Why is it that women write so many good books, yet have such bad taste in books?

Why is this a problem?

I think I personally have a connection with powerless that’ll be a great buffer for some of its cliches. I watched the authors TikTok’s and process of writing it for years before it came out, and preordered it as soon as possible, so I really hope it won’t be a let down. (I also haven’t read one dark window (is that what’s it’s called?) and I haven’t gotten around to reading the hunger games) so if anything, I’d be comparing powerless to those one day, which is completely okay, but just stating my thoughts on it.

I in fact am defending twilight 😅🖤

0:01 me pissing

Omg thank you soooo much for ALL the effort you put into making this!!! This was SO enjoyable to watch!!

Please make an audiobook recs video! with 10-15 recs!!

It's always important to remind people that Wuthering Heights isn't a love story!

honestly, you sold me that jacob-edward montage. them getting together with bella would still be a better ending than jacob imprinting on a freakin baby.

How a bunch of teenagers behave when you put them in an arena and order them to kill each other, anyhow. Once they put a bunch of adults in there, it was the last Hunger Games, even if it wasn't a completely bloodless one. Snow had two mother figures, one was a narcissist and one fairly selfless. He wasn't a psychopath, but he was extremely narcissistic. Still had the ability to care about other people. That's pretty chilling.

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Amazing video and excellent thoughts, as always!👏🏻👏🏻💖💖💖

YAASSS-Amen, to the whole entire subtext doesn't always have to be lgbtqia+ and lgbtqia+ doesn't always have to be subext sentiment! Also, thank you for that Edward/Jacob montage and championing the squandered potential, in general, pretty much regardless of which ship it's applied to. I especially have tended to feel this way when watching anime or k-dramas, not just with triangles, but with archenemies/rivals in general too.😂😂

I haven't finished the last book yet... but .. I like the "triangle" in The Dark Artifices, personally. . SPOILER . . . . . (It's actually a throuple-unless something drastically changed in the very ending.😁 Supporting characters, not the main couple, though; unlike in TMI and TID. ^-^) Cassie Clare actively participated in the social media push for triangles to grow beyond the cliche and for the embrace of poly-ships, even before Korra had aired on TV. Like her or not, she was kind of at the head of the curve at least in that regard.

I LOVED this!!!! Suchhhhh a good analysis!!’

I really appreciate you pointing out that triangles are often symbolic representations of themes!😊 Some people really do be think so literally and non-literarily, sometimes.

12:42 - No, I was Team Jacob because when Bella said she didn't want anyone buying her anything for her birthday Jacob handmade her something that was actually deeply personally meaningful to her because he wanted to show her that he cared but also wanted to respect her wish not to be fussed over or showered in money, also I didn't believe Edward when he said he'd read Jacob's thoughts I kinda believed Edward was just lying about basically anything he claimed Jacob was thinking. 🤣🤣 The first movie hadn't even been greenlit or cast yet at all. Taylor Lautner had absolutely nothing to do with it. Lol God's honest truth! ^-^

9:17 - Stefan/Elena/Damon in The Vampire Diaries existed before Twilight, and probably many others(especially in movies/tv), but Twilight definitely definitely popularized it into the mainstream consciousness with its Team Edward / Team Jacob merch and shite.🤭🤭😅

5:48 - The funny thing is, EDWARD himself likens himself to Heathcliff at one point, if I remember it right and felt compelled to apologize to her for being horrid....but the dumb girl basically just tells him to shut up and not ever apologize for shite because she thinks he's perfect.🤦🤦‍♀️🤦

i havent read delirium bjt i wanted to add that the concept of love being outlawed makes sense in the context of like LGBTQ characters since its a real thing

i love you . honestly. fav youtuber

Great video, im literally gonna get an ereader when i wake up tomorrow. been thinking about it the past week, but this your video really sold me on it.

10:40 how is fell all that books?

I absolutely love Twilight. My grandma bought the book series and loved it, passed it down to my mom, and she passed it down to me. I know it's super cringe but I still love it so much because of that personal connection with it. 🤍

Did Snow do to Katniss what Gaul did to him?

i love this series ngl 😭Dont read it whatever you do- but like i love jean and jeremy in the new book

This was such a fun video!

