ok I am a scientist but not one who studies anything close to coronavirus so I can’t say much about a virus being in a test tube, I can absolutely say that the lack of safety while dealing with an infectious disease is appalling. you should never see the color of your nails clashing with what’s in the test tube bc you should be wearing gloves at all times!!!
Yeah that was the first thing that sprung out to me. I extracted RNA (of harmless, no-gmo plants, so basically safest/least regulated it can be) for my bachelors thesis and my supervisor and I were done up in sterile gloves, sterile sleeves, freshly washed labcoats (+ masks but it was in early 21 so that was less for lab safety) and worked in a RNAse-free fume hood. To protect the RNA because that molecule is quite vulnerable. Now, Im not a virologist either, but I do know SARS-CoV-2 IS a RNA virus (not to mention it IS contagious).
Also, but this is just an observation for plant genetics and overall practise courses during education, most DNA or RNA work I have done or seen done around me uses Eppendorf tubes (not test tubes! the biggest ones are about the size of a thumb tip) or well plates (roughly hand sized plates of many tiny tubes next to each other). Im ace but I doubt any of those are big enough to use them as a private toy. And classical test tubes like chemist use/that pop culture knows - arent they too narrow?
I watched this with my cat. I'm jealous of her inability to understand English. She's snoozing peacefully, whereas I don't believe I'll ever know peace again. Thank you for your work.
sometimes i feel weird for being into the things i’m into, and then i check into the romance genre of books and see stuff like this and i think “you know what, it could be a lot worse.”
So I’m not a virologist specifically but I am a microbiologist. None of this is right. Questions that arose in the first 9 minutes: 1. Why is a tube of… presumably just virus bubbling, frothing, popping, etc? 2. Why are her nails out for them to clash with the tube? Why no gloves? OH that’s NOT what that’s for. 3. There is no live COVID in any of the existing COVID vaccines so like. Why are they putting the virus into the vaccine? 4. Sample-ometer is definitely fake.
I worked in chemistry and hematology and this was not not not accurate or sexy at all. Just gross. I also did RSV , HIV and flu screening before samples were sent to virology. Sputum is one of the most unappealing body fluids, especially from a person who is ill with a SARs virus. Yeesh
Just as an aside, people have an amazing ability to rename things which already have a perfectly good name. Nobody ever says the word sphygmomanometer in the real world, it’s just ‘the blood pressure machine’ and the amount of euphemisms for the word ‘morgue’ you’ll find in hospitals would fill a book (or one of the above reviewed novellas).
Each book becomes progressively more unhinged. Book 1 was clearly just a random a cash grab, and then every book after that, the author leaned into the meme more and more 😂
Okay, the book Chuck Tingle wrote in response was called "Chuck Tangle Pounded in the Butt by a Knockoff Book That Glorifies a Deadly Tragedy and Doesn't Prove Love is Real Then Accepting This as a Sad Side Effect of Making a Wider Positive Impact as an Author". I think buying this and reading it to us would make up for making us listen to this!
32:35 according to wikipedia: Kissing the Coronavirus is a 2020 romance novelette written by Robert Winters under the pseudonym M.J. Edwards. The book was published by Viral erotica.
Some of these descriptions were just awkward, but then the absurd descriptions kept happening and getting increasingly bizarre. There is absolutely no way someone with a vagina wrote this.
“Sarah J Maas probably wants to pick up that line but doesn’t want to make it obvious she’s been reading Kissing the Corona Virus”. I choked on my morning joint.
Are we sure these books are not just someone trying to get the most and worst metaphors that have ever been created into a jumble of sentences and mix them with physically impossible descriptions of bodyparts being sentient? (Thank you for your sacrifice though! 💜)
I feel like Chuck Tingle's sentient toaster walked (and f*****, but in an incredibly respectful and loving super-kinky manner) so that Mr Handsome Covid could run. Do you know anything about Chuck, btw? He supposedly lives in my town, I am so obsessed, I think I may have met him IRL.
Have you read "How to be a movie star" by TJ Klune? The main characters are based on Chuck Tingle. It's in audible plus if you have audible, and kobo plus if you have that.
