#why was I looking for reviews

[softpng]

sometimes I think about that guy on amazon who reviewed pride and prejudice and did an entire angry, weirdly math focused rant about how awful darcy is and then ends it all with "I could carve a better man out of a banana"

#the funny thing about the review is that hes so right about most of his points but like #that's why the book is good BECAUSE darcy is super flawed and so is elisabeth and everyone else #also his criticism of how basically nothing happens in the book except them all going to each others houses #austen literally says that's love love is going to someone's home and love is looking across the dinner table at you and love is walking #love isn't grand gestures love is saying i love you in a fucking field bro #anyways i love pride and prejudice in postmodern context because it's absolutely hilarious and deeply relevant #pride and prejudice #jane austen

[notyourmusebby]

in the sense that..

#‘ok i want’ i want too charles #looking at carlos like that #shameless #they are just reviewing the track why is the homoerotism off the roof?? #everytime i think they cant be more gay around each other they prove me wrong #carlos sainz jr #f1 #charles leclerc #charlos #ferrari #c2 #carlos sainz #scuderia ferrari #formula 1 #c square #chinese gp 2024

[fictionadventurer]

From what I can see, all the commentary on the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie thinks this story is trying to answer its philosopical questions, and completely overlooking the fact that all the answers these characters find are the wrong ones. The right answer is in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and Mockingjay. You can tell because the main character of this story is the villain in the other ones.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #the first couple of reviews made me go like 'wow it must be so weird to approach this series from a non-christian viewpoint' #then the christian review was like 'this movie's philosophy's humanist and doesn't mention god' #and i'm like 'no kidding. i wonder if maybe the lack of god in this world is the point' #'and why these characters inhabit a world that will hold the hunger games for another sixty-five years' #'maybe there's another story to be told in this world about what happens when you look beyond that pure humanist viewpoint' #'maybe an entire trilogy'

[nedlittle]

wow dude do you think oscar wilde may have been gay? should we tell the discord? should we inform rupaul?

#the picture of dorian gray #book discourse #sorry to keep beating this dead horse but i tried looking for the review i referenced in that damnèd post but only found more horrors #i appreciate storygraph's lack of hierarchy for review sorting but it really is a bitch when you're trying to find a review for something #extremely popular with over 17k reviews #'why is rupaul here' i blanked on mainstream gay celebs and he was the first i thought of which makes it funnier

[lunarharp]

figured i'd do this again..bit early i guess..

#to cheer me up.. i feel bad atm.. these things don't even make me feel very good tho bc i'm such a narrative/sketch-based artist.. #but Proper Beautiful Finished Pieces are what grab attention and look good at the end of the year all neatly lined up lol..... #so looking at a “yearly review” where i can only choose 'the best image of the month' (??) is like...What have i even been doing... #i did a month by month look back on twt for myself instead..but even that doesn't express the quantity of comic-based stuff.. #that i do put a lot of time/heart into..but alas i feel bad bringing even them back..RTing/reblogging my own art simply feels bad lol.. #AND WHY IS IT ALL B&W...trying to accept that i LIKE doing that and sketching and scribbling..not like i'm trying to like..Get Artist Job.. #this year was so profoundly lonely at times bc i spent all my time drawing instead of socialising and trying to find friends.... #please please please have achieved more of your dreams in the future so you can look back at 2023 and think.. #It was good that happened so that it got me further to the future. Or whatever i guess..................... #regardless i did have a great amount of fun drawing and improving this year and dwelling deeply & heavily on witch hat atelier. #art-wise and emotionally....march july & september were the best months i think..AUGUST WAS SO WEIRD SUMMER IS SO EVIL ALWAYS. #thank you very much if you are reading this for enjoying & leaving nice tags & such like <3 i've realised how fulfilling that is to receive #really keeps me posting stuff here instead of keeping it all to myself in my head #i wish everyone in this world could have a safe and happy end of year. i wish living in this world were easier

[belle-keys]

i think the biggest difference between babel and the secret history is the notion of telling versus showing.

