reading PUBLISHED REYLO FANFIC and losing my mind (The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood)

[@gnifel3841]

the absolute euphoria of sitting down with a plate of food at the exact same time you posted a video

[@ainsleesbookclub]

oh my god i’ve officially made it this is so iconic

[@vey5579]

@@ainsleesbookclubgirl, i listen to your videos while driving to work and cleaning AND eating. you get me through the most grueling parts of my day ♥️ you will always be iconic

[@junejulyandaugust]

on my case it's me sitting down to write the Horrors but then seeing the notification of the Actual Horrors. it's awesome

[@jennalyon1631]

me rn

[@catcat63527]

​@@vey5579 Truly.

[@teacup5921]

obsessed with your instinctive and guttural suspicion of blond men

[@vapiddreamscape]

u and weirdo book club also a spiritual match

[@lesbiangoddess290]

I totally understand. I have the same ones

[@elainagilbert7663]

I don't get it, but it's funny nonetheless.

[@meg4003]

when i was phd student, this would have been a horror story. my union literally fought for more protections to help phd students not be harassed by profs and not have those relationships be allowed because of the horrifying power dynamics. there's really just no possibility of consent with someone who can ruin your life like a prof could to a phd student. it's worse in STEM fields because students are even more directly reliant on profs for funding, paycheck, tuition, and jobs than in other fields. it's hard to explain to people outside of it but imagine if the person you were dating could simultaneously get you fired, get you kicked out of your university, and make sure you never work in your chosen career field again and that no one hires you in that field in the future... that's a prof's relationship to a phd student. i get that it's just fantasy but my god. im sure it's fun for people who don't have that background to understand how horrifying this power dynamic would be. the title ix jokes just make it worse.

[@PublicUniversalFriend2]

Thats what i was thinking, it is horrifying to me and i didn't even started college yet

[@Babygreen_man]

Probably doesn’t help, but in the video Emily(if that’s her name😅)googles the author, and her bio says that she pursued a phd in neuroscience. So the author was in fact aware of the frightening power dynamic.

[@killianjoness7707]

@@Babygreen_man even worse, the author used to be a professor!

[@WhiteWolf-lm7gj]

​@@killianjoness7707 Uh oh! Not a huge fan of those implications...

[@eugenemetayhas]

THANK YOU! I have a PhD in a STEM discipline, and there were multiple incidents of sexual misconduct between a professor and a graduate student at my undergraduate and my graduate institutions. Your graduating with a PhD is so dependent on your advisor. The author herself is (was? unsure) a professor and should 100% know better than to romanticize such a huge imbalance of power. I am so fucking incensed this shit went viral. All I was hoping for was us gals in STEM finally being the subject of a romance novel, but this was not it.

[@kinrateia]

She's 5'8????? All this time this "tiny petite" mc was 5'8???? Thats not short in any world!!

[@Babygreen_man]

She’s a fanfic protagonist. Doesn’t matter how tall she is, she’s gonna be petite lol

[@jimena6194]

She’s tiny bc Ali writes her main men to be MASSIVE I love her books, but I literally go out of my way to highlight every time she mentions his size in any way and I have so many highlights

[@Sunzu49]

​@@jimena6194Where was the editor?😭

[@delicate1917]

to be perfectly fair I do remember reading that Olive is more than once described as "not short", and that he is just rlly that tall in comparison (her other stem romance however features a short main character jsdkhcakjshdc)

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

if she's short i fear too see how tall the other one is

[@lilacfields]

when i started this and realized the love interest’s name was adam i just couldn’t believeeee 😭 ali hazelwood is shameless and i kinda respect it!

