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Samantha Manning
Добавлен 21 янв 2016
I’m Sam and I have an unhealthy obsession with gay fantasy romance novels
Scum Villain’s Self Saving System
Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe are Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s most chaotic couple.
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I read My Immortal so you don’t have to (PART 2)
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This is part 2 of my series reacting to My Immortal - the worst fanfiction ever written. We’re talking about Tara Gilsepe’s iconic self insert, original character Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way and her ongoing love triangle with Draco Malfoy and Harry “Vampire” Potter. We’ve got Hot Topics in Hogsmead, gothic boots with Billie Joe Armstrong’s face on them, crazy My Chemical Romance reveals, ...
I Would Take a Bullet for Britney Spears
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I finally read The Woman in Me by Britney Spears and now I want to protect her at all costs.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS) is My Latest OBSESSION
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Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are about to take up at least 50% of my brain space from now on
SHADES OF MAGIC Series Review (Feat. My Mom)
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This is the first video I’ve posted in a MINUTE but I’m going back to posting every Friday! Me and my mom are talking about the entire Shades of Magic trilogy so there will be SPOILERS
HUALIAN Moments That Make Me Feral
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I’m back at it again with another rant about Heaven Officials Blessing! DISCLAIMER: I’m going to spoil the entire series
I Read MY IMMORTAL so you don’t have to (part 1)
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My Immortal - the worst fanfiction of all time - is an ICONIC piece of literature. The My Immortal wiki page is doing Satan’s work by keeping this incredible dumpster fire alive. myimmortal.fandom.com/wiki/My_Immortal/Chapters_1-11 I kept having technical difficulties while filming this so I’m only going through the first eleven chapters. If enough people are into it, I’ll turn this into a series.
Once Again I Am UNWELL: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands Review
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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands has me DESPERATE for the next book in the series! I also briefly mention upcoming danmei and fanfiction videos
Screaming Over HEAVEN OFFICIAL’S BLESSING
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Where my danmei girls at? The hold that this series has on me is insane
Ranking Books I Read in 2023 from WORST to BEST
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It's another 2023 end of the year reading wrap up! I read 100 books this year so I'm ranking a few of them from worst to best.
BEST Graphic Novels of All Time
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These may not be everyone's idea of the world's best graphic novels, but I'm completely obsessed with them. I'm talking about the Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Cosmoknights by Hannah Templar, The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill, Nimona by ND Stevenson, Estranged by Ethan M. Aldirdge, Star Crossed by CrimsonChains, Fangs & Cryptid Club both by Sarah Anderson.
An Unhinged DARK HEIR Breakdown
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I'm talking about my latest obsession, Dark Heir by C. S. Pacat! Dark Heir is the second book in the Dark Rise Trilogy and the first book responsible for my mental illness.
DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI with My Dad!
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If you couldn’t tell, my dad is an English teacher who loves dystopian sci-fi! We’re talking about three of his favorite books: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 1984 by George Orwell, and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. We’re also getting serious about the political themes in dystopian fiction and referencing everything in pop culture.
Family BOOK CLUB with My Mom!
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I’m in Oklahoma talking to my mom about some of her favorite books that connected her with loved ones! Featuring the Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich, The Pig of Happiness by Edward Monkton, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and my mom’s own original fan fiction for Douglas Hall’s Cats
Best BANNED Books
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When school boards ban books, they let us know exactly why it’s so important to read them. Check out this list of the most challenged/ banned books of 2022: www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 These are the banned books that made the biggest impression on me: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Me...
Movies That Were BETTER Than The Book
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Movies That Were BETTER Than The Book
Doing standup about my sex life in a bookstore
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Doing standup about my sex life in a bookstore
What Ever Happened to Kony 2012? | Second City
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What Ever Happened to Kony 2012? | Second City
I’ve read all MXTX series but the SVSSS series….. I started it but never even finished the first chapter. lol. Also, something somewhat funny when I went to start reading MDZS. I only read the first sentence before stopping for like a month or so before continuing & finishing it.
i just love the whole dialogue they both have when hua cheng is fading away, i've read that part so many times that it is almost embarrassing also, if you liked that scene you should watch this one storyboard that was posted on yt of it, it's beautifully made and captured all of the emotion of this part of the book other scene i really love is in the ending of the first extra chapter (245) where xie lian is having some time alone in the ghost city and there were this festival going on, one that he used to pass with his parents, and he didnt quite remember how it felt until he reunited with hua cheng in the end bc hua cheng is his family now, that was so sweet to me
I think I’ve seen that storyboard! They’re so sweet and I love them 😭💜
Nice to watch your video again. Thank you!