richard tells us over and over again about the beauty of the hampden college campus, about the lovely days spent at francis’ house, about how beauty is terror, about the sense of belonging he found in his classics class. but the story explicitly shows us the reality is not what richard preaches. they killed their friend, they justified it in the name of hellenism, they were horrible to each other, they all lost their minds. there’s layers to the storytelling and an incongruous, inverse relationship between the true story and its teller.

babel is exceptionally well-researched and the story is as comforting as it is harrowing and its deffo a book society needs. but the story doesn’t actually show us anything that it doesn’t explicitly reiterate through its dialogue and actions again and again. robin thinks to himself that the british empire is evil (true) and then we immediately see an example of how the british empire is evil. the story spells itself out to the reader as history spells itself out to robin. it’s thematically exquisite but the narrative style is uninteresting.

#it’s why babel comes across as sanctimonious #i’m a babel lover but just looking at the book as part of the dark academia subgenre #i think the dickensian narrative style and robin’s innocence and naïveté did it a disservice #babel is great but reads as wayyy more commercial than tsh #babel #babel an arcane history #the secret history #tsh #rf kuang #donna tartt #richard papen #henry winter #robin smith #dark academia books #poc dark academia #dark academia #dark academia blog #dark academism #book review

[teardew]

i made a patreon n_____n

first post is 10 pages of wips & sketches containing

madoka portrait

madoka cosplay concept

deadpool portrait

qijing rose kiss (jwqs)

quan yizhen design

an oc art

first pass at a terezi commission

vicyuu chibi

vicyuu heart sketch

vicyuu rose kiss v3

ill make a post like this every week for my sketchbook posts. should be more or less the same so you know whats exactly in there

thank you to anyone who subscribes 🥲

#dew.png #what it says on the tin #most likely not the best time to post abt this #but im excited bc it took longer than i thought it would #to be reviewed lmao #look at my patreon boy #EDIT IDK WHY IT SAYS U GOTTA B 18 OR OLDER TO VIEW MY PAGE?!!? IM NOT MAKING ADLT CONTNT

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

what do you MEAN the audio plugin doesn't work

#Are You Kidding Me? #Look Me In The Eyes And Tell Me You're Joking. #I'm Going To Eviscerate Something. #every single audio separation tutorial: here's an easy free plugin! its so simple! #obs: *spits* fuck you #WHAT DO YOU MEAAAANNNNN #i tried the latest version. i tried the Last version #IT DOESNT WORK??? Hello???? #i am doing! everything the tutorials say! i have been fucking with the same damn thing for two hours! #I Am Still Managing To Fail Spectacularly! What Am I Doing Wrong! Why Is It Broken! #the reviews are saying that it broke with the latest update which is Just My Luck to be honest #absolutely unprompted #bad news gamers! bring your own music to streams. my god. fuck #i thought. i would be able to provide this very shrimple thing. it has krilled me instead #there is no kelp for me. im beached. theres no porpoise in pursuing this further #wailing and wailing and wailing and wailing #ive tried so many different things to no avail #its just!!!! nothing works!!! im scared of breaking what's working!!! #im sorry i have failed you all. cast me into the sea

[survivalistghost]

it’s 2014 again and everyone is going crazy over zayn malik’s single strand.

except it’s 2024 and zayn malik is ahn bo hyun in flex x cop and im everyone.

#why am i dying #he looks so #someone save me #ahn bo hyun #zayn malik #kdrama #korean drama #kdrama review #review #tvn netflix #kdrama text post #kdrama recommendations #flex x cop #flex cop #disney hotstar #disney #one direction

[pastafossa]

I saw this post and it reminded me of the time I was looking for a review of a cute little cookbook I’d seen based on a book series, and this reviewer went through to make and review some of the recipes.

For some reason, she chose a bunch that used ingredients she didn’t like.  And she rated those recipes poorly. Because of how it tasted like the thing she didn’t like.

She did pick one recipe she was excited about, though. Only she didn’t bother to include all the ingredients. And then rated it poorly because it tasted really bad and dry and idk, maybe I did something wrong, the recipe wanted three cups of dried fruit and I only used a cup of raisins, anyway, terrible bread and would not make again.

