#and etc.

[twohauntedhouses]

and, as usual, the answer is melodrama by lorde

[darkgreenandbloodred]

pls I’m so lazy can someone write a fic for me where Grantaire is a stand-up comedian doing crowd work and he finds Enjolras in the crowd, who is there with Courfeyrac and Combeferre, and just bullies tf outta him

[eclipsecrowned]

Morbid curiosity poll -- This time concerning pronunciation of muse names that I have heard a wide variety of variations on. No wrong answers, I just want to know how people read/say their names.

[avrilsboy]

i finished reading the shining last night and i cannot stop thinking about it......... which is to say i can't stop thinking about how much the movie did it dirty </3

[yuricides]

[noahs-ark-book]

PREORDERS END AT 11:52PM (PST) ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 (tomorrow)

[soartfullydone]

When did you go from loving Feysand and ACOMAF to hating everything after ACOTAR? I'm genuinely curious

Thanks for your question!

It was sometime after I had finished ACOMAF, maybe about midway through ACOWAR when I fully realized my feelings and acknowledged them.

I read ACOMAF in two days, which is wicked fast for any reading experience. So I was riding the highs the book was giving me without fully thinking them through. I remember being so excited that the characters I was shipping in book 1, Feyre and Rhysand, were actually becoming a real thing that I was ignoring all the things wrong with it. (Note: I shipped and enjoyed Feyre and Tamlin in the first book, too, along with Nesta and Lucien. It's not hard for me to ship things if I think it could be fun.) When I finished the book, I sat there, thinking over everything and kept asking myself, "They're together. So why am I so... unsatisfied?"

I didn't have these answers until ACOWAR, when Feyre was being so vengeful against a whole court because of her hatred for one person and treated Lucien like a toy after what he did for her UtM. When Feysand attended the war meeting with the other High Lords, a scene I had been waiting for for a loooong time in excitement, and it was like watching a middle school production of Mean Girls. Everything was so much... cheaper and poorly written than I wanted it to be. And SJM ripped off the Troy line: "The sun was shining when your wife left you." I came completely out of it at that moment because it felt like I was reading someone's OOC fanfiction, but nope. This was penned by the author in utter seriousness.

But subconsciously, the moment I began to hate ACOMAF, Feysand, the Night Court, the whole thing wasn't because of the sacrifice to Tamlin and Lucien's characters or even Feysand's characters. It wasn't the retconning and over-reliance on sexism and empty girl power as "themes." It was when SJM used Rhysand to say with her whole chest that the Night Court isn't actually a court that lives in perpetual night because he can't control the arc of the sun. That their nights are just somehow better than everyone else's, and I remember being so... disappointed by that. How weak sauce. How unimaginative. Because she has him say this, while fully ignoring that the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter courts each maintain their respective seasons despite the tilt of the earth. If they can maintain their court state because of ~magical reasons, why couldn't the Night, Dawn, and Day courts do the same?

I know it sounds like a small thing, but it is a perfect example of SJM's laziness as a writer but also a failure of characterization and world-building, which are all problems that plague the series from the second book on. And the fans wouldn't be dealing with so many of these problems were it not for that second book. ACOTAR sparked my imagination in incredible ways because of how full of possibility it was, not just for Feysand but for all characters and the world. ACOMAF killed that imagination because everything was flattened down and compressed into Feysand and Velaris, which were... boring.

It snowballed from there.

I hated how the Suriel's prophecy was changed from Feyre needing to stay with Tamlin to avoid UtM from happening to Feyre staying with Rhysand to... ??? Because the narrative impact just isn't there like it is for the first book. I hated how the Children of the Blessed became nothing. I hated how Calanmai, one of the few things in the book that made these characters fae-like, became irrelevant. I hated how Rhysand went from being a frightening and formidable villain whose motives you couldn’t quite read to being an uwu soft boi who’d been secretly in love with Feyre the whole time. I hated how the story went from Rhysand doing truly heinous shit (twisting the bone in Feyre’s arm, the body paint, the forced kiss) to suddenly Doing No Wrong (except sssh, he is, we’re just never going to address it as wrong ever. Quick, brush it under the rug, it never happened). 

