#<- acting like im being held at gunpoint to reread it when it is entirely my choice LMFAO

[hella1975]

no bc like. trk is SO hard to read. like. Thanksgiving. That SceneTM. boy. i read aftg in a single week when i was fifteen and i regret doing it at that age so much bc MAN that was a hard couple scenes to read

right?????? and there's nothing inherently wrong with writing scenes like that i just always think nora misses the mark with how it's handled. like even AFTER that reveal in trk about What Happened To Andrew And Why He Acts The Way He Does, he still gets treated as some soulless maniac? and that's so damaging to any victims reading that also - god forbid - dared to respond to that trauma in a 'bad' way

[hella1975]

chapter 1 reread notes:

i am convinced someone held me at gunpoint and said 'only write in simple sentences or i shoot' like what the fuck this is so jarring

'Chena got thrown overboard more than once, oaf that he was' i giggled

'don't go scrapping with General Fong again' not bato's goofy ass acting as a foreshadowing tool!

oh past hella and your random capitalisation we're really in it now...

omg it's the first crew scene i literally remember writing this i was like 'hold on a minute im giving these idiots wayyyy too much personality they're just supposed to be background characters' and now we're here

BOOOO ZUKO YOU'RE RUINING THEIR DAY

the povs used to be so short omg where did we go wrong

 'Lieutenant Jee ducked and dodged, swinging his fist into the jaw of a much smaller man' it was nanook he punched nanook

hey lee what's that thing flying towards us could u catch that for me lee ohhhh shit oh fuck my bad im so fucking sorry bro i didnt know it was sharp

'Chena was grinning, but it was the grin he pulled when he was about to hit something' the fact he does this enough to even have a specific grin for when he's about to hit something is so funny to me

zuko rlly said 'i can understand aggravated assault but if you call me a kid im going to spit in your face'

why did i call him 'prince zuko' so often lmao not us being on formal terms i just didn't know him well enough back then we weren't on a first name basis yet

i love how kanut only speaks three times in this entire chapter and every single time he's being a bitch to people. 'you idiots aren't calling them imposter-rabbits' 'lop-eared rabbits, and you just pierced its bladder' 'they don't even have dolphin-pirhanas this far north, dumbass' i love him

summary: she's a 5/10. it was better than i expected but it wasn't good

ive decided to reread taob just bc ive not actually properly reread it in ages which... isn't great as the writer of it but the way im gonna do it is pretend it's not mine and hopefully i'll be able to get through book 1 without throwing my laptop at a wall