HANDBOOK FOR MORTALS is Plain White T's fanfic

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@arianahofer9912 Жыл бұрын

Lani writing the Plain White Ts into this book has the same energy as Ebony going to a Good Charlotte concert in My Immortal

@lucrativesequel2002 Жыл бұрын

A theory went around that Lani Sarem wrote My Immortal, but I think the general consensus was that was unlikely because Lani isn’t a good enough writer. Which says…. Just so much.

@yelena86 Жыл бұрын

lol I still prefer My Immortal any day, at least that was a blast to read and I had so much fun, Handbook for Mortals is so boring it doesn’t even compare and I believe my immortal was made by a 13 yr old 😂

@Air_Serpent Жыл бұрын

@@lucrativesequel2002that hurts 😂

@beeaggro2593 Жыл бұрын

@@lucrativesequel2002 Honestly for a good chunk of it, I can see it

@lilly0741 Жыл бұрын

@@yelena86 w

@shamblingabby Жыл бұрын

The thing that makes me the most mad is that 'Handbook For Mortals' is such a good book title and I wish that a better writer had gotten to it before her.

@forestcrow5491 Жыл бұрын

For real! I'm quietly seething about it and thinking of infinitely cooler concepts you could use that title for

@gothicavictoria1341 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, Handbook for Mortals is still a viable title for other authors to use. You can't really copyright a title in and of itself. Some titles are off limits like Harry Potter because they're already so well-known. There are many books that share titles, ex. Infernal Devices are two different books by Cassandra Clare and Philip Reeve, separately.

@nautilusbones980 Жыл бұрын

I’m imagining a high fantasy version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

@TwighlightLugia Жыл бұрын

It also does have a half-decent premise as a story. Ordinary kid runs off to Vegas to join a magic show, only to be introduced to the world of magic by these real-life mages disguised as stage illusionists. Problem being that 1) the video game Don't Starve kinda already did this plot, and 2) this concept is utterly wasted on the fact that this book is written like a mediocre sitcom that never got a 2nd season.

@jstarstudios7110 8 ай бұрын

OMG SAME

@rainydayjules Жыл бұрын

I’d like to think the implication is that the Plain White Tees were not real until Lani manifested them in our reality

@coyoteartist 6 ай бұрын

Does this mean her book is in the same universe as iCarly because I recall seeing them on that show.

@julieblair7472 Жыл бұрын

re: tarot themes in books... it's funny to me because one of the best uses of tarot cards is as a writing tool. you don't even have to have a deep relationship with the cards. get a guidebook to follow along, do a three card read for each chapter to come up with conflicts. so when weakly plotted books just use tarot references as window dressing it makes me laugh. tarot is all about relationships, encounters, and conflict. it was right there in front of you and you didn't use it.

@dana-wt6cs Жыл бұрын

i used my tarot cards to help solidify character relationships and conflicts 😅

@ladylark10884 Жыл бұрын

that's actually a really good idea! thanks :>>

@hershelroswell Жыл бұрын

(spongebob meme voice) WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

@applebonker141 Жыл бұрын

ooh I should try that. now I just need a story to write 🤔

@3catday-writingandcats724 Жыл бұрын

I agree. I liked to use them for plot twists or to help me with what changes to make at key points.

@kryslee0324 Жыл бұрын

As a Roma listener, I appreciate you not saying the g slur. It means a lot to me when people know the problems with the word and decide not to use it.

@Olivia-ek9ib Жыл бұрын

I would bet my bank account Lani was bullied as a kid and the lemonade stand scene was something she dreamed about doing to her mean classmates.

@REDACTEDbox Жыл бұрын

she wanted her perfect disney channel revenge

@cozmo840 Жыл бұрын

It’s so sweet how you keep your kids’ interruptions in the videos. It reminds me of when my kids were younger. Also, much respect for keeping their privacy.

@Tareltonlives Жыл бұрын

That was adorable

@JustJen993 Жыл бұрын

I love the kid interruptions they are so ADORABLE!!

@kaydwessie296 Жыл бұрын

Her sweet mom moments heal my inner child

@linnunhymy Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same!! So adorable

@Dark_Mishra Жыл бұрын

Just watched that bit and I have to say she handled that very well. If I ever got into doing live KZfaq videos, my kids definitely wouldn’t be as polite if they interrupted me recording.