I think now it's time to level up in the danmei game, and pick some Meatbun stuff. :D
Just wait. You'll get sucked into basically EVERY OTHER fandom pairing/throuple before too long. (xuexiao was my gateway. I have since found that I'm basically into shipping everyone with everyone else.)
Nice to see someone going as feral over MDZS and Wangxian as I do. MDZS is just constantly taking up space in my brain. It's SO GOOD. I love all MXTX's books, but MDZS is undeniably my favourite - and also it has my favourite romance of all time. Nothing tops Wangxian!
i found your frustration with the misunderstandings so interesting because i feel the exact same way when reading other stories but not svsss?? i really want to reread the novel now to see if i end up losing my mind lol also i agree with wanting an official identity reveal but as an avid fanfic reader identity/system reveal fics are my favorite !!! i love all the creative ways authors approach the idea
Omg yes I need to get into the svsss fanfiction!
i was so devastated having read the last page :´)
Same 😭💜
31:26 Pls make fave wangxian moments
I would LOVE it if it turned out that "James" at the end of the book wasn't really James but Anharion, returned inside James' body in the same way Visander returned in Katherine's body, with the collar being an equivalent to the sword that brought Visander back, I want this simply because it would make for such good drama lol I won't happen of course, since we would've seen James' body die due to the White Death and in many other ways that parallel doesn't work but still, a cool thought...
Lmao that would be DRAMA
11:54 fk into oblivion and into another dimension lmaoo your comments are hilarious i could watch you talk all day in this Quirky manner
Thanks 😂
Girl I am loving your obsessive borderline feral energy here at 18:00 i felt that, been going crazy about lanwangji x wei wuxian from MDZS and gotta say MXTX has sure that knack to cultivate our fangirl thirstiness to write beautiful smut fiction about a ride to die simp, honestly we earnestly crave for such a wholesome romance deep down in our real lives could never fault you for your devotion on unable to move on past that. I have been re reading mdzs comics so obsessively wash rinse repeat that I could relate when u said why even read other novels when u got a good one, probably just gonna watch Heaven's official on crunchy and return back to mdzs rabbithole like the loyal lonewolf 😅 we clearly are. I didn't think you were crazy collecting merchandise been there done that with Naruto's uchiha Itachi and lang wangji rn lol. Although I don't enjoy fanfictions , I agreed with another video where you said the MXTX original cannon content is swell enough , I like the way you are so blunt and in your face not even hiding the fact that you're in it not for the plot but just the gay romances lol keep it up love watching your adorable fangirl mode keep em coming, look forward to future reviews and intensely fixated ravings xx
Thank you! I’m glad you understand 😂👌🏼
hua cheng makes my standards so high.
Same
OMG i love just all the scenes where they interact, but also that one were they are inside the mountain gardian (i think) and Xie Lian picks up a venemous bone and he´s just like, i´m inmune to poison by this point so no problem, but Hua Cheng says, please if you see someting dangerous or strange don´t touch it, that you don´t die it doesn´t mean it doesn´t hurt, so don´t touch it. And then Xie Lian use uno reverse and says, then you don´t touch it neither, we both won´t touch it. AHHHHH I JUST LOVE HOW THEY PROTECT AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER.
NO LITERALLY 😭💜
DIABOLO WEASLEY
Diabolo Weasley KILLS me 😂
Super fun video! I will say that Xie Lian/Xianle is pronounced more like “Shi-e Lian/Shi-anluh”!
Thanks! I need all the pronunciation help I can get 😂
I’m reading Scum Villain for the 4th time lmao, this time out loud to my husband 😂I basically introduce the series to every human I come into contact with. And I’ve watched the animation soooooo many times (even tho it only covers the first 20 chapters of the story 😢). I watched it with my best friend he she loves it too
You are so me fr are we twins
When I discovered MDZS, it was before the books were officially published. I think The Untamed had just started airing, but I didn’t know anything else. I found a fan translation and idk something took over my body because 3 days later I was finished reading after binging it and my whole brain chemistry was rewritten. The moment Lan Wangji shoves Wei Wuxian against the god damn tree blindfolded and makes out with him was 👏 like this boy said to himself “I will make you forget every other kiss you’ve ever had” while Wei Wuxian is like “my virgin lips will never experience anything better than this!!!” Like how dumb are these two? How dumb and perfect? The smartest, brightest, most talented minds of their generation and they are also the dumbest boys to ever share one brain cell. The bath tub scene is so iconic, though. RIP that bath tub because it died for WangXian Rights.
mdzs has lived rent free in my head for almost 2 years now and i've read the books, watched both shows, lsitened to the audio drama, read the manhua, and even wrote fic. im soo a wei wuxian girlie and love him to absolute death
I also didn’t know it was CANON gay when I started watching it!!! When I found out it was a BL I screamed SO LOUD
Please 🙏 give Kaleidoscope of Death a try and watch its live adaptation The Spirealm! It’s my favorite modern Danmei novel! It’s really unique and different!
