#meloromantics

[brainstatic]

meloromantics replied to your post “It’s so depressing how The Onion became The Borowitz Report for...”

the fucking one abt the scientists saying unlimited clean energy is ready to go whenever gives me heartburn on sight

People post that screenshot like it’s actually true. And that was well before their current transformation.

[fakenerdboy]

you're absolutely a gamer don't lie to tumblr and yourself

[larkandkatydid]

Just My Shrill Female Opinion But you can tell that the people who are very adamant about moms keeping art have never had to 1) deal with the nitty gritty cleanup of a dead female relative’s house and 2) have never had to do an Adult Move where they couldn’t keep things in their parent’s suburban mcmansion!

Right?  Nothing makes you hate your belongings or a dead person’s belongings more than having to move them from one place to another. 

Marie Kondo has an anecdote in one of her books where a lot of her clients who were so happy about their tidy lives told her “omg, my mom has so much clutter. you have to help her” and Marie Kondo, to her absolute outrage, had to get back to her clients and say, “Your mother’s house is full of YOUR CRAP!!! If it doesn’t spark joy to you, it’s not fair to make your mom keep it!”

[larkandkatydid]

my mom just informed me that ryan lochte has married a woman he met online?? and that in whatever post this news came from he claimed “the first time they talked it was for 8-10 hours,” which my mom thought was the funniest internet lie she’s ever seen. “he doesn’t have eight hours of words in him.”

I think the best/worst thing I can do for you is show you the picture he took announcing that they were having a child together.

[larkandkatydid]

so hbo holds me at gunpoint and makes me watch extended trailers for their new shit before i’m allowed to watch john oliver and i’m curious/enchanted/intrigued by sharp objects! i saw gone girl but i’ve never read any of her books, should i read the book (or any of her others) first before i watch the new show? what am i in for and what’s your recommendation?

I’m very hopeful that the show will be better than the book, because the story will benefit from a more experienced hand plus I hope that typical HBO Prestige TV tricks will make the moments I loved stand out more as exactly as creepy as they should be.  

I think Dark Places is better than Sharp Objects but neither of them are that great compared to Gone Girl, which is where she really hit her stride as a writer and in some ways I think of them as a bunch of bad habits she had to get out of the way in order to write Gone Girl, including, I think, accepting and embracing her tendency to write Mary Sue power fantasies.   

I also think of Sharp Objects as being very similar to The Shining.  It’s got some good, iconic, memorable bits...but it’s also a young writer’s early novel where a Shirley Jackson template is used to complain about your relationship with alcohol, with your parents and with your grim career prospects as a former English major. 

Anyway, I’m genuinely not sure whether to recommend the book before the show, but I will say that what I’m looking forward to is a (trying not to spoil here) big reveal about the Dollhouse which is so over the top and creepy that it’s unforgettable.