#i'm just. this book is baffling
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this taylor era by era book is..... not great 😭
#it literally reads like a wikipedia#and is absolutely all over the place#with soooo much unnecessary information#in the first chapter about her childhood why is there like a page about the kim/kanye phone call??#why when talking about the song fifteen are you telling me how the guy in the song that dated abigail was abused by a priest when he was ten#??????????#i'm just. this book is baffling#in the first chapter she's talking about the eras tour friendship bracelets#and feels the need to make sure you don't confuse it with the bejeweled gem bracelet on the merch store....#who...... would confuse that#taylor swift#taylor era by era
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#i'm sorry what#not liking the ef5 is a you are not allowed to be my friend type comment i'm sorry#and arguing they don't have character development in the show?#i get people not vibing with rand at first cause he doesn't get interesting til later#but none of them?#really?#wheel of time#wot book spoilers#wot on prime#no hate to op i am just baffled
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"just focus on book 1 without mapping out the entire trilogy" I need you to understand how much I cannot do that
#and not just bc I'm distractable#because the whole thing needs to cohere!!!#also I'm considering adding back in a major plot point from starlightverse version 1.0 bc maybe 14yo me was onto something after all#anyway I find it baffling how apparently so many authors publish a first book without even having drafts of the next ones?#like if it's a planned series don't you need to write the whole thing at least once before committing????#how does their process work like does the entire plot come to them all at once like holy vision and then they jsut#write it all in order without changing anything????????#what if you really needed to change something in the first book to make the ending work but it was already published?#I live in fear
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#why is throne of glass so popular and was recommended to me so many times#i literally cannot handle the first few chapters#i'm going to have to tell my friend who literally shoved the whole box series at me to read that i cannot stand these books#i even tried reading a little bit of the sequel to see if it gets better#it does not#why are people calling it the best fantasy books they've ever read help 😭😭#sam rambles#(if you liked this series i'm not trying to yuck someone's yum it's truly a subjective thing#i'm just kind baffled
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One of the most bizarre things to me about the Wednesday show is they looked at a property where the main appeal was how much the family loved each other despite being seen as strange/weird or unconventional, and were like okay, hear me out, what if the family hates each other and also doesn't factor into this story at all except to further manufactured outcast angst. Also, being weird or unconventional in this particular way is bad, Wednesday is bad, and this girl needs to learn to fit in with the more acceptably weird and unconventional people. They also looked at a property that thrived off its difference to the mould and were like lol, that's not gonna fly with our silly little modern audiences, get back in there; guards, dig up the early 2010s trashy YA teen paranormal romance book structure, yeah, yeah the one with the brooding outcast girl and the perky best friend and the love triangle, oh yeah of course with the weird magic school and bullying plot, yeah the one that's been done to death for over a decade that everyone clowned on, yes, yes with the evil boy plot twist you see coming a mile away, and the ignorant/vaguely offensive undertones, I know what I'm doing, I said what I said, bring it here, bring it here, I just need to change literally all of the lore and *forcibly stuffing star shape in square hole* perfect, perfect. Oh and guards, throw in that ugly ass cartoon monster to top it off, yes, I do want it to have big stupid bug eyes or else people might mistake this for an adaptation that cares. Yeah, yeah this is the money shot, *shows picture of the Plants vs Zombies zombie.* And make them use snapchat.
Anyway, the most bizarre thing to me about the Wednesday show is that it could've been good. Why did they do that to her.
#I'm not tagging this but just it still baffles me#i literally read a 2011 ya book the same week the show was released with almost the exact plot#as if it were initially an adaptation of that book that they hastily slapped a more well known ip name on instead#and i am being so genuine about that#like i am almost convinced#anyway i wish it was a good show 😔 i wanted so badly for it to be#i've just been thinking about it again#most generic ass teen show in the world#sorry I'm a little bitter
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i get the sense statius tries to soften the shame of achilles hiding from war in drag by pointing out, every chance he gets in the achilleid, that achilles is so pretty though!
like YES the greatest of the achaeans being forced by his mother to pretend to be a woman is humiliating, BUT have you considered that his own sex and his mother's counterfeit alike becomes him? that as deidamia surpasses her own sisters as the fairest, so does she herself own defeat compared to proud achilles? have you even thought for a SECOND about how plenteous charm remains to him though his manhood brook it not, and he baffles beholders by the puzzle of his sex that by a narrow margin hides its secret?
