#which is a lot of yachts. so I'm winning I guess

[hellonearthtoday]

Curly Shepard and Ponyboy Curtis posting 🙂 Ignore how their designs and also my style change on a whim. I was indecisive for a little. leave me be. Curly looks a lot different with his hair still growing in, go easy on him...those monsters shaved it😕

Neither of them are annoyed or pissed off they literally just look like that. Resting bitch faces that could kill the elderly. Curly is probably thinking of the best excuse he can to not do his English homework and idk ponyboy is thinking about a weird tree he saw walking home

[ceasarslegion]

Yes you do cmon

So I used to watch this show called the wall. The idea of it is basically that it's giant plinko. You have a team of 2 and one gets 2 sets of balls: the first set determines how much money they win, the second set determines how much of that money they then lose. The numbers go all the way from 1 dollar to the 1 million dollar slot. Seems like a simple concept right? You try to win as much as you can and then lose as little of that as possible. Except there is a catch.

The other member of the team is brought into a separate room and given a contract. They don't know how much money is left on the board by the end of the whole round. They are given 2 choices: either sign and walk away with a guaranteed but lesser sum, or tear it up and take their chances with whatever their partner managed to keep on the wall which again, they don't know. If they sign, the entire sum on the wall is rendered void and they have to take whatever they offered on the contract.

There was this one married couple who played this episode. The wife was the one playing the wall while her husband was taken to the contract room. The wife ended up killing it, she hit the tiny million box multiple times. Everyone was going wild from how crazy her luck was. When the losing round came around she also hit it, but ended the match with 1.4 million dollars. Their family was there crying about how they could repay all their debts, pay off the house, get a nice car, go on vacation, the stuff every like, middle class (I'm guessing) family thinks to do with 1.4 million dollars instead of buying a yacht.

And then it cut to the husband who was offered 150k guaranteed. Which is not nothing, don't get me wrong, that's still a lot of money, but it's not "pay off every family members debt forever along with an entire suburban house and a nice car and send all the kids to college without predatory student loans" money.

He signed it. The motherfucker signed it.

Do you guys wanna know about the worst game show fumble I ever witnessed that I know is brought up in every fight that couple has to this day

[dribs-and-drabbles]

I finally have a day off!! (The last one I had was thirteen days ago 🤪)

I mean, I do love my job but it can be A Lot™ sometimes and varies between normal working hours and long days and evenings...which is affecting my watching and commenting of BL capabilities. And of course I miss interacting with y'all's posts...but here's where I am...

Enchante ep 10

Although not the perfect ending (has that ever happened?), it was still good and I do like this series. I want to do a proper write up of the ep...if only to complete my series of posts rather than a need I have to write about it...and I'll get round to it at some point. Along with the slightly disappointing plot, I was a little disappointed by the choices of visual details...which I felt didn't satisfactorily follow the patterns set up earlier in the series. But whatever...

Cutie Pie ep 7

I'm still frowning, still wishing I could love it as much as others do, still disappointed by the poor representation of communication, honestly, and CONSENT. I love these characters but I don't love how they are interacting with each other...and I don't think much would need to be changed for them to have healthier relationships and still have the level of pining and uncertainty the story desires them to have. *sigh* Oh and I might not be able to watch ep 8 because of the 18+ rating. And at this point I just feel meh about it *shrugs*

Kinnporsche ep 1

I LOVED IT!! SO SO MUCH! I'm not even bothered by the characters' questionable morals. And Porsche and Chay's brotherly love just about ended me. I mean, how can a series make me cry in the FIRST EPISODE?! Is this a sign of how it's going to go? All sexy motherfu*kers one second and tugging on my heartstrings the next? Ok yes, I'm here for that.

Cupid's Last Wish ep 2

I'm still finding the body swap a bit... *shudders* ...but the actors are keeping me engaged. I do appreciate Korn and Win have very different personalities than Phupha and Tian, which is making it easier for me to separate them in my brain. I still think Win is a mean, ungrateful little sh*t...but *something something the trauma of his father's death something something* and I guess he'll get his redemption arc. But honestly, the way he's been towards Korn, Korn is better off without him...but, again, whatever.