@rx_shade Жыл бұрын

I ACTUALLY MET LANI. I went to the 2021 renaissance faire in Murfreesboro, TN and I saw her booth. She was alone, giving out the book and signing autographs. I’m really interested in fantasy so I got one. It’s signed to me and everything. When I tell you I SCREAMED when I got in the car after reading the reviews. My dad and I were just laughing the whole way home. I stayed away from the book and everything about it until now 😭 If anyone wants to know what she signed, it says “(My name), Never forget those who do not believe in magic will never find it! Thanks for believing! Lani Sarem.”

@RosensDragon2140 Жыл бұрын

I read this shortly after it came out for laughs. But like you was very confused by her statement on dyslexia (I'm dyslexic). I left a review on Amazon and brought up that's not how it works and LANI HERSELF replied to tell me I was wrong before having my review deleted. That 'not like other girls' energy carries into real life super hard.

@SunshinePip Жыл бұрын

😹😹😹

@ihatemickiegee Жыл бұрын

omg this just proves everyone’s Authors Behaving Badly about Lani

@KatHalstead Жыл бұрын

It screams someone who only sees memes about Dyslexia describing it and not someone who actually has it.

@AshChiCupcak 4 ай бұрын

Not defending her in any way, but I am dyslexic and I actually can write backwards but it's only with my left hand and it's not by choice. I have to focus really hard to write the normal way. It wasnt some amazing skill I learned with any advantages. It was caused by miswiring in my brain. It's a neat trick for a second but I'm not gonna go around bragging about it.

@ditzydoodle8381 Жыл бұрын

"Jeans ripped in all the right places... so right in the butthole." LMAO you got me real good with that.

@jonnie7891 Жыл бұрын

I wish someone could do a “Where Is She Now?” on Lani Sarem. There is nothing wrong with self-insert, bad fan fiction but Lani seems kind of unhinged. Inserting real people she has relationships with and interacting with them in ways that don’t reflect real life experiences is very strange, especially since all the former bands who worked with her can’t stand her. Everything about this book is so cringe. Btw, I love parenting Rachel and those interludes are so endearing.

@eveellisen Жыл бұрын

I heard as recently as last year, I think, she was STILL going around doing panels on her book and telling people the movie's going to happen. I think she also slightly pivoted from managing bands to doing some kind of hosting or publicity for minor celebrities, so I guess maybe in the sequel Zade will move to Los Angeles lol

@kit922 Жыл бұрын

Romantic Friendfiction

@gregjayonnaise8314 Жыл бұрын

Honestly, it feels like Lani always dreamed of fame but could never achieve it, and tries to overcompensate by involving herself in the personal lives of different celebrities who are often more committed/talented than she is in the hopes of having their fame rub off on her somehow. She could commit herself to improving her writing and accumulating more indie acclaim, but that would mean admitting that she’s going about things the wrong way, which will never happen.

@Chancecheese420 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, both bandfiction and friendfiction were things that went hand in hand in the 2010s, still weird tho. I would know, i used to write green day friendfic when i was 12 T~T Something I deeply regret to this day lmao

@bampo8436 Жыл бұрын

Isn't that just Dante's inferno

@wendynerd1199 6 ай бұрын

At least in My Immortal, Good Charlotte wasn't a small local act desperate for Ebony's approval. And Ebony wasn't an obvious self insert of one of their ex-roadies.

@leishathanthou9161 5 ай бұрын

good point lol

@HarvestLockwood Жыл бұрын

"The real handbook was the heehees we haha'd along the way." I just died laughing at this sentence. Thank you.

@Eri-cack 5 ай бұрын

Every time that circus clip/audio cuts in I'm in fucking tears 💀😂😭

@elen5871 Жыл бұрын

oh man i remember when this absolutely took twitter by _storm,_ she was somehow all over the place on it with her stolen cover art and stolen plot and warehouse full of defaced books. i feel like lani sarem is a type of person i've met more than once, the kind of people my ex liked to hang out with, and the reason that when we broke up i was _not_ upset that most of her friends chose to "side with her" even though our breakup was largely amicable lmao.