So, if you ever get a comment on your fanfic, that amounts to, ‘why is this thing in here, it’s terrible, ew, like I know you tagged it but it’s still gross and I hate that I read it, ew,’ just know it’s really, really, really not you.

There will always be people out there that want to punch themselves in the face so they can wonder why their nose hurts.

#fanfic #fic #i read that review years ago and was just like... ??? #so you went through and looked at ALL those recipes and picked ones using ingredients you don't like #the recipe literally says 'these are the things in it' and you went 'oh yeah i don't like those but ok i'll do it EW WHY ARE THESE IN HERE' #this is what people sound like when they complain about things in fic that were tagged #much like a recipe all the ingredients were listed for you which means you know what was in it #you chose to go in anyway

[allieinarden]

Someone’s gotta do a critical study of those TikTok-type point of view videos of, you know, getting bullied by a cool girl when you were in sixth grade, or having your mother-in-law be rude to you, or getting the brush-off after paying a visit your divorced dad wasn’t expecting (not a hypothetical, had this just inexplicably pop up on my YouTube Recommended), I think they started out as observational comedy skits with the occasional cathartic edge and resonated because so many people relate to them, but at what point are they an exercise in deliberately putting yourself in a bad mood (as opposed to accidentally putting yourself in a bad mood, which is the typical practice of social media)? And at what point beyond that are they just training videos teaching you how to hate more types of people and bundle loaded assumptions about them into your interactions, should you encounter them in real life? Because we’re well past that point, baby!

#you can tell these videos from standard comedy skits because all the comments are truly shaken-sounding reviews #of how much they hate the character followed by “good job” with the odd little fanfiction adding details that make the character even worse #typically drawing from a bucket of very internet-meme-derived stereotypes (mean white woman always has a kid named “Kaighden” or something) #Now look I get it my mom and I passed one around about having a receptionist in a doctor’s office be mean to you about processing your info #laughing hysterically because it was so real and the woman nailed it #but why are there so many of these #Or more specifically why are ALL of these characters you’re supposed to be imagining yourself interacting with #rotten to the core and none of them are just funny and dumb and specific

[starrysharks]

i might end up watching that one certain series about hell because i want to give my honest opinion on how it turned out as a former fan, but my judgement of 2 minute opening alone is that i really dislike the way they went about the exposition,,, it's kinda drawn out and presented in an uninteresting way, which sucks cuz a few small changes could make it way better - instead of having the protag just read out what she probably already knows, why not have it be a flashback of her father/mother reading it to her and then cut to present day ,,, and also loredumping right off the bat is an easy way to make things boring, pls quicken the pace or leave stuff to the imagination that's a better hook imo. also while i'm not a christian (ex-pentecostal christian, agonistic) and i'm aware that it might be a setup showing how lucifer is maybe lying to/twisting the original story that he tells his subjects, or a "what if"/converging of different forms of christianity/general mythology, the incorrect theology made my ass itch 😭😭😭😭 PLS read the bible or at least be aware of the main points of the teachings before you write a show about any religion

#this is about the hotel show btw #i'm sorryyyyy i needed to vent it out omg i did not like the opening at all #i am well aware of the faults of the show's creator but i do want to give the show (or at least the first ep) an honest and unbiased review #as if i had never heard of her at all #because i'm writing a comic that is also an edgy comedy with religious themes and i need to know why people dont like this show #so i can avoid doing similar things.... #NO HATE IF YOU LIKE THE SHOW BTW....i was also a HUGE fan of vivs other work from 2016ish-2020... #but if you defend viv with all shes done i'm gonna look at you funny

[maaaxx]

dont get me wrong i am more excited for this atla remake and the inevitable renaissance part 2 than i have ever been for anything in my life. however im also terrified of what changes this is going to bring to the fandom. Obviously the 2020 renaissance brought a lot of new and good things (zukka, a ton of amazing fics, etc). But more people joining the fandom means new people joining ao3 and interacting with fics and authors and artists too. Even in the few years that i've been active in fandom i've noticed a dramatic shift in how people interact with artists and authors especially. And I can't see this not getting worse as more people whose main social media experiences include tik tok and instagram coming to ao3 and tumblr. Like these people are used to content creators who revolve their content around what their audience wants because its their job, and I know this isnt going to translate well to the culture around ao3 writers especially when unconsolidated comments and 'advise' is already a problem for a ton of authors. And for people who dont understand that fics and fanart are supposed be transactional in the sense that you need to leave comments and kudos and reblog stuff when they're used to simply liking something *maybe* being enough. Idk whats going on with other fandoms, but I do know that these things have been an ongoing issue for the atla fandom and like I said, I can't imagine having another 'renaissance' and this stuff not getting worse.

