together. hence "i thought we had a connection" at the very end of it all.

jossam is canon and the game says so too thank you & goodnight!

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Yearly Reminder that C.S Lewis encouraged his fans to write fanfiction about Susan Pevensie becoming a friend to Narnia and reuniting with her family once again.

Literally inviting his fans to write Susan’s adult, angsty character development with a happy ending.

Do your duty fans. Write that fanfiction.

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At intermission for the outsiders musical and omfg these youths next to me so t fucking shut up. Also everyone around me was on their phones during act 1. It’s bad. Like this why people can’t stand going to shows/movies anymore.

Otherwise the show is so good!

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This is a story and stories have arcs. Characters are a certain way in the start, experience things, learn from those things and often change - for the better or for worse. There is often foreshadowing which hints at where a certain arc is leading us.

Christian is already getting into deals with Devi, is most probably sincere about them and it is pretty clearly leading to him eventually turning into a traitor among the Britishers and helping out Devi, whether or not she is romancing him. Having this mole on our side while also being wary of any possible betrayals, definitely betraying him several times and all else this path can entail is pretty intriguing to me and I suspect would be pretty fun.

What is fun in stories if we are not going to discuss and dissect all the elements going on in them that suit our tastes.

This is not a battle of the virtuous. The most moral character might be Ram, or if we are being honest, Ratan but romancing Christian in no way implies that Christian is a better person or a better partner, it simply means I find his path to be more intriguing and want to explore that. It is normal and fun to hate certain characters including Christian! It just gets insufferable and weird when you start targetting actual real people just for their choices in a story and start calling them names instead of just creating an anti-Christian post. Say whatever you want about fictional characters, just don't make the fandom toxic.

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Damn some of you guys really remind me of Baptist women clutching their pearls during the satanic panic