Handbook for Morons Part 1 | A Review of Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem 

“I’m not like other girls, I have multiple severe mental disorders”

“I’m not like other girls, I killed a man in ‘92.”

"I'm not like other girls, I have a penis." "... my best friend is Merlin. This is normal."

@@patrickfrost9405 Thanks Artoria.

Im not like other girls, im actually clinically insane

Either that or Book Jesus.

@@a-mellowtea book jesus was a type of Gary Stu. He literally was the son of god.

Sarah Tilgner Book Jesus, née Sue.

Yes

@@seafoam6119 Depends on which interpretation you're going with... ELCA maintains that Jesus and God are one and the same.

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@@JaceSomers this is one of my biggest pet peeves in reading

I hate that you made me read this with my own two eyes

I thought I was having a stroke when I was reading those parts.

Reminds me of something Dante Basco did in that one Nostalgia Critic video. "You have dishonored the franchise and so have dishonored me. The time has come to reclaim my honor you dishonorably dishonored by honorably honoring my honorable honor."

Talking about Boring Parents... Clark Kents Parents were Badasses, especially the Father, though. Talking about Power-Systems though: 'Nen' from "HunterxHunter" is the arguably Best; so check it out and make your own Ability-Set regarding it, will ya? Honestly, Krimson Rogue hopefully reads and even answers this comment.

@@loturzelrestaurant no Alfred was a badass Ma and pa kent just had nerves of steel And they had to learn how to reason with the child that can destroy planets with a sneeze

Yeah and I think she probably knows that; she only started taking about it randomly because she couldn't keep lying about the NYT list thing.

@@anarchomando7707 I will never forget about Ma Kent and Krypto during the Blackest Night

I really like the idea of a 75 year old woman who then has to save the world

His whole channel you mean?

Oh I'm not the only one who likes this?

This is what I come here for. Way too few people covering bad works of art with actual depth. Too often its "haha this is bad because it's bad and sucks"

Ah, another person who likes this as well.

I am surprised that krimson still has santity left but he just praised twilight for doing something right am worried about him

golden boy ep 1 i believe missed anime reference- was stoked that he chose fruitbaskets though one of my favorite. very inspiring at the time watched it many years ago.

@@vleedingrainboom3618 have you seen the new fruits basket series? A total must imo - they're readapting the manga

That's the life.

@@Zulf85 i have not actually, though i shouldn't be surprised everything is being remade these days. Almost like history is rewriting itself. Guess it is bored waiting on everyone to write their futures. 😅

Same

iT'S THE *LOVE TRIANGLE*

BUT WHST IF WE ADDED A LOVE TRIANGLE

@@apples6684 THE TRIANGLE IS THE STRONGEST SHAPE

Wait wait wait, there’s a video series called terrible writing advice?

@@jazwhoaskedforthis There is actually an entire youtube channel called that, you should check it out, it's hilarious

Im sorry but I can’t get past the sixth word you wrote H…how do you pronounce that, exactly??

Is it like grilled mormons?

I didn't know of this book before, so at first I just thought the book was called "Handbook for Morons"

So did I

You too? 😆🤣

Same

“You’d be surprised how little some women know about how women work.” -A female friend of mine

@@Dreigonix Is it possible that there are men who knew little of other men?

+multilad816 Undoubtedly.

@@multilad816 Uh... Definitely not me.

@@multilad816 A good example is Onision and how he doesn't know how to write a boy, girls man or women or even a god damn phrase

If only being a consistently terrible person for years and years didn’t literally show on her face. Instead of working on her self esteem and personality she decided to make who she is as ugly as possible :/

Weirdly enough that remind me of the Uglies book series

plus, it's already a real life phenomenon suffered primarily by WOC whose features were criticized for not being conventionally attractive (white) enough

Yeah…..😅 I read that in high school (and yes I get the joke)

Damn I can’t watch Up for another forty years

Then how the hell are we going to watch Highlander!?

Same with Night (Oh God…I didn’t like that book and the response to my opinion was pretty divisive)

We watched the movie version in history class. Perfect for little kids.

I keep half expecting that to pop up

"Trees died for this..." -krimsonrogue

@@Grumplebumple Binod

This! Yes!

