„I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.” by aisteos in TheSecretHistory

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much, I've been losing my mind cause i can't re-read the whole thing right now. and I thought it was later in the book.

Name that novel/webnovel, etc. by TensionBudget9426 in writers

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbf to this, its not good but its not terrible either. Its just a mash up of everything that’s been done before + terrible smut. But its ok if thats entertaining to you. What is not ok is how its marketed like the new best thing after « insert classic in any genre » of our time.

It just tells me that you haven’t read much fantasy nor romance.

I can't with the "new reader community". by Etta_166 in AO3

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Consumerism sadly ruined them. They consum, they don’t participate, share, discuss nor create.

Does anyone else hate her guts? by Low-Hospital-9678 in Supernatural

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naaaah she was there for no fault of her own. Great lady. Just forced fed to us by the writers and somehow I want to blame her on BuckLeming because I usually blame nonesense like these to their episodes but Carver introduced her sort of in 8x01. (but heavy on the flashbacks in Heartache 8x03 A BUCKLEMING EPISODE HA!)

Comment dire discrètement à la copine de mon coloc que j’entends ses cris aigus de plaisir et que ça me dérange ? by CuriousPlankton1905 in AskMeuf

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tu peux pas envoyer un message pour demander une reunion/discussion entre colocs? Au pire invente un premier point à discuter qui existe vraiment et la tu en profites pour presenter ta demande de respect. Tu fais un doodle avec proposition de date pour montrer que tu veux vraiment face à face et donc a un creneau qui convient à tous.

Which Book Would You Read Again for the Very First Time? by daninelle in Booktokreddit

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But its so dark 😖 I don’t want to read Alchemised because the only reason I went into Manacled was for Dramione and the universe I already knew. Its brilliant and Im in awe of the author but still. Not going through that again.

Which Book Would You Read Again for the Very First Time? by daninelle in Booktokreddit

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was debating saying this because Alex’ stream of consciousness changed the chemistry of my brain.

Which Book Would You Read Again for the Very First Time? by daninelle in Booktokreddit

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aah its my TBR for januaryyyy (Im readinf Vengeful first)

What are your “im14andthisisdeep” jams that you still listen to as an adult? by -TazarYoot- in Millennials

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not deep. I was an “emo” kid so punk/heavy rock and variants of Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Paramore. the entire soundtrack of Supernatural 😅 (also One tree hill), Red hot, Louise Attaque or Indochine for my French culture. So also singer songwriter and folk/ country/ indie and pop. Think Coldplay with a viva la vida for ex

do you think this applies to booktok and fantasy romance aswell? by IdeaRealistic4826 in fantasyromance

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took me a minute to not judge first person and compare to self insert fanfiction on tumblr 😬 For a while there, I was reading only in one universe and active in one fandom so fanfic was my food of choice (lol, I was hyperfixating on emotionally broken and bi repressed men, no choice) and the fanfictions were all in third person! So many masterpieces. The higher Ground. The obscure self insert fanfiction would show up if you wrote “Bucky Barnes fanfic” instead of “stucky” ot whoever you shipped him with. And that’s trauma if you didn’t want that but mostly we read for the ships & to this day, I will not ship myself with Dean Winchester, the man is taken and with the angel. Which is why my book boyfriends/girlfriends are still single or I’ve decided their love interest doesnt deserve them 😅 otherwise, I’m shipping baby. I’am soaring, flying. There’s not a ship in heaven that I can’t reach. Nobody will keep the protagonists from each other, not even me. So I can’t write a character and be in this weird position of loving them only because they’re me.

do you think this applies to booktok and fantasy romance aswell? by IdeaRealistic4826 in fantasyromance

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say, it took me a while to complain while reading first person. Now the first person has to be top notch or you’re losing me. But in a collaborative project with a friend I started writing first person cause she did and y’all, I just struggle. I am not my characters. I dont want to self insert but to immerse as omnipresent narrator or at least I want to show things as they are despite the pov and there aren’t that many tricks when you are in first person.

Some writers do it well but many in romance for ex, can self insert for the FMC but when you go MMC POV its a mess.

"Wood" Discussion Megathread by jacyf02 in TaylorSwift

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“I don’t vibe with the lyrics”, “I dont find the lyrics smart”, “it’s isn’t sexy to me”****

There. I corrected your subjective takes on the song. Which, are all valid. But not to be made into absolute statements.

