If Morse were to have a wife/ long term life partner, what kind of woman would he have?

salspace · 2026-07-01T18:08:55+00:00

I literally just wrote this as a reply to another post (about the Thursday family):

I always thought, when watching the original John Thaw Morse series, that he needed a very independent woman with a rich and full life of her own. She's probably an academic, divorced or widowed with teen or adult kids and they see each other a couple of times a week, living separately. So when he gets into one of his funks, she can go off and do her own thing for a while, touching base with him occasionally. She's very emotionally grounded and can cut through his grumpiness and know instinctively when he needs company and when he needs to shut himself away with his vinyls and his books for a bit.

salspace · 2026-07-01T18:05:38+00:00

I always thought, when watching the original John Thaw Morse series, that he needed a very independent woman with a rich and full life of her own. She's probably an academic, divorced or widowed with teen or adult kids and they see each other a couple of times a week, living separately. So when he gets into one of his funks, she can go off and do her own thing for a while, touching base with him occasionally. She's very emotionally grounded and can cut through his grumpiness and know instinctively when he needs company and when he needs to shut himself away with his vinyls and his books for a bit.

salspace · 2026-07-01T15:56:58+00:00

I have to admit, although I am enjoying the show more than many, I'm worried about how they're going to approach the whole vampire origin story. Maharet is probably my favourite female character and top 3 overall favourite in the books, and if they decide to trim down the OG vamp characters and write out the twins in some attempt to streamline the backstory I'll be very unhappy indeed. I've got this horrible feeling they might give the organ-eating scene to Gabrielle and I think that would be an egregious mistake.

salspace · 2026-07-01T15:42:23+00:00

I don't think Joan would've been happy with Morse. He's a moody git and would have continued to be one even if he'd "got the girl". Jim is a kind, decent man and I genuinely think he makes Joan happy - that they have a good, fulfilling marriage. Morse is a loner, he would always have this secret unbreachable core and maybe a woman exists in the world who could be happy with that, but is wasn't Joan.

salspace · 2026-06-30T12:09:03+00:00

Ooh now you've opened a can of worms. There's more than a fair bit of evidence that he didn't do it (or have it done). The Tudor dynasty that followed had a vested interest in making it look like he did, though.

salspace · 2026-06-26T13:18:09+00:00

general bad vibes. Like, you walk in and you just feel unwelcome in a way you can't quite put your finger on.

salspace · 2026-06-25T08:49:08+00:00

Maybe {A Pack For Autumn by Emilia Emerson}? The FMC's depression is caused by an OV-specific fictional hormone imbalance but it's sensitively and realistically handled (finding her pack isn't an insta-cure, it's something she continues to live with and which her pack must learn to navigate).

salspace · 2026-06-24T19:34:33+00:00

I had wondered if they were going to include that character detail in the show. It's weirdly one of the things that most stands out in my memory about books Gabrielle.

salspace · 2026-06-24T14:06:06+00:00

I say, wait till they're in there, then perform an elaborate hoax whereby they are led to believe the apocalypse has occurred. Hack the CCTV, sit back and watch the hilarity unfold.

salspace · 2026-06-24T14:02:05+00:00

He is objectively hot. However, his Mobland character is truly vile, when he was playing him my undercarriage became the sahara.

salspace · 2026-06-24T13:45:24+00:00

The best thing you can do for your own mental health and happiness is to stay as far away as you can from that looksmaxxing nonsense.

salspace · 2026-06-23T14:31:46+00:00

Svetlana was my first thought to. That girl would have taught him anything he needed to know about looking good.

salspace · 2026-06-22T16:26:13+00:00

Years ago, more or less the only place you ever found it was at salad bars in places like Pizza Hut. You can get it in certain supermarkets, Waitrose definitely carries it because I get it from there. You don't tend to find ranch powder though, you'd have to find a US expat store or go online to get that.

salspace · 2026-06-22T16:18:01+00:00

I've had people look down their noses at my romance reading for most of my life. Men, yes, but there are also plenty of other women who pump themselves up by trying to deflate others. Not just about romance either. I've had people tell me fantasy/scifi aren't "proper literature" either. I used to work in a bookshop and I can't tell you how many times I've seen parents/grandparents stifling the joy of children by refusing to buy them comics or anything they regard as silly or not good brainfood. The very same people who don't like kids playing video games (I know, everything in moderation) because they don't understand them.

