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livvyofthelake · 10 months

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anyway. re: timeless video. i didn’t want to add any of heartstopper season 2 because well i thought i would finish before it even came out and then i didn’t so now i’m like. well can i replace one of the three heartstopper scenes i have in there for one from season 2. can i easily find the scene i want on youtube is the better question. i’m not doing anything crazy to get this it’s not that deep to me. at the end of the day if anyone else in planet earth compared kit and ty to heartstopper i would rip their spine out with my teeth so like it’s not as if nick and charlie are essential pieces to the fabric of the video. EYE am allowed to make that comparison i have the authority. no one else does and frankly i’m very glad that booktok fandom people don’t care about cassie. do you know how freeing it is that no one gives a shit about cassie anymore in the wider culture except those of us that are already here? it’s so nice. if i had to deal with tda being adapted into a movie or tv show i’d kill myself. thankfully tmi took all those bullets for us and flopped not once but twice so now we never have to do it again! it’s so peaceful. i couldn’t imagine having to deal with my favorite series from middle/high school being adapted into anything at my age i was right on the cusp of it when shadowhunters was airing and now i’m too old to deal with that. cannot imagine being a percy jackson fan right now. not to say i feel bad for them they chose to align themselves with cringe i don’t care what becomes of them. what the fuck was this post about. oh yeah i wanna put a heartstopper season 2 scene in the timeless video. we’ll see if that works out. if not. i don’t care

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skloomdumpster · 1 year

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Do I answer you: Fate The Winx Saga is a bad adaptation. It can both make an engaging story and also be faithful to the source material. As a fan, I would have accepted the plot of Fate if certain minimums had been respected (ethnic groups, Tecna, that the Trix were not there from the beginning, certain names or localities), that's why it failed. Winx Club has an extensive mythology that could have been adapted, but was not wanted to be done due to laziness and perhaps due to a superior position of the showrunner over the animated series.

I think that if many fans of Fate The Winx Saga tried to know the Winx Club universe, you would understand many fans and even want some elements (the specialists had lightsabers!!!).

"Would a tv show, rated for sixteen year old or older, benefit from presenting characters who immediately adore each other, such as is the girls’ friendship in the cartoons?" Fate The Winx Saga cannot be sold as a feminist product when it undermines great friendships (Stella and Bloom). What they did with them is misogyny. And to say what you said is to want to justify it because you really like Fate The Winx Saga. It seems that you Fate fans want to justify everything, when there are things that cannot be justified no matter how much you like the series and that have to be criticized (uncorrected whitewhasing: Musa).

And no, it is no less realistic than in a series cataloged for people over 16 years old to be friends. In the animated series they weren't friends from the first moment, it was built, and in the second season with the arrival of Aisha it was something that was also built. In addition, that Fate did not need to build anything, because the friendship between them was the attraction of the series and what the public wanted to see. "But it is that the public in general" This public would have been convinced with a convincing plot, and surely the friendship between them would not have mattered.

Gonna assume this was sent by the same person.

You know, you've helped me pinpoint what is it about this argument that annoys me so much.

Here it is, written in 2000, by Robert Stam in the very article I mentioned:

Now, obviously we're not talking about a novel, we're talking an animation, but this is so painfully clear in all you've said, the inherit superiority of the source material because it's the senior material.

Right, that's what you're telling me, that being faithful equals good, which was that my entire answer was trying to dispute, not the valid criticisms thrown to the show, as the whitewashing, cringe dialogue and so on so forth, which, again, was mentioned in my second to last paragraph.

I'd like to point out that having female characters dislike each other is not misogyny and that it's a left field accusation to say implementing conflict in female relationships that had previously, in a kid's show, been conflict free, is misogynistic. This is simply facetious and I'm not falling for it.

Bloom and Stella's conflict goes beyond the rivalry of who gets the boy, seeing as even that relationship goes down the drain without the input of either. Stella's relationship with Sky is rocky because of her own actions and she doesn't feel jealous of Bloom, as much as she feels threatened by her and how "special" she is, from the get go. This is further explored in season 2, even when talking about the class disparity between the two. Not misogyny and the lumping of this conflict alongside with the whitewashing of Musa is just frankly offensive and disingenuous, but I'm sure you know this already.

