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having the flu sucks. my time is consumed by sleep and watching 1 season shows that got cancelled with all the right hooks because some reviewers are stupid as HELL.
#*#like idk i read the reviews and im like.#im begging#suspend ur disbelief for like 0.2 seconds and maybe you would actually enjoy urself once in a while#'a small town with a high stakes game played every year by the graduating class to win a huge pot of money to get outta town'#the reviewer: sounds fake#well duh. no one used their front facing camera to record the games.#LIKE. OFC IT SOUNDS FAKE AND STUPID#first of all it probably does happen second of all that is the point though#'as if this character is more sympathetic' girl they all willingly covered up the hit and run of the protag's twin. including the protag#no one here is supposed to be someone you root for. everyone has a stake in it.#also the worst best girlfriends win at the end so its even BETTER#literally margot's confession to allison/lennon in the ambulance while twisting the oxygen mask cord sent SHIVERS down my spine#love to see a toxic gf winning#and then you've got the big wet eyes of a guy in love in the next show?#and a blindfolded confession thats poetic? SHUT UPPPPPPPP#anyway. in conclusion: they have enough hooks for at least 3 seasons.#like just. roll with it. goddamn.#raaaaahhhhhhhh
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pairing: hoshina soushirou x gn!reader (no prns)
summary: in which he realizes you were the one for him
warnings: none i think !
wc: 1100
Hoshina wasn't a player. He wasn't one to say yes to everyone who came his way nor was he one to lightly pursue just about anyone who slightly interested him— not to mention he didn’t fall easily to begin with. He was a busy man in a dangerous line of work so having a relationship simply didn’t make sense most of the time.
However, this is not to say he hasn’t had a few relationships here and there. He loved those he dated, he really did. He did not believe in dating for the fun of it nor did he believe in starting a relationship he knew would end at some point, but subconsciously he tried not to get attached. He kept his distance and locked away his heart to keep from getting hurt. Was it unfair? Well yes, but he was scared. Everyone has something that terrifies them greatly, this just so happened to be Hoshina’s.
Yet, recently he could tell that something was different with you. It had only been a few months since you started dating, but he feared the shift in his feelings. He knew what it was— he knew very well, but as soon as he admitted it, it would be over. There’d be no going back for him. He knew he was being rather irrational, he knew that if he sat down and confronted these emotions he’d realize they weren’t that big of a deal, but he couldn’t. He’s never been able to.
However, while fighting this kaiju, it became plain obvious that he was simply in denial.
It upset him how important you were to him, but more than that it upset him that he knew he was important to you. You had made it so painfully clear that he meant the absolute world to you and that broke him to pieces every single time.
To him it was easy being alone— he just had to make sure his job was complete before he died. If he could ensure everyone’s safety or at least help Mina out, there was nothing more he wished for. Yet while fighting Kaiju no. 10 today, when he saw his life flash before his eyes, his immediate thought was of you. If he died you’d cry. And that alone was going to get him home alive.
He’d rather die than make you cry. Especially not alone.
As he stood up again, he could see his blood dripping from his wounds and immediately it made him chuckle. You’d cry anyways when you see the state he’s in.
I’ll have to be around to wipe your tears at least, he said to you in his head.
He was incredibly lucky that you didn’t work on the battlefield, his heart simply would not be able to take it. But he did, and for you he’d have to get home safe. Even if no one else cared that much, not even himself, he knew you would.
All of a sudden, it was easy to admit. He was hopelessly in love with you, in a way he didn't know he was capable of. He wished that he would spend the rest of his life with you and he hoped you would spend the rest of yours with him. Perhaps he was just afraid and a little flustered to admit that he was important to someone, especially someone special to him too. He had seen how painful it was for those left behind, a little too often.
But there was an easy solution to that, he’d just get back to you safe every time. He just won’t make you worry and he’ll be there for you. This was supposed to be a dilemma, something he thought he'd stress over, but in the moment he felt eerily relaxed, definitely not like he was fighting an identified grade kaiju. The rest of the fight was a blur, he couldn't remember much. His head was clear but the fatigue had taken over at that point, but before he knew it, the kaiju laid in front of him still.
He was faintly conscious as they rushed him into an ambulance and patched him up. Once he was properly treated and awake, they had warned him to stay put and take it easy, but all he wanted to do was see you.
