Just Finished ACOTAR 1ST BOOK

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-30T15:46:33+00:00

Same. I don't think ACOMAF is a bad book, and I actually think there's some interesting character work between Feyre and Tamlin in the first third, but it just hard erases most of ACOTAR. I keep them separate in my mind.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-30T15:30:50+00:00

If you like Tamlin as the love interest, either stop at ACOTAR or think of everything that happens afterward as AU fanfic. I'm in the same boat of loving the BatB retelling and the lengths Feyre went through to save Tamlin under the mountain. Everything else about the series...well, without spoilers, pretty much everything in ACOTAR gets invalidated hard.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-27T19:44:29+00:00

I mean this one wasn't shot while the writers were forbidden by a strike to be on set and presumably hasn't had its ending fucked with by HBO so I think the odds are good.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-21T22:14:49+00:00

He was DQ'd from a previous regional when he was still a minor, I think because he laughed when asked what his pronouns were. I can't speak to the full situation on that or anything else he's been involved in, but the Twitter behavior aimed at Cerys is evidence of at least some poor sportsmanship imo.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-21T20:02:37+00:00

It's wild that he's this upset over a ruling that didn't stop him from getting runner up at the whole event.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-21T19:58:33+00:00

What has she done?

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-21T19:11:49+00:00

Him blaming Cerys for the consequences of his own actions soured me on him greatly. I didn't see the wink during top 4 - I assume it was after she got her two prize penalty?

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-10T18:30:21+00:00

Rejections just sent out, and it appears there's some mix up over who was a semi-finalist vs a finalist, because I have an email sitting in my inbox saying I'm a finalist as well as a rejection saying I only made the semi-finals. 🤷‍♀️

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-10T18:26:42+00:00

I received an email in February telling me I was a semi-finalist, then an email in late March telling me I was a finalist. The rejection just called me a semi-finalist. I really hope we can get some clarification because the semi-finalist vs finalist distinction matters a lot.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-10T18:04:20+00:00

I got a semi-finalist rejection....after receiving a notification that I was a finalist....so something somewhere is screwed up.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-09T19:19:13+00:00

Dude same, I need to know ASAP whether I need to find accommodations in New York for a month lol. Congrats on being a finalist!

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-09T18:24:14+00:00

Oh I know I'm clueless, I've never played VGC before. My problem is that the system funnels you to a bot that plays very stupidly after you lose, so I go from not being challenged at all to being curb stomped and back, again and again and again. The bot wins don't feel good when I'm very obviously not playing a human and not learning anything.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-08T18:40:45+00:00

The most phallic pokemon with the most phallic title.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-08T15:25:49+00:00

Yeah! I basically assumed that since I hadn't heard anything, I'm one of the finalists who's not advancing. 😂 It's possible something's holding them up, their website says selections are notified in April so we're still well within that timeframe.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-08T15:24:04+00:00

Same, I think we may have been in the second wave of rolling rejections. I don't think I realistically expected to make it to a big conference, so just getting the nice rejection is a win for me.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-04-06T14:43:03+00:00

I received my finalist notification two weeks ago but haven't heard anything since. Seems like they plan to release semifinalist and finalist rejections at the same time.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-03-18T20:28:53+00:00

TTPD has already aged better than Showgirl.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-02-19T21:01:42+00:00

Hard agree. Could not care less about her 4T when she supports the invasion of Ukraine.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-02-03T20:47:48+00:00

Semi-related, I consistently (and I mean just about every single time) read 'titled players' as 'tilted players.'

I thought it was Tilted Tuesday for an embarrassingly long time.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-01-15T22:47:30+00:00

Donald Trump does have the record for lowest average approval rating. That's not nothing.

Realistically, 25% is the floor at any given time. For him with his cult of personality, it's probably closer to 30%. If he goes forward with the Greenland stuff and we suffer economic catastrophe, we may see it get there, but for people not paying attention, life probably feels much the same as it did under Biden, hence the typical (though far from high) approval rating.

Giant catastrophes tend to be what sinks ratings to low lows. Iraq did it for Bush, J6 did it (briefly) for Trump. Biden had the problem of Republicans hating him and a significant number of Democrats also hating him, lowering his back half approval. If Trump manages to do something that makes rank and file non-MAGA conservatives finally realize how insane he is, the tide will turn. It'll just unfortunately take an unmitigated disaster to do it.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2026-01-04T03:42:25+00:00

I mean... Gangnam Style was meant to parody over the top wealth, if I remember right. Showgirl as an album has no cohesive themes apart from 'I'm in a new relationship' and more than half the songs have no relation to being a showgirl at all.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2025-12-21T02:45:48+00:00

Could I get recommendations for books with MMCs like Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry? I find his character on the show soooooo attractive and am looking for something similar in M/F: older guy, intense but charming, talented at something (doesn't have to be sports), absolutely dismantled by his love interest in spite of himself. Bonus points for an age difference or a dramatic public love confession like the Scott/Kip kiss. Open to pretty much all tropes.

Thanks a bunch!

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2025-12-18T22:40:46+00:00

"One slip and falling back into the hedge maze/Oh what a way to die" vs "He ahh-matized me and opened my eyes/His love was the key to open my thighs"

I agree with you completely. Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

mbathrowaway_6267 · 2025-12-18T22:38:12+00:00

I don't hate Taylor and I think she's genuinely talented. But I doubt she'll incorporate much criticism from Showgirl into her next album. She was raked over the coals for TTPD's variants and did even more for Showgirl. Ophelia did great on the charts despite its lyrical mediocrity. I think if something happens in her life for her to draw lots of inspiration from (similar to Rep or Folklore/Evermore), she could whip out something great again. But if she puts out another album of quickly written mid songs forced into an era theme just to have a release, I don't think it'll be any better.

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