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⌈ Secret Post #6165 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds about right. BookTok recs either look pretty on a shelf or are SUPER fast reads so that you can brag about the numbers, or both.

And like, I'm all for fast, shallow, popcorn reads--love 'em!--but don't go telling people they're rich/deep/lush/etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gonna guess that OP is not Gen X, because our parents were always absent so that seems normal to us.

[dani_phantasma]

That's why you kill off the parents , duhhhhhh

JK. Sometimes I think it a little but sometimes I can get for the main audience that being free and away from parents can be wish fulfillment. I idealized boarding school and universities for this very reason.

[(Anonymous)]

What's funny is that, in my experience, actual military people are super weird! They're nerds with really far-out senses of humor. I think it's how they cope with the wild swings between boredom and life-threatening stress.

[(Anonymous)]

I was gonna say. I grew up in the 80s and it was totally normal for us to go out without parental supervision and not be expected home until dinner. Our parents didn't keep constant tabs on us, it was just "be home for supper" and that was that. We didn't have cell phones or anything like that, either.

[(Anonymous)]

I was recommended this one years ago (when it first came out, maybe?) by someone who shipped my same OTP and loved it and insisted that all our fellow shippers would love it too.

I did not love it.

I don't remember all the specifics of why, just that I didn't like any of the characters, didn't get the feeling that it was the kind of book where the likability of the characters was beside the point, and didn't think the worldbuilding, plot, or language and style made up for that.

I do remember I didn't finish it.

Thanksgiving

[(Anonymous)]

Americans, are you celebrating it? What are you cooking?

[(Anonymous)]

There is a difference between that and "every person in this grade are out at 2am every night being framed for murder."

[(Anonymous)]

That's a Willing Suspension of Disbelief thing for me. Some things have to be a little unrealistic to make the story work. And it's so normal in fiction I don't even notice it.

For something more people can probably get behind the the omission of, it's in the same category as "Why doesn't anyone ever go to the bathroom?" for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Semi-related to the pic, this is what Red vs. Blue fills in for Halo.

In the games, you see the point of view of the people that changed the course of the war, and see it from the eyes of humanity's champion that was made from some of the worst things mankind could do to itself. It's from the point of view of humanity's ultimate desperation against a relentless enemy.

In Red vs. Blue, you see a bunch of loonies that enlisted for an army that is a bureaucratic mess, and spend years doing nothing but bickering and dicking around just so they don't go insane from boredom. All, while people in the higher ranks have their own agendas, and the troopers slowly come to realize which causes really matter, when the war machine instead chews them and spits them out like garbage.

I absolutely love both Halo and Red vs. Blue, but I really can't deny that Halo, and a lot of military science fiction, tends to paint military as too professional or too cocky. Spartans, I can understand them being machine-like, since the canon stresses how fucked up their creation was and how exposed they are to conflict.

But common soldiers... gameplay-wise, yeah, I can get it. On one hand, I can understand programmers making them simple-but-entertaining to listen to while avoiding making too many customizable things, but on another, I abide by the philosophy that every single human being on the planet is a degree of crazy, and denying otherwise leads to either unhappiness, or boredom.

I remember watching a Vietnam doc about unhappy soldiers and crewmen drawing on their helmets and equipment, and comments taking the piss on the kind of stuff they'd draw and write on their own helmets should the worst come to pass. "Next Stop: Isekai." "Here Comes the Fuel OwO."

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed the first half of the book, but I have my limits where Sues are concerned and this book left them in the dust. The second book in the series just got worse. It could have been a nice take on fairyland in general, too. The worldbuilding and landscapes were great.

[(Anonymous)]

Tokyo really do be like that though. Japan is a whole is way more encouraging of kids doing things without their parents. Elementary schoolers ride the subway by themselves and everything.

[(Anonymous)]

it's 2/3 waifu. And lolis. Only the 1/4 is hasbandos. Archons just reflect that. I don't feel like I have to pull for archons specifically. I hot Zhongli and that's it.

Re: Thanksgiving

[kaijinscendre]

We are not doing anything tomorrow. We are doing our "Thanksgiving" on Saturday combined with my niece's birthday.

Ask questions

[(Anonymous)]

ANYTHING

[(Anonymous)]

They do, but they go in groups and they are very much expected to be in particular places at particular times. They're not just wandering around Tokyo!

My Hero Academia

[(Anonymous)]

Does it get more serious? Or at least a better balance with comedy and drama?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but these kids are in having literal gang wars with death. And hospitalizations. And not once did I even see the hint of a parent. That city was just full of orphans I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

da and yeah, elementary school students maybe, but I was a high school exchange student there and I absolutely wandered all around Tokyo by myself and no one considered that odd.

Re: Ask questions

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a way to receive packages in the US without giving away my real address? I moved away from my family at last, but boy howdy do I not want them getting my new address. I still have a talking relationship with them and they'd be willing to ship me some of my things, but also they are trying to pry info from me I don't want to give at the moment.

Re: Ask questions

[(Anonymous)]

Can you afford to rent a PO box?

Re: Thanksgiving

[(Anonymous)]

We're making a turkey with stuffing and gravy, potatoes au gratin, brussels sprouts gratin, green beans. And a cookies and cream chocolate cake for desert. What I'm looking forward to most is making the leftover casserole we do for black friday. Leftover turkey and stuffing in a casserole dish with mashed potatoes mixed with moz cheese and mayo layered on top. Delicious!

Re: Thanksgiving

[(Anonymous)]

I did the same thing I did last year and got one of those pre-cooked turkey dinners from the grocery store: 13-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, mac and cheese, green beans, and cranberry sauce, all I have to do is heat it up. I made 2 pumpkin pies this afternoon so I'm done cooking. Honestly its so much better than having to cook it all myself, and its nice to just be able to relax with a glass of champagne on Thanksgiving day instead of spending all day in the kitchen!

Re: Ask questions

[(Anonymous)]

PO boxes or a package receiving service, both of which cost money. Or if they're cool with it, a friend's place or your place of work. Those are really your only options.

Re: Ask questions

[(Anonymous)]

Not from the US but perhaps the US also has mail forwarding? That way you could tell them a former (or just straight up incorrect) address but have all mail addressed to you forwarded from that address to your new one in the system (won't be done to mail addressed to anyone else at that address, don't worry).

I may have uh done this for one of my exes. He thought I still lived in a certain city for years after I moved because hey anything he sent sure got to me, no issues!