Is it bad that I find this book series inspiring for me to write intentionally garbage romance stories? 🤣 Also, why does your child want to contact Santa so early in the year? Unless you guys down in Florida celebrate Xmas early?
There was a period in my life where i read alot of bad fanfiction, this was something else. I think i lost some brain cells from this one, yet i couldn't stop listening to you read this
I had to actually pause the video so i could laugh cry after he chewed thru her bra. I cannot believe you got to that part without laughing, and then your laugh set me off 😂
M.J Ewards is the pen name for Robert WInter so alllll of this makes soooo much sense lol! He is quoted saying, "M.J. is the alter ego under which I get to explore a more erotic side of romance, with combinations of characters along the LGBTQ spectrum."
oh my god??? i LOVE that you referenced 'community' because that's one of my favorite shows in the world. i grew up with it and quote it all the time and it makes me so happy hearing you quote magnitude 💖💖 this book is so terrible but also thank you for reading all of them which omg i can't believe you read all of them.
It won't help your sanity, but thank you for the very entertaining video! I laughed so much. Those are just horrible. 😅 And I feel sorry for those models in the stock photos they edited for the covers. Imagine being recognized from that?
This always cheers me up, I listened to the audio books on RUclips finally, I was at work and it very hard not to burst out in laughter. Like listening to robin williams stand up. That was hard to too lol!!
I hope your video isn't demonitized!! I know that creators were avoiding the words covid/coronavirus for a while because vids were getting surpressed and shite for even mentioning it (I guess to crack down on misinformation but like, that also surpresses legit information so idk). I always enjoy your videos, Rachel. Keep up the good work.
I first heard about this book series as AmandaTheJedi reviewed the first book a while back (string reccomend). Didn't realise this was a whole book series so I'm looking forward to this video (why am I like this?!!!!)
I recognised poppers as the lab button things but I an not sure those little throwing fireworks are called poppers here. So the other use of the word poppers in the UK is slang for some kinda rave drug so I was just confused. Why use a test tube like that?!!! Dr Gurgley-Chung?
The way I had to stop this video several times because my nausea was acting up at these descriptions and I can’t be abusing my Ondansetron right now 🤧 Bless you for taking this for the team and then actually not and reading this to us so we can suffer with you 😭
Right when you were talking about the MC's nails and then your hand came up into the frame, I gasped in awe of your gorgeous nails. They are so awesome, also it was hilarious timing which made them even better.
There are erotic novels about Covid? 😮 How do you come up with that stupid idea? I'm from Germany and I pray there aren't any pandants here. Rachel, you deserve a medal for reading this stuff.🏅
Damn it all, damn it all! I took a shower yesterday and I feel like I need to take another one. Ughhhhh, this is the most sickening (no pun intended) and insensitive romance book I've ever seen. No need for me to read them because I got you wonderful reviewers.
I saw reviews about the first Corona Virus book. Not much I can say about that. But what I heard from Tingle, the stories seem absurd but (as far as I have listenend to someone explaining his catalogue of novels) not offensive and more progressive and queer and batshitcrazy. Whoever writes these knows what they are doing and the fans seem to have fun with it. I actually wanted to read a few of his novels. Dominic Noble made a video about I think three of them and commented that they were surprisingly decent sometimes, ideawise and that the writing was okay-ish? At least in the ones he picked. I have to check him out myself. Glad you are back and hopefully relaxed again.
Sorry Rachel but I had to call my therapist after watching this. And my brain had an emergency meeting with the laugh department and cry department to create a new department: WTF department ( coronavirus edition)
"Yorkshire man at a car boot sale" - I imagine there is a stereotype about folks from Yorkshire being thrifty, and a car boot sale is kind of like a garage sale, except it is in a parking lot and a bunch of people sell things out of their vehicles (car boot is what we'd call the trunk).
I’m gonna be honest. This was playing in the background while I was taking a nap after working a 4am opening shift and I thought I was having a fucking fever dream.
Just in case anyone didn't know, this series was actually a satire mocking how we dealt with the virus (mainly that we disregarded safety for our own desires to have sex or make money in the case of corporations)
Everytime I see trump refer to himself having a good you know what my iq doubles, i feel so smart compared to that man! anyways "tickle in my knickers!" is a keeper!
