#it wasnt the worst thing ive ever read

[hermemescabin]

Describe wotg in 1 word

Lackluster

[sonknuxadow]

they werent lying that knuckles series barely has knuckles in it

[cinnabeat]

sometimes i remember that i read all of tcf in like 3 weeks in the middle of a semester and absolutely failed a class because of it

[inmirova]

"it's easier to leave an abusive situation than it is to stop an abuser" :^( but it's not easy :^(

[jamesbukkakebarnes]

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[halitis]

do i have anything anything against jason as a character? no. i actually like him quite a bit! i think hes really interesting!

BUT DO I THINK SOME JASON FANS ARE FUCKING DUMB AS FUCK?!?? YES BITCH WHAT THE FUCK?

im gonna go through all the shit wrong with this comment thread one by one because jesus fucking CHRIST!!!!

1. "that thing" first of all. What. she is literally just a evil-aligned poc woman. she has been raised in this environment and as a result of that this is really the only life available for her and thats the tragedy of her character!

2. "why did she get with roy" THEY ARE FUCKING SOULMATES. THEIR ENTIRE THING IS THE INHERENT LOVE THEY SHARE FOR EACH OTHER WHILE ALSO VALUING THEIR MORALS ABOVE EACH OTHER. IT IS THE COMPLEXITY OF RAISING A CHILD TOGETHER AND ALSO TRYING TO FIND MIDDLE GROUND. IT IS BEGGINT THE OTHER TO CHANGE AND KNOWING THEY WONT.

3. "MY BABY JASON" YOU CANNOT SAY THAT AFTER YOU JUST INSULTED JADE.... LITTERALLY CANNOT. the biggest fucking hypocrytical statement i have ever fucking heard!!! bro!!! jason is Nawt a good person! he just flat out isnt! he has done so much horrid shit, not just to his familt, but to roy's family too. like he is not ur sweet innocent traumatised boy, he is a fucked up grown ass man who was hurt and decided to take that pain out on others. he is no fucking different from jade except he thinks hes doing rhe right thing, at least jade knows she isnt

4. "lian baby mama is jason now" ive talked abt this before, but sexism in fandom spaces when it comes to mlm ships is so fucking common it is fucking absurd. why are women only used as babymakers for ur gay characters?? why can they not be complex characters while men can???? it is fucking absurd how common it is in dc fandom and i frankly dont know why im shocked by it! women are regressed to one of three roles: evil villain who abused male love interest, baby maker, BAMF with no complexity or character at all and it is honestly so fucking tiring and just, boring to read??? like how do you not just hate it??????

5. "unemployed" honestly. i have no words. all im saying is it is No Fucking Shock that the woc is being pushed into these awful stereotypes.

now we are up to the worst part. the final comment...

6. "how are you gonna sleep with my man" ROY LEFT JADE. NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. roy was on an undercover mission and fell in love with jade and got her pregnant! he left because he would not be able to arrest her!!! all she fucking knew was one of the first people she truly ever loved had fucking gotten her to trust him and then left her, she had to deal with that pregnancy BY HERSELF. SHE LITTERALLY SAYS SHE SPENT THE ENTIRE PREGNANCY WAITING FOR ROY TO COME BACK TO HER, AND SHE WASNT EVEN MAD SHE STILL LOVED HIM.... she didn't even realise his identity for years!

also why is it always the woman's fucking fault if she gets pregnant? it takes two to tango! roy is as equally responsible for that pregnancy as jade is!

7. "AND THEN LEAVE YOUR KID" OH MY GOD.... [EXPLODES YOU WITH MY MIND] JADE. CANNOT. LEAVE. THE LEAGUE. BUT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO RAISE A FUCKINF CHILD THERE BECAUSE SHE KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE!! SHES BEEN THAT KID!! jade knows fucking better then to delude herself into thinking she can raise lian safely while still stuck in her life, but lian is her number one priority always!! forever!! she pushes roy and lian away because she knows she is dangerous for them and because she thinks she doesnt deserve to have them and that love in her life!!!

