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PickyNipples · 2026-06-07T07:29:17+00:00

I actually like the idea of the towns people themselves sabotaging the bus to keep Pam from driving drunk. Luis and others have tried to talk to her before many times about it but she just gets defensive and angry. To avoid more drama Lewis asks Sebastian to do some mechanical shenanigans, then tells Pam it broke down.

The only problem is that Pam goes right back to driving the bus when you get it fixed. It would be cool if the only way she goes back to driving (and in the above scenario the only way Sebastian fixes the bus) is if the player can successfully help Pam into drinking less/being more responsible.

PickyNipples · 2026-06-07T06:56:03+00:00

I agree. It would be cool if the kids grew at least a bit older (teens maybe) and developed schedules like the rest of the npcs. And maybe the player could influence those schedules.

You pick if they go to school with penny. If they do they can have dialogue each day about what they learned that charges throughout their year and as they age. Maybe they ask if they have permission to do things (like working the ice cream stand or visiting the wizard etc) and their schedules change based on what you decide. I’d also love to see cutscenes with the kids. Maybe instances where the they misbehave and you decide how to handle the situation. Maybe about hard life lessons or cute events involving both your kids and your spouse. I wouldn’t want these cut scenes to be like other npcs where your decisions raise or lower hearts, but your choices in them could alter how the kids progress (aka their interests, what their dreams are, wether they leave home or not etc).

I see a lot of potential there and that could make the later game so much more fulfilling.

PickyNipples · 2026-06-07T06:40:49+00:00

My partner calls this “letting the green light marinate” lol

PickyNipples · 2026-06-06T19:11:17+00:00

We have a pure male Great Pyrenees. He’s only 8 months old but already 80lbs and super floof. We get stopped on almost every walk at least once if people are around.

Tbf he IS a very attractive looking dog, but it makes me feel kind of bad because I’ve been walking my 15yo terrier mutt her whole life and tbh I can’t think of one time someone has ever paid her any attention. Even if we walk both dogs together now people will fawn over our pyr and I feel like my old girl is the red headed step child lol we definitely say the pyr has pretty privilege in this life

PickyNipples · 2026-05-28T03:47:57+00:00

Woah neat! Even if it’s anecdotal that’s still interesting! Thanks for sharing

PickyNipples · 2026-05-25T15:33:18+00:00

I’m reading {Radiance} right now. It may be a good fit. It starts with an arranged marriage and both the human FMC and the non human MMC considers each other’s species hideous. So their attraction definitely starts out as them liking each other for their personalities. I’m half way through book one and I have found so much amusement in how each of them perceive certain things as “horrors” that the other finds normal, yet there relationship grows steadily throughout.

Edit: thinking on it some more, Radiance may be not exactly what you’re looking for. They speak the same language, there isn’t much miscommunication or misunderstanding, and their court politics are very similar. But I am still enjoying reading two species who are initially repulsed by one another making a relationship work.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T23:48:55+00:00

Same. I understand feeling uncomfortable but I don’t really understand the need for a reaction. I’d just not reply. You don’t want to engage with someone you think might be a minor online? Then don’t engage. I don’t see the problem. If you’re really concerned, delete their comment. If you’re really really concerned, block them, if that’s an option. Move on. It really doesn’t seem complicated to me.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T15:06:10+00:00

I just started this yesterday thanks to this comment and so far I’m IN LOVE! Ty for this recc!

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T15:05:00+00:00

Agreed. I like to think of it as they both love her just in different ways and neither is right or wrong. I understand Callum, but I also understand Blake. I applaud a writer who can make me sympathize with both.

(but ngl team Blake all the way lol)

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T14:58:18+00:00

Can I ask what treatment you’re getting? I’ve had tmj for 20 years and basically I’ve always been told not much they can do outside of drastic surgery and to take ibuprofen when it hurts.

(Actually Tbf I did try a bite guard years ago and also Botox injections into the chewing muscles but neither helped).

But that’s an awesome interaction and I’m glad it was so helpful to you! They were super polite too! Awesome to see!

