Hyperfixation Hotline Yap: Kara AKA NotEvenCloseToStraight

So tell us, what is it about heated rivalry that like made you hyper fixated, hooked you in, made you obsessed, made you want to write a half a million word fanfic about

it? Okay, so heated rivalry.

I... one of my, just one of my dear, dear friends got me into it.

She messaged me one day and said, Hey, they're about to make one of my favorite books into a show.

I need you to read the book so you can watch the show with me.

And she was already on like wafer thin ice when it came to recommendations.

Cause the last couple of things, the last couple of things she'd offered, I was like, this is wrong.

I'm not like you have bad taste in things.

Um, so she begged me to watch begged me to read the book I read the book I wasn't sold on watching this show um I have been I think all of us have been disappointed by book to show adaptations or like book to screen adaptations

for sure

and um And I don't mean this in a negative way, but you know, like the book is very tropey.

It's very, well, they won't, they, there's a lot of exaggerated tensions and like outside problems and things like that.

And I was like, I don't need to see another one of those on screen.

Right.

I don't need to see another one of those on screen, but she begged and begged and she finally got me.

She said, well, it's about a blonde boy with mommy issues and a neurodivergent brunette.

And I know you love those type of boys.

And I was like, damn it.

I do love.

I'm

locked in.

I locked in.

Yeah.

She'd already watched the first two episodes several times by the time I caught up.

And I knew I was in trouble when we get to, you know, the gym scene and they're sitting there and it's like the infamous water bottle pass, right? I knew I was in trouble when that happened and I had to pause and I texted her and I said, hey, this eye contact is inappropriate.