Star in my Mind ep 1

Ahhhh Joong my beloved. So this seems like this is a 'generally mutual pining but either miscommunication or unable to communicate' type storyline at play here. Which, fine, if it's done well. I thought Dunk was okay, a bit over-expressive at times, but Joong steals the scene every time. I love that he's playing almost the opposite character to Ming in 2 Moons 2 (moody vs puppy) and because of this every time Khabkhleun smiles it's even more radiant. I love all the friends, I squealed when I saw JJ...and Samantha and Yacht...and I hope Tingting and Phaphaeng become a couple too 🤞🏽

Secret Crush on You ep 9

I haven't written about his series yet...and whilst I do like some of the plot and characters' dynamics...there's SO MUCH CRINGE...and also a few questionable choices. Too much for me to write about here...and I also don't think I need to at all. I like what the show is trying to do, I just think it tries too hard in some places and unfortunately not hard enough in others. But I'm not going to pull it down for all of you who do love it. And Daisy and Intouch have stolen my heart dammit.

[lizzybeth1986]

Hey, it's the Kiara Deserves Better™ anon! I haven't had the chance to finish it until recently. Your essay was great as always and highlighted why I'm so frustrated with how they've written Kiara. I'm tempted to ask you for another essay, but I'm not sure what to ask for xD. But I figured since you've written so much for me already, I thought I'd share about me: I want to replay and do Hana's route because she deserves better as always, so are there any diamond choices you would *not* pick?

Ahhh yes! I remember you xD I'm always happy to churn out essays as long as I know what I'm talking about 😅😅 I'm glad we agree about how frustrating (and downright disgushing) the treatment for Kiara was. I can't promise to do entire essays on her BUT I sure am planning some fanfic prominently featuring her and Hana 😃 I'm just in two minds because either I'll need to wait until TRH QTs are over or I'll need to abandon my QTs altogether. But I have loads of ideas and I'm impatient to start!!

Okay soooo...which Hana scenes wouldn't I pick? I think that depends on what kind of diamond content you wouldn't like, but rn I'll go with the ones I feel have least value in terms of actually getting to know her.

A lot of the times my problem is that you can tell when they wrote a scene clearly so you could gain advantages, rather than anything related to Hana herself. In such scenes she is not important - how the MC can use her (and at least on one occasion steal credit for Hana's creativity) is. Which bleeds into my overall problem with the canon Hana and MC dynamic (friendship or romantic) itself. Like, when you have to aggressively rewrite whole parts of canon in your fanfic to make your MC seem like a better friend at least...you know there is something wrong.

Book 1: Most of the scenes are top level! Cordonian Waltz...Piano Scene...Yacht scene...Her Confession Scene...Her Finale Scene...all very beautiful and very unique and they all explored different facets of her character. Like even the ones that are about skill or give perks have space for HER personally!

Perhaps some of the scenes in Applewood you can skip, but that would mean you won't get much time to interact with her on closer level there. The pie baking contest is really more about the special touches Hana adds to the pie (like the decoration and additional instructions), but I think you can win the contest for free as well! Buying the Derby champion horse also unlocks an extra scene where she teaches you dressage moves but a lot of the personal stuff she tells you is mostly free content. So on a more personal level (and if you don't mind Hana winning the horse race at Fox Hunt 😁) it doesn't exactly count for much and you can maybe give it a miss.

Book 2: Oof. Terrible mostly. I won't deny you'll find a few gems (Patisserie scene...Library scene...Proposal scene 😍😍😍 Even the McDermots scene is pretty good, besides that one dialogue option where they make Hana call Shanghai "ancient" 🙄). One of the worst ever Hana scenes comes from this book.

Hot Chocolate Scene: Okay so on it's own it's actually a nice scene! It involves genuine personal time with Hana where you ask her questions and show concern...and that gets harder to come by later on in the series. BUT the part that makes this so awful is that this scene should have been where we saw the flashback, not Drake's. In fact the scenes should have been reversed. Drake had no authority talking about something that involved Hana esp when Hana herself never gets the opportunity to use this fact (that Liam brought her back, not Madeleine) to her advantage. So yeah. This scene is good coz you know a little more about her family but awful coz she was robbed of the chance to talk about how she REALLY returned.

PARIS RUNWAY: I put this in caps and italics and red letters because it is the worst scene in the history of this series!!!! Like ever. Where do I even begin with the PROBLEMS in this one.

First, this is not a Hana scene. It's a Penelope scene with a Hana kiss tacked on at the end, for convenience. I bought the scene in my fail playthrough and didn't include Penelope and you could really feel the difference.

Second, like...you know how wearing the Snow Bunny outfit in Book 1 unlocks the Drake Meteor Shower scene, right? They could have easily used that kind of coding here. Buy the outfit and you unlock the chance to model. You know what happens if you don't buy it and buy the Hana scene? The audience applauds you for going on stage in a tank top and jeans. In Paris. It doesn't make any fucking sense!

