Room Temperature Inconvenience

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

(i'm not saying i stand by this. but these were my feelings)

so anyway i had this vampire character, nell, who was very much the imaginings of an edgy 11 year old in neopets roleplays in 2002.

she was deeply obsessed with her human brother, who wanted nothing to do with her.

he was dating a guy who happened to be a werewolf, but he didn't know that.

so nell showed up one night to bother them both like "here i am. nathan's vampire sister."

and nathan's werewolf boyfriend, who did not know vampires existed, went back to his pack like, "you guys are NEVER gonna believe this."

it is also on EVERY SINGLE STANDARD LICENSE PLATE

FINALLY reading the Mulan retelling from Disney's Meant to Be Series

I have mixed feelings but mostly positive

Buuut

Okay

So Mulan and Shang just got to a river that is running fast and there are no jokes about it being swift or coursing and I can't tell if it's good that she avoided the obvious joke or if it's just a missed opportunity

Anyway I do like the author a lot

She has a mystery series called Vera Wong that's pretty funny

2 books so far with 2 more planned, I highly reccomend it

As the right hand of her father’s private equity company, Fa Mulan knows what it takes to succeed as a woman in a man’s world: work twice as hard, be twice as smart, and burp twice as loud as any of the other finance bros she works with. So when her father unexpectedly falls ill in the middle of a critical acquisition, she is determined to see it through. There’s just one hitch: the family company in question is known for its ultra masculine whiskey brand, and the brood of old-fashioned aunts, uncles, and cousins who run it—lead by the dedicated but overworked Shang—will only trust Mulan’s father, Fa Zhou, with the future of their business.

Rather than fail the deal and her father, Mulan pretends she’s Fa Zhou. Since they’ve only corresponded over email, how hard could it be to keep things moving in his absence?

But the email leads to a face-to-face meeting, which leads to an invitation to a week long retreat at Shang’s family ranch. One meeting she can handle, but a whole week of cattle wrangling, axe-throwing, and learning proper butchering techniques, all while trying to convince Shang’s dubious family that this young woman is the powerful private equity CEO they’ve been negotiating with? Not so much—especially as she finds it harder and harder to ignore the undeniable spark between her and Shang.

Can she keep her head in the game and make her father proud, all while trying not to fall into a trough, or in love with Shang?

Okay, so it looks like they're handing this by just making Shang's family really sexist for the modern day. That's one way to do it, I guess.

As an adaptation it's kind of hit or miss but I do enjoy it as its own thing

FINALLY reading the Mulan retelling from Disney's Meant to Be Series

I have mixed feelings but mostly positive

Buuut

Okay

So Mulan and Shang just got to a river that is running fast and there are no jokes about it being swift or coursing and I can't tell if it's good that she avoided the obvious joke or if it's just a missed opportunity

Anyway I do like the author a lot

She has a mystery series called Vera Wong that's pretty funny

2 books so far with 2 more planned, I highly reccomend it

She's trying to impress Shang's super misogynistic alpha male family

The series basically takes a LOT of liberties with the stories so it's far from a straight up adaptation

But basically

Mulan works for her dad's financial firm

Her dad has been emailing Shang because he is interested in purchasing the Li family's business

They sell whiskey

Then Mulan's dad has a heart attack before he can close the deal, so Mulan tries to close it for him

But Li's family is super sexist so she has to prove how masculine she is by going to their ranch and doing manly ranch stuff like herding cows and horseback riding

Also, she doesn't pretend to be a man but she is pretending to be her dad because they really started to trust him through the emails

The series also does Cinderella

With a fat Cinderella and a dating show angle

The Little Mermaid (Can't recall the angle on that one) Tangled (I think that one involved race cars? But I could be mixing it up with another book I spotted)

As well as Beauty and the Beast

Ok there's a car on the cover but I was getting it mixed up with another unrelated book

VS an adult

FINALLY reading the Mulan retelling from Disney's Meant to Be Series

I have mixed feelings but mostly positive

Buuut

Okay

So Mulan and Shang just got to a river that is running fast and there are no jokes about it being swift or coursing and I can't tell if it's good that she avoided the obvious joke or if it's just a missed opportunity

Anyway I do like the author a lot

She has a mystery series called Vera Wong that's pretty funny

2 books so far with 2 more planned, I highly reccomend it

She's trying to impress Shang's super misogynistic alpha male family

The series basically takes a LOT of liberties with the stories so it's far from a straight up adaptation

But basically

Mulan works for her dad's financial firm

Her dad has been emailing Shang because he is interested in purchasing the Li family's business

They sell whiskey

Then Mulan's dad has a heart attack before he can close the deal, so Mulan tries to close it for him

But Li's family is super sexist so she has to prove how masculine she is by going to their ranch and doing manly ranch stuff like herding cows and horseback riding

Also, she doesn't pretend to be a man but she is pretending to be her dad because they really started to trust him through the emails

The series also does Cinderella

With a fat Cinderella and a dating show angle

The Little Mermaid (Can't recall the angle on that one) Tangled (I think that one involved race cars? But I could be mixing it up with another book I spotted)

As well as Beauty and the Beast

Ghost Dad: WE LITERALLY CHANGED OUR VOWS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE "TILL DEATH DO US PART"