I haven’t been catholic in a while but this series makes me want to pray
I DIED 🤣🤣🤣🤣
a loving god wouldnt let this into existence
Ppfffftttt this made me snort 🤣🤣
SAME.
😂😂😂
ok I am a scientist but not one who studies anything close to coronavirus so I can’t say much about a virus being in a test tube, I can absolutely say that the lack of safety while dealing with an infectious disease is appalling. you should never see the color of your nails clashing with what’s in the test tube bc you should be wearing gloves at all times!!!
okay i’ve decided this story has made me never want to step foot in lab again :/
@@berylofapples Trust me a real lab isn't anything like these books. Gloves are part of universal precautions .
can you speak on why the virus started to froth in the test tube 😆
Yeah that was the first thing that sprung out to me. I extracted RNA (of harmless, no-gmo plants, so basically safest/least regulated it can be) for my bachelors thesis and my supervisor and I were done up in sterile gloves, sterile sleeves, freshly washed labcoats (+ masks but it was in early 21 so that was less for lab safety) and worked in a RNAse-free fume hood. To protect the RNA because that molecule is quite vulnerable. Now, Im not a virologist either, but I do know SARS-CoV-2 IS a RNA virus (not to mention it IS contagious).
Also, but this is just an observation for plant genetics and overall practise courses during education, most DNA or RNA work I have done or seen done around me uses Eppendorf tubes (not test tubes! the biggest ones are about the size of a thumb tip) or well plates (roughly hand sized plates of many tiny tubes next to each other). Im ace but I doubt any of those are big enough to use them as a private toy. And classical test tubes like chemist use/that pop culture knows - arent they too narrow?
If her ovaries are moving around in any kind of significant way, that's actually a very serious medical condition and she should get it checked out.
As a person containing ovaries I can't imagine how that would work, or feel like wtf
(Paused to come looking for a comment about them)
I watched this with my cat. I'm jealous of her inability to understand English. She's snoozing peacefully, whereas I don't believe I'll ever know peace again. Thank you for your work.
sometimes i feel weird for being into the things i’m into, and then i check into the romance genre of books and see stuff like this and i think “you know what, it could be a lot worse.”
I've seen a few myself and I read webcomics thinking oh this is safe. Wrong!
“hardening like a tic tac” we are not even 5 minutes in and i’ve already choked
update: THE HOT DOG AND MAYO… m’am
That's just an infection waiting to happen.
Christopher is my favorite chaos monster. This video is effing hilarious.
We love Christopher here
I am ace. I am very ace. Why am I watching this?
To stand in solidarity with Rachel since she had to suffer through this, that’s why.
So I’m not a virologist specifically but I am a microbiologist. None of this is right. Questions that arose in the first 9 minutes:
1. Why is a tube of… presumably just virus bubbling, frothing, popping, etc?
2. Why are her nails out for them to clash with the tube? Why no gloves? OH that’s NOT what that’s for.
3. There is no live COVID in any of the existing COVID vaccines so like. Why are they putting the virus into the vaccine?
4. Sample-ometer is definitely fake.
I worked in chemistry and hematology and this was not not not accurate or sexy at all. Just gross. I also did RSV , HIV and flu screening before samples were sent to virology. Sputum is one of the most unappealing body fluids, especially from a person who is ill with a SARs virus. Yeesh
Man, don't you wish you had a country manor. I want to know what lab paid her salary!
How about that IV vaccine lol
As a virologist I approve this message 😂
Just as an aside, people have an amazing ability to rename things which already have a perfectly good name.
Nobody ever says the word sphygmomanometer in the real world, it’s just ‘the blood pressure machine’ and the amount of euphemisms for the word ‘morgue’ you’ll find in hospitals would fill a book (or one of the above reviewed novellas).
I love how the COVID info box from RUclips is unobtrusive when it should be red and flashing out of fear from these books.
Each book becomes progressively more unhinged. Book 1 was clearly just a random a cash grab, and then every book after that, the author leaned into the meme more and more 😂
What I love is between reading it the first time, filming, and editing, you've basically read these books 3 times
MUST YOU REMIND ME OF MY SUFFERING
@@ReadswithRachelYou suffered so we did not have to. 😂
Rachel suffered for MJ Edward’s sins.
