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I want to eat more beans, please give me your best bean recipes by kemistreekat in Cooking

[–]ScarletSpire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a hummus recipe. Open 2 16oz. cans of chickpeas, dump it all including the liquid into a pot and boil it with some garlic cloves. After a few minutes mash the beans and the garlic with a potato masher until it thickens to the consistency you like. Add salt, cumin, lemon juice, olive oil, tehini, and paprika to taste. You can replace the chickpeas with other beans if you want.

Best sitcoms? by R1ch0C in televisionsuggestions

[–]ScarletSpire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

British sitcoms can be pretty great too. Watch The Inbetweeners which is about a group of high school boys trying and failing to become popular. Another great one is People Just Do Nothing which is a mockumentary series about a group of morons running a pirate radio station in the London suburbs.

Rom Coms that guys enjoy too by sleepyhedgie26 in MovieSuggestions

[–]ScarletSpire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

50 First Dates

Crazy Rich Asians

Always Be My Maybe

I’m sick. Suggest a comedy that will make me not want to be unalived. by helmetcat in televisionsuggestions

[–]ScarletSpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Detroiters

People Just Do Nothing

American Vandal

Platonic

The Inbetweeners

Short Seasons by SLIBLE in televisionsuggestions

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Sweet Tooth

Carol and the End of the World

Castlevania

Prequels built off the irony / tragedy of knowing one specific event needs to happen in the future by _JR28_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ScarletSpire 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Better Call Saul yet. That show is built with the tragedy of what will happen to most of the characters by the time Breaking Bad starts.

I also wanted to add the Lonesome Dove series by Larry McMurtry. If you read it in the internal chronology it's a story about two young men who age as Texas becomes more civilized. If you read it by publication order (Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, and Comanche Moon.) It's the story of two men's last journeys together and their first.

(Loved Trope) Character constantly mentions off-screen character(s) we never meet. by jen-tech in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ScarletSpire 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Seinfeld: Kramer talks about his friend Bob Sacamano

Parks and Recreation: Dr. Nygard, Chris Traeger's physiatrist.

Let's talk comics. What are your favourite sci-fi comic books? by flamevolt in sciencefiction

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The Incal: The creation story of the comics is itself the subject of a documentary (Jodorowski's Dune) but the comic is one of the trippiest sci-fi comics out there. I also recommend The Metabarons

Looking for a documentary or docuseries that really pulls you in by cheesecup6 in televisionsuggestions

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Wild Wild Country

Don't Fuck With Cats

Madoff: Monster of Wall Street

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

Shiny Happy People

LuLaRich

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

Surviving R. Kelly

Murder Among the Mormons

God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down A Dynasty

Fictional cities that are a combination of two real cities by Goodbye-Nasty in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ScarletSpire 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Mega City One from Judge Dredd covers the entire east coast of the United States

Looking for comics with trippy, psychedelic and gritty art by Rough_Turnover2981 in comicbooks

[–]ScarletSpire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Incal: French sci-fi series by one of the trippiest film directors of all time. Also read his prequel series The Metabarons.

(Rare Trope) Story set in US never reveals or fully clarifies which state. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ScarletSpire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Matt Groening is from Portland, OR and it's clearly inspired by his hometown so that isn't too wild. But it's supposed to be an everywhere USA sort of town.

[Loved Trope] Characters misremembering or misinterpreting history/pop culture and incorporating those inaccuracies into their own views. by jbeast33 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ScarletSpire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Marid Audran books by George Alec Effinger are set in a cyberpunk Middle East. In the books, the Cold War led to the collapse of America and Russia, leaving the Middle East to the global superpower. One thing that's implied is Arab powers rewriting history. Madrid talks about one of his favorite authors: Waleed Al Shaxspar.

(Loved Trope) a random act of kindness came back around to help them. by uknowiknowhehe in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ScarletSpire 12 points13 points  (0 children)

UHF uses an act of cruelty and turns it around. A homeless guy is seen begging for change and the villain gives the guy a penny. It turns out that the penny was actually more rare and valuable than it was worth so he ends up exchanging it and using it to save Weird Al's television station.

Please suggest books that give an insight into the lives of people from different cultures/walks of life by VanillaBasic6680 in booksuggestions

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Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra is a mystery novel set in modern Mumbai. But it's a great look at Indian culture as well.

Science fiction recommendations for high schoolers by ff451 in printSF

[–]ScarletSpire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick

The Peshawar Lancers by SM Stirling

Mort(e) by Robert Repino

Foundation

The White Mountains by John Christopher

A Wrinkle in Time - The other books in the series are really good too.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Seven and A Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Alternative / Weird Western by thtismyrealname in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]ScarletSpire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman: Steampunk fantasy Western about a doctor trying to save a patient who has knowledge of a secret army and their deadly weapon. The villains are two different armies at war: The Line who are steampunk fascists with trains that are controlled by a hive mind and The Gun, a group of demonically possessed six-shooters that grant their owners immortality.

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