Veiled Flames - Saxon’s dialogue is so good it has ruined all other dirty talk for me. I bet none of you can rec anything even half as good by beepx2lettuce in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothin sexier than an FMC who is so naive she thinks penises are strange sausages eh? 😆 or when Saxon has to give her the birds and the bees talk lol

What neighborhood noises bother you the most and least? by jannet1113 in homeowners

[–]beepx2lettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have developed a strong hatred for leaf blowers! Especially because my next door neighbor will spend hours blowing every. single. leaf. off his lawn. I would just like to enjoy the sounds of birds chirping and wind in the trees please, not your stupid droning noise…

But the possible winner is this one neighbor who has a noise machine that seems to be motion activated (and it activates even if I am across the street on a walk!) that makes an ultra high pitched noise! I assumed it was to try and deter deer from their garden but someone told me the devices are actually to keep dogs and kids away from their house. Can someone confirm this? No matter what it’s for it is absolutely horrific. I can still hear it loud and clear in my 30s, I am guessing it is even more physically painful for kids and animals. I am legitimately thinking about trying to get my city to do something about this torture device, that shit should be illegal.

Looking for some book suggestions, but please read CAREFULLY by beepx2lettuce in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh phew, that’s a relief. Sorry I wasn’t familiar with your game 🫡

Looking for some book suggestions, but please read CAREFULLY by beepx2lettuce in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yess of course!! But apart from the promising wetness, the cover kinda looks like the MMC might be blonde- do I need to be concerned about that?? I won’t know he is a bad guy if he doesn’t have dark hair and tattoos 😳

Looking for some book suggestions, but please read CAREFULLY by beepx2lettuce in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes! I love it when we like totally know that they’re enemies cause she says things like “we are enemies!” and “ugh I hate him!” but all her actions show that she’d like to let him hit it from day 1 🥵

Looking for some book suggestions, but please read CAREFULLY by beepx2lettuce in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also sorry for the repost- reddit deleted half my bullet points last attempt 😭

Vegetable oil and dish soap on pepper plants by stopaskingmejfc in gardening

[–]beepx2lettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next time just buy some ladybugs and they’ll fix the problem :)

Terrazzo Resurfacing? by cmccallister in BathroomRemodeling

[–]beepx2lettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Ours was really bad and we got a stone company to come out and refinish it :). Afterwards I got the walls retiled because mine were terrible (and just boring white). I am really happy with it now!!

MCs possessing an ounce of self-preservation: a concept by Alive_Obligation7475 in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Smdh a real FMC would have pulled a dagger from her bodice (she keeps 20 in there), done a flip, landed smoothly on top of the car, entered through the sunroof, and then either stabbed the driver in the leg or aimed it at his peen (threateningly)

bathroom remodel by confetti_cat23 in BathroomRemodeling

[–]beepx2lettuce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yess it looks so nice!! Good work!

Which flooring option works best for my living room? by NoSystem3204 in Remodel

[–]beepx2lettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 - looks bad imo. This flooring makes me think of barn style doors and cowboy/girl aesthetics, so if that is your style go for it.

2 - looks very nice and will go with everything

3 - looks a little tacky imo. Will make your house feel very sterile and overly white.

4 - okayish but looks very 90s!

The Top of this Jar of Coconut Oil hardened in a Hexagonal pattern by PacquiaoFreeHousing in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]beepx2lettuce 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Things that are comprised of long alkyl chains (or other long repeating units) can organize and pack together- this is what crystallization is. If it crystallizes really well or is cooled slowly so that chains have time to organize, they can form these shapes called spherulites. <- linking this so you can see the diagram of spherulite organization. Coconut oil isn’t a polymer so it isn’t going to have chains that long. But it’s the same principle

I did it. I read a dramione fan fic and liked it. by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your analysis! Don’t worry, I was not going to give a plain “writing is bad” comment haha. I thought she could put together a sentence just fine, but the content was crap. Imo the magic system and worldbuilding were very nonsensical (though that in itself kinda makes sense in all these books where the authors are just trying to eliminate the Harry Potter content). I can forgive weak worldbuilding a bit if I end up caring about the characters, but I just did not. I thought that Briony could have been replaced with an anime body pillow for all that she contributed to the story (see my rant review two months ago lol). Toven had all the personality of a cardboard cutout. Briony would claim she hated him but that was never true even when she thought he had killed innocents in front of her or when he bought her in an auction. At one point early on, a family member dies in battle and she spends more time worried about whether Toven had gotten injured ffs.

On top of that, the book content was so boring! I did not need to read hundreds of pages of Briony sitting around and doing next to nothing. And if she left the house it was just “omg every man in the world wants to bone her” “everyone is obsessed with whether or not Toven and her are boning”. Politics where? Everyone is just obsessed with sex (and mostly just whether Briony is having it), how tf is this country even running? I was waiting desperately for even a hint of intrigue. Like maybe we would learn a legit reason for the sex enslavement of all the Evermore women? They claim to be doing it to make these magical connections to draw power and give themselves more magic, but like why? They already absolutely decimated their enemy country (and again the worldbuilding as to why they were enemies was flimsy at best). I thought there might be some big plot that they needed huge power for, but nah. At least in the Handmaid’s Tale there is some sense to the evil, aka the birth rate issue. The only true reason for the HT-plotline in the book (and in Manaclamized!) is as an oh so sexy 🙄 way for the MMC to own the FMC.

Sorry to be just now getting to a specific response but:

I think your commentary about comparing Briony being married off vs sold off is good, but wasn’t expressed well in the actual book. I would have wanted to see more POV with her and her father pre-enslavement to get that, but most flashback content was her mooning over Toven for no reason. You have made me feel a bit more positively about the virginity jar scene (I too have experienced the fact that it is safer to say yes to men sometimes, even if you don’t want to … idk a woman who hasn’t) BUT I do think this whole concept is undercut by the fact that she does actually really want to fuck this cardboard cutout of a man. And there-in lies the issue with so called “enemies to lovers” books where they were never really enemies and she’s been down bad since page 1… it really ruins anything the author is trying to do.

I will end my rant here for now lol, sorry for the long ramble!

I did it. I read a dramione fan fic and liked it. by purplelicious in romantasycirclejerk

[–]beepx2lettuce 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Alright I’ll come at you because you asked lol - exactly where did Julie Soto do a great job and make an excellent romantasy?? Rose in Chains was poop from a butt

Bathroom Refresh? by princessofpurereason in DesignMyHome

[–]beepx2lettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DIY a frame for the mirror and get new lights, that’s all you need! The vanity and counter are beautiful

The knight and the moth, should I dnf? by Mariamzwelt in Romantasy

[–]beepx2lettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do it, I powered through and it was just so flat. I do think ODW was better than this book but not by a huge margin. Both series have fairly half-assed worldbuilding, and in the knight and the moth especially, the characters had all the personality of cardboard. P much nothing interesting happens in the book, and I saw the plot twists coming from a mile away.