#I love you email girl

[panestates]

sure it could be chloe being silly but it is interesting that nathan is nathan iii yet his three most immediate prescott ancestors are all not named nathan. hes living for a legacy that doesnt even exist anymore

[ruvviks]

"Colton and Akiyama have a long and rich history, having worked together for Arasaka since their early twenties— Colton as director of the SERPENT projects and Head of Special Programs, and Akiyama as recruiter and quality control manager across all of the corporation's Night City facilities. The two disliked each other from the start and from an outsider's perspective only rarely saw eye to eye; but if anything their rivalry was a challenge, a way to keep each other sharp, and one of the only ways they could have some fun in the megacorporation's grasp. Years later, the two reunite at Club Bodytalk following the incident in spaceship Elysium and the fall of Cobra Cybernetics. Surrounded by the victims of the projects they once ran, their heads are forcibly turned into the direction of their past mistakes— their guilt connects them and it forges a bond of understanding they can't get with anyone else, and while they cannot erase their past they can ensure that no one else ever has to go through any of that again." ↳ andy belongs to @mojaves, template here [x]

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@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @roseeway, @stars-of-the-heart;

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@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree;

@kanos, @swordcoasts, @ordinarymaine, @claudiawolf

[vanessa-rafesgirl]

me 24/7 ⭐️🧸

[marty--party]

since danganronpa came out/takes place in the early 2010s and we all know that content restrictions on the internet were much lighter at the time, i present this idea for the class: do you think junko enoshima would have loved liveleak

[soullessjack]

jack will always the funniest character ever to me solely because of the fact that he outwardly looks and acts like a nickelodeon sitcom protagonist boy complete with silly elaborate outfits and an “erm what the flip” type of endearing dumbness to him and then inwardly he’s like “I am deeply afraid of an inherent inescapable evil within me :D” and constantly experiencing the emotional turmoil of a teenage girl

[bia-badoobadee]

Special thanks to: @sugarybisous

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

A stranger who's laughter I recognise in a room full of people.

on a march aternoon, we became strangers. now i hold back my smile when i see you from across the street. now i don't go running, recklessly crossing the street unbothered of the traffic. i pretend to forget the birthday i once planned surprises on. i still have your playlist, but now it's two separate devices the songs are being played on. i still read your favourite book. i still play your favourite sport. in a room full of people, i can still recognise your laughter.

it's better this way, apart, because in a room full of people, you will never recognise my voice, even if my heart is calling out your name. to you, i will be one of the many you charmed. to me, you'll be the only one i ever let my guards down for. so it's better this way, apart.

[despertara]

Irene bro if you see this I want you to know I've been podcasting (talking loudly and emphatically to myself) abt that Grammy Gun post for Hours. I started ranting in the rb tags and then I got so mad I started a spreadsheet on my phone Yes I have the Excel app. No I did not finish my tags

[themacabrebarbie]

tag drop !

[prismbearer]

Not a manager in my company trying to gaslight me into accepting they're right about our time difference....

[not-active-694202901]

1000 ways to screw up your life: An Autobiography

#7: Fall in love with a straight girl... The second you meet her...and be really obvi about it...

[m0e-ru]

having an au in the works for so long is a bit silly like one moment you're scouring through pages of unorganized notes going "wheres the dissertation i did for the ghost lady at tatsuhime shrine and what she means to the universe's timeline" and the other is "hey have you seen failwife"

[chapterbookluvr]

my long and meandering red, white & royal blue movie review

disclaimer: before i start, i understand that because i am a huge fan of the book, i will be more critical of the movie. i also understand that movies cannot be 1-1 replicas of the books they’re based off of. that being said, the movie was a perfect romcom: funny, sweet and heartwarming - but i felt there was something missing and i would like to talk about it. 

books and movies are going to tell narratives differently because the mediums are fundamentally different. i'm not upset with this movie for being a movie. i cannot imagine the amount of work that went into it, so please do not take this review as being dismissive of that.

this is more of a list of observations, rather than an assessment of quality.

finally: these are my interpretations of the characters, if you disagree, great! that’s what makes literature exciting. 

so, my biggest issue with the red, white & royal blue movie is this: where is everybody? 