8. "lian should be embarrassed to have her as her mum" i actually fucking wish nothing but hell upon you. have you not fucking read. just a single thing in ur life actually? just like actually can you read??? because i have met TODDLERS with better media literacy than you. LIAN HAS ISSUES WITH HER MOTHER. THIS WAS A BIG PART OF HER STINT AS SHOES. SHE IS DEALING WITH THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVING HER MOTHER, THE WOMAN WHO LOVES HER AND CARES FOR HER, WHILE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT SHE ISNT A GREAT MUM.

im sorry this is so messy and has so much shouting it actually has me fuming when people r so fucking stupid, idc if you dont like a character but dont just ignore all the bits of a characyer that make them redeemable or interesting to prop up ur male blorbos????

[blackheart-6]

dess-ember day 31/31

very long thoughts below the read more!

hi yall

woo-hoo, ive finished another month of dess-ember!! it really has been fun, if very time consuming, but ive made many pieces over this month ive loved and had a great time sharing them all with yalls 😄😄😄

but anyways, lets get to the final entry! its a bit of an unusual one :D

its some pixel art!! i have only done 2 other pixel things this month (i originally wanted to do more, but i am very slow at it 😔), so i felt like ending with it wasnt a bad way to go!

i took dess, noelle, berdly, kris, ralsei, and susie and made some different sprites of them, which were taking the way i draw them and making them into sprite version, and also me making omori style versions as well

i had a couple different versions of the art, layed out in different ways, but stinky tumblr only lets me have 10 images. unfortunate 😔.

but anyways, now weve got the main part, each individual character! you can skip past this if you dont want to hear my thoughts i had while doing the individual drawings, its kinda alot :/

i put them all in a format like this, hopefully it isnt confusing!

we can go in order of how i have them in the very first image, so we can start with kris :D

kris was a very fun one to do, they were actually the second one i made, and them turning out so well is what led me to making even more. i feel like im pretty much entirety happy with them, the omori style turned out cute, and the deltarune style isnt half bad either! i did forget to give them bangs though, like i normally give them in my art, but i was too much of a bum to go back and fix it after i finished :|. i feel like they translated very well ❤️

next would be ralsei, but im doing him last actually, because he has the most to talk about 😤😤

now weve got susie! her hair in her canon form was tricky to translate into the omori style, but i think it was worth it, cause it turned out well! and i think her canon dark world omori sprite might be my favorite i made, her outfit turned out great!! im not as fond of my versions of her design, they didnt translate that well into sprites, but it could be worse lol. her face was a bit difficult to do, since the omori head shape is meant for a human, but i think she turned out good regardless 💜

next is berdly, and im so sorry for him, he turned out roughhh. if i thought someone like susie, with her head, was hard to translate into the omori style, it was nothing compared to trying to turn berdly into it. with his beak and his head feathers and wings and his legs... yeah, it was not a fun time 😔. i tried though, and i dont think its entirely bad! the legs are probably the worst part, they are kinda hard to see, but the rest of it came together... kinda. dont get me started on turning my version of him into a sprite though, i dont wanna talk about it 😫. sorry berdly, if i ever sprite you again ill make it up to you 🩵

next is noelle! she was the first i did, and i feel like she turned out so cute 🥰🥰🥰. her dark world, my version, deltarune style sprite might be my second favorite one i made, i think it actually translated well to sprite art. her fur is a bit rough, gradiants are tough in pixel art, but i dont think its that bad overall. but yeah, im pretty happy with her 🤎

penultimatly, weve got dess! gotta have her, its dess-ember after all!! hers was hard to do, trying to take my own design and alter it to make it more canon (mostly, i just simplified some things, but i dont think it looks enough like a canon sprite :( ill keep trying with it), but i think she turned out cute as well! im not entirely happy with it though, as i said, i might go back to fix up the deltarune styled ones at some point 💚

lastly, weve got ralsei. ohhh ralsei, how cute you are, but how difficult you were 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫. to start off with, i had a goal in mind for the deltarune style sprites. normally, when you look at the canon ralsei sprites, you might notice they look a bit different. obviously theres the hat, and the fur color, but its more than that.

