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
seeing considerably less stay at home girlfriend and girl math shit and more ābrooo imagine being a trad anything and giving up your job for some guy to have you a single argument away from homelessness šā from women online of all ages
when whitman saidĀ āi contradict myself. i am large⦠i contain multitudesā and wilde saidĀ āwhat are you? to define is to limitā and sumney saidĀ āi insist upon my right to be multipleā
and when mahmoud darwish said āI am besieged by contradictionā and when lewis carroll said āI knew who I was this morning, but Iāve changed a few times since thenā
"[character] has never done anything wrong in their life ā¤ļø" as in a hyperbolic joke expressing that the character is sweet and kind and i love them, vs "[character] has never done anything wrong in their life ā¤ļø" as in iām absolutely lying through my teeth while a long list of their crimes plays behind me like film credits
if they insist on an aegonās conquest movie it must have a 25 minute sequence of targs eating shit and losing a dragon to half blind old as dirt Meria Martellās vietnam war guerilla tactics until they have to back off for 100 years or donāt bother making it
its funny when people say this stuff bc like u arent forced to wear capris yall act like when things r trending u have to do the trend like at gunpoint u only feel like this bc ur insecure to be ur own person also capris are cute girl fuck you