#love hate & clickbait

[willmarstudios]

Bookworm Will Review 2023 (#17)

Title: 'Love, Hate & Clickbait'

Author: Liz Bowery

Rating: 2.25/ 5

Review: (MILD SPOILERS)

This was a pretty standard fake dating to real dating slow burn. Not much else I can really say about it other than I wasn't a fan of most of the characters and there were some parts that were just filler.

Not my cup of tea, but if you like this kind of stuff, go for it!

[fxnfiction]

presenting: my 2023 year of reading queer literature (part 1).

next few months focus will be on sapphic books, so swing over some recommendations!

enjoy my funky commentary, im in a weird mood. all my opinions!

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Thom Morgan/Clay Parker - Love, Hate, & Clickbait by Liz Bowery

Milo/Xander - How Not To Date A Dragon by Lana Kole

Ballister Blackheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin - Nimona by N.D. Stevenson 

Vivienne (“Vivi”) Duarte/Heather - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

[skrimbloskromby]

returning from the depths to show off my fictional boyfriend

[awesamforehead]

These kind of videos are getting out of hand we're just making up ccs now

[gaminegay]

i fucking hate Instagram with such passion

[moefling]

So I had this thought months ago that I wanted a fan shirt (I can't remember at the time if this was 1 Fandom in particular or if it started as multiple)

So with the audacity I got from my dad that I can try any craft/ diy and the millennial knowledge that I can just youtube it I decided to embroider a shirt

So I bought a shirt on Amazon (I was looking for a "football shirt" is what at the time I called it but idk if that is right so...) and I picked up some embroidery floss (big question why I bought a pack of mostly green when I got a black shirt and was going to use white floss.... 🤷‍♀️)

So that done comes the real conflict.... what am I embroidering?.....

So I think originally I was going to just make it a Fandom shirt so like any Fandom I was part of or liked... (now it is just a book/ webcomic shirt) but how am I listing them?

Once I started thinking out it I switched to couples and then it changed to include books but that brought even more questions...

So if it's couples do I go by ship name? But some of the books I wanted to use aren't big enough to have a ship name...

So like the couple ao3 tag? But I really don't want to embroider Alex and Henry’s full names....

Just first names? For some reason there is a lot of Alex's (tho now that im thinking about i think the only name that repeated was Charlie) and also what about legal name vs. nickname?

I'd just go with nicknames but what if the couples call each other but their legal name (malec) or they use a different name (zimbits)?

(At some point I switched this to just being books - originally the only webcomics I was including were also published but I added Castle Swimmer at the last moment without thinking so....)

What if I just went with book titles? But what about series? (And some book titles are long...)

Just use the series name! ... but most of the series names are just the MCs first name... and I'm not reping the entire Like Us series just Marrow...

And this logic keeps circling back around...

I tested out doing a little bit of each but I got a little mad at the uneven distribution and I had strong opinions on what I wanted some of them to be ( I love the firstprince ship name but for this project I really wanted to use the title)

I starred doing more planning related to placement and decided to just go with book titles and for series just the first book in the series. (Tho I did use just Tortall and I was a little mad about losing London Calling to Boyfriend Material and I really thought about leaving Captive Prince as Capri)

Once all the planning was done I... actually had to do the thing...

I'm glad I got stabilizer that was washable and worked in my printed so it just took a few tries to get the size correct and I could start

(And then restart after doing a quick Google search on the best way to embroider letters)

It was pretty easy, tho it did take awhile and would have taken longer if I was being really careful about following exact letter shape and stitch length. ....it also didn't help that Poppy realized embroidery floss was an OK sub for yarn to play with...

I did *cough* wait to wash any of the stabilizer off until the very end.... There was a cat in the sink when I finished the first one! It wasn't a problem tho because it washed out super easy and looks great!

... as I was taking the pics I realized i spelled Castle Swimmer wrong 😅 so maybe I'll just cut that one out later...

But overall I'm really happy with it and there is definitely room to add more when I want :) (tho I will have to remember what font and size I used because I was dumb and didn't save that...)

[rayofspades]

.

[corinthiansenamel]

GUYS IF YOU LOVE "RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE" YOU'D ABSOLUTELY LOVE "LOVE, HATE AND CLICKBAIT"

[more-profound-bond]

Queer Books for Pride Month:

"Love, Hate & Clickbait" by Liz Bowery

I can't count how many times I've read this already. It became my comfort book almost instantly. I've never read enemies to lovers this perfect. There's also a huge dose of fake dating thrown in there. I love the political setting, so if it's your cup of tea, definetly give it a read. The characters are really complex and not quite easy to like, but you fall in love with them gradually as they grow and discover themselves. By the end you'll feel like you've known them your whole life.

The plot is great too, but I can honestly recommend this book just because of the way those characters are written. Clay and Thom are definetly very memorable.

[misfits1a]

i need more (chigiri hyoma; tamaki amajiki; senku ishigami; gen asagiri) fics i’m gonna cRY!!!!😭😭💔💔💔

[meri-meri-mwah]

I know some of y'all are aware about the, potential, major spoiler about Luis in RE4R and honestly...

I think it's clickbait.

Idk, but I feel like there wouldn't be a reason for Krauser to get rid of Luis? Maybe it could've been an order from Saddler? Who knows, but I feel like Luis is someone Krauser wouldn't give a shit about. That man got the biggest hate boner for Leon and I think it's way more believable for Krauser to target Leon than Luis. Besides, I can only imagine Krauser injuring Luis so he and Leon can have some "alone time."

If anything, I still think Saddler will personally take Luis out. Those two have history together. Hell, Luis literally has a deep hatred for Saddler and would rather do anything else except work for Saddler again. If Saddler takes care of Luis then this allows Leon (and the players) to feel angered and motivation to avenge Luis' death (especially since he's going to be around longer than in the original). PLUS, let's not forget that Luis wanted Saddler, and his religious friends, dead no matter what (he mentions this in Separate Ways btw).

(This is probably me entering my delulu era, but the trailer couldn't have spoiled something that major anyway. A knife to the back? Pfft, please. Lots of RE characters survived a stab wound)

[batgeance]

damian wayne in tbm2? i don’t think so

[raspberryconverse]

He says that like it's not something that happens at least once a week 😆

[six-demon-bag]

he is my horrible son and i would die for him

[t4tstarvingdog]

guys even when i am losing like hell. well. even then i am winning