one for sorrow, two for joy

probably an unpopular opinion but i hate when the only conflict a romance author can think of to cause tension between the main couple up is to break them up. what do you MEAN there's still 35% of the novel left and now one of them's completely shut down and won't talk to the other? they can shut down and still be a couple and work their way through it.

bring back the art of ship names 😩

does ana huang know that british people use cuss words other than 'bloody' and 'wanker'? i'm reading the striker right now (well, i'm coming back to it after some uni reading) and it's driving me nuts how often those words are said by her characters. especially since the characters they're used by often don't seem the right social class/age group? for example, a fifty-year-old football coach isn't going to use the word 'wanker' to insult someone. he's gonna call them a 'tosser' or a 'bastard'. and a twenty-something-year-old guy from a working class background isn't necessarily gonna say 'bloody' all the time. he's more likely to say 'fricking' or 'fucking'. that's my generation, i should know.

araminta and rosamund switching to cantonese to talk shit is an actual mood 🙏