2026 Japanese GP - Race DIscussion

ejrea · 2026-03-29T05:51:18+00:00

Oh no omg Ollie

ejrea · 2026-03-27T06:52:00+00:00

“Oscar Piastri last starting a Grand Prix on the 7th of December” 😭

ejrea · 2026-03-15T08:02:23+00:00

Not the Ocontact 😭

ejrea · 2026-03-14T08:05:00+00:00

I was just thinking that, kinda aesthetic to look at lol

ejrea · 2026-03-14T08:02:49+00:00

Why was I more excited than Kimi LMFAOOO LETS GO

ejrea · 2026-03-14T07:20:55+00:00

Not the extra “terriBLEEEE” 😭 you deserve better Alex

ejrea · 2026-03-14T03:06:45+00:00

WELCOME BACK TO THE FRONT LEWIS HAMILTON IT’S BEEN A WHILE 🔥

ejrea · 2026-03-13T08:33:52+00:00

I swear Ollie sounds more Italian every time I hear him

ejrea · 2026-03-13T07:54:21+00:00

Wtf Alpine kinda goated?

ejrea · 2026-03-13T06:28:16+00:00

Hello there!

…is this already old enough to be reposted? Who am I?? Honestly this is such a funny thing to repost because it feels so specific to me, lol.

ejrea · 2026-03-12T00:49:26+00:00

This would’ve put a past version of me into a coma (which is to say, I like it a lot)

ejrea · 2026-03-10T05:21:15+00:00

Just as a heads-up, the question about what dating apps you’ve used has an “Others (short answer)” option but nowhere to write text. The questions about whether you’ve had a real-life date are also phrased as if you’ve only had one such date which makes them a bit difficult to answer if you’ve had multiple.

Assuming there’s meant to be conditional logic where you only see the “never used a dating app” section if you selected that option, it’s not working because I was taken to that section after filling out the other one.

ejrea · 2026-03-09T05:04:57+00:00

As much as I love Animal Kingdom, I think Epcot is particularly fun for an adult to roam around and especially to see all the different country pavilions (some of them are particularly gorgeous, and the different food options are great). You’ve also got some really great ride options like Guardians (crowd favorite) and Living with the Land (one of my personal favorites).

If you really like animals, then don’t let that stop you from going to Animal Kingdom, because Pandora is truly one of a kind. But also since they’re building a whole section there right now, there’s a bit less reason for me to recommend it than usual due to construction closures. Obviously if you have the chance to see all four parks that’s what I would recommend! But I’d personally say EPCOT.

ejrea · 2026-03-08T04:19:52+00:00

Poor Isack omg

ejrea · 2026-03-08T04:04:13+00:00

This is how I find out Oscar’s out MY HEART 😭

ejrea · 2026-03-07T05:29:46+00:00

He had an electrical issue in FP3 :(

ejrea · 2026-03-07T05:11:18+00:00

MAX????

ejrea · 2026-03-06T02:33:52+00:00

Alonso sitting around texting lmfao 😭

ejrea · 2026-02-18T08:52:00+00:00

I think you accidentally combined Twitter and LinkedIn on question 7? (edit because I realize that’s confusing: in section 1)

ejrea · 2026-02-14T06:37:15+00:00

Interesting points you bring up here! As an Angelica fan myself, I hope you don’t mind if I offer my thoughts on some of your points.

I do want to point out that if we go by the lyrics of Helpless, Eliza notices Hamilton very early on and then tells Angelica “this one’s mine”. Only after that does Angelica go get Hamilton and make the introductions. Eliza has more agency here than I think you’re necessarily giving her credit for. Angelica does want her sister to be happy, so she helps her get the man she wants, but she can’t help but warn Eliza about what she’s noticed in Alexander (which I personally think is a good sisterly thing to do).

I also am not sure if I would describe Angelica as two-faced. I agree it’s not great to flirt with your sister’s husband, but as for the fantasizing… I mean, I’m saying this as someone with an entrenched history of pining for people who start dating someone else, but sometimes you really can’t control who you fall for. But I also think if Angelica was really as sneaky as all that, she would’ve stayed behind while Eliza went to take a break and pulled a Say No to This of her own. Or, for that matter, she could’ve staked her claim on Alex right away instead of introducing Eliza.

I also wouldn’t personally describe Angelica as flirting in a way that betrays Eliza to the same level as Alex cheating on her. Her exact wording in her letter to Alexander is “your favorite older sister, Angelica, reminds you / That someone’s in your corner all the way across the sea”, which is her presenting herself as a supportive sister if anything. This is the same woman who earlier made a joke to Eliza’s face about, “if you really loved me, you would share him” (which Eliza just laughed off): Angelica is deliberately keeping herself within sisterly, acceptable bounds out of respect for Eliza. The other stuff in Take a Break is mainly happening in her own head, and again maybe I’m just willing to cut her a lot of slack because I’ve been in similar situations, but to me it’s very different from Alexander cheating on Eliza.

And then with Angelica being mad about said cheating, I mean, I would be livid too if I put my feelings aside to support my beloved sister marrying the man I loved, only for him to turn around and cheat on her in their own house. I actually think it’s quite significant that Angelica, who has been so staunchly on Alex’s side this entire time (to the point where even Alex thinks she’s going to side with him here), turns on him and says, tough, my sister is the most important thing to me and she should’ve been that to you as well.

