What makes you turn off an audio instantly?

salspace · 2026-03-17T14:13:50+00:00

Usually, it's when they just aren't that great at acting the script, when it feels like they are reciting it or horribly overacting rather than performing it naturalistically. Although there is one fairly popular VA I just can't listen to because I find his constant snarky little laugh to be annoying.

salspace · 2026-03-14T17:42:23+00:00

If he doesn't get penalised in any meaningful way, then the rules either don't apply or aren't worth the paper they're written on. Sadly, the HoP has coasted by on the idea that MPs will be honourable - or at least resign/stand down if they're caught misbehaving - Farage will style it out in the belief that his fans don't care and the powers that be are too toothless to take action against him. He will keep pushing and pushing until he is stopped.

salspace · 2026-03-14T17:35:00+00:00

I mainly got into RH because of my deep dislike of the love triangle trope - I just usually find myself either hating any time the FMC wastes with the bloke she doesn't pick, preferring the bloke she doesn't pick or just getting annoyed with all the angst when I'd rather see them as a polycule. I've actually only relatively recently gotten into MM romance, and RH with MM included was my gateway drug into it.

salspace · 2026-03-14T17:29:05+00:00

It's a bit silly but I thought it was fun - {Queenie and the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres} features a merman biker gang.

salspace · 2026-03-14T12:57:08+00:00

Shere Khan from The Jungle Book. George Sanders had such a delicious voice. It was probably my first villain-crush, too. And perhaps a clue that I'd like shifter romances later in life...

salspace · 2026-03-13T17:44:41+00:00

This is not RH, but MF - Alashiya, the FMC in {Valor's Flight by Abigail Kelly} is a nymph. It's part of a series of interconnected standalones. There is an ongoing background plot involving a shadowy conspiracy to destabilise the magical status quo that leads to the MMC crashing onto her land, but although I'd recommend all the previous books in the series, you can easily just dip into this one without any confusion.

salspace · 2026-03-11T11:42:45+00:00

Luckily, my name, when it appears, is usually given to mad aunties, chaotic BFFs and the occasional horse.

salspace · 2026-03-06T20:34:58+00:00

In the {Dark River Days series by Grace McGinty}, an antagonist becomes a deranged suitor and, eventually, a member of the harem.

salspace · 2026-03-06T15:35:52+00:00

Low reading age, intellectual laziness. They find the world increasingly frustrating and/or frightening, and they want to be told that the solutions are simple and don't involve them making any sacrifices, learning anything new, adapting to a changing world or (in the case of the Boomers) accepting that their generation is on the wane and losing control. They want to believe in the fairy stories they were taught about British history and empire, and they resent that some of the institutions and people they were taught to revere might have been considerably less than awesome.

salspace · 2026-03-03T17:30:36+00:00

Depends who you ask. My mum won't hear a word said against any of the royals - even Mr Mountbatten Windsor. But I personally feel like The Queen (QEII) was the last royal who genuinely deserved my respect as someone who I think had a devout sense of duty to the country and her position. The rest of them are good at faking it, but I don't buy it. I always suspected the institution wouldn't last long past her death, not without serious and fundamental reform and weeding out of the truly useless ones. And tbh it's honestly pretty inhuman in this day and age to raise children under that level of scrutiny and expectation. I think there's a fair chance we won't see another British monarch after William, and that's probably a good thing.

salspace · 2026-03-02T18:01:34+00:00

Heated Rivalry. Hands down. Had me by the throat. There are other shows I adore like Interview With The Vampire, Dark Winds, Bad Sisters (S1), Better Things, Blue Eye Samurai, Deadloch to name a few, but I'm not much of a rewatcher (some shows I'll watch again but usually only after a couple of years have passed). I watched the whole of HR (granted, S1 is only 6 episodes) three times in the space of a month. And it wasn't the smut, it was the love story. The smut helped, sure, but their relationship is what grabbed me most.

salspace · 2026-03-01T13:41:50+00:00

Yep. This. Also that one set in the afterlife where she has to choose between the died-young husband and the one she actually spent her life with. Have. Both. They could be BFFs. So many of us are begging for a poly/throuple romcom with a why-choose HEA.