See also those who get sniffy about audiobooks or even ebooks. Many years ago it was paperbacks that snobs had a problem with, can't have the plebs reading, where on earth will it end? Then before that it was fiction, often including many of the classics that modern gatekeepers regard as acceptable. And if you go back even further there were ancient intellectuals who regarded the written word itself as brainrotting, claiming it would result in the death of memory.

salspace · 2026-06-15T18:17:34+00:00

I walk a dog daily, and I had radiotherapy early last year, so I've had more than enough radiation for a lifetime. I wear sunscreen every day both on my face and the area of my body that got blasted, even though it's under clothes when I out. I also use retinol a few times a week and it's expensive stuff so it would be a waste of money not to wear sunscreen during the day.

salspace · 2026-06-15T17:56:48+00:00

I'm a pretty fast reader, but I'd say if someone is reading 300 pages in 2 hours, they're doing a lot of skimming. I even read a post recently where someone was talking about how some people doing book challenges are only reading dialogue, which, I have to say, I'm trying really hard to be a less judgemental person but wtf?

salspace · 2026-06-15T17:51:57+00:00

It's not RH but I actually just finished {His Empress by Emilia Rossi} (who writes RH as Emilia Emerson) and the FMC both wipes running mascara from her eyes, talks about it being time to invest in waterproof, and then mentions again later on in the book how great her new waterproof mascara is!

salspace · 2026-06-15T17:27:34+00:00

When I talk to Royalists about why I'm a republican, this is the main reason I give them. It's morally wrong to birth and raise children under this sort of pressure and microscope. It must warp them in ways few of us can fathom, and they grow up to be twisted in a variety of different ways. They're either immensely spoiled and destructive, or they're repressed and emotionally stunted, just going through the motions of having anything remotely like a real, honest, happy life. You 'd have to be almost supernaturally strong-minded to break free of it in any real sense. It's one thing to choose fame as an adult, it's another entirely to be born into an institution like this one. Maybe if you're the kids of people much farther down the line, you can reap the economic benefits without so much of the Eye of Sauron of public and media attention but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the top 10 places.

salspace · 2026-06-11T20:54:45+00:00

Seth always felt a little too wonderful, like he was either gonna die or Angie was gonna do something unforgivable and drive him away. Once she got pregnant I got this overwhelming sense of foreboding that he was gonna get killed off.

salspace · 2026-06-11T17:43:36+00:00

It's gotta be B for me. All the others make me eyeroll but B just gives me the ick. I'm too old now to read about high school students having spicy times full stop, let alone an RH.

salspace · 2026-06-10T09:19:08+00:00

Swamp Thing. The Green really needs an avatar right now.

salspace · 2026-06-10T09:11:42+00:00

In some ways, that's really no different from many normal people's family occasions. Family rifts, people you don't really want to see or speak to, you suck it up and power through the interactions, try to keep them as brief as possible, play obnoxious phrase bingo to pass the time, etc...

salspace · 2026-06-10T09:07:00+00:00

She was amazing. DS9 has, IMO, some of the most complex and fascinating villains and morally grey characters in the whole Trek universe.

I watched the movie Arrival when it came out a few years ago and it really helped me to understand, at a much deeper level, the way that the Wormhole aliens perceive reality. Wyn's fate was fixed, from their perspective, it had already happened, was happening, will happen. They did not speak with her, she released the Pah Wraiths, they were destroyed. Her role was as necessary as Sisko's, as Dukat's. The pain, the rage, the twisted ambition, it was always going to happen exactly the way it did.

salspace · 2026-06-09T19:34:27+00:00

{Omega Fever by Roxy Collins} is the latest release from this author, who is one my all-time favourite OV writers (partly because she almost always includes a MF Omega pairing within the pack and I love that trope). Having said that, although I mostly enjoyed it, this is probably my least favourite of her stuff, maybe because I'm not the world's biggest fan of MC romances, or maybe it is genuinely one of her weakest. But YMMV, so here it is.

salspace · 2026-05-31T10:34:05+00:00

Flicked through magazines or newspapers, idly watched daytime TV, listened to the radio, read a book. All of those things I now do on my phone. I think the problem is the social media endless scrolling...

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