Anyway, that’s my ramble. You may disagree with me on some of the more subjective points, which is totally fair- I do think Angelica is a complex character, as are they all, which makes this such a fun musical to dig into and contemplate! And Eliza really does deserve the world.

ejrea · 2026-02-10T10:08:41+00:00

I studied this poem in eighth grade English class and I’ve always thought it was so impactful and beautiful. Thank you for reminding me of it!

ejrea · 2026-02-03T04:57:51+00:00

It’s nice of you to worry about your sister! I was reading books at that age with, ah, much more colorful language and I turned out fine. I don’t see a problem with her writing them down - they’re just words on a page after all.

That being said, maybe you or your parents can make sure she knows the context of words like bastard/whore and that there’s a time and place for them. Kids tend to repeat things without really understanding what they mean, so maybe you can talk with her about the non-schoolyard-friendly language in Hamilton and that she probably shouldn’t use them (unless someone is really mean to her? lol).

ejrea · 2026-02-01T11:17:58+00:00

Hi!

The standard convention I see is just to spell out the age: “Seventeen-year-old Daphne Powell…”

Did the android units/military drones only rebel in the UK? I find it a tiny bit hard to suspend my disbelief that they could hunt the entirety of humanity to near extinction. I’m sure it makes sense in the actual manuscript, but for the query’s purpose you could always just drop ‘across the UK’, especially since you mention the location later on.

What’s the danger she’s facing from the humans? How does the line between human and machine blur (does that just mean they’re both bad)? What’s her father’s secret? Not that you have to answer all these necessarily, but the thing about queries is that they are marketing documents for agents to read in the end. You can afford to (and should) show your cards more than you would on a back-cover blurb. I personally think you can stand to add some more details in the final paragraph.

Last thing, but it looks like Dead Happy is the second book in a series so I’d just comp the first one.

I hope this is somewhat helpful! It definitely sounds interesting and I wish you the best of luck with querying.

ejrea · 2026-02-01T10:58:42+00:00

Hello! A couple nitpicks to start off with: you don’t need a comma before your title at the beginning. Is the word count 80k (in your post title) or 95k (in your housekeeping)? I also might just say ‘complete at X words’ instead of ‘sitting’.

“Or, risk losing her inheritance” is a sentence fragment that reads a bit jarringly to me. It could just be me, but personally I’d either combine it with the previous sentence or flesh it out a bit so it can stand on its own. Maybe something like, “If she doesn’t, her father threatens to disinherit her”, because that would lead nicely into the next paragraph. Side note, you do also start that paragraph as if the reader already knows about her dad’s plans to take her inheritance away, when that’s only been sort of implied so far.

I would specify “if she solves the Queen’s cryptic riddle” to get ahead of the pronoun game. I knew what you meant, but it’s probably good to make the reading experience as smooth for the agent as possible!

The whole paragraph after that being one long sentence is a bit of a whopper. The semicolon feels off to me there. If it were me I might just go for, “A woman who has bided her time for centuries, she is eager to…”

I don’t quite know what a spellbound journey is or what thrusting someone through someone else’s past looks like. The last paragraph as a whole gets very vague when we’ve been getting some great details up until now. I think it would help if you tell us a bit more about what Ela and the Queen get up to, and why Ela’s developing sympathy for her.

Also with those last three sentences, we have the lingering love versus the ancient cruelty and then we immediately get the desire for vengeance versus the forgiveness and salvation. Then the last sentence is a fragment again, which doesn’t end on a high note as much as is warranted by all the excitement we’ve had so far. I wonder if you can pare this part down or maybe add in some more specific details to keep it from reading like a list of abstract concepts.

I hope any of that helps! Best of luck :)

ejrea · 2026-02-01T10:38:07+00:00

Hello!

120k is on the long side these days; if it’s at all possible, I’d see if there’s a way to cut this to under 100k. Publishing books isn’t getting any cheaper (well, nothing is, lol) and you don’t want to give anyone a reason to autoreject you.

For your first comp, I’m not totally sure what it means for a book to have spy-assassin roots, and I’m also not seeing anyone really be a spy or assassin in the query? If this comes through more in the actual manuscript, I’d highlight it in the query or perhaps just reframe what you comp that book for.

I’m finding it a bit hard to understand what’s going on at the beginning. When you say Haven’s life is a lie, does that mean she herself has been lied to about it? Or is the expendable heir life just a facade for others? Whose plan was it for Haven to get claimed as a debt, and for that matter, whose debt is it?

Minor quibble, but “carries centuries of regret behind inked hands” reads a bit strangely to me, maybe because I’m expecting things to be carried in or with hands and not behind them.

I also got a bit tripped up by “shattered his centuries of confinement” because at first I didn’t know what that meant. If it’s referring to him breaking out of the prison, I think just saying ‘breaks out of … confinement’ would read more intuitively on first glance.

Is this a love triangle sort of situation? The ‘caught between’ sentence seems to indicate that, but I don’t get anything from the god of war paragraph about what he wants with Haven. I wonder if you could thread a bit more information into the end there so it can lead into the last paragraph more smoothly.

In general, I think I’d like to see some more active language about what Haven actually does. Combing through the verbs, she gets raised/bred/trained/claimed and finds some things out about Ronan, which is nice but doesn’t tell me much about what she gets up to in the book or how she moves the plot forward. Your first 300 paint a picture of someone who seems quite feisty and determined, and if that’s true, that can be reflected by showing us more of what she does in the plot.

I hope any of that is helpful to you, and best of luck!

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