A quick introduction - my name is Hellou and as a very opinionated entity with a big tendency to yap, I have put together a masterlist of my ramblings about books, trends and culture.
So, if you're interested - you are very welcome to check out what's under the cut.
quick note: episodes/rants are categorized by content not numbers because I have very weird organization, numbers just mean chronological order of posting. The ones with '?' are planned but not yet posted or fully written.
BOOKS
General YA/booktok book rants about characters/plot
EPISODE 1 - Character analysis of Daniel Batu Wing (Warcross)
EPISODE 3.1 - Character analysis of Asher Wing (Warcross)
EPISODE 3.2 - Character analysis of Asher Wing (Warcross)
EPISODE ? - Tradition v Progress - South v North (Gone with the Wind)
Rants about plot devices, tropes and writing
EPISODE 2 - Multiverse; meaning and misconceptions in today's marketing and fandom talk
THOUGHTS ON TRENDS AND CULTURE
EPISODE ? - Slavic Doll trend and continuous sexualization of Slavic women
MOTOSPORTS
Note: I do have a few rants here, but most of those thoughts have been moved to my other blog @hellou-partiedeux so feel free to check it out if you wish :D
Women in motosport marketing not being given credit for their role in winning
McLaren's business practices when it comes to prioritizing their drivers done after the 2025 Miami GP
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Okay so I had this idea for a bit and feel free to add onto it (please add on to it)
Warcross fantasy au
we have all of the 16 existing teams however they are all like little clans/groups/guilds
All the players are some sort of creatures or mages, except the captains who fit the name of the team in the form of their spicies
For example: Jenna is a demon - skeletal like, fire from her eyes, newly appointed general of the demon brigade, the captain of Hellhounds is an actual hellhound or can turn into one
obv its a mix between modern world and fantasy so they all do have human forms (Jenna doesn't drink or eat since she technically doesn't need food)
Most of the players are mages that are drawn to a specific element based on the teams - Hellhounds and Riders draw in fire mages (Roshan and Emika are excellent Fire mages, altjough Emika is still learning)
The games are similar to what they are in the books.
Hamilton is a witch that has almost once discovered immortality at which points the Cloud Knights threw her out.
Tremaine is a siren - don't know why, can't recall, maybe I read that on ao3 and though that fits. He was a fish out of water in Riders however finds it right at home with demon brigade - who is rather drawn to dark places and have no issues with water.
Asher by this would be a phoenix. However by my hc for this au and phoenix's life being a never ending cycle Riders had a previous captain who one day dissappeared. By this logic Asher is both a couple of million years old and 6 years old at the same time. He also knows things told to prev captain in secret and claims not to have ever known them.
I cannot place Hideo or Sasuke although Sasuke does feel like a ghost sometime.
Jax is a witch. She has cursed at least three people with very very annoying curses that they can't get rid of or figure out. Hideo was almost fourth.
You know what? This rocks and I’m invested. (Also side note, Hammie was on the Titans instead of the Cloud Knights and the fanfic you’re thinking of was in r3d5t0n3’s 2018 fictober series on ao3!)
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Okay so I had this idea for a bit and feel free to add onto it (please add on to it)
Warcross fantasy au
we have all of the 16 existing teams however they are all like little clans/groups/guilds
All the players are some sort of creatures or mages, except the captains who fit the name of the team in the form of their spicies
For example: Jenna is a demon - skeletal like, fire from her eyes, newly appointed general of the demon brigade, the captain of Hellhounds is an actual hellhound or can turn into one
obv its a mix between modern world and fantasy so they all do have human forms (Jenna doesn't drink or eat since she technically doesn't need food)
Most of the players are mages that are drawn to a specific element based on the teams - Hellhounds and Riders draw in fire mages (Roshan and Emika are excellent Fire mages, altjough Emika is still learning)
The games are similar to what they are in the books.
Hamilton is a witch that has almost once discovered immortality at which points the Cloud Knights threw her out.
