Like, I'd be willing to lay a bet that when folks who learned to read this way are watching or listening to a different media, they're unconsciously using and adapting the same cues, which amounts to skipping something they don't understand or basically just guessing at its meaning.

So if you want to see a more recent and intentional approach, read the Glimmer Falls series (currently three books, more romantic comedy genre).

To see how this approach evolved, Hazel Mack's Ever After (similar genre, lower quality writing) and the aforementioned erotica literature.

There are more in my reading journal, but those are what come to mind first—Hawley's, because it's very clear (to me anyway) from the beginning that she's approaching this from a "paranormals as disability/Crip metaphor", and the others because they're really popular and often rec'd in the genre.

There's also the Cambric Creek series by CM Nascota—which starts off with the infamous Morning Glory Milking Farm—and is definitely erotica, not just romance. Similarly Kathryn Moon's Monster Smash Agency series, and Lillian Lark. All erotica that laid foundations for a "new" crip paranormal model.

I think Sarah Hawley's Glimmer Falls series is a good example of this! I'd hazard to say that she's building on the work of others in this area—others, like Hazel Mack, slowly arrived at a crip model over a few books, where Hawley starts from the beginning—and her writing quality is pretty good.

—There's some truly incredible stuff in this type of worldbuilding, but it doesn't get taken seriously because it's situated in a romance genre, (which means it's subjected to that lovely shade of misogyny, thereby entirely written off as frivolous or whatever) and that's a damn shame.

3/

—I'm talking everything from, like, ramps for centaurs and blood-based dishes for vampires, to recognizing the impact of species-related heats/fertility/lunar cycles (and providing paid sex-workers for heat-relief, or time off plus designated large areas of public woods for werewolves etc).

2/

Robert this is PERFECTION and even better than what I imagined when you described it!

It seems silly but really it gives me an idea of whether said clergy thinks the biggest breaking of the 3rd commandments is saying "fuck", or if it might be, you know... Christian Fucking Nationalism.

And given *gestures pointedly at Western Christianity* it seems an important litmus test to give.

(He was a big fan of my suggestion, btw)

I can't go to a church where I can't cuss and drop many fucks in front of clergy, and I unironicly think the best super quick and easy test for a clergy's trustworthiness and general strength of character is their reaction when I say "fuck" in front of them.

See?! And this is why, despite its many flaws, I love reddit.

Apparently the Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto 4 colour because it's a nice gel and, among other reasons, it comes with ten colour options for you to pick from.

I have PLENTY of the other type of experience on reddit too, I promise!!