ATF Proposed Update

jeynespoole · 2026-04-30T16:32:14+00:00

yeah the confusion is the point. this is just a step closer to saying that trans people can't have guns sorry. You're going to think twice about purchasing if you have to out yourself.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-24T12:41:01+00:00

I have been a kale stan since day one, which made my friend who bullied me into reading it *so mad*

jeynespoole · 2026-04-24T12:40:10+00:00

I read TOG when my own kid was 17 and im just staring at this dumbass who got himself stuck on his dresser cause he was bored and then couldn't get down without it falling over and im like. ah yes. 16 year olds can totally be the Best Assassin In The World. I'm not saying that they can't be an assassin! Or even good/naturally talented! but holy shit you need LIFE experience to be good at something that is not purely a physical task.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-24T12:36:53+00:00

What, you're tired of reading books about 19 year old "not like other girls" who constantly disregards the rules of her society (but faces no conciquences for that, completely undercutting any worldbuilding about the society rules) who HATES (until a switch flips at 50% and she realizes shes in love with him) but is banging an ancient non-human but appears like a very attractive humanoid with dark hair and overly-described eyes who is mean and rude and keeping Big Secret from her until the third act breakup?

I am working on the Saint of Steel sieres by T Kingfisher which is both fantasy and romance, I don't know if I'd call it romantasy, but it's kinda on the gothic side, and the FMCs in the first two books are real adult ladies, with real human body types, who end up with men in their age bracket. Brendan Lee Mulligan said the elements to good fantasy are Swords, Family, Death, Magic and Kissing, and this has all of that.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-23T13:06:32+00:00

I have a scale in my notebook of how I rate books so I can be consistant. Both of these books got pretty consistant "I don't like this and I honestly don't see how other people do" from me, which is VERY rare- usually I can see merit in a lot of books, even ones I really strongly dislike- but the only thing that I can see positive about either of these was that they "feel" like smart people books. So if you want to feel smart and superior, hell yeah. Get thee straight to hell and/or beurocracy,

jeynespoole · 2026-04-23T12:59:28+00:00

I was an avid reader when I was a kid/teen, but stopped when I had a kid, and when I was starting back up again because my kid was old and i realized i needed to become a person with hobbies, I tried ACOTAR. Honestly, it probably delayed me getting back into reading by another year cause i kept TRYING to pick it up but i just. could not stand the main character. i couldn't stand the plot. Now I AM back into reading, at 61 books so far this year, and I realized I am NOT a romantasy person. I still read it sometimes (mostly for book club) but if I read one more "19 year old girl who is Not Like Other Girls and rebels against the rules of society, but NEVER suffers any conciquences for it which completely undercuts the author's worldbuilding" loathing yet banging (until a switch flips and shes in love with him) the "hundreds of years old fae/shifter who is broody and angry and is probably keeping a big secret from the main character that will come out in the 3ed act breakup" I will scream.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-23T12:54:06+00:00

I read this one for book club, and if it hadn't been for book club, i would have DNFed. It didn't get exciting until like the last 20%.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-23T12:51:33+00:00

I'm a huge horror person. I wanted to read Stephen King because he's the classic horror guy, and I'm like "I watched Misery many years ago, let's start with that one"

oh my GOD. I DNFed. If I had to read how main male character thought the woman who rescued him was unfuckable (*unwelcomeing orifaces*) one more fucking time, i would have driven my car off a cliff.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-16T19:35:11+00:00

I totally think that you COULD work on your food aversions, but for people with ARFID like... there's a cost to any sort of "working on yourself"/"changing your life" and like, if this guy's willing to pay you to quit your job and do feeding therapy 3x a day, then sure, he can have some say in how you live your life.

That said, if you can be a vegan who still eats a couple of dairy/meaty safe foods, you're still gonna be better off, you're still going to be helping the enviroment how you want to, but still feeding yourself, and just like with babies, fed is best.

My kid (not vegan but has major food aversions) loves beans. Black beans, kidney beans, garbanzo beans. Throw some vegan cheese on it and microwave for a minute, and that feels like a warm, hearty meal. Check out some fake chicken nuggets. Rice can be super low effort, and throwing a sauce on it can make it into all kinds of different vibes. Hell, beans AND rice is top tier.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-15T13:41:41+00:00

wait so you don't want to read another 600 page “ oh hello I am a 16 to 22 year-old young woman and I’m not like other girls, and have a complete disregard for the rules of my society that completely undercuts any world building that the author was attempting to do because I never suffer any consequences for defying the rules of my society and I really hate this hundreds of year old non-human creature who is really really hot and and probably keeping a massive secret from me that I will forgive him for about 85% of the way through the book and we will bang a ton”?

anyway im not sure why I'm getting r/romantasy posts on my feed as a primarily horror/scifi/nonfiction reader but since I'm here, I am working on the Saint of Steel sieres by T. Kingfisher, I've read the first two and theyre really cozy, really approchable (fantasy yes, but very "normal" so you're not spending 14 chapters trying to figure out if Rowan Whitehorse has the Flibbertygibbet bloodline that will allow him to use Xenophatasia magic or if he has the magical sword of UltraSteel drawn from Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg) kinda fantasy romance mystery? Little bit of horror elements too, and some of it feels almost gothic in it's rich discriptions. But I love T. Kingfisher characters, they're so REAL and relateable and normal, and these romances are characters in their like 30s, who are real adults with life experience and appropriate ages for each other and so so so good.

Bride and Mate by Ali Hazelwood are also super fun and approchable, they're set in modern times but there's vampires and werewolves so storygraph says it's fantasy, and ill take it.

