lolol this is such a minor nitpick I fear I may get downvoted for this but I hate how the narration keeps calling her "Cordi" 😭 I think Cordelia is a beautiful name and I love it, but when no one has actually called her Cordi yet (even in memories) or mentioned that she prefers it as a nickname it feels so weird and just feels like lazy writing icl 💀 like she's called Cordelia once at the start of chapter 1, and then from then on she's immediately referred to as Cordi and it just doesn't feel right at all when she's even introducing herself as Cordelia??? I hope there's some sort of explanation later on bc it's not felt right from the start and it keeps nagging away at me 😭

Honestly tho it is a shame that w how beautiful Rebecca Ross’s writing is that it doesn’t seem she has been able to figure out how to build up a romance. There is a reliance on tropes and shared history that is hidden behind little quips and nicknames but they fail in my opinion to capture any true yearning. I would just like to see these two characters be put through some real trial and tribulations between the other that actually brings them closer.

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hey everybody, i was glancing through past founder announcements recently and saw one that caused some worry in me, link here

i’ll copy here the specific section of the post that concerned me, so you don’t have to click through and read the full announcement if you don’t want to: “We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.”

i’d love to hear what other people here think about this feature. personally, i’m concerned that it could turn into a popularity contest/a value system based on who is the most active on PB and which usernames are recognized by the most people. i really hope that there will be something in place to prevent that sort of result, because a popularity contest doesn’t feel like the PB spirit i know. i just don’t believe that voting for a member-of-the-month will be the community-building exercise that it is intended to be.

It is genuinely making me so uncomfortable how everyone is talking and acting like Mona is an adult. She is thirteen years old. What is happening. Is this a product of its time thing? Did people act like this around thirteen year olds in 1994? I am very distressed.

Yeah I got what's irking me the most about this book, it's the type of romance (I guess? I guess this very old guy and the 17 year old girl will get together because it's fairy tale twilight idk) when the female protagonist is genuinely dumb and incompetent and then I'm supposed to not agree when the male characters tell her exactly that. I get so mad every time this happens because if the protagonist was in any way credible I would get mad at her being treated like that but she seems a caricature in how ridiculous and over the top she acts 💀