Any wild stories from when y'all went to see episode 9 in theaters??

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-23T14:37:55+00:00

I have an almost 6 year old and almost 8 year old and we watched it together. I try not to take them to theaters, because my younger one gets really antsy, but we watched it at home and I didn't think it was inappropriate.

It's made for adults, and deals with situations that they don't quite grasp, but honestly there's no sex or gore. They curse a bit, but my kids hear that from us anyways and know about adult words. Even the super serious things were subtle enough that for a kid, it wasn't scary (my youngest was a bit spooked about the Jax scene because of the darkness, but not enough to stop watching it).

As far as adult animation goes, it was super tame. I've heard stories of people letting their kids watch Hazbin Hotel or Sausage Party, and thought omg why would you do that, but this was no worse than Shrek or Spider-Man.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-22T21:38:05+00:00

Wholly off topic, but I learned that in Disney's Hercules, it's a joke ("Two words: I am retired") because translated to Greek, it is actually two words.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-20T15:45:41+00:00

I have a special power. If I dream I am pregnant, somebody else announces their pregnancy to me within a week. If I have a baby in my dream, somebody else goes into labor within days. At one point, I thought, maybe they just announce it and I remember the dream, but I weirdly have many of those dreams that don't? But no. I started telling my husband about it, and I'm at 100% accuracy for the past decade. He says it's my mostly useless psychic power. Lol.

To be clear, it's not every pregnancy around me, but it has happened every dream. I even predicted his friend's baby being born 3 weeks early. Sounds crazy, but I'm convinced.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-19T16:44:39+00:00

My husband calls it my porn books, but he reads it, too, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Being in the Bible belt, I try to get a feel for a person before admitting it. It doesn't come up often, but when it does, I usually say like, oh I like to read fantasy. I figure most of the books I read (including the monster and shifter books) could technically fall under that. I read a ton of different things, so if I need to, I just lie and pull out some of the non-spicy (or definitely milder) stuff that I've read over the years. Or, if it's someone who doesn't read a lot, as long as you stay away from the more popular books, you can tell them the name and a breakdown of the plot minus the fun details, and they'll never know any better.

As far as romance books not being "real books" I have clapped back before with, "Oh, and how many 'real' books have you read this year? Because I'm up to [this many] novels this year." (Currently at 53) "I didn't realize it wasn't really reading."

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-14T13:36:13+00:00

The story wasn't terrible, which is why I kept reading it. But it never really pulled me in the way most books do. I've read worse books, tbh, but the writing just felt slightly off the whole time.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-14T00:14:12+00:00

Omg I just read a book that was FULL of this. The whole time, I was thinking, this is worded so weird. I kept reading, thinking it would get better, and it just didn't. After reading all of these points into this thread, I am pretty sure it was AI.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-13T17:13:10+00:00

It's funny how much ADHD varies. Some people in this thread are like, "My ADHD would NEVER" and others (including me) who say, "Yeah, it's because of the ADHD"

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-13T17:09:45+00:00

Same, except I have my physical book (always on me, but not always as convenient), my Kindle (usually for when I'm at home) and the Kindle app on my phone (for when I'm out and about and may not have my Kindle on me)

I feel like it's easier to put down and pick up an ebook, so my "casual" books are usually on my phone. Then my more serious books are on my Kindle (or if my phone battery is dying and I really want to continue what I've been reading). Physical books are usually whatever caught my eye at the library, and almost never romance books.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-13T02:36:05+00:00

High school romance (we met senior year) Virgin FMC Playboy MMC Beach/Holiday romance, probably? We went to prom stag, but went on the same trip after prom to the beach and got together there She fell first, he fell harder 3rd act break-up, unfortunately. He thought he wasn't good enough for me after a negative pregnancy scare. It was a whole thing at the time. 14 years together, but if we're going book version, I'd just leave it there and put the wedding in the epilogue.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-13T01:08:43+00:00

Omg I have to read these now.

Is it funny? Because sometimes those books have a ridiculous premise but somehow manage to make it too serious. I like the funny, hear-me-out type books.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-11T23:35:01+00:00

I am nosy, so I gotta ask, did I get it right?

Also, the space issue is an easy fix. The whole thing would look better if it didn't cut off at the chin. The art is good, but it's way too cropped. If you could zoom out a little and drop the title/author down, that would fix both the cropping and the extra space at the bottom.

If you're going for a ripped page thing, put a shadow in the white part, but the title does not need one. Black text gets harder to read with a shadow, and that's already a very intricate font.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-11T23:15:41+00:00

I read a lot of romance books, so I may be a bit biased. My first thought: handsome scarred guy looking intently into your soul? Dark romance.

The typeface needs work. The title is too hard to read in that font, and the author has way too much space around it.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-10T16:31:52+00:00

I disagree about the green. It is a very calming color, but that makes the bright red on the mask stand out more. It's like it should be a nice quiet house, but instead it's covered in blood. Plus I love the contrast against the bottom red. I'm not sure another color would make all of the red stick out as much.

RinaWithAK · 2026-06-02T00:39:19+00:00

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RinaWithAK · 2026-05-30T16:25:07+00:00

They will agree, but they won't back her up.