Oh cool I haven’t heard of that one! I’ll check it out!
@@Manninglicious please 🙏 really do!!! It’s literally my current obsession 😭 The main characters are really unique!!!
I just love shen qingqui.Hes such a drama queen😂
loved your video :)
Thanks!
I just finished reading dark heir after binging it in gwo days and the ending had me going feral thank you for making this video because i need people to talk about it! 😭
We must endure, learn from & keep up with news & history even though so much of it is sad & uncomfortable. That sadness is important to understand so that we prevent action creating greater suffering & sadness. I do not want real life suffering & sadness in my entertainment/escape.
I love My Immortal!
I had a very similar path to MXTX. Scrolling Netflix and thinking it would be funny. But hands down, the funniest thing in the whole series is that Rain Master NEVER wins the lantern contest because she wants her followers to prioritize their own food over her clout. 😅
I love her for that
I just read Dark Heir and I can’t stand with this ending 😭 I know the feeling Will and James deserve to be happy, I think the collar no just hold Anharion's memories, it upgraded James magic at the level of his past self had And we still don’t know what really happened thousand years ago, in Will’s memories, we saw the before and after everything screwed up, the Lady and the Sun King are very suspicious to me. I don’t trust them, they might distort the truth to win this war I would like to know what else did Marcus know about all this on his journal, it has more answers Sorry, I had to get all my feelings out with this book xD
I 100% agree
Yes, SVSSS is a must if you like MXTX because that's the eldest child lol I think why SVSSS is so loved by the fandom despite the flaws is because it call out the problematic aspect of Chinese Stallion novel loved by men. The supposed to be romantic scenes in Stallion novel are turned into problematic scenes in SVSSS because if you try to see it in reality's lens where powerful masculine man get all the ladies and a forced intimate scene in do or die situation, it is not romantic at all. SVSSS is like Luo Binghe and Shen Yuan's journey of embracing their emotional side as a man which is facing their feelings and let go of their toxic masculinity. If you want a danmei couple with good communication, I highly recommend Stars of Chaos by Priest.
Yeah! I’ve only read the first two books but I’m enjoying Stars of Chaos so far
Lila is the best in the “I’m not like other girls” trope
I really enjoyed theses books. I can’t wait for the next to come out.
OMG ALGORITHM FINALLY!! i havent even finished the vid (multi tasking lol) yet but im jus so glad someones covering svss!! the relationship is so interesting and theres sm to explore ahh !! okii so ye, svss definitely leans to comedy more than mxtx's future work. and cuz of that initial premise, the logistics of the actual relationship may not have been as ironed out in-comparison to her future work. yet i have to say, svss is still my fav of the three novels. i suppose thats got sumn to do with my own sort of eccentric tastes haha. i can actually find misunderstanding tropes quite enjoyable if they are done well. while it's been awhile since ive read the series in its entirety, from what i remember, i can at least see why shen yuan would be hesitant to be rlly straightforward considering he comes into this knowing even the canon softie that was og luo binghe still ultimately became some vengeful demon lord tyrant-an icebreaker w the whole abyss things a bit intimidating. Apart from that, i kinda just love romances where the conflicts arent necessarily external factors. like i love when the characters themselves are the problem, cuz then i have a lot to chew on when it comes to their relationship and its development. also btw have u read 2ha? it's def a lot darker (like rlly read thru the warnings), but i almost consider it as like. reverse svss in a way lol, it's one of my favorite novels (but knowing now the parts that u disliked abt svss, maybe not the best rec haha. the plot, for a long time, is a huge lifelong misunderstanding that ultimately culminated into a tragedy at one point. but it's def one that makes sense when looking at the grand scheme of their characters, it def was NOT necessarily sumn they could just "talk out" yk)
I want to read 2ha next so that’s good to know!
So I've found it randomly on some dubious page were I watch anime (sadly polish netflix doesn't have tgcf 😢) and I loved it so I decided to watch something similar and I came across mdzs and I liked it even more because I could feel in it much more that there was supposed to be romance. At 2nd sezon I found out in the coments that there is a novel and it has romance and even spice so I dropped the series , same as you read it on wattpad and became obsessed. After that I couldn't find tgcf anywhere. Finaly I found the translation, started reading it and then when i was in the middle of it it was dalated. Couple months later I became desperate, found a page to buy physical version, I didn't mind enymore that it was expensive and in my second language and i bought 6 volumes (at that time it was all). Now that I finished it I'm obsessed. It has the best description of love I've ever encounter on, the dialogues, quotes and acts, i'm speachles. Now I don't know if I ever find love 'cause my standarts ar so high thanks to Hua Chang. Also Xie Lian backstory is so tragic and heartbraking and even after all that he's been through he still is so kind. I think we all should try to be like him. So that's how I've fallen into the rabbit hole called danmei and the only thing that I regret is lack of money.
