#no character development

[calli0pea]

hopper top 10 worst characters

[lumaxramblings]

ok i've spoiled myself for st4 because it's honestly not worth the anxiety and i am fucking angry. what the fuck was the point of volume 2? what was the point of all this????? what was the point of crushing robin's love life, of making will have a crush on mike at ALL?

i was so excited for volume 2, vol1 was just SO good and well-written (apart from a few parts), but then volume 2 just... mocks gay people. literally. what was the point?

[fiora-miriel]

Nicolai's shadow vampire self... it was so unemotional. No build up. Most of the time no one but Alina knew avout it at all and she once again seemed strangely detached from it. Like she just had lost a trinket. She continues to barely give us any emotional attachment to her. Most things continue to happen to her, not because of her. We get a morr description of the layout of the house they stay at, than an insight into Alina's feeling. I have rarely felt that emotionally detached from a character...

Zoya still being mean girled by Alina we get it you don't like her and make no effort in liking her

Mal's firebird arch, especially the miraculous resurrection. Wtf

Alina giving up her power so others now have part of her power? Lame af. Reluctant heroine trope who doesn't want her power fullfilled though

The Darkling's forces basically all surrendering as soon as he is dead. That seems highly illogical

Let alone the fact that it reads like a handful of people just defeated an army

The final fight between Alina and the Darkling feels so anti climatic

Kind of wish that Alina would have ended all alone in the end.

Mal and Alina going back to Keramzin with Misha... it reads like (bad) fanfiction

And I still hate these 3rd person intro/outro bits. When I read that "thr girl and the boy" stuff I'm reminded of Arya Stark in GoT and all that "a girl has no name stuff"

So much potential so little of it was used. Those 3 books are a graveyard of lost potential.

As said before, a rewrite into a full blown fantasy thriller with the darkling being hannibal lector or into a good adult fantasy story with real shades of grey would do that whole series so, so good

I think I need to let that mess sink in for a day or two before I write my goodreads review

[vibesfc]

[miss-macaroni-vii]

Been seeing that it’s suddenly popular to hate on Konosuba because of how the main character, Kazuma is treated. I’m really sorry to tell you this but he’s a bad person and if you feel bad for him that’s fine just keep in mind the whole point of the show is that it’s a series of bad things happening to worse people. To elaborate, you aren’t supposed to identify with Kazuma and if you do then you’re supposed to see how literally everyone he meets thinks he’s a scumbag and learn from his mistakes. It’s the same principle that Seinfield operates on.

[aangopologist]

Saying republic city is westernized because other cosmopolitan asian cities are also doesn't make sense? Because those cities have western influence due to imperialism and colonization from the west. In the avatar-verse what we know as the "west" (USA and Europe) doesn't exist, there's no such thing, the closest equivalent would be the former fire nation and even that is a stretch. The creators had a perfect opportunity to imagine what a modern asian society and world would look like without western influence, but apparently, to their minds modernization and progress is not possible without the west.

[sakura-haruka]

You know something that really annoyed me in Stranger Things s3? Mike, i don’t mean Mike as a character, I love Mike, he was certainly my favorite character in s1 and remain a fave in the second season.

I always complained about the lack of Will screen time in S3 but truly when i think back about it, it’s kind of the same thing for Mike. Unlike Will he got screen time but he’s truly just the love interest of El, he always have been her love interest but before s3 he truly got an important storyline, if not the most important one. In s3 the main storyline is not directly connected to him, his main storyline is being El’s boyfriend.  

The only thing he actually does is thinking about the sauna trap, and the only “cute nerd” moment that we all love from him is when he lifted the car. 

from my sideblog @tvstrangerthings​