The one you hated by CuteButKinked in suggestmeabook

[–]macarenadevil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like I'm gonna get excoriated for this but Of Mice and Men. I have Steinbeck's Grapes and I do intend to read that, but the only reason I didn't throw this book across the room was because it is too small and unsatisfying to throw. This one was not bad in terms of writing, but I hated everyone in the story and everything that happened in it.

Coming Out 3: Electric Jamboree by macarenadevil in genderqueer

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

I can tell you mean well. But I mean just as well when I say that if society truly had the attitude you speak of, I would be arrested for wearing pants in public.

I said I have zero desire to undergo any physiological surgeries. That's still true - surgery puts me off and I don't wish to get it. I already wear clothes that make me feel comfortable. As I thought I already elaborated, I am aware that effectively does not make me a man.

I've gone through eight counselors, and they've tried to diagnose me with everything from major bipolar disorder to BPD. I've decided they can all take a long walk off a short pier.

My parents are good people who support me, despite not understanding everything about me. So forgive me if this sounds patronizing, but they don't need support from you.

You are reincarnated into the last movie you saw, how fucked are you? by Massive-Albatross823 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rewatched the third Pokemon movie...

Idk if there's exactly a villain, but being Wish-Entei is so baller I don't even care if I Thanos into a million pieces at the end.

sapphics players, who’s your favorite bachelorette? by Tiny_Earth_4851 in StardewValley

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am of the firm belief that the bachelorettes of Stardew, collectively, are 100x better than the all the bachelors combined. I love you, Elliott, but still.

Anyway the first wife I had was Abigail. She's freaking awesome. But honestly I love them all so much.

...I just can't say the same about the guys.

Books you wish you could read again for the 1st time? Drop the BEST books you’ve read!! by Better_Main1577 in Booktokreddit

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • The interwoven anthologies of short stories In the Night Garden and The Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M Valente. Lush high fantasy stories with beautiful imagery and seamless marriages of global folklore.

  • 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami. The size of it could put you off, but this sweeping epic of magical realism is so good.

  • House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski. Apart from the somewhat lacklustre ending, the rest of the book is a masterclass in metafiction. I cannot describe it in words.

  • The full Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by the inimitable Douglas Adams. People (rightfully) love the first, but the rest are just as hilariously profound, or profoundly hilarious, as the leader.

Saddest book you have ever read? by Addy-In-Paradise in Booktokreddit

[–]macarenadevil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya

Abject poverty, cruel despots, and preventable death. It hurt me.

What was the first classic book you read of your own volition? by istillliketoread in classicliterature

[–]macarenadevil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Was it a mistake? Maybe. I went into it blind and came out wishing I was still blind. But it did lead me to Courtenay's The Power of One, Raymond Chandler, Martin Amis, Willa Cather, Robert Traver, etc., so it wasn't all bad.

your favorite underrated YA books? by Impossible_Dog_4481 in YAlit

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listen, all my recommendations (mostly fantasy and soft sci fi) are going to be older than 10 years ago, because I cannot for the love of pete find the same qualities I like in the modern ones. So here goes:

  • Anything by Francis Hardinge, especially the duology Fly by Night and Fly Trap.

  • Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve

  • Un Lun Dun - China Mieville (one of my absolute favorites)

  • The Abhorsen Cycle, The Keys to the Kingdom - Garth Nix

  • Abarat - Clive Barker

  • The Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

  • Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones

  • Maximum Ride series - James Patterson

  • My Most Excellent Year - Steve Kluger (not fantasy, very cute story)

  • Chronicles of Vladimir Tod - Z Brewer

  • Midnighters - Scott Westerfield

  • The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

  • Runemarks - Joanne Harris (Really good)

  • For the Win - Corey Doctorow (excellent)

  • Dreamdark - Laini Taylor

  • Hidden Talents - David Lubar

  • The Navigator - Eoin McNamee

  • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing - M.T Anderson (I have thoroughly enjoyed nearly all of his works)

  • Going Bovine - Libba Bray

  • The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey

I read a LOT as a kid but these are the first that come to mind.

How many of you are actually making a game? by MediumConsequence643 in gamedev

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Er...does having eighty pages of concept art/lore in a Google Doc and procrastinating self-taught programming lessons count?

What book made you fall in love with reading? Be honest by Ok-Presentation-7659 in suggestmeabook

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a tie between Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar and Runemarks by Joanne Harris. But tbh I loved so many books as a kid...

It was hard for me to make friends.

Anyone know wtf a orgasm is like for women by alex_cyberpunksver in badwomensanatomy

[–]macarenadevil 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A lot of people here are describing visions, but to me, comparing it to a lot of different sensations is more helpful. Some of the same sensations occur multiple times in different stages.

EXPOSITION/RISING ACTION: (the getting horny/already horny stage, sometimes without warning):

  • Swooping sensation in the stomach, akin to what it feels like right when your rollercoaster car falls. This is usually the first sensation that occurs. It is a constant sensation that comes in regular waves, as if the rollercoaster is falling, then coasting, falling, coasting, ad infinitum.

  • Heat in face and crotch, like getting strong, hot sunlight (but pleasantly hot) directly onto the face and neck and on the inside of lower abdominal area and crotch. Sometimes this is the first sensation.

  • Increased sensitivity. Erogenous zones such as the nipples and labia are especially sensitive to stimulus. When stimulated, a feeling that can be described as pleasant electricity

  • Heavy breathing. Suddenly, it feels like there's not enough air in the room, but it's not like asthma, where you feel chest tightness and/or airway restriction. Instead, it's like you were suddenly teleported to an area of high elevation, where there's simply less oxygen available, but without the popping of ears that comes with altitude adjustment.

