#one minute review

[meaninginmakeup]

You can watch the full one minute review on Instagram or Tiktok.

As seen on the kdrama Miss Night and Day! I think this brush is cute, but I know not everyone is going to be able to hold it very well (especially those with grip issues), since it doesn’t have a traditional handle like a traditional brush. I was definitely more careful brushing my hair with this product, because I didn’t want to accidentally drop it. But I did notice it helped tame my flyaway hairs so they weren’t as noticeable, which was nice! I was surprised even though the bristles were average length, as long as I sectioned my hair off, it brushed through my hair with ease. I used a detangler before using this brush, and it worked amazingly well. I also love the fact that it came with a little stand to prevent the bristles from getting bent out of shape during travel for example. It works well, and it’s a super cute option that I can see other people loving for the aesthetic as well!

It is worth noting that it does say if you deal with eczema or psoriasis of the scalp, you don’t want to be using this brush directly on the scalp. So keep that in mind. Otherwise I definitely enjoyed this one and give it four out of five stars.

As an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. There are six different colors to choose from on Amazon! Rose gold (that I am showing off in my video), black, white, metallic red, silver, and champagne.

You can buy the heart hair brush here: https://amzn.to/3RQKtTU

[gnomeantics]

i was watching the new quinton reviews video and this computer immediately stuck out to me because ??? so i stuck it into MS paint and i've discovered that the computers of mid-late icarly are on a whole other level & i want whatever this OS has going on. it is a gender to me

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[greengirllover]

[goldom]

I'M SURE THIS IS A GOOD LIFE CHOICE THAT WON'T HURT ME FINANCIALLY OR EMOTIONALLY

[quaranmine]

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

[therossgarden]

Personal review regarding what if…? season 2 episode 8 (spoilers)

No ok, I must admit, the episode was good in some aspects.

Wanda was majestic. Loki and Scott were hilarious and I loved every single moment with them.

Thor was amazing, dark and serious out of loss but still enjoyable, and the crumbs of his relationship with Hela were very nice.

I’ve actually liked Tony for the very first time in my life, probably because I tend to like him a lot more in AUs and fanfictions than I do in the normal timeline.

And then… there were those two.

I will never comprehend why marvel wants Steve to be so dependent on Peggy. And I will never comprehend why, to make him interact with her, they have to destroy or sideline every other relationship he has built, or make his character flat.

Bucky being friends with Scott was amazing, but the fact that him and Steve interacted like two times was extremely disappointing. You’d expect “best friends in every universe”, if you dislike the romantic pairing so much, to acknowledge themselves for more than a few scenes, in only one of which they’re in frame together (Bucky was literally 😐 while his best friend disappeared, come on now).

And the storyline about Peggy coming from another world to save the universe was just… Mbah. It could’ve been executed in another way without including her and it still would have made sense. It really feels like a Y/N insert.

Seeing literally any other character was so good, so fun, and they had to ruin it this way, making Peggy once again the self insert and girlboss she didn’t need to be.

Plus, forgive my constant complaining, but it’s extremely infuriating how all of Steve’s friends were eliminated to put the focus solely on Peggy. Where’s Sam? Where’s Nat? Where’s Clint? It’s not an underrated friendship we’re talking about, a big chunk of the fandom loves the cap quartet or team cap, and after civil war it would have been nice to see them interact, especially after its popularity and popular demand. Outlaw team cap would have been glorious, a good chance to bring back many characters who aren’t here anymore in the right way, and involve characters that are rarely involved in What if in the storyline, for a change.

The treatment of Sam in this series particularly angers me, and even more so in this episode. I understand not involving him in other storylines, but Sam was a big part of CATWS and he wasn’t even in the episode centered on that film. What, because Steve met him while running he can’t be introduced in any other way? And oh, there’s no excuse for this episode. If there was one episode they could have placed Sam in, it was this one. Sam was there in infinity war, where the mess happened, and he should have been with the other avengers in this one.

If marvel wanted to involve someone from another universe so bad, it should have been a Captain America Sam from another universe. Can you imagine the poetry of seeing Steve and Nat again after endgame? Can you imagine having closure with them both, and having fun in the process? It would have been so great.

