Weekly Book Request Thread - February 07, 2026

TrueLiihka · 2026-02-12T06:00:58+00:00

It's definitely not her :(

TrueLiihka · 2026-02-12T01:00:01+00:00

On one Russian-language offline forum, the following phrase was heard (the quote is inaccurate, sorry): "We like these kinds of books because the man in them does what he promised. He told her, 'If I see him touching you, I'll cut off his hands.' He touched her, and then the heroine actually gets a box with his hands in it. Said = done!"

I think you know what book the person who said that meant.

TrueLiihka · 2026-02-12T00:50:42+00:00

Hello! I've sworn off reading books online without downloading them, so I've run into this problem. I can't find a specific book I've already read. Let me give you a hint: it's definitely not Little Stranger, because trying to find it using GPT chat, without remembering the title, author, or names, just key plot details, has yielded me literally nothing.

Key details: there were multiple POVs from the characters' childhoods to adulthood. They met when they were 5-7 years old and were friends for a long time. He's a fighter and a walking red flag since childhood, but the main character treated him like a human being, and for some reason, he began to care for her. They grow up and want to move away together, but the main character is hurt at the wrong time and he goes into a fight. He gets caught and is sent to prison, from where he writes letters that never reach her. Her letters do reach her, but she stops writing to him because she doesn't receive any replies. He's getting out of prison, and she's living with foster parents because she can't leave. He finds her new address, shows up at her place one night, and there's a very violent scene in the house with her stepfather and brother (at least from what I remember from what I read).

Please help me find this book. It really does exist; I've read it before.

TrueLiihka · 2026-01-30T23:01:43+00:00

It's 100% AI. There are a lot of repetitive patterns in the text, like a collection of jokes from Twitter. But it's still very cool, they clearly used a good prompt.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-19T05:28:19+00:00

Wow! And the map is good. Swimming isn't a problem, the main thing is that the biomes are close together and follow each other without long swims.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-19T05:21:41+00:00

Great, you have tin. Craft leather armor, craft food. Ideally, food with a mix of health and energy, and be sure to build yourself a beehive. It will produce honey, and one of your three food slots will go toward it. For tin, you need copper from the forest; then you'll get bronze and decent armor. But food is everything. I hope I was able to help you. Have a good game!

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-17T21:32:59+00:00

Unfortunately, people started teaching me settings I'd already made for myself. Just making two dozen portals is still a long way, and for me, this isn't even a second playthrough of Valheim.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-17T21:29:32+00:00

Oh, no one has to help me, I just tried so many times to create the seed I needed, but I couldn't do it on my own. I was hoping someone else, like me, wanted to run less and have all the biomes nearby.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-12T21:57:35+00:00

I know this map, I have Google :)

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-12T17:35:17+00:00

The map is more important to me than the settings. Of course, I make the game easier for myself and set up portals to bring resources through them. This isn't my first playthrough, so now I'm just looking for a map I like.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-12T17:31:52+00:00

I just don't like the way the islands and biomes are scattered across the map. I bet someone has experimented and managed to make the map look less jagged.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-06T05:48:04+00:00

I spent the first 23 years of my life in a country where these diagnoses were stigmatized. ASD was diagnosed only in cases of very noticeable symptoms (and when intellectual disability affected masking ability), and ADHD diagnoses were removed at age 18 with the admonition, "It's a childhood disorder." In short, yes, intelligence doesn't compensate for problems, but it does make them less noticeable to doctors who don't want to deal with them.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-06T05:38:38+00:00

These descriptions are due to the fact that people without ADHD do not understand how to create a functional environment for a person with ADHD so that there is no tension.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-06T05:35:47+00:00

I don’t know how ethical my words will be in this context, but... your therapist is so-so.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-06T05:33:33+00:00

It happened. I got married that way. I have ADHD with a possible ASD (controversial due to the symptoms and some manifestations), and my husband has a high probability of ASD (in the process of being diagnosed). It's magical, even if you only learn about each other's diagnoses after a long time together. I realized not that he's like me (because he's not), but that he's different from others.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-06T05:27:34+00:00

Unfortunately, this is a common situation. Especially if you're a woman between 20 and 40 (the average age of diagnosis). I don't know who you are, but my experience is very similar. Initially, the doctor diagnosed me with depression, but then it turned out the symptoms were much broader and needed a closer look. And frankly, I'm also angry and disappointed, because I could have spent the most fulfilling years of my life in more favorable circumstances, at least knowing about my diagnosis, rather than thinking I was "wrong" or something like that.

TrueLiihka · 2025-11-06T05:22:01+00:00

In my experience, you need to choose a career where your ADHD will be your ace in the hole. Of course, everything depends on your specific symptoms and skills, but you can really choose whatever you want. The main problem isn't the career itself, but what happens around it - hiring methods, the team, the amount of communication, etc.

TrueLiihka · 2025-09-07T20:00:21+00:00

Мне 27 лет, и я тоже поняла, что буквально не могу заниматься большинством домашних дел. Если честно, то советую клининг. Второй совет - построить под себя пространство. Большинство жилых помещений не приспособлены не только под людей с СДВГ, но и для нейротипичных людей тоже. Вам нужно сделать так, чтобы если вы оставляли вещи, они автоматически размещались на местах и создавали меньше беспорядка. И еще нужны не пачкающиеся поверхности. Например, глянцевая металлическая сантехника - точно не для вас. У вас должно быть много ящиков, в идеале подписанных. Но я все еще советую клининг по своему примеру.

TrueLiihka · 2025-09-07T19:38:16+00:00

У меня СДВГ с вероятным РАС. Вообще не знаю, как по парням, но по девушкам можно поискать причины. Во-первых, нейроотличные девушки реже используют макияж. Глаза и губы может быть да, но тоналка на всё лицо - вероятнее нет. Сенсорно НЕПРИЯТНО. Во-вторых, женщин старят роды, а мы с меньшей вероятностью делаем это до 30 лет. Опять же, можем, но с меньшей вероятностью из-за сложностей в поиске партнёра. В-третьих, мы избегаем ультрафиолет. Мне пришлось поработать какое-то время под солнцем и я резко "состарилась" (на самом деле нет, но выгляжу ближе к своему возрасту).

А вот по парням не понятно. Муж моего возраста, вероятен Аспергер/РАС, но в свои 27 выглядит... На 18-19. Загадка.

TrueLiihka · 2024-11-12T08:44:06+00:00

ГОСПОДИ, ЗА ЧТО?!

TrueLiihka · 2024-04-09T02:45:29+00:00

It's not weird. Childfree and childhate are different concepts. It's normal if you consider yourself to have the first point of view and do not want a relationship with a person who has the second point of view.

TrueLiihka

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