theres so many differences, and yet my goal was to make the sprites lose all those differences, and be more consistent with each other. i didnt think it would be too bad, but it was a rough time. i made his hatless version easily, and i was like, oh, ill just add a hat, change his color, itll be easy!! ...it was not easy 😶‍🌫️. i did that and he looked so wrong, it barely even looked like hat ralsei at all 😖.

i mean, that doesnt look right, right?? so i had to keep editing, and changing both versions, trying to make them better. i spent so much longer on him than anyone else, but at the end, i think it was worth it! i feel like he ended up adorable, but boy was it work 😂

the omori sprites of his were pretty easy though, once i had all the deltarune sprites down i just omori-fied them, took barely any time. i did make his outline purple though, like the headspace denizens, since hes a darkner 🩷

but thats it for that! this is where youd wanna skip if you didnt wanna read all that lol. now for me to yap about this month, and dess!

i feel like this was a pretty productive dess-ember!! i definitely ramped up my art from last year, trying to do as few small drawings as possible. was that a mistake? maybe lol. it was certainly difficult, and led to pretty much every drawing being late because most of them took like 8 hours or so, but i suppose a couple hours late doesnt affect much, and i still did all 31 entries!

and id say while it was a struggle, it was a good thing i did it! i enjoyed my time drawing, and sharing all my art with yalls is always a fun time for me ^^ and i really do like drawing dess, i think i made a pretty good design for her all those years ago (like 2) 😊

there is the question though, of 'what about next year? will you do this again??' and to that i say... i dont actually know haha. i would want to, even if im busy i could always do a smaller one, but the real thing that could affect it is that, in 2025 we are getting more deltarune!!! im more excited than i could ever say, but if we see dess in canon, then i dont know if ill do another dess-ember. there would be my design vs canon design, which would be strange to reconcile with, and i imagine someone would probably do an official month for her of art prompts.

but thats all if she even appears. if she doesnt, well, expect me back next december to do this! if she does, ill have to think about it, so we will see then ^^

anyways, ive had a good month doing this! it may be a bit before i post new art, to give myself a break, but ill be back 😄

bye yall, and happy new year 2025!!! 🥳🥳🥳

[izuruswhore]

haha so tempted to get worse on purpose again

i want to not care anymore.. i fucking hate being aware of whats going on in my life i want to just disappear.. its gotten to a point where im genuinely afraid of meeting new people or even seeing my friends irl- idek if they are my friends anymore- most of them havent texted me in ages which is weird cuz we used to talk constantly and they were the highlight of my day..

its fucking pathetic really- i barely do anything in my life.. i rot in bed every day and my mom thinks im getting better.. IM FUCKING NOT EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY IM ON THE VERGE OF WANTING TO SKIN MYSELF ALIVE WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

people used to like me.. at my worst i had tons of people who loved me, i got attention constantly, there were people i didnt even know drawing me.. not some sona but actually me cuz they thought i was cool enough for that.. as much as life was horrible at my worst and every second i wanted to kms i had people who liked me, i had so many fucking people who liked me, things i did got attention, PEOPLE FUCKING CARED even at my goddamn worst- back then id show off every ugly part of me and there would be people whod like it

now i feel as if if im not perfect no one will like me, people dont like me for myself, they like me for what i can give them or a perfect version of myself, the second i start to struggle people FUCKING LEAVE AND IM SICK OF IT

it hurts so fucking much that one day we were literally talking about getting married, how many kids we'd have and all that shit and then the next she'd dumped me cuz i was too "mentally ill" even tho throughout the entire time we were dating all i ever did was try to make myself better for her, she said she didn't want to fix me but i never asked her to, all i asked is she love me and i gave her everything i could, pushed myself to do things to see her and even tho i wasnt perfect by any means i did so much..

god this all sounds so cringey- i suck so much god damn but whatever- at least ive got my lovely wife <3 love you matt youre perfect even if you probably arent reading this

