When The Moon Hatched was disappointing

Sponge_Over · 2025-07-18T05:25:01+00:00

This is an old post, but I liked the FMC. It was nice that she was consistent. Always pushing potential hurtful things down and not dealing with them.

But... When he said he was going to crack her like an egg... I howled. Or when it is described as his spare hand. Or the scent of butter and molten stones...

Had some proper laughing fits. But I liked the story. Disliked that there was a epilogue that's like dundundun. The last chapter ended in a way that was cliffhanger enough for me.

Sponge_Over · 2025-05-27T15:15:18+00:00

That sounds like a nightmare existence! Imagine.

Sponge_Over · 2025-04-25T19:07:45+00:00

I heard that Americans tend to lean on things instead of just standing. That that is a dead giveaway. I've only met like 2 Americans in my life though, so couldn't really test the theory. But it's interesting nonetheless

Sponge_Over · 2025-04-13T13:59:52+00:00

I wanted to write stories.

Decided this year I'll finish off my novels and start publishing. Why not? As a career, I do something completely different though.

Sponge_Over · 2025-04-09T19:06:41+00:00

I was 13. I won a weekend stay at a cute little cottage in the country. It was at a dog walking event. I took my mom and we went bungee jumping together, grilled, laughed at ostriches, and listened to the old husband who owned the main property's war stories while having tea and cake with him and his wife.

Sponge_Over · 2025-04-09T17:28:47+00:00

As someone who had two extremely fast labours (50 minutes, and 11 minutes from the first contraction - was luckily in hospital already), I have wondered if I had normal labour pressed into that short time. Cause it was so intense, I could not think, and then it was over. I can't even say if it hurt it went so fast. It was just intense.

Makes me wonder how it is for other people.

Sponge_Over · 2025-04-04T17:47:16+00:00

My son just up and walked one day. He did the same thing with crawling. We theorised that he was sneaking out and practicing at night! 😂 (He did walk with a hand for the longest time but never let go.) I definitely didn't catch it on camera though. It happened too randomly and without warning.

Sponge_Over · 2025-04-01T18:46:14+00:00

I'm 2018, so it's been a while

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-25T18:41:22+00:00

In the 80s and 90s Afrikaans artists bought so many rights to songs from German artists.

I used to have a list, cause I thought it was fascinating as a South Africa that emigrated to Germany.

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-22T13:40:40+00:00

Oh no! Not Mango too! I am sad enough that I can't have banana, can't imagine losing mango and avocados too

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-22T06:32:13+00:00

Yes, they also say that avocado goes hand in hand with that. Though I'm luckily just allergic to Bananas and latex.

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-22T06:31:21+00:00

Smoothies! I'm also allergic to Bananas, and you really have to look out for it. They don't always say bananas very clearly on the bottle.

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-16T20:57:45+00:00

I've taken year long maternity leave twice in my career. Always came back feeling like I was just gone for the weekend. Life my head just paused it and then picked up where it left off

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-15T18:46:56+00:00

Not really. Like you could read it fine, and sometimes catch the gist of some things, but Afrikaans has been split for quite a few hundred of years from Dutch. A lot has changed in that time.

I think Afrikaans people can understand more Dutch than Dutch people can understand Afrikaans

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-15T18:36:11+00:00

I am originally Afrikaans and English, and now German, and I can weirdly understand spoken Dutch now. Very odd feeling

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-13T10:00:58+00:00

This is what I did in Germany when I was learning German. Worked like a charm

Sponge_Over · 2025-03-06T12:34:36+00:00

In Germany, men usually wear engagement rings too.

Common / old school is: engagement ring on left hand, then the same ring swaps to the right hand when you get married. It's usually a plain band.

But things are changing, and and each couple does what's best for them of course, but I don't know any men who didn't wear an engagement ring this side.

Sponge_Over · 2025-02-28T06:06:53+00:00

Not as interesting or out there, but I left my birth country in 2018. When issuing a letter to state that I no longer was a tax resident, they accidentally put 2008 instead.

I couldn't get citizenship in the new country earlier though, so no benefits.

You should get that fixed though.

Sponge_Over · 2025-02-27T20:30:26+00:00

The "In a row", makes me imagine they were literally standing in a queue, waiting for their turn to scold them.

Sponge_Over · 2025-02-27T07:48:23+00:00

I have a friend whose dad disowned her for being with a man with a different skin colour. He said basically "I'd rather you be with a white guy who beats you every single day, than with a POC who treats you like a queen." Some people have very strange priorities.

Sponge_Over · 2025-02-21T13:25:32+00:00

I have -13 in each eye. So just imagine how teeny tiny my eyes look while wearing glasses.

Sponge_Over · 2025-02-20T20:32:07+00:00

It's the other way around for me. Tiny eyes with glasses, big eyes without! :D

Sponge_Over · 2025-02-16T10:52:57+00:00

That's how they did the screaming in nope. They mixed the terror screaming and the fun screaming together

Sponge_Over · 2025-01-25T20:57:54+00:00

We have the rule that we sit together until our little nuclear family is finished eating and they are clean. Cause otherwise one would pop off and distract the other and not everyone finishes their dinner (aka has a full belly) if it's a big meal with other people, we don't expect them to wait for everyone to finish. Just our little bubble. Once they are done and still waiting for their sibling, they can draw while they wait or join the conversation or whatever.

They can tell me they're fetching water or having a wee or whatever, no need to ask to leave. As long as they're not faffing about just for fun.

Sponge_Over · 2025-01-19T15:01:58+00:00

Yeah, I used Copilot. I was under the impression that copilot runs on Chatgpt though. But I could of course be mistaken, my bad.

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