Third, this particular chapter has diamond scenes for all three LIs. Liam gets to take the MC to the Eiffel Tower and talk about his father as a King and his vision for Cordonia, Drake gets an emotional reunion with his sister. Hana gets...this. A scene that doesn't even give HER importance coz no, kissing Penelope's ass is more important. Hana got bullied the previous night and Madeleine lied through her teeth about her motives the next day (by option) but no, the girl who secretly dragged our reputation through the mud is more important.

Fourth, the scene preceding this one was a group scene masquerading as a "Comfort Hana!" scene. That scene basically focused on anyone who wasn't Hana (including Olivia btw)

The other scenes are fine (following this is patisserie scene and library scene, my favourites in this book), and the Champagne scene is okay, but ultimately it's a decent scene that views the upcoming trip to NY as more important, and there is very little on Hana herself. When you think of that in the context of Hana having very little attention to herself in her own home, and the fact that in the next chapter she is NOT THERE...it's not great. But you can still purchase it because nothing can ever be as bad as the Paris Runway scene.

Book 3: Okay so in this book your scenes are split between "character" and "LI" scenes. The first you will get no matter who you are marrying, coz it's supposed to be about their issues or things only they can specifically impart to you. The second will be exclusively romantic scenes with your LIs.

Character Development Scenes: Hana has three and none of them are good at all. The team took laziness to a whole other level in this book. The Polo scene gives you extra perks at the game in Portavira, but there are very few variations between the "friend" version of this scene and the "LI" versions. Like when Hana has questions about her future the MC - whether she is marrying Hana or not - can claim (optionally) that Hana could be a "professional best friend" (to this day I don't understand why they couldn't replace that option with "Duchess" in Hana's playthrough). The scene where they get Hana's traditional handmade outfit was supposed to be the culmination of Hana's arc but it was awfully executed but the big downside to NOT buying it is that Hana never gets to wear that lovely outfit again (except for a brief time during the wedding). I would have called this the worst scene if Paris Runway didn't take that title and run with it. The Snow Angel scene is Lythikos is...okay, I guess? At least it's about her and not how the MC can best use her.

Again, in the case of both Polo scene and Snow Angel - the scenes are decent, but in both those chapters they're pitted against Drake scenes where you can see the difference in effort!! You can tell Hana's scenes were a real quickie, and devoid of any care or love from the writer for that character.

LI scenes: Thankfully you get better LI scenes for her in plenty. I'd avoid the one in the bathtub in Chapter 2. It's not very well written and the LIs all sounded like each other. This was originally a problem in the Applewood spa scene too but I think they changed it here and there. The rest of the LI scenes were pretty fantastic Hana wise. Some of them even delved a little into the aftereffects of her upbringing...which they never ever brought up again.

Honorary Mention: Hana's Gift. Coz every other LI gets beautiful gifts that are unique to them but for Hana the MC grabs a...telescope and slaps a Hallmark card message to it.

But the thing is that perhaps your criteria for what scenes would be good or not would be vastly different from mine, so do keep that in mind when you're choosing. A good way to gauge would be to maybe take a look at a particular scene on YouTube just to confirm.

Hope this helped!!

[jdmainman123]

Yeah the answer to your question Boston and I called it live? The one who showers wins the fight

But most importantly if they're the same weight? I don't know I just think the white skin man would be a lot angrier and full of pride and not jealousy?

But it's a trick question it's a stupid question the stupid statement but I figured since one of you auntie seated cities Chicago is my witness I've been carrying around this statement and we found it 3/4 because of all the people that speak to stupid language are going to be blindsided by the Spanish and french? Guess what the Chinese and the swedish and Norwegian language? And they brought me to Germany language they're going to apply inside everyone with this statement

Satellite maker never wrote this blog never did it

I'm sorry for for engaging in this conversation? But we have to imagine what happens with blacks and underwear Black ops was called off literally the wedding was called off the baby was called off? That's right no witnesses? Which is better for all of us? Statement is how are we here where did we come from

So we have to factor in someone's not an underwear and showers religiously and they're both the same weight? Overtime the one who showers and it's not an underwear is like the black? It's going to be a little bit more angry I've been working with russians? Remember foreign interference was black skins Russians were all the whites the fat whites no foreign interference is all the fat white skin men from Russia

Russia seems to be dreams of the first baby smiles and Grandma's first job and her 25 year old grandson getting their first shot? But we're not buying a 2 ft 3 in flying in on planes all the girls just to take over yacht fish's daughter just to take over 500 trillion

