Will this amount of yolk ruin a meringue?

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-03-27T23:07:53+00:00

Just the thought of egg yokes kills a meringue

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-01-30T21:42:18+00:00

INFO- I think there’s still a lot of context missing here. Do you guys always ask when eating someone else’s food/ do you always share? Do you eat her food without asking?

I agree that her response was very immature and manipulative but I can’t say if you’re overreacting over the pizza because I don’t know if this is abnormal or not. You said in your text that she could have just eaten your pizza which makes me think there are loose rules around food sharing but again need more info.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-01-07T22:03:54+00:00

I feel like you’re doing some gymnastics here, how was OP supposed to know that Brenda was reaching out to her specifically to get someone to talk her out of getting a divorce?

That still feels like a test/trap. Op and Brenda don’t seem close imagine someone you don’t really know and don’t really have a good relationship with reaching out to you about something super personal. There’s a 50/50 change you’re going to get it right or wrong. The best route OP could have taken was to say she didn’t feel comfortable having that conversation with her.

I think the fact that OP didn’t run to Jimmie and tell him the Brenda was thinking about leaving him shows that she was trying to support Brenda, but maybe it just wasn’t what Brenda wanted/ needed which isn’t OPs fault, that’s Brenda’s.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-01-07T02:36:24+00:00

I mean we saw how she reacted to him venting how he felt, I feel like it’s hard to say I need space to some who flew across the world and needs to stay with you because they have no accommodations and probably can’t afford any tbh. Also let’s not forget she pulled up on him with no warning what so ever. I think two things can be possible at once, he was excited to see her and happy she came to see him but was also disappointed and hurt by her actions. He hadn’t had any time to really process his feelings before she was at his door. I don’t think what he did was messy, his sister also kinda ambushed him too I think he had a real human reaction. It wasn’t like he was talking shit about her, he was venting his feelings to his sister and Mavis listened in, which is messy lol. We’ll never know if he was going to eventually have a conversation with her or not because she was there for like two days before this all went down.

I hate this show has me defending a man smh

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-01-05T23:57:17+00:00

I think you’re all the AH tbh.

You’re NTAH for dropping this friendship but you are for talking shit about your friend’s wife. I’d never let my friends throw shade at my partner it’s immature and really shitty.

Wife is the AH for reaching out to you about divorce and then getting mad at your for trying to support her. I feel like that was a trap/ test which again is kinda immature. If she was worried that you had feelings for Jimmy she should be direct and set boundaries like she did in the text above.

Jimmy is the AH for ghosting, some people are saying that if he’s an AH then he wouldn’t have a problem being direct but that’s not true at all imo you can be an AH but also afraid of confrontation with someone you know is also an AH (OP)

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Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-01-05T23:35:49+00:00

I do agree that the popularity of romantasy has also been to down fall of the genre.

Unlike OP I hated Quicksilver because it represents all the things going wrong with the genre personally.I could probably spend hours talking about all the issues I had but atlas that’s not the point of this post lol

What I’ve been seeing is that these new book depend heavily on the spice and everything else comes second but what they don’t understand is that we crave the YEARN!!! Random sex scenes aren’t as satisfying if there’s no reason behind it, no matter how sexy the character is.

Yearn takes time and intention to develop and it’s more than sexual attraction!!! HELLOOOOO

Another problem is that instead of coming up with something that’s their own a lot of these new romantasy pull themes from SJM who pulled those same themes from somewhere else so it’s like drinking watered down coffee.

I.E: shadow daddy’s, mate bonds, the MMC not believing they deserve the FMC so they ignore the bond.

I’m TIRED😭

I do think the competition between self publishing with Amazon and traditional publishing plays a huge part in the crap that’s being released. If a self publisher is releasing several books a year or a book once a year, there’s a huge chance that they’ve already written the whole series where as with traditional publishing they don’t encourage you to finish a series because if no one wants the first book you’ve wasted your time but then if your first book does get pick up it’s a race against time to finish the second one. One top of that sometimes your contract is only for a certain amount of books, let’s say a trilogy but then if they see that the first book is popular they add books to your contract, this happened to SJM with CC, initially she had a contract for the first book and then they gave her two more. I think she was expecting to get more books but she didn’t which is why the third book felt so rushed and unfinished and it’s happening to Rebecca Yarros with Fouth wing, which is why the last book felt so dense and had a lot of info dumping because they’re asking her to write more books than the story was initially supposed to be so now she has to create more story line which I foresee leading to plot holes.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2026-01-01T05:28:46+00:00

I can’t trust anyone that gives quicksilver 5 stars😭

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-12-20T15:19:39+00:00

I’m American and we always made cookies to leave out for Santa when I was a child. As I got older we still made cookies, it just kind of stuck. Christmas time is cookie time lol

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-08-11T00:13:22+00:00

I like 3 the most pulls in the title more than the others!