@GutsySnail Жыл бұрын

Handbook for Mortals has a special place in my heart because it gives me a vibe that Neil Breen wrote it on his many laptops he keeps throwing around. It's so bad that it makes me laugh.

@gigitastic90 Жыл бұрын

Neil Breen's version would at least have a plot that would involve evil politicians or bankers announcing very loudly that they were evil

@brookecardwell9521 Жыл бұрын

@@gigitastic90 lol

@overlycaffeinated2395 Жыл бұрын

Neil Breen should direct the movie, but only if he's given full control over the script.

@aud7593 Жыл бұрын

@@overlycaffeinated2395 he should play Lani - i mean Zade

@kay12 Жыл бұрын

I CACKLED at the Neil Breen reference

@unsophisticatedlywellread Жыл бұрын

“So right in the butthole.” I… I was taken aback but loved it 😂 you always make me laugh Rachel.

@ladylark10884 Жыл бұрын

i mean she's not wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (also unrelated but your pfp is rlly cute!)

@montananerd8244 Жыл бұрын

I can't stop laughing 😂 😂 😂

@DragonBloodShepherd Жыл бұрын

"Where are we going? Downstairs. OK." This is one of the most adorable interruption I've heard!

@shyannemarshall7163 Жыл бұрын

When you said she said "...to Neil Gaiman [...] Terry Pratchett" in her acknowledgement, I wanted to full on Batman slap her, like, "Get their names out of your mouth. Don't bring them into this"

@Rozilla Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking 🤣

@zeezeezoe-wd2vi 7 ай бұрын

"floating gingerly" with the pics of redheads floating took me OUT

@memelchang Жыл бұрын

"my ancestors established this town" is not the flex you think it is.... oh my sweet baby jesus how could she write that down and not think about it

@xRaiofSunshine 11 ай бұрын

"my ancestors colonized this town uwu" is not the flex she thinks it is 😊

@julieblair7472 Жыл бұрын

This is one of those books that seem to be written from a giant text file called "things that are cool" the author has compiled since they were 14 with NO revisions or consideration for some of them being contradictory.

@draconiskittensweetie9765 Жыл бұрын

The "DA DA DADADA DA DA DA DAA CIRCUS" was kinda funny the first time, made me smile bigger the second, made me laugh out loud the third time, and knocked me straight out the fourth time. Somehow it just got funnier each time

@VincentMariethe4th Жыл бұрын

😂Is it from anything in particular? Cuz it gets me laughing every time too.

@draconiskittensweetie9765 Жыл бұрын

@@VincentMariethe4th I think it's like, from a Madagadcat movie or something LMAO

@s.y.k.a1912 Жыл бұрын

@@VincentMariethe4th The audio is from the Madagascar 3 movie, where Marty dressed as or painted(?) his body like a clown and danced while singing to the circus music😂

@lenaguier9421 Жыл бұрын

another handbook for mortals video you should add to your watch list is caleb joseph’s “i wrote handbook for mortals 2”. 11/10 recommend, i rewatch it waaay more often than I should

@liluttec2844 Жыл бұрын

Yessss, I love Caleb! I've re-watched both of his videos on this soooo many times.

@zaharabliss106 Жыл бұрын

Handbook for Mortals...you know I bought that book with actual human dollars years ago. the funny thing is I haven't finished it till this day cuz everytime I get half way through I get a headache and subsequent amnesia to cope with the trauma. I love a fun bad book that isn't overly problematic but that thing is a boring nightmare.

@bluebirdeyes Жыл бұрын

"wat dat dadadada dat da circus" is gonna be stuck in my head now

@bookwormdoodles2207 Жыл бұрын

"Bitch what magic world?!" Killed me 🤣💀

@macrograms Жыл бұрын

"...dynasty of fortune tellers.." -- my eyes rolled so hard i saw the back of my skull.

@reading_faerie Жыл бұрын

The absolute emo 🖤 queen make up right now? Serving looks and tea tonight 🥰💅🏻

@neomacawofficial3119 Жыл бұрын

My phone says this comment is older than this video 🤯

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

@@neomacawofficial3119 she got early access to the video because she’s a patron

@neomacawofficial3119 Жыл бұрын

@@ReadswithRachel thanks, good to know my phone isn't glitching 😂

@gem9535 Жыл бұрын

"Most" people want sunny days? Bruh, I haven't met a person who DOESN'T love a good rainy day with a cup of tea.

