GRWM Things I Love in Books *favorite tropes, character archetypes, scenes and themes*
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- I'm currently on vacation in South Korea, so the video-making process is somewhat difficult to organize. Sorry for being late and inconsistent. I filmed this get ready with me (GRWM) before my trip because I wanted to talk about my updated list of things I love in books (favorite tropes, character archetypes, specific scenes, themes, etc.) Share yours in the comments!
0:00 Intro
0:57 Corruption Arcs
2:34 Queer Found Family
5:06 Family Drama / Family Sagas
7:22 Lovable Anti-hero
9:06 Beware of the Nice Ones
9:51 A Deal with the Devil / Supernatural Entities
11:04 Death Loopholes
12:00 Alien Cultures
13:02 Easter eggs
13:47 Unsettling atmosphere (that is hard to explain rationally)
14:23 Toxic / Codependent relationships
15:41 Forced proximity in extreme circumstances
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WAIT THESE ARE LITERALLY ALL EVERYTHINGGGGGGG I LOVE TOO holy crap
ESPECIALLY queer found family, family drama, alien cultures, and toxic codepedent relationships wowow
we're on the same brain wave💅
Love your favorite tropes, and yes, i'd love to watch a video with your recs! I'm dying here to read Jade legacy, it will be in Spanish this year, I hope soooon. My favorite part is Hilo, obvs, lol. And Shae and the baddie that I dont remember her name now, like woah.
Have you read Angels before man by Rafael Nicolás? Like the blurb says: "A queer retelling of Satan's fall". I need to know.
Did you vlog during your trip??👀
Green Bone Saga is rich with cool characters!! The second book (imo) is even better than the first one. Plus I love Aiden and he has a bigger storyline in the sequel.
I’ve never heard of Angels before men but it sounds incredible!!! Adding it to my tbr! Thank you!
I vlogged a little but. We’ll see if I can piece it together for a video.
Found Family in a Space Opera is the best thing, I need to read more of these 🐢✨️ I can also enjoy a good family saga but I can't stand the royals :') I think Jade City recently got a German translation so that's a sign to finally pick it up!
I’d even argue that “found family” is a foundational part of any space opera. Without it space opera is not a space opera. You should definitely pick up the Green Bone Saga!!
WHERE ARE MY COMMENTS GOINGGG I JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT MY FAVORITE SHOW + BOOK BUT MY COMMENTS KEEP EVAPORATING
Lettme try again
My favorite book, Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic by Brendan Blaber, has a little found family.
Small info: It's a sequel to a show called Epithet Erased [On youtube], which is also currently being written as two books. One for episodes 1-4, and another for episodes 5-7. The animation is pretty darn limited [The animation is just the characters' sprites moving around], but there are fully animated scenes in episodes 4 and 7! The best way to experience PoP is through the audiobook, which has voice acting, sound effects, and music. Episodes 1-4 have WAY more found family than the book though, since the found family I'm talking about barely interacts due to the plot.
Okay now to info about the book.
The found family in it can be Giovanni and his minions [Car Crash, Dark Star, Flamethrower, Spike, Crusher, Ben, and Molly (aka Bear Trap)], or just Giovanni and Molly. Kinda depends on who you ask. Giovanni is just a dorky criminal trying to be a supervillain, but he's kind of... too nice. Giovanni's minions are actually called his kids once. If you're wondering what I'm talking about there, it's this:
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“Eww. Parents,” he spat, forgetting that he himself essentially had six kids of his own with another on the way. Possibly two.
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Anyway, Molly is a neglected child! With a dead mom! And a dad that everyone in the fandom hates! Yeah... In the first episode, she's kinda a pushover. And then Giovanni tells her that like,,, she shouldnt let people step all over her n stuff [WAIT IS THAT WHY HER MINION NAME IS BEAR TRAP?!!?] and thats why I think episode 2 is the best episode.
...There's also a character that's a goody two-shoes, though. That's Feenie [Phoenica Fleecity XV], who is one of Molly's best friends! I think you said that you didn't really like that, so there's a little warning. Author calls Feenie his stupid bell daughter. He has like 15 plushies of her and that's a little scary. Anyway, I'll put some Feenie scenes in the replies. Just for fun.
Here's the silliest Feenie scenes:
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“Boy, I get’cha,” Giovanni groaned, “All my other minions are indisposed this week too. So, I’m recruiting! We’ve got a big secret mission coming up this Friday and I need all hands on deck!” He looked at Phoenica. “How ‘bout you, blondie? Feel like becoming a villain?”
“Oh, not at all.” Phoenica smiled. “I despise villainy, really. As a do-gooder it is my sworn do-good-duty to redeem all villains and bring them over to the side of righteousness.” Her eyes sparkled.
“Ew! Gross!” he spat.
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“I have an idea!” Feenie bounced, “Let’s call ourselves ‘The Good Friendship Squad!’”
