She then made them wait while she had a couple of large brandies to recover, then made them chop, prep and cook the rest of the dinner under her supervision. 3/3

They were hungry and didn't want to wait for dinner! But they had a needle and suture material in the back of the car. So they sewed her up at the table without local anaesthetic. 2/3 (sorry miscounted)

My mother was catering a Very Big Deal holiday dinner for Dad and his superiors (all doctors). Her hand slipped while cutting up the avocado for gazpacho soup and she sliced through the webbing of her thumb. The doctors, en masse, decided that taking her down to the hospital would take too long. 1/2

The author's note literally says "Depiction is not endorsement" AND YET.

Tansy Rayner Roberts is an Australian treasure, and very much under-known and under-appreciated!

*fistbump* My mother persists in having my brother (narcissist and thief) as her favourite child, and yet asking me to do stuff for her.

SEEMS FAKE, I should be able to live off beef jerky and salt and vinegar chips

*sad solidarity fistbump* I hate the fact that eating vegetables and three meals a day and not existing like a demented racoon on junk food makes me feel better.

Given that my fucken vocabulary is richly anglo-saxon with a few "cunts" sprinkled in for good measure, I sure as fuck didn't either.

also they eat yabbies (our freshwater crayfish/marrons) which DO dig up banks and do damage.

There are currently fights among conservation biologists as to whether they're one species or several sub-species (they have different coloured coats in different regions). Most farmers love them because they eat cane toads (invasive pest) and won't dig up banks if you give them nesting habitat.

Every so often I watch that footage of Stevie staring at a CRINGING Buckingham singing about how he'll never get away from her and cackle. Legitimately one of the top performances ever.

With a whole heaping of EWWWW fan fiction, GIRL COOTIES misogyny in there as well. And that's coming from someone who detests romantasy (while liking both fantasy and romance) because of the lack of world-building.

I think a loooooot of the negative press is people taking advantage of a PoC enby author writing a book with nuanced presentation of ethical issues to simultaneously declare themselves Morally Superior by virtue of saying fiction is bad while indulging their racism/enbyphobia.

The burden you place on BIPOC authors to be perfect is fucken exhausting.