As soon as he left his assigned room, he immediately bumped into you. You had been waiting to be let in to see him. You took one look at the way he was patched up and tears welled into your eyes. He could tell you didn't mean to, you didn't want to worry him.
“Please don't cry,” he said softly, wiping your tears away. He couldn't help but smile at the sight of you. “I'm perfectly fine.”
“I'm not crying,” you said with a scowl on your face, but the way your voice cracked was not very convincing. “I'm so glad you're back.”
“Can't live without me?” he teased. He knew you couldn't live without him, but he couldn't either. Yet, now he even hated the thought of you living without him, let alone with someone else, so here he was. And here he always will be.
“Shut up,” you said. “You know I can't.”
He knew, but hearing you say that still made his heart flutter. He reached out with his right hand to grab your left and held it carefully. He leaned in to kiss you, but it was so much sloppier than the careful ones he usually gave you. Forgive him, he was terribly exhausted.
“I can't either,” he said, snuggling his face into your shoulder.
“You can't?” you asked, a little surprised. It broke his heart that he had possibly made you feel such way.
“Not for a second,” he said, still avoiding eye contact. “I'd rather die than wake up without you next to me, actually.”
You wouldn’t reply, so he brought his head back up to look at you.
“Oh, don't cry,” he said and chuckled a little, wiping your tears away as he kissed you again. “I didn't mean to make you cry.”
He hadn't let go of your hand and although he was gentle, he held it firmly. He didn't say anything, but he vowed to himself that he'd put a ring on it someday. He wasn't letting go of you ever.
You were the one for him.
#hoshina x reader#hoshina soshiro x reader#soshiro x reader#hoshina soshiro#hoshina#kaiju no. 8 x reader#kaiju no 8 x reader#kn8 x reader#IM SORRY I GENUINELY FEEL LIKE I YAPPED FOR SO LONG FOR THIS TO HAVE NOTHING REALLY#LIKE WHAT WAS ALL THAT FOR TRULY#who knows idk#ANYWAYS TYSSM FOR READING OMG#i still do hope u enjoyed i spent a little too long for this to end up the way it ended up#I AM SO EXCITED TO WATCH HOSHINA EP#i feel like rereading kaiju too#SO MANY HAPPY THINGS HAPPENING !!!!#i need to review his characgter i feel like im truly not understanding enough i do not know him well enough#TAGS PLS WORK I BEG
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On Wednesday before I gave my presentation I confessed to a new employee that I was worried it would be too long and she brightly told me her life hack was to just let AI rewrite things for her. She said I should put in all my talking points and ask ChatGPT to give me a five minute exactly presentation. I was like....how is the most polite possible way (since this is a new colleague I shouldn't get off on the wrong foot with) that I can express that I will Not be taking this advice. Ever. I told her that I didn't think we were allowed to use ChatGPT at this job (we most certainly are not, it is a nightmare for any type of protected information) and also that I prefer to write all of my own work. Despite my best efforts the last part of that was still passive aggressive, lol.
Something about being a writer makes it so that it's almost offensive to me for someone to suggest I use AI to do my work instead? Like, the day I reach the point where I let AI write something for me is the day y'all need to be checking me for brain damage because clearly I'm losing it
#i also told her i was capable of making a 5 minute presentation but that i had too much information to cover to explain the project in 5 min#and she was like oh that makes sense!!#but like im sorry 😭am i the insane one or like....#idk to me suggesting I use AI isn't a helpful suggestion it reads as someone telling me i don't know how to do my job#does that make sense?#i don't consider it a lifehack or working smarter instead of harder. it seems like you're suggesting i am incapable of writing well myself#i know a lot of people right now thing AI is the best thing ever#to me it's a blatant omission that you can't do your own work or think for yourself#this is also even crazier of a suggestion to me because that morning i had TWO managers on call debating wording of a sentence#like we were reveiwing this presentation tightly so that we said exactly what we wanted to and met the standards of our administration#chatgpt is not going to understand the nuances of what we can/cannot say or official/approved wording lol#i think we use ai tools in the sense of like...photoshop generative fill or ai stuff in scientific research/arcgis#but i'm like 99% sure we were banned from using chatgpt over privacy concerns of putting controlled information into it#anyway. idk. i know not everyone writes as well as i do.#but i'd rather read bad writing that came from a person than something that was generated for you tbh#and i will help review my colleagues' writing any day