And to wrap this up, I never said a tv show couldn't have character be happy and friendly from the get go and I'd gladly point you towards a piece of writing like such, for example Heartstopper. An amazing show! However a different show from Fate, because it chose a different approach. It's a happier, lighter one, and Fate is not a bad show, for choosing drama.

The gist of my text, hopefully put clearer now, is that an adaptation makes choices and it's within those choices and how they serve and interact with each other that criticism should lie and not in how faithful it is to its source material.

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itsbinghebitch · 9 months

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ok i watched rwrb and was live-blogging it for bl archiving purposes:

this was a BEAUTIFUL movie. everything from the colors to the camera angles to the set design was marvelous.

the acting was amazing from both leads but my god. taylor zakhar perez. SIR. still gathering my thoughts over how much this man ruined my life.

I loved the latinx and texan culture they infused all throughout, especially the music

also that the movie preserved the original book's horniness. particularly after the whole heartstopper purity bullshit i think we needed a few gratuitous shots of taylor zakhar perez getting dicked down thank you very much.

the cringe moments were not as bad as i expected. they were mostly the same moments i cringed over reading the book so i appreciated they didn't add to the cringe volume :)

ok IM LYING. there was a movie-specific cringe moment and it was this:

(because i cannot for the life of me accept that the epitome of privilege prince harry/william avatar would read bernadine evaristo but whatever go off liberal utopia)

did i mention taylor zakhar perez.

ALSO UMA THURMAN. that woman only gets finer with age doesn't she 😩

yeah i hated the email leak thing now just as much as when i read the book. (i did appreciate they tried to infuse some queer coming out politics into it this time around tho. at least i think it was a bigger thing this time around???)

"I have fallen in love with a person who happens to be a man and that man happens to be a prince." congratulating myself for not puking here

i really appreciated all the women in this movie were hot. casting really did us a solid

MISTER GORBACHEV PUT THESE TWO LOVESICK HOMOSEXUALS ON THE PHONE WITH ONE ANOTHER

zahra and shaan......... listen. all i'm saying is i would like to see it.

i already knew stephen fry was going to be the homophobic grandfather but it didn't make it any less enjoyable.

me when i overshare online

makes you wonder what sort of times we live in that they had to update the president's acceptance speech to reflect the current anti-trans legislation in the US

"wow you really are working class aren't you?" whoever tried to make the script more relatable needs to be fired.

all in all, an okay movie. i didn't go in with high expectations because i didn't love the book, but i liked to see the amount of effort put into making it all very gay. on the whole the plight of the very special prince boy remains supremely unrelatable to me even when it's undercut with the narrative of queerness and acceptance, but i still have hopes this movie ushers in more big budget queer stories that are not about idk. the most privileged people on planet earth. but we might be waiting a while folks ! (at least on this side of the globe)

#rwrb #bl.txt

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donutdisturblivball · 2 years

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why “why are we like this?” isnt cringe.

alrifht it’s like nearly midnight and i’m probably gonna conk out right after this but i felt the need to make one last post before bed tonight.

when heartstopper first came out, i was in love. this show was fuckin everything to me, from the fact that it came from one of my favorite webtoons to the fact that the soundtrack is an absolute banger.

however, for some friends of mine, the same could not be said.

“it was so good!” they’d say, “but there were so many parts where i just had to take a break from the amount of second hand embarrassment i was getting.”

of course, the absolute heartstopper fanatic i was, went, “second hand embarrassment? what didn’t you like about it, it was amazing!”

and almost every time, whenever i asked that question, the one scene that came up was the “why are we like this?” scene.

here’s a hot take: this scene isn’t cringe, and if you say it is, you obviously haven’t had a why are we like this moment before, and if i’m being completely honest? sucks to be you! (/lh)

to be completely honest, for a while, i didn’t get it. i totally understood what they meant by how embarrassing it was to watch and how cringeworthy it was. after you think about it for a while, it really seems like such a pick me thing to say.

and then recently, i personally had a “why are we like this?” moment.

to keep things vague for my friend and for myself, the long story short is that we got into this fight. a big one, and i’m pretty sure it was our first one, too. it was heart wrenching, it was aggravating, and i cried for hours over it. as cliche as it may sound, i really think that in that moment i got what all those breakup songs talked about, that feeling of your heart just aching for something that you’re about to lose or that you’ve already lost. i remember at the time, it certainly felt like i’d lost it. lost our friendship, lost them, lost everything. i didn’t know what to do. there was so much uncertainty, so many “i don’t know”s and it was absolutely terrifying.

