#The Do-Over

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Kathryn Hahn in The Do-Over

[shrimpscocktail]

The Do-Over (2016) but it's a deranged romcom...the way it should've been

[lovethornes]

i loveddd bttm and betting on u but i just did not like the do over at all i think it was horrible and cringe and just not nice at all the plot it was cool but the writing style was so cringy and just not my preference at all im sorry 😭

[mialicassi]

i LOVE lynn painters obsession w making "cool" guys becoming utterly obsessed w "weird" girls kwgrjwhdjahdjahjshajdgqjshjah

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reviews volume one: the do-over

a sweet, YA romance book written by lynn painter!

rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

age rec: 15+

synopsis: after a valentine's day goes all wrong, emilie hornby is stuck in a time loop. day after day, she watches her valentine's day repeat itself no matter how hard she tries to change things. her boyfriend still cheats on her and she keeps running into her charming biology seatmate, nick stark. as written on the blurb, 'How many days can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs?'

my review: i absolutely loved this book SO MUCH. it's such a fun read and i DEVOURED it in like an hour or two. it's so engaging and written so well, and still gives me butterflies when i think about it! the plot is so good and addresses themes of self discovery, high school and divorce while tying it in SO WELL with the romance and aaaah! i just love it. i felt a connection to emilie and also to nick a little and it's amazing how attached i am to them now. there are some sad parts which evoked such a response from me (again due to how well written the characters are) and i felt so upset during those bittersweet moments. it's so fluffy and fun and genuinely such a slice of life realistic fiction romance (i know time loops can't happen but aside that.....). i noticed this in better than the movies and betting on you as well, painter's other YA romances, that she really writes characters so so so well. i have a soft spot in my heart for all of them and these couples give me so much happiness! this book, also like her others, is super whimsical and doesn't feel like a drag while it's being read since it's just a fun read.

so i tried to squeeze so much into this tiny review omg but definitely do give this a go! you can read it outside in the summer or curled up in a blanket with hot chocolate and either way, this book will give you the fuzzies for emilie and nick.

100% recommend!

[darkjediqueen]

Time Marches On

Title: Time Marches OnSeries: Do-Over 2Fandom(s): 9-1-1Relationships: Eddie Diaz & Shannon Diaz, Eddie Diaz & Evan Buckley,Tags: Time Travel, Established Relationship (Eddie/Shannon), Series Endgame Buck/EddieWarnings: Temporary Character Death Discussions, Shitty Diaz ParentsSummary: Time doesn’t stop for anyone, even Eddie.Word Count: 13,528Notes: Written for the Quarter 4 2023 Big Moxie.Beta:…

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Title: The Do-Over | Author: Lynn Painter | Publisher: Simon Pulse (2022)

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The Do-Over

by Lynn Painter / 4 stars

Lynn Painter does it again! She's definitely a must-read author for me, and her young adult in particular gets me in all the feels.

I grew up watching Groundhog's Day, though strangely enough I feel like I've forgotten 80% of the movie. For someone who's watched it upwards of 20 times, that's concerning. Though the last time I watched it was likely 15 years ago... HOWEVER - if it's anything near as charming as this book, I definitely see a rewatch in my near future.

Emilie is forced to live Valentine's Day over and over. A Valentine's Day that sees her crashing her car - into her grumpy school lab partner, Nick, who doesn't even seem to know she exists. Followed by losing the summer scholarship she's planned her entire summer on - and her hopes of getting into her college of choice. Only to then see her boyfriend kissing his ex, and her dad announcing that he was abandoning her to move with his new family to Texas.

Emilie tries it all. Getting mad. Sobbing. Accepting. Every time, she's sent back to the start of the day. Then she realizes - what's the point? Why not do and say everything she'd never let herself do? While she's at it, why not spend a little more time with Nick, who she's realizing she gets along with a lot more than she could have ever imagined.

Loved, loved this book. From the way her two-home situation was handled - with both parents remarrying and starting new families, leaving her feeling like a guest in both places. To the changes in clothes, as Em decides to be cute, put together, daring, or just giving up. The laugh out loud moments. The squeals at a budding young love you can't root for, and the very best of friendships. The real moments, when things get hard to say and uncomfortable. Finding your way, when you've always tried not to be too loud, too seen.

While it doesn't hold the same place in my heart as Better Than the Movies, it is definitely beyond your average teen romance! Something I think Lynn Painter is going to come through with in many more years to come!

[theresalikesbooks]

Book Review | The Do-Over

#bookreview of The Do-Over by Lynn Painter is now up!

Title: The Do-Over by Lynn Painter Pages: 304 Genres: YA, contemporary, romance, time travel Publisher: Simon & Schuyler Books for Young Readers (Nov. 15th, 2022) Summary After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s…

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[shrimpscocktail]

so i keep thinking about the do-over (2016) and how it wasnt that good of a movie BUT i absolutely loved the first like 15 minutes or so???? i love the chemistry between the sandman and spade. (they need to do more stuff together, just the two of them as leads) hear me out…..this should have been a weird psycho romcom! 1st they have crazy good chemistry (as mentioned before), 2nd it seemed like sandlers character max wanted to majorly impress spades character charlie (obviously for the whole plan to work but idc) 3rd i just totally got the vibe..i cant explain. im so close to rewatching just so i can explain better..might make a better post in the future (after inevitably rewatching the do-over)

am i the only one?????? rewatch the beginning (until theyre in the new house and all) and try to see it from my pov…just high school reunion, new identities, life with a psycho guy who planned this all along..feels like a weird ass romcom!!

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

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in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[darkwood-sleddog]

if you're waking up like me thinking "where do we even go from here?"

you:

build community & involve yourself locally

learn self sustainability skills

choose kindness

protect others & yourself

join or build a mutual aid group and/or network

find time for small joys (the arts, cooking a meal you love, spending time with loved ones, etc.)