What the hell did you do to Christopher for him to commission so many horrible books?
Okay, the book Chuck Tingle wrote in response was called "Chuck Tangle Pounded in the Butt by a Knockoff Book That Glorifies a Deadly Tragedy and Doesn't Prove Love is Real Then Accepting This as a Sad Side Effect of Making a Wider Positive Impact as an Author". I think buying this and reading it to us would make up for making us listen to this!
Rachel you deserve the highest human honor for reading this series 🤢
M.J Edwards must of had a sexual awakening when Thrax from Osmosis Jones made his big debut on the silver screen.
32:35 according to wikipedia:
Kissing the Coronavirus is a 2020 romance novelette written by Robert Winters under the pseudonym M.J. Edwards. The book was published by Viral erotica.
it seems as though you are correct the author is not someone w/ ovaries
I KNEW IT
So a man wrote this 😭😭🥴
That makes sense. Too much mention of what’s going on with the ovaries lol
I KNEWWWWW
I wonder if this was originally Hulk fanfiction that M.J. Edwards just changed to be Covid fanfic
Or a Shrek fanfic 😁
@@bib4eto656 that's giving too much credit to the author's creativity 😆Hulk is basically this story minus graphic sex.
@@bats550 oh yeah, you're right. Eh
Some of these descriptions were just awkward, but then the absurd descriptions kept happening and getting increasingly bizarre. There is absolutely no way someone with a vagina wrote this.
“Sarah J Maas probably wants to pick up that line but doesn’t want to make it obvious she’s been reading Kissing the Corona Virus”.
I choked on my morning joint.
The imagery in these is unmatched... And I’d love it to stay unmatched.
Damn, I see quarantine hit harder for certain people, these romance books getting out of hand💀
Are we sure these books are not just someone trying to get the most and worst metaphors that have ever been created into a jumble of sentences and mix them with physically impossible descriptions of bodyparts being sentient? (Thank you for your sacrifice though! 💜)
Possible. These are so bad it comes off as intentional.
Like the writer purused r/menwritingwomen and went "hold my beer."
@@stareyedwitch the writing is absolutely intentionally cringe, and it's worrying how many people in these comments don't see it, lol.
“THE PLOT SICKENS” 🥹 HOLLERING!!!
Listen I’m recovering from a hysterectomy rn and the way the phrase “made her ovaries clash together like cymbals” made me physically recoil-
This sounds like the end result of a trio of 13 year olds, a pilfered bottle of mums cooking sherry and a thesaurus.
I hate these types of stories, but I’m grateful they exist as they make me feel like I can publish my 5th grade creative writing assignments.
The dead look in your eyes every time you read from those novellas is telling me everything I need to know
I really didn’t think they would get worse with each book but I have been proven wrong
I’ll never not hear Cardi whenever anyone says coronavirus
I didn’t expect much but this series is worse than what I imagined. A HOTDOG?! HOTDOG?!
"Slap and tickle" was another opportunity for a Community clip! Lol (season 1 finale, I think duncan says it)
Oh my god I missed an opportunity of a lifetime
I swear I lost brain cells listening to the excerpts. 9 minutes in and I'm done 😭
I'm sorry you had to suffer, Rachel
There's no way Christopher paid you enough for this horror, Rachel. #scarredforlife
This author literally chose the worst words to ever word
This video is gonna be so useful to me, I'm working on my perfectionism by writing an shitty erotic romance Novella for Camp NaNo
I have not laughed so hard and been so disturbed at the same time in a very long while. Thank you lol
YUS!!!! Rachel finally knows literary pain like no other. 😂😂😂
On first glance at the thumbnail i was like "the grinch" but it turns out it was much more strange than that.
A grinch one would be hilarious
I'm so sorry but these were legitimately hilarious and I would be friends with M. J. Edwards regardless of gender
I feel like Chuck Tingle's sentient toaster walked (and f*****, but in an incredibly respectful and loving super-kinky manner) so that Mr Handsome Covid could run. Do you know anything about Chuck, btw? He supposedly lives in my town, I am so obsessed, I think I may have met him IRL.
Omg ofc chuck wrote a covid one...
Chuck is such a great satire author and I support everything he writes cause he's pure gold.
