I’m Still Surprised Nikita Isn’t A Popular Show On This Site. I Mean, A Lead, Female, POC Who Kicks

Would you recommend Luna and the lie? Are you still reading it?? What about other booms by the same author?

Yes I would! Tbh I think I once said holly black was the queen of slowburns but I might have lied lol it’s Mariana Zapata. Like genuinely the slowest of burns. I would definitely recommend her other books, plus it’s kinda cool to see they’re all set in the same universe.

They’re long and usually enemies to friends to lovers. I think of all the books I’ve read from her, Only two are on my dnf list lol.

The wall of Winnipeg and me, one of my favorites. I can go back multiple times to read that one haha. Personal assistant of this super huge super stoic football player quits her job and said football player tries to entice her while also keep his residency by asking her to marry him. “You know more about me than anyone else does.” was what really cut my heart up.

Kulti, that was one that I wasn’t sure I was going to like but ended up really enjoying. The girls soccer team has a new retired player coach and he’s such a hard ass but she takes it in stride bc her MO is being better than she was five minutes ago. They clash a lot then they don’t. “It’s a term of affection in my country. My love. My snail.” Hahaha I started tearing up at that one.

Under Locke, that was different but good different, more intense than the others and is kinda similar to how I felt with Kulti. Her dads a bad guy and she moves in with her brother so he could keep an eye on her, meanwhile getting her a job at a tattoo parlor where the boss is a sorta gang member. “But I'm not a good man, and I'm gonna take everythin' you want to give me and everythin' you don’t.” Oof. My loins.

Luna and the lie, which I thoroughly enjoyed and might be my new favorite. She’s moved away from her crazy dangerous family taking her sisters with her and her newest boss is a hardass who believes he owes her a favor after she lied to the cops for him...except every favor she asks, he insists is not part of the deal. “You haven’t listened to a single fucking thing I’ve said, have you? Seen a single thing I’ve done? You’re the only person who hasn’t put shit together?” Be still my heart.

Wait for it, as most of her books are heartbreaking at some points, this one kinda started out on heartbreak but it was the way she dealed with it that made my heart so soft. After gaining custody of her brothers two sons, she moves to a new town where their new baseball coach/ neighbor is a little resentful of all the attention he usually gets, and becuase of a misunderstanding he thinks she’s just as bad as everyone else who hits on him. “Do you love me?, I asked him like I did every night just to hear him say it.” The kiddos in this were too adorable.

From lukov with love, turned out seriously sweet but I wasn’t surprised. Enemies on ice haha literally. He’s a pretty famous ice skater and she still struggles to reach her goal. He needs a new partner and wants her to be it. “‘We both know you love me.’ I wanted to deny it. I really did. Mostly because I hated the fact that he sounded so smug. But we both knew I’d be lying.” Truly the most enemies to lovers of them all.

Becuase how they’re all slowburns, I got really, really invested haha. Also learned a lot about certain sports and tattooing? And car painting? And uhh motorcycle clubs? Loved the family and friendship dynamics even if some of the family dynamics were so awful I wanted to punch characters through the pages; it was just well thought out and I felt every emotion. The main characters were also pretty badass and hilarious at times, if not a little naïve where it counted. Would definitely recommend if you want a contemporary romance to read and get invested in.

i think ppl would be a lot happier and better-adjusted on here if they realized that being online on a website is like being in any other casual public space full of people. if u walk into walmart u dont immediately think to yourself “i have to be friends with everyone in this walmart and if not everyone likes me i’m a failure” and u really shouldn’t feel that way online either. likewise if there’s a guy in the walmart parking lot shouting obscenities u probably wouldn’t answer him and that’s literally an exact equivalent to some of the weird stuff that people on here seem to feel they’re obligated to respond to.

Me: I’m having such a hard time, can y’all please go easy on me?

so let's talk about the first and the last conversation in this episode shall we

first, we have those two actually admitting, point blank, that they're worried about each other. doom is confused and angry, because she could've died and why the hell would she do something so stupid and useless if she knew he cannot die? she retaliates, not by being defensive and immediately saying she didn't think it through and she would've done the same for anyone, but by expressing worry and empathy. and then she adds that she actively wanted to do it and what's more, she doesn't regret it, even with the knowledge that he cannot die and she almost did.

he's angry, and of course, we could suspect that he's worried over her almost dying because, as he says later, without her he cannot end the world. but then, she points out something important. he says he killed that man, and she shouldn't sacrifice herself for him with no reason because he is not worth it. she replies, I'm sure you did it for a reason.

the thing is, she is right. but their later talk circles around that idea, maybe he did it because he is punishing people? maybe it is his work? but his work was done when he prolonged this man's life so that he would suffer. now, why would he kill him, then? it wasn't work, it wasn't punishment, it was personal retaliation. doom saw this man attack and almost kill dong kyung, even if unintentionally. he saw her caring enough to jump in and foolishly try to save him and felt enraged enough to ditch the bigger plan because of it. a lot of personal, human emotions were involved.