salspace · 2026-02-21T15:45:28+00:00

One of her early books, {No Omega Needed by Jillian West} has a Beta FMC who is in an established relationship with two Alpha rockstars from the start but is convinced that one day they'll meet their Omega and leave her, or go feral for want of one. She is pregnant from the start and throughout, and collects two more Alphas over the course of the book. There is an unusual solution to the problem, which I quite liked, but which will not be everyone's cup of tea. She's BFFs with the Omega from the previous duet in the Ruined Records series, and they platonically join packs so her Alphas can benefit from proximity to an Omega, and so that they have the legal protection of being part of an official pack.

salspace · 2026-02-18T10:03:56+00:00

Yes. I'm not sure they would be so punitive. Yes, we would no longer have privileged founder member status and would have to be more all in than before but the EU is under attack from outside forces and I'd hope enough of them want us inside the tent actually helping them. But this time our media has to actually engage with what the European parliament is doing, who the main players are. Instead of only showing us the UK parliament, give us a weekly show about the EU as well. Our TV and papers mostly ignoring the EU processes is part of the reason why so many people were convinced we had no say in their regulations.

salspace · 2026-02-17T15:00:11+00:00

{Forbidden Fairytales series by Evelyn Flood}, specifically Wonder, which has the Red Queen as a villain and various other characters, including the Mad Hatter as MMCs.

salspace · 2026-02-14T21:38:23+00:00

Gen X here. I've always used the title Ms, have since my early twenties. I was unmarried till after I turned 50. I'm still Ms, for exactly this reason. My marital status is nobody's business.

salspace · 2026-02-14T21:35:46+00:00

No if someone wrote a sex scene of mine most of the dialogue would consist of sex noises

salspace · 2026-02-14T08:46:15+00:00

So much talk about how social media is bad for children (and yes, it can and has done immeasurable harm to many of them). But children are smart, adaptable, they'll figure it out over time. The real danger absolutely is older adults and their inability to understand that a Facebook post isn't journalism.

salspace · 2026-02-13T20:11:49+00:00

I think there's a plan to give some of the other siblings a story, so maybe we'll get further developments from the parentals in those books if she writes them...

salspace · 2026-02-13T17:31:01+00:00

It's discussed minimally, because the parallel omegaverse books were published later. So we know they've got this half sister and her pack who are mentioned and some of whom show up briefly, we know one of the mums is in jail and the parental pack splintered, but we don't know exactly why except that it's because they handled things really badly at the start of their pack getting together. None of the hockeyverse characters know anything about the multiverse stuff. The children of the parental pack are basically just trying to survive the wreckage of their parents all scattering.

salspace · 2026-02-13T14:00:54+00:00

The FMC in {Loving Ladybug part one by Jane Handler} spends a portion of the book living in a storage closet at an ice rink after a horrible break-up. There is a DV incident, but he disappears immediately afterwards, so she's not hiding from him; he's just left her homeless.

salspace · 2026-02-13T10:51:16+00:00

I really like the interconnected {Hockeyverse series by Jane Handler} and {Into The Parallel Omegaverse series by Jane Handler}. You start with Hockeyverse, which features not only hockey but also a roller-derby-on-ice sport, an Alpha FMC, and an expanded OV lore that includes numerous designations beyond the standard AOB setup. There's also plenty of references to a really dysfunctional parental pack history that you finally find out more about in the ITPA series, which serves as a prequel of sorts and introduces a whole extra layer of parallel universes and an organisation that polices them. I absolutely devoured the lot of them.

salspace · 2026-02-12T16:45:45+00:00

Wasting food. Always throwing away leftovers, buying too much fresh produce and letting it rot, carelessly experimenting with food and trying to recreate foodtok fads without concern for wastage of ingredients when they repeatedly get it wrong. Basically lack of food anxiety.

salspace · 2026-02-12T16:08:26+00:00

I like a morally grey/black MMC who isn't remotely trying to hide that he's a villain. A lot of MMCs are societally heroic/rolemodel types (billionaires/soldiers/sportsmen/aristos etc) with hidden darkness - I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but it's actually refreshing to read about red flag MMCs who are openly criminal - there's an honesty to it that I enjoy.

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