[@ainsleesbookclub]

It took me an embarrassingly long time to put it together ✊😔

[@SxnsetRosy]

i still don't get the reference, i live under a rock please help 😢😢

[@xavigav]

@@SxnsetRosy adam driver, the actor of kylo ren

[@SxnsetRosy]

@@xavigav OHH

[@jimena6194]

I unironically love all her steminist novels 😂 I think the smut is stupid and the men are abnormally large. However Ali knows it and leans into it LMAO

[@tessmu]

girl I am an actual PhD student and let me tell you if someone with a real job wanted to buy me a coffee and sweet treat - I would not think TWICE EDIT: I would also 100% let an academic pay for conference accommodation lol

[@emmyrose233]

SAME DUDE

[@vapiddreamscape]

three years into my degree I'd probably burst into tears when they did

[@kir-is-here]

not only is his first name Adam, his last name is CARlson - like you drive(r) a car(lson)

[@katierose6424]

SO glad I'm not the only one to notice 😂

[@thewingedporpoise]

you know what, this is peak, actually, 10/10 naming convention

[@R-Yeahhh]

@@thewingedporpoise yes, love the nomenclature 😆

[@atinymoonizen]

STOP ITTTT😂😂😂

[@birdiebirb2114]

You’re so real for the “tell someone who it doesn’t matter to” if there’s drama happening my grandma WILL be hearing about it

[@bytesizedbai]

WOOOOO SHITTY BOOK CLUB POSTED EVERYBODY CHEERED

[@morganlovesbooks16]

wait until she finds out Ali Hazelwood wrote a werewolf book…💀

[@toricarlini4474]

That one is so confusing pretty sure it's her star wars old republic retelling

[@melowlw8638]

​@@toricarlini4474 WHAT

[@ameliamartinez5669]

It was so good tho 😭

[@janaschmidt2348]

​@@toricarlini4474 you are joking, right? please tell me you are...

[@toricarlini4474]

@janaschmidt2348 nope and it's star wars fanfic too

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

I FEEL, I will keep your secrets but my mom from out of state knows all my friends' drama and secrets

[@ainsleesbookclub]

literally!! my mom lives across the country so she hears about everything

[@henrymars6626]

Is it still gossipping if my friend lives out of the country gets all the tea from my American Life™?

[@music_YT2023]

A low stakes romance is just the thing to dig yourself out of a depressive funk! Also, currently working in academia and 1. PhD students sometimes do not even make minimum wage (it's very grant dependent), so let him pay for the coffees! 2. Professors can be as young as 30 and yes, some of them can be really nerdy and weird. 3. Relationships between PIs and grad students (different labs/groups/committees of course) is usually fine. 4. Conference and seminar funding (stipends) are usually supplied by the department but I'm willing to overlook this for romance purposes. 5. Students would rather sit on the seminar row steps or fall asleep, faces drooping against the walls, than be seen in someone else's lap.

[@mary-annv2140]

Now that i think about it i think one thing I ADORE about your channel is it feels like you’re telling me all of the hot gossip

[@francescakyanda9182]

being a Star Wars fan and a lesbian has never been more hazardous

[@mchjsosde]

I feel you about easy reads, my husband wants to me read one of brandon sandersons 500k books and I'm like 'babe if it's not the literary equivalent to chewin gum i aint chewin on it' I recently went back to school so my brain just wants cotton candy type stories.

[@annabananabones08]

I am currently trying to listen to the audibook and I am STRUGGLING. I can't take the writing seriously. It feels like the author is trolling

[@ainsleesbookclub]

it’s so unserious and for what

[@mirjacastren3292]

I started to read the sample bit shown by Amazon. I quit on page 9.

[@august6760]

Fr it is WAY too fanfic-y to be an actual novel

[@annabananabones08]

Update: I made it to 27% and returned it to the library. I am never giving her another chance

[@Babygreen_man]

I mean. . . if the fanfic reads like fanfic, is the author doing anything wrong?😂 Note: on the other hand, I have read some fan fiction that was completely serious.

[@afrog5737]

me and my big ass bowl of cereal are seated and ready

[@deboraalmeida9198]

Literally same cuz I watched this while eating breakfast

[@patiencekillz]

shitty book club's frequent breaks to google something is maybe my favorite parts of these videos

[@a_rlybaddecision]

hear me out but like the public affection section like THE LAP BROOOO like a kiss or smth idcccc but SITTING ON HIS LAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[@tyler-df3wy]

As someone who just started postgrad at a new university, I could Never think of dating a lecturer here, whether it’s real or fake. I would be way too terrified of, if nothing else, it going wrong and ruining my education and my future career. Even if I was into one of them, I would actively avoid them as much as I physically could because I’m not ruining my life for a relationship that statistically won’t last. And I don’t go to an Ivy League school doing STEM. Like absolutely hell no

[@ArtotheEm]

Anh is just a walking plot device who solely exists to force Olive and Adam to break the touch barrier; in this professional/academic setting they would otherwise never "need" to do PDA to convince people they're dating

[@CaribbeanCitizen]

Living in all three of the axis powers is actually kind of wild

[@PineyBlackwood]

This is such a fun video as a fanfic girly and academia adjacent like the bit about how maybe PHD candidates are just like us, girl they are so immensely socially inept because all their smart went to their research!

