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napalousa

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love cooking for my family and trying out new recipes. I love nature and gardening. I love, weird tales and folklore about ghosts, witches and monsters. Author of A Gentleman in Hell - a novel about the life of Doc Holliday

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albnelson , to bookstodon group
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Besides Shakespeare, were you assigned more than one book by the same author in school? K-12, not college. @bookstodon

napalousa ,
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@albnelson @bookstodon Yep Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell in the same year.

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Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

napalousa ,
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@Uair @benetnasch @bookstodon I think it depends on the amount of world building for the story. If it’s just a story about a haunted house then not so much, but if that house then contains a parallel universe in which a child gets to confront her fears and question her place in the world as in a book like Coraline, then totally different thing to write.

Genres are there as shortcuts for readers but it doesn’t mean that the worlds can’t be original and challenge the tropes of that genre. Instead of having a rickety old haunted house maybe it’s a brand new apartment block in a city. Also doesn’t mean the characters can’t question the structure of society or experience complicated emotions. I think the key here it’s to convey a story as clearly and as simply as possible and that can be hard in any genre.

Homebrewandhacking , to bookstodon group
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Dear @bookstodon

I would like recommendations for books where the main character is a mild villain dealing with much worse villains and is telling the story as they go. Fantasy and Scifi are always comforting genres but I venture out for the right books.

I would also like books where men and women are doing things and are friends without a romance being shoe-horned in. But I concede I might as well be asking for a pony at this point.

Thanks for any help and or boosts!

napalousa ,
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@Homebrewandhacking @bookstodon A Gentleman in Moscow might work. Men and women working together. Main character is a little bit bad but not really, telling his story all kinds of bad guys come and go through the hotel that he’s imprisoned in. The audiobook is awesome.

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the anti-fluoride people are back... I mean, if you like anti-vax stuff why not? It's the same swindle.

"precious bodily fluids" and all that.

I hate the taste of mint so I'm always looking for toothpaste that tastes better... I was horrified to discover that if you go of the beaten path with toothpaste there are 100s of brands with "no fluoride" which only a tiny number of people really need... Be careful if you use a "crunchy" brand ... fluoride is amazing.

napalousa ,
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@futurebird Hello does non mint flavors too, orange sherbet is one, also no foaming agents.

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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I try to ease my guilt about keeping feeder roaches (dubias) by making them fancy meals. Here we have carrot peel rosettes topped with banana and garnished with bee pollen and pumpkin seeds.

You may be the 5th generation to live in a box as ant food but at least someone was willing to cook for you. Poor little goobers.

napalousa ,
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@futurebird I feel the same about the worms in my worm bucket. I’ve started using the food processor to break food down for them and I try and give them a variety of flavors. I swear there’s always a feeling of satisfaction from the bucket after their fed, but maybe that’s from me rather than them. 😀

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Most spiders couldn't hurt you at all, like not even give you a little itchy welt if they tried their very best, if they could overcome their very realistic fear of your massive size and exoskeleton crushing feet.

That there are a few who get one over on us is the great exception. We are a terror to these little creatures.

napalousa ,
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@futurebird Yes this! I was bitten by a spider in bed once. I was annoyed until I found the poor guy’s tiny crushed body. Honest to God it must have bitten me as a last ditch effort to not get smooshed by a giant sleeping human. I’ll never look at them in the same way again.

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