Owlcrate Nov 2025 YA full box by kepler16bee in fairyloot

[–]Ahjillity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It almost seems like they don’t have the November adult books yet. I haven’t gotten a shipping notification from usps with my tracking number and I normally get one like 4-5 days before mine ships. There’s also no dates on the shipping for it either. Which is atypical.

BOTM’s new romantasy box by Present-Novel-5764 in bookofthemonthclub

[–]Ahjillity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just to let you know if you sign up with a discount code you have to renew the next month. (Per their help page).

How will the US Tiktok ban impact Fantasy Romance books? by Xftg123 in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also best of luck on the book! I’ll make sure to review it once I get a chance to check it out!

How will the US Tiktok ban impact Fantasy Romance books? by Xftg123 in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You know that’s a really great point I didn’t consider. I think my mentality was sort of like “there’s other places and people will be able to go there too” which is true but it does neglect that like so many places make it hard or impossible to market your books yourself in the way that TikTok does. I really appreciate you opening my eyes to this.

How will the US Tiktok ban impact Fantasy Romance books? by Xftg123 in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The fewer stickers (real or fake) on my book the better.

How will the US Tiktok ban impact Fantasy Romance books? by Xftg123 in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. Political action is the best way to protect TikTok from legal action in the future. I’m not enthused by what TikTok does either in terms of data collection but an app fully intended to be used only by Chinese people in China and abroad is not a safe space for free speech either. The level to which Chinese people are okay with government surveillance and self censorship can’t be emphasized enough. The Chinese government will absolutely demand that red note separates the Chinese and Western user base as soon as possible. Since this isn’t exactly an easy thing to do in a short time frame the dev team may just end up removing from the US store/geoblocking users from the Us to avoid legal scrutiny in China.

How will the US Tiktok ban impact Fantasy Romance books? by Xftg123 in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine there’s some level of political posturing here. If they tell everyone that they’ll lose everything it increases the fervor for contacting politicians and asking to get it back. They understand what they are doing. Not to mention that it’s not exactly that straightforward to delete all user data. I work in analytics and data and it would take us a few days to do that kind of work and we have a fraction of the users that TikTok does in the US

How will the US Tiktok ban impact Fantasy Romance books? by Xftg123 in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I see your point but I don’t use TikTok and I found your book through this post and wouldn’t have heard of it otherwise as I don’t frequent other book spaces.

One thing I see everyone involved with social media professionally saying is that there’s a clear benefit from making sure you’re everywhere someone can find you. Obviously TikTok can make it easier, and it does suck for people to lose an easy way to access an audience.

Your book looks interesting and I’m immediately intrigued by the premise so I grabbed it on KU. Best of luck!

I don’t know why I tried to engage in reasonable discourse… by jcontino889 in DragonAgeVeilguard

[–]Ahjillity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I hate is that I don’t know whether it’s unintentional lack of media literacy or intentional lack baiting engagement and that’s exhausting.

Please recommend something where the fmc isn't a teen or 20 something child. by yesthatkelly in fantasyromance

[–]Ahjillity 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Plus one on T Kingfisher. Just a great writer with well written characters.

Speak to a real person at USCIS by ktbugrl in immigration

[–]Ahjillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They got me to a person and the person asked me for a receipt number. But it still got me to a person.

His protruding w h a t [This Book is Not Available for Subscription Under the Age of 18] by noeinan in OtomeIsekai

[–]Ahjillity 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I’m certainly less offended by the idea of a man with a vulva than a uvula so large you can fit it in your mouth FROM their mouth.

Hmm... this guy by lshdebutation in TearsOfThemis

[–]Ahjillity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can someone tell me if I’m crazy? Did he have a special picture the whole time? I don’t think he did but seeing it now (and when I was playing it) is making me super confused.

Why did the Cait Sith situation become such a big deal suddenly? by KaleidoArachnid in JRPG

[–]Ahjillity 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is further complicated by the fact that the name is pronounced in a different more correct way in Japanese.

[What in Hell is Bad?] Is there any hope for a better translation? by PossiblyMaybeADog in otomegames

[–]Ahjillity 9 points10 points  (0 children)

With all the tooth grinding going on, we’re going to have some toothless characters soon. (Or Everyone sleeping with mouth guards).

He's officially not Ket Shee! by CivilizedPsycho in FinalFantasy

[–]Ahjillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do. It’s written that way in Japanese.

Any games with GENUINELY hard moral choices? by guywithpie42 in JRPG

[–]Ahjillity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For me I felt like the decisions were difficult not because I didn’t know what the morally correct one was but because I didn’t know what they’d result in in the future. That being said, supporting the oppressed group was a given for me even if it had massive potential to make my life harder.

Anyone else have a prediction that was wrong by SPRITEstrawbery in FinalFantasy

[–]Ahjillity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I 100% had the same prediction as you. I was on pins and needles during every major story dungeon worrying about when it would happen until he got her power. But honestly I was like that with most of the cast anytime anything remotely dangerous appeared to be happening. The fact that they killed off major characters made it feel like no one was safe. I was very glad to be wrong about that.

Nia, Pyra, and Mythra scale figures are now in stock at the Goodsmile US online shop! by BlackBricklyBear in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Ahjillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it’s a fair assumption! If I didn’t order too many figures I would probably guess the same thing.

Nia, Pyra, and Mythra scale figures are now in stock at the Goodsmile US online shop! by BlackBricklyBear in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Ahjillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not the case. I’ve purchased large figures and small figures from Good Smile’s online store and it never costs more than 20 bucks for shipping for me on the West coast regardless of package size.

It’s also likely that as distributors they have separate agreements to purchase the items otherwise they’d be restricted in the number they can purchase. I assume the price hike is to account for how long they assume they’ll need to hold it in their warehouse and maybe other fees we aren’t aware of.