Court of Thorns and Roses. It came highly recommended by my sister and many others.

I get the appeal, an adult retelling of classic fantasy. But it felt like it was written just to be edgey, sexy and proactive. Which is fine if that's what you are wanting, lots of media does this. I was just hoping for a new angle or dimension on Beauty and the Beast, not just a sexy B&B. I guess that does count as a new angle, but not one for me.

Yuuuup. I enjoy Catcher, it's one of my faves but it's greatest asset is also it's biggest flaw. Holden is a convincing mind and thought process of a spoiled teenager. It's great as a character study, but the charcter is an naive and arrogant jerk so being in his mindset is just frustrating.

Honestly reminds me of Lolita, which is a horror story told from the point of view from the monster. You really gotta read in between the lines because the character is actively lying to you. Holden does the same.

I don't fault anyone for not liking either, they are rough reads. But if you're a fan of unreliable narrators then they are a lot of fun.

I tried with it, I really fucking did. But GAWD was it so insufferable to hear how amazing and brilliant all these titans of business were so vastly more intelligent than the rest of the world. I got like a third of the way through before realizing I hated all of the charcters and didn't care abiut what they were doing. So I decided to spend my time elsewhere.

“I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” Kutcher revealed about attending Combs’ White Parties on a 2019 episode of Hot Ones. “Can’t tell that one either. … I’m actually cycling through them. Diddy party stories, man, that was some weird memory lane thing.”

• Ashton Kutcher

Dude gave a speech to congress about "modern slavery" of sex trafficking, but can't talk about systemic abusers he actually knew. He resigned from THORN after writing letters of support for Danny Mastersons, but it's just so infuriating to see how performative his actions have always been.

it was a good thread until...

The game is absolutely gorgeous, so is the expansion. Start to finish it has an incredibly solid, interesting and suprsing plot. Just dripping with style and in universe asethic. You can really tell that the art department had a lot of fun with it.

I just finished playing it for the first time and I was blown away right from the start! Guess I'm glad I waited for the polish, but the world design, voice acting and overall storyline was absolutely fantastic. I couldn't help feel bad for all the artists that clearly put a lot of love in to the world only to be overshadowed by bugs and poor implementation.

Nope. It wasn't until after he died that I went to therapy and started talking about the memory before putting it all together. Dad worked in IT security so I don't doubt he was careful.

The closest that he came to consequences that I know about, is when the FBI came to his house to interview me. My parents were divorced and I spent 50/50 with each parent. My mother's boyfriend was being accused of seeding a torrent filled with CP, and the FBI came to ask me if I knew anything. This was around the time of the AIM incident. Dad wasn't home and was pretty upset that I let them inside.

Anyways, it took nearly a decade and countless dollars in lawyer fees for the case against my (by then) step-dad to be dropped. The FBI can led the court date after we uncovered hard proof that he wasn't even home that day, but it had already cost him his career. Unlike my Dad, my step dad wasn't a tech person, like at all. So while I don't have any proof or idea how, I'm fairly certain that somehow my dad got access to his laptop to frame him.

Which is why I said that the AIM thing is only the worst thing he did to me. Another runner up would be the statutory rape of my mom when she was 14 and he was 20 that led to my birth. Unfortunately, the theme of child exploitation runs through many chapters in my Dad's angry miserable life.

When I was 15 or so my dad made a fake AIM address and posed as a girl from my school so he could encourage me to masturbate with the child porn he was sending me. When i got freaked out and stopped responding he called my phone and said that "the girl from school" was bothering him at work and I needed to keep talking with *her". I didn't figure out that it was him until a decade later later. I remember panicking all night about what I knew was illegal images, so I told him what happened and he just mocked me for not knowing how to do an ip trace to see who it was.

Dad was a real piece of shit. But that was the worst thing he did to me personally.

And even if true and Palestinians do oppose queer rights, they still doesn't mean they deserve to die. Heck, there are lots of people in US power directly prohibiting MY rights, but I wouldn't support a MAGA genocide either. So why should queer folk be fine with a genocide for those not even involved in queer oppression? And even if Israel DID have better queer rights, that wouldn't be a justification for genocide either. These things aren't connected in anyway.

Whole idea is nothing but a giant distraction non-sequitur. No one deserves to die, bigots included.

You're not fighting the very real danger of Trumps fascist christian natiolism by intentionally misrepresenting leftists. Please stop.

Sobering and disappointing.

So, I've been on HRT for a shade under three years and it's worked out super well for me. I'm lucky and privileged enough to while not be entirely unclockable, but passing well enough to rarely be misgendered. I honestly can't remember the last time a stranger said anything besides ma'am.

But that wasn't always the case. Just after my egg crack and before learning makeup, how to dress or even HRT I was still going out as myself. People would look, gawk, stare and there were a few occasions of harassment, but as I got better at passing that stopped being the case. I would get smiles, compliments, jokes and a little flirting. When I saw someone looking at me they would smile and we would chit chat. My old photos are cringe, but also amusing and endering as reminders of how far I've come.

So anyways, for unrelated reasons, I'm now adjusting to life in a wheelchair. Just had my 36th birthday and it seems like a serious probability I won't ever walk again. But the worst fucking part? People stare again. Still lucky enough to be seen as a disabled woman, but... they look away when I meet their gaze, when they turn around a corner there is a second of suprise when they see me, looks I remember in my early transition that made it hard to cope.

It could be worse, I'm still grateful, blessed and happy. But the realization that being treated as a boring, basic, regular woman was a fleeting experience... has been rough. I wasn't ready to grieve the brief window of time when I loved my body. Now it's physical pain, reliance on others and memories of being just an average normal unassuming woman.