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went to a comic store today and saw individual issues of idw sonic in person for the first time ever btw . epic win
#not that ive never been to a comic shop before its just the only.one thats anywhere near me#is one i didnt know existed until like a year ago because its in a weird spot#and their hours are very incompatible with the days/times im actually able to go around shopping#and ive also been to other places that sell comics they just never hvae idw sonic#ANYWAYS i got to go today and they had sonic yayyy . and i also got an issue of monster high new scaremester#because ive really been wanting to read that one and havent been able to find it online like . at all. nobody is archiving that thing ....#i only got issue 2 though because they were out of issue 1#and i didnt have a single chance to check for issue 1 when it came out. because of the previously mentioned scheduling curse#nervous that i actually spent money on it because idk if im even gonna like it#ive heard mixed reviews on it and the book that its a continuation of . but fuck it we ball#also if this store carries sonic idk how i never saw it before because i Have been a couple times in the past#maybe they just now started getting it recently?? or just happened to be out the last few times?? idk
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If half alive has 1000 fans I am one of them. If half alive has 1 fan, I am that fan
#text#august rambles#this is brought to you by seeing someone's review for them. and saying they didn't like the ep because it was standard#and that now not yet was better but had a bunch of poor songs. some of them bad#they even said still feel wasn't good because it was appealing too much to 'teen angst'#anyway i couldn't read the rest i had to leave#it was too painful i like the music too much we viewed it from different standpoints ack#i see a lot of people saying half alive is knock off twenty one pilots and like i see what they're saying. they are similar but#why does that mean its a knock off. what if they are just similar. half alive is clearly doing they're own thing. they're not copying them#maybe. that is just what that band is good at doing! the same as twenty one pilots. just cuz twenty one pilots came first doesn't mean#they own the scene. (you can argue they're better at they're music but if you're gonna do that make sure you're comparing the early stuff)#anyway rant about this because. i really like half alive and just dsbkncjnvb you don't need to be a fan#you don't need to think they're awesome. you can have an opinion outside of mine#but please be nice. and remember. it's Your opinion it's not Truth. if you don't like the song. you don't like it#if you think the repetition is boring. its not for you. if the 'angst' is stupid. its not for you. if the song doesn't hold weight.#it's not for you. the artist wrote this. and worked with other people to publish it#clearly they cared and other people saw worth in it. and like!! the fact that they're not big name also means they Can't get away with like#stupid filler stuff. they don't have enough of a name they gotta impress#idk i care too much. i see things like this and im just. ugh. it feels pretentious#half alive
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why did i decide to read the bad reviews of tfc.... pls i'll commit hate crimes
#making my head hurt#idk im probably being a major hypocrite by writing this post out but like be so for real#theres a review like 'this book was trying so hard to test my reading comprehension skills' i am very sad#to tell you#that perhaps u do not have reading comp skills u mindless buffoon#these books fucking flowed like WATER DOWN A STREAM#'as a writer myself' boy i sure hope no one is subjected to ur mindless writing#tw vent#im sorry for anyone reading these tags theyre so unbelievably bitchy and catty
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unpopular opinion maybe?? normalise finishing a book and being like "damn, that was the best thing I've read in a while" and then NOT giving it 5 stars.