@PhoenyxV Жыл бұрын

I got so distracted and completely zoned out on what you were saying because the typeface for her name over the background on the cover looks like it says "LANT SAREM"

@jessmstephens Жыл бұрын

As a fellow former fundie, I was not allowed to watch Beetlejuice as a kid. I rectified that situation last Halloween, and now I'm an absolute Lydia Deetz fangirl. Lydia should be the mascot for defected fundie kids who managed to survive adolescence despite being reliant on parents who ignore and misunderstand them. Team Lydia for life.

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Omg same! I watched it finally in high school and was like oh shit I’m gonna make this my personality for a solid month. Even put Jump In The Line on my iPod 🤣

@jessmstephens Жыл бұрын

@@ReadswithRachel AND ALL SHE NEEDED WAS A LITTLE LOVE AND APPRECIATION TAKE NOTES JAMES DOBSON

@AllisonMiller30 Жыл бұрын

I’m thinking if she hadn’t scammed the NYT she would’ve been forgotten because this book is a bunch of words. Like Shakespeare said “Told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

@pennifold 10 ай бұрын

God, I’m so glad that ‘songfic’ is firmly in my past. Never seen full transcribed lyrics in a published work, tho…

@ChanelChapters Жыл бұрын

I was a kid when I watched beetlejuice - and I legit thought handbook for the recently deceased was real and looked for it at every library

@BohemianScandalous Жыл бұрын

Guess what? At fan expo in Vancouver she was STILL selling her book with the associated “for fans of ___” adverts. I didn’t want to look close enough to see if she was still claiming it was a bestseller

@BohemianScandalous Жыл бұрын

@@burnt-croissants February 18th of this year!

@OKDL Жыл бұрын

I'm getting the feeling you did the circus bit while editing to stay sane and honestly, high IQ move

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Facts

@jamiea4791 Жыл бұрын

I remember when this saga happened. I rarely use twitter, and for a time I used to occasionally check out book drama but never posted out of fear. When HFM blew up my only tweet was to post a popcorn gif with the hashtag. Lani Sarem immediately followed me after and I had absolutely no idea what to do.

@LadyKittybug Жыл бұрын

We need the circus “I hate it” as the new meme for a while!😂 Also woohoo!! My first patreon shoutout and it’s by the best Rachel, trashcan Rachel!!💜💜💜💜💜

@magpiewrites Жыл бұрын

1. i am SO HAPPY that you are much more comfortable with calling books and authors out for their bullshit than you were sometime ago. I’ve recently rewatched your Caraval review (which I love! The review, not Caraval obv) and you were sooo nice and while a nice Rachel is touching and sweet, a Rachel who gives 0 fucks and just spills the tea is the character growth that I root for ✨ 2. The parenting interludes are getting cuter and cuter 😭💔 3. You are my favorite booktuber ever and I deeply admire your ability to be so kind and sincere AND accept no bullshit whatsoever at the same time, also I love your sense of humor and your voice and how real you are so much ufff sorry for the rant and thank you so much for all your work!

@vanguardshep Жыл бұрын

Everytime the "DAT DAT DAT-DA-DA-DA DAT DAT CIRCUS" cut in, I lost it. I love how you edit things into your commentary/reviews. As always, thanks for the great video!

@TheNumnutRandomness Жыл бұрын

All author shenanigans aside, I love that Zade's backstory is basically Belle's from Beauty and the Beast, where everyone agrees that she's super hot while also being an outcast... but also casually throwing out that she is a direct descendant of the man who founded the town 💀

@wendynerd1199 5 ай бұрын

Jenny Trout's recaps on her blog, she made this observation and even wrote a parody of the town's song with HFM lyrics

@bib4eto656 Жыл бұрын

Putting Terry Pratchett and Stephanie Twilight in the same boat…. The audacity.

@annaolson4828 Жыл бұрын

You know, I'd love to hear why Lani, I mean, Zade, likes thunderstorms, or why she decides to dye and style her hair the way she does, or specifics about her abnormal life. Specificity and explanations are what makes for compelling character development. Oh, sorry, silly me. I'm trying to be Lani Sarem's critique partner in a creative writing class. People who had books at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list for less than a day don't need those.

@peggyluwhoreads Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Christopher!

@peggyluwhoreads Жыл бұрын

I had to watch this multiple times because of the "circus" clip.

@Kruhee Жыл бұрын

I never knew dyslexia worked that way! I'm over here switching up my B's and D's and mixing my numbers like a noob when I could have simply been learning to write everything backward!

@bluebirdeyes Жыл бұрын

Not Christopher commissioning all these notoriously awful books XD

@lawliet6910 Жыл бұрын

NOT THE SCOTT’S TOTS 💀💀💀💀 Edit: I love your makeup so much!! Your uploads always make my day!

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! ❤

@mplbooks Жыл бұрын

OMG, I love your parenting interludes. My kids are all teens now, but it brings back so many feels when I hear, "He has to be nice!" (Though, tbh, I still hear, "So-and-so just flipped me off and called me @#!%" all the time from mine.)

@reginarainer9740 Жыл бұрын

The most interesting part of this book is when it suddenly stops and you are a parent to adorable sounding children.

@VincentMariethe4th Жыл бұрын

Last year I tried recording a "dramatic reading" of this book, doing funny voices for the character dialogue. Don't know if I'm ever gonna get back to it, though. My best way to describe the book: It's the woman's answer to "Ready Player One." A self-serving, self-insert fantasy for the author; just replace the word "classic" as a positive descriptor with "fun." Only difference outside the NYT Bestseller scam is RPO somehow gained public legitimacy even though they're both painfully cringey & over-bloated. Zade's not like the other girls cuz she wears converse sneakers, & Wade's not like other guys cuz he "studied Monty Python" (yet doesn't know the score to SPAMALOT.) Side-note on the "I've always envied people with normal lives." I'm like, "Bitch, try growing up as a disabled queer person living overseas in countries where you not only couldn't speak the language, but grossly lacked the help & resources you sorely needed at the time!"

@kaydwessie296 Жыл бұрын

Living in another country was actually better for my autistic ass bc they actually tried, then the military sent us back to the US and threw me in the Midwest where all I got is abuse

@VincentMariethe4th Жыл бұрын

@@kaydwessie296 My point stands. Zade/Lani has no right to complain about "envying normal lives" when she's a (presumably) cishet, able-bodied white lady living in the South.

@LJNorthey Жыл бұрын

Omg, that part annoyed me so much. I do cringe when people lack the self awareness that THEY DO live normal privileged lives. I'm disabled, ND, lesbian, have mental health issues and chronic illnesses ect. I will never live a normal life so seeing these straight abled girls say that grinds my gears as they will never get it 🤣

@bardic_grin Жыл бұрын

Millsap is actually a last name and Millsaps College is a school in Jackson, Mississippi. Considering she might have been in Louisiana for Twilight reasons, she probably encountered the name by just being in the South for a bit.

@kaydwessie296 Жыл бұрын

There’s also a musician named Ronnie Millsap and that’s where I’ve heard it before

@tristarobichaud9142 Жыл бұрын

As someone who had it happen, "And then my parents reconnected and got back together!" is *not* the wish fulfillment we think it will be. It can really be as messy and terrible as it was the first time, if not more when you're an *adult* in the middle of it all 😅🙃

@gregjayonnaise8314 Жыл бұрын

A pair of divorcees getting back together sounds messy as hell. After all, they split for likely good reasons. And the fact that the author is an adult woman is even stranger, because you’d think she’d be old enough to get that.

@tsifirakiehl4250 Ай бұрын

I personally think that if people divorce, they should STAY divorced. There’s a reason the marriage ended the first time around! Free life advice: if you ever catch yourself considering getting back with an ex, remind yourself exactly why they’re your ex. Odds are you’ll have the same problems the second time around.

@XxXCalyx19XxX Жыл бұрын

That was so cute when your child interrupted. I have seen other people review this book before and apparently Lani still attends conventions and does signings.

@EldritchWolfPup Жыл бұрын

I have this book. I kept seeing everyone talk about it, so I bought it second-hand (it's signed lol) and I'm so glad I did. It gives me hope that, someday, even I can be published

@kaydwessie296 Жыл бұрын

Lani Sarem and YandereDev are the people I think of when I think something I worked hard on is too shitty to put online. Nothing I actually tried on is as bad as their stuff 😂

@tsifirakiehl4250 2 күн бұрын

Snarky reviews of terrible books always boost my confidence. If bad fanfic like Handbook For Mortals can get published, then I can post my fanfic to AO3.

@volixwriting887 10 ай бұрын

"we're going down stairs" "why?" Your kid killed me lol

@yarp1246 Жыл бұрын

"Where are we going?" "Downstairs." "Why?" I died lmao

@chickenelafsworld7105 Жыл бұрын

Whenever I see Handbook for Mortals content I get happy but it being from you just makes it even better! This book was a train wreck

@teodorapetkovic Жыл бұрын

It even ended like Twilight book one (with the main girl in a hospital because of "totally not supernatural reasons")

@kiluanon Жыл бұрын

"Do you know how hard it is to put on cufflinks without any help? That shit is NOT effortless." -- Harrison Ford It's a lot more entertaining to picture Charles as today's 80-year-old Harrison Ford in Shrinking.

@ReaderBree Жыл бұрын

“Where are we going?” “Downstairs.” “Why?” I’m wheezing 😂😂

@stephanielynn8434 Жыл бұрын

This was definitely me as a child. Always asking why. 😂

@camillagilmore1547 Жыл бұрын

So I'm doing my (now) traditional wake and bake with Rachel and it took me a solid 10 seconds to realise that that trailer was the actual trailer and not a very funny spoof you had knocked up on the quick! And I don't think the smoke is entirely to blame there? Also, that circus clip made me giggle every damn time. To be fair, I do now kinda want to read this. I'm reading a lot of Asimov at the moment and its good storytelling but mid writing at best and very frustrating as a result, so maybe some mid/cringe writing AND storytelling will be a nice palate cleanser. BTW, Asimov finishes a fade-to-black sex scene with the woman telling the hero "You are a king of sexuality!" so there's my recent cringe so hard I died line.

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

I love that we have this tradition now ❤ I did not need to read that quote omg I wish I didn’t have eyes

@camillagilmore1547 Жыл бұрын

@@ReadswithRachel sharing the quote with others helps. I guess it's like The Ring, in that sense? So far I have shared it with my dad, my husband and your whole comments section and now I feel much better!

@lucrativesequel2002 Жыл бұрын

Your Harrison Ford slideshow had more right to be on the NYT bestseller list than this book did.

@ghosttownpoltergeist Жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say thank you for always making me laugh when I'm having bad days. The circus meme took me o u t. Also, your makeup is beautiful for this vid!

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@EviePontecorvo Жыл бұрын

The parenting interlude was so freaking cute!

@Agumame Жыл бұрын

I dont know if youtubers have any ability to influence what ads get on their videos, but I just got an ad for some idiot at the Daily Wire’s BS as a mid roll ad and figure youd wanna try and stop them getting attention/views from you if you can. Love you Rachel youre great!

@bib4eto656 Жыл бұрын

They don't have control over that, sadly. E.g. a lot of anti-mlm content on KZfaq gets ads about mlms for some reason and they can't really do anything about it.

@nomoonlight6958 Жыл бұрын

This is my fav vid ever. Literally. It's so feisty n funny. Whole vid of comedy

@bro.that.is.adorable.2633 Жыл бұрын

Surface level comment but your makeup looks AMAZING 😍😍

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@NateReadsDiversely Жыл бұрын

I love how Sarem names her characters like "Invader Zim." Zim, Dib, Gir, Zeb, Cam, Mac...

@sheriffflynn Жыл бұрын

The new "Thanks I hate it" killed me dead. My face hurts now. Thank you for reviewing this!

@authorhalierivers Жыл бұрын

It was as funny the first time as the sixth time that damn “da da da da da circus” popped up 😂😂😂

@jenny5272 Жыл бұрын

That whole scene with Plain White Ts sounds almost identical to a scene I wrote in the sixth grade but with a different band.

@Dez861 Жыл бұрын

About the infamous "I rarely think this ..." quote - most people NEVER think that. I'm not an expert on narcissists but, I feel like they'd enjoy the idea of random candid pictures of themselves ... I don't know why but, I have a funny feeling that Lani's a bit full of herself.

@applebonker141 Жыл бұрын

THAT BOOK TRAILER IM LOSING IT 🤣

@aleey_yo Жыл бұрын

I hear the Chris Rock "Circus" bit in my head at least once a day at work, so I'm so please to see I'm not the only one who has it on repeat during absurd occasions.

@cannibalgender Жыл бұрын

I'm bedbound today and I truly needed to hehe some hahas, thanks for once again absolutely destroying my faith in human understanding of story structure in the funniest way possible

@keravg Жыл бұрын

I've been violently ill the last 2 days, so, thank you for the great distraction Rachel 🖤

@ChronicaErys Жыл бұрын

hope you feel better soon! Sending you good vibes

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Feel better ❤

@theOnlydillweed1 Жыл бұрын

Loved the little parenting interlude

@chantel4405 Жыл бұрын

I just gotta say how much I absolutely LOVE your makeup look in this video! that's some talent! 🥰

@lilymasters2863 Жыл бұрын

Definitely need to get some more sleep before work but I just wanted to say your makeup is AMAZING and I can't wait to watch this later~

@IIyana08 3 ай бұрын

This is something you write for yourself and keep locked up in your dungeon where none shall find it.

@VegemiteQueen1 Жыл бұрын

'I could tell you what she had for breakfast' Oh. Oh dear. Where I live, 'I can see what she had for breakfast' is slang for 'she is wearing the world's tiniest skirt and zero underwear'

@Pandachu123 10 ай бұрын

PARDON?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Tareltonlives Жыл бұрын

Oh my god I never saw that book trailer. The cringeometer shattered. And yes, the Krimsonrogue and GenerallyPooky reviews are amazing. Twihards are hilarious

@Tareltonlives Жыл бұрын

I actually get why Lani Sarem claimed she wrote My Immortal. It sounds like something she would actually write.

@tsifirakiehl4250 Ай бұрын

Please. My Immortal was actually funny. Lani Sarem could never.

@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321 Жыл бұрын

36:55 minutes later and I still don't understand what this book is about 😃

@flower_girl4983 Жыл бұрын

R u the guy who requested the game?

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Yep that’s him! Everyone thank Christopher for this lol

@Im.A1ex Жыл бұрын

Every time you cut to the circus it gives me a little giggle. Thank you.

@winzie-hz7zk Жыл бұрын

I am so ready for this! I go back to your ABB video about her constantly because it's so weirdly soothing

@emerald_witch9 Жыл бұрын

I have been waiting for you to tackle this one and I am SO EXCITED. I got my coffee and snacks ready lets go!!!

@massomouse1556 Жыл бұрын

I sat and LAUGHED for a solid half minute before clicking the thumbnail on mobile. OMG Generally Pooky's review is priceless but she's only at like, well she's not full through... you'll love it @Racheal and you'll also really enjoy Krimson Rogue's technical//craft/critical review as well.

@3catday-writingandcats724 Жыл бұрын

I completely agree!

@antoinettediane Жыл бұрын

I love your little family intermissions. They are so cute. 🥰

@chelscara Жыл бұрын

The parenting interludes are so funny. “Please don’t touch tha- nooooooooo” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@katsuki_fan2465 Жыл бұрын

I am absolutely obsessed with your makeup look!

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Oh thank you!

@melleelizabeth2853 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Christopher

@missyroberts8197 Жыл бұрын

The way you pronounced Lani 3 different ways is giving me life

@Endor227 Жыл бұрын

Man, just when I thought nothing interesting was being posted today, you come in clutch as always Rachel!!❤

@ReadswithRachel Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@xXxAngelicKratosxXx Жыл бұрын

Rachel that lipstick color looks FANTASTIC on you! Love it! 🔥🔥🔥

@erinlewis6901 Жыл бұрын

Let me borrow you a phrase that I, someone who understands a comedic moment, but is not always witty enough to make the right joke. "There's a joke in there somewhere. I don't know where, but it's in there!"