#show of hands who would also like to baffle beholders by the puzzle of their sex#sorry i'm just quoting this book so much as i read it today#i'm delighted by it#the achilleid#first impressions tag#tagamemnon
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why are so many readers absolutely convinced that mat's dad is going to get a redemption arc in the show as part of the Return To Emond's Field plotline? he has about 5 lines in the entire book series and is just a knockoff tam who literally doesn't matter to the story AT ALL, they're not going to waste time giving an arc to an extremely minor character when they can barely even squeeze in all the main characters' stuff. not to mention that we really don't need yet another "shitty parent is actually good and their kid has to forgive them because they've Changed" storyline in media in general. not to mention that mat probably won't see his parents again anyway by the end of the show, so there would be no point in delving deeper into them when we could spend the time on, say, tam.
#there are a lot of show theories/expectations/hopes from hardcore book fans that baffle me and this is one of the highest on that list lmao#mat's parents are clearly just narrative devices to set up some of the internal struggles mat will face during the series#and they've already served that function so there's no need to spend more time on them#i'm sure we'll SEE them in s3 (if the actors are available) but i'd be stunned & also annoyed if they got significant screentime#wot#wot book spoilers
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just saw the most painfully unfunny, stupidly mischaracterizing tweet thread about what some guy thinks would make a hilaaaaarious tng season 8 and seeing that he wrote for fucking rick and morty was so vindicating
#the whole time i was reading it i was like “what this person likes about tng and what i do do not overlap” and it just got worse#until i was like. baffled that anyone who likes tng would like any of this#like it looks like a lazy thing someone would throw together having never watched the show (and only caring about the male characters lmao)#but he got an official book deal out of it??#and then a whole star trek tv show??#i wasn't really interested in watching lower decks cuz I'm not big on cartoons but now I'm sure i wouldn't care for it#i don't understand why ppl liked those jokes they were so lazy and bad i feel a little put upon that i read the whole thread#i just kept waiting for a funny one#op#haterism
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Do you think evajacks will have babies? If so, how do you envision them as parents?
oh my god i honestly hate it when characters have kids but idk i don't think i would mind.
i mean they might??? it's a possibility but a very slim one in my opinion.
i think they would be okay parents, jacks would have to un-learn a lot of stuff but i think he could be a good dad maybe if he really tried. ehe'd need to have a major redemption arc though for that 😂 but i think eva would be a really nice mom! she just seems like genuinely such a caring person but you never know how people are gonna be as parents.
#very good question tho#y'all ask the most complicated questions and i'm just sitting here baffled 🧍♀️#tbona#ouabh#jacks prince of hearts#evajacks#the ballad of never after#evangeline fox#jacks x evangeline#caraval#books#stephanie garber#acftl#a curse for true love#a curse for true love theories#acftl theories#acftl asks
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in general my opinion on fandom is that people can do whatever they want and i don't care, it's their business, but sometimes i encounter stuff that makes me go "leave those characters alone, they don't deserve being involved in that"
#this is about the harry potter handmaid's tale fanfic that's getting turned into a real book#which is a fully insane sentence to type and just. a very bizarre concept to me all around#also the asoiaf ships that just make me go where did you guys even come up with that#anyway! i am only being slightly negative mostly i'm just baffled#pie says stuff
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How much of The Locked Tomb series would you say one needs to read before one can determine whether the series is Not For One?
#questions for the tumblmind#i wrote a much longer post#but it got eaten#i can see many reasons some folks might love these books#but I'm like 1.2 books in#and was meh about the first book#and baffled by the second#(i was listening to book 2 at high speed while doing chores and suspect i need to start over if i decide to continue)#tumblr loves these books SO MUCH#that I'm more on the fence about continuing than i usually would be#but maybe i should just read a summary instead so I can unblock the tags and enjoy the posts#and go read something else#one of several issues i have is that i can't visualize well and the books are so heavy on description#I'm delighted for everyone who loves it#but i think it might not be my jam#op
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I know we all have opinions on s3 me too hut also in episode 1 it's so funny to me Aramis run away to a monarstry and they just give him all the babies like 'this is the perfect fit just burry him in children then he will be a good monk'.
Edit: the tiny conversation where Porthos is like 'boring boring dodiers boring' and Athos is just like. Wheedling and gleeful and knowing Porthos is gonna give in 'we are also musketeers' is great.
And Aramis taking charge of his tiny children and keeping them safe in a cellar is 👌👌👌👌
OK I rlly quite like the musketeers bits of this s3 episode.
