#the snowball effect

[drippling-thoughts]

I saw your Snowball Effect post. Why is no one talking about how Emma's eyes are blue in the book but not on the cover? The mismatch is breaking the immersion for me. It's important for me to know what the MCs look like reliably

Omg you are right, i have never noticed until now as I didnt look that often/closely at the cover as I unfortunately don't own the paperprint, just the e-book😅

I honestly agree with you, the illustrator nailed Emmas grumpy gaze and curves and I am quite happy with the drawing of Regan, but I generally am much happier with this fan drawing of Emma that captures her hair color better ("between dark blonde and light brown") plus shows her blue button-up with Regan from @kendle.readraws on instagram:

[lgbtqreads]

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[djmysteryreader]

The Snowball Effect

I think I’ve mentioned before that one of the biggest genres I read is romance. To be totally transparent, I mostly used to just read specifically sapphic romance. Nowadays, I read pretty much anything but stories about women finding love with other women are still a big fave for me. And because I’ve read so much of the genre, I’ve previously read several books by Haley Cass including Those Who Wait which is the novel where the characters of Regan and Emma appeared first.

In The Snowball Effect, we meet Regan first. She’s bubbly and outgoing and literally chaotic in a charming way, though when she interacts with Emma the first time, Emma doesn’t see it that way. Emma lives for a schedule and for as little chaos as possible so obviously Regan annoys the hell out of her. Through their mutual friend Sutton, they end up as temporary roommates and from there the shenanigans ensue. I can’t really say much about the shenanigans because they make the book a delight and I don’t want to spoil that for y’all.

There’s something about Cass’s writing that I just really enjoy every time I pick up one of her books. Her books are like sitting in the sun on a Sunday afternoon. They’re bright and warm and you don’t really want them to end. This one in particular hit on some tropes that are favorites of mine; frenemies to lovers with a fake dating aspect. The balance of Regan’s very outgoing and chaotic personality with Emma’s more subdued and precise personality had me locked in on this book because there’s nothing I love more than a distinctly differing couple. Plus, the process of acquaintance to friends to romance was a good time.

I will note that while you can read this without reading Those Who Wait, I think that you’d get a better understanding of the connections between these characters if you do. Plus it’s another solid sapphic read by Cass. A secondary note I have is that while I love Regan’s character, she is a little intense sometimes and that intensity can read as a little too fictional. I think that Cass does pretty well in reeling it in but it is a little bit of an extreme representation of ADHD. (As someone married to a lovely lady with ADHD, some of it is absolutely true, though.)

Still, I definitely recommend, especially if you’re looking for a sapphic romance or even looking to read another Haley Cass novel.

[happygirl2oo2]

Just found a new face-claim for my aesthetic board for Sutton Spencer and I'm fully obsessed with it, like, look at herrrr

The face-claim is a model called Erin Perise btw, this is her Insta

[number1spongebobfan]

Woah Jenny Wakeman is in SpongeBob! Cool!

[1esbrarian]

what are you reading?

The Snowball Effect by Haley Cass

For the first time, Regan Gallagher is facing the world without her best friend by her side ��� no, Sutton isn’t dead but she is in Rome, following her dreams. And Regan really is thrilled for her. Left to her own devices, she’s doing… fine. Oh, except for the fact that her new roommate, Emma Bordeaux, has hated Regan since the literal day they’d met two years ago. Sure, most of their interactions end in disaster and Regan is the root cause, but they are all accidents! She’ll win Emma over though; she’s determined to make this living arrangement work come hell or high water. Emma never planned on finding herself living with the most frustrating person she’d ever met, but for rent this low, she’s positive that she can put up with anything Regan throws her way. What she isn’t sure she can handle is her mom returning to her life, wanting to bond with Emma. She definitely doesn’t know how to manage her mom believing that she and Regan are a couple. And she doesn’t want to deal with the fact that Regan seems far too into acting the part. Perhaps the most daunting aspect of all is realizing that she might have been wrong about Regan all along…

[sociallyakwardgirly]

Ireland, UK, portugal and Switzerland in crisis talks yesterday to withdraw possibly. Ireland, Switzerland and now estonia do not want to perform. France will only go on if they get to say a message. This is the EBU's bed now they lie in it

FREE PALESTINE 🍉, BAN ISRAHELL

[toonheartz]

BIGASS IMAGE TO GRAB YOUR ATTENTION

ok hi

so you MIGHT know disney is currently a pressure target due to their monetary contributions to the ongoing conflict! (idk what will get this post censored sorry) it's ok if you didnt. now you know!

let me just say, if you're the kind of armchair activist that only just goes around harassing fans of things instead of actual activism. ngl you're a prick. this isn't gonna help ANYONE and will either make the person A, think "wow this person is a jerk, i'm not gonna listen to them", or B, feel forced to apologize for being excited for one of their favorite, neglected series getting a remake and feel miserable.

this isn't how we get things done. this isn't how we make positive change. misery HALTS the motivation needed to drive change.

what we NEED to do is organize something to pressure disney to withdraw their funding. to let them know, yes! we are interested in your product. HOWEVER, due to what you're doing we unfortunately can't support you.

if we're loud enough, it may create a snowball effect of more people contributing. if anyone has any ideas of how we (individually or as a group) can pressure disney by telling them we won't support their product, please let me know!!

and if we win?

well, we'll have a game to look forward to :]

[ratsbanes]

yknow why people refuse to believe mori abused dazai? because we werent explicitly shown mori telling dazai hes worthless or shooting him or hitting him or grabbing dazai by the hair and forcing him into the mafia.

