Slide Into My DM

Chapter Four

How do you feel about movie or tv adaptions of books? Should they keep happening, are they worth the watch? You’ve mentioned quite a few books that have been turned into things – sometimes those things were great, something those things were terrible.

When I first watched the Jim Carry movie of A Series Of Unfortunate Events, I overall found myself disappointed. The other redeeming fact was him (though he didn’t really play a good Count Olaf) and the costumes. But then I watched the Netflix series and instantly fell in love. Even though there’s so much more added, it’s as if the author was there saying “this is what I would have put in the books if it hadn’t been POV limited to the children”.

It depends. The more I like something, the more nervous I become. Harry Potter had really been my first introduction of page to screen and therefore I expected every other adaption to be just as well done. Then my father took me to see Ella Enchanted and I was so upset I told him we should get our money back.

Beastly was another book near and dear to my young heart and that movie in and of itself is the monster. Romeo & Juliet and The Great Gatsby with Leo Di are f*****g amazing though, to me the most accurate adaptations out there.

And as for a page to screen turn around, that’s amazing? Where the movie is actually better than the books? The Notebook! I’m sure you’ve never read it – The Notebook is actually just the part where Ally comes back into Noah’s life. There are a few flashbacks and flash-forwards, but they’re very short and far apart. So, what the movie did? Fleshing it out like that, so f*****g well? Ah-f*****g-mazing!

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Why do some teachers teach things that have nothing to do with their subject? Or just randomly go on rants about their personal life? Like, hello, I’m paying to be taught by you to learn a very specific skill set. Ugh!

Oh man, I’ve had teachers like that. It’s so frustrating. I actually have a teacher like that now, which I didn’t anticipate now that I’m in college. You’re right, we’re paying, so WTF? Maybe as we get past our AA, closer to our BA, things will be different?

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I know I’ve talked about Thackery before, but do you have any pets? Your Insta shows a lot of houseplants, a lot of nature, but not much other life. Don’t tell me you’re a dog person, lol

Actually! If you must know, I do have a cat. Though, I grew up with both a dog and a cat and a goldfish at one point (named Queen Amidala, thank you very much). I have a black male named Nox. Problem is, I post him on my personal account. So, no pictures for you haha

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You love bonfires, too? (I saw your most recent post.)

They have to be one of my favorite Autumn activities. Sitting around the pit, all bundled up against the cold. Watching the golden sparks fly up into the dark night. Hanging with friends – talking and laughing….

TBH, I promised myself a long time ago that when I get my own place it has to have some sort of fireplace or pit.

Honestly, that’s how I feel, too.

It’s probably one of the reasons that I have to live somewhere with seasons. I can’t imagine the months going by without change. Spring bringing new life, Summer bringing late nights, Autumn giving us sweater weather, and Winter bringing a sort of peace.

I don’t know that I always want to live in OH, but I don’t know that I’d go too far either.

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Halloween has already come and gone; can you believe it? Did you dress up as anything fun? With NYE being 2019 to 2020, I’d already bought a mobster-ish look. A lot of people at the party I went to had the same idea, oops.

Actually… I’m not really big into Halloween. My roommate/BFF loves horror and gore and all that jazz, so she went over to her BF’s house for a marathon. I stayed at home and watched some of my favorite rom-coms while eating pizza and Halloween candy.

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I know, I know, no specifics…. But any plans for Thanksgiving? Are you going home? You’ve mentioned a sister… any other family?

It’s just me and my dad… and we aren’t a huge fan of the holiday. We do a little lunch of an old recipe of my mom’s. This year my roommate and I are doing a Friendsgiving, though! So that should be really awesome.

My parents are divorced, I have a younger half-sister (Dad), then an even younger half-brother (Mom). I’ll be having lunch with my dad and dinner at my mom’s.

I might take the opportunity to go Black Thursday shopping with my roommate/BFF. Esp. as an excuse to leave early.