u/BEANBOOZZLE

With the wave of Wattpad users “moving to AO3” (which I’ve only seen complaints about and not anyone actually doing this), I’ve also seen videos about people’s favourite fics being deleted and the comments filled with people blaming Wattpad users for mass-reporting them or something.

1. You can’t mass report on AO3.

2. If it actually got removed from AO3, good. It was reviewed by a real human and it was determined to be plagiarism, not a fan-work, spam or mistagged. Deserved.

3. A missing fic does not mean it’s been reported and removed, that’s actually the least likely thing that’s happened to it. It just got deleted by the author, happens all the time. Stop blaming Wattpad users when it’s near-impossible for it to be anything to do with them.

These ‘Wattpad users’ are real people, I understand there’s discourse around the whole thing but, jeez. Relax. We’re all human.

A plot being a clear direction, an end goal, or an easy answer to “what’s your book about?”

Personally, I don’t mind books where nothing is really happening and there isn’t a plot. If I like the vibes, and the writing, and the descriptions, I think no plot is fine. I just finished The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy which has very little plot and I enjoyed it because of the setting. Yeah I wanna read about this kid walking around a mountain in Tennessee trying to catch skunks even though it has no plot significance at all because I like the vibes, I like to think about it. Yeah I wanna read description after description about damp cabins, 1930s bars and stores, whiskey dealing and walks in the forests and mountains for an entire book. That’s like, right up my alley.

What do you think about books with little plot?

Did anyone else feel like this? I’m just so…bored. I don’t understand the hype. Does it get better at all, what is it I’m missing? Also, I thought too hard about the character of Darrow and now I hate him. Problem is, until my birthday on Friday, I literally have nothing to read, Red Rising is the only thing, yet I’m fighting to keep going with this piece of crap.

For me, I just remember my page and I’ve never forgotten it so far, and I’ve been doing this for years. Someone can pull your bookmark out of your book, but they can’t pull the page number out of your head. I know I left off on page 155 of Red Rising last night. What about you?

I’m 16 and this is my first job, I get paid in cash so after working from 11:45 to 4:45 (they let me go whenever they say I can go, so I don’t have a time that my shift actually finishes), I come back the next day to collect my pay and I got £32. It’s my fourth shift, my first shift I got £50 but every week they reduced my hours from 10:30 to 11:30 to 11:45, so I got paid less each time naturally.

At the pub (we do a carvery on Sunday), I set tables, serve customers, take plates and reset tables, go to the cellar and restock the bar, mop and sweep the kitchen, sweep the pub and do any other job I’m asked like refilling sauces and salt and stuff.

Just looking to be reassured I’m being paid the right amount and everythings all normal.

This is just my opinion, allow me to explain.

I feel like a big part of the story is that no one deserved what they got, not Hannah, and not the group a year later, so I was surprised to find the amount of fans who believe this character deserved to be killed or that character deserved to endure the prank. That is not the point of the story at all.

The point is Hannah did not deserve to be pranked and absolutely humiliated (with her naked chest being filmed) for a childish crush on a friend who was barely in a relationship and tried to pursuit most girls in the group in one way or another. She didn't deserve what she got.

And again, the point is, a year later, the group of teenagers definitely didn't deserve to be hunted, murdered, traumatised, for a childish and cruel prank where they just didn't think before they did it and showed mostly remorse afterwards. They're enduring what Hannah went through, a punishment that doesn't fit the crime. That's the point, they did something to Hannah she didn't deserve, and now she's doing something to them that they don't deserve back, now in her Wendigo state.

So no, no one deserved to die or suffer in the story, because the story explores punishments that don't fit their crime, and how the group reflects Hannah's suffering as they all endure something they don't deserve. I hope this is understandable.

I’m building a rocket to go to space and need an engine fast enough so I can get off Earth without getting caught

Westerns are one of my favourite genres. I played both RDR games when I was younger and immediately wanted to read books similar. Some westerns I have already read: Lonesome Dove, All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing, God’s Country, True Grit, The Sisters Brothers, The Son, Butchers Crossing, Whiskey When We’re Dry, Days Without End.

I haven’t read a good Western since January so I’m looking for some new recommendations. I prefer character driven books, but so long as it’s good I’ll take anything. I also prefer recommendations with descriptions, however short, and not just the names of the novels as it makes me less likely to look them up, if that’s possible.

Thank you!

This is a genuine question because I’m feeling pretty lost. All I’ve gathered is: Necca are no longer making TMNT figures because Mattel bought the rights to them, so they can’t anymore. So we aren’t getting April, or the LARP turtles. But what I haven’t been able to work out if this means Mattel isn’t going to make TMNT figures, because people are acting like it’s the end and they won’t make them, but I’m confused why they’d buy the rights not to do anything with them?

I’m not trying to hate or anything, just looking for a clearer understanding.

Druckmann gave us the perfect example that immunity in this world means nothing while also wanting us to side against Joel and root for the murder of one of the main characters to give everyone this immunity.

Ellie is the example, she is absolutely miserable. How has being immune made her life any better? She is still mauled by infected and can’t go near them. She is still mauled by most humans and can’t go near them either. She still grieves and starves and gets sick from other diseases, experiences basically the same deaths as everyone else in combat. She literally has no advantage over anyone else other than surviving small bites, but I really don’t think it’s likely everyone’s going to be getting small bites from the infected over their throats ripped out. And she can breathe in spores? Gas masks. Everyone has one. And if they don’t have one, they live and survive fine without feeling the need to go into spore-infested places.

How did we have two whole games centred around an idea that would be almost useless in practice, at the cost of a main character to make that useless practice a reality?