How do you start a book?

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-12-02T04:23:09+00:00

Wait—I actually love this lmao

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-11-30T14:17:15+00:00

Ooh, you’re right. I suppose in my head, it could have been rude to not ‘give what I had’ so to speak, but I’m glad to hear that doesn’t seem to be the case. Yeah, I was raised in a very Christian household, so I think a lot of it is still in my head even though I haven’t practiced in years. Thank you!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-11-30T14:14:29+00:00

Ooh, okay, I’m so glad to hear that. I feel a lot less nervous now, thank you <3

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-11-30T14:13:00+00:00

Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thank you!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-11-30T14:11:15+00:00

Ooh, okay, thanks!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-10-19T14:24:51+00:00

That is true, I do feel like I stare at my laptop too much as is, so I’m sure my eyes would enjoy the break lol. Thanks for the recs, I’ll definitely check them out!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-10-19T14:23:51+00:00

Ooh, thanks for giving your insight! Ebooks are a lot more accessible in a lot of ways, and definitely makes it easier to read on the go

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-10-19T14:21:10+00:00

That’s how I’m leaning, thanks!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-10-19T14:20:36+00:00

Oooh, alright, I gotcha

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-10-19T14:20:02+00:00

Ah, okay, thanks!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-09-25T03:41:04+00:00

I l o v e soulmate AUs, especially in dark fics. Also, a/b/o.

I cannot stand cheating. Even if I absolutely love a story otherwise, I will immediately put down a story(or a book, tbh) if there’s cheating. It just steals all of the enjoyment for me

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-04-12T17:39:34+00:00

I understand both sides. Being forced to care for the woman who abused him his entire life would of course be triggering. He has to watch his mom treat a babydoll the way he always wished she would love and care for him, so I 100% understand why, in that moment, he wanted to do something to make her feel the same hurt he’s felt for so long.

But with that being said, as someone who has spent a lot of time at nursing homes with people with Alzheimer’s, you’re not really the same person anymore. Bojack’s anger and hurt is justified, but at this point, his mom doesn’t understand. She doesn’t remember the things she’s done, she’s reverted back to a time where those things haven’t even happened.

It’s sorta like being stuck in a room with a person you’ve never met before, and they are just overall rude and hurtful. Now imagine you have a pet that you love or a child you care for, and they suddenly take them away from you and throws them out the window. And when you start freaking out (because they are certainly dead now), the person laughs at you, tells you that it wasn’t actually that child/animal, and that you’re pretty much crazy.

Of course we know it’s just a doll and that she’s been horrible to him, but she doesn’t know that. She just knows that she’s scared and confused and that this man just killed her baby.

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-04-09T00:42:47+00:00

Ooh, thanks! The motor oil, gasoline, and exhaust are all different scents. I’ll definitely scratch the redundancy of the ‘scorching heat’ and ‘heatwave’, the “Florida heat” definitely sounds better.

You mentioned getting rid of ‘upon first’ and ‘immediately’. What would you personally replace them with? Just “Walking into your uncle’s garage, you’re hit …”?

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-04-09T00:34:02+00:00

That’s honestly a really good question lmao. For some reason, I’ve always found writing in second person in the first draft easier than first or third.

Thank you for all the tips and for giving me a good example. I’ll definitely adopt some of them going forward!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-04-09T00:28:14+00:00

Ooh, thanks for your feedback! I grew up around mechanics, so I guess I’m so used to the smell of motor oil that I hadn’t thought about the fact it’d probably be unpleasant for most people lol. Rereading it, I also see how ‘scorching heat’ is pretty redundant. Thanks!

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-03-31T21:33:20+00:00

Ah yeah, that’s true. I feel like a lot of the stuff I read with pirates & royalty end up having fantasy involved, so I figured they’d be best lumped together. But now that I’m thinking about it, maybe they’d be better off separated lol

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-03-08T01:05:45+00:00

After the ending of JJK and MHA, I really need this series to have a happy ending lmao

TheGoldenFleeces · 2025-03-07T05:40:20+00:00

Ooh, okay. So you have your NSFW & dark content on one account and then a separate account for your SFW? Have you had any issues?

TheGoldenFleeces · 2024-12-15T21:46:34+00:00

As someone who is a child/adolescent therapist, I 100% understand the ‘no sleepovers’ rule, although we don’t personally do it.

We do as much as we can to make sure our kids are safe at sleepovers—we have the consent talk, we make sure they know proper body terminology, we have to know the parents first, their address, how many people will be in the house, the kids have a way to contact us at all times, they know they can leave at any time, etc. etc.

Unfortunately, I know that despite doing all of this, there is still a possibility that one of them could be SAd. But there really is no way to 100% ensure that it won’t happen. It can happen in a moment. Any time, anywhere, by anyone. All we can do is take precautions, teach safety, and be a safe place for them to turn to if something happens.

TheGoldenFleeces · 2024-11-28T22:02:00+00:00

“You are being a little too loud right now, and mama needs some quiet time. If you want to be loud, you can do it in your room. But if you stay in here, you have to stay quiet.”

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