#im sorry but like sometimes I read a book and its the best thing I read in a while but I dont wanna give it 5 STARS cos its not SO GOOD#but also its nothing bad#idk if that makes sense#rambling#rambles#random post#random thoughts#thoughts#books#bookish#booklr#like it just doesnt deserve 5 stars#rating#reading#reading 2024#bookworm#book girl#book lovers#book review#bookaholic#bookblr#book aesthetic#unpopular opinion#???#classic academia#academics#academia#academia girlies
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sorry to harp on this but i think long video essays have become this thing that people decide that they don't like personally, and like that's alright, but for some reason they have to justify that dislike by making it a moral discussion rather than something that just comes down to preference and not all of those videos being well made. like you can't just say "i don't like quinton reviews or hbomberguy cause their vids are too long and that's just not for me" you gotta say "quinton reviews and hbomberguy are DISGUSTING people for forcing their audience to watch HALF ASSED CONTENT and oh they just want your MONEY and they're not ARTISTS they don't CARE about you and they're scammers and-"
#like one thing ill agree on is that these would do well with transcripts if people want to get in on them but dont want to watch#which i totally agree on. like i dont like audiobooks or ebooks i prefer to read physical copies cause i process them better#but you dont see me waging war on audiobooks cause i have a hard time processing spoken words with no visual over written ones#because thats a me thing and its the opposite for plenty of people#sorry actually we have to cancel every podcast ever made because they have no visuals and i cant listen for that long#im passionate abt this cause people will harass these creators and call them disgusting freaks with no talent or substance#and like. its super uncalled for??? like their worst crime is that some of the analysis feels unnecessary#you cant even say quinton reviews is just summary either bc he goes into merch and the climate around the shows#idk like. you dont need an ethical reason to not like something. you can just not like something and leave it at that#echoed voice
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Sometimes reading reviews of shows/movies with complicated/controversial characters makes me concerned at other people's lack of empathy. Or maybe I'm too empathetic 🤔
#mostly this is abt controversial characters#like when someone is going thru a tough thing but is somewhat of a shitty person#and the way people mock or blame them#and im meanwhile like: i wish i could leap thru the screen and protect you#my main example is the translator from saving private ryan 😔😔#they could never make me hate you upham!!!!#but man i was reading thru reviews of baby reindeer and a lot of the people concerned me#yeah the mc is a controversial kinda shitty guy who keeps making bad decisions#i yelled at the screen but it was but i understood why he was doing what he wss doing#and i was moreso like 'aaaahhh what are you doing man :< im scared for you'#meanwhile people in reviews are like HES SO STUPID HES SUCH A COWARD#oh my god do you guys have no level of empathy??????#people are not perfect!! you can acknowledge that without being so rude jfc#idk the way people treat characters like this scare me :<#but tbh i feel bad for everyone. im just very liable to empathy#to the point of it being bad 😭😭😭#woobies i guess.#i dont even want to name some 😭😭😭#idk its just like empathy is a button inside me that gets pressed easily#its just always little things that get me#like that scene in anatomy of a fall where shes eating in the bed WAUGH#im so easy 😭😭#catie.rambling.txt
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im no letterboxd user but i Am a lesbian who enjoys historical romance and paleontology so no one is in any way surprised that i am indeed very normal about ammonite (2020)
#i have bernadette banner’s costume reviews to thank for this discovery but like. i’d been meaning to watch this film for ages#i had to pause it bc its 2am but i have like 45 mins left and im so normal#it literally feels like a fanfic and i DONT mean that derisively i mean it as highest praise#like the TROPES the GENTLE TOUCHED the way it ALL COMES TO A HEAD and they just!!!! give in!!!!!#the THEMATIC RESONANCE of the ammonites being charlottes limitations and the icthyosaur skull being the thing that finally#brings their feelings to the surface its just so!!!!!!!!#anyway goodnight#ammonite 2020#i guess i’ll tag it w the film idk who goes in that tag to read half-baked ramblings but#oh well#shut up chili
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watched a book review today and wow Reads With Rachel articulated this point really well and i can finally explain in words why so many of those "greek retellings" that've been churned out recently rub me the wrong way (source)
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...and Ariadne is the daughter of Mih-nos? My-nos? Her dad, who is always threatening to kill her? And I wasn't really sure... um... what was stopping him? Or... why that wouldn't be allowed? The politics - like, let's be so serious - the politics (and the religion honestly) went sort of immediately, over my head? Just... [imitates whooshing sound]. The way it was fed to us was fed in, not in a way that sticks. Although, again, I wonder if that is very subjective and I wonder if the reason it's so subjective to me is because again I am not a Greek-Mythology-educated girlie. I am left to wonder if a lot of these retellings, honestly, are relying on the reader to know Greek Mythology as well as the author does? Sort of like the author is trying to like take a shortcut? To building out their lore by relying on what is already known by the people who do know a lot about Greek Mythology? Sort of like how in fanfiction, there is already things that are like, like, baseline, level of knowledge. Like you're reading fanfiction because you already have like a connection with this - like with Reylo, which this author was a - a Reylo fanfiction writer - there's sort of like this already... like it's established connection with certain things - like you already know, right? And that's why you, you read it, is because it's familiar, you don't have to re-establish any new baseline, you already have your baseline. And then from there, you do cool and new things jumping off of that. I feel like I am not at baseline, here. So again it, it feels sort of like a shortcut was taken using lore that was already known (I assume!) But it's known to them, not to me. If you're going to write Greek retellings and want to appear to a br - appeal to a broader audience, write for the girlies that get it, and for the girlies that don't [laughs]. Or don't, do whatever you want, I'm just saying that a lot of this was lost on me, and if I wasn't lost, if the author had filled in more gaps, maybe I would have enjoyed it more.