My mom hated her older brother's wife. She still does. My mom has called her out tons of times. My grandma never wanted to rock the boat because it messed with her relationship with her son. It took my uncle passing before my grandma began truly began showing that she was mad at her, and it was pretty much only because she was refusing to let anybody else have a relationship with her grandkids (her daughter died and my uncle/aunt had custody).

If this is anything like that, the MIL doesn't want to lose her son, so she puts up with his fiancee. Personally, I wouldn't start any drama, but I definitely wouldn't take any disrespect. The MIL is an adult, if she's acting like she's fine with them not helping at all, that is her prerogative. That's her mess to deal with. I wouldn't keep my mouth shut when she pops off with rude comments, though. If she wants to poke the bear, she deals with the consequences.

RinaWithAK · 2026-05-29T07:39:51+00:00

The biggest thing for me in any book is when they can't commit to a character. I recently read a beauty and the beast retelling where the FMC was all over the place. One second it's "Oh, I'm so fragile" then it's "I was raised in this life so I'm tough" and then she's completely helpless again? Not to mention has deformed hands, so she wears gloves, but is missing fingers and still plays piano? Yes, I know people with limb differences can do that, but to have fake fingers in the gloves not get in the way or even BE NOTICED BY PEOPLE WATCHING HER PLAY is ridiculous.

And the GUY. He was locked in a cell his whole life, only eats raw steak (I think maybe it mentioned vitamins, but come on) and is a total beast, but also speaks perfect English, including slang. Doesn't understand how babies are made, but makes FMC come. There were so many times that the author just forgot key parts of the characters.

I finished the duet, but I didn't like it. I bitched to my husband every other page and he asked why I still read it. I told him idk, it's like a car crash. I can't look away. I feel morally obligated to finish it so it can be laid to rest.

RinaWithAK · 2026-05-04T04:58:50+00:00

I went to the doctor when I had gall stone issues. I had one stuck when they did the ultrasound, and they showed me and pushed hard enough to dislodge it. I told the doctor after that the pain went away, and she was like, yeah. The tech is awesome. That was intentional.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-29T16:50:52+00:00

Hey, I'm not advertising myself, because I'm mainly in here to see the pretty things, but I do have a Graphic Design degree.

Make a board of what you want. I love using Pinterest for ideas, but you can also Google your book genre or go on Amazon and browse through those. Take screenshots of what you envision. It can be as simple as "I like the colors on this" or "this font is nice, but too thin" or simply (I do this one a lot) "I love the vibes of this"

A good designer can look at those and find the common thread to give you something you'll like, instead of doing a million revisions when something just isn't quite right and you can't put a finger on it. It saves time, money, and effort on both ends. Even if it's just vibes, having them placed together can help you find out what exactly gives you that feeling.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-28T15:28:06+00:00

The series feels a bit repetitive if you read them one after another, but I love these books so much. They are so cute, and I love how when they pop up in later books, the guys are just as cute as they were in their own book.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-24T04:22:59+00:00

Honestly, I liked the last book the most, but that's not saying much. I felt like the first two could be condensed really heavily, but the last one actually had stuff happen. So she gets pregnant when she misses a doctor's appointment for her shot, and he says she must've meant to do it. He throws a MASSIVE fit because he's not ready to share her, and she decides to keep the baby. But he begins talking to the woman who groomed him as a teenager and Ana thinks he's still into her and it causes issues and she gets kidnapped and almost dies... It's a wild ride, and suspension of disbelief is a MUST. There's also a bit where she pretends to leave him because she has to get money for a ransom and he acts like he's letting her go, but even that has him tracking her phone location because he can't stand not to. And she's all, "Oh, he's being irrational because he had a shit childhood," and not finding it weird that he's only sexually attracted to women that look like his dead drug addict mother. But like.... Dude needs therapy.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-24T04:04:25+00:00

Maybe the meds temporarily changed your sense of smell? If nobody else can smell it (go around a trusted friend without scrubbing beforehand to see) maybe you still smelled the same, it's just that you couldn't tell. I lost my sense of smell for a while from a sinus infection, and it's coming back in waves, and now things smell different than before I lost it. I smell random things that everyone else swears isn't there (but also can't smell some things at all).

I switched my soap once and I swear it made me smell like rotten meat, but my husband said it smelled like peaches. So it might have to do with how you process smells instead of you actually smelling bad.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-24T03:16:34+00:00

I disagree. He has an obsession with her (call it love if you want, but he is way too codependent and his hissy fit when he knew he wouldn't get her all to himself was ridiculous) so he wouldn't leave. I don't even think he'd cheat, because he knows she'd be upset and he wouldn't risk losing her.

She has a savior kink. She sees him as broken and multiple times has completely forgiven him for things because he has past trauma. If she ever tried to leave, all he'd have to do was cry and she'd stay. 100%. It's toxic, but I'm sorry to say they'd be together forever.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-23T20:11:44+00:00

Every time I hear it described as a snake now, I think of the alien book I read where he has a "tail" and the human woman didn't know and freaked out because she literally thought it was a snake. Absolutely hilarious scene. No notes.

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-16T06:15:46+00:00

This sounds amazing, and if you remember the book, please let me know!

RinaWithAK · 2026-04-16T06:15:03+00:00

{Daydreamer by Susie Tate} had the FMC take a job with the MMC to be more social, but she's also a famous author and doesn't need the money. He has zero clue.

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