I can't believe I'm saying this but this is worse than Colleen Hoover

Definitivamente eu odeio triangulo amoroso nao importa como seja feito ou se tem um significado por trás.

ALL FOR THE GAME REFERENCE ?!?!?!

that hunger games fanfic you wrote reminds me a bit of a short story I read in class once

I think my favorite love triangle is Blue/Adam/Gansey because it's so hilarious. Like Blue ACTIVELY chooses Adam, she refuses to fall for Gansey, only for Gansey's natural charm and goofiness to sweep her off her feet (like boy isn't even trying at this point) and then Adam immediately bounces and decides that Ronan is the one for him 😂

I smelled battle royale when I read the hunger games, but luckily it stands alone on its own and is different enough . Battle royale is pretty insane though and also well done .

cabaret 1972 has such a good example of a love triangle. it basically just devolves into a messy terrible bisexual throuple and i love it for that <3. its a great movie i highly recommend it, all the characters are so well written imo

I love that you said in the beginning you were not a big fan of cozy book but after the book you understand why people love it~ Was it just me or there was a ringing sound around 6:13 - 7:39 to other part??

For me, the BEST love triangle is in Splintered by A.G. Howard. I just loved it sm

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its not a true love trial until Jacob falls for Edward to add the final line

we need to separete love triangles and love Vs. in real love triangles everyone is interested in everyone (Chellengers). Love Vs we have two people interested in a person (twilight). Chellengers is so superior and interesting bc everyone has tention

I read Uglies awhile ago, but if I remember correctly, the thing I found so stupid is that when children are born, they get thrown in uglyville where they are raised until they can get their surgery. So then, WHO RAISES THE CHILDREN? Idk if it was said somewhere in the book and I didn't notice or if the book just never says who raises the children until they can become pretties.

I like my eReader because I have 5186 eBooks as of now, and finding space to keep all those books if they were physical - let alone the hassle and weight if I ever needed to move - would be insane.

Letterlijk waarom ik een ereader heb ''Goedkope boeken''😍 (Ik ben een skere student)

They do not show Snow killing Gray, JS

Thank you for this video, it is the introduction I was looking for and I found it very useful.

I've read some BL love triangles and sometimes it bothers me so much that the two ends of the triangle aren't attracted to each other.

12:00 this is why in my opinion, the hunger games is the best dystopian series of all time, and I’m including the classics I have read (I haven’t read brave new world yet). I read it in 2012 when I was 13, back when I had no idea what it meant to be a postcolonial subject. As time has passed and my field has opened my eyes further to way the world is divided and how power is structured, I’ve found THG to just be more and more relevant. In Pakistan our biggest export is textile. For decades after partition, the west got raw materials from us which was cheap and meant we got little money from the exchange, when we were already struggling to stand on our own. Nowadays, what happens is that we farm the cotton, spin the yarn, manufacture the clothes, then send them out. Western brands then attach their own labels to the clothes and resell them in their stores in Pakistan. This is just one example of how deep set and convoluted the west’s neoimperialism is. The bar is in hell, so I’m thankful that you’ve brought this up. I’m afraid westerns really don’t give a crap about the rest of us, we’re as good as nonexistent to them even tho most of their stuff comes from the global south and china. It’s difficult to appreciate dystopian fiction that either just focuses on America, which wasn’t even a western stronghold 300 years ago, or has no allegorical reference to the rest of us, when the global south has been extremely relevant in international politics and history at the very least since the 1900s. Lastly, the Israel/Palestine situation has now shown the west again how relevant the concepts in the hunger games are. Because Suzanne Collins wrote the series with the Iraqi war in mind. Free Palestine!

The shadow and bone thing is funny because I gave 5 starts to the first two and 2 stars to the third… I hated the ending!

I like grumpy sunshine....when the male lead is the sunshine side! I'm sick of all the sunshine girls that i can't relate to 😂 i need more grumpy girls being cheered up by sunshine golden retriever boys. (Or other girls, honestly, i need so many queer romances in fantasy please I'm begging you)

My WIP book is a dark romance is talking about Homophobia/ Suicide/ Haphephobia/ Bully/ COPD/ Depression (not glorifying them) and how to fix society from them. It doesn't have a happy ending

Loved this as always ❤