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You got the Gideon the Ninth ARC?? Have you finished reading it? ? I was kinda split on whether I should ask how it’s going because either way, I’m either gonna be ? in either feverish anticipation for 50?? days or sheer disappointment, but I guess I enjoy putting myself through this – what do you think of it so far??

I….may not have even started it yet. I’m sorry! I’m like you, anon! In the sense that I have such expectations for it, anyway. I just can’t bring myself to even read it. Either it’s going to be great and I’ll no longer be able to take it in for the first time or it’s not going to live up to those expectations.

I actually got it a while back, a couple of weeks before I got sick, and that was the middle of Ramadan so I was like, I can’t read this now, I won’t be able to SAVOR it as it should be. I need everything perfect! I figured as long as I was able to post a review some time in August, it’d be fine. And then of course after Ramadan ended I did start feeling not great. Again, I couldn’t read THIS book under those conditions (though I finished a few others).

But…I think now is the time. Partly because it’s almost August and partly because I ordered this box on Illumicrate (from whom I also got a signed version of Priory) so I need to figure out quicklike if I like it or not. I mean, on the strength of those first 8 chapters, it will have to really waste the setup and author’s skill to be disappointing enough where I don’t want it at all. But what if it doesn’t stick the landing or something? I dunno. I will let you know how I like it!

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How are you? Are you feeling better?

Hey, anon, thanks for checking in. I do think I am doing better! Still not 100% and the new meds I started keep me pretty tired but a lot of the routine pain is gone. I’m slowly getting back in the TV watching and giffing groove. Currently trying to decide which of these to gif first: Grand Hotel, Shortland Street, Ambitions, Search: WWW, or Dead End. And then I’ll end up doing a trailer for something else completely, heh.

Also trying to get some book posts done soon, I hope. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend everything I’ve finished reading, but there were a few good ones in there I’ll do giveaways for. And Gideon the Ninth approaches! Guess who might have gotten an ARC~~~~

How’re you doing, anon?

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1. I saw Juliantina is getting a movie and a series!!!!! I haven’t watched Amar a Muerte yet, but I’m always happy when other f/f fandoms get treated right. 2. Which brings me to my next point. Juliantina/AaM have been on my long list of things to watch, so where can I watch it? Tia

Thank you! This experience has already been so remarkable but this movie and series on the back of its f/f couple is just unprecedented. Especially when apparently the m/m spinoff of the other recent telenovela had started airing a little before, to low ratings? So you’d have almost understood if they decided to not go for a f/f project.

I’m so sorry for how long it’s taken me to reply to this, I do have a list here, but at this point, I would probably recommend just two sources:

https://angry-sushi.tumblr.com/juliantina – This has all their early clips, including before Juliantina meet. When the subbed parts run out:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVdq4TJwt23ZFRJC8jxL7_A/community – zeroty’s longer compilations. zeroty originally started putting up short, individual scenes from when Juliantina met as the show was airing and by the time it finished, there was a playlist of 300+ clips but you’ll probably find it more convenient to just watch the bigger chunks linked here.

And another anon:

Just want to say it’s thanks to bbcitas like you who helped make all this happen! Bringing Juliantina around the world — all my love from NYC

Aww, anon, this has been so validating and satisfying. Thank you!

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Was Juliana a loner when she lived in Texas? There was never any mention of having friends or anything.

I reckon so, living like they did and as you said, at no point was she ever like, I want to talk to my Texas friends or at least tell them I’m okay. It seemed a lonely, isolated life for our Juls. And then, tbh, despite their very endearing and earnest efforts at it, she and Val seemed to have not much idea how to handle friendship, jumping into a very intimate and deep relationship like immediately. 

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I think it was you who recommended Priory of the Orange Tree to your followers a while ago. If so: THANK YOU. It’s so good. It’s the first book in years that I haven’t been able to put down. I don’t think I’ve felt this way about a book since I was a teenager.

Ah, anon, I have no excuse for why I’m answering this so late, I could’ve answered it on the app any day, so…I’m sorry.

No problem! I’m glad it lived up to the hype for you! I wish I had others to recommend like it but honestly, it’s been a bit tough finding something with all the ingredients that made Priory so good.

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What article?

https://meaww.com/harlots-season-3-lady-fitz-charlotte-romance-plans-moira-buffini

Despite their obvious affection for each other, there would always be a power dynamic that is influenced by money. As Moira Buffini, the co-creator and executive producer tells MEA WorldWide (MEAWW), “Lady Fitz and Charlotte don’t have a ‘romance.’ Such a thing is unsustainable in the world of ‘Harlots’. We wanted to show how mutually beneficial a relationship between a harlot and her lover could be.”

She further elaborates how they would be unequal. “There is always money between them in the bed. A year on, and Charlotte is restless; Lady Fitz is increasingly lonely. Let’s see the truth of where that takes them.  I’m afraid we’re cussedly unsentimental – and that, I hope, is the strength of the show.”

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hey boo i stopped watching killjoys a while back but am wondering if I should pick it up again. the reason why i stopped is bc even tho dutch is amazing the show started to feel like “capable badass woc babysits 2 whiny bros who can’t get over their shit” so am wondering if that eases up?

Sorry for the late reply! 

On one hand, that kinda never stops? The bros are always on some shit or other. But they often are the ones who save Dutch, and really, none of the three are completely put together all the time. But if you don’t like them and continue to not like them, I don’t know that I’d recommend you to keep watching? Because while it does get more interesting once the mythology takes over more, seasons 3 and 4 probably being my favorites and introducing/reframing characters in a way that fundamentally changes the shape of the show, the core three are still the heart of it. 

If it’s the dynamic you mind…I dunno, because I warmed to Johnny pretty quickly and usually tolerate D’av well enough, so I can’t speak to that, but if it’s that particular plot you don’t care about, it definitely changes. 

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So…what about that news? How was the surprise. I’m shaking right now.

And same anon(?):

We missed you at the surprise party

Ah, anon, super sorry for this late reply. I keep on saying that I’m going to be late on everything so just accept a general apology for all replies and requests but…sorry.

Just to kind of explain, right as Ramadan was ending, at the beginning of June, I was hit with this headache + nausea combo that just flattened me. It was constant, it was waking me up from sleep, I just lay in bed. As the days would go by, I would think I was getting better, and that’s when you’d see an occasional post or gifset, and then a day later it’d be worse again. I thought I was good the weekend Dark came out and then on that Monday it hit again, as worse as ever.

I’ve fallen behind on everything, although when the headache wasn’t too bad I was able to get some reading done. I’m still not fully back but finally easing back into work and going to try to answer some asks and get back into the rhythm of watching things more regularly and preparing for some of my fave shows to return.

THE NEWS. The news. I was super excited! I followed it all from my phone. A movie AND a series! Ngl, if had been just a movie, I’d have been like, all right, okay, at least we get two more hours of them, this isn’t a goodbye yet, it’ll be mostly about them so it’ll be as much content as a bunch of episodes, and the plot can’t be too messy, right, there’s less chance to ruin them. Buuut, their best parts have always been in their quiet, long moments, and that’s not really something I see a movie able to give them, so I’m super glad we get a series for that. The movie can be for the fun and flirty banter and the series can have the nice long angst with the payoffs. 

Oh, and none of you better be writing in cheaty/deathy ideas for the movie! For five seconds I forgot the world in which they live so I was like, at least they can’t kill them off but y’all better not be writing them transmigrating! 😛