Another great storyline without involving characters from other universes would have been one where Steve, who touched the time stone, accidentally brought everyone in the past, and he was the only one to remember it. And to go back and prevent everyone’s distraction, he had to recruit the avengers, who don’t know him and don’t trust him but that in the end become his friends and companions. It would have been so interesting to see the original avengers involved in something different from being some side characters or extras in the one woman show that seems to be What if, constantly centered around the same bland, one dimensional reimagined side character. Peggy’s blandness is so obvious in these episodes (aside for some random remarks that made me smile) that literally everyone who’s involved directly with her must be bland like her, otherwise risking to overshadow her.

I don’t think I was supposed to cringe and look away as much as I did during Steggy’s forced scenes, but I did. If they had to force Steggy and Peggy down our throats, at least they could have done something different from the same bland and boring storyline as always. I wouldn’t be as mad as I am now if Peggy and Steve’s relationship wasn’t as bland. I would have preferred an enemies to lovers type of twist or change, where Steve doesn’t trust Peggy and struggles with her because he sees in her a different version of the Peggy that died in that universe. But noooo, god forbid, let’s go with the same old song.

An episode five or ten minutes longer with a better, avengers-centric or Steve-centric storyline would have been much better than what we got.

And given that this was my most anticipated episode, I was very disappointed by it. I hope for the next seasons, if there’s other ones, Marvel will listen to the general complaint regarding Peggy and will give her a break. I don’t think any of the original avengers or relevant MCU characters made as much appearances as Peggy, and being a main focus in four episodes out of nine is ridiculous.

[goldensunset]

everyone told me she was terrifying but they didn’t tell me she was so cool and nice

[mermaidsirennikita]

And I should say, on a less thinky note, all historical romance readers who aren't giving Kerri Maniscalco's Princes of Sin series a try... You're really missing out. Like. Right now I'm kicking my feet at this heroine (girl reporter at large struggling to get the hot goss so she can support her family, it's very much giving Eleanor Ramsay in The Duke's Perfect Wife) watches the Prince of Gluttony (he doesn't go by that as his first name, don't worry) walk into a ballroom with a woman on each arm and spends the next five pages bitching to her best friend about how

HE'S HIDING SOMETHING

IT GOES STRAIGHT TO THE TOP

YOU'LL SEE! YOU'LL ALL SEE! I WILL DESTROY HIM!

while her friend is like "I mean it sounds like you just want him to fuck your lights out but whatever"

[and be not afraid, he does want to drink her bathwater]

It's just SOOOOOOOOO bluestocking/rake that it PAINS ME

(and then in the original trilogy you get the classic "I was half a virgin when I met you" heartache of back and forth trust issues, the second has the dumbest man on earth... Hell... whatever.... get absolutely schooled by an ice queen whose conceal don't feel~-itude gradually shatters due to his bewitching lack of chill)

(it's just so good! and also hot! Emilia sucks dick in a gondola! And swallows!)

[wrenhavenriver]

overhearing the students i was helping in class today say "she's so sweet!" as they leave and then the professor coming up to ask me if i'm going into education because he thinks i'm really good at teaching

[macaronitrash]

finally watching love lies bleeding and im transcending. this is what the lesbian gaze looks like. i wanna crawl into kristen stewart’s eye bags.

[silentreigns]

Not even being dramatic when I say this is the 2nd worst gymnastics scandal after Sydney 2000. The FIG should be ASHAMED of themselves for their handling of this Olympics

[wyrdle]

My basic thoughts about the Fiona and Cake ending is: End concepts are great, execution not so much. I don't think there would be as much torn up folks about reuniting Simon and Betty/having magic in Fiona's world if execution had been better haha.

Missed opportunities with this rich cast, hope to see it rectified in fic.

[borealopelta]

the most italian thing i've found in italy so far was a 1 star google review of a nearby church complaining that it was annoying that they rang the bells to signal the time "like everyone doesn't have a watch now" man what do you think church bells are for