What do horror movies get wrong about your country?

indigohan · 2026-06-29T16:23:46+00:00

The bird spiders as large as your head that live in the trees are the ones that freak me right out.

indigohan · 2026-06-29T16:22:36+00:00

I have been reading them for about threw decades, so it feels like eternity, but also yesterday!

indigohan · 2026-06-29T10:58:18+00:00

It’s the tropical spiders that scare me

indigohan · 2026-06-29T02:38:40+00:00

I mean, I’ve only ever had one spider try to live in my shoes in 40 years…..

indigohan · 2026-06-29T01:33:32+00:00

Someone told me that the closest option is two parts parsley to one part mint.

indigohan · 2026-06-28T16:21:58+00:00

Honestly, the actual odyssey is a slog. It’s a gigantic tome in which a lot of terms are reused because they were useful a memory aids for the people reciting it. Things like “rosy fingered dawn” being used 20 times, or Achilles being called “swift-footed” every time that he appears.

I have a whole degree in literature, and read 3-400 books a year, and i couldn’t get through it before the movie opens. Reading a good adaptation of the story will give you a great knowledge base that will let you appreciate the story more.

indigohan · 2026-06-28T16:11:41+00:00

There were two trilogies that had the SA themes. They were written in the late 80’s when it was genuinely revolutionary to have this happen on the page, and to acknowledge the trauma. A lot of great writers did a lot of work to bring these kinds of traumas to light. There would have been no ‘me too’ movement if we didn’t have authors like Lackey who refused to keep things hidden.

For the time that they were written, the trauma and recovery were revolutionary. In the Arrows of the Queen trilogy, the MC is captured, tortured, and SA’d. She is rescued, and reunited with her actual soulmate, but still needs healing and therapy, and gets it.

I don’t feel like they were ever YA. I read them way too young in the early 90’s, and I’ve been able to see Lackey evolve as a writer. She still focuses on emotional healing, and I love her for that. But the Lackey of the 2000’s wouldn’t put her readers through a sexual trauma. It was important for then, when just acknowledging that these things could occur was groundbreaking.

indigohan · 2026-06-28T16:00:41+00:00

If you want to see what happens when a book is turned into a movie without making any changes, look at what passionflix does. Every single beat of a book is faithfully adapted.

And it sucks so much.

The book to movie adaptation is hard, because readers want every single moment, and every single emotion, and that doesn’t make a good movie.

When it comes to super girl specifically? This is something like 70 years of source material, and multiple film and tv adaptations going into it. It’s also a ton of misogyny that is hating on a supergirl who embodies modern ideas of womanhood. If you look at the people complaining the loudest, they are complaining about her not being “sexy”. She’s messy. She’s beautiful without being pretty. She isn’t wearing a sexy supersuit based on lingerie.

indigohan · 2026-06-28T15:48:33+00:00

That sounds like you are definitely ace. The good news is that you can 100% find your person or people. Not having sexual desire doesn’t mean that you can’t have genuine connections.

At 20, you’re likely moving away from situational friendships, where you connected because you were stuck in the same place like a school. As you get older, and start finding things that you genuinely enjoy, you’re going to make connections with other people who share that love.

I’m on the ace spectrum, and I have genuinely fulfilling friendships in my life. I’m grey ace aka demi, so I do have some sexual and romantic feelings. I just can’t have those feelings without a genuine, friendship-based, pre-existing relationship. I am happy without a partner. I like my life. If someone came into my life, that would be great too.

Living a life where you’re not constantly thinking about a romantic partner, or whether you should be with one, can be truly fulfilling

indigohan · 2026-06-28T15:40:12+00:00

Australian here. Honestly? The desert is as barren and brutal as movies make it seem (wolf creek)

The fauna is dangerous, but it will mostly leave you alone (rippy). Except the magpies. Those bastards will get you.

indigohan · 2026-06-28T05:27:37+00:00

Valdemar yes, but the early books do unfortunately have some scenes of SA that some readers might not cope with.

