Isabel Cooper

This. Also, even if you hate the coffee (which I do) they'll have something that you can drink/eat in the parking lot while catastrophically hung over, which is the cornerstone of life in New England.

And then Pa had to have The Talk (Massachusetts style) with her.

My mom has told the story of, when she was a little girl, being sent to get her dad some coffee for the first time and ordering it with cream and two sugars because that's how he had it at home.

Brings it back. Pa takes a sip, makes a face. "What did you order?"

Tiny Mom: "Cream and two sugars?"

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."

Also, if I were involved with this administration, I...might avoid bringing up teenage girls, as a general rule.

RFK Jr. blasts Dunkin’ as Healey replies, ‘come and take it’ Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. singled out Dunkin' last week while speaking at a rally against processed foods.

www.boston.com/news/health/...

Okay, this? This is how we end up in Fallout 4.

If you have to keep all the sex between the main two characters, and you want to write an orgy or a sex club or whatever, you could at least have the heroine appreciate it as a viewer. She just seems like a buzzkill otherwise.

But also, authors? Why are you even putting an orgy into your story if your characters aren't gonna...orge?

(There was a story on Choices where you and your LI get to attend an orgy, but you only have the option to have sex with him there, and: whyyyy?)

In my journey to being the most arbitrarily picky reader ever, I have just DNFed a book because the heroine gets to go to a fae orgy and is spending her whole time being shocked and uneasy.
Which is a tragic waste: there are lots of people who'd be grateful for a nice orgy like that.

Literally what we have here is that the average American CEO is part of a mean girls group chat and is terrified to step out of line and be told that they aren't cool by the other people who peaked in 8th grade

Some genius eventually suggested sports-style commentary.

There was someone on Reddit who got Big Mad about guys being even slightly attracted to each other in MMMF, and the rest of us were like, should they just be standing around smoking and waiting their turn then, or what?

Oh, yeah. Especially for people who are idealistic enough to go into politics for good reasons.

Yeah--I think the flaws of Biden, and Obama before him, basically boiled down to the belief that people were generally acting in good faith, when that hasn't been the case for Republicans since at least the late 1990s. (And I would argue since the 1980s, largely, but.)

(Xander in particular, especially in S1 and S5/6, has aged like an egg sandwich behind a couch.)

It has some really good parts, it has some parts that very much show it was written in the nineties by a guy who was at least incel-adjacent. Giles is awesome, though.

(Though it does get props for having Buffy recognize at the end that she, at 21, is not ready to settle down. Because word.)

Generally same. I'll dip in when I get recommendations, and friends watch some TV shows which feature it, but the older I get, the harder it is to care. I could *kinda* give Buffy a pass because of the low general life expectancies of everyone human, but even that is tough now.

I heard "Princeton belly-rub" once, and now have to share that at any opportunity.

Here for more intercrural! And also word.

Hell yeah! (Serving the goddess of death is pretty strenuous, but does have its benefits.)

2) I love it when the exes are friends, or when the mistress really good-naturedly advises the new bride in historicals. My friend group in college pretty much all dated each other, and one of my best friends and I compared notes on about three different guys.

People have covered most of mine, but:
1) Not letting adults manage their own relationships is not a quirk or a sign of a "big heart." I still remember an otherwise good book that I didn't finish because the FMC kept harassing the MMC to reconcile with his dad, who she didn't know.

(I am still bitter about Roz from Frasier.)

Oh, yeah--planned/wanted pregnancy, or someone who'd been set up as wanting and ready for kids anyhow, is different. But fiction where a woman who's never been shown as interested gets knocked up and decides to go ahead with the pregnancy despite clearly being dismayed when it happens....noooo.

Hee! Well, probably not Actual Ninjas, because I'm a very basic white chick and don't want to appropriate, but I would absolutely be up for writing assassin orgies in a future book. Now that I think about it, my fantasy world has an order of Gender Neutral Fuckboy Assassins anyhow...

...and as far as high school goes, two couples who are still together, neither of whom really should be IMO.

Ha, yeah. Doubly so for high school romance (and people who never got over their high school sweetheart weird me out, though I get remembering them fondly). I know one couple my age who started dating in college and are still together and happy 20-odd years later...

...this can happen. ;P

YES YES YES for 3.

I hate like fire both the jealousy=love trope and the one where True Love instantly makes someone monogamous when he (usually he) clearly wasn't at first. (Also pissed me off about the "Lucifer" TV show.)