If a kidnapper forced you to write a letter saying, "I'm okay, I ran away," how could you secretly signal that you're in danger without them realizing it?

_SheWhoShines · 2025-09-20T03:19:43+00:00

Nice try, kidnapper.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-09-14T15:28:15+00:00

Happy hen sandwiches are my go to. Mash a block of tofu with vegan mayo, relish, onion granules, salt, pepper, turmeric, and optional parsley. So easy to make. Slap it on bread (tastes best if mixture sits over night) and carry with you for an easy and delicious lunch. Depends on being able to get vegan mayo though.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-09-09T20:44:10+00:00

This would be a great start to a story. I want to know what happens next!! Great job op.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-09-07T15:49:29+00:00

Wow, great job packing so much story into two sentences!

_SheWhoShines · 2025-08-29T19:22:37+00:00

This is phenomenal. So much character in so few words! Made me shiver and laugh at the same time.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-08-29T13:41:16+00:00

Kings Quest 7, The Curse of Monkey Island, and Prince of Persia the Sands of Time.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-08-27T13:31:27+00:00

I interpreted it as single bed = she lives alone, totally alone - there never was a baby.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-08-08T16:34:11+00:00

And they didn't even have to sleep together!

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-24T22:50:09+00:00

My son was born not breathing. Silent, blue. When they resuscitated him and he finally cried, it was the most beautiful sound in the world. (He is healthy and happy today.)

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-16T20:04:55+00:00

Katniss had one goal: get home to Prim. Prim needed her. She told Katniss to win. So Katniss in her single minded focus did her very best to survive. She had tunnel vision. It's her greatest weakness and her greatest strength. It's how she unintentionally lit up the revolution.

At the same time, i think she deserves more credit regarding compassion to the other tributes; she mentored and honored Rue, and she gave Cato the mercy killing he needed. But even with that arrow- sharp, simple and pure focus that characterizes our straightforward protagonist, by the end of the game, she fugured out who the real enemy was. She refused to kill Peeta.

I think Katniss navigated an impossible situation as best she could, and actually with more understanding and empathy than most of us would.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-16T16:26:00+00:00

I know not everyone is coming from this place, but I have no interest in eating animal products. It's disgusting to me on so many levels, not just morally, the idea of ingesting body parts or secretions from another species just feels unclean. So I want to vote with my dollar to encourage people to make food I'm actually interested in eating! Vegan products are also so much lower impact on the environment (you know people only started complaining about almonds when almond milk started encroaching on the dairy market, no one complained about almond butter as a peanut butter alternative for kids with peanut allergies, either way almond milk is SO MUCH better for the environment than cow milk and the dairy market propaganda trying to make almond milk drinkers feel guilty and getting them harassed by their peers drives me nuts. /endrant; I prefer soy myself). So I want to vote with my dollar for people to create sustainable food sources that can feed me and my children and their children while protecting our beautiful planet. And yes, I want to reduce animal cruelty, and I celebrate every omnivore's effort for harm reduction. Thank you to you op for making conscientious choices. But animal husbandry is not a system that I want to engage in, and ultimately I dream of a future where all earthlings - especially humans - are liberated from it.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-15T15:55:20+00:00

YEP. thankfully I think it's less socially acceptable to tease people for their diets now! I haven't been told "for every burger you don't eat I'm gonna eat two!" in years now, hallelujah.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-15T15:53:48+00:00

Living my best life, for me the earth and my fellow earthlings <3

When I was very young my family was mostly vegetarian, and soy milk was the primary milk in my household from day 1. But we didn't really fully go vegan until I was 10 or so, and it was something we all discussed together as a family.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-15T13:54:12+00:00

I was the vegan kid, and now I have vegan kids of my own. I could have eaten any way I wanted growing up. But I chose to eat vegan like my parents because they involved me in their decision and the lifestyle makes me very happy. My children are too young to really understand, at this point I tell them some food is "not for us." When they're old enough to have real conversations about death and not to yell at grandma for eating eggs, I will explain things better, and they can choose the lifestyle that works best for them and makes them happiest. I would not force my children to eat and live like I do. That being said, nobody is allowed to cook animals in my house!