and then they came back (they had an appointment), and sent me this long paragraph and told me they loved me and that they wanted me to stay, if i wanted it. and i remember thinking “you DUMBASS, of course i want to stay, i didn’t know if you still wanted ME!”

and so i called them and told them exactly that. and it was so hard to get out and communicate it with each other but we got there and in the end the entire argument transpired because of the fact that we wanted the same things and we were thinking the same things but we didn’t COMMUNICATE ANY OF IT, and thought the other person didn’t want what we wanted individually (which was just. not. true.)

i was so mad about it because personally i have this thing where i openly yell at my books and tv to reprimand characters for not communicating and that’s exactly what this friend and i did. and after we made up, we just kept laughing and crying (out of happiness this time!) and we kept repeating “we’re SO stupid!” and i don’t think i’d ever felt something more relieving than that.

later on, we stayed on call and a memory was brought up and we both thought of the same thing, and they said, in the most fond yet exasperated tone i think i’ve ever heard from them, “why are we like this?”

and. holy shit. i get it. i got it. this is not cringe or cliche or embarrassing, it’s. it’s everything.

it’s being so stupidly in love with someone that you aren’t logical anymore, and it’s that illogical-ness that’s driven by love that goes TWO ways so it’s not just one of you being stupid with love it’s the BOTH of you being stupid with each other and FOR each other.

it’s “wow we’re such fucking idiots” but thinking about the outcome and thinking you wouldn’t want to change a thing about what happened and how it happened.

it’s being selfless and unknowingly wanting the same thing, but being willing to give it up at the mere indication that the other person doesn’t want the same thing as you.

it’s just love making you stupid for each other and it doesn’t make sense, and you realize it doesn’t make sense so you ask one another “why are we like this?”

it’s that fond tone as you ask the question that indicates that it doesn’t really matter why you’re like this, because you’re like this together

it’s not individualized- it’s “we.” the both of us together, as a pair, why are we like this?

it’s doing embarrassing things for each other! it’s being dumb for each other! i may be dumb for you but you’re dumb for me and so it evens out. we balance each other that way!

it’s not depreciating, it’s not uncertain, it’s not giving up.

and most of all, it’s not cringe.

TL;DR: imagine being so gone for someone that your logic is stupid. how is that level of love and devotion cringe?

#why are we like this #heartstopper #i’m on my shit again #this is NOT cringe it is very sweet :(#romance #love #nick nelson #charlie spring #nickcharlie #alice oseman #fight me on this #unless you’ve had a why are we like this moment u cannot challenge me on this #okay it’s like 00:30 gn i’m so tired

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ailur4phile · 1 year

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I posted 1,714 times in 2022

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I tagged 1,259 of my posts in 2022

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#anyways me: life is a cruel anxiety ridden disaster rn also me: omg nick and charlie 💝💖💞🎀🧸💒🩰🧁🍄🍂🍃🍂💖💞

My Top Posts in 2022:

barbie when talking about season two kat in enter euphoria

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happy to announce that tonight nate jacobs finally redeemed himself and won back the title for Worst Fucking Character Alive in euphoria. everyone give him an around of applause!

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no one:

my friend and i at six years old:

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you know what? i’m gonna say it. euphoria’s usage of the word ‘retarded’ is so outdated especially for a show that’s always on the nose with it’s politics. maddy isn’t a character from a 2000s teen drama film, and it doesn’t make her anymore edgy or cool for saying everyone is “fucking retarded”. of course no one cares enough to say anything about it because no one gives a real shit about disabled people. i get the show isn’t afraid of using offensive language, but every time any other slur was used, it was meant to make you cringe and feel uncomfortable. when maddy calls something out as retarded, it’s seen as ‘iconic’. not only does this dialogue just make her character feel outdated, but it’s also unnecessarily edgy and adds nothing, and could easily be replaced with any other word. instead, it adds an actual stigma to an already stigmatized group. it’s so frustrating to see people requote that in gifs or screencaps not giving a shit about how it effects a minority, caring more about how ‘relatable’ it is. fucking yuck

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My #1 post of 2022

it is no character's birthday until this meme is made for them

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ecreau · 2 years

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June 30: New Things Discovered

I have mixed feelings about this month's ending because I wanted more than ever in volume 2 of Stranger Things. July is already the seventh month of the year! Why are days moving so fast?! Though, I am more than satisfied because June became memorable because I finished my first horror/sci-fi series! I am a squeamish person. Violence and blood make my body go jelly. I found out that I hate slasher movies more than something that has gore in it but is more 'appropriate' to the scene if that makes sense. Stranger Things has those. My only hope for the series is to have more Hopper next season (please don't die).