[@john2940]

You not realising why his name was Adam until more than halfway through the video is very funny! (Anyways! You're, like, my new favourite KZbin channel.)

[@theresaw1099]

This book has been sitting on my shelf for months. Instead of ACTUALLY reading it, I'll watch this amazing 50 minute video

[@mchjsosde]

The friend character really should have been reworked. I feel like in a fanfiction those author insert wink wink nudge nudge characters are common and they are meant to create excuses for physical moments. it's really not a strong narrative tool for published work, tho

[@HazelSageHP]

THIS! I absolutely adore fanfiction, and quite frankly both read and write terrifying amounts of it, and there is absolutely good fanfiction! But there's also things that are just very common and to be expected when you're writing in a known world with already established characters (even if you are AUing the hell out of it). You can't use those in original novels - you have to establish character and setting and you have to have a more substantial reasoning for a side character to pressure your main characters to do things beyond just "fake dating tropes mean must PDA and X character is closeby to initiate it". I try not to yuck people's yums to their faces at least, but I find it INFURIATING that these are the things that are getting popular. At least have the decency to edit and expand your fanfiction beyond changing the names because I really don't know if she did with this one... I also admit I may be judging this one extra harshly because I love fanfiction, dislike Reylo, and am a grad student in STEM, so I was pretty much designed to find fault with this one 😅

[@kaitlynrueter88]

"Because unfortunately, he was being a little reasonable," lol

[@JillBearup]

I admit that I bought this book solely because I looked at the cover and went: WAIT, is that a REYLO FANFIC WITH THE SERIAL NUMBERS FILED OFF? I MUST KNOW. It was...everything I thought it was going to be. (I also couldn't get past the 'professor dating PhD student in his department' thing.)

[@vlwbug1986]

Every blond man in a book is a villian. Saying this as someone who is married to a blond man.

[@angieng6091]

That gossip advice is exactly what me and my best friend do, we go to different schools but we both know each others' classmates' drama cause we'll never meet the people we have our weekly gossip session about 😭

[@h4rtchivez]

you always post exactly when i need a good laugh i love it

[@ЛадаД-щ2ь]

as a stem girlie, the thought of a phd student dating a professor makes me twitch. omg the power imbalance there!!! 100% the ick, gross

[@meaganadwyer]

The way I screamed at 39:20. Paused the video. Screamed again. Then began laughing so loud, still screaming, until my husband ran upstairs from the basement terrified I was dying. I kind of was. I couldn't breathe for like a solid five minutes. Thank you for that! 😂 Also, Kendra Gaylord fans unite! She is amazing!!

[@basicho]

I read this book YEARS ago and like the only thing i really remeber from it was Olive having mommy issues and feeling really upset about how they were used in the book? Like they were only talked about when it was convenient to make olive push Adam away or something but then they just MAGICALLY DISAPPEARED without any real resolution by the end of the book

[@sariannas2799]

As a Star Wars girlie, it's really fun to try to decipher who each character is supposed to be. Based solely on your summary, I think Ahn is Rose, Jeremy is Finn, and the third roommate is probably Poe. I assumed the visiting professor was Luke, but given that heel turn he must be Hux. No idea who the fuck Holden is.