@@teakrcmar7090 So annoying when authors won't make the bare minimum effort to get this kind of things right.

as a person with dysgraphia the fact she names it as dyslexia really pisses me off. Even then, no one with dyslexia ever has wrote words backwards by accident. Dysgraphia is more "my letters are too big or small, and I can't write words in a straight line"

@@usoppfangirl8153 I also have dysgraphia and I suspect it's because dysgraphia isn't as well known as dyslexia. Given she clearly didn't do any research she might not have known it existed.

It's worst when author do shit like this when fucking google exists and is easy to access

"Y/N" 💀💀💀

actually though. that exchange made me cringe harder than a Y/N "my mom sold me to One Direction" fanfic.

this comment gave me psychic damage

@@friendofdavid the what fanfic

At least most Wattpad writers are just kids and teens just starting out ... this is a grown woman writing this trash.

literally- especially because the g slur is well…. a slur (not a lot of people know this but a Roma person or anyone who knows anything about Romani people and culture absolutely would, so if Lani really _did_ have a “g***y soul,” she wouldn’t be comfortable being referred to as such.)

Sarem's Romanian? Explains the stealing

@@kirbysthiccthighsdepends on the person, I imagine. Tyson Fury markets himself as the gypsy king and even calls himself such in his Netflix series.

@@HaliaStone 1000% yes- people absolutely can reclaim terms used against them to take back their power, i was more so referring to having someone else (who hasn’t had that same lived experience) refer to them like that

What the hell does that even mean?

Quite informative. Thanks for the input.

@@KrimsonRogue of course! glad i could help out. thanks for the awesome video!

Thanks it's pretty interesting to learn as a fan of tarot... Can say a question?

@@maightandmagic what should I do if I want to create a card? To imagine one?

@@olivierluisin1790 those are called oracle cards! unlike tarot cards, these cards are unique and aren't part of a standard deck. while you can buy oracle decks, it's often thought better that you make them yourself, because then the meanings are specific to you and what you find important to divine. (:

•Character who exists only to make them look better

You know there is something that I've noticed about Modern Mary Sue. They're not actually too perfect to be real. If you look at Ana from 50SOG, Gregs(I know each character has it's own name in the Onion trilogy but let's be honest here. It's Onision) Zade, and Empress Theresa they're almost entirely built from flaws and terrible character' traits with very little good in them. They're all self-absorbed in the case of the latter five they're pretty much falling into narcissism and even anti-social personality disorder(Oniboi's characters especially. Jesus are all three of them walking red flags). They judge and look down on other people all the time, wish harm on, or even do harm people especially those they don't like or who dared to criticize them. No matter how valid that criticism may be. They expect things do go their way and come to them easily and whine when they have to do even the slightest bit of work(so they're pretty much lazy). Everyone they don't like is evil in their mind, and they expect the world to love them. Which again, comes back to vanity. But..they(and their authors) have absolutely zero self-awareness and present them as good and perfect. TL;DR: Mary Sue nowadays is an asshole and/or a narcissist, with no redeeming qualities about them whatsoever, but whom narrative(and the characters themselves) insist is this greatest, nicest, and most perfect person in the world. and in the case of quite a few of these character's this kind of behavior and self-image is the same their authors have of themselves. Norman, Lani, and Greg especially, think their books are these masterpieces of the genre of literature in general, and that everyone who criticizes them is a jealous hater and a bad person. When called out they all respond with anger and see themselves as victims. Because they all lack-self awareness and despite being assholes, think they're good people and insist their work is beloved and they have fans. This is scary...both bc of how their art imitates life and bc assholes without self-awareness are scary. And what's actually most terrifying in this particular set of people is that while Lani insists she has fas while she doesn't have them and people actually saw through her...Onision's/Greg actually managed to rally quite a number of fans around him and create what s basically a cult of himself(like really...Mr. Atheist and Reprizon did a four-part video on this and Greg pretty much checked all of the requirements of a cult leader).

@@ninavale. Interesting that your TL;DR is longer than the actual comment preceding it.

@@ninavale. TLDR of the TLDR: Mary Sue's are mostly rude self inserts with no good qualities and every character in the book is made so they look better

Mary Sues are characters who's mere existence cause the rules of the world to bend to their will because they're so 'awesome'.

Same here if you took my middle names as well.

Mmhmm, feel yas

Is it PA-na-go-sha ?