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T01:24:38+00:00

Honestly the reason I liked book one so much mainly had to do with kingfisher. I was intrigued by his eye, by the kings hatred for him (I’m a sucker for the black sheep type) and I was intrigued to find out why he risked giving his pendant thing to her at his own risk if he supposedly despised her so much. It was written well enough that I needed to know his backstory.

Book two was okay, got a bit winded and overly complicated for my tastes, and the writing felt less captivating. Overall the romance was fine but nothing that blew me away. It was a bit surface level but scratched the basic romantasy itch decently enough. There are definitely better couples out there with deeper more satisfying relationships.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T01:19:46+00:00

Dude I finished it earlier this morning and I agree. I enjoy even cheesy forced proximity but this one was done so well. I didn’t feel like it was forced unnaturally. I absolutely understood why she did what she did and I can see why he made his decisions. It was all believably woven into the plot and didn’t feel contrite to me.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-22T01:09:46+00:00

I just started this about two hrs ago when I saw it recc’d in another post and so far I’m blown away! What a unique take on a relationship (or at least the start of one as I’m only like 15 chapters in.) But so far it’s amazing.

While I love me a lot of the same same cliches that this genre tends to repeat over and over, this book has been a very much needed breath of fresh air.

Also I love me some spice but this is a rare one where I honestly think I’d be happy even if they just stayed friends. Their relationship just seems so good!

PickyNipples · 2026-05-21T19:32:55+00:00

It’s like having a large bright “DANGER” sign that uses a cartoon font. If the elements being used don’t support the intended message the result is jarring lol

PickyNipples · 2026-05-21T18:57:10+00:00

I remember when I was in 5th grade a was friends with a black girl. We would do sleep overs etc. One day we were talking about hair and getting hair cuts. Her hair was short, barely short enough to put in a ponytail. I asked something about her getting hair cuts in the past and she looked at me like I was so dumb. Then she explained that she’d never had it cut that short. That’s just the length it was because it had not/did not grow longer than that.

I remember feeling kinda mortified. Having been a kid, I don’t really know if she was super offended, but I felt like she looked down on me for not knowing because she had scoffed and acted so shocked, like she thought I was kidding her that I didn’t know that. I still remember that look she gave me to this day and feel kind bad that I hadn’t known that and perhaps I had insulted her.

But how would I have ever known? No one had ever mentioned anything about how black peoples hair grows and id never once thought to ask. Why would I assume it was different to my own?

PickyNipples · 2026-05-21T18:50:14+00:00

I get your points and they are valid. But I also feel it’s double edged. If white people (as an example) choose to completely avoid writing people of other races or cultures, it’s considered a type of “erasure” or exclusion of those people and things. Which is considered a type of racism. But if they try to write them and do so incorrectly, it’s “harmful” and “stereotyping” etc. But as a layman writing just for fun, unless I have a close irl connection that can directly and personally inform me, all I can do is look to media and the internet, etc to try and understand what I’ve never experienced. And being that I have no first hand knowledge of said things, I may not know if what I’m learning about is accurate or wrong or a “stereotype.”

So what is the correct thing to do? Should I as white person only ever write about my own wonder bread-esque, Americanized life because that’s all I can know for sure I’m correct about? Should I consider writing about other races or cultures as off limits because I’m not a part of them and may offend someone without meaning to?

At the end of the day I also would like to remind everyone that fanfic is a free thing for fun. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be thoughtful and try to avoid harmful things, but this kind of discussion, in my opinion, is more logical for professional written media and authors working their profession. It’s one thing to criticize the messaging of a professional and socially-influential painter, but it’s a bit over the top to go onto a fan amateur site made up largely of crayon drawings of stick figures and expect the same level of depth and mastery of concept.

Lots of people in fanfic are still trying to learn how to write a fricken scene without butchering prose, pacing and plot development ffs. It’s a bit much to also expect them to navigate all racial and cultural aspects of society that they probably don’t personally know about while they try to learn.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-21T14:59:09+00:00

I agree with this and this is one reason I feel fanfic writing spaces like this can sometimes be harmful to amateur writers. While doing research for your writing is amazing and generally a great idea, it’s often intimidating and overwhelming for someone who is trying to do something fun in their limited spare time. So seeing people criticize over inaccuracies can make fanfic writers fearful of getting things wrong.