I hated that it felt like I was reading about 15-year-old elves, and not at least the badly-behaving Silmarillion kind. I hated that Amarantha and Hybern had agents secretly infiltrate every court, and then that information totally vanished. I hated how humans didn't matter. I hated how "be glad of your human heart, Feyre" became utterly meaningless because Feyre became indistinguishable from Rhys and his Inner Circle. And to date, I hate the 500+ pages of trauma dumping for a measly 100 pages of action, if you’re lucky. I hate how none of the characters do what would actually be in character for them, but instead do what SJM wants them to do.

That's simply not engaging writing to me and why I walked away.

[killrockstar]

if you don't mind, what's the "resist psychic death" tattoo from?

it's a bikini kill song !

[good--merits-accumulated]

one of my friends unironically thinks bbc sherlock is the best representation of sherlock???? HELLO

[pclungs]

my forgetfulness is gonna either kill me or get me into trouble one day

[xroseheartx]

I am terrified AND impressed by the voice acting skills of Saori Hayami

[croutoncat]

i did undergrad so now i do overgrad

[childofchorus]

i dont watch or like mcyt but my dash is blowing up and if no one else will make the joke than i will - - - - - - “just killed tommy, feeling good”

[enjolred]

using the word “slutty” to describe a man is a power move and i am here for it

[plutau]

anyways, non-exhaustive list of comedians with earth influence;

john mulaney (virgo sun/mercury); taika waititi (virgo mercury/venus); lenny henry (virgo sun, taurus mars); ellie kemper (taurus sun/mercury); aisling bea (virgo moon); zach galifianakis (virgo venus); bo burnham (virgo moon/mercury/midheaven, taurus mars); george carlin (taurus sun/mercury/midheaven); sarah silverman (capricorn moon, virgo midheaven); h jon benjamin (taurus mercury/mars); aisha tyler (virgo sun/mercury/mars, taurus moon, capricorn midheaven); jack black (virgo sun); donald glover (taurus moon, virgo mercury/rising); stephen colbert (taurus sun/mercury/mars); tiffany haddish (capricorn venus, virgo mars); lucille ball (capricorn moon/rising, virgo mercury/venus, taurus mars); chris tucker (virgo sun/venus, capricorn moon); conan o’brien  (taurus mercury); nick frost (virgo moon, taurus venus); wanda sykes (capricorn moon, taurus venus); andy samberg (virgo rising); shalewa sharpe (virgo mars); dave chapelle (virgo sun, taurus mars); steve carell (virgo mercury/rising); john c reilly (taurus mercury, virgo mars); richard ayoade (taurus moon/venus/mars); larry david (capricorn moon); john oliver (taurus sun/mercury); amy sedaris (virgo moon); jane lynch (taurus mars); robin williams (virgo venus); will ferrell (virgo venus/rising); amy poehler (virgo sun/mercury/venus); yvette nicole brown (taurus moon, virgo mercury); tina fey (taurus sun/mercury); seth rogen (capricorn moon, taurus mercury); stephen fry (virgo sun/mercury/mars, taurus midheaven); carol burnett (taurus sun/moon/venus, virgo mars); margaret cho (capricorn venus, virgo rising); jim carrey (capricorn sun/venus/mars); betty white (capricorn sun/venus, virgo moon); julia louis-dreyfus (capricorn sun/mercury); danny devito (capricorn venus); fran drescher (capricorn moon, virgo mercury)

[wernerherzogs]

hope he will flop hard tbh that's what he deserves for such a scam

i don't think he will and that's what makes it all worse, because it helps to normalise all those unfair prices. it's like, oh they sold out anyway!! some fans bought multiple in different countries again!!! let's do that again next time! it's a vicious cycle since we don't speak up as an unified group of fans. everyone just complains and accepts it, so how is it supposed to change.