I will read it if you write it.

Best comment goes to:

yeah. She makes it like some super ability, where she can do what normies cannot. But when you really have learning difficulty it's...well a difficulty. Teachers, even tho they're trained to know better will treat you like you're either an idiot or lazy or both. Put worse grades on your assignments, as if again you were just lazy. They sometimes even neglect to inform you that you are legible for aids. Like maybe a computer-with no spellcheck or internet ofc- during your finals so your writing is legible. Or that your notebook won't be judged by teachers when you have dysgraphia. Both of which happened to me. I didn't know I could write my finals on a computer until I was in Highschool and I've noticed that I actually did better on those exams and scored higher when I wrote them on a machine vs. handwriting. I could've had it easier before, scored better, and have better grades in previous schools but nobody told me. And some teachers still marked me down bc my handwriting was poor. Even though they were repeatedly shown my diagnosis and recommendations from the experts that diagnosed me. And told me that I can't be graded on my note-taking. Because to acknowledge my disability meant giving me a bit more of their attention and time. And it was too much of a chore for them. The attitude of many was like 'could you try and like...switch your disability off, please?'. I frigging wished all my life I was normal and didn't have my difficulties bc they made school even more hell than it usually is.

I hate it when fanfic authors use Dyslexia as excuse to not take criticism. Besides that it would be Dysgraphia in the matter of writing...

I don’t want to blame “Rain Man” because that movie’s depiction of a seriously autistic man was quite good but the counting cards scene started the bad trend of “super movie autism.” You can suspend disbelief somewhat when your plot calls for it, but for every “Split” you get a “The Predator.”

One example of dyslexia actually being used well as a character trait is the Percy Jackson series. It's actually important to the character, it shaped much of his life up to the start of the story, and continues to come into play multiple times throughout the series. You see him start off in a special ed boarding school because of his struggle with maintaining grades, and the resulting outbursts when teachers would give him shit for it. At the start of the first book you see him really buckle down for the one class he actually liked, not because of the subject matter, but because his teacher was the first one to not give up on him, and he didn't want to disappoint someone he looked up to. Not to mention having dyslexia was an important part of his character even outside of school, since all of the judgement and prejudice he received from it made him distrusting and standoffish, which is a *flaw*, and something that he makes a gradual effort to improve throughout his *character arc*, things this writer seems to have zero understanding of.

@@cbplayz2374 also the smart girl who likes to read struggles too with her dyslexia

The Night Circus does this quite well, though the timeline is a tad confusing. Other than that, it's a 10/10.

So Zatanna zatara

Zatanna, though I don’t think they ever played with her having to hide the magic much

@@creed8712 it's more of her wanting to add an extra magical Flair for the end of her shows

100% check out The Night Circus, it uses that idea and sooooo much more, super good book with an amazing writing style

Get back, you Porterhead.

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Hi, my name is Johny, and welcome to Jackass

Sounds like every Episode story written by a 13 year old

Nyaemal Hrruna ITZ TATA U PREP!!!1!!1!!!

If the cat were to sit through that, that emotional support animal is gonna need an emotional support animal.

Ha! Love The Incredibles!

Funny thing, I watched the Incredibles hundreds of times growing up and I always thought he said "You ruined my bet." I was so confused as to why a man would make a bet that he could jump off a skyscraper

Yeah, don't waste your time and money

Not worth supporting the author even to spite them.

Did you try getting a second-hand copy? That's how I got my copy.

try to find a second hand copy or a pdf online!! its not worth supporting the author tbh

Try Thriftbooks! I really like them and it's all second hand

Because WE NEED A LOVE TRIANGLE!

She failed at that too, where is the sponsor from Skillshare? Exactly

Am I the only one who wants to see J. P. Beaubien lose his mind while he dissects HFM?

+Morgan Hall YES. This needs to happen.

Morgan Hall YES. SOMEONE GET HIM TO DO THIS.

I've written characters who are teenagers, as well as young adult characters. I don't really worry about describing my work. Partially, because my stuff are mostly from Deviantart or Google Docs, but I'm aware of what I write and not try to worry about genre comparisons.

Wait till the Hollywood focus groups come in and say - "I am sorry, you are not playing Zade, but you can play her mom or something", "the focus group has also decided to make Zade gay, so we are rewriting characters to reflect this," etc. I kill to be a fly on the wall to see her face when she is told that.