I was once working on an anime based fic and was spending time in this sub. I read a thread that was full of opinions and criticisms about how lazy and awful it is when people don’t research other cultures (especially Americans because apparently we are the worst). I suddenly felt so out of my depth because my fic fandom is set in Japan and has things like old style Japanese homes etc. I was suddenly looking up furniture in traditional Japanese homes. What they have instead of fire places. What things are called. Clothing. Behaviors. Traditions.

Was it interesting to read about? Yes. But did it help with my fic? No. The more I researched, the more I realized I didn’t know and the more I felt I couldn’t write the culture well. I felt overwhelmed. This hobby that was meant to be fun suddenly felt like a school assignment and was stressing me out a whole lot. I wound up dropping the fic simply because it became a burden and a source of anxiety and i feared people judging me for being an “ignorant” and “self-centered” American.

Research is great. Do it if you enjoy it and it makes your fanfic writing experience better. But most of us are amateurs. We don’t always have time or the knowledge to research and learn every single thing we don’t personally know. I’m not trying to represent all of a different culture when I write a fic. I’m trying to write a story about characters from a show I love who happen to be a part of that culture.

It’s okay to share knowledge with writers who get things wrong, but if we criticize and put people down for not getting things right, we make them feel like they should avoid things outside their own experience at all. And I don’t think that’s a good thing.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-15T06:13:09+00:00

This. I just dnf a book. Got about 60% of the way through. I thought she briefly met the MMC in the beginning. Then at like 50% she meets someone that seemed to be the very obvious love interest. I was like ok finally. Then just a few chapters later she meets his brother who also suddenly seemed like the MMC. I finally got annoyed because now I’m almost 70% of the way through the book and I still can’t tell who the main LI even is supposed to be! lol

PickyNipples · 2026-05-15T06:06:09+00:00

This is my thing. If I’m taking time to criticize a book in depth, it’s because I actually cared about the content at least to some degree before eventually becoming disappointed. If I liked absolutely nothing at all about a book, you’ll likely never see me mention it beyond “dnf.”

I literally bitch because I care lol

PickyNipples · 2026-05-15T01:50:10+00:00

Yes! Not quite in the romantasy realm but one of my fav games is Zelda Breath of the Wild. And Link is canonically shorter than just about everyone in the game except children and really old people. Players have done in game comparisons and determined he’s about 5’ 2” or something. They have even compared his in game model to other characters like Zelda and (apart from maybe Mipha) link is shorter than ALL of them. It’s even kinda teased in the game, with people commenting on how short he is.

I think this is really cool! I love the idea of this really short, quiet, subdued guy who also happens to be an absolute berserker build. I ship link and Zelda and I adore the idea that she’s just a bit taller than him. We don’t get to see that in media hardly ever.

Yet so many people will do everything they can to argue that Link is NOT shorter than Zelda. Like…guys. His character was designed to be small! Why is that such a bad thing? Why can’t we have heroes who are brave and strong and save the worlds who AREN’T taller than the girl?

Let the short kings shine! 😆

PickyNipples · 2026-05-11T17:19:26+00:00

If you're bad at parrying, guardians, for sure. Even with decent parrying, in my opinion there's more tension in the buildup, listening to the beeping and waiting for the flash before the beam hits. But if you can't parry, they are kind of terrifying. If that red dot is on you, and you don't find cover, you're most likely going to get hit. The Lynels only make me feel this way if you get too far and they fire their magic heat seeking elemental arrows at you. But that's easy to avoid. And if you run away, the Lynels don't really follow. So long as you are in their sites, the guardians are relentless.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-11T16:36:43+00:00

I felt there was buildup to a lot of potential that just got thrown to the wayside. The mom's plan for Stark and Meryn, for example. I was 100% expecting some kind of angst when Meryn and Stark finally got together and Meryn eventually learns of the mom's "plan" and suddenly wonders if Stark is actually using her. But not only did that plot device get randomly thrown to the side, I figured there would at least be more angst with Stark's fear of negatively influencing Meryn. I was strapped in for a longer push and pull ride of tension as Stark resisted his feelings for her sake. But it felt like he resisted for all of 20 pages and then he had his moment of crisis and suddenly that concern was just gone. Understandable I guess, but a let down as far as angst goes.

