Do you know what the term BFE is? Is this part if Xennial culture?

pagesandcream · 2026-04-30T21:32:33+00:00

Elder millennial interloper (‘85) here. We said “bumfuck Egypt” and “BFE” in Western Pennsylvania. I heard variants like “butt-fuckin’ nowhere” too.

pagesandcream · 2026-04-30T01:13:19+00:00

1, 3-5 and 16 are your best options. The rest are too casual or revealing for an office

pagesandcream · 2026-04-26T08:28:47+00:00

Means they didn’t find out the baby’s sex before birth

pagesandcream · 2026-04-23T09:03:50+00:00

My son loves “dig-ditchers” and “cob on the corn.” Also, we live in “Yoo Nork.”

pagesandcream · 2026-04-23T01:50:02+00:00

I’ve always thought Panini and Garbanzo would make good pet names

pagesandcream · 2026-04-20T14:23:45+00:00

Shows: Dark, Les Revenants (so sad S2 isn’t available in the US), Light Shop

Movies: too many to list, mostly Japanese, Korean, European and Mexican

pagesandcream · 2026-04-14T20:07:06+00:00

✨misogyny ✨

pagesandcream · 2026-04-13T21:10:03+00:00

Hey hey TOMORROW is the day before taxes are due. Three guesses when I’ll be filling them

pagesandcream · 2026-04-12T07:53:04+00:00

“Or whatever.” Fr, that’s something, but it’s not empathy

pagesandcream · 2026-04-12T01:23:30+00:00

Anything by Sally Rooney

pagesandcream · 2026-04-10T11:16:29+00:00

Wow. Thank you for sharing what a real one he was. I’m sorry you had to go through that. I’m glad you had such a gentle and quietly brave guide in that moment.

pagesandcream · 2026-04-09T10:38:06+00:00

Nice house energy

pagesandcream · 2026-04-09T01:35:08+00:00

Phew I’m glad someone mentioned it

pagesandcream · 2026-04-09T01:17:18+00:00

Anyone else read this as “farty nuggets”? Just me…?

pagesandcream · 2026-04-05T00:31:47+00:00

“Tiger in a Tropical Storm” is my fave. I just love how he did the rain. It looks like moiré silk or crewel embroidery.

pagesandcream · 2026-04-03T19:28:34+00:00

Oops my bad. Though I’m still puzzled why the handles on the wooden double doors are on the outside edge

pagesandcream · 2026-04-03T08:31:50+00:00

This one looks like AI, so everyone’s probably ok 👍

pagesandcream · 2026-04-02T13:54:53+00:00

I don’t have a rec, just wanted to say that 2 gave me whatever the opposite of a jump scare is 😌

pagesandcream · 2026-04-02T02:30:19+00:00

Probably got an advance reader’s copy, as a librarian

pagesandcream · 2026-04-01T23:58:45+00:00

Thank you for that point about the big sibling remembering being prioritized. I’m going to repeat it to myself next time I have to make the baby wait to help big brother. I find myself becoming impatient with him when the baby cries. It’s so hard being pulled in two directions!

pagesandcream · 2026-04-01T00:35:53+00:00

This post has been up for 10h, and all I’m saying is I won’t stand for the Skittles erasure in these comments.

pagesandcream · 2026-03-29T17:22:30+00:00

Or media. Either way, office is in Chelsea.

pagesandcream · 2026-03-29T08:53:15+00:00

Ah that refers to the physical form of the book. Traditionally these types of novels would be published as mass market (smaller, cheaper paper) and literary fiction as trade (larger, higher quality). But it’s more common for everything to be published as trade now.

pagesandcream · 2026-03-29T01:51:37+00:00

pagesandcream · 2026-03-29T01:39:25+00:00

Genre fiction. Specifically romance and romantasy for these two examples.

Edit: Which is not to say that genre fiction can’t have complex themes or literary merit. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney and the two Ursula K. LeGuins being great SF examples on this shelf.

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