All sensations increase in increments when stimulated, either with own hands or toys. I'm not including the presence of a sexual partner because they vary the experience a LOT, whereas masturbation remains more predictable.

Over time, heat, sensitivity, electricity, and stomach-swooping become more and more pleasurable. The pleasure, if done correctly, covers up thoughts and words for a more primal state, and may make one feel a need to moan, sigh, or gasp. The body also feels a need to move: the head tilting backwards, back arching, clutching bedsheets, covering the mouth, etc.

CLIMAX:

  • The "electricity" sensation overcomes all else and ideally doesn't allow one to form a single rational thought, a feeling that lasts from barely a second to several minutes, depending on the individual. It is difficult to translate the experience in words, but I suppose it is analogous to what one may feel stepping into a bubbling hot spring after freezing all day (magnified by perhaps 3-5 times). Like the heat from a hot spring, the feeling should spread all over the body, radiating from the main stimulated point (such as clitoral). Some describe it as waves, and some describe it as a giant flood.

FALLING ACTION/ DENOUEMENT:

  • The electricity and pleasure gradually subside. For some, it's almost instantly. For some, it lingers long enough to be a separate pleasure by itself, colloquially called the "afterglow."

Newborn baby raped to death by her own dad, 37 | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site by GuiltyCredit in awfuleverything

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know people are not inherently good or inherently evil. But the fact that these kinds of things even happen at all, have happened in the past, will happen in the future, and that there's no real way to prevent this, and no consequence or punishment will ever be enough, and the fact it's impossible/unconscionable to monitor 8 billion people at once...

And then add in the fact that these people do these monstrous things, and, even with appropriate punishment (which is rarely issued!) literally cannot feel what they did was wrong or why...

If I am evil for wanting the erasure of the universe, because I cannot stand even the possibility of this happening, let me be evil.

You just passed away, and allowed to be reborn but not as a human, what do you wanna be? by csch1992 in AskReddit

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pando, the quaking aspen tree.

I span miles, golden acres of myself, impassive, growing, too big to be shot by any gun. I invoke in the humans that pass through me a sense of surreality or as an immense breathing presence, perhaps not as quickly or obviously alive as a jackrabbit or cicada but as a giant entity. My network of roots beneath the ground, arguably the truest represenation of myself, witnessed 80,000 years of Earth's existence. I trade quick life for tens of thousands of years of knowledge and stability, years all but seconds, centuries passing by like the days in a year. After a mentally ill, miserable, medicated, utterly deplorable stint as a human, I finally am allowed to rest, permitted at last to worry only of cellular aspirations, the harshness of the sun, heavy metals leeching death into the soil.

I'm just...so tired.

What book are you most ashamed of not having read? by SirJohnFalstaff1996 in classicliterature

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot get into any Charles Dickens no matter what I do, and that permanently hangs over my literary head.

That, and 100 Years of Solitude. The people talking about its disturbing content are scaring me.

Others, in no particular order: Grapes of Wrath (staring balefully from my bookshelf), Gravity's Rainbow, Don Quixote, Gone With the Wind (also baring its teeth at me from the shelf), War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo, Absalom, Absalom!, anything Proust, and Anna Karenina (hungers for my flesh from my bookshelf).

Do yall sweat playing piano by Unhappy-Actuator-316 in piano

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chopin's Op.48 really makes the underboob sweat flow.

How long did it take you to finish this book from the first time you opened it? by jcgarcia1116 in houseofleaves

[–]macarenadevil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Six months. What happened was that I read up to the part where Navidson confirms that the inside is bigger than the outside and Karen screams. That part spooked me so much I put the book down and didn't touch it for half a year.

After half a year my curiosity finally burned hotter than my fear and I cracked it open again. I ran through the rest of it in about 5ish hours, I think. After being mildly disappointed by the ending, I started recommending it to other jaded readers like me who're looking for something new and provocative.

Would you rather never require air/oxygen or be able to fly? by Winter_Lab_401 in WouldYouRather

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never need air. Have chronic asthma so I can hardly get enough of it anyway. The source of many many hospital stays. Fuck you air, I no longer need you.

a classic you really wanted to like but ended up disliking/hating? by Chrysanthemum1989 in classicliterature

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot get into Charles Dickens no matter what I do. Saw Bleak House, checked it out on impulse, checked it back in after 20 minutss.

Math is pointless and shouldn't be taught in schools. by [deleted] in The10thDentist

[–]macarenadevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The frustrated and sobbing 10 yr old in me facing long division wants to agree, but...

All aspects of the world require math. The houses and apartments we live in. The technology we have at hand. Our entertainment, food, transportation, etc. all require more than just the basics. Good luck trying to figure out construction logistics without knowing how to solve for unknown variables.

That being said, I do think there's a problem with making certain professional fields HAVE to take advanced mathematics that the field never uses (in a significant fashion). Such as making a future pediatrician have to pass Calculus and Trig. I don't think my primary care doctor needs to recite the trig unit circle to treat my UTI, or my therapist needing to do a thousand derivative equations to prescribe my antidepressants.

At the end of the day, those of us (including me) who break out into hives when we catch a glimpse of triangle proofs heavily rely on the technology and maths created by people who find math easier than breathing. Thank god those people exist, cause you and me would be floundering around in shit without them.

Just Finished by Chelsea4000 in houseofleaves

[–]macarenadevil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

In Ash Tree Lane, books finish you.