I completely relate to the danmei desperation 😂 it’s just too good
tysm! I finished the TGCF novel and I loved it so much i was considering reading another of her books. Ive wtached the untamed (lmao i didnt know it had a donghua), and i loved it dispite its flaws and i was definetly stuck between reading MDZS or SVSSS. It would be great to get an opionon on which one I should read if you are willing to give one🙇♀
MDZS is my second favorite after TGCF so I’d recommend reading that one next!
@@Manninglicious🙇♀tysm!
I love this novel so much!!!!!the love story between them is so so sweet❤
I love will and James, my babies!! I personally believe though the collar is not exactly what we think it is…..we shall find out in the 3rd book 😀. I also think James kinda wants to be controlled, just a little bit? ❤
I agree!
🙌🏻Outfit on point🫶🏻👏
Thanks 💜
As a Mandarin speaker who has lived in the U.S. for many years, I randomly came across some MXTX-related reviews from non-Chinese people on RUclips and ended up watching a lot of related videos. I've seen all three of your review videos, and this is my first time commenting. Regarding the main story where Shen Yuan never told Luo Binghe his true identity (from another world), I find your perspective really interesting! Don't get me wrong, some Chinese people are frustrated by this too, but I think it's a really small group compared to the whole reader base. The reason might be that "the main character transmigrating from the real world into a book/game/ancient times, etc." is a super common trope in Chinese web novels. In these stories, the protagonist often deals with life-threatening challenges, so whether they reveal their true identity isn't seen as crucial. After years of development in this genre, it feels like the lack of revealing the protagonist's true identity has become a set convention. People are so used to characters transmigrating into books/ancient times without their identities being known that they don’t even question it anymore. I agree that a partner should know this kind of truth, especially given Luo Binghe's personality (how could you bear to keep it from him?). But as you mentioned, SVSSS is MXTX's first work, and I see it as an early piece where her style hadn't matured yet. This work has its shortcomings, but you can also see its influence on her later works, like her sense of humor. She wrote this book before she graduated from college, so I personally don't expect too much from it, haha. I'm glad you overall still enjoyed each of her works. I also saw your review of MDZS before, and it was really interesting. I really enjoy seeing your spot-on descriptions of what makes each ship attractive.
Thanks! That’s a good point though because I feel like a lot of isekai stuff doesn’t acknowledge it either
Great list and reviews
Thanks!
@@Manninglicious You are welcome keep this content coming !
i found this series after dark heir came out and i am so glad i could at least read the first two one after the other.. literally gonna go insane waiting for the third one 😭 also im living for your theory about the collar at the end like it’s a needddd
This is EXACTLY what I needed right now
I got you dude 😂👌🏼
also are you autistic cause i am too and i remember i found out a booktuber was autistic and i think that was you i was so happy to find that out knowing there were autistic people in the booktube ccommunity
I’m don’t think I’m autistic but I’ve been collecting a lot of the other neurodivergent types like infinity stones so the vibes are there 😂
@@Manninglicious Wanda lol your hilarious Maximoff is my favorite marvel character wish someone made fanfic of her
the best fanfic thats unironiallly good is Fiona and Kate
Lmaooo Ice King popped off with Fionna and Cake
WangXian is my fave couple 😍🤩🥰
Thank you for this spot-on breakdown! So True! So Eloquent! 👏👏👏 Whenever I try to talk about dark rise it's eeeghspfdpfspffpffff blorbos???? sorry I don't want to spoil anything??? It's a constant brain rot since DH release and I consider myself a Victim, but WHAT'S NEW, it's Pacat, now in her Villain Era, slaying the house down boots yaasss monarch! I'm obsessed with the Old World and licking all the pages and discord channels fro CRUMBS. Gotta.... somehow... survive the wait....
Thanks! Literally though I am DESPERATE for that next book!
I'm so sorry I thought your name was Samantha mewing.
Lmao that’ll be my cat fursona
If I can't have a man like Hua Cheng then I don't want anyone
LITERALLY
Girl I love ur delivery 😂
Thanks! 😂
LOVED your analysis! You articulated everything to a Tea! Like Brittney sprears survived all of that trauma, so she can tell her story, that is not to different from woman’s stories! Ugh so spot on Sam! I hope she finds her peace and I pray we listen to woman more!✨
Thank you! 😭💜