[eonars]

ive tried like 3 times now so i guess im gonna do this in parts

so last thursday i went out with a man id been talking to off An App since before i went on that work trip, the conversation over text wasnt necessarily flowing ever and there were some long pauses while i was away that had me convinced it was joever but he always popped back up and even asked me how things were going and what i was doing. so we meet up the day after i get back and across 3 different bars and 5 drinks we get on like a house on fire. both like the same music (we were both at the same music festival in early august, talked about that a ton obviously) both play the same games (both main death knight and do very high mythic plus keys in wow) and as we get more comfortable with each other we start holding hands and intertwining legs and stuff while sat down. we make all kinds of plans for future concerts to go to together ranging from aura noir in like 2 weeks to him saying he will let me know if he ends up with a spare ticket to sigur ros in november because if he does he'll definitely take me along. we talk about different horror movies to watch together and he lets me yap on nonstop about fish related stuff, which he's actually super knowledgeable about and tells me i sound so lovely when i talk about it and i explain things so well that anyone could understand them and that it's amazing to listen to. he says he's so proud to know someone so intelligent who might actually do something notable for science and put this country on the map for scientific discoveries. we talk about art and he asks me what my favorites are in the national gallery in town and why and we discuss them. i mention i do art and he asks to see and literally can't contain himself when i show him and says i'm amazingly talented. things are going so well and the conversation about music and games and concerts and art and science has not idled or stopped once that when he's like oh shit i have to run for the train i'm like well instead of running we can continue having drinks here and then wait for the trains to start again at mine? and he's super down so we head back to mine and crowd together on my tiny twin bed in my tiny bedroom sized flat and he lets me put on jewels of the rift, the crunchy jpg quality reuploaded ancient natgeo documentary about cichlids i watch on youtube every time im feeling down. i tell him wow i've never been able to convince anyone to watch jewels of the rift with me before and he's like ohh don't worry i'm here now and about 40 minutes into jewels of the rift things get a bit 😏 but i stop things from going tooooo too far and we both have the worst nights sleep ever on a 90cm wide bed as two 6ft+ people who have been drinking heavily. he leaves at 7:30am and hugs me and quietly says it was really nice to meet me and i tell him to text me when he gets in which he doesn't so i text a little bit later asking if he got in ok. he says he only just woke up then and because i know he has work that night i ask how it's going and he just says it's going ok. i reply with a half joking type thing about how i hopefully didn't give him the german engineering university plague and get left on read so on sunday i text asking if he'd be interested in hanging out again sometime and then put my notifications off and go into the woods. i don't realize he replies 5 min later with "I'm a bit busy these coming weeks. But we can probably go to a concert or something sometime if you want :)" which feels really. not good to read. and so i reply back saying i'm definitely going to the aura noir show we talked about in like 10 days so just let me know and get left on read. it's now thursday and i still haven't heard anything and like.

[theosconfessions]

if youd like to read the stephens from the beginning you can over here :)

if youd like to read the stephens continued you can over here:)

@ohsosims

blake- riv, hey.

river- oh um hi.

blake- yeah i wasnt going to barge in or anything but i um. you werent at breakfast. was just worried you werent...good.

river-im good

blake- okay,right.

river- [pauses] hey um ..blake..last night really..um.

blake- if you were just upset about isla its okay. i get it,man. ive been there. like i said last night i dont want to hold you to something youre not into.

river- blake,shut up.

blake-right sure[clears throat]

river- you didnt let me finish. im upset about isla. yeah. and it was ..the worst timing probably ever just based off of that. i didnt really think and i um..this is weird now.

blake-[scoffs] weird? nooo. no we're normal. completely. yeah.

river- we arent but what i wanted to say was i liked it a lot. being with you. its nice. yeah i um. im glad it was with you.

blake- you are?

river- i am.

blake- then why do i feel like theres a but coming.

river- BUT i ruined things with isla the moment we kissed. we could never go back to hot things were. and i miss her, man. i miss my friend. i dont want that happening with you.

blake- what are you saying,riv?

river- i dont know..i...i dont know. i lost isla. i dont want to lose you.

blake- then you wont have to . if you want to forget it we can just you know..forget it i guess.

river-i dont want to forget it. i just need a second..i dont know.

blake- okay yeah fair. hey i told you rdad i was going to drive your sisters to school so.

river-right.yeah ill be there in a second.

blake-right.

