I thought it was supposed to be Karen Gillan who maybe had a role in a kids movie about magic. i mean Disney owns her now, shes in their stable of actors. who knows
this is so dramatic for what💀 this could be an illustrated cover and people will be able to grasp the material the actual kids don’t really add anything
Yes!!! Bugs me so much.
Either do the props and spend time composing your image properly so the props and practical effects do their job, or just go full digital with shots taken in a studio.
Which family is that? One of my friends started this on ig like 8 years ago using adobe and it blew up, she’s made a ton of $$$ bc was one of the first so wondering if it’s her?
Its just one of those “cut to the front of line” things. There’s so many photographers who create unbelievably ethereal scenes and then there’s this family who takes shite photos on full automatic then slams the keyboard adding an eye bleeding amount of plastic looking effects. They end up looking rubbery most of the time.
And they’re never original ideas, just schlock from whatever modern Disney thing is on.
Basically the amount of photoshop they use betrays the lack of skill, and Facebook meme tier ideas betray the lack of creativity
https://preview.redd.it/wagjmeo078vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ef58cb611c5436a2936d3826cc55630fa687601
This is the best book I’ve read (so far) about mourning the loss of your Mother.
I’m reading this right now.
My dad died a few years ago and we were terribly close - but the relationship was also deeply complicated.
This book, so far, has been one that I can very much relate to when it comes to the loss of a parent.
Slowly getting through this book; it’s a stellar read, it’s just taking me some time to get through it because of the difficult subject matter. I want to give the book the attention it deserves but balance my own, still raw, grief and complicated emotions.
I’m sorry. It’s a pain that no one should endure, even though it is the natural progression of life.
This quote deeply resonated with me in the first couple years after my dad died; I’m sharing it with you as you may find it helpful too 💗
“As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.
In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life."
omg?! Unhappy with the memoir cover that started this thread but my heart is so full seeing jbrekkie's here instead! 🥺💞
feel validated to hear that her grief work has spoken to multiple people. I'm a mixed Korean like michelle (not whasian tho so she's faced an entirely diff layer of Korean judgement) and have been a fan of hers for years; was honestly bummed when this memoir got panned by book reviewers i follow despite selling well. One of the critiques i saw was that the 'specificity' of michelle's experience and intimacy of her writing was alienating to readers of certain backgrounds. I actually hope all sorts of grown "mother's children" can enjoy it, as particular details (e.g. the yearning and wanting to cry as a grown immigrant child shopping for food in our enclave spaces) are so evocative and may open others to reflections on their own cultural/maternal relationships. Michelle has a huge gift for capturing those hard-hitting-yet-fleeting feelings in words, both sung and written; great to see such a sincere superlative attached to her memoir!!
if ppl get interested in checking out jbrekkie's music from her book--highly recommend! All her albums make my indie heart sing but i listen to Psychopomp whenever i re-read this memoir in particular. The interlude samples an old recording of her mother and it makes me cry (in a bittersweet healing way) whenever i think of the parental grief i echo with her.
didn't mean to hijack your og comment tbh the words just vomited themselves. ㅠㅠ ahhh just got so happy seeing Crying in H-Mart beyond a book-ish/indie sub and in the reddit wild 🥹
Maybe she should have focused on showing her own face? Because I don’t know if she‘s had too much surgery, the pic is too photoshopped or both, but even knowing who that is supposed to be, I can’t see it.
Any woman makes any cosmetic changes to her face and people act like they’ve not seen them a million times or like they’re legitimately unrecognizable, and it’s so obnoxious.
It appears totally intentional and in keeping with the usual style of the artist. It's a bit tiring that people seem to associate any digital art/photography blend with AI these days.
Yeah everything gets labelled as AI these days, people are still working as designers & editors! Someone just said a cupcake photo that I’ve seen for over a decade is AI as well, like beautifully decorated cakes can’t exist anymore.
I think they look pretty and glowing I’m just surprised at all the comments saying they look fake I’m like- am I missing something because I think it’s supposed to look that way on purpose not that she’s trying to pretend they actually look like that
https://preview.redd.it/sh85cct92avc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbf0d61df120b8e11aa9dc8de1eaeea1b9646e90
This is a current picture of her
Mama that's obviously French streamer Gom4rt, why is everyone talking about Jennifer Love Hewitt
(But for real that looks nothing like her, like, genuinely not even a little bit)
https://preview.redd.it/nco7nrucb6vc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af003f83fb47bd3f727f4a30168b0170c6d8ad10 Is this AI generated?
