I considered a lot of things while reading your short story collection. Like we've talked about in the PM, I've read a lot of collections and anthologies, so I have a handful of examples for reference, just to make sure I don't get stuck in my own personal viewpoints. I noticed a lot of things as I read on as well: mainly that the stories are probably written around 2016, so some of the messages and sentiments are a bit dated. I don't know how much of a revision they've already gone through up to this point, so I kept this observation in mind to cut you some slack. Another thing is that you have a very apparent inner voice as a person that it shines through in the way you write, sometimes a little bit too much, which can be good or bad depending on the effect it will bring about. Before I ramble on, I'm just gonna end this message here and expound on my observations in a more specific manner in each pointer. Just know that I did consider a lot while I was reading.

This portion is judged by the overall impression the fic is able to evoke at first encounter.

It fits well with the theme of your collection. I don't feel strongly about it in any way. Clean and classy—that's how I'd describe it. Overall, from the presentation of the front page to the title and description, it gives off a minimalist vibe that I think you are going for. In that sense, you did a great job for capturing it effectively. My only comment is that it's kind of bare, almost unimpressive. That might boil down to personal taste so I can't really say you did right or wrong, or it's good or not. You take that however you want. But in the end, it served its purpose and served it well, so there are no complaints here.

This part talks about the general point of the story, from the plot, to the setting and world-building, as well as the genres and themes that the author has chosen to tackle.

More than a plot, I guess your story focuses more on concept. As I've said, I've read a lot of collections before, and though they have a central theme, the stories always vary. That's the point of a collection: to have a variety of different things, not more of the same thing. Your stories, though easy to follow and beautifully written, tend to have a repeating theme about them. There's not much else besides tropes after tropes after tropes, and sometimes they're the same tropes twice or thrice. I did ask you beforehand whether you want me to read them individually or as a collection, but I think there's a lapse in judgment where you fail to consider that collections have to have variations. I think we, as a society, have a concept of one-shot collections that only revolves around one thing that we like to write over and over, but my standard both as reader, writer, and reviewer regarding collections is the promise of variety in them. #NOWPLAYING offered different baseline plots in some of the stories, but it didn't commit to it. It's like looking at Taeyeon and Tiffany play the same people and lead the same lives in different fonts, but at their core, they're still the same Taeyeon and Tiffany but in a different setting. If that's what you're aiming for, then obviously you did a good job. But if you really think about it, the stories lacked dynamics, personality, and uniqueness when compared with each other. The point of writing a short story collection is exploring many different ideas, but yours failed to do this.

And there's nothing wrong with tropes really, it's about what you do with them. In this case, you did the same trope more than once, and you didn't do a different spin to them each time you used them. The setting was different and there's a plot involved in some cases, but what the story is truly about and how you presented them remained the same, which while it isn't so bad, it makes your collection mediocre. 

This criteria judges the way characters are developed, how effective their a