Also, I'm just a cis woman asking cis men to shut the fuck up about Why Cis Women Totally Need Me To Attack Trans Women On Their Behalf (Even If They Don't Think So, The Little Dears).

I can't help seeing Ceiling Murderbot as just a drone (although still peering out coyly), so it doesn't have to look at humans with its actual eyeballs (ew)

Also ignore all the reviews complaining about one-dimensional characters and unrealistically over-the-top dramatics. Yes, the book is full of them, but that's the POINT.

We have a deal: I take care of the flying insects, he takes care of the ones with too many/too long legs.

They're definitely avoiding AI. At one point they discovered some user-generated artwork was genAI, apologized, and pulled that artwork

I've been using Renshuu paired with a textbook for several months now, and really like it. They have really handy vocab, kanji, and grammar flash card series for (many? most?) common textbooks

Dia is Muire duit!

This reply brought to you by forgetting almost everything from my brief span of studying Gaelige, but bring really pleased that hello stuck with me

Oh I would be so in

Maybe their consciousness can be transferred during consumption, and they get their HEA in eely form

Ooo, that sounds good! I do something similar: food process some stuffing with cheese, smush it around the inside of a muffin tin, bake for maybe 5 minutes. Then crack an egg into the cavity, top with more cheese, and bake until the egg white is set. My favorite post-Thanksgiving breakfast

Can I read any of these now? No way. I'm currently working, very slowly, though a book of 10 minute stories for 2nd graders. But it's good to have goals?

Also Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale and Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle, which I find delightfully meta