Hey, it's me, Stellar in Neverland. Brief updates:
-This is my last week of driver's ed, so I should have a normal posting schedule after this one. I'll let you know if things change.
-This is also my school's homecoming week, so things will be hectic. Next week's post will be another Life post (like the first day of school one from a few weeks ago) where I talk about that, specifically the dance, which has always been my favorite part of homecoming.
Now that that's out of the way, this is a part 2 to last week's post, Top 10 Worst not_luna_lovegood Posts On The Brick Wall (Self-Deprecation Part 1). You should probably read that before you read this one. Last week I counted down the tenth-to-sixth-worst posts I published on The Brick Wall, the blog I made with my friends in middle school. I'm doing this because I want to show that I've said a lot of stupid stuff, but I've improved a lot as a writer and I love self-deprecation. We're only limiting this to posts made by not_luna_lovegood (my former alias) because I would feel bad insulting my friends. Now let's finish this!
#5. Updates/Fangirling with not_luna_lovegood
Back in sixth and seventh grade, I was a fangirl...ugh. Just that label makes me cringe. It's not like I'm not a fan of anything, because that's obviously false. I like a lot of things. It's the title of "fangirl" and the association with the embarrassing times of my life where I proudly donned that label that I can't deal with. In hindsight, this post is the epitome of everything that made past me so cringeworthy. We start off with a few brief updates, probably not longer than the updates I start every post here with. Then we get to the fangirling, which is just horrible. How was I ever able to use the word "fangirl" or any of its derivative forms and not cringe? First I talk about Pitch Perfect 2, which I still think is a pretty great movie. This part isn't really that embarrassing because I stand by most of the things I said there. The only really bad part is the last line, the "but it is SO funny" part. I don't know why, but the random all-caps on "so" just annoys me. It feels weirdly pretentious. Next we have me talking about Dancing with the Stars (which actually inspired one of the few good posts I made on the Brick Wall). It's short so I'll just ignore it. The worst part is last, where I talk about Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" music video and how it was the best music video ever or something. I hate this part because...well, I hinted at this in the first part but I really don't like Taylor Swift anymore. 2015 me was a big Swiftie, but 2017 me can't stand her. I hate most of her music ("Style" is the big exception, but I have soft spots for "Blank Space" and "Mean" as well). I hate the way she tries so hard to be relatable (she's all "I'm totally a normal person teehee I just like to bingewatch Friends on Netflix and fangirl and bake cookies with my friends and play with my cats!") when she's really not (sadly, most of us aren't selling out arenas or being friends with Beyonce). I hate how she insists on shoving her "squad" in your face (which is actually the reason why I hate the "Bad Blood" video). I hate how she can't take criticism and always plays the victim. I hate how the media never shuts up about her. They act like she's Jesus Christ and they expect us to act like she's Jesus Christ when in reality, most of us don't care about who she's dating or beefing with. And most of all, I hate how I used to call myself a fan. To sum it up, my reasons for this post's inclusion on the list come down to "I hate my fangirl past and Taylor Swift."
#4. My Top 10 Favorite SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes (Parts 1 and 2)
This doesn't make the list because I suddenly stopped liking SpongeBob. Even though it went significantly downhill in quality over time, I'm always going to adore that show. It's a classic. It also doesn't make the list because I disagree with my picks. If I were to make a SpongeBob list today, most of them would probably make it (although "Jellyfish Jam", "Culture Shock", "Something Smells", "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve", and "Chocolate with Nuts" are notable omissions). This post made the list because I DON'T EVEN TALK ABOUT WHY I LIKE THE EPISODES FOR MORE THAN THREE SENTENCES. This post is long, so long that I split it into two parts, but very little of it is actually about why I like each episode. Most of it is just summarizing each episode, and the summaries are long. What I should have done is briefly summarize each episode and have the majority of it be about why each episode made the list, but I did the opposite, which is stupid. A list like that should provide insight about my opinions, not just summaries with the opinions listed as an afterthought). If you want summaries, you can just go to Wikipedia and look them up. I don't want to be Wikipedia. That's not who I am. This post is horrible, but unlike the next entry, I don't think I'll ever redo it because my opinions are mostly the same, give or take a few episodes. And speaking of that next entry...
#3. My Top Ten Favorite Movies By: not_luna_lovegood
If you saw my new My Top Ten Favorite Movies post, than you probably could have seen this one coming. I put this post this high because my hatred of it is what inspired me to create Stellar in Neverland so therefore it has sentimental value to me. I explained it a little in that post, so I'll copy and paste what I said there:
"I'm honestly not too proud of that post in hindsight, and a big part of the reason why this blog exists is because I want to remake it. That's partially because of the choices (Some of these movies are going to appear on this list, but others I just don't like as much anymore), but mostly because I don't like how I explained my opinions in that post. It was so fill-in-the-blank. "The acting is ________. I love the _________. The plot is _________. The movie is overall ________." That's how every entry feels like, and that's not a good explanation of why I love those movies. This post is different, because I'm going to explain what each movie means to me personally. I want this to feel more like an emotional commentary on movies that changed my life, instead of a Mad Libs that barely praises the movies in question."