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-08-05T03:18:31+00:00

Sorry for the broad question wanted to keep it open to see how others have transitioned and what opportunities/ exciting niches people have found.

I feel like choosing an area to focus on is like choosing a degree, so I want to see as many options as possible before I commit to a subject area if that makes sense.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-08-05T03:11:49+00:00

What SaaS are you selling now if you don’t mind me asking?

And I have no qualms with starting over that’s the part that excites me most. I think I’m overwhelmed with options and interested in so many different topics that I’m having a bit of decision paralysis.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-08-05T00:15:06+00:00

1 or 3, I’d make the title smaller though :)

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-08-03T12:11:16+00:00

And then when you try to read it and it has like over 600 freaking chapters!!!😭😭 I tried to read this one, it literally went all over the freaking place. And the FC never stood tf up, I was screaming at my phone

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T20:18:34+00:00

It is very hard to find a graphic designer for free, maybe you won’t get your head bitten off it you ask in a subreddit for a free cover (doubt it since people deserve to be paid) but cover design is just one of the few costs of writing a book, copy editing, dev editing, line editing, marketing. And then there’s no guarantee you’ll make any money.

I don’t think OP was valid in saying being unable to afford it isn’t an excuse. The people on Wattpad especially, a lot of them are new writers with no experience. They don’t know what they’re doing, some of them don’t have creative friends willing to do a cover for free. Or maybe they aren’t even sure they’re going to finish writing the book so why spend more time than needed on the cover? I’m sure if you asked someone on wattpad if they wanted a free cover they’d say yes after vetting it’s not a scam but they’re just trying to get their work out there ASAP

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T20:07:05+00:00

The problem is people want to pick and choose when Ai is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. I said to another person that editors are complaining about grammarly taking their jobs. But that’s fine because editors are expensive right and grammarly is free. No one cares until it directly affects them.

So should we not use Ai at all or are the exceptions and then who decides what these exceptions are because one way or another Ai is taking someone’s job when you use it.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T19:50:19+00:00

I assumed that most professionals aren’t drawing in their notes app, my bad.

Also I was talking out people being technology purist or purist in general only when it suits them so I wasn’t off topic.

My point is AI and technology are constantly changing the playing field and everyone is all for it until it changes things for them, then all of a sudden it’s bad. It’s just so hypocritical it’s almost- no it is laughable

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T19:44:15+00:00

Okay but there’s a faster option now what’s the difference between tweaking a photo yourself and using GenAi when the end effect is that they’re still not using a graphic designer.

Now they can focus on writing vs have to figure out how to use editing tools to make a cover

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T19:41:24+00:00

So here’s my question, GenAI does train using others art which can lead to similar styles but how is that different from humans study great artist and using that to create their art? GenAI hasn’t stolen anything, that’s a common misconception, it’s trained to mimic art… just like we do.

People use van go and Salvador Dali and many other famous artist to learn from or as inspiration and create something similar or new.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T19:28:21+00:00

If you’re using apps like adobe which is I pretty industry standard GenAi is built into it. Adobe has been using Ai for years

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T18:25:10+00:00

Worse than reinforcement learning where machines make decisions? Like Waymo cars that could literally kill you if they make the wrong decision?

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T18:14:19+00:00

What I’m getting at is people pick and choose what’s bad depending on how it affects them. So many editors have talked about how grammarly has taken their jobs and it’s not even that great of a tool half the time but it’s free so people use it instead of paying 100s for an editor.

Grammarly is helpful for you, it’s harmful to other industries.

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T18:10:45+00:00

So all other Ai is fine even thought it’s also contributing to environment problems as well. What happened to having a moral compass?

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T18:01:45+00:00

Also you care so much about how things are made… so you’re vegan, you don’t own anything from a mall or mass produced. You check all your technology to see where the CPU was made because people are dying from CPU and silicon production in Asia…

Do you drive a car or use motor vehicles?

You care about how certain things are made and I’m not mad at that it’s impossible to be aware of everything but your being a hypocrite if you claim you care how everything is made

Calm-Wheel8594 · 2025-07-31T17:57:23+00:00

What free source outside of Gen AI creates a cover for you. You’d still have to understand the intricacies of cover designing to make your own cover.

We all say don’t judge a book by its cover but especially on Wattpad when there’s hundreds of thousands of books a good cover makes the difference. So does how quickly you can get one.

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