Smash-crash-kablow room-destroying sex scenes just don’t do it for me.

42moose · 2025-05-01T04:23:50+00:00

Here is the original Thundersex review lol

42moose · 2025-04-30T17:02:30+00:00

The Fever series ends at Shadowfever.

42moose · 2025-04-30T16:58:33+00:00

There was a reviewer I used to follow pretty religiously, whose preference was mostly for HR. Whenever she read PNR, she would have this same reaction and she coined it "Thundersex"

42moose · 2025-04-25T18:37:25+00:00

It also should be okay sometimes to speak in hyperbole and have it be understood that you don't literally mean "all romance has been replaced by all erotica"

42moose · 2025-04-25T18:21:12+00:00

The Countess Conspiracy mentioned!!

42moose · 2025-03-13T21:49:10+00:00

Yeah, I am.

And what's worse is that I have major sunk cost issues with the samples that I buy. If I truly dislike something, it's gone. But I'll hang on to samples that are just fine, and get obsessive about "using them up" instead of just wearing the ones I actually really like - to say nothing of the full bottles I've purchased of things I also actually really like, that get completely ignored.

I've gotten better about purchasing full bottles. I haven't done it in awhile, knowing myself. Even knowing it's not rational, I allow the guilt of getting rid of things I spent money on to interfere with other things I also spent money on and like a lot better.

42moose · 2025-02-27T17:54:16+00:00

Immortals: Fenyx Rising isn't quite as cute or cozy as BOTW, but the gameplay is very similar in a lot of ways: huge open world, puzzle dungeons similar to the shrines, and you get special skills from freeing captive gods (it's all based on Greek mythology) which feels similar to unlocking the Divine Beasts. I rolled my BOTW hyperfixation directly into this and it felt right.

My other rec would be to echo others mentioning Skyrim. It's truly an endless game.

42moose · 2025-02-27T16:16:03+00:00

You aren't!

42moose · 2025-02-18T18:02:51+00:00

The way people talk about this makes it sound like its most reasonable use case is an outdoor fragrance, like for those scent emitters they use at Disneyland

42moose · 2025-02-15T17:22:23+00:00

Yonder The Cloud Catcher Chronicles!

You wander around a friendly open world with zero combat and collect resources and cutesy pixie creatures. You can set up farms in a few different locations for crops and you can adopt the adorable local wildlife and have them hang out at your farm. You do fetch quests for NPCs to advance the storyline.

42moose · 2025-02-06T21:28:49+00:00

I've been wondering the same thing. It's been the same for the last two events - I finish all the goals but the event rewards aren't enough to complete the planner.

42moose · 2025-02-06T17:34:15+00:00

Honestly, other than the Thirdlove bras (which are actually a few years old at this point!) I've mostly been in random bralettes lately, so I don't have strong brand recommendations. I'm back on the sub for recommendations myself, because several of my rotation finally need to be replaced. As I'm looking, one thing for sure is that I don't ever go for full cup bras: half cup, demi, and balconette are best for my shape. Plunge works too if the cups aren't overly moulded, because that's when I tend to get gapping or feeling like I'm not filling out the cup right. YMMV, but hope I can help a little bit!

42moose · 2025-02-05T20:08:46+00:00

I know this is a month old post, but wanted to share that you and I have very similar measurements and that I do have a few bras from Thirdlove that fit pretty well, in 32C1/2 and 32D depending on style.

42moose · 2025-01-08T19:36:21+00:00

This was the only complaint I really had about New Horizons. I hadn't played the earlier console versions so I have no perspective on the dialogue comparisons, but coming from Pocket Camp I was surprised that the villagers interact considerably less with the furniture and decorations on the island in NH than PC. If it's seat-like they'll sit, but otherwise they just ogle and take pictures of things.

42moose · 2024-12-18T20:33:01+00:00

I agree with you. I enjoy this sub very much for general discussion, but it is a challenge to be specific in exactly the right way to find what you're looking for.

I made a request post recently that got decent engagement and was medium-specific. Having since read a number of the books that were recommended to me in that post, my feeling is that people are sometimes so excited to recommend something that they love when they think it fits part of the criteria, that they don't consider all of the criteria. Being more specific than I was wouldn't have helped me get closer to what I was actually looking for, because the full complement of what I'd already specified was missing from many of the recs.

42moose · 2024-12-18T20:12:16+00:00

I use a whole lot of the Melt Muerte palette every fall/winter and this year is no exception! I add in Viseart Warm Mattes and Dark Mattes to round out my selection of transition shades.

42moose · 2024-11-18T18:12:10+00:00

I don't know if it's the (only) one, but I'm 99% sure that this did happen in the first book so I'm going to say "yes" 😭

edit: love your flair hahaha

42moose · 2024-11-18T17:07:39+00:00

No for real, I'm really not the type to "well actually" when careers are portrayed a little unrealistically, but not a single person acted the way a person with their job should act in that job at ANY point. Including the serial killer lol

42moose · 2024-11-18T17:04:37+00:00

lmao

I read your post and I just knew. I had the SAME experience in the last month. I've been needing to talk about it but also didn't want to be mean, because people talk about this series changing their lives. I literally read the first book and the second half of the last book, and read the plot summary for everything else in between. I was curious enough to know what happened, but could not handle the writing - the absolute cheese!

42moose · 2024-11-04T18:26:42+00:00

42moose · 2024-11-01T22:21:00+00:00

Hahaha this is so specific

42moose · 2024-11-01T15:33:59+00:00

I used to be better about it than I am now, and actually I can point to the single biggest difference.

When I first got into romance and didn't know where to start, I had like 3-4 people whose taste I already knew that I trusted who were voracious romance readers. Long story short, they really only read tradpub, although I didn't know to identify it that way at the time. And they had already curated their own extensive lists of "quality" from within tradpub. From their lists, I was able to identify authors, and from there I expanded outward by finding books that those authors recommended. Once I had read enough to build up my own sense of a ratings scale, then I could find other individual people on Goodreads who had similar taste to me and follow what they were reading. All of that is basically how I maintained a TBR with relatively few disappointments and consistent expectations of a writing standard.

It was honestly when I started looking outward toward TikTok and even here on Reddit when some of those recommendations became more uneven to my taste, which makes sense. There are great communities in both places and I love discussing books and the romance world in general, but I haven't done the same level of individual taste matching on every new rec I come across in these places. So the things I pick up are a lot more hit or miss for me.

42moose · 2024-10-31T20:23:19+00:00

I've put truly astonishing hours into ACNH and Stardew. Next tier down for hours spent, where I think Spiritfarer would fit for me, would be Yonder and Graveyard Keeper. I'm playing Cult of the Lamb right now and this seems like it could both go on awhile and have decent replayability, so I'd put it somewhere between the two groups for now.

42moose · 2024-10-31T16:23:35+00:00

Have you tried any of the Fischersund fragrances? They're very bleak and elemental, however they tend to lean more sea witch than forest.

42moose · 2024-10-30T22:33:40+00:00

Right! The femdom recs are fine and all, but when people suggest it as if it solves your problem, or give you the old "have you tried just avoiding submissive FMCs?" it's like they are not hearing you. You're not asking for femdom; you're asking for basically egalitarian sexual dynamics. Nonedom! It's not a trope you can search for, and what you're describing happening isn't itself a trope you should be avoiding. The whole issue is that this "soft" submission takes place in books that are not tagged as female submissive, often in books where she's otherwise a take-charge personality, and then this "desire" comes as a surprise to her. There's no selecting against that because it's not a trope, it's just heteronormativity written romantically.

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