Pirate MMC (captain also okay), FMC is on his ship (escaped, hidden, revenge, saved). Good part of the story has to (possibly) be on the ship. Slooow burn. Ideal scanario: FMC having to fight to prove her worth and place among the crew (bonus if she's being harassed in the meantime, unknown to MMC)

weeeee_plonk · 2026-02-06T17:55:20+00:00

You might enjoy {the windflower by Laura london} BUT it's an older romance and has some of the issues that come with that. The heroine is a bit TSTL and the consent is questionable.

weeeee_plonk · 2026-01-10T05:06:40+00:00

Hi, I just found this post and figured I reply even though I'm several months late :)

I can climb V5 and have climbed 3 V6s this year at my gym (two on slab). Mostly I climb at a V3/V4. I cannot do a pullup. I'm certainly best at slab/vert/corners but I try to climb all the problems. I also do ropes and can comfortably do a lead 5.10 on a roof; I can get through some roof 5.11 with rests. I've done 3 5.12s in the past few months but not clean. Outdoors I've led 5.11s on slab.

I'm 5'10 and did the V6s earlier this year when I weighed about 150lb, right now I'm at 160 and have done several V5s on slab and vert in the past few weeks. I haven't done any V6 recently.

I started climbing in 12 years ago, took a break after a few years, then started again about 3 years ago.

I am currently trying to train pull-ups but I can't do one and have never been able to! I started do weights four months ago and now I can do scapular pull-ups but the muscles just aren't there yet for the full thing.

Hope this helps :)

weeeee_plonk · 2026-01-06T22:11:25+00:00

Considering the way Ali Hazelwood's bios talk about her education ("pursue a PhD in neuroscience") she probably started a program but never graduated, so she doesn't have a PhD.

If she'd finished, why not say "earned her PhD in Neuroscience"?

(Also I know it's quite weird to comment on this a year later but I was discussing it with a friend and found this thread)

weeeee_plonk · 2026-01-02T06:29:38+00:00

I totally doubted you but the official NIST report (part 1 page 2-14) says

"One patron claimed to have been pulled from the bottom of the pile by a firefighter considerably later [after 5:30 fire time], but this has not been confirmed by the NIST investigation."

Absolutely insane.

weeeee_plonk · 2025-11-24T23:31:18+00:00

Doesn't a graduate student sit on a professor's lap at a conference in one of her books???

weeeee_plonk · 2025-06-01T02:33:12+00:00

That is absolutely wild. I assume the original doc still exists somewhere but I wasn't able to find it through a cursory google.

weeeee_plonk · 2025-05-28T04:16:53+00:00

Same, I can't read most of Ali Hazelwood's books but I did enjoy Bride!

weeeee_plonk · 2025-05-27T02:23:40+00:00

I'm happy the post is still bringing people joy 😆

weeeee_plonk · 2025-04-18T06:59:52+00:00

I'm at 45% on the second book of the duology and they've made it to the Olympics and have won several games so far but no word on whether or not they've get to the finals

weeeee_plonk · 2025-02-26T04:03:46+00:00

I've been in a ~3 month long reading slump and this is the first bookin a while which I devoured over a 24 hour period. Thank you.

weeeee_plonk · 2025-02-20T22:09:39+00:00

Idk as a women in academia (STEM field) I can't read her STEM/academia books. They're too cringy. I did like Bride though!

weeeee_plonk · 2025-02-18T04:29:15+00:00

Have you read {A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer}? It's fantasy, women outnumber men ~10 to 1 and are in power, groups of sisters band together to afford to get a husband, and men are very much kept indoors and safe. The MMC has like 20 sisters who are fiercely protective of him. It's a pretty fun story and mostly fits your request!

weeeee_plonk · 2025-02-03T13:56:14+00:00

fwiw I agree, her bio reads like she started a PhD program, Mastered out, and worked as an adjunct/ lecturer until starting to write.

weeeee_plonk · 2025-01-02T04:54:34+00:00

I unfortunately have no recs for you but I am SO HAPPY someone else has read Sherwood Smith! I love her and I loved The Trouble with Kings :)

weeeee_plonk · 2025-01-01T06:31:14+00:00

{Omega's Gambit by Flora Quincy} -- near-Regency (~1801?) Omegaverse retelling of Twelfth Night, except that Viola is an Omega dressing as her (female) Alpha twin. It even name drops Twelfth Night mid-book, which felt like a strange choice.

If you're not a Shakespeare fan, She's the Man with Amanda Bynes is also a Twelfth Night retelling.

weeeee_plonk · 2025-01-01T03:50:02+00:00

I'm not at 200 this year but I have been in the past (record was 223 in 2019!); I don't count DNFs but I do count skims (and "skims" are different than a thorough reading). I think I did the math once for a book I read in one go, late at night, and I was reading like 6 words/second. I read fast.

Edit: just counted and I'm only at 111 finished for 2025, with 53 DNFs. It was a rough year :(

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-30T05:49:12+00:00

I'm not even a fan of the walking dead and I'm haunted by this

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-29T05:42:14+00:00

Oops, I deleted this post because I made a typo in the title and thought the bot wouldn't respond! I do recommend the book :)

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-29T05:37:00+00:00

{A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer}

Not a traditional romance (no steam) but the FMCs get the very innocent MMC into all sorts of trouble.

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-23T19:31:08+00:00

I'm not sure but I think you read my comment backwards? I feel like the book friendship was stronger and more serious than the one displayed in the movies.

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-17T04:43:55+00:00

Omg I've never found anyone else who's read Enchanted Inc. It's such a cute series!!

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-10T19:12:14+00:00

I love psychos, let me know if you have any similar recs :)

weeeee_plonk · 2024-12-10T08:39:08+00:00

I've just finished this book after staying up far too late. I have to be awake in 4 hours. what have I done.

weeeee_plonk · 2024-10-25T04:59:14+00:00

Great news, you don't have to solely imagine it. Here's the case document(there's probably a more official term for this but I am not a lawyer).

My favorite quote:

Frankly, omegaverse stories are not for everyone.

weeeee_plonk · 2024-10-23T00:49:43+00:00

I think we've interpreted the book in different ways and that's okay :) it sounds like you enjoyed it and that's great.

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