Tremaine is a siren - don't know why, can't recall, maybe I read that on ao3 and though that fits. He was a fish out of water in Riders however finds it right at home with demon brigade - who is rather drawn to dark places and have no issues with water.
Asher by this would be a phoenix. However by my hc for this au and phoenix's life being a never ending cycle Riders had a previous captain who one day dissappeared. By this logic Asher is both a couple of million years old and 6 years old at the same time. He also knows things told to prev captain in secret and claims not to have ever known them.
I cannot place Hideo or Sasuke although Sasuke does feel like a ghost sometime.
Jax is a witch. She has cursed at least three people with very very annoying curses that they can't get rid of or figure out. Hideo was almost fourth.
I am so sick of 'oh but we'll look poor' thing that is going on
What do you mean I'll look poor if I ask my aunt for recipes? The thing that was shared in community freely and with joy?
I am copying my mothers recipe book that is a made from part of her own mother and grandmother and great grandmother, as well as her friends grandmother, her elderly neighbor and her own creations. All of them were also in parts made from shared recipes. I am adding my own recipes to the book, my friends recipes to the book, recipes that i found on the internet from other cultures and different takes on existing recipes that I know.
Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.
Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.
@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!
If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.
I found a parallel in Warcross the other day that I don’t think has been mentioned before.
In the first chapter of Warcross, Emika is wearing a black hoodie with a red scarf.
On page 72, when she’s on the plane and watching the Memories she has saved of her dad, she mentions that in the one where he brought her to the Museum of Modern Art he was wearing “a black peacoat and bright red scarf”
Now I’m trying to figure out whether the one she wore in chapter 1 is her dad’s or if she bought it. While I want to say it was her dad’s, I sadly believe that she bought it herself or it was already hers. If it was actually her dad’s scarf, it would mess with the whole “all I have left of him is the ornament and his painting” thing.
That was definitely written intentionally, though, no doubt. I can 100% see Emika trying to copy her dad’s style with what little she had clothing-wise. She already had the hair and tattoos, so why not?
It was me I fear, I wanted to add something to it but forgot to before I reblogged so I deleted I am so sorry my liege anyways
I WILL WRITE THIS FANFIC RIGHT NOW; I never thought about it before but holy shit it fits because we know that Emika got her tattoos and colored hair because of her dad so why not the scarf too??? Also, parallels between her and Hideo cause didn’t Sasuke also wear a scarf(or it was a big thing in Hideo’s memory of Sasuke, something like that) like we have both loved ones to our characters wearing scarves and scarves represent comfort holy shit am I cooking please tell me I am
Okay cool ignore that last rb tumblr was being actually fucking stupid for a minute and made me redo this ENTIRE reblog UGHHH
No but you’re onto something fr, because Hideo and Sasuke have the red and blue symbolism (red scarf for Hideo, blue for Sasuke, red and blue eggs, the colors mentioned everywhere in relation to them, etc.) and now that you say it that definitely could connect to Emi
Even though Emika’s dad wore the red scarf too, there’s still a red and blue connection with them too, right?? I think it was mentioned his hair was blue (please i really hope this is true and it’s not something i just imagined)
Dude I love it when every several months I’ll make a post and one of my warcross mutuals will awaken and immediately connect with it and we genuinely reach flow state. And it’s always a different person each time
(I also can’t believe i missed those details oh my god like this unlocked a whole narrative)
No because same, Ocean comes like a siren to us ig
BUT ALSO HIS HAIR IS BLUE??? I read the translated version, which translates blue as plava and that is the word we use for both blue hair and blond hair. I just thought the man was blond. And now i have whole different perspective on this
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Don't you just love reading a book and midway through you clock something that Isn't Right™️ with the context of everything given about one character and you go: oh, oh no
Every couple of months Victoria Aveyard pops up to defend Red Queen by providing dates of publishing and recently stressing out that Red Queen has a 10th anniversary edition. And she'll still get comments that Red Queen is rip off of Powerless.