#like damn... DAMN its something i've been thinking for a while now but she put it into words !!!#also i feel like extrapolating off of this point. we can also see how so many people TREAT greek mythology with black and white fandom#thinking. which leads to these retellings coming across as so clunky. instead of approaching greek mythology stories with a more humanizing#perspective ig. idk im very tired now and i dont have all the words. but like. it also feels like#so many people trying to do greek retellings are just. not actually researching the myths they're retelling at all.#they're reading the wikipedia pages and thats it.#video#books#book reviews#undescribed#youtube link#cricket.chatterbox#booktok
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I finished all new hawkeye omgg
#all new hawkeye#my initial thoughts was that i loved it#reading the reviews kinda ruined the vibe lol#ik it had some big shoes to fill after the fraction aja run#but i still thought it was giving the vibe#i havent read much kate stuff besides the fraction stuff and young avengers#so idk if she was done well or not#the water color panels were so nice#im conflicted abt the ending#cause if things ars chill now how does it get shittier later?#but either way i really liked it lol#clint barton#hawkeye#kate bishop#im not sure how i felt abt kates backstory parts tho#they didnt give as much as clints idk
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It's really interesting to me how varied the reviews on veilguard are - I've seen so many people praise it, talking about how amazing it is. Both new and old fans - but just as many people saying how terrible it is and filing for a refund after 2-3 hours.
I fall somewhere in the middle of that rn, I'm nowhere near the end of the game and have been disappointed by a massive pile of things in it - but also see some good in it still. I love the characters above all, even with some really, really painfully awkward and badly written dialogue. If all of the dialogue was that I would've probably dropped the game, thankfully there's both good and bad dialogue. Some of it works, while some absolutely does not.
Above all to me it truly does feel like a dragon age game bc I have to overlook a pile of jank to find the enjoyable bits LMAO, that for me has been the experience with all of the games
#idk man. Im still enjoying it despite it all#but then again Im actively fighting to get the utmost enjoyment out of it. Youll have to pry dragon age from my dead stiff hands#I will eat everything dragon age up when offered. I may complain the whole time but Ill eat anyway. and somehow find enjoyment out of it#veilguard livejournal#I had a text post tag but I forgot#Im going to save like. a bigger review for once Im done with it#bc I cannot really fully review the writing etc if Im in the smack dab middle of the story and character arcs#is anyone even reading these I have no idea nor do I care I just have to put my thoughts somewhere#dragon age#dav
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statute of limitations (my ability to remember) just ran out on one of my fics so i can read it like someone else wrote it YAY
#yea im self obsessed enough that im seriously excited to just read my own fic idc#piece by quiet piece you will ALWAYS be famous#i think itll be fun to see what things have changed in my writing since then#also just idk everyone really said the characterisations were really good and i feel like its a bit nebulous for me rn#so it might be nice to find something grounded there ykwim#i was gonna review the next chapter of sugarspun tomorrow but maybe ill do fuckall and read this instead#idk i have this strange thing of 'you should post smth new on the weekend so people can read it'#girl i dont think employed people are reading your yaoi i think its ok to post on a wednesday. seriously.
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dnf'd the pairing 😍
#can't remember the last time i gave less of a shit about a book <333#im freeeeeeee#proud of myself for putting down a book 72% of the way through like i normally would really just push through to the end but#that just shows how Awful this book was#my tolerance for bad books steadily decreases the older i get. i just want to read stuff im going to enjoy#and i felt so validated scrolling through goodreads and seeing all the 1 and 2 star reviews#i mean. that mulan retelling was insufferable. but at least i finished it!!!#the pairing had no heart or soul to it. no passion. it felt lazy. idk if the author had fun writing it bc i didn't feel Anything#nobody felt Real. everyone was so hot and gorgeous and charismatic and let's not talk about the italian tour guide who talked like mario#some weird utopia where everyone's so sexy and fun and down to fuck all the time. no thanks#it goes back to the whole 'so fluffy i have to roll my eyes' point i mentioned earlier. doesn't work for me
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its kind of crazy how my first review was 3 paragraphs long and now my reviews are like. 6-8 paragraphs long. what am i doing to myself fhdk
#mara reads#i know tho im actually trying to like. Actually Have A Review idk#anyways i hope the longer reviews are ok...
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