I also started The Umbrella Academy, and I like it as well. I finished Heartstopper as well! At first, I thought it would be so cringe-cheesy, but it wasn't! I love the series (and Kit Connor).

And lastly, I went for a freediving practice again! It hurt my head because of my allergies, but I had fun! I would definitely go again (open water soon)!

- Please do not repost my artwork/design. Ask me first. ⁠

Thank you!⁠

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“Nostalgia is my favorite thing.”

#june #blog #writing #stranger things #heartstopper #freedive #freediving #PlaidConnection

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ramonahblog · 2 years

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Heartstopper Review Rambles. I wrote it out of order, sorry.

Overall; Episode One; Episode Six.

Spoilers

Episode Two: Crush

My brain shutdown the moment Charlie said “bisexual people exist”.

I had to watch the episode again immediately because, frankly, shows (and media in general) saying bisexual is rare enough.

Let alone having a gay character say it. If a media ever dares say bisexual, it’s usually the bisexual character. Followed immediately by disbelief or questions by other characters. So I can’t give you initial thoughts because of the said-brain shutting down thing. So just have random shit, I guess.

Charlie really said Bi Rights and I was already in “Precious Bean Protect” mode. And my brain was not prepared to deal with it.

Also like the way it was done that Charlie made sure to shut down his friends’ stereotyping and bi-erasure.

“I know he’s straight, he told me,” meanwhile Nick Bi-Panicking over the other side of the plot.

This isn’t a dig at Charlie. He’s literally just going by Nick’s text-agreement which is already like way ahead of his friends.

Pfft like his running.

I’m not apologizing for that very forced simile.

- Well, opening scene is terrifying and sad. Thanks Heartstopper.

- DOGGIE!

- Pour one out of Nellie. Nick laughed at an unfunny post because his crush posted it and Nellie had to witness it. Nellie proving to be a good doggie 100/100.

Show does not cut to Nick after Charlie sends his ‘sneaky’ (And cringe but boy is fourteen, he’s allowed to be cringe) “thanks for being my supportive straight friend haha” text. Interesting.

- Charlie being bold and sending a red heart.

- And Nick’s smile at the heart. Also knowing Nellie is supposed to be eleven years old, she is definitely leaving a giant drool patch on Nick’s leg.

- Ah so Charlie’s the person who does ask for advice but wants a certain answer instead of actual advice.

- omg I never noticed Ajayi’s little smile as Charlie leaves the room.

- “My parents don’t like animals,” - Charlie. So Charlie’s parents have no taste.

- Aww Nick nearly said “you look great”.

- Nick has not heard Charlie play the drums at this point but he’s crushing so bad he’s like “you’re good at drums” to Charlie.

- Pour another out for Nellie who was used to get Nick’s crush over to his house. Nellie, best wingdog 100/100.

- Snow-scene is Peak Romance Trope. The only time it is acceptable to leave a Snow-scene out of your romance if it is set in an area that never snows.

- pfft Charlie is already mama-approved by Sarah.

- Awww Nick was going to ask Charlie to his house again. Also love the detail that apparently Nick couldn’t say night to Charlie through their texts and kept the chat going.

- Pffft Tao trying to pretend what is happening in rugby is me. I tried, I just can’t get it.

- Damn it Tao. Stop getting your opinions from the grapevine. They are always years out of date. And stop making Charlie second-guess himself, he is reading right.

- Tao “you shouldn’t talk to the rugby lads” Xu is apparently on good enough terms with one to slide up to them and ask if Nick is interested in anyone. Charlie, stop listening to Tao.

Aww, Charlie’s little face. NO, CHARLIE YOU WERE READING THE ROOM RIGHT! STOP TRUSTING TAO ON THIS! LOOK, NICK SPECIFICALLY YELLED OUT TO WAVE AT YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING FIELD!

Also Tao sees that and is still trusting Otis’s grapevine gossip.