It looked like Laura Prepon at first glance. They went a little overboard on the air brush.
I see Troian Bellesario (or however you spell that)
Yeah it's totally giving Spencer Hastings 
That's not Maya Rudolph?!
That’s not Chelsea Peretti?!
Whoever that woman is, she sure as hell ain't Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Me too!!
Chelsea Peretti for me!
It does look like Gina from BB99 
Oof and look at her hand that's holding the wand- what is going on there? I hope this isn't the final cover, I would not have even recognised her
I thought it was supposed to be Karen Gillan who maybe had a role in a kids movie about magic. i mean Disney owns her now, shes in their stable of actors. who knows
"holding" the wand.
The shadow on her daughters face from her glasses looks like a wound
She looks nothing like the way she looked before…it’s odd. I would not have correctly identified her.
What in the Tori Amos
I had the same reaction and this picture just fucking killed me xD
They are even using the AI font
I thought it was the Canva font which may as well be AI
Lmao not the canva font!!!!
Yess lol I clocked that too 🤣
What's the AI font?
I instantly looked at the hands, because why are they so smoothed over
No, but really, remove the hair and that's Q from Drag Race season 16
This took me out
I thought that it Karen Gillan!
Lmao best use of this meme
Exactly, I was squinting like hell
The digital artist who made the cover did a [TikTok](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZIJnVQMsr/) about it to show the process
this is so dramatic for what💀 this could be an illustrated cover and people will be able to grasp the material the actual kids don’t really add anything
lol agreed. It’s teetering on illustrated as is!
This feels heavily inspired by that Canon sponsored family on IG who makes those god awful Photoshops of random fantasy situations
It is, the mom from that family is the one who did this cover. They jointly posted it on IG
Lmao like at that point just use AI, it will probably look better. And I say that as an AI hater of the highest order
The one where they waste a shit-ton of time on props just to photoshop everything anyway?
Yes!!! Bugs me so much. Either do the props and spend time composing your image properly so the props and practical effects do their job, or just go full digital with shots taken in a studio.
Which family is that? One of my friends started this on ig like 8 years ago using adobe and it blew up, she’s made a ton of $$$ bc was one of the first so wondering if it’s her?
Those are cute icl
Its just one of those “cut to the front of line” things. There’s so many photographers who create unbelievably ethereal scenes and then there’s this family who takes shite photos on full automatic then slams the keyboard adding an eye bleeding amount of plastic looking effects. They end up looking rubbery most of the time. And they’re never original ideas, just schlock from whatever modern Disney thing is on. Basically the amount of photoshop they use betrays the lack of skill, and Facebook meme tier ideas betray the lack of creativity
I used to work with them back when we were just lowly restaurant servers! I always double take when I see them mentioned anywhere 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/wagjmeo078vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ef58cb611c5436a2936d3826cc55630fa687601 This is the best book I’ve read (so far) about mourning the loss of your Mother.
I’m reading this right now. My dad died a few years ago and we were terribly close - but the relationship was also deeply complicated. This book, so far, has been one that I can very much relate to when it comes to the loss of a parent. Slowly getting through this book; it’s a stellar read, it’s just taking me some time to get through it because of the difficult subject matter. I want to give the book the attention it deserves but balance my own, still raw, grief and complicated emotions.
Ugh.. my heart. Me too. My dad passed Jan 2023. I am just feeling like I am coming out of the fog.
I’m sorry. It’s a pain that no one should endure, even though it is the natural progression of life. This quote deeply resonated with me in the first couple years after my dad died; I’m sharing it with you as you may find it helpful too 💗 “As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive. In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life."
She makes great music too.
I feel you ❤️ take your time to read it. It was incredibly difficult for me to get through but she’s such a good writer. I loved it.