[the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see]

what is this jean/Jeremy/Kevin thing it looks interesting and the art is cool

oh boy oh boy!!!!!!!! i am absolutely going through it anon. so basically there is this book series called all for the game by nora sakavic that you should totally read (the first book is called the foxhole court -- but please check out a list of trigger warnings for it because it is very heavy and deals with a lot of serious and painful topics. i myself have had to disconnect for some of the scenes and come back when i was ready; its completely okay to do so, or to not read the books at all if its uncomfortable). its about gay athletes, guys just going through the absolute worst, the yakuza, fucked up families, a running game of how pathetic can you get answered in 15 different ways by each person, fucked up relationships, all not-so-neatly packaged into a completely made up fictional sport. (its funny because i am NOT a sports person and barely even understand cricket even though i watch it all the time, but i know the rules of exy forwards, backwards, and inside out. its that serious.)

i also need to warn you that the first book is slow. the second book is also kind of slow. i personally didnt have any trouble with it because im more of a character reader and aftg had PLENTYYY to keep me busy, but i think its a fair warning if youre sensitive to pace. however. the payoff is so incredibly worth it. its an amazing read with obsession-worthy characters, detailed and balanced plot beats, flowing and natural dialogue, very creative sports , and the relationships will make you want to reread it twenty thousand times. the romance is also the slowest burn to ever burn. if youre going in for romance at the start, you Will Not Get what you want -- but you will get it. i think we as a fandom focus on the romances a lot (im new so dont take my word for it) but its 1) because we're tumblr dont come and 2) because the romances and relationships are incredibly interesting to see through the lens of the books and vice versa. what i really love most (and youll see this in the ec doc) is that it feels like each and every choice was deliberately made by the author to make the book. like. down to the ice cream flavor they get at one point. especially with the sunshine court, i feel like i can see exactly where she made a choice and what mightve happened if that choice wasnt made. its intoxicated to read. it feels like breathing and it feels like drowning.

i just read the sunshine court (where jean and jeremy are more from) so thats what all the recent stuff has been, but you should read the foxhole court series first for it to make sense. i think tsc is 100000x times better and better written than tfc but you have to work for it lol. and!!!!! the author is on tumblr (@/korakos)! also if you do read it, please tell me!!!!!! you can keep sending anons or you can dm me or you can come to my house and live in my room but tell me!!!!! theres also an extra content doc (thanks @jeansyvesmoreau for sending this to me) between the series' (so after the kings men, before the sunshine court) that you should definitely definitely read. but im getting ahead of myself.

i hope that helps?? or at least doesnt hurt. if you liked the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater, i think this is a good step up. let me know if you have any questions at all!!

okay ive been normal for this whole thing, ranting and incoherent noises below cut:

ANON ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD ITS SO GOOD. ITS SO GOOD. i told mel this but i cant possibly say i love these books because its not necessarily love. its not something i can explain but youll get it if you read it. there is a piece of my soul that was carved out, reformed, and then put back into me by nora sakavic. i dont think ill ever be the same again. i need a therapist who has read these books so they can understand exactly what im going through. each character was like a bomb to me. jean moreau is like a straitjacket. they mean so much to me. theyre nothing. i hate them. i need to feed them breakfast. OUGHHHHHHHHORGHEURGHEOGH. there is so much grief entangled with them but they are so vibrant and full of life it hurts. i cant stop thinking about them. i finished tsc yesterday and ive been sobbing ever since. i am dead serious. i cried myself to sleep last night thinking about one of the characters. i need you to know how real i am being.

i think if i meet nora sakavic i will probably kill her. just fully black out and kill her and not even know it. so i wont meet her for the better! but i need this to be out there. my fingers hurt from typing all this but know that there is MORE in my head. so much more. i am fit to burst with it all. love you anon thanks for asking