#ive been plotting out new fics to post soon with the same energy as someone trying to start a business during a recession #but like i said idk if this is an issue with other fandoms because the atla fandom is the only one im active in #but i *know* that this is an issue for the atla fandom #Like people are commenting less and less on fics but demanding more frequent chapters #and people want to leave critism that the authors didnt ask for while also not leaving an ounce of praise #like there has been an influx of people just being so shitty to authors #and im not sure if its because of ignorance and people genuinely not knowing how fandom works #or if its entitlement and people are expecting the same thing from fandom creators that they do from influencers or book authors #like fandom has been so weird recently and it is a huge reason of why i havent been updating fics and stuff #when i started posting i wanted a community of people who shared my interests #not people who look at me like a celebrity who they can critisize like theyre leaving a review on rotten tomatoes #idk people have gotten a lot more hostile and its not as fun as it used to be and im scared that another flood of people #joining the fandom is going to make in unbearable #this feels kind of whiney but i am curious if anyone else has noticed it #fandom #ao3 #zukka #atla #max thinks shes relevant

[filmnoirsbian]

Honestly just reading the reviews for the JS Elektra retelling left me with my head in my hands. Big Vito Corleone energy. Look what they did to my girl (except pls don't)

My worst nightmare besides the people who write bad "feminist" myth retellings are the people who read greek myths as if they are a pg rated movie with characters you either like or dislike and the skeleton of a plot with the narrarive depth of a puddle. Supporting women's wrongs is a fun hobby that I myself as a lesbian often partake in but if you read the oresteia or any derivative of the oresteia with only the mindset of stanning clytemnestra or electra and completely disregard the complexities of this story which is about the moral degradation of revenge and blood feuds and the necessity of replacing those things with a fair court of law so shit stops going off the rails (and disregard the motivating factors of FATE and GODS which are inescapable in GREEK TRAGEDY i.e. agamemnon HAD to kill iphigenia and clytemnestra HAD to avenge her and electra and orestes HAD to avenge their father which is all motivation enough even without electra's further motivation of her mother and stepfather literally abusing her so of COURSE she aligned herself with the fantasy of the only parent she felt truly loved her) then I don't know what to say other than I think you're an idiot. And if you cannot write these complex characters that were so fully human and well-done in their original conception hundreds of years ago in a way for your audience to understand and sympathize with them at least as much as aeschylus' audience did, again, centuries ago, then you're a bad writer.

#asks #i don't know why i looked at the reviews for this book i knew they'd just piss me off. god.

[eldragon-x]

me looking through rgu letterbox reviews clicking on the "this review contains spoilers -> I can handle the truth" label only to read the most painful misunderstanding of the show imaginable

#why am i looking through letterbox reviews you ask? well i dont know how i got here either

[eastleune]

i hate the argument against one piece that’s like “a good show shouldn’t need 1,000+ episodes to get good”. you’re gonna make me rip my skin off. why the fuck would one piece fans waste 25 years of their life waiting to “get to the good part”? one piece isn’t 1,000 episodes because it needs to time to get good, it’s 1,000 episodes because it’s simply a long story: it’s a journey, an adventure.

in the same breath, one of the most fantastic things about op being 1,000 episodes is that, in all that time, it hasn’t run itself into the ground. it just continues to get better and better.

#one piece #why you should watch one piece #one piece review #i’m seriously so tired of these half baked arguments against one piece #take a look at your favorite show #it’s got what? maybe 4 seasons? #bet you wish you were getting more content for said show #damn #can’t relate #i always am getting fed as a one piece fan #huff dirt