[@katie-allen]

Okay so bad news: Jeremy is HUX, as in this author ships Rose with Hux like why 💀 Malcolm is Finn and Holden is Poe, and the visiting professor I think is just made up

[@sariannas2799]

@@katie-allen oh my GOD

[@eleanorread3881]

@@katie-allen finnpoe representation but at what cost…………

[@eleanorread3881]

my current theory is the professor from adams sad backstory must be luke? or maybe snoke, but that wouldn’t make a huge amount of sense with the timeline

[@thewingedporpoise]

​@@eleanorread3881timelines get slippery and get changed in a fanfic, it can happen

[@jaydenjay9285]

international phd students typically don’t pay higher fees for science phds bc most are fully funded anyway (definitely at stanford), so this at least isn’t a bad financial decision on olive’s part lol

[@birdplum7900]

was also going to comment this!

[@catnip6731]

saw someone reading this back in january on a plane n nearly laughed seeing the cover i was like "omg,,, that's reylo isn't it"

[@lordknightalex]

one of the tropes that always makes DNF a fic is the "oh its ok that im dating a professor bc theyre not *directly* teaching me" ok and????? they still have a seat and power within the universityyyy the power imbalance is still there babe!!!

[@Ohms836]

Joy FLOODED MY BODY

[@magicivy]

I can’t lie: I enjoyed this book a lot. Was it “good”? No. Did I love the characters anyway? Yes. Did the unsubtle references make me laugh? Yes. Was the smut pretty hot? Yes. Did knowing it was Reylo make it more enjoyable than if I read the book not knowing that? Yes. Would I recommend it to people? No.

[@anaboxx5]

same

[@queeni8054]

ugh love your content and its so funny as a phd candidate watching you talk about all the academic stuff. like an extra present

[@noof5186]

i'm so grateful you mentioned the boob scene because what the hell even was that

[@Kjane921]

Like, would that even be enjoyable? For either party? I feel like it would just be awkward…

[@kristin3386]

3:38 PhDs are usually free! (At least in STEM.) tuition and your stipend are paid by either an RAship (basically your advisor’s grants pay for you to do research) or a TAship (the department pays you to help with classes)

[@bluefirewhale2106]

I had a weird feeling the whole time that this book doesn’t feel like an ordinary book. It’s been a fanfic the whole time! It makes sense now! I looooove your vids btw. Sometimes I can’t pinpoint why a certain book gives me the ick and then you make a video about it and everything clicks into place. May I recommend a book to you? It’s called “The Hating Game” by Sally Thorne. And this one of the first romance books (which are not fantasy) that I actually enjoyed. It’s funny, witty and has good characters!

[@deboraalmeida9198]

Yes this is literally my favorite romance ever idk why it’s just so quirky it clicks with me🥹

[@goldendew5759]

Literally was just looking for a long video to put in the bg thank you queen

[@АннаБобко-п7р]

I absolutely love your witty remarks about stupid books and especially this one. I know that's super specific and personal but I hate this book with passion since reading about reason for her research being her mom's death of cancer. Because losing a beloved mother at a young age (I think any age honestly) is so traumatic and huge and impacts person's life on so many levels and takes so long to recover from. And it being thrown in as her little quirk and reason for being super duper girlboss grosses the fuck out of me. Like, how hard can it be to write a silly fluffy cliche romance story without triggering anyone?

[@janne8315]

Not even 5 minutes in and already I am reminded of why I love this account. Girl, you give me life!!

[@red_enby]

THE BOINK SCENE?? 24 PAGES??

[@andreamaldonado846]

Im so ready for shitty book club

[@ijustworkherebro25]

“Thank you, shitty book club” we all say in unison😌!

[@eleanorread3881]

being a massive star wars fan makes this so much worse bc everyone is so out of character. granted, it’s the sequel trilogy so the characterisation wasn’t great to begin with, but what little there was is GONE. nothing could convince me that KYLO REN has this kind of emotional maturity.

[@HazelSageHP]

THIS

[@snehapadmanabhan4949]

i literally could not get over the title 9 joke. it felt like making a mockery of something that’s meant to protect women

[@Larylaryie]

also about the gossip advice, I always tell my mom, like, she WILL know your secret and she WILL judge you, but she won't know WHO you are.

[@LittleDogTobi]

Watching these always makes me feel like I’m hanging out with a friend 😂 Thank you for uploading!