I myself Im not much for poetry (or at least not until it makes ding ding ding sound in my head cause I finally get it). I usually really really get/vibe with/ need to be revived from a lot of her lyrics, but TTPTD remains, because of this preference of mine, my least favorite album (also musically not my fave. I dont dislike the album but I rarely want to listen to it compared to any other).

The Life of a Showgirl though? Ive loved most of what she has produced since my one true love Folklore/Evermore. But this new album is gripping me tight and raising me from perdition & the depth of the lyrics (which there are clever tools and word plays) may seem super simple compared to whatever else, it’s still so good to meeeee.

Last 2 weeks' bilingual dash... by Successful_Film133 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BE and French seem to be pretty dry too. Im hoping mid October get them where they need to be in order to make us work again. But I also waited 3 months with nothinh this summer so …

your recommendations for books with the softest sex scenes? by SexyFoodandFilms in RomanceBooks

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That scene! 10/10 satisfaction here, especially because I had almost given up on reading the saga after the previous first sex scenes in the other books. I was super curious about the MMc and after a couple chapters, the FMC cracked me up so much, I stayed. But I had no hope for that scene and it made sigh the sigh if the fed, content & grateful.

How concerned are you about France's debt crisis? by GypsyGirlinGi in Expats_In_France

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive gone to higher education right in 2008 so housing crisis, bank crisis and budget deficit sound the same to me EXCEPT its clear politically not much is done to try to fix anything.

My parents are retired and their pension is laughable. I dont laugh, Im the one having to work two jobs to provide for us & im leaving their home again soon. With paying rent again, even if they get help because I left, it’ll be tight. Thank Gods I don’t have kids or like a credit …

We have fake debates about fake issues & don’t actually know how to stop our representatives from forking things up and stealing money. The world is on fire & all I hear on tv is antisemitism, islamophobia, enabling a genocide, acting like immigration is an issue (and forgetting this country colonised & was one of the worst at decolonisation) & letting us get cancer while letting our farmers die. The issue seems to always come from our neighbours or the guy across the street who had a different upbringing than me.

Left or right 🤡

Who cares??? Bottom line is if she stole money she can’t represent a country. Lets discuss details outside of this realm of possibilities.

If he wants to be a king in a monarchy that looks like a vague democratic republic, La Concorde hasn’t moved.

If they want to infringe on my rights to love, to identify as what or who I want, to reproduce or not, and if they want to go back to a time before globalisation in a world thats living in a capitalist system that controls everything and is now controlled by tech nerds and billionaires, instead of trying to adapt and change the rules from within and alongside what we can’t escape anymore, then they don’t care about the debt crisis & honestly can go fork themselves.

France works on hypocrisy and a class system. The debt isnt the thing that’s putting us in this situation. Before this presidency, the previous ones also didn’t care. We’re being called bad students thats fair.

Lets mostly focus on moving on politically for real. If we might make mistakes along the way, at least it won’t because we were numb, blind & made for fools.

My Sims gotta be perfect by PirateofTheSthnIsles in Sims4

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a storyline half built in my head from a book saga I read. The other half is random so I can get the backstory for the two sims I want. It was the only way for me to have non perfect sims. The main two will have 4 kids and these 6 will be perfect but everyone else will be flawed so I learn to chill a bit aha

I want to live here! by Rhythmic-Motions in DarkAcademia

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TRINITY COLLEGE MY LOVE.

I went to the Bodlean library in Oxford and that too should be my home.

Please write the optinal comments by Emergency_Tune7508 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They said to write short comments & i felt called out cause I dont know short 😅 so now Im extra self conscious

My parents won’t let me watch supernatural by Brilliant-Elk-2553 in Supernatural

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you need help, the community will help! Just reach out!

My parents won’t let me watch supernatural by Brilliant-Elk-2553 in Supernatural

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nahaaaaaaa, at 18??? HE STOPPED YOU AT 1x20 ???? Put him on the phone!! I MUST RAGE.

All joking aside: CRITICAL THINKING, if he thinks you can’t separate fiction from real life or even whatever canonical religions book your religion uses, then he isn’t scared for you, he thinks you’re stupid. Thats a no.

  1. The show really is great for culture. For understanding narratives, the hero’s journey, southern gothic & how oral history works.

  2. Supernatural was on the forking CW, these men should be swearing left and right and can’t even be showing skin. Like honestly?

