I just dropped by to say, fuck Nicholas Sparks.

Nicolas Sparks is the Thomas Kinkade of “storytelling,” if that’s what he thinks it is.

His house was built by Thomas Kinkade.

“It was really interesting because a lot of the actors said, ‘Well, what’s Noah’s arc?” Sparks explained in a recent IMDB interview. “It’s a guy who falls in love and then he just kinda does nothing, and then waits for her to show up, and then he’s there and he’s still in love and then at the end of the film, well,…

Soooo basically it’s every girlfriend role in every movie?

I had that same experience. I’m the type of person who cries very easily watching movies, but I watched The Notebook with dry eyes and a “meh” attitude and my friends called me a psychopath.

“It’s a guy who falls in love and then he just kinda does nothing, and then waits for her to show up, and then he’s there and he’s still in love and then at the end of the film, well, he’s still in love. Where’s the arc?”

Nicholas Sparks’ house is filled with paintings by Thomas Kinkade.

Um in pointing out that Noah’s story had no arc, aren’t those actors basically saying that the book character (and therefore the book) kind of sucked?

My wife watched the Notebook with a bunch of friends. Apparently not crying made them all think there was something wrong with her.

I figure Sparks is just negging him to break down his self esteem and make him star in a crap movie?

“It was really interesting because a lot of the actors said, ‘Well, what’s Noah’s arc?” Sparks explained in a recent IMDB interview. “It’s a guy who falls in love and then he just kinda does nothing, and then waits for her to show up, and then he’s there and he’s still in love and then at the end of the film, well,…

It kind of sucks that of all characters, Noah was the one who didn’t have an arc.
(I’ll show myself out, thanks.)

I’m just going to say it.

not...handsome?

“You’re not handsome, you’re not cool”

But she’s SOOOOOO lonely, you see. Her sweater hadn’t been validated by a male organism yet.

As a young female faculty member, I’ll add my voice to the chorus here and say that this video is objectively horrible. You know what? Women in academia have a hard time being taken seriously. We (as well as faculty members of color, and doubly so for women of color) routinely receive worse student evaluations than…

Yes, bravo SFU. I understand the campaign was crafted at an outside agency, but that’s not the point.

Good god.