And the book is suitable for nobody, so it passes the disqualification for YA with flying colors.

@@mattc2306 Cool, where do you post your work? Are you Matthew Cool on DA as well?

@@autobotstarscream765 Actually, my DA account name is MattC230 and I mostly abandoned the site given its renovations. I have a few stories written on Google Docs, but nothing too concrete.

That's either sad and pathetic or horrifying and eerie

Norman wouldn't know how to do it if he managed to think up a scheme like that.

Norman is a bit too insistent on the "quality" of his cover to think about stealing one tbh

I think the closest Norman came to anything like Sarem's falsified book sales is that he created ANOTHER Amazon listing for Empress Theresa as a way of trying to skirt around bad ratings. Several reviewers caught on, of course, and the listing was taken down.

Lani also misspells Stephenie Meyer's name. twice

lmao ngl that's a great sticker

Having any NYT best seller label feels like a shameful thing at this point tbh.

It's in the video at 4:26 too!

She and "Dr" Wakefield can go celebrate together in a corner somewhere: "Yeaaaaaahhhh, we suck! Now which one of us did more damage to our own reputations with our terribleness?"

i honestly have a feeling she only said that to save face, she's definitely butthurt about it, you can see it in her eyes.

Scientists don't usually get Nobel *PEACE* prizes, but I get your point!

@@trygveplaustrum4634 That's why it would make sense if it got revoked, actually.

the twit whose bad science published in *The Lancet* who started the modern fear of immunizations causing autism being proud of it would be fitting

Maybe she gains life for every moment she wastes of someone else's and this is all just her bid for immortality.

@@SorowFame She's not just a witch and the chosen one and the long-lost daughter of a famous magician, she's ALSO a vampire!

There's no audience quite like a captive audience?

He’s like the God Emperor of Terrible Literature.

They are thoroughly lovely locks

imagine moving day or he has to minimize the throne for new books, that's gotta be a big ass box

Yonatan Yonatano *careless whisper begins playing*

Heyoo!

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@@eldritchabomination9726 how the hell do you type that face

@@anarchomando7707 just look up "lenny face" copy and paste.

Self-Insert is at least Objectively Wrong in Manga though: It has caused some of the most insane Failures in that Genre of Literature.

I’d smack them with a book then ice the book. It was innocent and didn’t deserve that

If it’s published on a tank he will hit you with a tank. Same goes for plane,Gun,bayonet, and tree

Excuse while I print only in paperback

I some times get 'who' and 'how' mixed up and misreading a lot of things.

The Mysterious Mista I get there, their and they’re mixed up and I have really bad spelling.

@@jessicamarshall1975 same, I've gotten better with English but not so much my native language.

I write okay, getting better at it, but when reading something I'll mistake times for ten, put a word where it wasn't originally, swear up and down that the sentence started with "The" or "And" the first three times and around the fourth time, seeing it gone. It's really irritating. Im smart, just not when I'm reading outloud. And simple math I'm a little slower at recognizing the numbers

Right? I also have dyslexia, I never wrote backwards but had the damndest time figuring out how to write q (seriously, b,d,q,p it's freaking stick with a ball!) I don't think this author had the first clue how dyslexia actually works.

It watched it, and it honestly could have been the actual sequel 🤣. He did a great job

I actally listen to it on a regular basis! It cracks me up everytime, that and the original review

Yeeeeessss!!!! Caleb's video is hilarious!!! Lowkey I wouldn't mind seeing Krimson react to it after finishing the actual book

definitely doing it later

Was just about to comment this too! Krimson should definitely react to it after this 😄

LITEMITAN all that time on pronunciation and we still have zade when it should be zaad? I wish I was surprised

Crispy Win I’m a native Arabic speaker, can confirm we also pronounce it as “Zaad”.

Methinks it's second mostly. Since Lanieuo later in book states her mother is a great storyteller that when she told the story of how her and Charles met he was sucked in as much as Mac. Even tho he obviously knew the story. And then Labi gives us the story. So she is complimenting herself on how emersing it is. Spoiler. it's not. Also Krim didn't touch upon it but other reviews did(like Jenny Trout and Blandbook for Cholrtels). Zanei finds Sherezade's story romantic. Not the tales she spins but the framing device. Bc you know. Having to think up stories on fly bc your husband will behead you in the morning, bc his ex cheated on him so that means all women on earth deserve death is epitome of dream romance.