Chuck is great. The Tinglers are hilarious. I'm incredibly hyped for Camp Damascus.
Have you read "How to be a movie star" by TJ Klune? The main characters are based on Chuck Tingle. It's in audible plus if you have audible, and kobo plus if you have that.
@@davegray4242 I just learned about that book and it's next on my TBR cause Tingle is always a good time.
It would honestly be so funny if SJM moonlighted as a british spam erotica writer. what a madwoman, I'd honestly respect her for that I think.
Is it bad that I find this book series inspiring for me to write intentionally garbage romance stories? 🤣
Also, why does your child want to contact Santa so early in the year? Unless you guys down in Florida celebrate Xmas early?
"why am I here? Just to suffer! Every day I wake up..."
That was HORRIFYING. I immediately sent the link to my SO and my bestie. Thanks for your service. 😅😂😭
I know this was a painful thing for you but thank you for the laughs I really needed them. But also that author is a menace.
There was a period in my life where i read alot of bad fanfiction, this was something else. I think i lost some brain cells from this one, yet i couldn't stop listening to you read this
I had to actually pause the video so i could laugh cry after he chewed thru her bra. I cannot believe you got to that part without laughing, and then your laugh set me off 😂
Poppers also have a different connotation for gay men. Iykyk. 🤭
Ovaries clashing together like cymbals?? 😬 this is giving ultimate ick
The specific measurement of the medium sized python made me lol. So good and this book series is so bad.
I spent some time during the vaccine rollout volunteering at my county's mass vaccination clinics and... Yeah, those vaccines were colorless.
M.J Ewards is the pen name for Robert WInter so alllll of this makes soooo much sense lol! He is quoted saying, "M.J. is the alter ego under which I get to explore a more erotic side of romance, with combinations of characters along the LGBTQ spectrum."
oh my god??? i LOVE that you referenced 'community' because that's one of my favorite shows in the world. i grew up with it and quote it all the time and it makes me so happy hearing you quote magnitude 💖💖 this book is so terrible but also thank you for reading all of them which omg i can't believe you read all of them.
I’m literally in tears right now, sitting in the living across my mother losing my fucking mind over the choice of words. This HAS to be a giant joke.
There are too many great images but “embracing embrace” KILLED me
It won't help your sanity, but thank you for the very entertaining video! I laughed so much. Those are just horrible. 😅 And I feel sorry for those models in the stock photos they edited for the covers. Imagine being recognized from that?
Thirty seconds in and I've already lost it... there are FOUR OF THEM?????
There is no way someone could convince me that these weren't written terribly on purpose because just why 🙂
This always cheers me up, I listened to the audio books on RUclips finally, I was at work and it very hard not to burst out in laughter. Like listening to robin williams stand up. That was hard to too lol!!
I appreciate your sacrifice so we don’t have to read them lol 🖤
Does Team Rocket also protect the world from penis devastation? 🧐
I hope your video isn't demonitized!! I know that creators were avoiding the words covid/coronavirus for a while because vids were getting surpressed and shite for even mentioning it (I guess to crack down on misinformation but like, that also surpresses legit information so idk).
I always enjoy your videos, Rachel. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your courage
Honestly Miss Edwards wishes she could be in the same video as a Tingler
it’s mister edwards actually, a dude wrote all this
This author clearly didn't lose any loved ones to this disease. This book is a curse on the history of the written word.
I first heard about this book series as AmandaTheJedi reviewed the first book a while back (string reccomend).
Didn't realise this was a whole book series so I'm looking forward to this video (why am I like this?!!!!)
I recognised poppers as the lab button things but I an not sure those little throwing fireworks are called poppers here. So the other use of the word poppers in the UK is slang for some kinda rave drug so I was just confused.
Why use a test tube like that?!!!
Dr Gurgley-Chung?
I'm dying at sample-ometer. Oh my god. Unfortunately I can't tell anyone in lab about that tomorrow because the name of the book. Jesus Christ.
So much of this book sounds like it was based on a date with random words and trying to get those words into an erotica.
Wait wait will another variant be a new character?!
That's not the UK definition of dogging at all.
(It's about voyeuristic tendencies outdoors but I'm sure you can Google on urban dictionary perhaps?)