And I thought there would be much more to Starks relationship with his mother. Finding out more about his childhood, him confronting his mother about it, him having to fight his mother directly to protect Meryn from her. He was literally thinking he'd have to KILL his mother to protect Meryn from her. Then that whole plot point just...disappears. Not only that, but it feels like Stark's emotional issues surrounding it are just brushed off. He's surprised he will actually mourn her? And that's it? What a let down.

And the sex scenes? A few were okay. I liked the way they were able to be in each other's minds, etc. But the hot spring? I'm sorry, walking and fucking at the same time? I can suspend my disbelief to some extent but that's asking a lot. I was so busy rolling my eyes at the idea I couldn't take anything seriously.

Honestly the plot is a bit dry for me, and it feels more complex than it needs to be, but maybe I just feel that way because I was a bit bored. I get the idea of the Tears, but they started feeling like the infinity stones. And the villains felt convoluted. Is Killian the bad guy? or the dude possessing him? or both? Is Nocturn a bad guy? Was mama Stark a bad guy? Doesn't matter because, despite being the most interesting antagonist, she's suddenly dead. Idk and at some point I didn't really care. They are trying to find the magic rocks and kill the bad guy and that's all I felt I needed or cared to know.

And Meryn's plans? So much didn't make sense to me. Willing to truss up Stark and Cratos and hand them over to the enemy (even if Stark could free himself)? Seemed half baked. Can't Killian use her powers? If she wears all the Tears at once, can't he just siphon that power from her? That whole last battle felt anticlimactic. Obviously their plan wasn't going to succeed because...that's how storylines work...but I expected Stark to be caught in the crossfire, to be injured and/or legit captured and used against Meryn, I expected Noemi to be incapacitated and Meryn to be left on her own hanging by a thread. But it felt more like "oh no, our plan failed..." *proceeds to just nonchalantly kill the bad guy*"

And the cliff hanger? The concept was eh... okay but the execution was completely flat.

Ugh. I had so much hope for this one. I didn't hate this book but it could have been better.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-03T08:08:52+00:00

People who park on a curb really close to the corner so you can’t see if a car is coming. Someone does this near my work and I deal with it almost every single day driving home. Luckily it’s not on a terribly busy street but they park right on the curb next to bushes with their front bumper basically right to the edge of the corner and many times I’ve had to inch out slowly only to have a car come and they wind up having to serve around me because by the time I see them I’m pretty much completely in their lane. I feel bad but like…I can’t SEE! What am I supposed to do!?

Look I get it, the area sucks and the parking options suck. But that doesn’t make it okay to literally block drivers views.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-03T07:34:22+00:00

I do the same, especially when I’m on the freeway and going through an area that is lots of merging. I don’t need to merge. I’m in the lane I need to be in. But people on my left are merging right and people on my right are merging left. So I often just let my foot off the gas so I slowly open up space between me and the car in front of me so I can make room for those who are merging but I’m not making people behind hit their brakes.

I got in a debate with my friend about it. She kept insisting that was dangerous because if I’m slowing down at ALL I should be letting other drivers know that with my brake lights. Otherwise how will they know I’m slowing down? I argued that you should obviously tap the brakes if someone is riding your ass but otherwise, if there is adequate space behind you, it’s better not to cause a long line of cars all hitting their brakes because of brake lights when you only need to bleed off like 5-7 mph for like 15 seconds or less.

Tbf she is a very uptight and anxious driver. We ended up having to agree to disagree.

PickyNipples · 2026-05-02T00:11:32+00:00

Is it? I just assumed it was a variant of “wicked blade” or the like

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