As an aside, I had a friend who wanted to name a future daughter Scherazade. To discourage him, when my husband and I acquired a kitten, we named her Scherazade. A few weeks of us calling the kitten for supper knocked that idea right out of his head.

I knew that name from Starkid's musical "Twisted" and I feel actual pain seeing that name being used for a Mary Sue

“Chunky pieces” brings to mind kitty litter.

I thought she meant the color. Like balayage done wrong

“Chunky pieces” sounds like petfood - *catfood* , maybe.

That sounds like what she’d probably been going for, but at best it sounds like Zade’s let a kid at her with a pair of scissors and at worst, like bits of vomit are stuck in it or something.

This is already fantastic but it can be read in Jenny Nicholson’s voice for free serotonin

"Doors are in 20 minutes" "Didn't think we could afford such a good opening act"

Me: Cat you are ugly and fat and gross and I don’t like you Also me: *rocks cat in my arms and fluffs his belly as he purrs at 1,000 hertz*

MERMAIDER MERMAIDER MERMAIDER MERMAIDER

Hey, i know its been a year, but as an asthmatic person myself, I just wanted to say, "what the fuck?!?!"

I hope this was in response to my story and not because you might've interpreted it to mean asthmatics are flawed.@@peepopopo7140

@@peepopopo7140 did you breathe before saying it?

Talking about Boring Parents... Clark Kents Parents were Badasses, especially the Father, though. Talking about Power-Systems though: 'Nen' from "HunterxHunter" is the arguably Best; so check it out and make your own Ability-Set regarding it, will ya? Honestly, Krimson Rogue himself should do that.

I'd read that. Reminds me of how I want to write Empress Theresa from Hal's perspective, where Theresa is controlling and ignores Hal's concerns and wishes in favor of her own mad quest for power and attention.

Please do both of those thing and take all my money XDXDXDXD I honestly have the urge to do the same

@@pikapower_kirby Funny you should say that: I actually had an idea to write a version of the story from her husband’s perspective where he pretty much corrects all her BS- well, either that or Hal is a leech that causes Theresa to lose both her mind and her mobility. We should both try to write our versions. 😂

@@justin2308 Let's do it!

I'm sending you both my energy

I can imagine a sweet old woman becoming the protagonist reluctantly

oh my god thats AMAZING

How the heck did she have enough money to even buy her books in bulk?!

@@jge8144 im guessing it was her publishing company, maybe the books shes selling at cons/faires are the ones that were ordered to get her on the bestseller list?

She's at the Ren Faire?

I miss the ren faire

Yeah i LOVE stream of consciousness when it provides confusion and makes you fell overwhelmed with the main character. Fahrenheit 451 is a good example, I fell disoriented and suspicious with the protagonist, but people love to abuse this style and make it boring and drawn out.

Not to mention she published it with her own name attached to it. At least on fanfics on the internet, it's anonymous

@@AleTitan I don't even care about the self insert or fanfic part, it's the part where one of them is based on a real person! So, so, so many boundaries have been crossed. Like, do what you want with cartoons and OCs, who cares? But there's lines, man!

​@@cyanidesmile7263especially that she herself admits who the character is based on. Thank God this book has no audience or the guy would be hounded

Self ship fan fiction with a real guy who hates her. Sounds fun

I see arcana I hear jojo

@@punchyboi6915 za warudo

The fool is also 22

@@Nzosaba_Matenge I can see that, since asI'mfamiliar with the chards, they all are notated with roman numerals except the Fool, which has the arabic number 0.

I love Get To The Orange Door!

Exactly,my dear person of the interwebs. Just imagine if this chick actually existed,and told you both her real name AND/OR nickname..I'd be like: "Um,excuse me lady? I mean,other _than the fact you've got a..really interesting name,but..I'd hate to ask you this-But was and/or were your mother and/or parents on some seriously weird shit/on some serious drugs when they named you at birth..? Because-no offence and all,to be fair-um,what kind of parent would consider that name for a child,let alone someone like you,honestly..? No offence here,but STILL!?!"_

In the book Zade goes, "I hate it when people pronounce my name like ZOD, like I'm a superman villain." And then like three chapters later you find out what her full name is. So Lani fully admits it's supposed to be Zhad, but just chooses the different pronunciation cause... it sounds cooler to her i guess.