“confirmed by multiple sources,” - Tao about Nick’s supposed crush on Tara. Tao, your sources suck and are the equivalent of webmd. Nellie would like a word with you Tao. Nellie was not used as a ploy to invite Charlie to Nick’s house only for you to insist that Nick has a crush on someone other than Charlie.

- “He’s the straightest person I’ve ever seen,” - Elle. Needs to see her optometrist again. Charlie, no, sweetie. You’re not being an idiot. STOP LISTENING TO YOUR FRIENDS!

- And now Charlie is in his head because his friends are stereotyping and listening to romance-equivalent of webmd. Great.

- Aww, Nick practically lit up when Charlie invited him over.

- Tara and Darcy laughing at the boyfriend questions in their language class. Also Tara’s “that’s the gayest excuse I’ve ever heard!” when Elle saw them holding hands.

- Charlie Spring holding Nick’s hands to teach him the drums. Brave or Nick was just that terrible, Charlie’s nerves about being that close to his crush disappeared? I say brave. But I would find it funny if the real reason why Charlie just couldn’t stand Nick’s attempts to play the drums.

- Aww Nick’s bi crisis as he tries to hold Charlie’s hand twice.

- Tori Appears and Calls It. I like to think she did not actually hear Nick’s “you look cuddly like that” to Charlie and just witnessed the hug. Well for now, that is what I have decided. I might go back to the she def heard the cuddly-part.

Also I know in the comics, Charlie said to Tori that Nick was straight and that was why Tori said she didn’t think Nick was straight. But I like to think show-wise, Tori just saw Nick interact with her brother once and said that with no other related conversations.

- “What does it mean when Hot Straight Boy hugs you for like a full ten seconds,” It means he ain’t straight, Charlie. Stop listening to Tao. Tao is very bad at this.

- Tao “he was probably imagining you were Tara” Xu, Nellie would like multiple words with you! Next Season: Nellie starts an animal-human feud with Tao.

- Charlie is brave. Nick is just a himbo. Buddy, why are you having your sexuality-crisis searches in a tab that will record your history? And why, in following episodes, are you listening to videos without earphones/headphones? Do you not have any? Is your room the attic? Is Nellie getting tired of your pining and sitting/laying on your earphones/headphones?

You can’t stop headcanoning that it’s the last one of those.

- Tao and Elle both trying to convince Charlie that Nick is straight when this episode ends with Nick googling “am i gay?” is brilliant. Charlie, stop listening to your friends. They are terrible at this.

Also if you are genuinely googling “am i gay?”, there is a ninety-nine percent chance that you are not straight.

#heartstopper show #heartstopper review rambles #heartstopper episode two #heartstopper crush #heartstopper episode two crush #heartstopper netflix #long post

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themilfcow · 2 years

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thread of things my friends said

May 29th "Lets build our bean clan in earth" "I'm a space ace, i supressing him (elon musk) a long time ago lmfaoo) - emi

May 30th "slay cow" - shay "When are we ever okay" - dominyk "what does she do to pasta? breathe it??? nice pasta oxide. good for inhalations. does she fucking blend it or sum?" - Julia (lily with her opinion on how to make pasta)

June 1st "do i even have a persona?" - shirl "its fkn hilarious to see ur reaction jhfgjkgdj" - yuri (heartstopper content) "Honestly om gonna be honest. Cringey names. Who gave her the right for these weird ass names" - julia (acotar series)

June 9th "THIS IS VERY MENTALLY ILL OF ME" - june (read ACOWAR ff 50 time already)

June 10th "Dont die your hair" - yan "I am confused by your confusion" - yan

June 12th "Klinkt raar, kindervriendelijke cp" - Hidde (age kink, artificial cp) "Durf jij je hand in deze brievenbus te steken? Is een serieuze vraag" - hidde met een angst voor brievenbussen

June 30th "Crack eyeliner fits you tho" - yuri "Biggest catfish is yan's hairlin wdym" - julia

September 12th emi: What do you have against bald people julia: yannick.

September 15th "Lmfao is that dildo tinky winky" - shirl

September 20th "If you see a girl with big boobs, thats gwen" - dawn to her bf while waiting for me

September 26th us: ew nee oude kaas phi: julie zijn ongecultureerd me: i live in my own culture

October 7th me: no ones first home made sushi role is perfect yan: that sounds like sex

October 11th "Dont sterf babe. sterven is niet hip. sterven is cringe" - mark

October 30th "i mean you go giiirl. You should find something you like. Be selfish" - min "Im ✨wobbly✨" "THIS BITCH IS SO DRUNK HOLY SHIIIIIT. MIN IS CO FRONTON AGAIN GODDAMNIT LEMME TALK TO MY QUEEN" - jake

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caitybug · 4 years

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hi i have more hope this isnt annoying/// prompt! baz is the librarian for the local library n simon is the kid who always returns his books late

Definitely NOT annoying!! Thank you so much :D.

