Then try Rex Stout for a change of pace.

I bet if you’re eating an unhealthy vegan diet you are probably not paying adequate attention to vitamin B12 and essential amino acids, so probably so.

Sounds like they lumped all non-vegan diets together there, so looking at the average healthiness non-vegan diet.

No, you don’t get it on reddit. That could happen from cross-subreddit posting if someone points a community in your direction, but the admins crack down on that. A bunch of individual people stumbling on your comment and disagreeing with you isn’t the same as a person sending their followers to stalk you online, trash talk you in your comments, and post their own stuff targeted at you. Reddit is generally a pretty civil place by comparison to tiktok and tumblr.

That kind of stuff happens on platforms like TikTok, tumblr, and Twitter, where a group forms a silo and sic the group on people they don’t like, like angry chickens pecking an injured chicken to death. It happens over any topic with enough fans. Probably more with TV shows because the audiences are bigger.

TikTok is like Youtube comments, but worse.

Movies aren’t books.

I think there’s more to it than that. Very bad dental hygiene has a risk of endocarditis. Bacteria can enter the bloodstream through damaged mucosa in the mouth and colonize heart valves. I’ve seen it proposed for years now that this happening to a lesser extent can contribute to systemic inflammation that contributes to cardiovascular disease.

Edit: Also the study found mouthwash itself doesn’t do a damn thing.

I enjoy relationships based upon fear in my fiction. Maybe I’ll give it a try.

Does the book have all the erotic subtext between Hannibal and Graham that the show does (and that before I watched it I thought fanfiction authors totally made up)?

Did the author intend me to burst into laughter at the summary of their book?

Cats tend to do this too, pee in the bathtub or sink. I am not sure why. Maybe drain odors smell to them like “this is the place to urinate”, or maybe it’s something about the smooth surface, though I would think carpet would seem better to pee on.

I’m so sorry about your cat. We’ve lost two in the past couple years and will probably lose another within the next year. It’s so sad that they don’t live longer. Our sweet cat is 18 and that’s still not enough time.

Some people may not have much competition between lousy family and an affectionate pet.

Regular people can turn off their empathy if they make it a priority.

>I think historically there's still much more misunderstanding of female nature compared to male one. That's why male characters are subjectively more universal and flexible and make a better vessel for a wide range of writers' endeavors.

This is weird because you seem to think that women don’t know themselves and are incapable of writing stories about women, because their own identity has been masked from them. On the other hand, male characters are completely accessible and women can write about them easily.

I think that there is nothing unique about men versus women, and they’re basically all people. So saying “people can’t write women” is incoherent to me. A person might have difficulty writing a particular type of character (like I think I’d have a hard time writing a very self-conscious and approval-seeking person, because that’s not me), but globally not being able to write characters of one gender only works if a person is operating within a very sexist framework where women are some mysterious unknowable other, and is much less likely if the author is that gender.

Based on your previously stated preferences, I’d suggest the Broken Earth trilogy and The Library at Mount Char.

lol sure

Literally every female character ever written is totally stereotypical, vastly more than male characters? Women can’t write female characters but somehow do much better at writing male characters? It sounds more like you have a toggle where you just flip it off if the character is female and nothing will fly for you.

This makes no sense.

What genres are you reading for male characters and female characters?

??? Your comment is partially garbled grammar, but additionally cheese contains casein, so how is casein sinister but cheese good?

I use Goodreads because a friend does, and it reduces the “what was that book again??” problem. If it’s stressing you, don’t use it.

This is probably a good response for about any thread here.

You can have fast burn romance and casual sex with complete respect of consent for both parties.

That’s that genre (anime/manga). There is a bunch of other media that doesn’t have that approach.