[@420sad]

She should have named him Adam walker lol

[@jimena6194]

Not an academic science girl but i HAVE gone to engineering conferences. They're normally 2-3 days, with a ton of overlapping meetings, events, career fairs, and such. my only "weird" note is that all the ones I've gone to, a keynote speak is like THE person to talk, you have an opening and closing keynote and they're normally major names in the topic that the conference is about, but they're almost always the first or last event of the day and don't have others conflicting so that the whole conference can attend. After parties for me are for networking, you're invited to dinner at a bar or something or a catered snack bar type thing by a larger company, and you can network with other professionals.

[@rescueferret8834]

Is it just me or are conferences so exhausting even though you basically just sit and listen to people talk half the time

[@KineticKiwi13]

y'know i was on board with the whole "24 page sex scene" thing until we got to the "whole-boob-in-mouth" part

[@henrymars6626]

I have never read this book but everytime I see it on shelves I go "omg its the fanfic" and just forget its specifically starwars and then forget reylo is a star wars thing. It just sounds like a weird science word.

[@KoiPuff]

A Canadian is more likely to put on a terrible British accent and say some thing like “That’s what you get for being Traitors to the Crown!” If we’re gonna make fun of an American for their late ass Thanksgiving lol

[@LilyN2099]

i can confirm as a fellow canadian no one talks like that... especially since i've been wracking my brain over the term commonwealth for weeks. i kept accidentally saying colonies in conversation

[@camryn_tayler]

my favorite day of the month, when ainslee posts

[@ainsleesbookclub]

see you get it! reading silly little books to escape the horrors of adulthood ✊😔

[@MnM..0.0..l]

I feel this. I’m attracted to strictly, confident queer women, bisexual guys who are into femininity, and tall blonde toxic men who are homophobic and blue collar. I need fucking help

[@rhiannon1865]

i think the most annoying thing about this book was that it felt like teenagers and teenage drama set in hs instead of actual phd aged people in college

[@dancingqueen171]

omg howd i get here 25 seconds after u posted this this is going to be my before bed video tonight tho very excited

[@TrevorJamesMcNeil]

Not only is Ali Hazelwood Italian, English is her second language, which explains a lot.

[@lauramathews3151]

YAAAAAASSS Kendra Gaylord fangirllies unite!!!!! The public restrooms was one of my faves, also water towers, and the cafeteria, diner one

[@ainsleesbookclub]

the diner one is SO GOOD

[@lauramathews3151]

@ainsleesbookclub and the Gilmore girls deepndives and the walkability....love both of your niches. You do what you do so well!!!!

[@ryesaur]

fanfic readings my beloved

[@TisMeh]

sorry just the moment when you said “shes like… 5’8.” LIKE THAT IS TALL FOR A WOMAN

[@hjg6892]

I LOVE ali hazelwood. I fully realize that her books aren't literary works of art, but I so thoroughly enjoy them.

[@HazelSageHP]

This is SO nitpicky among other more glaring problems, but as a many time scientific conference attendee, I have NEVER been to one where the keynote speech conflicted with literally any other scheduled events - that's why it is the keynote! More than half the time, I don't believe the sponsor room was even open yet, so there wasn't even the option to go run and try to get free pens and socks and stuff while people try to sell you on their new tech or pharmaceuticals 😂 I know we need to have drama where Adam couldn’t be there to hear or interfere with Tom, but there are ways that actually make sense! (Like he IS at the panel, but the lab manager calls because shit has gone SUPER wrong while he's gone and he needs to take a call outside to try and do some emergency triaging over the phone! Have it happen near the end and he could hear her talk but still miss Tom confronting her, and be extra confused when she is gone when he comes back, then the scene in the room can still be the same)

[@SmackyDiesALot]

The United States was never part of the Commonwealth.....how could they leave?