On the topic of not letting one's husband have one's location: my friends recently found out that my husband and I don't look at each other's phones. "But how will you know if he's cheating??" I was asked. I just stared at them. I don't need to know his location or go through his phone because I TRUST him. Have we really gotten to the point as a society that we can only base trust on invading each others' privacy?
I had a roommate in college who absolutely lost her mind on me because my husbands female friend called me one evening tell ask me to talk some sense into him. We were still only dating at this time, I was in NYC and he was in LA. He was and still is a lightweight and had 2 beers and decided to go swimming in the ocean with his other male friend. This is what prompted his female friend to call me. After talking some sense into my husband and getting a verbal promise he would stay out of the ocean ( YOU CAN HARDLY SWIM IN A POOL BABE) I hung up and my roommate went OFF! How are you so calm!? He drunk with another female!? Blah blah blah
She ranted for like 20 minuets until I had to be like "Sarah, she's a lesbian"
But even if she WASNT if a man is gonna cheat drunk he'd do it sober, and that's on him. and I knew my now husband wouldn't do that tipsy or sober- the ocean was just calling to him.
If I may add my experience with my ex (we fell out because of other reasons but not cheating)
He would leave his phone on the table fully aware that I have his password (a thing we showed each other multiple times because neither ever hid the phone screen when unlocking it) and that he'll come back to it to find either me playing games on his phone or silly pictures in his gallery. I have done that as well and got the same sentiment in return.
He told me once that he was going to sleep over at his friends house (his friend groups tradition to do so every once in a while and has been long before we met) and that there will be other girls, he slept over at his friends house who was a girl. Told me about it and got 'Have fun babes' in return. My friends flipped out on me 'how can you let him go' 'are you insane'.
And I never paid much attention because i know he is going to come back and show me videos of him and his friends having a competition of who can hit the pillow with a pen from 5m away held at 3am while they were drunk and he'll be back with gossip.
As you said he had many opportunities to cheat and friends who would probably never tell me, but he never did
I picked up Wicked (the book) and one sentence in I decided that I should probably read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as I watched a movie a long time ago and never read the book so that might be a good idea and the book is short.
And I got to the part where Dorothy and her friends arrive at Emerald City and they put on green glasses and enter the city wearing green glasses and then they describe everything as green - the houses are green, the road is green, the people are green, the candy is green, the coins are green etc. I think there might be a very simple explanation for that.
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I picked up Wicked (the book) and one sentence in I decided that I should probably read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as I watched a movie a long time ago and never read the book so that might be a good idea and the book is short.
And I got to the part where Dorothy and her friends arrive at Emerald City and they put on green glasses and enter the city wearing green glasses and then they describe everything as green - the houses are green, the road is green, the people are green, the candy is green, the coins are green etc. I think there might be a very simple explanation for that.
and not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but another reason I hate the return of 2000’s th*nspo shit is bc starving does make women frail and has longer term consequences like early osteoporosis, brittle bones/teeth, insomnia, ect. Your muscles will start eating themselves. It also makes you extremely emotional and severely lowers your capacity for critical thinking not bc you’re a girl but because your brain isn’t getting any fucking nutrients so idk I just feel like its very convenient that every time there’s an uptick in fascist rhetoric and women’s rights are being stripped suddenly it’s peak fashion for women to be starving, weak, and exhausted
My great grandmothers lived through poverty, starvation due to poverty, they were uneducated and had no rights and they lived to around 100.
Everytime they saw me they would tell me to:
1) finish school
2) eat some food
Their main arguments for this were - you can't think without food, you can't work without food, you have no energy without food. You will need school to get a job and have your own money.
You do not get to say 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. Talk to them and the women they lived with and then say that shit.
Talk to any person that has lived through starvation or famine and then see if skinny feels good. It does not.
