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My most hated trope in tv dramas and soaps: Character A discovers that Character B has done something nefarious. Character A gives them an ultimatum to confess to the crime or else they will squeal. (Bonus points if Character A is dumb enough to confront the perpetrator late at night and/or in the middle of nowhere to accuse them of criminal activity.) Character B then predictably covers their tracks and frames Character A for the crime instead.

I swear he once said on the show that he was a meat-eater (it was the episode where they were talking about the killing of Cecil the lion.) I might be wrong though. Yep, I have a nutritionist friend who recently started her own company to provide healthy and affordable food for babies and children. My local supermarket chain has also launched a campaign to educate people about healthy eating and growing their own vegetables. Both of these initiatives seem more productive than telling an obese person that they’re a worthless fat fuck or whatever.

Craig Mazin is currently doing an AMA on the Chernobyl reddit sub. Here’s the link in case anyone is interested.

The sequel Walking Disaster was unintentionally funny because it was such an obvious cut-and-paste job of Beautiful Disaster (there's even a part where Travis refers to himself in third person because McGuire forgot to edit a sentence.) There's also a ridiculous epilogue where Travis is now working for the FBI (yes, really) and has two horrible children who regularly beat the crap out of the other kids at school.

My two most hated book love interests: Derek Hawke from Jennifer's Wilde's Marietta Trilogy. Even by bodice ripper standards he is such a cold and abusive piece of shit. Thankfully the author is fully aware of how horrible he is and the heroine eventually leaves him for someone else. Travis Maddox from Beautiful Disaster. I can tolerate troubled bad boy characters in fiction if they're compelling, but Travis is just a violent and misogynistic loser. Actually the whole book is such a misogynistic trainwreck that I was left wondering if the author had a single female friend in real life. Seriously, 99% of the girls in the book are referred to as skank bitches, sluts or STD-ridden imbeciles by our delightful hero. The heroine is of course Not Like Those Other Skanks because she's pure and virginal and therefore worthy of Travis. The only good thing about this awful book and romance is the 1 star reviews on Goodreads (which were more entertaining than the actual story.)