#family star review

[3nn-express]

Family Star Movie: Vijay Deverakonda & Mrunal Thakur’s film.

Family Star Movie review: The biggest drawback of the Vijay Deverakonda-Mrunal Thakur film perhaps is Parashuram’s writing. The story itself is utterly dated and the treatment has no spark.

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"distant relative" i assume you are referring to my father?

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"The Goblin Emperor" by Katherine Addison book recommendation

Thank you @sophie.breathes.books for introducing us! This was such a beautiful, healing experience! I love the book - I love the characters - I love the way it made me feel when I read it yesterday, and I love the warm glow of comfort and peace I still feel from it today. ❤️

[jaegermonstrous]

Rewatching TNG's "The Icarus Factor," and I genuinely forgot how much of a dick Riker's dad is.

I think he might actually be one of the worst dads in Trek, and I know how high of a bar that is.

Riker's dad literally shows up after 15 years and has the stone-cold AUDACITY to show up and expect Will to not only give him the time of day, but to act like their relationship is fine actually.

Like he actually tells Will TO HIS FACE "I stuck it out for 13 years. If that's not good enough, that's too bad." Like wow man.

He's a raging asshole and I really have no idea why the narrative and some of the characters are treating Will like the unreasonable one. Pulaski actually told Will to his face to "jettison the emotional baggage" like damn fuck you lady.

And like. My relationship with my dad is - shall we say - complex. But hot damn even my dad at least has the emotional maturity to acknowledge the way he treated us wasn't great. It was all of once and he's never said it again, but he did in fact say it.

But Riker's dad is like "hey son it's been 15 years, I'm doing great. Heard cool things about you, btw your ex is a smoke show." In fairness, he makes the remark about Troi to her face instead of Will's, but I feel like that's worse?

Though I love how Pulaski is confronting Riker's dad over him and Will having an anbo-jytsu match instead of y'know. Abandoning his son. As a teen. But yeah, let's focus on how two grown men are gonna beat each other with sticks.

Like. No one, not even Troi, has said to Will "hey, I'm sorry your dad is a giant dickwad who ditched you when you were a kid. That sucks." Instead everyone is like "wow fathers and sons are weird."

And yeah, okay, Riker's dad was grieving the death of his wife while trying to raise a son. But he's still an absolute goon of a man who abandoned his son and has the gall to act like he's the injured party somehow.

And then they have one half-assed heart-to-heart and apparently it's fine now?

[andreai04]

…thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

4 stars

Ironically, i forgot this one had major mental health themes, and started reading it to distract myself from anxiety. This was a bad idea. I finished the book anyway, it was fun.

Anyway. I can’t speak for the accuracy of the portrayal of drag, but you can tell Quinlan loves it from how they write about the subculture- the way their love of it seeps into their writing is palpable throughout the book. I thought  the portrayal of mental health stuff was good- and the way every character is messy in some ways and fucks up sometimes makes for a cohesive plot. There was one misunderstanding plot line that stuck out to me, but overall the interpersonal conflict was internally logical and compelling. The characters are all so loveable- for a book where the main plot is fueled by pettiness, the way you root for every character is admirable. I thought the cast was a really great size, large enough to be interesting and small enough that i never got lost. I think the writing itself wasn’t always the strongest (mostly with, like. Word choice), not the worst I’ve read but not the best either.

I’d recommend people looking for a book that: deals with the messy side of mental health, is full of drag queens and kings, a rivals to lovers plot line, a fun summer read, or queer found family in general.

[scattered-winter]

every day i kick a rock and bash my head into the wall because i'll never get to go on a big space adventure and become tightly close-knit with my new found family up there <//3

[sailor-toni]

[lafresnaya]

[dykrophone]

middle/high school me didn't form parasocial relationships with celebrities they formed serial parasocial relationships with random lesbian 20-something bloggers with a penchant for being 24/7 haters on increasingly obscure platforms (often that they had abandoned years ago) and would stay up till like 4am every night reading their posts from like five years back and collecting the Lore

[jessread-s]

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

✩☄️🌙Review:

The conclusion to Lan and Zen’s story will overwhelm your tear ducts.

Following the events of the first installment, “Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White” revolves around Lan and Zen as they seek out a way save their kingdom from the Elantian colonizers. At the center of both of their journeys are the Demon Gods and the immense power they have. Only, they are no longer fighting together. Now on opposite sides, Lan and Zen will have to face each other and the choices they made to free their people. 

Inspired by ancient Chinese history and mythology “Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White” is just as lyrical and atmospheric as its predecessor. 

Having done all the heavy lifting in terms of world-building in the previous novel, Zhao focuses mainly on Lan and Zen’s relationship. Their star-crossed love was captivating, making it difficult to put this book down even as my heart was breaking. 

The internal struggle Zen faces throughout the book - losing himself completely to the Demon God devouring his soul, yet wanting to give Lan his heart - absolutely wrecked me. Seriously. Reading from Zen’s perspective was almost painful because I grew so attached to his character and understood the cause he sacrificed everything for, which is a testament to Zhao’s ability to heighten emotions in her readers.

Much like “Song of Silver, Flame Like Night,” this book’s ending is equally beautiful and devastating. While bittersweet, wrapping it up any other way would have been unsatisfying. Make sure you have tissues on hand!

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[allyouzombies]

I just read a goodreads book review that made me angrier than any inconsequential thing has made me in a WHILE. I loved the book, and I'm not a good critic of novels (or anything); I'm decent at analysis to be fair, but I like a read or I don't (on a spectrum of course).

But good goddamn, this review reeked with pretension and was written like the most unbearable food or music critic's diatribes. Adult character is lost in life, makes stupid choices out of grief/running away from issues/thinking distance from community will help/doesn't act logically as a character in a horror plot? Childish and not very bright! A large bustling family coming together for a major cultural and spiritual threat and asking the same damn questions over and over again, repeating the same arguments, etc.? Tiresome and muddled! Bro is your family (bio or chosen) totally chill? Have you never at least seen (in media or in others' lives) annoying family members beating dead horses for days on end out of concern and love and lack of knowing how else to help???

Dude I dunno, it just felt like legitimate criticisms one might have if they dislike a book or parts of its structure, but then those criticisms were a molehill buried beneath a mountain of hating some super fuckin' flawed characters making wild and awful choices in a time of grief and isolation. Screaming!!!!

[superfan44]

Superfan's Short Movie Reviews: "Wish"

From an animation studio that has now been around for a century, Disney's Wish is the kind of feel good movie you can take the whole family to see, and I mean that sincerely. This enjoyable feature has catchy songs, fun characters, and nice callbacks to the studios classic films but with a modern touch. A great mix of the old and the new.

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thank you @yayyyybooks for the reread! ❤️

[lilibetbombshell]

[andreai04]

Heidi had never felt so happy in her life. She drank in the golden sunlight, the fresh air, the sweet smell of the flowers, and wished for nothing better than to remain there forever.