I’ll put it under the keep reading :).

(Also if anyone else wants to send a prompt... like go for it. I won’t complain. The more ridiculous the better tbh.)

(Also Meri I hope you were looking for a response that is 1500 words bc that’s what you’re getting kthnx.)

(Might fuck around later and post it to ao3 idk.)

It’s only a summer job, but it’s a job that frustrates the hell out of me at times.

Especially people who cannot follow simple instructions. Return books to the drop off box, don’t shout, don’t run, and please do not participate in sexual activities in between the rows of books.

I say the last one because I just walked into two teenagers groping each other in between the reference and biography shelves.

Choose a better section at LEAST.

If I ever did I’d probably do it behind the romance section. It’s fitting for the mood, at the very back section, and no cameras can see you there.

Not that I’ve thought about it.

I’m checking out a little kid and his mother when I see the worst person to ever walk into the library.

(The worst is probably dramatic. There is a guy who tries to bring in a water bottle that smells of whiskey and a bag of chips that gets crumbs all over the computer. But at least that guy leaves me alone... Simon Snow, however, can’t leave me be.)

Simon Snow can’t seem to pay his library fines. He turns in every book late. It’s ridiculous. There are certain rules in this world, and this can’t be that hard of one. He could just renew the book online even to buy himself some time.

But he never does.

He sneakily tries to drop his books off without me knowing, but he can’t ever get anything past me.

“Snow,” I say, handing the woman her receipt and walking towards him.

He freezes and looks up, face scrunched in embarrassment.

“Do you have money to pay your fines? I can only assume you’re turning these in late too,” I gesture to the books.

“Uh, well,” he stammers. Snow always stammers.

I cross my arms and raise an eyebrow, waiting for a proper answer.

He starts digging in his pockets, pulling out a nickel, penny, a Dr. Pepper bottle cap, and some lint.

I grab the change and frown at the bottle cap.

“Why do you have-”

“There’s a code,” he shrugs, “I was hoping to win a prize.”

Of course, he would do something like that.

“Please bring money next time you come in,” I say, moving to go check out another customer.

He nods and walks out, leaving the Dr. Pepper bottle cap behind.

I grab it and stash it in my pocket.

After I check out the customer I decide to grab the books Snow was returning. What could he possibly be reading that takes him so long?

He has three books this time:

1. Fun Home

2. Heartstopper vol. 1

3. Bloom

I frown.

They’re all graphic novels, so what is taking him so long?

Then I blush, realizing another trend they all have in common.

I shake my head and check his books back in.

I also erase his fines.

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The next time Snow comes in it’s to check out some books.

I can’t help but think of the books he turned in last time. I was also nosey and investigated the other books he had checked out the past couple of months.

They’re all gay.

Is Simon Snow gay?

“Snow,” I say as he approaches. He has one book, the next volume of Heartstopper. “Do you have your money for your fines?”

He doesn’t have fines anymore, I erased them, but I can’t let him know that.

“Uh,” he responds.

He’s not good at using his words, but somehow watching him fluster about is incredibly adorable.

Snow turns out his pockets and has a crumpled receipt, a french fry, and the cap to a pen.

I shake my head, God this boy is an idiot.

“Snow I’m going to have to stop letting you check out books if you can’t pay off your fines.”

It’s an empty threat. His balance is zero.

He nods, however, and grabs his books and puts the receipt where I highlighted the due date into his pocket.

When he goes to leave, I remember something.

“Wait, you left something last time you were here,” I open my drawer and pull out the Dr. Pepper cap. “Good luck winning, but I am sure you won’t.”

He smiles and grabs it.

“Thanks, Baz.”

I smile back. I didn’t know he knew my name.

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The next time I see him I’m shelving books.

I don’t typically do this part of the job, but the page is out sick and we had a huge pile.

I also didn’t want to deal with all of the kids here for the magician.

It’s in the LGBT section where I find him, staring at the books.