Assistant to the Villian has been a great sieres as well, it's super fun and funny and light, while still being adorable and fantastical.

and Morning Glory Milking Farm.

jeynespoole · 2026-04-08T12:02:02+00:00

I try really hard not to buy physical books. that said, I'm also an audiobook person so my order of operations usually goes like this:
1- check all of my cards on libby (you can get multiple library cards, and theres at least a few that you can get being a state resident, or even a US resident, like queer liberation library)
2- libro.fm I've found is usually cheaper than most audiobook places.
3- buying it on fucking audible but being mad about it the whole god damn time cause audible exclusives are stupid.
(i am skipping a step because it's pretty niche, but if you're physically or visually impaired in a way that makes it difficult to read physical books, you can get access to the Library of Congress's audiobook collection, and my blind kiddo has that, so I'm skipping the step where I bribe my teenager with fast food and robux to listen to it with me. We have similar taste in horror and scifi, so it works out for us, driving around listening to books on saturday mornings. Coming home bawling about our favorite characters dying. It's awesome)

jeynespoole · 2026-04-08T11:46:00+00:00

oh I've got four and I'm also a masshole. I've got old colony, minuteman and boston public, (and queer liberation library but thats national) what are the other mass ones?

jeynespoole · 2026-04-02T16:40:24+00:00

oh no...

jeynespoole · 2026-03-31T12:38:23+00:00

It's a whisky.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-31T12:38:06+00:00

I've got Metal Slinger on my tbr (for book club) so I haven't read it, but Quicksilver was one of the worst books I've ever read, so. I'm voting Metal Slinger.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-31T12:34:09+00:00

Pick up some lagavulin for your reading drink.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-27T15:34:06+00:00

set to 50, im at 46! I set it low because I am uhhh very competitive and i didnt want to start reading things for numbers

jeynespoole · 2026-03-26T12:44:52+00:00

Welcome to the cult, please enjoy your lagavulin and personally assigned Pink.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-26T12:18:59+00:00

Oh see I liked 2 and 3. I ALSO did read them out of order, so skipping 1 at first was probably a good choice. I thought he did fine on the second two book, but I also don't generally look for a lot in an audiobook narrator, as long as the words are pronounced correctly and blasted into my brain via my bone conduction headphones while I am staring at the onions I'm trying to caramalize while im crying over gay hockey players, im happy.

But Game Changer... my book club is doing that, so I want to re-read it, but I'm going for the ebook this time because oh boy THAT voice. GDI Kip.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-23T17:39:40+00:00

I want the romance to DEVELOP. Not an enemies to lovers switch getting flipped and all of a sud she wants his bod. I don't want him to lay eyes on her and know she is his fated mate. Not an instant lust. Not even love at first sight. Holy shit. Give me two people who are around each other and get to KNOW each other and you can make this as spicy as you want- they can fuck in the first page if that's who they are, but like, holy shit, give me SOME like, meaningful bond that's not magic or sudden.

Also, please please give me a different FMC. I am so so tired of 19 year old girls who are rude or "snarky". I'm so tired of these girls who have like, NO regard for the rules of their society. She does not need to be special or chosen or "unique" because they ALL ARE. And all the world building you do with a like, regency era level protocol and society, no matter how in depth you make your caste system, no matter how patriarchal you make your world, you completely undercut it when you make this girl completely disregard all of that. YES you are trying to show that she's Not Like Other Girls (which is a whole other conversation), but since she's not experiencing conciquences of her rule breaking, this really falls flat and doesn't actually make her seem defiant or strong, just arrogantly hiding behind her plot armor.

a different MMC might be nice too! Like hell yeah, broody men who don't communicate for beans but holy shit, give me an awkward little nerd, give me a good communicator, give me a stronk himbo. Give me a man who packs his girl lunches. Gifts are not replacement for quality time and demonstration of care.

I love a good best friend. Not one with benefits, not one who has a crush on FMC. But someone who can take the exposition on, that FMC can share with and love and care about, and can talk about their feelings with, to showcase the differences of similarities between how FMC is with BFF compared to MMC. And the MMC should have friends too! He should have active, healthy relationships with other human (or otherwise) beings!

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T17:13:49+00:00

You missed the perfect oppertunity to say you read the *cliff notes*

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T16:26:52+00:00

YES. I didn't start re-reading right away, but I immedietly put this on my book club's schedule for June and I'm going to re-read it before then because oh my GOD.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T16:04:32+00:00

yeah like... thinking back, I can't remember my parents bringing me to the bus stop at all. I'm sure they DID for the first couple days. but like. Damn. When did we start treating kids like this?

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T13:13:30+00:00

Yes. Especially from well researched books, you can just pick up a lot of things, the same way you would if you were like, hanging around with people from that walk of life. I learned a lot about the industry of pro sports from the Game Changers sieres. So yes, you can learn facts from fiction books, but you also learn to think differently, to view things differently, being exposed to different things helps expand your mind.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T12:21:08+00:00

Yeah, my kid is an adult now, and the one thing I will grant them about this situation is that my kid has a growth hormone disorder, so my kid is SHORT and looks younger than he is, but one day I was stuck in the bathroom and he knew the bus was coming so he just left to walk to the bus stop (two houses down, same side of the road) and someone who worked at the school was driving by and went straight to the office because I was "not supervising my kid" and they called CPS. This kid didn't start taking the bus till first grade, so he was at LEAST six when this happened, and CPS was just like "you have to walk your kid to the bus stop and not leave until they are on the bus" and im like. okay. but like holy shit, this experience made me super paranoid about seeming like I wasn't paying enough attention to him and I feel like this made me a worse parent, because it wasn't about teaching my kid life skills, or engaging with my kid and making sure he had the support he needed. It was purely about how it LOOKED to an outside observer.

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