now, throughout the episode, he observes dong kyung, trying to figure out her own reasons for acting the way she did. and the conclusion of his observations is in the last conversation. yes, he managed to read her in the subway, but more importantly, he had a revelation about himself.

he had an opportunity to feel like maybe, just maybe, he was worth something to someone, that he mattered enough for someone to risk their own lives they otherwise want to desperately preserve. he felt genuine care as she empathized with him and tried to understand instead of reacting with fear or anger. he had his opportunity to also express care, do something good instead of destructive, in the subway, and at the beach. he wanted her to cling to him and she literally did, grabbing his sleeve and asking to go with him. so his conclusion?

he wants to be loved by her. she is the one human in existence who was able to see through the bad and notice him, make him feel like he was something beyond death and destruction that (quite literally) follows him. he was sure he cannot be loved and now he is basically pleading her to try and love him, with vulnerability he hasn't shown before, the shooting star visually confirming his wish was genuine.

now, it is not to say that his personal journey is done or that he's changed his mind about ending the world completely. but these two things are strongly connected and him voicing his desire to be loved by her is a huge step on the road to realize his personal identity and separate it from what is now a projection of his self-hatred onto the humankind. it's not over, folks, it's bound to get more interesting and dramatic for sure.

One more young fighter. May God bless these beautiful souls 

So the Queen of Nothing (Holly Black) and Nesta’s novel (SJM) are both coming out in 2020 and I’m calling it: 2020 is officially the Bad Bitches year.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

I love how my Tumblr’s this one big mess of ships, fandoms and cats and dogs but I do sometimes worry for my followers. They follow me because I post 10000 things about a single fandom then I suddenly jump ship and post another 10000 things about another and then I’ll be stuck in the vicious cycle until I have annoyed enough people. But then, I stopped worrying because maybe all of us are just like that.

Regarding Gomez in Netflix’s Wednesday

Little bit of background, I’ve been an Addams Family fan since 2014, when I was 16. I first fell in love with the ‘91 and ‘93 Addams Family films, and then I later fell in love with the 60s show. I was so obsessed with it, and I even used to run an Addams Family side blog (which I might resurrect, idk), so yes, I am a fan of the Addams Family!

There’s been a lot of comments regarding the casting of Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams that are… really not it. The sum of it seems to be “eww why is Gomez ugly and fat, he should be skinny/look like the 91-93 Gomez”, which is really gross for a multitude of reasons.

Firstly, the fat shaming??? The fatphobia??? I said this when people in the FB fandom fat shamed Dan Fogler/Jacob Kowalski, I’ll say it now, but anyone saying fat = ugly can fucking fight me, I’ll kick your ass right here and now. That on its own is so gross and disgusting, and anyone thinking that can unfollow me right fucking now. It’s just gross.

Whatever version you prefer, The Addams Family is a series that has always shown a healthy and loving family even though they’re not what you’d expect them to be. The Addams Family are especially shown as being very accepting and open minded; in the 93 film, when Pubert is “normal”, Gomez and Morticia are still loving parents to him even though it’s things they find abhorrent, and when they think the kids want to go to summer camp, despite being surprised and clearly not expecting it, they don’t say their kids can’t go - “if it’s what they want” kind of mindset. There’s also moments in the 60s TV show, like Pugsley joining Boy Scouts, where Gomez and Morticia don’t necessarily agree with things their children are into it, but they accept it because they want their children to be happy. If you think the Addams Family would condone fat shaming, you clearly aren’t truly a fan of the Addams Family.

Secondly, have you not seen what Gomez looks like in the original Charles Addams comics???

^You want to split hairs about “he doesn’t look like Gomez”? THIS is what Gomez Addams looked like originally.

Thirdly, I love Raul Julia as Gomez - I had the biggest crush on him for YEARS. He was an amazing Gomez, and no one is going to dispute that (hopefully). But it kind of bothers me that people are saying not only that Gomez should look only like Raul Julia, and also that people are commenting that “Gomez was skinny in those films and it was more attractive!!!” when Raul Julia was actually extremely ill with stomach cancer while making the Addams Family movies - he pushed onwards because he loved the character so much.

You can see in this interview that he’s not very well, and this was about a year before he died. So while I agree that yes, his Gomez is pretty suave and sexy, pointing out it’s because he’s skinny is… kind of weird, given the circumstances.

Quite frankly, when it comes to any version of Gomez, so long as they show how absolutely devoted he is to Morticia, I’m happy - his love and adoration for her is one of the key parts of his character, so as long as that’s shown in someway, I really don’t care if he’s conventionally attractive. The reason we love Gomez is because he’s such a wife guy and a rare example of non-toxic masculinity.

As someone who’s a huge fan of the 60s show and 90s films, I’m personally really excited to see this new show and how these characters are brought to life - who knows, maybe it might encourage a new generation to watch the older Addams Family stuff?

hey since louis tomlinson admitted that larries made him and harry’s friendship fall apart and dan howell said phannies digging into his relationship w phil made him experience ptsd symptoms and brought him to a terrible place, can u all stop w the shipping bullshit now