Ah yes. Nurgle’s smut.
Why… did you have to say that??? I physically winced at those words, but you’re so right.
“Tits get pretty lively when their upsety spaghetti” my new favorite quote thank you
The way I had to stop this video several times because my nausea was acting up at these descriptions and I can’t be abusing my Ondansetron right now 🤧 Bless you for taking this for the team and then actually not and reading this to us so we can suffer with you 😭
Rachel… I love you but this is my limit 😭😭
FAIR ANNAIT THATS FAIR
I thought I was going to be alcohol at the beginning for a second
32:12 Has me sobbing
Was
Was that a fucking vocaloid reference 😭
oohh if you ever do any Chuck Tingle you should do Harriet Porber
This is art. thank you for your sacrifice 😂
the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man KILLED me, i am DECEASED lololol
Right when you were talking about the MC's nails and then your hand came up into the frame, I gasped in awe of your gorgeous nails. They are so awesome, also it was hilarious timing which made them even better.
This is giving the same energy as that high school philosophy paper about Mario. Perchance.
I must say when the "release the Kraken" gif came on, I giggled a lot.
There are erotic novels about Covid? 😮 How do you come up with that stupid idea? I'm from Germany and I pray there aren't any pandants here.
Rachel, you deserve a medal for reading this stuff.🏅
What is Germany like
@@squirrel9760I've never been but I heard they have pretzels, so that's neat.
The Tinglers are great. The Harriet Porber books are a good intro point.
I'm 3 minutes in and I can't believe you actually managed to read this, omg. I'm crying. XD
Went to the Goodreads page of the first book, and saw “Bagged by the Groceries” in the Readers also enjoy section. The internet was not a mistake.
Squirt gun? Loaded. Makeup? Effervescent. Books? Read.
effervescent!! 🐌🐌
Damn it all, damn it all! I took a shower yesterday and I feel like I need to take another one. Ughhhhh, this is the most sickening (no pun intended) and insensitive romance book I've ever seen. No need for me to read them because I got you wonderful reviewers.
Were they hungry? There's a lot food references.
Also how does one slide vagina first? Is it like sliding into first base ?
This video has me crying laughing like the Colorado River rushing through the Hoover Dam
I saw reviews about the first Corona Virus book. Not much I can say about that.
But what I heard from Tingle, the stories seem absurd but (as far as I have listenend to someone explaining his catalogue of novels) not offensive and more progressive and queer and batshitcrazy. Whoever writes these knows what they are doing and the fans seem to have fun with it. I actually wanted to read a few of his novels. Dominic Noble made a video about I think three of them and commented that they were surprisingly decent sometimes, ideawise and that the writing was okay-ish? At least in the ones he picked. I have to check him out myself.
Glad you are back and hopefully relaxed again.
I'm only 10 minutes in and trying desperately to paint my nails but *I can't see bc I'm laughing too hard* 🤣😭💀
Good 😈🤣
Sorry Rachel but I had to call my therapist after watching this. And my brain had an emergency meeting with the laugh department and cry department to create a new department: WTF department ( coronavirus edition)
"Tickle in her knickers"? What the heck?
Is she Doctor Alexa because she asked her Alexa for a character name?
Yeeeah things I'm into feel really tame and normal after this
"Yorkshire man at a car boot sale" - I imagine there is a stereotype about folks from Yorkshire being thrifty, and a car boot sale is kind of like a garage sale, except it is in a parking lot and a bunch of people sell things out of their vehicles (car boot is what we'd call the trunk).
I’m gonna be honest. This was playing in the background while I was taking a nap after working a 4am opening shift and I thought I was having a fucking fever dream.
Just in case anyone didn't know, this series was actually a satire mocking how we dealt with the virus (mainly that we disregarded safety for our own desires to have sex or make money in the case of corporations)
I couldn’t click on this video sooner because for some reason I was laughing hysterically at the thumbnail 😂
These novels are a fever dream.
This is the content you all subscribed for, don't lie
Everytime I see trump refer to himself having a good you know what my iq doubles, i feel so smart compared to that man! anyways "tickle in my knickers!" is a keeper!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I had no idea it could be this bad. What is she doing to that hotdog??!!!