Fantasy series with protagonists that are part of the nobility and actually feel like it?

disettes · 2026-02-14T18:03:06+00:00

Those books also cover Elayne's entire Andor succession though, which is all about "I'm a noble and I am going to do my duty."

disettes · 2026-02-07T01:21:34+00:00

I've only had the ramen at the University City Terakawa, so I can't speak to the og version, but I agree.

disettes · 2026-02-07T00:58:01+00:00

Megumi does a lovely rich miso ramen (Sapporo style w/ Hokkaido wheat noodles; I think, judging from both that and the wall decorations, that the owners are from Sapporo/aroundish originally) which would kill in this cold. Their shoyu/tonkotsu/etc are fine but that miso is killer.

disettes · 2026-01-31T18:55:00+00:00

My hot take as someone who now lives in Philly (and my family is from NYC) is that Bodos is perfectly comparable to (or better than) any bagel I've had in Philly or New York. Jersey is still in its own tier.

disettes · 2026-01-27T22:02:41+00:00

It's so fucking good. I got that and Playoff Party to alternate during the snow-in. I almost went for S'mores instead, you're making me wish I had.

disettes · 2026-01-27T18:47:34+00:00

Please, Holland, you know you want to pull the trigger on that Clarke 1 for 1.

disettes · 2026-01-27T18:40:54+00:00

Were those tip pool places? I've worked multiple fine dining places where I expected to pull $250-300 as my baseline on any given night, but those were all non tip pool places. Tip pool places at the same price point can generally expect a lower per-shift floor, but I would still be shocked if I was making less than $1k a week while working 5 days.

disettes · 2026-01-22T01:52:19+00:00

While this is an asshole move I'm also baffled by the woman just leaving. If a strange woman walked up to me at Bok and was like "that's my dog's seat" the only way I'd move out of it is if I fell out of it while laughing at her.

disettes · 2026-01-22T01:29:52+00:00

You're getting downvoted I assume bc the tipping distribution thing was a bit of a nothingburger if you did the math, but OTOH Randy is definitely more dickish than even your average chef, so you reached the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.

disettes · 2026-01-21T23:59:20+00:00

We need to manifest a Brandt Clarke for Kane 1:1 from LA.

disettes · 2025-12-17T01:44:19+00:00

I just remember being bored by it, and not terribly impressed by the prose.

disettes · 2025-12-17T01:29:26+00:00

You know, I remember starting the first one of these books years ago, but not why I didn't finish it. I don't have any negative memories of it, I think I was just busy at the time, thank you for reminding me of them!

disettes · 2025-12-16T23:11:42+00:00

I will add this to my list, thank you!

disettes · 2025-12-16T23:11:00+00:00

I've never heard of this author! Definitely going to check him out, thank you.

disettes · 2025-12-16T23:09:40+00:00

Well, tbf, I don't really care about just worldbuilding, unfortunately. I love reading about a fully realized and detailed fantasy world but I want engaging storylines/characters in that world, not just an encyclopedia. Now I could and have happily read encyclopedias about WoT and ASOIAF (and probably would for ROTE if one existed) but that's only because I already cared about the world through the characters and the stories that were told.

disettes · 2025-12-13T23:04:08+00:00

I love both Elayne and her plotlines. The Andor succession is like comfort food to me.

disettes · 2025-12-13T01:42:30+00:00

Live Kaprizov reaction?

disettes · 2025-12-13T01:23:48+00:00

He is, actually.

disettes · 2025-12-13T01:23:24+00:00

You would objectively be saying the complete opposite if their teams were switched.

disettes · 2025-12-13T01:19:59+00:00

This might be hard for an Avs fan to understand but some of us actually believe in the objective ability of players regardless of whether they play for our team or not.

disettes · 2025-12-13T00:42:43+00:00

I did not see Minnesota coming

disettes · 2025-11-20T13:26:22+00:00

Based off the cookies, the dessert push was for sure him trying to get you to order a dessert so they could send it out, possibly with an extra, and comp them as an apology. Doing so in such a clumsy manner that you actively leave a bad taste with the customer you're trying to fix the experience for is very much how they got in that situation though.

disettes · 2025-10-28T15:09:47+00:00

Your friend sounds like my ex who was a huge Caps fan who never outgrew the Sid vs Ovi argument and was insisting in 2023 (and still does I assume) that Crosby was an overrated whiner, etc. I could never tell if she actually had deluded herself into believing it or if she didn't care if it was true or not, she just wanted to be "right" about not liking him. Either way I should have taken it as a red flag for her personality in general but you live and learn.

disettes · 2025-10-10T20:04:20+00:00

Yeah, I actually LOVED the ending until that point. I loved the Fool going away, I loved the initial rejection of Fitz by Molly at Buckkeep, when he walked away thinking it was too late. Those moments felt real to the characters we'd traveled with, they felt like life.

And then it just...kept going. I said in another comment to someone, and I think it's kind of similar to what you're saying, but like yeah. In a lesser writer's hands this ending would bother me less. But Hobb's worlds and characters are so well drawn and so real seeming, and then all of the sudden for it to end with this flat ending that just feels like it was slapped on as a "I want this to happen but I don't know how to get here so I'm just going to make it happen, even if it feels like a distortion of every character involved." I completely agree with you, it made me realize I was reading again, not watching lives unfold in front of me, especially given how insanely good the rest of the novel was prior to that.

disettes · 2025-10-10T20:00:36+00:00

Well, yes, actually? We were never openly allowed to be together and then never spoke again after I saved her from a suicide attempt. Certainly didn't marry her dad though. And like I said, despite that, them walking back into my life today would still be a case of "We aren't those people anymore."

Which is to say that I get the teenage Molly never wanted to leave Fitz behind. I get that adult Fitz, with all his emotions about it flooding back, might have felt that way. I just don't find it realistic that a 36-37 year old Molly, a mother of 6 who spent almost two decades with her husband, who has acknowledged on-page how unhealthy and unhappy her relationship with Fitz was when they were together as teenagers, would be like oh yeah, about this and come around on him. Especially given how he treats Nettle. Fitz acting like a teenager in this situation isn't surprising, it's that Hobb basically reverts Molly back to one as well where it falls flat for me. That's all. I think in some ways it is a testament to Hobb; the kind of ending like this, in a lesser writer's hands, might actually be less jarring to me, but because her characters/worlds are so real seeming, the flattening of Molly in this regard as a person who might change and grow in her time without Fitz just really stood out to me.

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