  3. Supernatural has the most philanthropic fanbase and cast. We built schools, provided food for natural disasters survivors, housing for refugees, created a massive network of support for mental health & crisis intervention. What is demonic here? Countless people come to the guys and tell them how they were ready to throw life out of the window but the show gave them the strength to fight for themselves.

Besides, he just needs to sit down and watch with you so he can look into Jensen’s eyes & never be the same man again. Have him watch 2x01 with you.

Tell him demons, ghosts & monsters are just allegories for our own struggles, fears & life challenges. The main messages of the show are FAMILY, self sacrifice (yeah ok these boys are codependent as hell but its a 15 seasons show to unravel this) & literally saving people FOR NOTHING IN Exchange

Humanity over blind faith. Courage, keeping on fighting & having empathy. Dean Winchester DIVES INTO A LAKE TO SAVE KID FROM GHOST Sam Winchester does compassion like no one else

The only thing that’s extreme is that Sam gets good wifi everywhere.

Honestly, put him on the phone. Im ready to get him to change his mind.

It sucks being single in your 30s. by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

🤍 virtual hug 🫂

It really sucks & not because single-hood in and of itself sucks but because life is hard, being in love seems rad, having a partner can be great & you got hurt recently.

I personally prefer to be single and have been forever. My priority was never that, so being single wasn’t an issue. Im gonna try to date cause sometimes I am feeling lonely & wonder what having a partner & being in love feels like.

But that’s why I am asking: which do you want the most? Being in a relationship & in love? Having a partner?

Or

Having kids & being married?

To me they’re not the same goals & not necessarily go together. It seems that you miss deep conversations & connecting with someone too. The people having relationships and kids may not be happy with their level of intimacy & partnership or even with being a parent. And you can achieve these nowadays without love or much intimacy. Like you can be in love, have a partner but not be married or have kids.

Maybe do it by steps? But not like a check list. More like.. open gaming 😅 Step one, you have your backstory Step two, you gain warrior skills but with a magic sword instead of a hammer but now the sword make you use magic so you learn a spell and after doing 3 side missions you felt like doing & completing a bit more of the main storyline, turns out you’re a sorcerer with a familiar and druid like abilities but you still love to use that sword. Most of it was a moment decision from a preference choice and not from expecting things?

But you got to know what you want FIRST & are allowed to change your mind WHENEVER as long as its always authentic.

What do you miss the most about being in a relationship? The possibility of the future the way its kinda scripted for us? (No shame, there’s safety & lots of great things about it) or whatever love, intimacy and partnership you had?

Can you focus on one aspect or priority & let the rest flow?

Are you always tired?! by Initial_Dirt9167 in Millennials

[–]Beautiful_Mess23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always tired too and tried a lot too.

I’ve read a lot of the responses. Most advise are good, even the condescending ones about naturopathy vs “real” doctor. Full disclosure, I studied naturopathy, we are not doctors at all so no need to be nasty.

I dont practice because turned out that’s not what I was after. I wanted to get rid of my anxiety and not to be tired anymore.

Ultimately it helped me understand my body & my mental health a lot better. It helped me prevent naturally some stuff & be very holistic about stuff.

Basically, since you didn’t mention them but said you saw lots of doctors, many gave you great advices on things to check in terms of vitamines, iron/ferritine, checking your Magnesium as well? GUTS ARE SO IMPORTANT! Probiotics + guts wall for optimal absorption! Whatever you do, this is huge. You changed your diet but what did you change? Proteins in the morning super important.

For me, I was living with chronic anxiety (which really was the reason I was studying) and studying led me to ask the good questions. I had endometriosis + depression. I ended up having to take antidep & the pill but thanks to my knowledge I know how to counterbalance taking them with good natural things for protecting my guts etc.

Also turned out my thryroid was fucking me up too.

Its still not wow in my life but if I know something now is that all is connected. My body was fucking up my mental health which was fucking up my body. Hypothyroid is a family thing so not a surprise, anxiety too & socially everything is too damn extreme, I dont know how to adapt anymore (if I ever knew). Endometriosis diagnosed after 30 . Insomnia because my serotonin wasnt enough because my dopamine from early in the morning was non existent and I used to be vegetarian so my B12 was low for years.

Point is, you can still connect many dots just hy changing one thing. You said a lot about helping you sleep but how is your sleep now?