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♢ amarantha ♢

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I was going to end the post there but actually I'm going to complain more

After having read two of her books, I don't think it's a matter of a bad copyedit. Erin Morgenstern is using commas the worst anyone's ever done it to torment me personally. "ooh I don't subscribe to the rules it's messing up my flow." girl the flow is off and your sentences sound ugly in my head. yes because of the commas

WHO OR WHAT IS THE OWL KING????? I feel like I was actually doing a decent job at connecting all of the elements/symbols but that one seemed so built up for nothing. Even the good citizens of reddit don't seem to have a convincing answer so I don't think it's me being uniquely stupid

"Man lost in time"/Simon I also felt was really built up and then when we found him it was like. okay?

some of the imagery was really powerful and really nice but it all kind of fell flat because I feel like the story was built around the vibes/elements/imagery she wanted to use and not the other way around. If I wanted to browse a pinterest board I would just do that

why were some of the most interesting parts glossed over so quickly and some of the other parts of the story so slow???

The fact that the sea was revealed to be made of honey and yet still for the most part was described to act like water really started to annoy me. Like those are two substances with very different viscosity and general properties. idk

overall just for me personally it was overkill on the whole "books as an aesthetic" "power of stories" kind of thing. like something so sweet it's nauseating

Saying nice things for fair representation of my overall feelings:

I liked how more of the elements of the vignettes/short stories/fairy tales became more apparently connected to each other as it all came together but they still were interesting on their own

I liked Zachary as a character :)

A lot of the imagery was genuinely good and interesting. Also the part where he died and was with all the bees I still don't quite get but it evoked shrimp emotions in me so I think that was successful

I really liked how the last interspersed book was Kat's diary. It really tied in a lot of the stuff from the beginning back to the end quite nicely

honestly the introduction of Dorian as the storyteller in the dark was an incredible vibe

Please stop blanket accusations of racism and sexism just because people like a character.

A character who isn’t sexist or racist.

One: She doesn’t get that much screen time in the MCU anyway to give us the performance that we’d like to see. There are certain scenes that cause for certain reactions. Or lack thereof. Two: I think it’s important to keep in mind that Natasha isn’t as expressive as a character as the rest of her teammates in the first place. She reacts to things how she’s trained or use to. Third: There is so much Scarlett can do as an actress. Sure, she could take it upon herself to improvise and what not but we have to consider the fact that some directors aren’t for that. If they are, they have their limits.

I feel like people criticize and judge too quickly and fail to keep in mind live action characters won’t always be like their written. Being a HUGE fan of Comic!Natasha , I struggle with keeping that in mind because there has been so much potential lost with them creating her the way the did for the MCU.  With her movie coming up, I’ve actually been thinking about the fact maybe there hasn’t been anything stated about her in the past films due to the fact they’ve had her own film in the works for a while. There is a lot we still don’t know about Natasha and I’m thinking it’s been for good reason.