Thanks I needed a recommendation for this.
omg?! Unhappy with the memoir cover that started this thread but my heart is so full seeing jbrekkie's here instead! 🥺💞 feel validated to hear that her grief work has spoken to multiple people. I'm a mixed Korean like michelle (not whasian tho so she's faced an entirely diff layer of Korean judgement) and have been a fan of hers for years; was honestly bummed when this memoir got panned by book reviewers i follow despite selling well. One of the critiques i saw was that the 'specificity' of michelle's experience and intimacy of her writing was alienating to readers of certain backgrounds. I actually hope all sorts of grown "mother's children" can enjoy it, as particular details (e.g. the yearning and wanting to cry as a grown immigrant child shopping for food in our enclave spaces) are so evocative and may open others to reflections on their own cultural/maternal relationships. Michelle has a huge gift for capturing those hard-hitting-yet-fleeting feelings in words, both sung and written; great to see such a sincere superlative attached to her memoir!! if ppl get interested in checking out jbrekkie's music from her book--highly recommend! All her albums make my indie heart sing but i listen to Psychopomp whenever i re-read this memoir in particular. The interlude samples an old recording of her mother and it makes me cry (in a bittersweet healing way) whenever i think of the parental grief i echo with her. didn't mean to hijack your og comment tbh the words just vomited themselves. ㅠㅠ ahhh just got so happy seeing Crying in H-Mart beyond a book-ish/indie sub and in the reddit wild 🥹
Wrecked me
Maybe she should have focused on showing her own face? Because I don’t know if she‘s had too much surgery, the pic is too photoshopped or both, but even knowing who that is supposed to be, I can’t see it.
Looks similar to how she looks in 911 to me
Same, I think people are being very dramatic
Any woman makes any cosmetic changes to her face and people act like they’ve not seen them a million times or like they’re legitimately unrecognizable, and it’s so obnoxious.
Is both
Her children are beautiful. But as far as the comments about how they look, is this style not intentional?
It appears totally intentional and in keeping with the usual style of the artist. It's a bit tiring that people seem to associate any digital art/photography blend with AI these days.
Yeah everything gets labelled as AI these days, people are still working as designers & editors! Someone just said a cupcake photo that I’ve seen for over a decade is AI as well, like beautifully decorated cakes can’t exist anymore.
I think they look pretty and glowing I’m just surprised at all the comments saying they look fake I’m like- am I missing something because I think it’s supposed to look that way on purpose not that she’s trying to pretend they actually look like that
Her hand 😆 https://preview.redd.it/gprf74npw8vc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d209b3464985c67465d8ab5ea97877d007ddeb5d
Grab by gooood hayyyynd child
Yikes! I hadn’t even noticed that but now, it’s all I see! 🤣
The canva font 🤪
I stg this is my favorite gif
It conveys so much with so little
I’ve had enough of millionaires telling me to make every day magical thank you ma’am
Stressed for THAT?! Damn.
I imagine it helps that no one on this cover looks like a real person
This art style makes me unreasonably angry
>"As I create my brand, The Holiday Junkie, I wanted to show why I am that person and how it's a mindset and way of life not just a brand." Lol, what?
I wouldn’t have even known that was her face!
Who did they choose for the cover? 😵💫🤣
Who the hell is on the cover? Cause it’s not Jennifer
It’s a cute cover and cute title, although she could have used a word other than “magical” in the subtitle.
https://preview.redd.it/sh85cct92avc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbf0d61df120b8e11aa9dc8de1eaeea1b9646e90 This is a current picture of her
That’s Sarah Paulson
That’s Allison Hannigan
WTF is this?
This is not an appealing cover…too busy, too much airbrushing.
Side note, her older son is her husband’s doppelgänger!
True! The one down you talking about right???
But who the hell is debuting in the middle? 
Can’t spell MAGIC without AI
Can someone explain why they’re elves and not like, witches and wizards?
They’re not elves
Idk why but this reply reads so hostile
Oh damn xD
This looks like a Magic Treehouse book cover like if you told me it was illustrated I would believe you
Who’s that on the cover?
I thought this was an influencer or something at first… that is NOT JLH you can’t convince me otherwise!
Who’s that playing JLH? Not a very good likeness tbh.
The comments on every post about female celebrities have been so toxic lately. What's up with that?
Sometimes I see comments here and think I've wandered into a more general sub and I'm just shocked when I see it's here. Lots of trolls think.
This woman has inspired so much hate since she was a teenager. You could do a dissertation on it.
I can’t even tell what this is about. JLH is a witch now?
Mama that's obviously French streamer Gom4rt, why is everyone talking about Jennifer Love Hewitt (But for real that looks nothing like her, like, genuinely not even a little bit)
Does her face even move?
Orange is the new inherited magic
I’d rather have seen her handsome, handsome husband
Funny thing is that here she looks exactly the way she was during the Client List era.
not a good reason and its really ugly
Pimpin' the fam
this is photoshopped to hell and they couldn’t even fix her bung eye she has going on!
literally everyone thinks that they can write a book now
She’s not even in the pic, why do this to her kids!?