[fate-defiant]

something something Mytho's entire character being, as @schafpudel so eloquently put it, associated with self destruction; something something the heartless princes inability to connect with the world and care; something something the raven!Mytho's hair trigger temper and capricioussness; something something Drosselemeyer's personality and what his life and interpersonal relationships must've looked like when he was still a mortal human man; something something Mytho's entire being as an expression of trauma, of loneliness, of psychological struggles of his author.

[drippling-thoughts]

why are there zero posts on The snowball effect by Haley Cass?? I get that it only released 2 months ago but i would say its her second best book yet, at times even better than Those who wait, if she will release a good sequel I would even go as far as saying her best. Regan and Emma were hilarious and their banter was perfect, also enemies to friends to lovers plus the they were roommates trope, what do you want more??

[branched-man]

so funny to me that the cause started letting brnine into meetings and brnine told them to stop pissing around and get their shit together and the cause immediately started stacking wins in the faction turn. brnine remains the most undefeated loser of all time

[lx1920jmax]

We continue the snow battle. (I got quite a lot of pages.)

To be continued…

[herocraftman643]

I drew the Spongebob episode Snowball Effect in MS Paint for my art class

[radioactive-earthshine]

We really need to talk about Kon's 20 hour long fever dream he had as a result of a mental breakdown because Bart was in a coma and he was convinced he was going to die more.

[quillkiller]

broooo thank GOD your talking about grindledore. Like they were the one who got me into the Marauders (and fandom in general!). They were everything to 12 yo me. I’ve been neglecting them for years and now you’ve awoken an age old beast that’s just filled to the brim with grindledore and shitty amvs.

anyways this is just a long winded way of saying I really love that your into them and would love to know your head cannons on them <3. (I am kicking my feet and giggling)

GRINDELDORES UNITE !!!!!!!

me and kara have been going crazy over them .. we watched dumbledores secrets the other day and we’re watching the other two this week 🤍 so here’s some of mine and kara’s yapping in neat little bullet points !!

neither one of them is good and neither one of them is bad. they both become leader figures for the oppossing sides (good and evil) out of pure spite and pride, refusing to back down. it’s canon that grindelwald regretted everything, and it’s canon that albus tells harry that he’s not a good man/and is power hungry. THEY COULDVE MET IN THE MIDDLE !!!!!! INSTEAD OF FEELING BETRAYED !!!! but they were so young and so ambitious and passionate and they were going to change the WORLD

i think that. if they had met in the middle / if we’re talking a canon divergence. they wouldve just continued to be a little morally fucked up, albus would become a professor but not headmaster, gellert wouldve been his creepy mysterious husband, and they wouldve just continue to experiment with dark arts on the weekends behind closed doors (<- and also. for sexual reasons)

since we’re talking hc’s. aint no way albus didnt use the blood pact trying to strangle him if he even so much as thought of hurting grindelwald while wanking. so jot that down

i also think they wouldve been a better support system for harry together … albus is too reckless and doesn’t communicate or talks in fucking infuriating riddles and i think gellert is the only one who can sort of see through him and properly understand him. i think albus often wishes gellert were there whenever he had to make difficult decisions. gellert is canonically his equal, and albus misses him like a lung and can never tell anyone because gellert is the one he has to defeat.

i believe gellert wanted albus to save him during their last battle. he gives up so easily, doesn’t fight back just because his plan was revealed ? stupid. he wanted albus to save him. ’i was never your enemy, not then not now’

also. ’who will love you now, dumbledore?’ lots of people will. lots of people love and respect albus but NO ONE KNOWS HIMMMMM. the only two people who actually really know him is his brother who can barely stand to look at him and his first love whose locked up in nurmengard. and if i said albus is a lily evans variant . what then. never actually being seen . always cursed to be the saviour while harbouring so many complicated and dark urges .

we also talked about ^ the canon divergence and how gellert would be such an exasparated husband. everyone loves albus. gellert isn’t capable of being pleasant in the same way albus is pleasant. albus is able to blend in and make people like him, gellert was expelled from durmstrang and is a downright cunt who wont put in an effort to be liked by people he doesnt care about

i also believe they wouldve been in a secret relationship. like they meet in 1899 and even if it IS the wizarding world, i dont think they were that open-minded about same sex couples back then. so it would drive gellert INSANE !!! he can’t even put a possessive arm around albus at the #function to mark his territory . albus would tease him for how grumpy he is. as if albus isn’t listing dark spells in his head whenever someone flirts with gellert and whispers them in his ear while they fuck in some gala closet or whatever

also. me and kara fully and completely ignore the fucking quillin or deer or whatever kneeling for albus. like what the fuck was that. albus being pure of heart and having good intentions ? when it’s canon that he tells harry he’s not good and shouldnt be trusted in a position of power ? we are blatantly ignoring that as ’canon’ . like, the heartbreaking thing about them is that neither of them are bad and neither of them are good and they couldve met in the middle. but didnt . and the result is a two month summer fling haunting you for the rest of your lives until both of you die in your own towers. THEY COULDVE HAD IT ALLLLLLLL . THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS YOU IS THE PERSON YOU HAVE TO DEFEAT !!!!!!!!!!! sick and twisted .