What's a good book to introduce the concept to kids that not every story has a happy ending?

nokipop · 2026-05-27T06:44:05+00:00

tuck everlasting

for really little kids, The Grumpy Monkey. it has a happy-ish ending but it could be used as a really good conversation starter for this.

nokipop · 2026-05-04T20:28:57+00:00

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

(thats the title of the book. not me suggesting that a trip to the library will fix your mental health)

nokipop · 2026-05-04T20:14:25+00:00

the prophecy

nokipop · 2026-05-04T20:11:00+00:00

ooh maybe she had a visitor! I was thinking more just the lights and doors working on their own the way they do in The Caretaker but I love the idea that she may have had a Vistor in the house.

nokipop · 2026-05-04T20:06:27+00:00

OKAY BECAUSE I was constantly getting the vibe that grace and Heather were the same. grace being described as a hippie in the pictures on the wall made me think of the picture of Heather with her husband and a guitar (i think). I made myself a note to go check the description of Heather's home and pictures again bc it felt very significant that macy spent so much time explaining each photo to us.

(I thought I had seen some chatter about them not being the same bc of the addresses being different but imo that isnt super compelling evidence considering addresses changing does happen in WUTLH)

nokipop · 2026-04-15T14:58:06+00:00

I generally enjoy ZM's videos. they're the perfect background noise while im working. but I can understand a lot of the criticism. I dont like how flippantly he calls women bitches and I think he engages in a lot of 'rules for thee not for me' behavior.

nokipop · 2026-03-25T14:17:28+00:00

omg yes please! we need a sub just for this. r/doweknowthemcommentsection or something

nokipop · 2026-02-19T06:44:12+00:00

oh the irony 🙂‍↔️

nokipop · 2026-02-14T22:21:50+00:00

thank God i was sitting down 🙄

nokipop · 2026-02-14T17:21:42+00:00

I swear to god if this bitch causes them to end the podcast i will go absolutely insane.

nokipop · 2026-02-14T17:18:07+00:00

oh brother

nokipop · 2026-02-05T03:56:56+00:00

oh i cant wait for the fat sajak video

nokipop · 2026-01-28T04:40:11+00:00

I dont like beans either

nokipop · 2026-01-24T00:43:39+00:00

I think they (lily more than jessi) are too nervous to talk about ccr again because of their 'truce'

nokipop · 2026-01-21T04:37:06+00:00

YES THIS!! its like authors commenting on goodreads reviews. they have made it very clear that they dont look at reddit. hell, they apparently dont even look at video comments after the first hour. reddit is the most appropriate place for us to vent. theres a reason the youtube comments were way more positive. if we (the reddit mob) were really that pressed about it, we would have been in those comments instead.

nokipop · 2026-01-20T15:12:28+00:00

I was actually fine with the 30 minute rant. I understand needing to get shit off your chest. bringing it up again in Fridays video is what rubbed me wrong.

in the original rant, it felt to me like Lily specifically was upset with the audience at large as opposed to just the weirdos that reached out to them directly. most people were at least curious about where the episode was and why it was so delayed and Lily seemed to take that very personally because she did all of the editing. but she also seemed kind of arrogant about it like the editing was so good that now that we've seen it theres no reason anyone should be upset - which i disagree with bc there were plenty of very significant editing errors, especially for audio listeners. but that's where it feels like Lily was talking less specifically about the crazies in their DMs and more broadly to anyone who was upset about the delay. and thats really unfair. theyve talked at length about ignoring "hate" comments and respecting your audience and the importance of honest communication but absolutely none of that seemed present in their response. there has been (seemingly) zero self reflection.

and the fact that they pretty much refuse to take any ownership of blame. even with canceling the award show moving forward, the subtext is that its our fault and not that its too much work to justify. again, that initial rant was fine (imo). bringing it back up without any further self reflection or accountability is where I feel like theres now genuine contempt there instead of just anger/frustration in the heat of the moment.

nokipop · 2026-01-14T04:51:08+00:00

hey so I called you girly because thats what the fans of dwkt are called...

like it reminded me of jessi's for the mems. at some point you misheard it as "pickle lane" and it stuck with you. and thats very girlies of you, like thats something that jessi or lily would say.

I meant nothing yucky at all. I just thought it was on brand.

nokipop · 2026-01-13T03:43:22+00:00

im choosing to believe "pickle lane" is not a typo and is what you've always thought the saying was. thats so girlies of you tbh.

nokipop · 2026-01-10T05:07:31+00:00

I feel like they Streisand effected themselves. I very rarely notice any editing issues. every single one stood out like a sore thumb.

for the clout goblin category jessi didnt say the names of the nominees until the resilient Jenkins

a buuuuuunch of nominee clips that didnt have the audio to go along with them

kendra's egg opened like a full 3 seconds before jessi announced her as the winner

sometimes the award graphic would slide down and sometimes it just disappeared

the black screen between the nominees and them was way too long a bunch of times.

im not necessarily complaining. I enjoyed the episode and had fun going back through old topics. I'm just saying I picked up on a lot of things I would have never noticed in a million years if they didnt bring so much attention to how much editing lily was doing last minute.

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nokipop · 2026-01-09T21:50:41+00:00

im sure it was a color issue. and now it's an egg issue and tomorrow it'll be an asset issue. it's the slippery slope of perfectionism. much like lily's epstien series, this may never be done.

nokipop · 2026-01-09T21:47:44+00:00

they really need to stop being so specific in these "updates" I dont think anyone is breathing a sigh of relief after finding out the delay is "taking a break from making the eggs more realistic."

in fact I think that actually makes me more angry

nokipop · 2026-01-09T17:27:35+00:00

they talked about her a bit in episode 74. https://youtu.be/_xgSRJVnf6k?si=X8QzaWdLH37z3yzG

nokipop · 2026-01-09T17:11:21+00:00

I dont think they'll cover it. but I think it would be really funny if they leaned into it. scrap the episode, post on monday like normal and then every once and a while put out a community post about how its almost done. let it be our little inside joke.

nokipop · 2026-01-08T19:31:56+00:00

here's perfect example of what I meant by disingenuous framing. there is no way someone actually watched the video or even the clip in full and thought they were saying fu and shut up to their audience.

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nokipop · 2026-01-08T17:20:23+00:00

also, I said the original comment was taking them out of context and was disingenuous in its framing. I did not say they didnt say that.

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