[@deboraalmeida9198]

As I always say, ‘why as a man are you blonde???????’ 🤨🤨🤨🤨🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@SN-bk5xj]

You would not like it in Sweden😂

[@deboraalmeida9198]

@@SN-bk5xj AHAHAHAHAHA I’ve lived in Denmark actually. Fine with blonde men but gives off kinda goofy vibes idk…

[@sura4n]

i love listening to ur videos like podcasts while i’m doing chores

[@heather1536]

I like, never ever leave comments- but you are literally my favorite videos to pop up new ones!! It;s like hanging out with a friend to gossip and i'm so here for it. Thanks so much

[@rynrose83]

22:04 peace and love, it is simply not that hard to push a car around. I am 5’3”, I used to get slap happy hanging out with my friends and push my 2,500 lb Honda Fit around the parking lot while it was turned off/in neutral, 3am high school stuff I guess. My mom could bump start her old civic in heels and pantyhose, like give women a lil credit lol

[@Amelia-cb5ot]

my names amelia and now i feel like you’re watching me

[@itszeniahereee]

I’m only like 10 sec in and it’s my first time here on this channel, and I already love it lmao

[@kewlbeanz504]

i'm so glad i'm not the only one that HATED the boink scene😭

[@definitelynotashark1799]

I tried to read The Hurricane Wars the other week and istg it's my first ever DNF. First problem was probably that I don't truly care for romantasy, but I can usually read my way through anything. The knowledge that it was published fan fic didn't directly affect/sour my experience, but it was a very clear explanation for ALL the small things that made me not finish it. From the sub par world building in what should be a plot-focused story to the Mary Sue FMC 💀

[@whisperedwish348]

Omg so good to see you again in a new video! I watched almost your entire backlog in a matter of weeks and was needing more! Also if anyone sees this i gotta ask...who on Earth is Amelia???

[@thisishome111]

I'm new here but probably her fandom name or something just like how danny calls his fans greg

[@the_sapphirerose]

30:24 Clearly that was the work of Jeremy

[@SJigo]

As a Canadian political science student, we do occasionally talk about the commonwealth like that 😂 (actually i think our prof does that more than we do lol)

[@deargodwhyamihere]

1:27 I WAS NOT READY TO SEE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE HERE

[@plutossky7534]

If these can get published there's a chance for the rest of us aspiring authors

[@acessofspades]

10:22 yeah if you tell me something my mom also knows. like that’s just a given and all my friends know it’s true

[@abbewinter9249]

If you want an excellent romance book without any BS (No convoluted misunderstandings, no third act break up, no untrustworthy blond men), you should 100% read The Spellshop. It's a great book first, a romance second. I will recommend it to anyone who will listen.

[@rowan4133]

Your rant about a professor named Holden is so funny to me because we literally had a Doctor Holden at the university I went to 😭

[@lils6407]

You came back when I needed you most: when I get an awful (temporary) full-time job! CHEERS 😂🎉 Literally on my weekend off. Your timing is amazing, woke up to this 💅🏻

[@saragrace4814]

thank you for this i was always so curious about this book but could never read it myself. thank you for your service o7

[@eugezh]

girl i love your channel more than anything thank you for every video you post it's always making my day better

[@hgrand4]

are you waving around a potato chip? lmaoooo

[@ainsleesbookclub]

ahaha it’s a dead leaf from the plant next to me 🕳️🏃

[@despairgirl8781]

This was posted on my birthday…thank you for this blessing

[@saiyuri5164]

Girrrll you can read whatever you'd like! I just love listening to you talk about them ❤️

[@tillytoomuch]

Have to recommend bride and Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood because the smut in bride is not as bad as in The Love Hypothesis and it’s actually pretty fun and different, and Check & Mate is clean and the tension and drama in both of them is as peak as Ali Hazelwood gets.

[@_violetrage_]

I've worn glasses since I was 8 and contacts since I was like 12/13.... I wear my daily contacts more than just one day before throwing them away and always have, and I'm not sorry about it 😌

[@vapiddreamscape]

this is the first time ive actually paid attention to the plot in this book and its actually a nightmare as a phd student this is gross and should prob he criminal esp if hes in her field !!

[@vapiddreamscape]

the board would FIRE HIM BEFORE THE FUNDS COULD HIT 0C

[@yienneeeee]

GOODBYE SLEEP HELLO SHITTY BOOK CLUB RANT

[@stinkykitty29]

NEVER TRUST A BLONDE MAN?? what about my boy peeta mellark.

[@beie_e5974]

I’ve just gotten sick and I needed something to get me through it thank you for posting!!!!

[@pomefio]

as a Canadian i can confirm no one in alberta talks about the commonwealth