june, leo, rafael, liam… why were they absent and how did it impact the story, more specifically, alex? this movie was incredibly faithful to the plot, but not so much to its characters. 

movie alex is a suave and unflappable twenty-something that rolls with the punches. book alex is a nervous wreck of a human, stapled together by black coffee and spite, going 100 miles an hour. because of the consolidation of all his supporting characters, movie alex has virtually no character arc. in the novel, alex wars with himself over his wants and desires and how they affect his future. he is a flaming ball of energy barely managing not to burn out. 

with no luna in the movie, alex has no major disappointment that shakes him out of the unwavering view he has of his future. he has no breakdown, no questioning. in the book, luna’s betrayal makes alex reconsider everything he thought he wanted to be. henry is there to comfort him, but alex really has to reassess everything he thought he knew about himself. it’s a major character plot point for alex. 

speaking of which, the lack of liam as a character combined with movie alex accepting his bisexuality with little to no hiccup erases the other half of alex’s identity crisis. book alex’s whole character arc is understanding himself and his wants. both he and henry spend the whole novel trying to parse out what they are expected to be (expectations coming internally for alex and externally for henry) and who they actually are. 

both june and leo are gone, eliminating alex’s role as a little brother and as a child of divorce. this faith he has in his (albeit unstable) family is a major part of his personality. along with this, the lack of character interactions alex has outside of henry costs him his intelligence. book alex is witty and smart and isn’t afraid to show it. all of this to show book alex’s intense fear of failure and his need to be on top of everything, no matter the cost. 

not having these characters in the movie extinguishes any depth alex could have. there is no replacement for his identity crisis or his anxiety of failure. movie alex just kind of accepts things and moves on.

the movie also doesn’t extrapolate or linger on henry’s grief and how it impacts him. bea is also sterilized, and made out to be a doting little sister instead of someone going through addiction recovery. most notably, post-emails, alex doesn’t come to comfort drunk and bereaved henry while bea explains that henry is just like a pie tin, and alex needs to love him on purpose. in the movie, they have a little cry, and then they move on. 

in a weird twist of narrative, the movie makes henry and bea to be exactly what they fear to be in the book: just Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice. nothing more, nothing less.

overall, character depth is sacrificed for plot, which is understandable as fulling flushing out the book would make the movie 6 hours long. but it seems like instead of condensing character traits the movie decided to erase them entirely.

if i could change one thing about the movie, it would be alex and henry’s reunion scene after the lakehouse. in the book alex is MAD. he storms in demanding answers, basically saying, “henry we don’t have to fucking do this anymore. we can be together. i just figured out my identity and now you have to come to terms with yours.” and henry responds with “we don’t get to do that!” and chaos ensues. it’s the climax of their relationship, alex’s stubborn-headedness and idealism at war with henry’s practicality and fear. it’s a perfect encapsulation of the book up until that point.

the climax of their argument in the book, when alex admits that he loves henry (finally, irreversibly) is not in the movie. movie alex stomps into henry’s room in london already admitting that he flew across the ocean for ‘the man he loves’. his love is not revolutionary nor a confession. henry takes it with no hesitation, and the argument is now about comparing situations, not on how alex’s passion cuts through everything in its path.

the argument turns into henry saying to alex, “i cannot just be anything i want, i am restricted and it doesn’t make me weak” and alex saying “i’ve given up things too, henry, don’t say i haven’t.” but alex isn’t giving up anything. he says he’s giving up henry, but if they are together, alex remains the same and henry loses his whole life. in the book, alex has given up something major: his future. admitting he loves henry and wants to do something about it is alex admitting he doesn’t know what the future holds, which is something he never thought he’d do. 

the book and movie arguments aren’t necessarily extremely different, but to me they mean very different things to alex. book alex is complicated and nuanced in his emotion, he gets sad and worried and very definitively angry. in the movie, alex wavers between cocky guy and worried cocky guy. that’s about it.

in conclusion, the movie was good. it was a great adaption of the plot and the tone of the book.  queer representation in film is so important, so i’m not upset it was made into a movie at all. i just wish the characters came along with. 

[spellmage]

i just... want to send off my uni application... but i can't... because my academic referee hasn't replied to my email yet... i should be allowed to maim and kill

[rosicheeks]

i do not know if i ever sent this to you. i have posted it. i hope you like it Princess.