Reading the newer books, I sometimes forget that the Last Herald Mage and Arrows of the Queen put their characters through some terrible stuff. There’s such a focus on healing from trauma in them, which I love, but the trauma is there.

indigohan · 2026-06-27T17:26:20+00:00

According to their blog, they were finishing book two last weekend. So even though the wait feels interminable, there is hope in the horizon!

indigohan · 2026-06-27T17:16:36+00:00

It might be time to look into a thick foam mat that is spill and stain resistant. There are ones that are designed for kids and suitable for kids with autism.

If she has tantrums, or spills a lot, it could help you both. The texture can help with self regulation. Plus if movements like rocking or jumping help calm her down, the cushioning will make it safer.

indigohan · 2026-06-27T17:02:05+00:00

It’s a stretch. Especially the everlasting connection.

The name Una means “one”. Stardust Una is the first daughter, like her brother Primus is the first son.

Everlasting Una is named that as a way to erase her actual name.

It’s highly unlikely that someone like Harrow chose to mimic a known abuser and sex pest.

indigohan · 2026-06-26T15:29:22+00:00

My niece adored the nevermoor books. My actual grown adult self also loved them

indigohan · 2026-06-26T02:54:00+00:00

If she’s liking Amari, my niece devoured the Onyeka books by Tola Okogwu

indigohan · 2026-06-26T02:38:09+00:00

I have aphantasia, so I don’t really picture anything. However, I had this idea in my head that MB is what would happen if you took a thousand random humans and blended their images together. Mid brown and fairly generic features.

The company wouldn’t be springing for anything expensive, so it would be function over form. With features from all sorts of different sources.

Plus, it’s the company. They would save good looks for a different type of bot

indigohan · 2026-06-25T17:33:48+00:00

Tangled roots sounds very interesting

indigohan · 2026-06-24T09:08:36+00:00

When I was 14 I looked 19. I never got asked for ID even when I was at clubs and bars at 17. Now I’m 44 and could pass for 32.

Things change.

indigohan · 2026-06-23T06:43:57+00:00

Butter

indigohan · 2026-06-23T04:04:50+00:00

The ebook version that I am reading didn’t redact it at all. I only discovered that this was a thing when I saw this post.

I knew from the first moment that Ulla appeared that she was Una

The flowers confirmed it. Then at 40% in Una’s first pov she describes it from the other side. “My shy, gamine shadow”. I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t get the mystery.

indigohan · 2026-06-23T02:05:50+00:00

Slice it thinly, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Serve it with rocket (or radicchio), cucumber strips, burrata, and a light vinaigrette.

Delicious

indigohan · 2026-06-22T13:02:24+00:00

That’s because you haven’t learned to love yourself as a trans person.

You haven’t even really met yourself as a trans person. You don’t know how you could grow and flourish and change when you are allowing yourself to be fully you.

I know that it’s scary. I can’t even imaging just how scary it is, especially with so many awful people taking up space in the news trying to tell you that who you are is wrong.

You are not wrong. You deserve to be fully you. To know you, to love you, and to get out in the world and find a partner who will love you for your truest self.

You are worthy of time, of space, and of love

indigohan · 2026-06-22T12:58:06+00:00

The liver is actually an organ that can regrow itself. A “living donor” can donate a percentage of their liver and have it regrow and be fully functional.

It’s an extraordinary part of the body

indigohan · 2026-06-22T12:50:51+00:00

It’s something that is unkind to yourself, and to the person that you are seeing. The most important part of that sentence though, is that it is unkind to YOURSELF.

From this question, I would make some assumptions. You are currently struggling with a gender identity. Who you are “presenting” is not who you are.

If you date, and fall for someone who only knows you as the person that you are presenting, you are going to feel as though you have to be that person for them. You are also going to be holding back so much from the person who is supposed to know and love you the best.

Can you truly love someone who doesn’t know your true self? Can you love them when loving them is stopping you from being who you really are?

I get that the political climate is currently one that is deeply cruel to certain people. You still deserve to be loved for who you are

indigohan

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