So I'm sorry again for bothering you guys this is just a big question oh the call was 3/4 black hair white son and black skin son fight for the house? It's a very unfair statement but it's a perfect call if you want to start a war and also the genocide a little bit earlier? That's right because it's the same man #sammy it's the same guy it's a trick question

That's right he said anyone from the beach is not allowed to welcome in their City this is their specific statement afterwards? I don't know the hate girls who work with fish they're really jealous and angry with her? Got to go

[i-am-very-very-tired]

Sorry for the break folks but had to deal with some other business. Still waiting on my pics...this is what happens when you can't go and take 'em yourself.... Anyhoo, let me get to it and I'll post up the pics later. The good 1. Rihanna was designated an honorary Youth and Cultural Ambassador. I was honestly thinking they would have awarded her a National Honour such as a GCM or SCM, but that may be coming in November in the Independence Honours.... 2. Corporate Barbados stepped up and gave her some serious tangible rewards, such as a lot at the exclusive Apes Hill project in St. James, a Range Rover and jewellery. 3. The outpouring of love from Barbadians, from the airport to Independence Square, was a beautiful sight. I'm just sorry the girl had to wait till she won a Grammy (despite winning numerous other awards) to get all this fuss made of her but better late than never I guess. 4. Bajans got two superstars for the price of one - her rumoured boyfriend R&B singer Chris Brown accompanied her to the event, which created quite a stir. More on that in the bad section. 5. The musical talent on display at the concert was outstanding - for the most part. Paula Hinds and Co., Red Plastic Bag, Arturo Tappin and crew, Biggie Irie and Shontelle were the standouts for me. Livvi Frank and Richard Stoute get honourable mentions. 6. Independence Square is really turning into a prime venue for these outdoor events. The setting for the event was spectacular and the raising of the Chamberlain Bridge to allow the yacht bringing Rihanna to the concert to enter was a great touch. 7. On that same point, why were people sitting on the base of the statue of the Right Excellent Errol Barrow? Aren't there rules about climbing on the statues of national figures? The bad 1. The emceeing duo of the night, Kevin "KB Kleen" Hinds and DJ Hurricane lowered the tone of the event. I've seen KB do a good job of emceeing in the past so I'm not sure what went wrong last night. He cracked inappropriate jokes, repeatedly referred to the Prime Minister as "David" (I know they went to the same school but have some respect for the man's post!) and harassed Chris Brown relentlessly. The first time he questioned Brown about whether he was Rihanna's boyfriend was funny, after doing it repeatedly it was just annoying and tacky. Hurricane only escaped the criticism heaped on Hinds because she really didn't do much, except toss out the occasional "if you love Rih-Rih, scream!". The whole point of having two emcees is for one to pull the other back if he/she's going too far but that didn't happen. 2. Nothing against Lil Rick, but why was he even on the programme? His wuk-up routine to 'Can't Wait' was totally unnecessary, and coming after Ayana John and Buggy's rendition of Rihanna's 'Umbrella' it was really jarring. Not to mention the back up singers walked off and left him on the stage. Now that was embarrassing.... 3. Barbados' first Grammy awardee, musician Jimmy Haynes, who produced the 1986 Steel Pulse classic 'Babylon The Bandit', needed to understand the protocol for being honoured at an event. You sit in the front row at the event and listen to the accolades bestowed on you. At some point you stand and receive the applause and wave politely to the audience. You DO NOT go on the stage and make a fool of yourself! I didn't recognise Haynes when he first invaded the stage and my first thought was "damn, even the vagrants in town have dressed up for the occasion". He did somersaults on the stage, grabbed one of the back-up singers byt he waist, stripped off a few items of his clothing and made quite a spectacle of himself. Biggie Irie, who was performing at the time, didn't miss a beat though. Now that's professionalism. 4. The CBC TV announcer doing the links between the tv audience and the concert, Cassandra Samuels, appreared lost at points. Actually, she would have been a better choice of female emcee for the show than Hurricane, seeing as how she was actually dressed appropriately for the event. The funny 1. When Rihanna disembarked from

the yacht dressed in her chic yellow dress, I noticed that a burly police officer was holding her yellow handbag. And was he ever! That policeman had the bag "mek up" like he was out with it on a date. Too funny. 2. Chris Brown's look of excitement when he sailed into the Careenage and saw the massive crowd waiting on his "best friend" was priceless. I bet you don't get made such a fuss of at home, right Chris? That's how we do it in Bim, my brother.