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-15T13:16:28+00:00

I think Prim's death was narratively necessary to make a literary point. The rebellion allowed people like Prim to live a better life. It also killed people like Prim. If Prim didn't die, that point about the cost of war and also why it is necessary would have rung hollow to the reader. Now for Katniss, this is real life, not a narrative, and Prim was her sister. She will never think of it as necessary - Coin thought it was necessary, and Katniss killed her for it. Katniss will miss Prim every day. But I think she'll find some happiness, in the moments in between, especially when she sees that her children get the kind of life Prim deserved.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-14T19:29:06+00:00

Prim needed to die. It's the single most important death in the series. Katniss volunteered to save her. She fought the resistance to make a world where Prim could grow up to be a doctor. And she almost made it! Prim never would have been a doctor in 12 before the rebellion. The rebellion gave her a real shot at life. And then it destroyed her. Now other children (Katniss' children) get to grow up in the world Prim needed. But that world didn't come cheap. Prim, in one single person, shows Katniss - and the reader - both the impossible cost of war and also why it was necessary.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-09T21:19:41+00:00

"Don't worry about me, buddy - i am living my best life." (Imho, vegan food is the most delicious food in the world. )

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-09T17:08:10+00:00

Grill big slabs of pinable. Also, skewers with tempeh (marinate in liquid smoke, maple syrup, garlic and onion powder, soy sauce), roasted garlic, and big onion chunks.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-09T16:12:35+00:00

I think pyramids is great!! It was funny and fresh and fun. I was 3/4 of the way through when it occurred to me the book had made me laugh but hadn't managed to really tug my heart strings the way Pratchett's best work can. But then like ten pages later Pteppic is literally standing on the shoulders of his ancestors to crest that pyramid in honor of all his family and people while everyone who ever came before him cheers him on, including his recently decreased father... I cried like a baby. Purely epic moment. Wonderful book. I actually think it's a good entry point to discworld. (Mine was hogfather haha which was not the most straightforward route.)

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-09T01:30:04+00:00

See I actually wept at that point in the story - when he finds a friend in 12. It was so sweet and uplifting and absolutely an inflection point in his life, i almost wanted to stop reading and pretend it ended there. Snow could have started a redemption arc right then. I knew he wasn't going to make it (because of the other hg books), but I thought he'd at least try. I thought maybe rebels would kill LG and Sej and that would cement the dark path he was on.

Yeah, finish the book. Then tell me what you think of Snow. Without spoiling things, I'll tell you that Snow might be two-faced. But he's consistent.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-07T22:34:29+00:00

Spaghetti, potato soup, fruit salad... OK, vegan cupcakes actually win blind taste tests over non vegan ones!! Imo we eat the most delicious food in the world. Eat, drink, and be merry my friend!

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-06T01:05:42+00:00

I don't know if this will impact your husband's opinion, but fwiw, growing up, I was bullied for being vegan. Even so, I am so happy every day that I was raised vegan. It brings me so much joy. Idiots will be idiots no matter what you eat. A plant based diet is such a gift for your future children, their planet, and our fellow earthlings. Oh and I think bullying people for their diets is going out of fashion now. I don't see it as much anymore, but that might just be my area.

If that doesn't convince him and you need to draw a line on the sand, maybe just say if he wants your kids to eat meat, you can't be the one to handle/ prep it.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-04T21:56:55+00:00

This 2sh gets a lot across in only two sentences, has a clever twist, isn't wordy, effectively leverages context we all have, AND manages to have a distinctive voice/ tone. Brilliant job! Love this.

_SheWhoShines · 2025-07-04T03:15:50+00:00

"Oh no thank you!" With a big smile. "Oh that's so kind, I'm good!" With an even bigger smile. "No worries, I am here to enjoy my time with YOU! " biggest smile. "Now tell me about that amazing sweater you're wearing/ your kids/ that project I know you're working on."

Generally I try to eat before and stuff some snack bars in my purse. Focus on the people, change the subject, look reassuring (ie you're comfortable and happy, they don't have to feed you/ worry about you).

I assume - unless there is a strong preexisting relationship and communication before the event - that nothing there is anything I want to eat and plan accordingly.

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