“I don’t think I’ve seen you so intensely in thought before,” I say.

Why am I such a jerk?

“Oh, uh, hey Baz.” He says.

He looks like he is blushing.

“Do you need help, Snow?”

He shakes his head and looks up at the top shelf. I look up, following his eye line, and see the third volume of heartstopper.

I step closer and reach up to grab it.

I can’t help but smirk when I hand it to him.

I’m at least three inches taller than him. Good to know.

“Thanks,” he mutters, before turning to leave.

Stop him, my brain says.

My body, however, doesn’t move.

______

The fourth time he comes into the library he is with a girl with brown frizzy hair and dimples on the back of her knees. She’s dragging him through the reference section, piling books into his arms.

It’s quite funny. I can see the whole scene perfectly from the front desk.

They sit at a table and Snow and I make eye contact. He smiles, and I immediately look down.

It’s like looking into the sun when he smiles, blinding and overwhelming. Doctors should put a warning on him.

Don’t look directly at him, it’ll damage your eyes and you’ll be seeing stars for an hour.

We don’t talk, but we keep catching each other’s eyes. My face feels too warm and soft.

I check his library account, and his book is already two days late.

Rolling my eyes, I renew the book and erase the fines.

If my boss found out about this I’d be murdered.

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The next time I see him is at the back of the library, he is wandering around and I’m putting back books. A book club of middle-aged women came in, and with them, a stack of raunchy romance novels.

“Oh, hey Baz,” Simon says, smiling up at me.

I swear my breath hitches.

“Snow,” I reply, reaching up to put a book on the top shelf.

It doesn’t go there, but I need him to know I can reach that high. Higher than he can.

I’ll fix it when he leaves.

“So, uh, I won that Dr. Pepper prize.”

I look over and raise an eyebrow, waiting for an explanation.

“I got some money and thought I could pay my fines,” he continues.

I freeze. He doesn’t have any fines.

“Well, Snow, you could go to the front desk and pay those off,” I say, grabbing another book and putting it on the top shelf.

Why am I putting all of these up so high? They don’t belong here.

“I did, actually,” he continues. I cringe. Fuck. “But they said I didn’t have any.”

“Well, they must have looked at the wrong spot because I can assure you there are fines.” There aren’t.

He steps closer to me, I drop my arm. He smells like popcorn and Old Spice.

Why does it smell good?

“Baz, did you forgive my fines?” He asks.

I scoff.

“Snow, why would I-”

“I think you did. The lady at the front, the one with the grey streak in her hair, said it looked like I had made payments these past few weeks.” I cringe, Fiona is going to kill me. “So, my only question is, why?”

I stare at him, not knowing how to respond. ‘Because I like you, Snow. I like the way your golden girls always look a mess. I like the stupid hoodie with a hole in the sleeve looks on you. You are covered in moles and I want to kiss every one of them.

I look at his lips, the thing I want to kiss the most.

“I don’t know what you’re-”

“Baz,” he steps closer. “If I’m off base here feel free to tell me, but I-” he gulps, taking a moment. “I would like to take you out. Consider it repayment.” The way he smiles makes my heart skip.

I nod, not trusting my voice to respond.

And then, fuck, he leans up and puts a hand on my neck, lips almost touching mine.

“Wait,” I manage to stay, pushing him back. His face drops, but I grab his hand and pull him around the corner.

The romance section, corner of the library, where there are no security cameras. If I’m ever going to kiss someone in the library, it’ll be here.

I push him against the stack and kiss him.

And, god, is it good.

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Here’s my favorite & least favorite movies of 2017!

Best Animated Film:

MLP the Movie

I know Coco was yet another brilliant Pixar film, but that can top your list. This is my list, and as far as I am concerned, I loved this film most of all; partly because I am already a fan of the series, yes, but also because It’sFun, charming, creative, light hearted, brimming w/ joy, has interesting world building, a lovely musical score (love that SIA song) and great production values! And visually, it is utterly unique in comparison to any other animated film this year! (Good grief, how I miss that 2D aesthetic). Even if it is more or less just an extra length episode w/ a bigger budget & more celebrity guest stars, I have absolutely no problem naming this movie my Best movie of 2017, hands down, and I am loud & proud about that fact; Come at me bro! XD

Runners up:

LEGO Batman (sheer, joyful fun!)

LEGO Ninjago Movie (this is sooo cool!)