#I really like some bits in s3 I just fast forward through. Well. A lot of it#It was only recently that I realised Aramis just outright tells the King he had sex with the Queen and the baby is his his 😂😂#There's bits in it that are super great tho. Like Porthos.. I was gonna give egs but actually just all of Porthos#What? My blog name is that for a reason duh#Lucien girmaud is boring imo but also I am BAFFLED cus I haven't read 3m fro a long time but. But. But.. Girmaud is athos servant who#Is more taciturn than athos and never speaks and. Well athos beats him cus in the book they are not good dudes. It's very funny.#Maybe this is book girmaud wreeking his revenge on athos for the beatings that's all I can think of.#Like where did they get this girmaud from? Why call him girmaud#Baffling adaptation choice. I guess they just liked the mirror of Athos bit and ran with it#But didn't rlly give an in universe reason for them being mildly obsessed with each other#Anyway. I'm rambling. I'm watching episode one in s3 with Aramis and all his ducklings#And Porthos being incredibly hot. Mostly very grumpy. He gets stuck in a hole I remember that bit. Like winnie the pooh hahahaha can't wait
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#sff book club#this one can go in the tag idc#sorry i'm still thinking about the final like. 10 pages#never had my opinion of a book fluctuate so wildly in such a brief amount of time#for the record this is a pro alien romance blog but. what was with the hair touching jgjgjnhkjnn#i'm just baffled
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sorry i thought i was done with the sanderson-critical wotposting but also
the way multiple people just Release Warder Bonds at dramatic moments in AMOL even though it's been a huge plot point up till then that they can't be undone like what, what, what? like if alanna could simply Release rand why didn't she do it earlier. if egwene could just Release egeanin. the entire point of rand hating the force-bonding of those aes sedai by the asha'man in wot but not being able to Fix it was that.......you can't just Release a bond. why wouldn't more aes sedai just release warders so they don't go mad with grief, why wouldn't, why, did i just miss this,
#amol spoilers#a memory of light spoilers#wot book spoilers#sanderson critical#i didn't really mean to tag this but i don't want anyone to stumble on spoilers unawares just in case#months and months later i'm still baffled#DID i miss this???
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"man discovers concept of friends" they straight up DESTROYED him lmao
#jordan chat strikes again#man those mtv cribs were crazy I would totally have friends just live with me#tbh mtv had almost certainly something weird going on so I get how they came off as weird#it's also likely everything filmed there was extremely fake so..#also not shaming jardon here!#just silly jokes :3#on second thought I would have to find people I REALLY get along to have them in my house for an extended period of time#the REAL embarassing thing for jordan is to like modern style houses#when he said id prefer to have a nice smaller house to a gigantic one that's weirdly decorated💀#my boy modern architecture doesn't look nice it looks sterile and anonymous as heck#ye ye to each their own#but it's legitimately THE thing I'm completely baffled about jordan#it counts as a red flag in my book lol#jordan maron#captainsparklez#edit: tags got all jumbled upon mobile not sure why#myminestuff
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I forgot to make a post about it til now, but in Onestar's Confession, Tallstar going to the Moonstone to confirm Crowpaw's story and being told by StarClan "yeah he's right, you'll never get your home back so you need to leave" makes me even more exasperated at the plot of Midnight. Already that book baffles me in hindsight because I misremembered it for years — I believed that the journey to Midnight was to not only strengthen bonds between cats of each Clan to help everyone work together, but also to point them in the right direction of a new home because the lake was so far outside StarClan's sight that the Clans needed an outside source of information.
Turns out I was wrong. The whole journey was just so Midnight could tell them to leave their home, and they had to figure out where to go entirely on their own. (Sure they had a shooting star help them out but it's not like StarClan couldn't have predicted that too.) But if we have confirmation by this point (also confirmed in Shadowstar's Life) that StarClan already knew they had to leave, then what was the point of all that??? All they really accomplished was stalling the great journey for multiple books and letting a bunch of cats suffer and die needlessly. I don't agree with the idea a lot of people have that StarClan and all these characters should simply (and uncharacteristically) work together and flawlessly avoid conflict, I like conflict, but I want a reason for it. The case of Midnight is just so unfortunate. It's such a mess that could have so easily been streamlined into something that makes more sense, but it just... wasn't.
#anyway i have such complicated feelings about tnp. i enjoy the concept but the execution of the first half wasn't great#dawn is one of my least favorite main series books bc the vast majority of it is spent finding excuses to stall the journey#only for the journey to take place over a few chapters at the end#i would have absolutely loved the journey portion to be longer and actually showcase the clans bonding and working together#instead of basically just telling us later after speeding through the whole thing#anyway my impression of onestar's confession so far is that it's just meh#it's not as bad as i was expecting but it does feel like someone looked up all the scenes of him on the wiki and stitched them together#i'm extremely baffled at them making ashfoot and morningflower his littermates#while looking for something else recently i found an old facebook post of vicky's#and one thing she said is that ashfoot and morningflower were onestar's siblings from an older litter#and if they have to be siblings then that makes a lot more sense to me#considering that morningflower at least is supposed to be getting old by the beginning of the series and onewhisker is not#but of course nothing in this book is especially well thought out. on the plus side it's not as bad as leopardstar's honor lol#pigeon mews
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