[Giovanni] “Bear Trap, mute her.”
“No, WAIT-!”
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[Feenie] “If you so much as scuff my shoulder with that dirty thing then I shall throw you out a window!”
[Giovanni] “Ugh, fine by me,” he grimaced. “You got the hero stink on you so bad that you’re basically a skunk in sheep’s clothing.”
“I am NOT! I am a sheep. A sheep in sheep’s clothing!”
Giovanni coughed. Then muttered under his breath. “. . . a stinky sheep.”
“NO!!!” she flailed and wobbled at him in protest but he kept her back with a single finger.
“Hey, you two.” Giovanni looked at the chocolate and strawberry members of their trio. “Your first job as minions is to corrupt your vanilla friend here.” They nodded with concerningly innocent smiles. Phoenica suddenly felt surrounded.
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“Actually,” the wolf said, cracking a crooked smile, “I was thinkin’ it’d be easier to just take this one.”
“But this one is mine,” Phoenica reminded her.
“Not for long.” The silver flick of a switchblade appeared in the wolf’s hand. She closed the distance and loomed over Phoenica as though she was three times her height.
Phoenica gasped!
“I get it now!” she said, “You’re . . . a bully!”
The word most people would’ve chosen was “mugger.”
“I know how to deal with bullies!” Phoenica declared. She cleared her throat and recalled the word-for-word message that the VHS tapes had taught her: “You are only mean because of society and your own personal trauma. Let us stop this horrid cycle of violence! I will take the first step. Here: I forgive you.” Phoenica hugged her.
After a moment of confusion, the mugger grabbed the idiot child by the backpack and hoisted Phoenica bodily into the air. She flailed uselessly like a ladybug on its back.
“Nooo! VHS tapes! You lied to me!!!”
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Feenie froze. She quickly searched her brain for what she thought it might be and seemed embarrassed by what she found. She was silent for a moment. Then, in an extremely small voice, as if she were confessing a deep, dark secret, she said:
“P . . . pee.”
Trixie burst out laughing.
“N-no fair!” Feenie flailed, “You tricked me into saying a swear!”
“PEE ISN’T A SWEAR” Trixie wheezed.
“Yes it is!!! You tricked me into saying the p-word!”
“You can’t censor the word pee by calling it ‘the p-word’, you’re literally saying ‘pee’!”
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I might need another comment for this, there's so many good Feenie scenes.
more feenie
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“I had magic to steal?” Phoenica blinked. “So I AM a magical girl? Magical girl confirmed?!”
[Rick] “Oh no, no! Nothing like that! Seeing as we are bosom companions, I suppose I can tell you how this works! My epithet . . . is ☆SOULMATES!☆” A crackle of black lightning echoed behind him to accentuate his reveal.
“Oh goodness!” Phoenica blushed. “We’re soulmates now?”
“Yeeees!”
“My! And here I spent my entire evening working late into the night decorating that new marriage binder for the museum Sheep Boy! . . . Oh well. If it’s a wizard husband that fate hands me, then a wizard husband I shall have!” Trixie wrinkled her nose and stuck out her tongue.
“Feenie, ew. He’s like forty.”
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[Trixie] “Free candy! That’s 100% less money-spend than normal candy!”
[Feenie] “But . . . I’m not supposed to have candy before dinner! It’ll spoil my appetite!”
“OMG, go do a drug you dweeb.”
GASP!
Phoenica looked at Trixie like she had just murdered her father.
Trixie backed off and waved her hands in the air apologetically as if she were on fire. “Sorry, sorry! I was joking. I forgot to use a play frame, my bad.”
“Play Frame” was a term Naven used in their class. It was his name for subtle ways you use body language and tone to indicate humor or a lack of severity. Rolling your eyes, a wink, adding an /s for “sarcasm” after a text message. That sort of thing.
“Hmph!” Phoenica turned up her nose, “Well! I should think you know better than to joke about doing a drug. Joking about drugs is the gateway to doing drugs, Bellatrix!”
Trixie lowered her eyelids. Using her full name? Psh.
“You’re not my mom, Feenie. And you wouldn’t know a drug if it bit you on the butt.” Phoenica gasped again. She said the B-Swear!
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They could probably sneak in through the window? Maybe even the chimney if they waited for the smoke to clear out and why was Phoenica flying over to the doorbell oh no oh no oh no-
“Ding dong!” said Phoenica.
Molly grabbed Phoenica’s entire body like a carrot and moved away from the door.
“Feenie . . .”
“What?”
Trixie shook her head. “We can’t just ding-dong the door, you goon! We gotta sneak in! Why would Lori just let us inside?”
“Well, it would be very rude of her not to after we’ve come all this way.” Molly stared at her.
“Feenie. My sister is rude.” Phoenica gasped in surprise like she hadn’t thought of that.
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Im also a fan of toxicity.
Just want to see people act crazy for my entertainment lol
You, me 🤝 reality tv