Captain Underpants (properly used ‘potty’ humor XD)

Coco (another solid Pixar production)

Ferdinand (2nd best Blue Skies production so far)

Boss Baby (surprisingly fun & charming)

—Also—

The Nut Job 2 (surprisingly passible)

Cars 3 (Not bad, better than the first two)

Rock Dog (dumb fun is fun, even if dumb)

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Worst Animated Film:

Despicable Me 3

Surprise! Instead of giving this award to the obvious candidate (even if it really does deserve it), I decided to be different form the crowd and give this award to a movie ‘*that had all the advantage in the world, and calmly, decisively, stuck its todger into a deep fryer of hot bleach.’ I know the other movies aren’t exactly that great, but they all had a certain charm regardless. This movie however was just insufferable for me; mostly due to the studio’s bad habit of haphazard lackluster story writing. Its 5 different storylines were hard to follow & went know where (with the minions story being completely unnecessary), and any story that was worth telling was shoved out the door to awkwardly pursue routes that made little to no sense., The series humor has gone from passible to cringe-worthy (with new character Dru being the pinpoint for most of it). But most of all; this wasn’t a bad series, until now. Overhyped & over-commercialized, yes, but the stories & humor were clever and meshed well together back then. The first two had a certain charm to them, and the spin-off, while not as good, worked fine. Now I find the story & humor at odds, and it feels like Illumination is no longer willing to let the two work together. I really don’t like Illumination any more, and if they start making terrible Nintendo movies too, I will curse their name to the heavens forever. Here’s to the hope for better movies to come; cross your fingers.

Runners up:

The Emoji Movie (a complete waste of money, time, talent, effort, and space)

Batman & Harley Quinn (Painfully cheap, boring, unnecessary, and more)

Tom & Jerry & Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (your new rifftrax bait, have fun, it deserves it!)

—Also—

Frozen Xmas Special (you’re pushing your luck Disney)

Smurfs Lost Village (irritating waste of good potential)

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Best Live Action Film:

Guardians of the Galaxy V2

I was actually tempted to just say this is the best film (period) of the year, but as an animaniac, I feel that honor should always go to an animated film, and it just didn’t feel right saying otherwise.

However, this film rocks! Colorful, creative, fun, energetic, and brimming with all kinds of emotion. You’d have to be a fool not to enjoy it, I say!

Runners up:

Spiderman; Homecoming (I liked it more than I thought I would)

Wonder Woman (historically above average)

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Worst Live Action Film:

Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Good grief has this series fallen from grace. Amid its boring story, characters, McGuffins, & continuity errors, there is the one simple fact that four movies after the awesome de-view of ‘The Curse of the Black Pearl,’ P of the C has finally done the impossible by making Swashbuckling adventure BORING, and that is just unforgivable! Maybe it’s the convoluted mythology, or maybe it’s the haphazard writing or the overly-serious tones of later films. IDK, all I do know is that I am glad it’s over. Let’s make pirates fun again (in like 2025).

Runners up:

Transformers Last Night (only saw half, that’s all I needed)

Monster Trucks (brought to you by January)

Jumanji reboot (it’s on my bad list, but know that it’s okay)

Wish I saw:

Thor: Ragnaroc (ooh this looks sooo fun!)

Molten Marston & the Wonder Women (^^;)

Atomic Blonde (h-h-h-h-heartstopper!)

Hey Arnald Jungle Movie (Damnit, I love Hey Arnald!)

Leap! [Ballerina] (I’m sorry, I meant to get to you later)

Kimi no na wa [your name] (next level anime movie)

The Star (eh, whynot?)

Etc… (in case I missed something)

Glad I missed:

Beauty & the Beast, live action (screw this movie and the fact that it even exists)

Justice League (DC / WB, won’t you plz take a break?! Come back when you are ready & able)

Surf’s Up 2 (there are no words for this, I’m speechless… … …)

Logan (you know what; I was going to watch it. I had it in my hands for months, but in the end, I decided against it. Why? Because it looks grim and boring. X23 looked super cool, but I’ve never had a fondness for Wolverine or the X-men. In the end, I caved, and turned my attention elsewhere. Sorry. I heard it was good for fans)

Anyways, That’s all folks! Thanks for reading. Have a nice day :)

For more thoughts on the film’s i’ve seen this year, plz use the link listed below.

https://www.facebook.com/colton.nerad/posts/1107428189396998

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