#She just flubbed up the words 😭😭😭

[lovely-hikari-cosplay]

BRING MIRAGE BACK RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

[titsthedamnseason]

how did you like misfits like us?? is there anything you didn't like? I've heard so many mixed reactions apparently it's more cringe than the pining/angst

i haven’t seen a lot of reactions so i was wondering what the public has been saying! and if anyone reading this wants to send me their opinions/reactions please do bc i’m super curious

for the most part i would say i liked it. i think writing such an angsty book was out of the norm for kbr (at least since the addicted series) and i really enjoy reading their angst! personally i think slow burn only works for me in certain scenarios and they flubbed it a little imo. i think it narratively would have made more sense for luna and donnelly to enter either a secret relationship or fwb as the plot bc they both knew their feelings were reciprocated and if lo was the only reason stopping them they ended up getting together behind his back anyway so for me the pacing was weird

i also do think the book definitely had some super cringey parts because they go very out of their way to make luna seem quirky and weird and you could tell some parts are forced. like that one time she was talking to jeffra and starting doing a weird dance to deflect was just. strange. no one irl would do that. but for me, it’s fiction so i wasn’t too caught up on it until luna’s reaction. like i assumed she was doing it specifically just to seem so weird and confuse jeffra so she would stop being mean or just show her words didn’t matter - but then right after she was so upset about the reactions that everyone around her had and i was like ???? why did you expect people would think that’s a normal response (i don’t know if i explained this good but i needed to say it!)

i think people that find it too cringe maybe just weren’t expecting luna. i love the girl to death but she’s definitely a weirdo and i went into it kind of knowing that and expecting it. there are definitely some things she does that i just decide to ignore in my brain (even though that’s mean and i’m so sorry!!! i promise she’s my sunshine). i feel like kbr make me feel bad for erasing parts of luna bc it’s partly the things all her haters make fun of her for but i think so much of it is kbr writing her unrealistically. like, i mean this in the nicest way possible, but i’m really not sure anyone exists that acts the way luna does sometimes. please if anyone knows a person like this tell me and i’ll stop being mean 😭

anyway this might sound backwards but i actually think i’ll know better whether i like it after reading the next book. when i heard book one would be a slow burn i was both disappointed because i wanted lunnelly content and excited because mutual pining is delicious. i was a little nervous they were going to really drag out the lo situation but then i was really pleased with how it unfolded and sorted itself out by the end. by the end of the book i was pretty satisfied thinking we were going to see them together only for them to really go out of their way and make up another reason they can’t be together which was really a stretch imo. i think if they really aren’t going to be together and the whole next book is going to be more of the same pining where they know the other person is in love with them it just won’t make sense and will be a struggle to read

it’s complicated because they do get criticized (including by myself) for having repetitive plots and now that they’ve changed it up its not being received well. because honestly, if they weren’t going to make book 2 about donnelly’s family preventing them from being together they would likely fall back on the same drama again of the couple going public and dealing with fallout or some sort of media drama. so it’s nice to see a change in that regard for sure i just think that the pacing could definitely be improved. like a book 2 secret dating plot would be way better than a book 2 mutual pining plot because we’ve already been there done that. but again, i only have the knowledge of the first book to base this on so i can’t say how well i’ll like the pacing or not until i see how it fits into their overall story arc

tldr i rated it a 4.5 because i love lunnelly and they really carried but the book definitely had its weak points especially in the plotting

[autumn-foxfire]

I went to the Highschool for my brother's admission and the lady kept saying "she" and "her" and I was wondering if she was getting his pronouns wrong or something or if I was mishearing until she looked directly at me and I clearly heard "come back with her-" and that's when I proceeded to flub this conversation as I tried to correct her because what I WANTED to say was along the lines of "Oh no, we actually came here for his admission" what I was THINKING was

(+) 'uhh registration? admission? do I know how to pronounce those words? which one do I use? what sentence structure should I be forming-' and what I actually said was 😭 *proceeds to stand there snapping my fingers as I think and speak, and then go uhhh and then restart my sentence with different wording and everyone is staring at me before I struggle to get out "he's the one coming here, not me" because mind goes blank (+) with how the rest of this encounter went, clearly my "talk smoothly like a mature adult" skills clearly need some work 😭 and like it always happens with me, the lady had to ask if I understood what she was saying, YES I DO I don't think she meant it in a rude way, I know I made a fool of myself and I'm speaking two languages to translate to my mom but contrary to whatever impression you got, I know english I promise :') (+) I just haven't spoke it in years due to being at home and not interacting with primarily english speaking individuals, along with the fact that I flub pronunciations not because they're difficult to say but I've been told it's genetic idk, my tongue doesn't want to follow the sounds and slips up sometimes, it's an issue that persists with those sounds no matter the language, this is why I like to repeat what I want to say several times in my head before I say it, anyone else?

Ooof, I hate when that happens and your brain won't give you the ability to answer how you want T-T

I think the only way you can actually prevent this is to practice what you want to say in your own time, though you can never actually predict what you will need to say on that day.

The fact that you can speak multiple languages is an amazing skill in itself!