I imagine the writer has not interacted with or known any Turkish person.. Ever

Makes it even more funny, because Lani, as in the Hawaiian name, is pronounced LAH-nee, not L-Annie. Idk, as someone with a name that's hard to pronounce for native English speakers, I do not expect anyone to immediately master it lol. Nor am I ever annoyed by it. If your name is pronounced differently from the usual version (like Scheherezayd and Lannie) and someone doesn't get it right, just correct them and move on. It's such a weird thing to be offended about.

@@plant707 Hawaii is my home state and yeah, if I see "Lani" I pronounce it the same way I would as Liliuokalani. It's the difference between stress and unstressed, but Sarem is SO offended by this she has to put like three different instances of pronunciation in the book. My name has eight letters and four syllables, it gets mispronounced ALL the time, but I am certainly not writing shitty YA novels to rectify that.

What do you mean? Tarot cards originated from gaming cards where the Major Arcana were the trumps each numbered from 1 to 21 with the Fool as the zero. Of course it's less interesting than the Tarot reading interpretations but it's not exactly wrong. You could still use modern cards for a game.

@@lasura I was talking about the reading that the character did, not the number system...

@ Death just means new beginnings though...

@@jasonellis4330 yeah I saved half the video for the morning and saw that today 😂 oh jeez I really hoped an actual reading wouldn't be in there

The only way it could make sense is as a JoJo reference. ZA WARUDO!

Another PMMM fan!!! :D

The thing about Madoka: the entire show she’s weak and helpless and basically protected. Zade is just....hghgh

@@beefcakesmchunkerson9079 I'd say the thing about Madoka is she's actually dealing with problems beyond what any normal person could handle and the stakes are huge, so her power-up feels necessary while also fitting the basic rules of the world. Zade is just, hghghgh

@@cam4636 agreed

I need to finish that anime😅

I didn't read it but isn't that basically what The Buried Giant is?

@@dee_is_tired I am checking what that is Right Now

I can think of a few series with happy married couple side characters

JD Robb In Death series has a great married couple. But it's not adventure. The main character (the female) is a homicide detective and it's set like 50 years in the future which is cool. There are resorts on other planets, virtual reality and hover cars and stuff.

I know that you asked for a book, but the mummy film series is exactly that

The circle of sexual frustration

You could argue that usually the two people in love with the one person are connected through hatred or a feeling of rivalry. But yeah, it's mostly an easy way to sell 'Team Edward,' or 'Team Jacob' shirts. Capitalism, yo.

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare is the only genuine love triangle I've seen

It's more of a V in most literature

@@silvermagpie1071 'love V' doesn't have the same ring, though, which is a pity.

I wasn't aware that simping is something that Women do as well.

@@johannesseyfried7933 you learn new things every day, weather you know it or not. Your brain is always absorbing as much information as possible.

@@johannesseyfried7933 In this context, it's Sucker Idolizing Mediocre Penis. Examples: Helga from Hey Arnold, Yuno from Future Diary, really any Yandere

@@crowthewicked8344 Arnold is not mediocre

@@firmanchristiansianturi4794 Its just a label that defines the one who's lusting for them.

I've thought about how a deconstruction of "desired by everyone" would be about the character living with a permanent target on her/his back, living as prey and constantly on the run from potential attackers looking to abuse them.

that'd be really cool. sort of like what happens in junji ito's horror manga "tomie," where people are so compelled by tomie's beauty that they actually cut her up. (spoilers.)

Here's the problem with that story concept: that would actually be interesting and engaging.

@@autobotstarscream765 holy shit and then the whole thing with the cover would kind of make a little bit of sense

thats the backstory of C.C. in Code Geass

Omg that's amazing XD

Wow

That's not the best part. Before Jackson's spread her cards are: Priestess-Chariot-Fool-Magician-Devil-Lovers(in this order if I recall) Her read on Mac contains ace of cups, two of cups, ten of pentacles, four of wands, ten of cups, the wheel of fortune, the eight of swords, the queen of cups, and the king of cups. The last three cards in this whole reading...ones regarding her future(not I think really tied to future with Mac but overall) are in following order:Tower-Death-The World. and like I know Death doesn't always mean negative things...but the general meaning of Tower(which she didn't say was reversed so...it's probably upright) is rather negative bc the car represents sudden and drastic change. Like one that will tear everything apart. I'm not a Tarot expert but combined with death which also means change, and world which also means change, all three cards foretell well....change of fortune. and since Zade's life at this point is perfect then said the change of fortune doesn't sound too positive to me.