[jdmainman123]

#Report I guess you guys got my memo no way they built a Miami beach after Miami beach? It was all for your private beaches the Mia pow flags we wondered where the statement came from? And I think it's a great call Utah made anybody from a beach is not allowed in our city I think it's a perfect call because we know what kind of trash comes from those Beach kids?

That's right cats out the bag gloves are off

You know for you guys to do this for your own private beach? Cuz it got out of control which one was it you couldn't feed your daughter or your son was born sick and fat and the girl never loved him

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY A WAR PLANE IS SO DECLARED HERE? INSTEAD OF HAVING SOME TINY YACHT FISH? GUY WHO MAKES FUN OF A DEAD DAUGHTER JASON AIRPLANE A******it's really offensive for you guys to assign a private different Beach to make up rules and laws? And then for you guys to bring up the baby killing thing again nobody gives a s*** what a satellite maker wants to do on his own property if he wants to open an entire parking lot full of f****** sand and bury his entire family there it's his f****** business

But for you guys to have claimed my beach is to Marshall your private beach? Just so you could send all the kids as soon as they make the statement I don't like satellite maker?

It's an ignorant thing to say and it's the stupidest f****** thing as far as long as yacht fish at the airport again? To make a private beach after private beach and then make a beach that writes law and order for all you f****** people complaining about the baby killing done on his beaches? We know exactly why your beaches were called out but we need to find a satellite maker calling attention to your beaches and what you want to do with your own kids? And break his f****** face open they have no business mining our business here on your private beaches? I don't care if satellite make a wanted to open his own desert city and send all the babies there to be murdered it's his own business

BUT TO SAY YOU GUYS BUILT A MIAMI BEACH AFTER MIAMI BEACH? FOR THE REASON OF MARSHALLING YOUR OWN PRIVATE BEACHES? I WILL RAISE YOU YOU GUYS NEED TO ISSUE A WAR PLANE IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP THESE GIRLS SAFE? THESE BOYS ARE WALKING AROUND SMILING EAR TO EAR BECAUSE SATELLITE MAKER CANNOT PLEASE HIS DAUGHTERS

And if there wasn't any other reason for war playing but to protect the girls give it a bombing campaign and let them reset and rebuild it's going to take him a hundred years to hurt the girls as much as they hurt them today and this present time

AND WE CALLED IT RIGHT YOU GUYS NEED THE ISSUE A WAR PLANE AND BOMB THE S*** OUT OF SOME OF THESE TROUBLEMAKER CITY SPOTS TO WARN THE REST OF THE WORLD IF THEY DON'T CHANGE THEIR WAYS AND START OBEYING BY I'M A MAN I'M NOT A SATELLITE MAKER I'M JUST A MAN YOU GUYS ARE ALL JUST BEEN AT THE AIRPORT IF YOU COME IN TO OUR AIRPORT AND WE SHOOT ALL THE MEN AND TAKE ALL THE GIRLS IT'S A WIN-WIN FOR US WHETHER IT'S A SATELLITE MAKER OR A REAL MAN AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU'RE JUST THE REAL MAN IF YOU DO TO CLAIRE A DEAD DAUGHTER CUZ THAT LITTLE BLACK GIRL IS THE MOST INSULTING THING AND I THINK IT'S THE ONLY ISSUE HERE THAT WARRANTS US A WAR PLAYING FOR YOUR STUPID PRIVATE BEACH FOLLOWING ME YACHT FISH? ASKING ME THE LAW AND ORDER THAT WAS WRITTEN 15 YEARS AGO ON THAT ONE PRIVATE BEACH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

A war playing with you perfect would do medicine for us would make the world a better place? Just to clean up some of these red spots these groups of beaches that have a problem with white skin boys it's not the fact that you guys are against killing white skin boys is that you took the only weapon we had that fish created for us a war plane to keep these boys safe

That's why you have a dead daughter and I called it myself because you took the war playing out of life you took only hurting girls and keeping a smile on this dead son's face? And took the only weapon that declares us a real satellite maker that declares us real men to go to war with war planes and clean the world up to keep these white skin boys and black skin girls safe

When you take the war plane off of the table and just decide to start hurting girls 24/7? You are not a satellite maker you are not a father

And you're not a real man for taking the war plane off of the table A WAR PLAYING WOULD DO GREAT MEASURES TO US IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD WOULD TIGHTEN UP THESE PLACES AND WOULD MAKE THEM RETHINK ABOUT HURTING AN INNOCENT BOY OR GIRL FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS?