Certainly sounds a lot more maniacal, though 😈.

You can be my inspiration....

Every time I say I hate something and someone says “hate is such a strong word”, I respond with, “I despise it with every fiber of my being.” I like yours for books though. Will definitely use it to describe books and comics I hate.

😂 I think that is actually even more harsh

It is WRONG to Destroy Literature!!!! It's Soooo fun to Read!!!!

Exactly!

Depends on the type of assassination you are going to attempt but in most regards a good looking person will have more freedom of movement and less suspicion due to the halo effect bias. The more well guarded a person is the more successful a very attractive person would be as they could attract the attention of the target and have them instigate the closeness needed to pull it off. It is also more likely they could seduce someone to get access to a vital area of the location they want to assassinate the person in. Also, if attractiveness would somehow be a detriment to the attempt it is much easier to turn a beautiful looking person into an average or less schlub with some disguise work than it is to take an average schlub and make them a 9/10 in the looks department.

Plain people are more forgettable. They would probably make better spies too.

@@adarian You make a fair point, it also depends on what side of the average scale they reach. When they are average but attractive it can be fairly easy to boost them up with make-up. But if they're barely average you usually have your work cut out for you.

*This person shouldn't be left alive.... He is dangerous... He knows too much*

this comment Rubbermaid me smile

I have a kitchenaid grin 😀

I'll turn your Tupperware smile into a keyboard frown

@@aansherina4536 Oh such cutlery.

That's good - I'm stealing that phrase for when I finally write that world-beating novel about my life

Like... do they have a bunch of missing teeth replaced with metal replicas?

That's exactly what I thought of. A mouthful of silverware in some weird Lewis Carroll approximation of whimsy

Omg hahaha

Tessa Young "As I put the fork into my mouth, the metal reminded me of Hardin's lipring." Does that spark people's attention?

I thought braces

I haven't read it but there also seems to be a lot of much older men having sex with teenage girls. A real dumpster fire of a book.

@@toshomni9478 It's a disturbing book in a number of other ways but no, actually. There's no sex between adult men and teen girls in that book. The teen girl protagonist doesn't want to have sex with any older men, either. There is adult-teen sex but it's actually an older woman with teen boys and presented as coercive and wrong by the author. That female character is a villain in the story. The sex is mostly teens with teens and adults with adults. The relationships and sex between the teens are just...not handled in a healthy way.

Why Princess? She wasn't rescued from a bad situation into a better one. "To do it on a pole, or not a pole. That is the only question."

@@carlajenkins1990 Well, no. She was rescued in some way actually. When she got to her new home she didn't have to do anything to have food and a roof above her head while before that she was a stripper so she could make money and pay the rent etc

I’ve read way more disturbing and realistic books that were written way better.

YES!

Lmao I came to the comments to say “ranting Merphy is my favorite Merphy” but I like extra spicy Merphy better.

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I hope you're doing well today Lotte, I'm happy you're here ❤️

@@merphynapier42 Thanks! ❤️

@@starlesscitiess Thank you! ❤️

I hope you make it through ❤️ it's not easy but stay strong, my friend 💪❤️

I am so so happy that you are still here! You are so strong! 💙❤💜

Yup. Not even oversexualizing. Adult authors sexualizing teenagers at all is disgusting

So most harem anime/manga

@@audreym3908 no there are several manga that I've read (although I honestly JUST started looking into them) that didn't really have anything sexual at all in them. Right now im reading full metal alchemist and it seems fine

@@kirbybradshaw8920 yeah, but I meant harem ones... or the love triangle or the very nope anime kind. Also FMA is really good. Mostly the brotherhood is very faithful to the manga I heard, but the original adds to some aspects from the manga. Which ever you watch after the manag is your choice.

@@audreym3908 im sorry i dont know what harem is lol. But I've never watched any of the FMA shows. I just read the first bind up of the original. I think it was 1-2-3

I picture him smiling and there being a bunch on spoons shoved up there

Maybe he has a mouthful of shiny sliver crowns?

@@merphynapier42 his mouth is literally just a kitchen drawer filled with small, medium and large spoons

He has braces?

I picture a smile so bright and shiny that you can almost see your reflection...

He has, thankfully. The whole third book has a meta subplot mocking the first two.

Also, what editor was actually fine with this?

when @MerphyNapier mentioned that line I thought that it might have been an insult that the guy was actually ugly, rather than really beautiful. For example, if you were writing a western, you could describe an ugly cowboy by saying, 'He was as good looking as fresh cow dung'. Which of course is the opposite of calling someone good looking as the thing that the looks are being compared to isn't good looking at all.

@MrThorsStone / Mr. Jay Kristoff ($1.00 dollar, that’s not his real name), he just needs to STOP WRITING, altogether...please, just STOP.

I'm late but I want to add context. Even if I think it is creepy and weird and I out of place, it's good to give people more information about it, so people can make a fair judgement. In the world of the book, the assasins not only kill to get something out of it, and (at least regarding the information we know from this book ) not all of them are sadists. There is, so to speak, a goddess of death/murder. Deaths are seen as a tribute to the goddess, a way to honor her. So for the believers deaths are "good". This is (I hope) not the perception of normal people of the book, nor the author. The morality of at least a big part of this things is also questioned in the book. And after clearing this out, I personally don't recommend this book

I know, right? I am in several readers' groups on social media, and I see this kind of thing requested a lot: "Please recommend me a good romance where the boy is a jerk but she can't resist him", "I prefer romance where the man is cruel to the girl", "Know any romance books where he forces her and it's super hot". I don't get it. I mean, I guess to each their own, people's emotional needs can be all sorts of weird, it's probably even therapeutic in its way for some readers, but I'm continuing to be shocked how widespread this kind of preference is.

good question... But I'd expand to treating all kinds of abuse improperly (because I've seen it with domestic and emotional stuff too).

I would genuinely love to know why. Maybe because Twilight (ugh) and 50 Shades of Gray (UGH) were so popular, and other writers just want to get money that way? Also, there were plenty of books before these two notorious books that depicted terrible relationship dynamics. And I genuinely don't know why they're popular.

@Chanel Wafuana I know of series with a lot of rape and it shows how the victims respond. One of them takes revenge... both satisfying and disturbing to read. Also both male to female and male to male rape. I love that nothing gets romanticized in the demon cycle by Peter V Brett. Fits with the basic themes as well. It deals a lot with fear and it's very satisfying how the abusive (emotional and sexual) gets punished. So I guess this is a rec for people who want it not to romanticized? It's not a perfect series though. The ending had some loose ends that feel strange and I don't like one of the couples.

Not even just authors, it can be found throughout society in movies and pornography and the like, it's messed up.

I guess as long as you're _freshly_ dead you might still be able to be a Kristoff metaphor for beauty.

@@Philistine47 yes, exactly. It has to be freshly dead.

A few years ago, I started (emphasis on started - it didn't take long to quit) a book that, in its first paragraph, compared the sound of an ax hitting wood to the sound of a skull being smashed in. Not the other way around, mind - the author felt the need to describe the sound of an ax hitting wood (a sound with which a good chunk of readers (including me) would already be familiar) by comparing it to the sound of a skull grotesquely fracturing (one that the vast majority of people have never heard and will never hear). Another definite case of "your simile sucks, man"...which is part of why I got no further than the *second* paragraph. At least that book had the excuse of obviously being self-published...

@@logicisuseful I'm sure the author assumed that readers attracted to his book would be more familiar with the sound of a skull being smashed in rather than that of an ax hitting wood. Another great example of "your similie sucks man" is Fifty Shades of Grey series. I haven't read the books but the few lines that have since been talked about are enough to support my decision of not ever reading it. Gems include "His voice is warm and husky like dark melted chocolate fudge caramel... or something." and "Desire explodes like the Fourth of July throughout my body."

Beauty doesn't mean pretty, it means moving. Suicide is sad and ugly but the motions u feel hurt Soo much the moment becomes life changing

So true! I picked up a random book by Nicole Chase at the bookstore last year and the description was well written then I was shocked with the detailed adult themes 😳😳😳 this was a YA book

Books sometimes have trigger warnings on the copyright page

1000% this! One of the reasons why I have such a hard time branching out and reading new books is because you never know what you are getting into.

Or you could just look at other reviews to see if there is any problematic stuff. You, know research the book on Common Sense Media or something.

Like another poster said, sometimes there are trigger warnings on the copyright page. Which I think is where they should stay. Sometimes those trigger warnings could be spoilers.

I think it's that thing they do in animation where they want to show something in shiny so they animate a glint star on it but with teeth?

Call out the publishers for saying YES to that crap! If you take money out of the publisher's pocket, that takes food out of their mouths. I have to wonder about publishers that allow that stuff. REPEATEDLY. WRONG.

as long as it stays in fiction it's fine, when you start censoring stuff you end up establishing a precedent to potentially then widen the scope of censorship itself, and imho that's more dangerous than some trashy books

Or you could just...not read those books? It sucks and it's not for me, but we shouldn't censor books like that. People deserve the freedom to make that decision for themselves, and people deserve to tell the stories they want to tell.

Jess M I agree with this. If they didn’t sell, they wouldn’t be published. Somehow readers want to read this stuff

yeah i was literally like "wait is this really a hot take? hold the f-"

Lookie With Lukie the fact that he’s an old man writing those things about a. Teen makes me uncomfortable

Well, then you’ve probably never heard of „My immortal”

Worse, he’s a major edge lord.

This book sounds like an amine/Manga but as a book. Bc the boob thing ect

Prayers sent your way! :)

Sending you lots of love!💕

I really hope you are in better place and getting whatever help you need now. But ya. I lost a parent and a cousin to suicide so the idea that someone would romanticize it is sickening.

I guess this was a rhetorical question, just couldn't help giving this answer, ghehe No, actually. There's a biological reason for that. Negative emotions leave a bigger impact than positive ones so we can protect ourselves to the best of our abilities against it happening again. That saying that you need 10 positive experiences to compensate a strongly negative one is maybe a bit exaggerated, but in essence, it's true. This is probably also why PTSD is such a hard thing to treat and why traumatic experiences leave behavioural effects for a long time if not the rest of one's life. Sorry if I got to serious, I love neuroscience and psychology.

@@ammalyrical5646 lol I remember going over this in psych yr 12

@@blessedtobealive I wish I could've done a psych course in secondary school... Sounds like it would've been interesting, I came across this in articles about PTSD and war, regular, not scientific. Medical things of basically any theme intrigue me. Psych belongs in there too :D

Not really for me actually. To be honest there's not much that I hate, I'm just cynical about it at most, perhaps analyzing the bad, but the overal feeling of hate and annoyance all just feel like a big fuzzy mess. Can't really pinpoint a thing in it. Whereas with the things I loved, which aren't that many of as well, I remember each moment very vividly. I can think of at least 6 moments in One Piece for example that made me jump up with my mind blown, 4 moments where I cried, dozens of moments where I laughed out loud, etc. One moment in HxH made me throw the pillows in my room and that was about 5 years ago. I even remember my amazement at seeing the LotR troll in Moria in the cinema at 5 years old, or the ents marching for that matter, or Rohan appearing over the hill at Minas Tirith. Nothing I disliked comes close in height to those experiences. My depression that I did have felt more like a limbo, no deep downs really, just a stale mist of emptiness, which feels awful yeah, but wasn't condensed into one moment.

@@Aramythr makes sense, I think. It wasn't extreme fear, danger, disgust, or dislike/ hate. I stand with you on the depression thing too. At a certain point you grow apathetic. My period of prolonged anxiety was way worse that the depressions I've had. This psych is very interesting to me and it makes a lot of sense. Did you ever want to feel like you did during your depression again? Do you make efforts to not feel that way again? And if you (still) do, are you efforts for acceptance/ contentment/ happiness the same?

When Dimple Met Rishi made me so mad too. I haven't read the others thankfully ..

When Dimple has sexual assault?! I have seen zero reviews mention it! People at most said 'it didn't focus enough on her own goals' as a negative. why was no one talking about the assault?! 😳

Somewhere Between the Duke and I and 365 days, comes "The very well known And Hated book and Movie trilogy" 😁 The Fifty Shades Trilogy.

@@avsambart Not sexual assault per se, but consent problems. Dimple tries to kiss and touch Rishi in a way that is clearly wrong, you know without his permission and too forceful with him constantly screaming that he doesn't wanna do it now and it is supposed to be romantic when it isn't. But trust me, I think kissing and touching someone without their permission does count as sexual assault, or at the very least harrasement. That's why it is level 1.

Oh, god 365 days; just hearing about the movie makes me scared to touch the book.

I love Merphy's ranty videos because her 'swears' are hilariously harmless. Dead gum it! Pardon!

I felt this. Luckily, i haven’t read any of these books haha

@@emsalarslan2098 Me neither, and there was at least one book I was genuinely scared she'd include, so I'm glad I was proven wrong lol

Sounds like an anime "plot" to me.

What makes it worse is that he’s talking about literal teenagers.

Oh I actually really liked how much that story talked about how damaging it was to not tell young ladies about sex - I think it can be read as a critique of keeping grown ass adults innocent of all sexual knowledge (and also I'm pretty sure the main character is younger than 22; it was her first season, so like late teens or 20-21 at oldest.)

That book is popular?

i dont think anyone likes that one

I hate the whole Harry Potter series.

@@Liya653 why?

@@katarinateofanov It's just so boring ig I read the first book and I don't understand why it's so hyped.

It just makes me picture a silver spoon wedged between someones cheeks, forcing them to smile.

The vicious dog with a frothing mouth and a silverware smile.

@@MagusMarquillin do that.... Plz do that....

@@piyushnagawat24 I'm not into silverware smiles - unless it's hanging from my nose.

Silverware with a silverware smile... 👁👅👁

No, horny is fine. It's gettin' down without getting full consent that makes Merphy see red.

@Katleen Brashier Yes!!! I understand that many people are averse to sex scenes in books, but I think they have their place, and can be done well. But authors need to treat their characters with respect, and if you’re going to portray stuff such as sexual assault, then you need to take it seriously and not romanticize it

He also has some great assassin stuff in the hog father. Terry Pratchett is the best.

What ??? WhaT?? dose that mean *W h a t*

Yosemite Sam would be proud.

I always watch her videos on 2x and I was laughing so hard at that part!

TOG actually gets better and you kind of understand the way celaena is written I also despised her at first lol. It’s not a really good series but I’d just finish the rest online😅

Brittany Yost I mean it’s definitely geared towards a younger audience so that might be it, I also had to drag through the first two books and didn’t really like celaena at first.

@@ria3828 Yeah, I mean I completely understand writing for your audience and that there are some series that pick up, but the DNF point for me is that, her reputation was built up SO MUCH in the first book as this legendary assassin, and yet, she can't bring herself to kill noblemen but will go on a rampage and kill nameless innocent people the moment her lover is kidnapped? Like...what?

Gonna have to disagree on ACoTaR. I read both that and ToG, and I think that Maas improved dramatically over the course of her career. She's no Sanderson in the worldbuilding or character department, but she's getting better. I hate reading sex scenes, but my sister who doesn't get into books often wanted me to read those series to discuss with her

@@MazrimTaim I will concede and say that ACoTaR is nowhere near as bad as ToG. In fact I found the first book to be similar to Holly Black's Modern Fae series (just in terms of character's personality and in some instance plot), which I did enjoy. I definitely agree there is a big improvement between ToG and ACoTaR, which is something I didn't take into account. There is so much more I could say about it, but I'll just finish off saying that they'd both be better books without the sex scenes!

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Annnd, me. ( My quick assumption is, because these books are THAT HORRIBLE..)

I've heard Nevernight mentioned in another video from another channel, but that's the only thing.

Me

Haechan at 2:36 Ridin’ MV you just... you just named three of my favourite books

Haechan at 2:36 Ridin’ MV omg I’ve never liked ACOTAR not Hush Hush neither. Horrible

Love Letters to the Dead was such a rip-off of Perks of Being a Wallflower, Fangirl and anything John Green has ever written. Also the characters were so BLAND. I couldn't finish that book.

Oh gosh, Love Letters to the Dead is on my TBR. Can I ask why you didn’t like it?

Your username 😂😂😂😂 I love it

But what does it suck like??? 😂

Shouldn't that be Your simile, like sucks, man

TBH, I thought Merphy was going to say she regretted donating that to the library where it might fall into the hands of further innocent or unwary readers.

I nearly drowned. (I was drinking coffee) Thank God it wasn't hot!

It could have worked like that from the right character. When it is the narrator saying it though...

You ever watch a Pepe La Pew cartoon as an adult? So rapey lol.

It's actually Merphy...

Abey Bekalu autocorrects lol 😝

Yeah, in my country this would never happen.

The earliest I have been is 2 min

Dream Master 2.0 such a mood killer. A coworker recommended the series and I have (had?) it on my reading list. But when 2 of the 3 book tubers I follow both dislike it for basically the same reason (prose, footnotes) gives me pause.

I totally agree! But it is annoying how nobody ever talks about the complete misuse and terribly explained magic system *incoming rant* why are there more than a 100 marks but we only ever see the one with the eye, and every time clary makes a new rune it is just use as a plot device and never seen again. There are apparently no limit to how many runes they can use and they never use any they just fight like they always are... sorry I just need someone to talk about this

I'd say Cassandra Clare is pretty polarizing these days. She still has a lot of fans but there are also plenty of people who feel the same way you do! As for me, I can't say I HATED the Mortal Instruments but 5-7 years later I struggle to remember literally anything about it...

I’m a Shadowhunters fan and I really hated The Mortal Instruments because of the reasons you described: namely the toxic, instalove romance and the problematic characters. I agree the rune system is pretty vague too but I argue the world is expanded upon much more in the superior later instalments.

@@stacymartin8128 it's true that the world gets expanded in the later installments but that's no necessarily good since to me the characters are all just the same but with different names and slightly different romantic dynamics. Tbh at this point the only books I really like are the Bane Chronicles and the Shadowhunter Academy (the rest is just a side story to me). I feel like even when she expanded the world it was still a disservice, like the fairy world in which after a whole trilogy of books surrounding it we just know that they like to party and drug people

@@davidchehab3450 LOL yeah cassie literally uses like the same character archetypes and gives them different names but 90% of her characters are exactly the same. does not help that she writes about the same 5 families because all other shadowhunter families are irrelevant to the world or something and i guess personalities are inherited which is why everyone is the same

Should I stop reading the lunar chronicles?

@@yoav1306 don't 😁 I liked it personally...you never know what you personally will like :)

I think the other books on that list suck but I liked the Lunar Chronicles

@@charlotterouge8107 yeha..you also never know what you will relate to in a series or a book that others don't 😄

Yeah lol I think I’m the only one on this earth who doesn’t like the lunar chronicles 😆 I just got very bored of the plot and irritated at the characters and idk why but i couldn’t care less about it. Its not bad to like ranting level (like the others on the list). I think I disliked it more because everyone hyped it up so much and i guess i was just disappointed.

Same here man

I know right. But please don’t mention it now. Many people are trying to find an escape including me.

Me too :(

Damn

I cried real tears for like 20 minutes

helllllo spartan spiel

Yeah, that's honestly how I feel about it, too. I just don't understand what people see in the book, but there are so many people raving about it I just think "Is there something I'm missing?" 🤔

I forced myself to read that whole mammoth book on the assumption there would eventually be a scene that would explain why people like it so much and I would finally get it. I never got it.

Built your own book pyre if you want to :D. I don't get why people care so much, it sounds a bit like that discussion about keeping books pristine that was going on years ago. My inner lover of big campfires thinks it sounds appealing. Unless the books have stuff in them that is toxic for the environment...

Why burn unlikable books when you can take them to be recycled

@@lenakataeva7525 I don't see how one is better or worse than the other... If I hate it enough to want not more trace to remain, then why not? It's a personal thing.

@@thomaskittock2866 but what about ecology? Trees were cut down to made that books and burning it for nothing is such a waste when it could be recycled.

@@lenakataeva7525 I live in the woods, and trees either fall or are cut down occasionally. We burn them. I've felt compelled to replant primarily in my literal neck of the woods, but otherwise... I still don't have an issue with it.

NoNo I Think the author’s intention was to not make her a stereotypical “strong female character “ maybe his results aren’t the best, but at least he tried to represent a girl with more emotional depth, more successful writers don’t even bother

@@miriammonopoli4089 I agree with you about the intention. This is probably what he wanted to do. Unfortunately it felt like he only tried to tick a box rather than really think carefully about how to give her emotional depth. He took this good intention and treated it superficially. None of the characters seemed really thought through to me. This is what bothered me.

NoNo I’m sorry about that, I really hope you won’t waste time on things you don’t like anymore , I would reccomend “Ninth House” by Leigh Bardugo has a very good character portrayal , at least for the protagonist, it’s not a grimdark/gritty fantasy like Nevernight, but more of Urban Fantasy/mistery with a soft magic system .

Thank you for the recommendation! I heard from several others that they enjoyed Ninth House. I'll definitely put it on my list