Underrated comment

🤣🤣

Real talk they might just be from people who don't like hearing about shitty books

A very much irrelevant question, but how would you feel about people getting into tarot exclusively from jojo?

@@banjofangirl3458 However someone finds tarot and wishes to use it is up to them. Honestly I love that popular media is exposing people to the fortune telling tool. I would just say to remember to use it respectfully for the tool in general. But at the end of the day, it's your life and as long as you aren't using them for malicious intent, you're doing good.

She didn't even connect the chapters to the tarot cards in any way... Not to their symbolic meanings, not to the physical objects after which they're named- nothing! I'm just getting into it (Still got a thicc book across my lap when I read lmao) and I'm itching in frustration over here.

@@sagathestoryteller7920 I just know them from Isaac, and repentance added the reverse card which is cool

I learned about the Arcana thanks to Persona 3. I did a lot of research on it, too. But I have a question... If I were to make a character that used magic themed around the Arcana, what do you think would it be like? (It's for a Black Clover character, by the way.)

musicgal365 So True. The chapter titles don’t make sense

Yep, if your gonna name a chapter "the moom" you need there to be somesort of lie, or betrayal, or something but NOPE, JUST USE IT BECAUSE NIGHT SKY PRETTY.

It sounds like the most unoriginal idea to me. I was considering it and thought "I'm sure that's been done a number of times, nah". There's at least one album where each song is named after a card (or three) too! (Tarot by Æther Realms, definitely recommend if into metal)

@@billygleim4641 "moom" 😂😂

Whoever wins, we lose

Why would they fight? They're basically the same person

Onision tags in and takes Zade's place in the ring

And feed them cake.

LEMME FITE DA BIITCHJES!!!!1!1!1!!!

That would explain why pronunciation is a problem in the first place: this book has the eɪ, while the original name has the ɑː

Talking about Boring Parents... Clark Kents Parents were Badasses, especially the Father, though. Talking about Power-Systems though: 'Nen' from "HunterxHunter" is the arguably Best; so check it out and make your own Ability-Set regarding it, will ya? Honestly, Krimson Rogue hopefully reads and even answers this comment.

I have a rare/weird name irl and I like to give my characters one, too. Usually, as in real life, it can be solved in two lines. Any more is just melodramatic.

oisin man, take me by the hand lead me to the land that you understand

@@theshamurai5767 HELL YEAH

That actually reminds me of how I named my main character in my first book idea too. Man, good times, good times...

M. Night Syamalamadingdong 🤣🤣🤣

You mean Souka. He traveled with Aung and Katara.

@@NapaCat *saitama face* Sou ka?

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se...

What ATLA movie? There is no ATLA movie.

Is it see-air-uh or ki-ar-uh? I'm leaning on the former but knowing my luck it'll be neither.

@@infiniteshay8660 I bet it's pronounced like Joseph.

I never give anyone my full name because despite it being the easiest name ever, everyone mispronounces it. Nicknames are a blessing.

@@bellarkcox1243 Yeah I'm lucky my name is two English words smacked together so it can never be mispronounced.

My name is Melchizedek so almost everyone new I've meant has mispronounced (or misspelled) my name

Honestly, that sounds like the kind of book I'd unironically love to read, Count Dracula election fraud sounds like such a fun concept

Honestly, that sounds like the kind of book I'd unironically love to read, Count Dracula election fraud sounds like such a fun concept

What the hell is this story called? I need this in my life!

losing my mind at the concept of mailing someone to the center of the earth

Lani herself has actually pronounced it “Zade” in interviews. I think just cuz it’s a nickname it sounds different, like how someone called Matthew is nicknamed “Matt” you don’t pronounce Matthew “MattHue” you pronounce it “Math ew” but the nickname isn’t Math.