[ldpdlexisting]

ive noticed this fandom really likes to assign bad intentionality on louis no matter what he does when its not present in the show at all, when it doesnt even make sense in the show context. the latest example being the fairly popular post implying louis sees daniel as another artpiece to profit from and that is why he said what he did to daniel, that acktually he wasnt trying to save daniel at all he was just being a cold calculating capitalist, when that is clearly not how this show was framing it, not in the writing, the directing, or the performance. everything has to come from a bad place when it comes to louis. everyone kills people and does shitty things (in varying degrees) to their loved ones in this show but everyone but louis is doing it from some pure childish place, so actually theyre less bad - not louis though, his guilt is fake, hes always just pretending, like he could do better but hes purposefully not: this is the twisted illogic of the fandom.

its weird because there are plenty of shitty things louis does because he cannot or does not control his emotions like when he chokes claudia or when he escalates with daniel, but this fandom, unlike with other characters where they can clearly or more fairly delineate when lestat and armand is doing shitty things out of cruelty and shitty things because of trauma, they cannot do the the same for louis. to them louis is like the snake in the garden of eden: everything is actually his fault, his intentions were bad from the beginning, and nothing that has ever happened to him could inform any of his actions.

like what am I missing? is there some 5th dimension of this show I havent seen. Because everything I see involving louis so easily seems to fall off into conspiracy theory absurdity territory. its like you're looking past this show and beyond.

Maybe its because the show is framed as someone's account, and people are always ready to be not just skeptical but have the worst faith reading of a person's account, particularly persons like louis.

But I don't think that is the intention of this show.

[my-castles-crumbling]

Saw a lot of people have been coming out to you and stuff sooo yeah...

Hi! I'm Non binary!

Ive struggled with misgendering since I was a kid. Im afab and as a child I was more feminine than a lot of girls at my school. I had long hair, wore dresses and skirts and such and everyone still mistook me for a boy. There was one incident in high school where I was walking upstairs to the girls changing rooms and the girl in front of me turned around and told me the boys changing rooms were downstairs, needless to say, I was not too pleased with that.

Then, after coming out as enby 2 years later, with the school sending emails to all the teachers, people openly calling me they/them and having my hair cut super short, people stopped misgendering me as a boy and started mistaking me for a girl. Now you may think this was because I was becoming more "feminine" through puberty or whatever but thing is, I wasnt, not noticeably anyway. I used binders and stuff but everyone kept mistaking me for a girl.

Now several years later, people still do this and it's super annoying! But yeah... Thanks for reading all this (if you did that is!) And yeah, just really needed someone to rant to.

Hi!

Honestly, misgendering is the WORST.

I think cis people don't even realize how bad it is, because they're like "Oh, it's not usually on purpose!" But it's like...that almost doesn't matter. it still sucks that people don't see you for you. It's like being poked with a pin all day long- by the end of the day, you're still hurting. And it's even worse when people DO know and just 'forget' or can't be bothered. Like respect isn't hard, you know?

All this to say, I understand so much. It sucks. And I still deal with it ALL the time. And I'm so sorry you have to deal with it too.

I'm here if you ever need to talk/rant!

[spitinsideme]

Worst/best movie you've ever watched?

the worst movie that ive ever watxhed was this italian .... movie ? i feel like i cant even classify it as a movue vecause this was like .. weird .. it was called la bonne and i watched it when i was finding as many lesbian movies as possible and this wasnt even .. maybe ir was a bit gay i guess from one of the girls pov ?? i mesn the gayest thing they did is show each other their pussies and then play sexual bdsm style hide and seek ?? i hobestly dont know rhat was crazy it wasnt even gay tjis was like honoerotic undertones that could be read as manipulative and for other reasons that arent rveb gay .. very entertaining in a way

the besr movie ive ever watxhed is like a top three and those top three are carol, carmilla (2019) and my first summer .. mt first summer was jst very adorable and carol has older lesbian women and thats well fucking hot i fucking love that mocie and carmilla 2019 ???? IT WAS A VAMPIRE !!! AND THEY EVEN SHARED A BLOODY KISS LIKE ACTUAL BLOOD !!! wnd that was so hot mygodd .... jesus fucking christ ... thats the best mocie in my opinion i hate the ending si nuch but god it was so hot .. carmilla ..

