Kamilahmademedoit

we’ve all noticed it tbh. they’ve all become particularly badly done lately, with prime examples being distant shores, witness, the nanny affair, the royal heir… like here i go rambling again but like?? idc

start with distant shores… issues with pacing, consistency within characters and their motivations. mc’s a hot mess, and seeing as they are who we are playing through, this makes it all the more glaring. wtf is this character? they don’t seem particularly bright or determined, they just go with whatever current plot the book is telling us to pay attention to. one second they are like ‘oh no my crew n boat!’ but then five seconds later they can be like 'oh oliver ;)’ and like you can’t even chalk it up to the half-assed actor background of mc because none of that is referenced in a way that would at least partially justify this bizarrely inconsistent mc (sans any motivation to get home of course).

and then oliver?? tf is this idiotic character introduction? what could have been a fairly interesting romance with the mc fell flat immediately when everything was thrown on the table within hours of meeting them/all within the same chapter. pb now has gotten to a point where it refuses to acknowledge that there can be subtlety and pacing in an mc’s relationship with an li - it’s all or nothing, no tension or slowburn. same thing goes with witness and the nanny affair and friggin baby bump. pb *tells* you that there is this undeniable attraction between mc and the li a billion times, and then by the end of chapter two they’ve already made out with each other or hooked up. things can’t actually be taken slowly or organically because pb thinks we’ll… what? abandon ship (haha) or get bored?? i mean a good example refuting this is mc x ethan… it was what? eight chapters before it let them kiss?? bruh that was some goooooood romance pacing AND character consistency - it made sense with Ethan’s character to wait so long and then react the way he did… speaking of character consistency/motivation, back to Oliver…

why lmao? why would he tell mc, a veritable rando in his books, all this stuff about his top secret mission? isn’t he supposed to be a highly capable navy officer? And yet?? nothing we’ve seen has proved this? introducing him the way he was just shows us that he’s just highly incompetent and boringly instantly whipped by the mc for no overtly discernible reason (like every li… every book 🙄). his motivation to tell mc instantaneously is… because they’re ~dreamy~? he’s jeopardizing this entire thing he’s been tasked with because mc’s cute? hello????

i could harp on distant shores being a massive disappointment for a while but i don’t really care so I’ll carry on to other stuff. i haven’t played the royal heir for weeks because it was starting to hit terminal stupid at that point but I’ve seen many a post talking about pb completely ruining maxwell’s character and somehow dumbing down everything even further so absolutely no one in the book has the brain cells to figure out what is going on…

i think im just mostly tired of he insta-love for mcs and the rushed ass romances with no actual basis for chemistry. it’s BORING. we all know nothing about witness makes sense in regard for cassian being in love with the mc… she treats them awfully but cassian is like “YES BAE ANYTHING FOR YOU!!!!”?? or even the nanny affair (which so far i actually generally like), like this shit would be so much more convincing if pb could wait more than two chapters and hold off on the need to smash the mc and li together like two barbie dolls the second they lay eyes on each other. stop telling us about electric touches and lingering stares three clicks in and actually focus on constructing believable chemistry and tension without forcing it. like, again, we’ve seen this stuff work really well before in past books. we know it works, pb knows it works. it demonstrably does. it’s okay to wait five or six chapters before the mc and li kiss. they don’t have to be ******* and **** each other within the first chapter lmao

idk i know a lot of this instant gratification stuff and loose pacing and character crap is about money vs. quality but overall it just makes me sad because we know what pb is capable of, how great their stories have been and how great they can be. but the majority is just so… meh now :/

The rain sticks around like a bad reputation. Mona swipes a black umbrella from the corner store, and if they huddle close enough together, they can both escape the downpour. Mercy tilts her head against Mona’s rain-speckled shoulder, beads of water caught among the curling tresses of her hair. Something in her bites with teeth when Mercy thanks her. Please, she deflects, self-defensive. I did this for the suede. A lie - just like the name she wears, like I’ll never love again - but the flicker of a smile hints those soft eyes see right through her. 

Mercy grows red daisies in a planter on the balcony. When they bloom in the first days of spring, Mona finds them tucked into her pockets, pressed between the folded bills that fill her wallet. Crimson flowers sit beside their bed and spill into her dreams at night and two springs later, Mona gets them inked around her ankle. 

Eventually the sparrows learn to fly. Mercy leaves them seeds and water, and if Mona weren’t there to see it happen, she’d never in a thousand years believe a bird would trust enough to eat from someone’s hand. Endless sky stretches open before it, and the sparrow flocks instead to Mercy’s fingers, settled in the narrow valley of her palm.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

So here’s a true story: my father, sometime in the 70s was looking for his first job. He went to the local McDonalds and told the staff, [manager’s name] said I was supposed to start today. They took his word for it and started training him and by the time the manager saw him and asked who he was, people just said “oh that’s the new guy.”

Somehow this actually worked. My dad worked there for a couple of years as a cook. He even won an award plaque which he had on the wall until the day he died.

i saw the amount of disappointment in my feed for the cover for bb3 soooooo IM GONNA DO A REDRAW

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300? diGitAL

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