@@kees_hoe Another possile explanation is that Lani has no fucking clue

I had to pause the video when that came up, like really? Of all the undeserving names for her sorceress character lani picked fuckin Scheherazade? I was dumbstruck

she definitely just picked it from some "cool witch names for girls" list because she clearly doesn't know its origin lmaoo

@@kees_hoe Okay, valid.

Wait, am I forgetting something about Fruit's Basket? Who are the two that aren't who I think they are?

@@mori6434 maybe a bit of bad wording on my part haha. Guess without saying spoilers I just mean the love triangle doesn't go the way love triangles traditionally go. Someone you think is in love with Tohru isn't.

@@jessip8654 ah, I see what you mean now. Hey, who would've thought, the only love triangle people like is the one that turns out to not be a love triangle in the end. It's almost like they're terrible and no one should write them

The Infernal Devices trilogy actually has a pretty decent love triangle too. But then, it's approached a bit differently than most love triangles.

Also, Fruits Basket is a cute little slice of life drama story with a touch of supernatural elements, whereas HfM tries to bill itself as an urban fantasy action story written by a NLOG.

I agree, I like the Dom, but krimson give a good break down on why a trope is bad in a give book.

@@blueberrymuffin_144 it depends on what you are try to write. Such as themes or elements, you are trying to get across to the reader.

@@blueberrymuffin_144 One important thing for writing is to remember that your first draft is going to be trash. That's okay, its job is to get everything out onto the page (or screen) and then you can go back in and tidy it up.

@@blueberrymuffin_144 try working out the world lore and backstory. And how you characters fit into it.

Cliches and tropes aren't inherently bad, remember this.

Empress Theresa isn't hard to be better than.

I get what you mean, but I'd personally consider this one worse. At least Teresa's wasn't stolen...

I can respect a shit cover done yourself. At least you tried, and that's what matters. If the book didn't get so creepy I could almost respect Norman for trying, despite failing.

emperess teresa tells you what you're getting though

@@zevaronxz7288 trash, thats what we got.

This is why you edit and let other people with red pens make your draft bleed

As an aspiring author with a bad habit of over-explaining, I completely sympathize. Thankfully, my best friend is also a writer and he helps me out by critiquing things. I'm very sensitive to criticism but I know I need to hear it, because oftentimes it really helps ^^;

When I write I have the opposite problem because I'm very short and to the point in writing so I'll give a good scene but it might not be an entirely clear picture

In defence of her nickname being pronounced Z-ay-d (and I hate defending this damn woman), it is fairly common for nicknames to have a different pronunciation than their counterparts. For example, Matt being a nickname for Matthew. However, she has no right to be so anal about the pronunciation of her name because she doesn't introduce herself Scheherazade; she introduces herself as Zade, so I really don't know how other characters are supposed to make the Zade-Scheherazade connection

Another fun fact: Scheherazade is the German-usage equivalent to the Middle Persian *Čehrāzād*, which basically means “noble blood.” It’s like the author thought, “Hmmm... what’s the queenliest name I could possibly use?”

@@sirsoftspoken, ha! That's hilarious.

@@aaljustaal1890, what do you mean she mentioned it halfway though?! How could you *_not_* know that _it came from a story that was made in _*_c. 1706-1721._* It was _so,_ obvious! (On a serious note, yeah... no clue why Zade gets mad that no one knows, and fair point that names can be pronounced differently than where they originate from.)

Lol I’d just pronounce her name as “Zay-d” anyway cause I don’t care about “hurting her feelings”.

Actually, there is one like that: the Twilight Hauntings duology by Angie Sage. The main character, Alex, has a set of hexagonal, magic cards which, while not summoning spirit guides, actually show a vision of the furure to her.

Some where over the rainbow there’ll be good books

But where's the fun in that?

Well. Good books are harder to find on the YA related sector.

A lot of those good books are right behind him, so he won’t have to go far

I thought it was referring to parts of her hair that had snarls and or dried up dead split ends. Meaning that she doesn't take care of her hair at all or goes to get it trimmed.

@@asalways1504 why not both dyed crusty ends

@@ayajade6683 I hate this comment, so much. Have a like for my agony.

This could be terrifyingly true because Lani does in real life

From her author photo, it looks like she dipped the ends of her hair in paint and let it dry. So I'm not sure which "chunky" she means...