[steelycunt]

hii ridi, hope you’re drinking so much tea + that you feel better soon!! 4, 16, and 21 please <3

hii darling thank you so much!!

4. did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

for sure from the top of my head umm eva baltasar, eliza clark, patrick radden keefe as a non fiction writer.. : ^ )

16. what is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

ooh there were quite a few i really didnt like this year but i think in terms of being overhyped the worst had to be on the savage side by tiffany mcdaniel...also just one of the worst books ive ever read in my life it was so bad ive got personal beef with tiffany mcdaniel after it. i can only think the 'dark' themes combined with the pseudo poetic fake pretentious language was a hit with the rupi kaur crowd or something because i know mcdaniel is a really highly regarded author but i genuinely cannot think of a single nice thing to say about that book it wasnt worth the paper it was printed on. absolute garbage im so serious

21. did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

participate absolutely not and tbh i cant recall any major drama outside of booktokers being booktokers as usual like that girl saying when shes reading if theres a long paragraph she skips it and everyone suddenly being shocked that a booktok crowd that seems to enjoy almost exclusively daddydom romances was full of trump supporters. did however get kinda sucked into that lauren oyler takedown drama where ann manov wrote an absolutely scathing review of her essay collection which i found pretty funny. because oyler seems insufferable. so there was that

end of year book asks!!

[roseworth]

Tried to follow only to discover I already am. Good job, past me. Thoughts on the changes made to Rose’s character with each reboot?

YES i have so many thoughts

first of all. the new 52 was the worst thing to ever happen to rose and im not exaggerating even a little. she started out as a superboy side character (???) as an assassin that was hired to kill him if he didnt do what they wanted ? then she became a ravager and hunted people down

but the WORST part of the new52 is that they either didnt know or didnt care about lillian worth and they just. made rose one of slade and adeline's kids. and had him raise her.

also she was the oldest child of her and joey, which is nowhere near the same level of awful as the whitewashing but still makes me uncomfortable

yeah so. new 52 was fucking terrible. that is not rose even a little i do not know this woman

but REBIRTH fixed so much <3 christopher priest my bff <3 i am once again recommending deathstroke 2016 bc it has so many good moments and i think its worth reading

the first time rose showed up lillian worth was mentioned!!!!! she was there!!!!! <33333 the timeline was changed a little but i can forgive that bc!!! LILI!!!!!

the problem is that the book made her hmong instead of cambodian and i dont really know why??? but also ive said it before but,,, as much as it makes me upset bc asian identities shouldnt just be interchangeable,,,, this was the first time it was even mentioned that she was half asian since the 90s!!!! and she had a whole arc about her hmong heritage and her family!!!!!!

AND she didnt kill anyone in that book iirc :') the closest she got to killing someone was when she was in the middle of a breakdown then shado killing him for her instead which!!!! i love so so much bc rose does not kill a lot despite what some writers want you to believe. pre52 she has like maybe 3 murders that i would consider in character so the fact that she doesnt kill anyone in ds2016 is so fucking real

anyways ill also count infinite frontier as a reboot bc i love to talk about my opinions

there werent a lot of clear changes in infinite frontier BUT. technically her cutting her eye out is canon rn. in deathstroke inc theres a flashback of her stabbing her eye, and also in dark knights death metal (?) shes drawn with an eyepatch

then she was in robin 2021 which was . eh. it wasnt BAD for her but it was just kinda her continuing to kill ppl ig :( but she was drawn so nice in that book so ill forgive it

side note i still hate the idea of respawn so that bothered me in this book. also what they did to connor hawke is unforgivable so its a net loss but whatever

anyways i think thats all my thoughts. in conclusion: new52 bad. rebirth mostly good. infinite frontier eh. and my own personal interpretation is perfect always.