forum The Roodeness Shenanigans

Started May 27, 2020 by Deleted user

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Super sweet. I read the third one for the first time today and it was pretty good, though I realize I read it too quickly and will have to reread it later.

Why am I tempted by the new Divergent covers

they look gross

Why am I tempted by the new Divergent covers

they look gross

Not as gross as the old ones

ngl the old covers remind me of the maze runner book covers

Why am I tempted by the new Divergent covers

they look gross

Not as gross as the old ones

You gotta point The Divergent books aren't really that good.

I liked them at first, but then thought about the plot and reread them and yeah. Basic goody-two-shoes girl is a secret rebel and Doesn't Belong(tm) and then has very special powers (is being divergent a power? idk). Then she meets hot guy who is angsty and mean but is nice to her and they fall in love immedietly. and save the world. Pretty sure theres more angst thrown in somewhere but that was about the time I stopped reading YA books cause they were all romance.

I also remember the movie where they had the same actors as The Fault In Our Stars but they were siblings in Divergent and my brain could not get around that.

Pretty sure theres more angst thrown in somewhere

It romanitizses some shit it should not

we cant forget the angsty romanticization of suicide

Plus the world's most disappointing ending.

question for the masses, mixed with a rant

am i so crazy for wanting to learn how to cook on my own?

i'm turning 18 in may, and apparently that means, to the rest of my family, that i need to buckle down and have my whole fucking life figured out—oh, and to ignore covid while doing so. one of the things is learning how to cook

i'm not completely helpless, fyi. i know how to bake and quite enjoy it. it's slow and works with me because it has recipes for me to follow and double check. i also know how to cook some stuff, like grilled cheese and frying chicken. but the way i learn is usually looking at steps, doing it myself, and committing it to memory—essentially, on my own. but my mother doesn't teach like that, and expects me to be able to learn how she says i should learn. how does she teach, you ask? by sitting in the adjacent room, firing off instructions, and getting pissy when i need things repeated. by shoving me into a situation i don't want to be in by forcing me and my sister to cook dinner once a week while she's there

i want to have the freedom to learn something on my own without her in the house, and apparently that's fuckin nuts in her eyes

Maybe you can have her write the instructions down? That way she is 'teaching', you have a recipe to follow at your own pace, and you have the recipe written down for later so she doesnt have to repeat anything.

oh trust me. I told her I need that, and she complained about having to write stuff down

Plus the world's most disappointing ending.

Also the dead ha giveaway.

Plus the world's most disappointing ending.

Also the dead ha giveaway.

Badum tsssh!
Yep. I've read some really good books that kill off their leads, but Allegiant was Not It.

Also the killing of

Was a tad laughable when you look at it.

Was that the one in the first book?

Yee

I don't remember the circumstances well enough but I remember how in Insurgent one guy is introduced and he seems nice and funny and then BAM, like a chapter later he dies in a really dumb way iirc

It was a “There was no other way” when you could Idk. Shoot him in the knee?

It was a “There was no other way” when you could Idk. Shoot him in the knee?

Shoot him in the knee, break his ankles, disarm him and tie him up, knock him out…there's multiple ways to solve this issue that aren't BOOM, HEADSHOT!

Well disarming him was a bit out of the question. He was murdery. But yeah. Shoot him in the foot or smth.

I HATE the things that are like "prove you're not a robot!! click the images with X in them!!!" like I'm not a robot I'm just not great at recognizing blurry pictures of boats :/

Well disarming him was a bit out of the question. He was murdery. But yeah. Shoot him in the foot or smth.

Knock or shoot the gun out of his hand and find a way to restrain him. Or just knock him out. I mean I'd hope that my friends wouldn't jump straight to killing me under those circumstances, y'know?

Plus the world's most disappointing ending.

Also the dead ha giveaway.

dom I woke up like half an hour ago and this made me laugh so hard

I'M CAUGHT UP ON MY READING GOAL I'M SO HAPPY

I have to do a choreography thing for color guard and I have no idea what song I should do, any suggestions? It's for a presentation to recruit some incoming freshmen, so it has to be relevant and Hip With The Kids lmao. I'm only a junior why do I feel old–

also I didn't know where to put this but I just had the best peach cup ever??? like what the fuck that shit s l a p p e d

More common sense true crime don'ts with pickles: don't sell your eleven year old virgin daughter to a stranger for the night for six dollars even if it is the 1920s

More common sense true crime don'ts with pickles: don't sell your eleven year old virgin daughter to a stranger for the night for six dollars even if it is the 1920s

sorry–
what?

More common sense true crime don'ts with pickles: don't sell your eleven year old virgin daughter to a stranger for the night for six dollars even if it is the 1920s

sorry–
what?

Idk who it was but some family sold their 11 y/o to carl panzram while he was trying to figure out why he wasn't attracted to unclean women, and then he felt she was still not clean so he gave her back in the middle of the night
more than half the entire podcast I'm listening to was about this guy's trauma and then there's still over an hour of him murdering people, it's insane