I could just leave it at that and call it an adequate explanation for why this post sucks, but nope. I'm going to talk about how much I disagree with those choices. The Lion King and Wreck-It Ralph are both really good but there are definitely Disney movies I love more. I was really into The Hunger Games when I was in middle school (it was one of the main subjects of my fangirling), and while I still like the first two books, I think the movies are overrated. I also really don't like Jennifer Lawrence and I think she's overrated as well. Then there's Despicable Me 2 which shouldn't've made the list because the only thing it has to offer is humor. It's nowhere near as well-rounded as other animated movies that made my new list (also the minions are annoying). I'm also legitimately sick of quite a few of the movies that made the list, such as Monsters, Inc. and Wreck-It Ralph. I'm going to end this by plugging the previously linked new Top Ten Favorite Movies. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT IF YOU HAVEN'T. I am so proud of that post. It's my baby.
#2. Music Mondays With not_luna_lovegood #3
When I talk about this post and its crappiness, I'm referring to both the original, which I deleted after two days, and its updated version. The post started out as a rant about "#selfie" by The Chainsmokers and why it's the worst song of 2014 or something. It was written three years ago, so my memory has faded a little, but from what I remember, it was messy. So messy that my friends specifically had to email me telling me they were disappointed by it. I was pretty mad about that at first (you guys don't have to roast me, I can do it myself!), but yeah, they were right. It was just me going through all the lyrics and providing "funny" commentary which probably wasn't even that funny. I kept talking about the "basic white girl" stereotype when I didn't even really know much about it. There's also the fact that "#selfie" isn't a serious song and I shouldn't've treated it like so. But the worst part was, as cited by the updated version, when I spoiled Quidditch_Turtle's post on selfies. The exact quotes (the only quotes from the original that still exist) were:
"I have literally no idea what to post...*goes and looks at Quidditch_Turtle's post for the next Whatever Wednesdays* GOT IT!"
and:
"I didn't tell you what Quidditch_Turtle's next article is about on purpose. You'll have to wait until Wednesday to see, if you couldn't guess already!"
My friends called me out for this as well, and they totally should have. It was wrong of me to look ahead at what my friends were posting and we made it a rule that nobody could do the same ever again, which was a good decision. However, not only was the now-nonexistent original terrible, the updated apology was equally terrible. It begins with a half-hearted apology (because I was still secretly a little salty about getting called out for writing a crappy post) and then goes to more Billboard schtick. Like the "Summer Songs" post I mentioned in the first one, this doesn't have commentary or anything insightful added to the songs except for this little zinger at the end:
"I don't really have any comments on the songs. I don't know, but it seems like pop music has been getting kinda boring and repetitive lately. It seems like all the songs are either about love, partying, or inappropriate stuff which I will not mention because we like to keep things appropriate at the Brick Wall. I miss the days when pop music was more interesting."
Can we talk about how pretentious of a statement that is? It shows hypocrisy seeing as I freely talked about drugs and alcohol (clearly the "inappropriate stuff I will not mention") in the post before this one. It's also a false statement, seeing as I like some of the songs on that list. Hell, I was just bopping to Ariana Grande's "Problem" earlier today as I was doing laundry! In conclusion, this wasn't just one garbage post, it was two. So why isn't it number one? Well, because both versions had actual effort put into them, unlike...
#1. Whatever Wednesday with not_luna_lovegood #3
Yikes. Yikes yikes yikes. Okay, to be fair, this one was published later than intended for some reason and was therefore rushed, but there is still no excuse for it to be so abysmal. This is a "deep and serious" post for some ungodly reason. It's about bullying. I won't deny that bullying is an important topic and it definitely should be talked about, but I am not the person who should be talking about it. I don't even know why I made it in the first place. There is nothing new or interesting I have to say here. Literally everything I wrote in this post has already been said by every guidance counselor in every elementary school in America. "If you're getting bullied, tell someone!" "If you see somebody getting bullied, stand up for the bully!" "If you're bullying, stop it!" Actually, forget guidance counselors. My brother, a first grader, could write this post. I was twelve at the time of writing it, and yeah, I know most twelve-year-olds aren't writing Shakespeare, but surely they're writing better than this. Most of the time the tone I had on the blog was enthusiastic, sort of geeky but in a charming way. This one, however, is completely blase and unfitting considering that bullying is a serious topic. Finally, this post is way too short. Although unnecessarily long posts are my signature, I can be concise when needed, but there's such a thing as being not enough. This is not substantial enough to be clarified as anything as good. This sum-up about it is actually one of the shorter ones I've done on this list, but it's still probably longer than the actual post! So there you have it. The single worst post I've ever done. Hopefully everything I'll ever do on this blog will top it (as well as all the other posts on this list).
With that being said, I'm done with this! I'm Stellar in Neverland, and I'll be back next Wednesday with my homecoming adventures. Tune in then, peace!
Stellar
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